Randoms

I always seem to have a lot of random pictures that I take that never warrant their own post, but I want them to be documented. My blog is my scrapbook, so that is why it's always overloaded with pics!! ;) Sorry, not sorry!

William is learning to eat with utensils. Any gray hairs I end up with, will be from this task. It stresses me out. The mess!!

Hannah and Mama took William to the mall one night while Robbie and I stayed home. We ate dinner on the couch vs. sitting at the table, watched junk on the DVR vs. Disney Junior, and couldn't stop thinking about our boy and missing him!!

He played in the play area for the first time and loved it!!

 

How does he know how to use that wheel?!

Reading Dada's Fraggle Rock book. He always pulls this one off the shelf!

Sliding down!!

He slowly pulls out each puff, and then slowly eats them or puts them back. Hilarious!

We finally brought his chair downstairs and he LOVES it to watch tv!!

Our daily love session with Riley! Finished up with him showing me where her eyes were. Poor Riley!

Waiting for the snow!

Lazy day on Saturday in the snow watching Veggie Tales!

He was so weak!

He emptied the contents of his fridge in my lap! LOL

BFF's FaceTime!

Enjoying some Mickey before church!

Graham crackers are a staple in our house!

I about died when he brought this barn over to me like it was a mask!

The first night he slept with a stuffed animal. It was too sweet.

The things he thinks of...he saw Robbie and I under blankets, and pulled this rug over him like a blanket and looked at us and laughed!

Using his elephant as a stool to read on!

The child only likes carbs. He is def my child!

We walked into the Disney store last night, waiting for dinner at Kanki, and William loved this Mickey! However, he still resides there because of his $40 price tag!!! Woof!

Close call!! William pulled on the table runner until the flowers were SO close to being in the floor. Thank goodness he stopped! SMH.

Happy and ready for a bath!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Valentine's Day has never been a huge holiday for me. Robbie and I have never seen the sense in spending a ton of money on gifts for this holiday. We typically go out to a nice dinner that night, and try to appreciate and love each other all throughout the year. We actually celebrated Vday the day before this year, since Mama already had William that night for us to go to an appointment. Robbie sent flowers to me at work on Wednesday. They were gorgeous!!! We are not usually flower people, but sometimes the surprise is nice! We picked our favorite spot for dinner that night, Firebirds. Mama gave us some Vday money that we used to treat ourselves. It was half price drinks night that night, and I tried Passion Punch. It was delish!! I would have never paid 9.00 for it though! Jeez!! My Valentine also remembered I had been coveting the new book, "Sparkly Green Earrings" by a popular blogger. It was SO good. I read it in 2 days!!! Definitely recommend it! We had a great night celebrating!

Robbie brought me home a heart shaped biscuit from work a couple days before!

On Valentine's Day, Mama, William, and I left early to head to Salisbury for Stephanie's dad's funeral. William looked so grown in his navy blazer and tie. He did so great through the visitation, funeral, burial, and lunch back at Stephanie's. Stephanie said a beautiful speech about her dad, and even mentioned our sweet boy and how much he had meant to her dad. I was bawling. He will be missed!! We changed William into his Valentine's Day shirt (old pic below but it has a puppy on it with a valentine in his mouth ;)) so he would be comfy on the ride, and headed back to Raleigh!

 

Flowers on our table!

Swings, Circus, Birthday, and Church!

Weekend before last, we had another busy weekend! We got a glimpse into how the rest of the world lives when Robbie had Saturday AND Sunday off with us. It was bliss!!

We knew we wanted to take William to the circus on Saturday. I tried to get online Friday morning and order 4 tickets for all of us, and the website was down!! Since we were down to the wire, I panicked and convinced Robbie to ride with me to the arena to get them in person (he was closing that night). We basically got the last 4 pack of seats together, shew!! After William's afternoon nap, we had a few minutes before we were going to dinner, so Mama and I took him to the park in our neighborhood. He LOVES to swing! After a few minutes, we headed over to the mall. We had California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. I swung by Talbots and tried on some clothes. I NEVER get myself anything! It drives everybody crazy. So, I gave in and got a couple tops and a pair of corduroys! William had a ball running around the dressing rooms (we were the only ones in there) and checking himself out in every mirror!

Got our tickets!!

Big shot sitting on the couch

Always moving!

He has figured out that this door is the way to freedom, and is constantly pushing on it, ha!

I'm ready!!

This is how I get out, Mama! Let's go!

Swinging!

<3

Shopping hazards!

Quick bath after a late night!

Friday night, Robbie called me and told me that William's good buddy, Great Papa (Stephanie's dad) had passed away. We loved getting with him at dinner almost every night! He will be missed. This picture is from last Easter.

 

 

 

Saturday morning, we were up early! The circus started at 11, but doors opened at 10, so we were out of the house by 9:15 to get Hannah and get to the arena.We found our seats and then went down to the 3 rings for a few minutes, then got our snacks and headed back to the seats. It was a little over 2 hours long. I wasn't sure how William would do, especially sitting in our laps and eating his "lunch" aka popcorn, crackers, 1 bite of a hamburger. Basically he snacked lol. But he LOVED it!!! He stared, pointed, clapped and laughed the entire 2 hours. It was SO worth the money. Every dime. We all enjoyed ourselves, too!! Mama and Hannah chipped in and got him a stuffed elephant. He is obsessed with it now!! 

Saturday was also Mama's birthday! She said she didn't mind sharing her birthday with the circus, haha! But we promised to celebrate that night at dinner. I was supposed to make dinner reservations at Firebirds, but I believed everyone who told me they didn't take reservations and didn't make any. So when I called ahead for a group of 10, they didn't have ANY room!!! So we frantically called the other Firebirds, Angus barn, all of the Bonefish Grills, etc. I was starting to stress! Finally, we called the Capital City Chophouse and they had room for us!! We had a delicious meal, and were even in our private room! We were there for about 3 hours, so that worked out great, since William got a little restless, haha. I think she had a great birthday, celebrating with everyone! Sadly, we got no pictures, except one of Robbie and William before we left.

Passed out before we were even out of the parking lot!

Leaving for dinner!

Sunday morning, we were up early. We wanted to try Sunday School at the church we had been going to. I don't discuss religion much on here, but lately we have been trying to get involved in a church. It is hard because of Robbie's job, so I wanted to find one that William and I could feel comfortable enough going to without him.We realized WE need to be there as much as possible, and we really want William raised in that environment as well! We have tried 3 churches so far. We attended one by our house a couple times, and really liked it. But, after trying Sunday school and visiting those few times, we realized there weren't that many young people, and that is important to us - to become involved and have friendships. One thing I am thankful for, is William's attitude. He goes right into the nursery, doesn't even look back! It surprised me, since he stays at home. But he LOVES it! We always get reports of how sweet he is, and how he didn't cry and just played and played. Robbie and I love it because he always acts SO excited to see us! We had a relaxing rest of the day after church and lunch!

Playing at church in the nursery!

Should not even put this on the internet, LOL!! William loves crawling over our piles of clean clothes!

The elephant is bigger than him!