Happy 10 months, the king! You have taken 2 steps. More to come soon I bet! You also like big people food. You drink from me about once a day. You are generally sleeping through the night!
Winstonzilla attacks the town!
Dump truck ride!
Hanging out with Emmaline!
Apple snack with dad!
Relaxing with mom!
It’s Winston’s first snow day! We got about 8 inches of snow in Nashville!
Here is Elliot in the snow in Tullathoma!
Elliot played cars in the snow.
Elliot and daddy in the snow.
Mommy and Winston in the snow!
Elliot getting ready to sled!
Sledding!
https://youtu.be/AUsnz0H24sI
Here we go!
https://youtu.be/g9R8Vycuges
Snow cat
Snow dragon
Daddy and Winston came out to sled with us later.
https://youtu.be/lUU0tHifDcs
https://youtu.be/zSViuOeY6Lk
https://youtu.be/y2Y1QVim46E
Well at least it was getting dark anyways.
Sorry Art!
Elliot’s big Christmas present was a trip to the Water Park! We went to Wilderness at the Smokies! Gingy, Grandpa, and Tom were able to go with us! Charlotte (as well as Gam Gam and Slappy) came to play with us at the Water Park!
https://youtu.be/PrHcS9QeGuA
While we were in Pigeon Forge, we got a picture made with the other Dyers. Here’s Elliot getting ready for the picture.
Here’s Winston practicing his smile!
Here we are getting our picture made while we are off to get our picture made!
Brotherly love!
The rooms at the hotel were nice. Here we are hanging out in them!
Happy 8 months, Winston! You can crawl like a pro and you stand by yourself for approximately 0.5 seconds! You can climb a whole flight of stairs! Also, you have become a very hungry person lately. You eat 1.5 to 2 baby foods per meal and drink about 6 fl oz of formula in between meals. You still drink from me some, but I can’t keep up! We are still waiting on that tooth, but it does not seem to be coming any time soon!
Here’s you and brother at the playground recently!
Here you are with mommy after eating a chocolate volcano!
And here you are with brother and daddy! Night night!
Update:
https://youtu.be/oATptP8bpww
Here’s Winston working on some walking!
Christmas was CRAZY this year!
We had early Christmas with the Dyers a couple of weeks before Christmas. Linzy, Ian, Charlotte, and our new nephews Hank and Ollie came to see us with Gam Gam and Slappy! They stayed overnight and we opened presents the next morning. It was a blast!
https://youtu.be/D7n5sWEEnu4
https://youtu.be/quNInlhQf6U
Here are my nephews in some Christmas outfits I crocheted.
Here’s Elliot in a Spaceship!
Santa came to visit us the night before the night before Christmas. We almost left for Knoxville early because there was a very bad storm with tornadoes the night before the night before Christmas. Fortunately, the weather settled down and Santa came by that night and left some nice presents!
https://youtu.be/bTWYdvv0AUE
We went to visit Aunt Cathy at her new apartment on Christmas Eve!
We went to the Dyer’s on Christmas Eve. Winston and Elliot got a fun cars rug!
We visited Logan’s Granny on Christmas morning.
Here we are having a fun Christmas at my parent’s! Elliot got a bike with pedals!
I got some new jammies.
Then we went to celebrate with Gingy’s family.
On Sunday we celebrated with Grandpa’s family.
Elliot, Winston, Gingy, and I went to look at the lights at Jellystone and afterwards went to the Rain Forest Cafe and had chocolate lava cake!
Elliot and Gingy made a ginger bread house.
Happy New Year!
You are crawling and pulling up! One of your day care ladies said you could come play with her if you climbed up a couple of steps, so you did! Now they have moved you up to the big babies nursery! You have been feverish and stuffy the past week. We think you might get your first tooth any day!
Here’s Elliot doing a trick!
We went to Breakfast with Santa, a fund raiser for my high school’s show choir. I had not been there in 14 years and I had never been on the customer side! Elliot got a little sick while we were there but otherwise we had fun and got to see Santa!
Then we took some pictures at the caboose!
We celebrated Thanksgiving a week early with Logan’s family. Slappy came down before that to visit us. He got some cute pictures of Winston
and took Elliot to Chuck E. Cheese’s!
Slappy took Elliot up to Pigeon Forge a couple of days before the rest of us. He got him a doughnut on the ride there.
Elliot got to spend a lot of quality time with his cousin Charlotte. Here is the calm before the storm.
and the storm!
Winston got to play too!
I was on call for actual Thanksgiving, so we invited my family to our house for a delicious lunch!
Even Winston got to enjoy some fixin’s!
Logan got to watch the boys on black Friday since I had to work.
Happy 6 months, baby boy! Here are your many faces!
Here is a video I took this morning of Elliot and Winston playing.
https://youtu.be/o4TqB_lLl8Y
You are starting to crawl slowly. It won’t be long now before nothing will be safe! You also like standing with help and you are eating several types of fruits and vegtables.
We went as ninja turtles for the boo at the zoo! I have been wanting to be Donatello for years and now I have the whole team assembled.
Unfortunately, Elliot’s costume was a little tight. So he elected to go as Woody again for his class party and for trick or treating. It was still cute!
When we went trick or treating, Elliot went to the first door and went the resident opened the door, Elliot walked right in! Trick or Treat!
We had a great time at the cabin this year! We started the weekend off by celebrating Tom’s birthday with a very impressive sailing themed cake.
Tom showed Elliot his hammock.
We had some Papa Murphy’s Pizza while Winston did some walking.
Elliot had his own air mat bed. Here he is trying it out with Winston.
The next day, the boys tried out Uncle Art’s glasses.
Then we went to the Island in Pigeon Forge and had spaghetti ice cream and did some jumping!
Elliot complained about Winston putting his hand on him in the stroller so Logan told him to just hold his hand. Aren’t they sweet!
Later, Elliot and Uncle Art made a penguin.
Winston turned 4 months old that day. We tried some rice cereal but he wasn’t that in to it. He did like the spoon!
We did a little swimming that evening.
Uncle Art read the boys a book!
The next morning we biked Cades Cove! Turns out that bike wagon is pretty hard to pull (especially with low tire pressure).
Then we went to Tuckaleechee Caverns! Elliot asked for a coin to throw in a wishing well and a nice stranger gave him one. Right after he threw it in his sweet voice he asked, “Does anybody have another coin?”
After that we came home to watch some football!
Mommy and Elliot tried out the hot square.
The next day we ate breakfast at Reagan’s.
We hiked up Clingmans Dome. Here we are getting ready.
It was a long way up.
Here we are at the observation tower. It was a bit smoky!
Logan and I hurried back down with the boys when it started raining.
All in all, good cabin. We missed a few people this year though. We’ll see you all next year!
