Perfect spot to build a home

Kevin and I have been round and round about where we are going to build our house on our new property. We have over two acres, and can't seem to agree on where to put it. I wanted to put the house in the middle of the property and he wanted to have it built on the side of the property under these great big shade trees. Well, after looking at the property and realizing what all we could do with the side yard if we were to put the house where Kevin wants it, we came to a compromise, we are going to build on the back part of the side yard under these great big beautiful oak trees. This should help keep the cost of the electric down in the summer and it adds for shade comfort when we will be sitting on the porch of the new house. We can use the rest of the property in the front and on the side for fruit trees and a garden. I am so ready for my new house. I can't wait. We actually have an appointment with a builder on Saturday, to go over costs and plans. This should make for an intresting day!

Big Beautiful Oak trees where the house will be

Father's day..

Well, I am a little late posting about Father's Day, better late than never!

We had a pretty good Father's Day. I bought Kevin an Autumn Blaze Maple shade tree. This tree is supposed to grow very big and it turns red in Fall and late Summer. I thought this would be a great gift that keeps on giving. Kevin can watch this tree grow along with Grisham. One day when Grisham is grown and living his own life, Kevin can look at this tree and always be reminded of Grisham. I also made him a stepping stone, well actually 2 stepping stones,the first one turned out horrible! I didn't realize that you weren't supposed to leave the thing in the mold while it was drying..so needless to say this stone is forever incased in plastic! I couldn't stand it, Kevin liked it but I knew I could do better, so I made a second stone that turned out really cute. It has Grisham's handprints on it. We are going to put this in the yard of our new place when the house is finally built.


This is the cute stepping stone..

Grandfather, Father, and son..three generations

Grisham had his first stitches. He had to go to the dermatologist to have a bump looked at that came up on his back a couple of months ago. We went to his doctor with it a couple of times and he gave us cream to put it on, but it didn't seem to help, so the pediatrician set us up to see a dermatologist. The dermatologist did a biopsy of the site which required stitches. My poor baby!!. He was a real champ though. He did great. The good news is that the test results came back today, and it's just a skin condition that is very common in infants. It's has this great big word that goes with it, which I can't spell or pronounce, which in real people terms means hives. So, nothing major, thank god! We go Wednesday to have the stitches removed.

This past weekend we really just hung out at the house. It was way too hot to do much of anything. So, we set the little pool up again and had a blast! Maybe one of these years we may actually own a "Big" pool. Here's some cute pictures from this weekend.

4 Month check up

Holy cow do I have myself a big boy! Today Grisham had his 4 month check up... he is 17lbs and 5 oz!!!! 26 inches long!!!! BIG KID!!!!!! Dr. Dzurak says he is in the 90 percentile for his age, for both wieght and hieght..so he is growing good. He had to have FIVE SHOTS!!! I almost died when Kevin told me that! My poor baby! I wish I had been there to comfort him, but meemaw and Daddy did a good job.

Dr. Dzurak said that Grisham is actually ahead in his fundamentals. He is rolling over from both, his back to his tummy and from his tummy to his back, and he is sitting up well when we put him in the sitting position, Dr. Dzurak was actually impressed with this, he said that most 6 month old babies aren't even doing as much as he is. So I am quite proud of my little over achiever! only thing is, the more he learns the quicker he grows up. So there's a sad side to having an over achiever.

He is doing good on eating too, Dr. Dzurak said to start trying fruits with him, we have been doing the cereal, although, I really don't think he gets much down him, but the Dr. seems to think it's time to add more things. So we will be trying fruits this month. I hope it goes better than the cereal, he just really isn't into eating, he'd rather have his bottle, which by the way, he is up to 8 oz! He can suck a bottle dry in NO time! I guess we will just have to keep trying until he realizes that food is actually good!

Monday..Memorial Day

We had a great time on Memorial Day. I went to Wal-mart and bought a cheap little kiddie pool for the twins that was big enough for all of us to get in. We set it up on the back deck at our house and stayed in it ALL day! Allie and Baylor really had a good time, and I had a good time watching them play. Grisham didn't really know what to think of the pool, he love his bath time now, but he was a little reluctant with the pool water because it was cold, but after a few minutes he started to like it, I think his favorite part of the entire day was watching Allie and Baylor, they entertain him a lot. I wonder if he thinks about being big like them one day..God help them when he is..they are going to have a run for their money for sure!

Great Family photo!

Cindy took a great photo of me and Kevin this weekend. We don't usually get family photo's, so it was nice to finally get one done..thanks Cindy!

Sunday

Sunday, Kevin and I, went to Marshall to have lunch with 4 special people. Cindy and her husband Jimmy, along with their boy/girl twins met us for lunch at Applebee's. We haven't seen each other in almost a year. The last time we saw each other was at our 7.5 week ultra sound at Dr. Le's clinic. It's hard to believe that it had been that long. We had a really good time catching up and enjoying each other's babies..Emmerson and Ryan are such sweathearts. Very, very cute! I don't think Cindy realized what a blessing it was for me to meet her little miracles. (Thanks Cindy) I look forward to seeing them again..