Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Last week Samantha got quite the morning greeting in her crib!
So sweet. With 2 older brothers, she better get used to chaos from the first minute of the day!
Funny – the day after I took these pictures, my Timehop app pulled up this picture…
No better way to start the day!
My baby is 4 months old! She is the sweetest little baby that ever was. Seriously.
and Spencer at 4 months….
Several people have commented that she looks like Spencer but I say, no way. She looks so much like Maxwell at this age. Whoever she looks like, she sure is cute!
She wasn’t much into smiling for our photoshoot. Both of her big brothers were in the room too and I think she was just trying to keep up with them…and maybe a little scared by their rambunctious behavior! ha!
Case in point…brother photo bomb! 🙂
Samantha is loving her hands these days and chews on them a lot. We recently got out the jumperoo and she has a blast rocking back and forth. She’s trying hard to roll over but can’t quite get past her side yet – that bottom arm just gets stuck!
Sleeping is going good. She takes 2 or 3 naps a day – one at 9am, one around 1:30 and then sometimes a (very) short one around 5:30. I feed her and get her into bed around 7:30 every night. I’m still swaddling her at nap time but recently stopped swaddling her at night. Just a few nights ago, we sort of let her “cry it out” and she screamed for about an hour. That was no fun but she’s cried less and less each night and I’m sure will be down to no crying soon. While she has slept through the night a few times, she more often gets up once somewhere between 2 and 4am. I feed her and then put her right back to bed where she will snooze away until around 6:30 or 7:00. It’s very manageable and I’m grateful for that!
Samantha LOVES her big brothers. They are always entertaining her, loving on her, and giving her kisses and hugs. She’s quite a lucky little sister.
Hanging with Honey Bunny.
This little girl is just the best. The BEST.
I am one lucky momma. We love you Samantha!
Two weekends ago, Robert, Samantha and I traveled down to New Orleans for the wedding of Robert’s friend, Lem. It took a lot of coordination to get us out of town but I’m so glad we made the trip. The boys got to go have a fun weekend in Montgomery with Lulu, Granddaddy, Jenny, Ronnie and, of course, Katie and Anna! It was their first time to stay away from home without us and they did great. On Friday, Robert and I dropped Maxwell off at school and then hit the road to Nola. Spencer stayed with Susan who then picked Maxwell up from school. Lulu and Ronnie then drove up to get the boys and take them to Montgomery for the weekend. See, lots of coordinating going on! 🙂
When we got to Nola, we had the very best babysitter in the world waiting there to keep Samantha in the hotel all weekend…
GJ’s the best.
Robert and I had fun at the party on Friday night…
and then had more fun exploring Nola and being tourists on Saturday morning! Beignets = yum.
Also, babies in hats = adorable.
I hadn’t been to Nola in years and, while it’s a fun city, it’s pretty dirty and just not really my scene. It was also crazy humid all weekend. Apparently, it was also exhausting…
Completely exhausting..
Still, we loved getting to see good friends and explore the city a bit.
Meanwhile, back in Montgomery… the boys weren’t missing us one bit! They were having too much fun eating at Moe’s, camping out in sleeping bags, and going to the zoo!
A HUGE thank you to all the Mgm Browns for making the boys’ weekend SO fun!!
In Nola, Robert and I got all dolled up to go the wedding on Saturday night…
where we had a great time and loved getting to celebrate Lem and Evie!
We even made it to the after party where some people danced on top of a pool table!
But, I don’t know much about that. 😉 Sunday morning came way too early and we hit the road. Robert and I were both wishing we could have been doing this on the drive…
But, we made it to Montgomery and were so happy to get the boys and all be back together again!
It was a super fun weekend that would not have been possible without the help of our awesome families! Thank you again!
When Maxwell gets into something, he gets WAY into something! Case in point? His new bow and arrow. Once he mastered it, he decided he needed to be in full hunter gear to shoot those arrows best. Robert, who can’t wait to take the boys duck hunting some day, was happy to play into this new hobby and took him to Bass Pro to get outfitted. Maxwell came home looking like this!
Ha! Now, the camo pants are cute ones I got for him from J. Crew. The deer print camo shirt, hat and gloves? All Bass Pro obviously!
He loved it and kept hiding in the yard asking if I could see him! 😉
He then went to the library with Susan and came home with a stack of new books to learn all about his new interest!
He does like to soak up all the knowledge he can about a subject! Gotta love that!
Now, let’s just hope that deer print camo t-shirt doesn’t become the favorite shirt in his closet! I know I’m from Arkansas but I’m not sure I can take that! ha!
On the Friday before Memorial Day, we had quite an exciting afternoon around here! I heard a strange noise coming from outside and looked around the corner to see this…
The water main on our corner had burst open and there was water shooting 30 feet in the air like a geyser! It was pretty exciting…and a little scary!
I called 911 and the police and fire were all there within 10 minutes…it took the water company a good 45 to make their appearance. Maxwell thought it was all pretty awesome though…
Within about an hour, they managed to get the water down to just a very small geyser, thank goodness…
Maxwell had gone inside and drawn a picture of the scene which we then took back out to show the policeman. He was very impressed!
Once the water was stopped, the water company worked to fix the busted pipe and that was really exciting! Diggers, jackhammers, trucks…so much to see. Luckily GJ and Daddo got in town just in time to observe it all!
When Spencer got up from his nap, he got to go check it all out too!
In that picture above you can see how the water just dug a trench through our neighbor’s yard across the street. It was like a river running down the street! We were without water until about 7pm but they got it all fixed and patched the street and, by the next morning, you could barely tell anything happened. One bonus of it all? It was a great way to meet a lot of our neighbors because everyone was coming outside to check things out!
Exciting stuff!