Grammie and Mimi come to town!

Mimi is up visiting from Palm Harbor. She came up for Caden's 1st birthday party, to celebrate Debbie's birthday and to come and see us and the boys! Soooo...Debbie and Mimi drove over on Tuesday and just left this morning! We all had a blast and they thoroughly enjoyed bonding with the boys. Grammie taught them to clap their hands and play patty-cake! Brody gets this huge grin the entire time he his clapping and is so proud of himself. Wade is full on crawling everywhere and is appearing around furniture and corners...and has started pulling up on everything around him. He even has started "walking and taking real steps" while you hold his little hands. He is a mover. Oh boy is all I can say about that.

Mimi and Debbie not only watched the boys the entire day on Wednesday, but they did all of our laundry, ironed, vacuumed, stocked our frig, stocked the babies shelf, bought 2 cans of formula, diapers, bottle liners, laundry detergent...........wasn't that sooo sweet???? It brought tears to my eyes, as I am so grateful for the kindness!

Here are cute pics from Mimi and Grammie's visit:

And look....Wade just appeared!Grammie and her boysMimi and her boys!

Wade getting ready to pull up. He is quick! 4 generations! Mimi 82/ Grammie 62/ Daddy 36/ Brody and Wade 8 months old

Sooooo, Brody did not want to go to sleep last night. At all. I think he knew that Grammie and Mimi were here and he didn't want to miss anything! After 2 hours of cuddling and rocking and playing, Grammie finally brought him into bed with her and Mimi around 9:30 (he is always asleep NO LATER than 7:30...who knows what he was thinking!!) and they patted him and gave him another bottle and he finally went down. Gotta love Grandmothers!

Summer is officially here. We went over to the Laird's house on Sunday for a good old Crawfish boil. Yes, we were very classy...had the lawn chairs and coolers and trucks playing music, all out in the front yard! Everybody had a blast, including Brody and Wade.

We set up a couple of blankets in the grass and all of the babies played...and Lynnette took pics!

B-man was enjoying all of the activity so much that he exhausted himself and took a nap on my chest. I will have to say that there is no better feeling than your child asleep in your arms. Very comforting!

As promised...here are the pics from Labeth's camera, that I NEVER thought I would see!! These were taken at Easter when the boys received their Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny in Panama City Beach (Grammie and Pop's)! He even left them a giraffe pool for outside!

Cousin Caden turns 1

We celebrated Caden's 1st birthday on Saturday at a park in Tallahassee. There were tons of kids and we had a ball! Grammie, Pops, Mimi, Grandmother, Marilyn and Andy (and us) all drove "up" and "over" to be with Caden on his big day! It was great to see everybody and I wish that we all lived closer! Here some pics of all of the fun.......

Caden's birthday cake. It tasted as good as it looked..........

Scott, Todd and the birthday boy! They were so excited to be wearing the birthday hats that they could barely contain themselves.Brody absolutely loved loved loved the swings at the park...way more than the ones at home! He shreaked and screamed and had a ball! Caden and his "smash" cake. Too cuteWade fell asleep in the car on the way to the party and we decided to leave him in the car, with the AC on, of course, and just kept checking in on him...Check out the way that the little man "sucks" on his paci!! It's backwards! We set up a blanket in the shade for the boys Brody, Pops and Caden

It's official...Wade is MOBILE!!

***See video of Wade crawling at the bottom of the post***
Here are more pics from Elizabeth's camera from last weekend while they baby sat the boys!


Cole trying to decide which shovel is best........

Love the pool!

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

B-man hamming it up

Perfecting his "sexy man pose"

Wade

Here we are!

Wade: "Ummm. Duh" Brody: "Hi Pretty lady taking my pic, what's your name??"

Wade loving life!

And last but not least.....here is 1 year old Caden and his new haircut!!!

Fun Times!

Bet you will never guess where we went this weekend....drumroll...Tallahassee! I feel like we are there every single weekend! Lots of places to go and people to see! Todd was in Omaha for the Home Instead International Conference, so I packed up the boys and we headed to Tally for Allie's 30th birthday and for Colleen's shower. While we were there, we stopped by the Davis home and played with our twin buddies, Thomas & Gracie, and their Mom Christie. We always have a blast when we are over there and cannot believe how big all 4 babies are!! We also made our regular visit over to the Garber's house. Elizabeth, Brian and Cole watched B-man and Wade while I hosted the baby shower...brave souls and truly our bestest buds!! Thank you guys! After the shower, we put all of the boys in the kiddie pool and played outside all afternoon...The Garber's yard is the absolute perfect place for children...and adults as well! :) All in all, we had a blast, spent tons of time with cousin Caden and Aunt Allie. Caden will be 1 years old on Wednesday, and we will be heading back over to Tallahassee for his big baseball birthday party on Saturday! (Stay tuned for pics)

As always, some of my favorite pics from the weekend:

Wade, Miss Gracie, Thomas and Brody

And to show you how much they have grown...4 crazy babies...imagine what Christie and I were doing in the background to get all 4 babies to look at us!!The Harrell Boys!

Ganty Lowie bought us the coolest pool toy thingy and I had it all packed up and ready to bring to Tally, and what do you know...I left it on the garage floor...right next to the car :( Soooo the ever resourceful Elizabeth went out and bought the kiddie pool. The boys had fun, of course, and Wade just splashed and splashed, making his brother scream, Caden gasp and Cole finally just got out. Who can blame him...splashing is the best part!

Cole, Brody, Wade and CadenWades face is HILARIOUS! He was so excited! Smilin' B

Wade is no longer a sitter. He is going. Everywhere. He scoots, crawls, spider man walks and inch worms across the floor. In between crawling maneuvers, he does his "sexy man pose". It is the cutest! The sweet innocence of babies..............

Wednesday at the Harrell House

Last weekend, Pops and Grammie kept the boys the ENTIRE weekend and left me and Todd to play for a couple of days. They had such a good time, and decided to sleep for Grammie and Pops for 12 hour each night! I took pics of them opening their Easter baskets over there, but I took them on my friends camera, and I know I will NEVER see them again...you know who you are...Labeth......

Todd is in Omaha for work this week, so it's just the 2 little guys and their Mommy. Nana came over tonight to help out and to visit. We played on the swings, showed Nana how we high pitch-scream at the top of our lungs for fun, how we feed ourselves finger foods, how we fight over toys, our new ducky bathtub and how we squiggle so much, that it takes our Mommy 10 minutes (per kid) to get the overnight diaper on and the jammies. Whew!

This is the look we get when the camera is first brought out...look how serious they are!!

Still a happy babe, even with tonsillitis!One of my favorite pics of all time Wade loving the new tub Just chillin' out, taking a bath.....I'm all propped up......Meanwhile, during Wade's bath, Brody rolled into the closet and found a yummy hanger to keep him occupied Then it was B-man's turn Meanwhile, during Brody's bath, Wade crawled/scooted the entire way into their room and decided to choose a little reading material...I just went through their drawers and closet and spring cleaned the clothes that they have outgrown... The grey Rubbermaid container is filled to the brim and I need to buy more containers for all of the rest of the clothes! (This is only 3-9 month stuff)