Wordless Wednesday

Just a little something to keep you tied over until I have time to actually sit down and blog about our Christmas adventures!

Merry Christmas

Man, have we had an eventful Christmas break so far! Rhys has enjoyed it and can not wait to finish spending the weeks off with friends and family. Here are just a couple of pictures to hold you over from Christmas. Soon, I will post the pictures Uncle Jason took for Nonnie and Nana and the pictures from Rhys meeting Marley and Rhys and Marley playing together! Fun is had by all!

This is right before we started opening presents! Rhys was so excited to see what everyone had!

Nonnie and Paw-paw bought him this car, I think that by far this is his favorite toy! We bring it everywhere and he loves crawling all over it and playing!

At this point I think that Rhys was on toy overload!

These blocks that Uncle Jason got us taste so good! :)

More to come soon! Today Marley came to play with Rhys and tonight we are going to go out to the camp to see everyone one last time, before we leave to New Orleans for the week and Marly goes home!

Tough Times

My poor baby is getting three teeth at one time! Talk about some sleepless nights! He has one in the front that just broke out a couple of days ago, then the one next to it is all swollen, so it is about to come out and then his has another one on the left upper side. It looks like an incisor tooth! This kid grows teeth like there is no tomorrow! His nose is all runny, and he is so drooly--it is almost disgusting!

We went shopping the other day, early in the morning figuring Rhys was up and he was going to want a nap around 10ish, so we could go out at 8ish, get some shopping done, and we would be home for when he wanted to take a nap. Ya right, the little peanut fell asleep during the car ride and when we got to Kohl's woke up. Jared walked him inside and he was awake, we put him in the basket and gave him his blanket. This is what we got......

That's right, he is passed out! It was so funny. Of course, Jared and I kept doing things to see if he would wake up, but he didn't! He must have been so tired. I guess getting up early in the morning with a belly full, he was ready for his nap!

Here is a cute video of him shaking his head. It is his newest thing to do. It isn't that great of a video but you can see his new teeth at the top!

Christmas Time is here

Well it is definitely Christmas time around our house! The tree is up, decorated and with lights--it took us a little while to get there due to us being so busy! Rhys isn't too interested with the tree and has been leaving it alone! Whoo hoo on that one. I am sure next year he will be all over it though.

Rhys has been getting around pretty good with the crawling. He is trying to walk around and and is holding onto everything to walk. He has started standing up on his own and is getting pretty good at it. His new favorite thing to do in the kitchen is to pull out all of the Tupperware and crawl into the cabinet. He is such a mess!!

Boy does Rhys love his daddy! It is so funny, when Jared walks away from him he starts to cry and follow him wherever he is going.

Last week we went to some friends of ours house. Jared played Santa Clause for all of the kiddos and Rhys was watching him get dressed. We had a lot of fun over at the Calaway household and it is a pretty cool tradition to do for the kiddos. Enjoy the pictures of Rhys with Santa! We are super excited that this weekend we will finally meet our friend Marley and we will get to see Brett and Bethany! It is going to be great being around them and having Rhys and Marley play together!

Such the Life

I have been to update the blog several times and then the last time I had everything typed in and the pictures in and I went to post it and there was nothing there! Ugh...imagine the frustration! Ha.....

Things around here have been pretty hectic. Well, I was off for Thanksgiving but Rhys and I have a packed time that whole week. It didn't help that he was still not feeling well, so he wasn't himself. We spent time with Tyler and the girls. It was a ton of fun. We also went to visit Aunt Amy at work, and I know that she enjoyed that! Mom also had to work some because she is a slacker and waits until the last moment to put in lesson plans!

Thanksgiving was great, I was a horrible mother though, I forgot to take pictures all day and then when I went to take them, Rhys had already passed out. This thanksgiving was fun though, we stayed here but on Wednesday night we all (Jared, Rhys and I and then Amy, Randall and Tyler) stayed the night at my parents house. Jared and Randall got up early in the morning and smoked a turkey. We went to church, and then spent the day together. It was awesome! Rhys thoroughly enjoyed his first thanksgiving eating much of what was on Jared's plate. He definitely likes real food more than his baby food. I personally am enjoying this, because it is super easy to have him sit at the dinner table with us and eat food while we are eating dinner without one of us stopping to feed him. On Friday, Jared stayed home with Rhys and Tyler while Amy and I went shopping. It was awesome....we found some really great deals. Then Saturday morning we went to Herman Park downtown and rode on the train and played around. It was so much fun, and I can't wait until Rhys is older and we can take him back there. I think that he would really enjoy it a lot!

We hardly ever get mommy and Rhys pictures!

This is my favorite picture!

Since Thanksgiving, we have been so busy. Last weekend I went on another ACTS retreat and Jared stayed home with Rhys. The other part of that is that his sister went on the retreat as well, and Jared kept her girls. So Jared had Rhys, Katrina, and Marisol last weekend. Surprisingly, my house was still in good shape when I came back. He did a good job so I guess that means that I can leave him at home more often!

We finally got our Christmas tree up. Here are a couple of pictures of Rhys with the Christmas tree and with the dog. Boy does he love Maddox, and Maddox is finally starting to warm up to him. Hope you enjoy the pictures and maybe I will get better about posting...until next time!

Ugh, and wouldn't you know that at the end of this and after everything, I have lost two pictures that I thought I downloaded. Oh well it is good night time!

Ugh....

Man, I know that it has been a long time since we have updated the blog but there has been a lot going on and then we were sick. Well, Rhys and I were sick, Jared seems to have skipped out on being sick.

Rhys officially crawling around. Into everything, pulling books off the shelf and trying to read them, trying to stick is fingers in electric sockets, emptying the dog bowls, the list goes on and on. While on one hand, I am super excited he is crawling around, man things were so much easier when he would just sit in one place and play with his toys. He is also trying to stand up. He will crawl to an area and then pull himself up, today he was trying to take a couple of steps while holding your hands. My little man is just getting bigger and bigger too fast.

We have been sick around here for the last week. Rhys has had a stuffy nose, and cough for a while now, but they kept telling us that it was allergies, teething and just being a baby. Well, this past week we had take him to the doctor because his temp spiked up to 102.3. Not good. It didn't help that he had spent the night with Nonnie and Paw-paw and paw-paw got sick with the H1N1 flu. Yep that is right...mommy was officially worried. Rhys ended up testing negative with the H1N1 flu, but showed flu like symptoms. So we were placed on antibotics and a decongestant. Boy is he doing much better.....almost back to his normal self! Then, mommy got sick, but man I married a good man, because he took care of both of us!

The little man has decided that baby food is discusting. I can't really get him to eat it. It doesn't matter how much I try he just doesn't want it. However, cut something up and put it on his tray and bam he is all about feeding himself. Talk about a little stubborn kid. He is getting pretty good at eating cooked carrots, bananas, noodles, and anything else I cook. I am a little hesitate to break up any type of meat for him to eat. It just makes me nervous, although he did like the fish we cooked the other night. Other than that things are pretty quiet around here. I am enjoying my time off with Rhys right now and I know that it is going to be hard going back to work in a week! Well here are some pictures that I know you all want!

Here is when Rhys was starting to get sick. If you look closely you can see the huge snot bubble he was blowing. It was cracking him up because when he was breathing it would get bigger and then smaller. He thought it was the greatest thing. Only a boy....

When he got really sick, all he wanted was to be held. So here Jared was relishing the moments that he had with Rhys wanting him to rock him.

Here are a few pictures that Uncle Jason took of Rhys and Tyler the other day at the park. We got a lot of great shots and Uncle Jason did a great job!

Rockin out!