My New Blog

I've gotten several comments on my new blog look and I can't take ANY credit for it! Brandy at Brandy's Bloggy Designs did it all! She did such a great job!
I told her I wanted something bright with some black and white and she took it from there. She's great to work with and is very reasonable with her price. I was definitely needing a blog-lift and was so happy that she could do it.
Thanks so much, Brandy!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone has a great day! So far, our's is going great! Kirk and McCoy sent me these gorgeous flowers in the cutest vase ever!! They definitely know my style! I have got the two best Valentines ever!!! They are definitely "irresistible"!

Expanding McCoy's Culinary Horizon

Today McCoy had his 4 month check-up. Everything went great...except for those awful shots! But he seems to be feeling fine now, so that's good. McCoy is 26 1/2 inches long and he weighs 15 lbs 8 oz. This puts him in the 95th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight. At his 2 month he was 95th in both so his weight is slowing down a little bit.
Also at this appt, the dr (who we absolutely love) told us we could start him on some rice cereal. We couldn't wait to get home and try it out! We figured McCoy would be so excited to try something else besides milk. Also, he's been obsessed with putting things in his mouth lately so we figured it was time.

So we took off his clothes, put him in a cute bib, and sat him in his bumbo...

Drooling for cereal!

I started the spoon to his mouth and he opened wide. In goes the cereal...

My toys taste way better!

Get it out, Mom!!

No more!!

Needless to say, it wasn't his favorite! However, we're going to try it again in another week or so. I'm sure he'll start liking it soon.

Luckily, he wasn't mad at us afterwards. Just in definite need of a bath!

After his bath, Kirk decided that McCoy needed a new hairdo. He's done this before but McCoy's hair has gotten a lot longer since the last time so it looks so funny!! It always stays like this until his next bath!

And this is just a random picture of him zonked out while I was trying to burp him earlier. Those shots wore him out!!!

We have some really cute video of McCoy eating his cereal that I would love to put on here but I can't figure out how to upload video from my video camera. Does anyone know what kind of cord you have to have?? Thanks!!!

Our Four Month Old

McCoy is 4 months old today! I feel like it was only a couple of days ago that I was writing his 3 month post! I absolutely love this age!! His little personality has just popped out in the past week. One word to sum him up would be HAPPY! He loves to smile and laugh out loud. If you're not looking at him, he will fake cough or squeal to get your attention. He talks constantly!! We'll be strolling through the mall or at the grocery store and people will just walk by and laugh at him because he's just talking away.

Everything that he gets in his hand goes straight to his mouth. Burp cloths, toys, hair, anything!

He's not really a napper. He goes down for about 20 or 30 minutes and then he's good to go! Just enough to refresh him and get him ready for some more playtime!

Gigi took both of these pictures this morning. I knew that he was getting big but he looks like such a little boy to me now!!! I can't believe how much can happen in 4 months!!

I can not say enough about how much fun he is! The best thing in the world to me is seeing his smile and his laugh everyday!!

Happy 4 months, McCoy! We can't wait to see what the next one brings!!

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today Kirk and I found out we were expecting!! I will always remember the exact day because it was the Monday after Super Bowl 2007.
Here's our story:
Last year, we stayed home for Super Bowl Sunday. Kirk was in the bedroom watching the game and I was in the living room flipping around to see what else was on TV. I remember contemplating on whether or not I should take a test. I was a week late but we had been trying for 9 months so you can imagine the number of tests I had gone through. I really didn't want to take another one and disappoint myself again, which I thought I would do. So Monday morning I was laying in bed at 5 am, when I normally didn't get up until 6:30, still contemplating the same thing...should I or shouldn't I?? I decided to go ahead and do it and immediately I saw double blue lines!!!! I was so excited and a little speechless! I ran and jumped on the bed to wake Kirk up...I think I kind of scared him a little!
Me: "I just took a pregnancy test!"
Kirk (VERY groggily): "What did it say?"
Me: "It was positive!"
Kirk (still a little groggy): "Are you serious?"
That woke him up a little more and then we sat on the bed for a little while and stared at the test. Then it was off to work and we had to keep it to ourselves for two weeks!! We wanted to wait to tell my parents in person and that's when they were planning to come in town. It was pure torture!
I will never forget anything about that day. We were sooooo excited! We didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl but all we knew is that we loved that little thing in my tummy A LOT!
So now, one year later, we get to look at McCoy's adorable face everyday and feel so blessed. It is amazing how much you can love someone! Words can not even explain it!
Here are some pictures of McCoy today on his One Year Positive Pregnancy Test Anniversary!!! Don't really know what else to call it...

Lately he has been making some of the cutest facial expressions and besides his smile this one has got to be my absolute favorite... (click on the pic to get a closer look)

Visiting daddy at work

I can not get enough of his adorable face!! It is amazing at what can happen in a year! We love you so much, McCoy!!! Thank you for coming into our lives!

Super Bowl Sunday

Tonight the Ware's and the Karnes' came over to watch the game. The girls did lots of visiting in the kitchen and checking out a few commercials and the guys focused on the game...very typical!

We had so much fun eating LOTS of good food and watching Harry and McCoy. Harry showed up with a mohawk which was so cute! It totally fits his personality! We kept trying to get a good pic of both boys looking at the camera and smiling but that was impossible!

Here was some of the commentary while trying to take their picture...

McCoy, McCoy, smile over here...Harry, look this way!

Be gentle, Harry...McCoy, smile (in a very high pitched voice)

Harry, teach McCoy how to play with the toys...McCoy, Harry look up here!

Needless to say, we got some great action shots! In between taking care of the boys, eating, and getting McCoy ready for bed, I didn't get any pictures of the adults!! I was so disappointed! But I'm sure we'll get together again soon and I'll make sure to then.

After everybody left, I caught the last few minutes of the game and it was actually pretty good! I really didn't care who won but it was fun to see the Giants come back!

McCoy and Kirk watching the end of the game

Happy Birthday, Leanne!

Friday was one of my very good friend's birthdays!!! Leanne turned 26! Yeah!! So we decided to celebrate by eating at Doe's, which if you've never been there you should go...but don't go there on a diet. We had wonderful tamales, steaks, and biscuits. It was all very yummy!

Hunter and the birthday girl!!

Me and Kirk

Me and Brian-a loyal blog reader

I had to take a picture with Brian because Leanne informed me last night that he's a secret blog reader! Brian is one of Hunter's good friends. I think it's so funny that he checks my blog when he's bored at work! I promised him he would make the cut for blog pics, so this one's for you, Brian!

Kirk and I had so much fun on our night out but I think McCoy had even more fun! He stayed over at Kasey and Jordan's house while we were eating. He says they are definitely pros at babysitting and he can't wait to go back!!

Hey mom, you think they'd let me spend the night??