5.13.2013

mother's day 2013

The boys surprised me with donuts, iced coffee, flowers, and a homemade card. They sure know the way to my heart! The first words out of Camp's mouth yesterday morning were "Happy Mother's Day!!" 

I enjoyed the yummy treats and then headed to get a manicure and pedicure. Adam asked me earlier in the week what I wanted to do for Mother's Day and other than spending time with my sweet babies and husband, I REALLY wanted to get my nails done!! :) I so enjoyed the pampering!

we spent some time in our backyard mother's day evening...everything is so lush and green!! 









Our veggies are growing like crazy! I'm so excited!


Friends and family get ready for lots of blueberries! We are going to have TONS!

me and my precious boys

making a wish...he said "I love my mommy, daddy, & collins"


sweet collins and sweet daddy

I finished the day watching the season finale of Revenge. OH MY!! If you don't watch it, please do yourself a favor and watch the first two seasons!! It's going to be one long summer waiting for the third season of Revenge to begin in the fall! :)

what a great day!! 
so blessed.

5.10.2013

13 months

I didn't take pictures of Camp and Beary from months 13-15...I picked them back up at 16 months. I remember now why I stopped at 12 months...it's so difficult to get a good picture!! :) I also remember blogging that I wanted to continue Beary pictures with our next baby until 24 months, so here we go! :) Haha!! 


13 months! This month has been an exciting month of discoveries and new talents! 

Collins is walking everywhere and FAST!! He is into everything!! Ahh...this Mama is TIRED! :) 

He can blow kisses. 

He roars when he sees big trucks, lawn equipment, tractors, airplanes, etc. 

He's saying Yaya...yesterday when we pulled into the preschool parking lot he said, "Yaya, Yaya". We usually see her on the playground when we pick Camp up. We may have another extremely observant child on our hands!! :)


Collins still has NO teeth! He's got his brother beat! :) Camp was 12.5 months when he got his first tooth. 


He can sign "please", "milk" and "all done". He's also waving when he wants to go outside. 

Speaking of outside, he LOVES to go outside. 

He makes a silly face when we ask him to be silly. 

He loves to "smell the flowers". 

He holds his hand up to his ear and says hello like he's talking on the phone.

He did such a great job with the milk transition. No more bottles for Collins!! We just went cold turkey...I don't even have to heat up his milk. For some reason, I was so anxious to transition to cold milk and sippy cups. I was worried it was going to be such a hard process, but the little buddy was awesome. He loves his milky and water with a splash of juice! :) 

He's pointing at everything.

This child loves to always have something in his mouth. He'll put a toy in his mouth and just walk around the house with it while continuing to play. We have to be so careful to make sure every little thing is picked up...I don't remember Camp putting stuff in his mouth like this, but we also didn't have so many toys around the house when he was this age. :)

He'll touch his eye when we ask him where his eye is and he'll touch our eyes when we ask him too! :)

He is a MAMA'S BOY!! Oh my! I love it, but it can get exhausting! :) I can't leave the room without him crumbling. He loves to be held too. He's starting to become very cuddly and I LOVE that! He puts his head down on our shoulder and will actually cuddle now. 

He loves bath time...if he's ever in a crabby mood I can put him in the bath and he'll cheer right up!


He loves his DOG book and will actually sit still long enough to read that one. He usually can't be bothered with books, but he's starting to become more interested in them. 

His favorite foods are turkey, chicken, cheese, waffles, yogurt raisins, and Yogis.

He's wearing a size 18 months in clothes and a size 4 diaper. 

He sleeps from 7:45-7:45-8. He's taking two two hour naps a day. 

He's a sweet, sweet boy and I love watching his personality grow. I think he's going to be a funny child...he's already trying to do things to make Camp laugh. :) 

Happy 13 months to our sweet Collins!!!

four and a half





Over the past few months, I've written some of the sweet and funny things that Camp has said. Here's a little bit about Camp at four and a half!

He wants to be an "Army" when he grows up. He's already requesting an Army themed birthday party when he turns 5. :)

He loves to look like a "dude". I think the days of appliquéd shirts have come to an end. :( He's starting to fight seersucker and gingham shorts, but if I say Daddy has some just like them, he'll wear them. When I pick out his outfit for the day he'll say, "Oh good, that makes me look like a dude." Or "Noooo that doesn't make me look like a dude!" He loves to come home from school and change into "dude" outfits...usually jeans with holes and a too small hoodie with no shirt underneath...



He has stopped biting his nails! YIPPEE!! While we were out at lunch one day in Blue Ridge, we saw this guy biting his nails. We pointed it out to Camp and Camp thought it looked pretty gross... :) Whatever it takes! Now I just have to remember to cut his nails...I got about a two year break from doing it!! I can't stand long nails on kids...gag.

His favorite foods are oatmeal and boiled eggs. He loves orange juice and I still water it down...1/2 water/1/2 juice. Sweet tea is his other drink of choice.

He talks alllll the time!! :) He asks lots of questions, like "how do ants make their ant beds?"


He tells us that he loves us probably 75 times a day, not exaggerating. 

About a month ago, I changed out of my pajamas and into yoga pants and a t-shirt, I walked out of our bedroom and Camp looks at me and says "you look dad gum beautiful, girl!!!" :)

He's very appreciative and loves to give compliments. His love language is still definitely words of affirmation. He also gets his feelings hurt very easily.



One day we picked up Whataburger to take to Adam at the shop, Camp wanted a cheeseburger with only cheese, mayonnaise and ketchup (just like his mommy!) and his burger ended up having onions, pickles, and mustard on it instead. A few days later we were in the drive thru line at Panera and Camp said, "Do the people at Panera make good choices?" I asked him what he meant by that and he said, "remember the people at Whataburger weren't good listeners because they put pickles and onions on my cheeseburger?" :) Haha...



I asked him what my job was and he said, "you clean the kitchen, do dishes, and make coffee."

He loves to swing on his swing set...he knows how to pump all by himself!



Some quotes from Camp...
  • "You are the best cooker ever and I love this food you made me and I love you."
  • "You are funny all of the time, Mommy."
  • "You are the bestest Mommy I've ever seen in my life."
  • "You are the sweetest Mommy ever and Daddy is the sweetest Daddy ever."
  • "I am so proud of my little brother!"
  • " Look! The Easter Bunny brought Collins a whale plate! That was so nice of him!

4.29.2013

a walkin' boy, baby birds, & muffins for mom


Collinsy Bear is walking!!! He started last Tuesday 4/23 and hasn't looked back! 

He thinks he's hot stuff! :)





Sweetest picture ever...Camp is Collins's biggest cheerleader!! :)


On Saturday, the baby wrens that had been living in our grill, left their nest. It was the sweetest thing to witness. Camp and I spent all morning looking out the window to watch these little birds. 

The mama and daddy perched on the fence and called the babies out one by one. I'm so glad we got to see it!! We'd been watching the mama go in and out of the nest for weeks. Camp was crushed knowing that the babies (and mama) wouldn't be coming back to the nest. 


Camp's sweet teachers and class hosted Muffins for Moms this morning.

Camp's class art show was also on display! 

Me and my biggest buddy! Adam picked Collins up from the parking lot so I could enjoy Muffins for Moms alone with Camp. Adam keeps talking about how sweet it was to spend the morning with Collins and I loved that I could spend one on one time with Camp and not worry about Collins trying to get into everything! :) It was a win win for the both of us!!  




Almost too cool to take a picture next to his art work. 

I so enjoyed looking at all of the masterpieces!!! The teachers also displayed the books that they read that went with each art project.



What a sweet morning! 

4.15.2013

april 9th


On Collinsy's actual birthday, we celebrated by going to breakfast with Collins's birthday buddy, Rian!!   

Rian treated Collins to some awesome beach goodies!

He was pretty pleased with his gifts!

I tried to get a picture of the birthday buddies, but Collins was more interested in the lawnmowers and blowers than looking at the camera!


When Adam came home from work, Camp couldn't wait any longer to open Collins's birthday presents from us!! 

Camp was such a big help! ;)













After dinner we gave Collins a birthday cupcake...he held on to it for a few seconds and then dug right in!









I think he liked it!

Camper had to make a mess with his cupcake too! :)

Precious little feet...Collins loves to cross them.