June?! Already?

Wow! Time just flies when you're chasing kids. Life is good right now. Titus has adjusted well. Quintin is getting past the crazy newborn stage. He is sleeping better, crying less, smiling and making the cutest noises. He is growing like crazy. Tim started his part time hours this week. I am so excited about that. No more daycare!!! It's not that we will have any more money in our pockets, but it is good to have them at home. Monday was rough. I was wondering if I was cut out to be even a remote form of a stay at home mom. But we got out of the house a little Tues and Wed and things seemed to go better. This morning, Titus is playing outside in his underwear, having a great time. I think I will still trying to take advantage of some Mom's Day Out things to keep him used to being left with other people, but he doesn't have to get bit all the time this way.

Keeping him home has also allowed us to start potty training him. They weren't willing to work with us until he was 2 (despite the fact that they took another little girl to the potty all the time). He is doing pretty well so far. Still cleaning up lots of messes, but no outright defiance. I'll take what I can get. He is good about telling us when he needs to go.

We are looking forward to a trip to Missouri in July. We should be there by the evening of the 23rd and are planning to stay just under a week.


Since I'm posting, I'm going to add some new pics and maybe a video. Quintin rolled over for the 1st time a few weeks ago and I managed to catch it on video.

Painting eggs and playing in the mud!

Here is Titus playing in the water and newly tilled ground this afternoon. He is such a boy. At least he had sandals on. He also got to dye Easter eggs with Nanny. Tomorrow he is going to an egg hunt, we'll see how that goes.


 
 
 
 

Titus lovin' Quintin

This is Titus hugging and kissing Quintin. He really likes him. He calls him "my baby." They are quite a pair and such a blessing in our lives.


 
 
 
 

Rebecca and Logan were here with their kids this weekend, so we got to meet Garrett for the first time. What a sweetie! Titus and Caleb had a great time playing together. We all had a good visit and Tim's grandparents from Memphis came also.

Christmas

Here's a video of Titus before he opened the Elmo chair from Papa and Grandma Kathy. He has almost as much fun with it wrapped as unwrapped!




Titus had a really hard time with putting one gift to the side long enough to open another. Guess we should have only gotten him one thing! He had a great time and we had a very uneventful, enjoyable day.

Pumpkin Decorator Extraordinaire

Yesterday, I let Titus decorate a little pumpkin with fingerpaint. He was a little timid at first, but he got into after a while. He wore daddy's old Allied shirt as a smock, which he thought was quite funny. He even learned how to say pumpkin, sort of.

painting the pumpkin

Here is a link to the pictures we took in New Mexico if you want to see them. We didn't get a many as we wanted, but here they are.

http://picasaweb.google.com/stephaniegaylewhite/NewMexico#

New slideshow

Titus' boo boo.

Titus took a hard fall last week at daycare and got a rug burn on his head. Then he got a little wild in the tub and broke the skin. Tim says he fussed for a minute and the started giggling. Tim was quite proud of his tough little guy, so he got some pictures, blood running down his face and all. Enjoy.

Titus' 1st haircut.

All the cute little curls are gone!! Can you believe it? We did this the last weekend in August before we went to New Mexico. Tim used our clippers in the garage with Titus' in his high chair and he just sat there. Didn't freak out, cry or squirm. He never stops amazing us! And now, no one can say he has a mullet. We couldn't have that anymore. When was finished, he got a fig newton, one of his favorites, for being so good.

Birthday portraits

Pictures (of Titus)

I know it has been a while since I posted. I started to a few times, but there wasn't really any new or exciting things to post. But I finally have a link to the 1 year portraits we had done a few weeks ago. I have the CD, so I will try to post them in a more direct manner later. But for now, here is the link to the Sears web site.

https://www.searsphotos.com/view_roll_images.asp?sesstype=4&sessid={4EAB0124-E0F6-4950-98B7-27417376BD95}&url=dep_order_portraits.asp&tag=F4A6844498D042849462E4999ED477972E3F724AD9D845C290E528DF5C7C5421

I hope that works. I'll double check it. On that some note, I have the CD and copyright, so if you want a copy of anything you don't need to pay $15 a sheet. Just let me know and I can either mail you a copy of the CD or email the picture or print it for you and send it to you. If you are a grandparent or great grandparent or Titus' aunt or uncle you will have something coming to you, but I didn't order a lot of prints this time. Let me know and I will be glad to get them to you.