July 4th weekend...

We had a very busy weekend. Obed, Troy and I went to Huntsville on Friday to see Kelly and Scott. On Sat. we went to TN to Kelly's family reunion (Troy stayed in a hotel for the first time). They had a fishing tournament, bluegrass band, horseshoe and Hell tournament. It was a lot of fun even though Troy was really tired and a little fussy. We headed back to Huntsville on Sunday and stayed another night with Scott and Kelly then came back home today.

Sleeping in a different place every night really got to Troy he was up a lot all three nights. But now that we are home he seems back to his regular schedule. He went to sleep at 8 and hasn't gotten up yet (fingers crossed). We had a great weekend and look forward to Scott and Kelly coming to stay with us this weekend!

I noticed that I amnot in a single one of our pictures from this weekend, I need to start letting Obed take pictures as well or Troy is going think I was not around. HA

he liked the fish

I don't think it tasted as good as he thought it would

He found a worm- Obed said Gary bought this one... 
I think he liked it a little
getting ready to go fishing with daddy

Trip to Talladega

Troy and I went to Talladega to visit my family this week. We had a great time but missed Daddy. Troy got to see MiMi, MacMac, MeeMaw, CaCa, aunt Manny, Pat, Cate and Tanner. He also got to see uncle Kyle, Katie and Rocky for a little bit (because he feel asleep early) It was Mandy's (my sister) birthday also. On Thursday we went to eat a the river with MiMi and MeeMaw. I posted a few pictures below. 

We are headed to Huntsville then to TN for the weekend with Scott and Kelly. We will be back on Monday (which is Mo's birthday) so I am sure I will have lots of pics to post. Happy 4th of July!

Troy liked the banana split...
and the water

10 months....

Troy is ten months old today. I can't believe it. It seems like he was just born a few weeks ago. What did I do before we had him? He has made our lives so great in the short time he has been here. I can't wait to make many more memories with him. 

On a funny note: Yesterday I got up and went into the kitchen to start breakfast for Troy. I heard him in his room playing in the crib. So I took my time and went to get him about 10 minutes later. When I opened his door I thought "gosh it smells in here, he must have done to the bathroom already", then I turned on the light. Oh my gosh- he had taken off his dirty diaper and let me tell you, it was everywhere. All in the crib, on the wall, in his hair and eyebrows,

 all in his blanket... It took me 30 minutes to clean him and another hour to clean the room. Oh it was awful!!!

Here are a few pictures of Evan and Troy playing the other night: sorry about the red eyes.

 

Troy: the first ten months...

I was looking at all of Troy's pictures and thinking how much he has changed over the last ten months! I thought I would post a picture from every month so we could see the change. It was hard picking pictures because I tried to get one from the end of each month so there should be about 3-4 weeks in between each picture. Hope you enjoy!

June- 10 months

May- 9 months (after the 4th haircut I think most of the dark had been cut off)

April- 8 months

March- 7 months

Feb- 6 months (hair started getting lighter about here)

Jan- 5 months--- his first haircut was a few days before this picture

Jan again with wet hair HAHA

Dec - 4 months- I think there was a big change from Nov to Dec.

Nov- 3 months

Oct- 2 months

Sept- 1 month-- Look how much his hair grew in 3 1/2 weeks!

Aug- birth

Daycare is tough...

Why does it have to be so hard to send a child to daycare? I mean most people have to at some pint and time. So why do we mothers always feel so guilty about it? Troy has started going a few times a week for a few hours so he can get used to it before school starts back (or so I can get used to it). I really do want to go back to work but I feel awful leaving Troy. I have been lucky to be able to stay with him for the first year but it is still so hard. I have thoughts like: I don't want someone else to raise my baby and will they watch him like I do? or will all his needs be met the way they are at home? It is really tough! I know people do it all the time, so I will make it. I just worry about so much. I don't want to waste any time that I have with him, I didn't even want him to nap this afternoon because I wanted to spend time with him. I don't want things to have to change too much for him. 

Father's Day weekend.

MeeMaw and MiMi came to visit us on Sat. We had a great time going out to eat. 

Here is MiMi and Troy 

On Sunday after church we ate at Gwen's house then got ready to go kayaking on the Coosa. Trent went with us. Obed and I flipped three times and I got very scared the last time we flipped because I got hung under the boat and couldn't get out from under the water. Obed had to come under and find me and pull me out. Once we got through that set of rapids we find out that a man from our group had just drowned in the same place. It ended up being a very sad end to a great Father's Day. I pray for the family that lost their dad/husband. 

This is what happens when we let Mo feed Troy: He dumped his pudding out on the table and was playing slip and slide in it. It was so funny and I got a little on video that I will share. 

Happy Father's Day to my sweet husband. Thank you for being such a great dad to Troy. I know he loves you very much. 
sorry the video is sideways. I guess I had the camera turned and I couldn't figure out how to rotate the video...

Pool time...

We got Troy a new pool today. He cut the grass with Obed while I got it set up. I almost passed out blowing everything up. HA So here are some pictures and a video of him playing. 

playing with the slide: