First Belly Taps!

There he/she is -- little knocks from the inside.  "You there, Mom?"  "I'm here, Baby."

~15 weeks pregnant

Early Birthday Presents!

The boys got balance bikes (two-wheeled bicycles without pedals) for their birthdays this year.  Once they were in Dada's possession, he could not resist assembling them and giving them early.  :)

Fueling up for his first big ride

No time to pose

And they're off!

They were both pretty hesitant at first (neither would lift both feet off the ground at the same time), but the next morning, Harrison came into our room and asked if he could go downstairs to practice on his new bike (which was in the playroom on the bottom floor of the house -- not outside).  An hour (!) later, we realize that we had gone back to sleep and not heard from Harrison!  We hustle downstairs to check on him (concussion??) and find him happily gliding around on his bike -- pretty much in control of the balance aspect and now going from one of the room to the other without touching his feet down.  :)

Harrison's Work Building

There is a structure in downtown Atlanta (on the east side of the connector just north of the Varsity) that Harrison has declared is his work building.  Every time we drive by it, he'll non-chalantly announce, "There's where I work."   When questioned, he will tell us that he works up at the very top of it and tells the airplanes when to land, and that he only works on Sunday nights and one day during the week and never on holidays.  We really have no idea what the purpose of this structure is, so we just believe Harrison's story.

The real version : 

The Lego version (we went to the new Legoland in Atlanta and were all simply delighted to find that Harrison's work building was included in the Lego version of Atlanta) : 

Boys + Puddle = Break for Mama

This kept them busy for at least 15 minutes.  Not the best of news for Mama's car, but oh, well!

Topless Dew-Dog!

To be honest, I don't know why he's topless (I'm pregnant, remember?), but who's going to turn down a chance to see a topless photo of Hewitt?

Oops...

Apparently Mama did not put her tinted lip balm in a safe enough spot...

"Baby Mama Belly"

Hewitt broke the news at school, so I'll go ahead and break the news here, too!  That's right -- it's Hewitt's turn to be a big brother now!  And Harrison will be an even bigger brother.

Baby is due October 22 (and I'm really hoping it's at least sometime in October given Hewitt's late arrival), which means I'll be pregnant for the summer (boo!) but feeding a newborn and starving during the holidays (yay!).  The boys are split on whether it's a brother or a sister (Harrison says brother, Hewitt says sister), so so much for that intuition that earlier-borns supposedly have about what baby is coming next -- debate will be concluded by the mid-way ultrasound in early June!  Harrison wants to name the baby either Zink or Kinsery, so we'll see if he comes down off of those names before the baby is born.  :)

For now, please excuse any weird or rude things I have done or said in the past few months -- I get a little (no, I'll be honest -- alot) stupid and absentminded when I'm pregnant, and that is holding true this time, too!  Now what was I just saying...?

Happy Easter!

First -- A celebration at home.  The Easter bunny delivered books, stickers, sunglasses, Little People figurines, and candies!

What's in Hewie's bucket?  Same stuff!

"Hold these, Dad -- I heard something about jellybeans in plastic eggs hidden all over the living room..."

Cool dude!

 

 

 

 

Cool dudes eating breakfast!

Next -- A celebration at Grandmom and Grandpop's house.  Let's go find some eggs -- we can use our "lookers"!

Got one!

Got two more!

Sneaking some chocolates -- or so they thought...

And finally -- Some egg decorating.  Only fingers were stained : Success!

 

 

Augusta

For Christmas this past year, Katy and Brian gave Chris and Maynard passes to a practice round at the Master's, so we all packed up and headed over to Augusta for a day or two.  Brian's generous parents hosted my crew, so the boys pitched in by helping "Miz Lezlee" do some yardwork while Dada and Grandaddy were off eating ridiculously inexpensive BBQ sandwiches and drinking ridiculously inexpensive lemonade and sweet tea at the Augusta National golf course.

"Okay, lady -- where do you want 'em?"

Leslie and her two hired hands (hired for a cup of milk -- very affordable)

Resting up in the porch swing while we wait for Dada to come home -- "cuggle cuggle" ("cuddle cuddle")!