4th of July Weekend!

Mommy's Little Firecracker! 

Mack and Mommy at the Downtown Celebration

Our sweet Family!

Love my overalls!

Playing with Mommy and Daddy

Mack and Granna at the Downtown Celebration

At Granna's house meeting Laine for the first time

Ready for the pool!

In the bumbo seat in the baby pool!

Cousin Jonathon really liked to lay down in the pool!

Talking to Pop

Playing in the bumbo at the lake house

Passed out at the lake house

At Nana's house meeting baby Carter!

In Nana's pool with Daddy

Chewing on one of my favorite toys at Nana's house

The beginning of our fireworks adventure! 

We had a very busy but great 4^th of July weekend. Mack did really good most of the weekend. Our celebration started on Friday July 1^st. We went to the downtown celebration in Guntersville with Granna. It was very hot and sticky so we didn’t stay long but we had fun.

            On Saturday July 2^nd. Granna’s side of the family all got together to eat at her house. We have a very big family so there were a lot of people there. Mack got to meet a lot of them for the first time. He met his baby cousin Laine for the first time and several Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins too. He swam in his baby pool with his cousin Jonathon and had a great time. We were not only celebrating the 4^th but we were also celebrating our Mamaw B’s birthday. This was Granna’s mom and her birthday is the 4^th. She was the most amazing woman I know and I love her and miss her everyday. If Mack would have been a girl he would have been named after her, Ila Bernice! She has been gone for a long time but I know that she is watching over my sweet family.

            Sunday we went to the lake to visit with everybody down there. We didn’t take Mack on a boat ride since he hates his life jacket but he did get to visit and lay in his spot in front of the fan and play. He took a little nap while we were there and then we headed home. It was too hot for us to stay out there very long.

            On Monday, the actual 4^th of July, we went to Nana’s house and hung out by her pool. Mack swam in her pool and we got to meet Carter Blevins for the first time. Carter is our friend Brandi’s little boy. He is a month old and is so precious. Mack had one pretty big melt down, of course when Carter was there, but other than that he was good. I think that his gums were hurting, but were still waiting on a tooth to pop out! Monday night was the fireworks show in Guntersville. We were going to go to hole #2 and watch them from up there but those plans fell through. SO we thought we were might could see them from the hill behind our house. We drove up on the hill with our neighbors and discovered that we could not see them from there. This is all happening around 9:00 which is already 30 minutes past Mack’s bedtime! We had been trying to keep him up and it was not easy. He had to have bug spray on since we were outside so he hadn’t had a bath yet either! After we figured out that we could not see the fireworks from the hill and it was too late to go to hole #2 Shon and I drove around trying to find another spot in Gunters Landing that we could see them. We saw a bunch of people watching them on another tee box so we stopped there. We got up onto the tee box and realized that all of the people there were watching the fireworks through a small crack in some trees! We stood there for a minute but decided it wasn’t worth it so we went home. When we got home Mack was super sleepy but he still had to have a bath! I gave him a bath with him screaming the whole time! I got his pajamas on him and got upstairs and was giving him his bottle when Shon came in and said he could see the fireworks from the front room window! So we went through all that when we could have just watched them from the window!

We had a great weekend overall! We are very thankful for our country and for all the men and women who have served or are still serving so that we can have our freedom!

18 Weeks

First bubble bath

Dad trying to get him to walk :)

At the doctor before the shots....

and after the shots....Poor baby!

Mommy's favorite shirt

Telling Daddy bye as he goes to his new job!

Our first sit down meal as a family

Playing in the new pool at Granna's

Granna bought me a shark towel! 

Cutest shark ever!

Watching cartoons in the high chair

"I like this seat!"

Mack is 18 weeks now and still growing like a weed. We went for our 4 month check up this week and he weighed 16 pounds 4 ounces and was 26 inches long. Dr. Chupp continues to tell me that he is just perfect, and that him being fussy sometimes are just bumps in the road. I have to keep telling myself that when he is not a happy camper. Dr. Chupp upped his dose of Zantac from 0.5 mL to 1.0 mL twice a day and it seems to make a huge difference. He has been much happier since that change! Daddy is still loving his new job and is doing an excellent job at it too! We had our first sit down family dinner this week. Since Mack has started eating baby food I thought we should all sit together at the table. Mack had bananas and rice cereal, which he didnt want, and we had Macaroni Grill Chicken Marsala that was terrible! Mack was still not used to his food so he didnt eat and Shon and I tried to eat ours but I guess we just dont like chicken marsala. :)
He still loves the water so I went to Wal-Mart and bought him a new pool and a Finding Nemo ball. He loved both of them! He kept trying to eat the Nemo ball, it was so funny. He would get it up to his mouth and just lick it! Granna bought him a shark towel and it is so adorable, it has fins and everything! We have discovered that he really likes watching cartoons in his high chair. One morning after trying to get him to eat some baby food with little success, I was cleaning up so I rolled his high chair over to the TV and he was mesmerized! Our TV is mounted on the wall in the corner and all of his stuff that he has been sitting in to watch it is in the floor so he cant see it as well. But with the high chair he can sit up and see it great plus the high chair helps him to sit up straight since it has shoulder straps on it. He sat and watched Yo Gabba Gabba for about 30 minutes that morning! I was amazed! We have had a few car rides lately with no crying which has been nice for a change and he is still doing pretty good sleeping in his bed at night. Im still waiting on some teeth to come in, he is drooling and chewing on everything and has ran a low grade fever a few times so we are expecting a tooth any day now!!!

17 Weeks!

Always chewing on my hands!

At Pop's store with my favorite crazy lady, Bet Bet!

She can always make me smile

At Pop's store with Miss Diane

Visiting with Mamaw Bobbie

Chilling on the couch with Gene

Playing with Gene

"I think I like him!"

Visiting with Mamaw Margie 

First time to sleep in his crib!

His new sleep toy! 

Watching TV in the Bumbo

I cant get the block to my mouth, so I'll take my mouth to the block!

17 Weeks

17 Weeks

Sweet baby feet

First bubble bath!

Standing up with Daddy!

Trying out some banana baby food

bananas again

Meeting Pop's friend Bennett and his daughter Bailey

Mack is 17 weeks now and he is so active! He is constantly chewing on his hands and he would rather be sitting up or standing up than laying down for sure. He wants to see everything that is going on around him. He has started drinking about 5 ounces at a time now and he usually eats every 4 hours. We have tried banana and apple baby food so far and he didn't care for either of them. He just spits it out and acts like I am feeding him motor oil or something. :) I know that he will get used to to it soon enough. We put him in his crib for the first time this week and he did so good on the first night! He did just like he usually does in his pack-n-play in our bedroom. I did sleep upstairs in the "man cave" just in case he needed me. The first night he woke up one time and drank his bottle and went back to sleep until morning. The next 3 nights were not so easy, he was up almost every hour whining. I would go in and put his passy in and he would go back to sleep but he didn't stay asleep very long. I guess he just has to get used to sleeping in that room. He likes the crib toy that shows the animals on the ceiling but it only stays on for 10 minutes so if it goes off and he is still awake he will usually whine. After the first night of sleeping in his bed in his woombie he started fighting the woombie every night. It would make him so mad and keep him awake so now we are not even using it anymore. He sleeps in between 2 pillows with his arms over his head and his legs stretched out. 

He loves to go to Pop's store, Bonds Appliance, and visit with the girls. Bet Bet and Diane spoil him even more than he already is. He just smiles at both of them, I have a feeling he is going to be a store rat once he gets old enough to stay there a lot. We went on a visit to see Mamaw Bobbie and Gene and Mamaw and Papaw Howard. Mack did so good while we were out. He smiled at everyone and was really happy! 

Is he getting so big so fast. He has grown out of all of his 3 month clothes and most of his 3-6 month clothes are really tight. He can wear 6 month onesies but he is wearing 6-9 month pajamas and bubble outfits. We are running out of clothes! He has his fussy days and he has great days when is just the happiest baby ever! When he cries the most is in the car, he absolutely hates the car! He screams like we have just broken his arm and then put him in car seat. If someone is back there with him it is not as bad, and usually as soon as we get him out of his seat he is fine and stops crying! I think that means that he is rotten! haha. More posts to come soon...18 weeks and 4th of July!