Late Christmas Pics

These are some pictures of our Christmas with the Trotter family in Memphis. Ben's dad sent us the ones he took and I wanted to post a few of them.
This is the bed and breakfast that we all stayed in. It's really fun there, beautiful rooms, a billiard room, and cute little guest house with pond.





This is Caroline's Auntie Megan. They have loads of fun together! Isn't she cute?!

Family Picture!

Imaginary Mimi

Caroline loves it when her Nana or Mimi comes to visit. She always gets very excited to see them! Two weeks ago we made the mistake of telling Caroline that her Mimi might come to visit the following weekend. After telling her this the plans sort of fell through and it was going to be a least three or four weeks before Mimi was going to be able to come visit. Caroline was very sad. Later that night we were watching her play and realized that she was pretending that Mimi was her playing her. For a whole week this imaginary Mimi went everywhere with her, to school, to Walmart, to the bathroom. "Imaginary Mimi ate supper with us, took baths with us, and slept with is! It was so funny! She would walk around, pretending she was holding Mimi's hand. So, after we called Mimi and told her this she couldn't stand it. She canceled her plans and drove down for the weekend so that Caroline could play with the real Mimi! We still didn't tell her that Mimi was coming and went to eat in Greenbrier Friday evening. She asked why we had ordered four drinks on the table. We told her that we might have some friends coming to join us. When Mimi and aunt Beka came through the doors she looked so confused! She didn't know what was going on. Her face was hilarious! You just see her little head trying to figure this out. Then she didn't stop smiling during the entire meal!






Mimi brought some things for Valentines Day since she wouldn't see the kids again before then. The little puppy that Graham is holding is from her. He actually feel asleep hugging it! So cute!

Caroline is making glitter Valentines with Aunt Beka.

This video didn't come out very good but I wanted to put it on here. When you hold Graham up on his feet he acts likes he is walking. He actually puts one foot in front of the other! He can't wait to start getting around! He is a very active baby!

A week at the Phelan's

We went to Rogers a couple of weeks ago to keep my cousins, Matthew and Natalie. We stayed for a whole week! We really enjoyed our time with them. I certainly miss the kids since they have moved away. Caroline loves visiting Aunt Christie's house and watching Spongebob in the theater room. Or maybe she just likes eating from popcorn machine! Graham was an angel the whole time! Natalie was a big help with him. He really liked her! And Matthew entertained Caroline most of the time also. They played games and watched lots of cartoons!







Graham liked to play on this soft rug in the bedroom. I thought these pictures were cute!

Graham is Four Months Old!

Graham is now four months old! This has been a busy month for Graham. He has learned so much! The other day I put him on his little mat while I was doing my makeup and when I turned around he was halfway across the bathroom! He rolls everywhere! I can't keep him on his mats or blankets on the floor. I like having hardwood floors but it sure does make this stage more difficult!
Graham laughed for the first time yesterday! It was so sweet! I was tickling him on the tummy and making silly noises when he let a little giggle! He smiles all the time now. He loves to smile at Caroline when she is acting silly.
I have already posted about Graham eating cereal for the first time. Yesterday I gave him squash. He made a few faces at first but really liked it after a few tries.
Graham has also gotten really good at holding his toys or reaching out for one. It's nice for him to be able to entertain himself.
Oh, and he has slept all night the last two nights without getting up to eat. He went to bed at 8:00 and woke up at 7:00. I still have to give him his pacie in the middle of the night quite often but not having to actually get up is great!

Here is Graham eating his squash.

It didn't take for long him to understand how this whole process worked. He opens his mouth wide when he sees the spoon coming!

Graham loves to sit beside his sister in the "big" chair when she is watching TV. He just sits and watches her act silly!

First Snow, First Cereal, First Tooth!

We have snow! Caroline was so excited! Of course she didn't make it very long before coming inside because it was too cold! I had to get a picture of Graham in the snow also. Don't worry, we took the picture and immediately brought him back inside! He didn't seem to mind the cold, he was just very wide-eyed at all the white!






Caroline wanted to sled! I don't even know how she knew what that was. Ben hooked up a small trash can lid to the back of the four wheeler and pulled her around By this point most of the snow had melted so they were actually sledding on the grass.




Right at Christmas time I started to put a little cereal in Graham's bottle. He is a big boy and was always wanting to eat! With me breast feeding that was hard to do all the time. This did fill him up a little more, but not quite enough. Today I decided to give him the actual cereal mixed up in a bowl. I remembered hw long it took Caroline to get used to it and figured it would take awhile for Graham also. I was completely prepared for him to just spit it right back out......
He loved it! That poor hungry boy! He gobbled it right up and I had to go mix up more!

Yummy!

Graham is also getting his first tooth in! On the top right side! He is growing up so fast! He was very cranky the last few days and I thought it was because he had a cold. He had been coughing and was very stuffy. I didn't even think to check for a tooth this early on. Finally I saw something and felt inside his mouth to find a tiny tooth coming in!