Last Pictures of the Day

My baby sleeps like my brother. Sadly, my mom would find my brother like this well into his teen years. Molly said that he hasn't woken up to see John like this, yet, but there's still plenty of time!

Will Blake be a Gator fan or a Seminole fan? At 12 months, he'll be a Semonile fan! That's because that's the only size onesies we could find, otherwise, he would have been one way before then.

My Mother's Day present finally arrived on Wednesday and Blake LOVED opening the box. Raun was trying to put together the jogging stroller, but Blake took over the wheel. Do you see the engineer look on his face?

What Aunts and Uncles Are For...

Blake has these toy letters that he likes to play with in the bathtub. Every day, I would go into the bathroom to give Blake a bath and would laugh because John would form new words with the letters he had...which were the ones displayed in this picture. I think I know what I'm buying John for his 24th birthday!


Dad and Raun were laying the kitchen floor. It took them longer than planned to rip up the flooring the kitchen and then to lift up the plywood that it was all on. It looks so much better now.

John and Blake had some fun play time on Monday while Dad and Raun were finishing up the floor in the kitchen.

John and Molly got some alone time with Blake after the doctor's visit on Sunday. We needed to go pick up some things and it was too big to carry with Blake in the car. They graciously waited outside the doctor's buildling so they could take him home. They took these pictures to document what they had done while we were gone.

To explain the pictures, they took a video to help show the new game they had discovered to keep Blake busy and happy.

What we did...

So what did we do while Raun was laying the floor down all weekend? How did I manage to keep him out of the entire front side of the house and yet keep him happy? Did I succeed? You decide.

I'll end this post with pictures from my flower bed. Aren't they gorgeous?

Messy House?

This is what my house looked like one day between the two dogs and Blake. It was a wreck! I thought I'd share the picture so you can remember what all you came through raising a child and animals. Some days I think I have a baby and two toddlers!

Blake was sick two Sundays ago with the beginning of his virus. We were all ready to go to church, but not this little one. He was running a fever and just wanted to be held and cuddled. We never let him sleep with us, but Raun and I were so tired from working on the floor that we let him for the morning time. Raun got the camera to take a picture of him when he woke from his morning nap, which occured at 8:00 in the morning!

New Floor!

The upstairs---

The downstairs---

Blake did suprisingly well through the hammering and banging. Raun did the downstairs floor all by himself and it looks great! My brother and Molly showed up at the perfect time to help us move the furniture upstairs while Ruth kept Blake for us. John and Raun had the carpet all picked up by the time we got back. My mom and dad came to help us on Sunday and Monday, as well. Dad and Raun got the floor finished by Monday afternoon and Raun had the kitchen completed and stuff moved back in by that night. It's so nice to have my house back and to have things where they are supposed to go and not misplaced. It only took a year, but that's okay! It looks great. Now...if only Raun could walk! Even golf is a chore for him now.

Post one of several!

I'm trying to catch up on all of my posts before vacation because when I come back I know I will have lots of photos and stories, so we'll see how far I get today!

To start off, we got to babysit Kayden a few weeks ago, as I mentioned in an earlier post. We really enjoyed having him. He is so incredibly tiny and just plain adorable. It was weird to hold him, which I did, and then to look at Blake who was cruising around on the floor and pulling up and realizing that in 10 months Kayden would be doing the same. Crazy! I just couldn't believe that Blake is almost a year and we're about to be celebrating a birthday. But I'm not going there today because that's too many emotions for me at the moment! Anyway, here are some pictures of our time together. Suzzy was very protective of Kayden and made sure that Blake and Ellie weren't too rough with him. Blake liked touching him, but would rather use him as a prop to help him stand up. I had to make sure that didn't happen!