The last 8 days

Traveling on a 4 hour airplane flight with two little boys, two car seats, one suitcase weighing 49.5 pounds (half a pound shy of having to pay the $50.00 over-limit fee), one carry-on, one double stroller and NO HUSBAND........very exhausting.Getting to see TONS of family....making the trip seem a little more worth it.

Taking the boys to see the ocean for the first time.....pretty awesome.

Coming home to a beautiful finished (by my husband) basement......TOTALLY WORTH IT!

Before and After Basement Pictures

Before we even bought the house, and after all the hard work!

I'm holding my head up pretty good.

I just can't get enough pictures of this cute little dimple.

I found my feet!

Today, I wanted to wear Dad's hat for our outing to the store.

Oh the fun we have waiting on mom to finish posting pictures on the blog.

Look close...someone has ANOTHER black eye.

If Atticus could talk, we would hear, "my hero".

I'm cross-eyed.

No I'm not!

Atticus had his first experience in the exersaucer, and he loves it! Max doesn't know what to do with Atticus in it, so he usually just runs around it and then gets in it himself when we take Atticus out. Atticus LOVES LOVES LOVES for Max to look at him. So, he just stares up at Max (with all this love in his eyes) while Max runs in circles around the exersaucer.

Notice the background...we are almost finished with the basement.

Someone asked me where Atticus' open-mouth smile came from. Well, I am happy to say that apparently I HAVE contributed something to my 2 kids that look just like their dad!

Max loves to get in Atticus's crib and point to the letters above it. Although, he only has the "t" and the "a" down, he still likes to point to the other letters and pretend like he is saying the correct letter.

Atticus smiles ALL the time these days.

Sorry we haven't posted in so long.

We went to see the Taylors at the end of July. We had a great time!

Here is our attempted photo shoot of the cousins. If only you could hear what they were saying . . .

Max to Pierson, "I know what we can do to wake this kid up. . .

You just knock him upside the head.

It works every time!"

While we were back South, we also went to the cabin for a few days. As you can see from the pictures, the boys weren't too happy about going out on the boat.

But they got over it.

Max even got to ride the waverunner with dad.

Aunt Amanda took some great pictures of Atticus. He's smiling now!

We even got a short visit from some of the other cousins.