Young Party of Four

A couple of months ago when Will's umbilical hernia healed all on its own with no surgical intervention and without much fanfare... I remember breathing a sigh of relief. Whew! No surgery for this little guy. We are entirely out of the words. While we will not need to endure a surgery with an infant again (thank goodness for that!), Will ended up needing to have his own special moment apparently anyway. At Will's 6 month appointment everything looked great! He is one healthy little guy. Robust at 18 lbs, 7 oz (75th percentile) and tall at 27.25 inches (93rd percentile) but his head looked a little... odd. Will has always been a back sleeper. Despite the fact that he CAN roll, he chooses not to do so at bedtime or naps. He has a couple of times, but it was more on accident and he doesn't actually want to sleep that way. I noticed a long time ago that he tends to favor his left side. As a result, I started turning him each time I lay him down and changing which way he face...

In lieu of my regularly scheduled blog... the one that was supposed to be filled with princesses, fairies, pirates, and plenty of Mickey Mouse... I bring you... our first major virus with two kids! I am so sad that we need to put our first Disney family trip on hold... but that's the plus to having annual passes. We will just plan to go the following weekend as long as everyone holds on and gets better. The past few days have been some very, very trying ones. Let me take you back. Back to two Wednesdays ago, in fact. Will woke up feeling a bit warm. No big deal. The kid always seems to run hot. He was acting almost normal that morning. He didn't want to nurse a lot, but he had been up numerous times the night before and eaten almost every time he woke up so I didn't think too much of it. He also didn't want to eat any solids. Okay. Not atypical of a 6 month old that has been eating solids for maybe a month. I didn't worry too much. We were playing in Kenzie's ...

It's officially that time of the year! Time for pools, beaches, and a whole lot of family fun! Florida is seriously my favorite place. I am so thankful that 17 or so years ago my mom elected to move us from Mississippi to sunny South Florida. Not only did I meet and eventually marry my other other half, but we had two amazing little kiddos and we get to spend our summers (and the entire year) in the place that so many other people vacation in. I live where others vacation. Seriously. Awesome. After dealing with some weird sickness this last week... we were ready for a fun weekend. Will abruptly came down with a really high virus on Wednesday. It hung out a couple of days and then disappeared as abruptly as it showed up. Now, a few days later we are dealing with a bit of a rash. We were initially fairly certain it was Roseola. At least, based on what the doctor said when we first went in. Today we finally had Will's 6 month check up and now, we think it is strep. Strangest cas...

Dear William, Happy half birthday! I can't believe I am writing your 6 month letter. It still seems like just yesterday you were this tiny little guy that we brought home from the hospital that slept all the time and wore such tiny clothes. Now... not so much. Haha! I feel like I should begin by telling you that you are huge! We do not actually have your 6 month appointment until next week so my height and weight for you are only estimates again. They could be off by quite a bit, but hopefully they are fairly close to the true thing. We have you figured to be about 18.4 lbs and 28 inches. I really think we are off (too big) on the height but we will find out for sure next week. You are wearing some 9 month clothing but have moved into mostly 12 months. Depending on the brand, we have actually started packing away a few 9 month things just because they run small. I can't believe we are putting you in 12 month clothing already. You have been wearing that size for almost...

We are definitely fans of Johnny Horton in this family. For some reason when I though about going to Atlanta the song North To Alaska popped into my head. Hence the name of this post. Anyway... This past weekend we took a road trip to Atlanta to celebrate our niece, Evie's, birthday. It was quite a weekend. We came back ridiculously tired but we had a great time. We started our long weekend early. On Thursday we picked up a van from Budget because we planned to drive with Steven's parents (hereafter referred to as Mom Y and Dad Y) to Atlanta. Kenzie thought the van was Ah-Maze-Ing. She is nutty. She referred to it as our "van car" for the duration of the trip. The pick up was uneventful except for the fact that we began to worry that between 4 adults and 2 children (that need a whole lot of junk to travel) that we wouldn't have room in the van. Regardless, we went home, loaded our stuff, and set off for Mom and Dad Y's house. Once we got there we pulled ou...