Ansley's first pet!

Its no secret that I'm not a pet lover. I hate cats, with a passion and we will never own one! *sorry to all the cat lovers* I like dogs and Zach and I have had several since being together, but lets face it they are a lot of work and with 2 kids, I'm not about to clean up or look at more poop! :) When we got home from having Karson Greg and Teresa sent us some beautiful flowers and Ansley saw the vase and immediately thought there was a fish in there just like at grandma Carolyn's house. That's when I decided that we needed a betta! :) Grandma Teresa thought it was a wonderful idea and bought all the supplies, other than the vase and one afternoon we took Ansley to the new pet store in town. :) There were only 3 different colors to choose from and this is the one that she picked out. :) She loved it and named it Ansley! lol. The little fish was doing great and seemed to like his new home, until this week! opps! I cleaned out the water and found him dead the next morning! See were not pet people. Well grandma Teresa bought us another fish that looks exactly like the dead one and Ansley doesn't even realize that the first one is dead! Aww to be 1!! :)

Thank you gma Teresa for both betta's

Karson-1 month

Its hard to believe that my little man is already a month old! He has grown so much in the last month and has gained nearly 3 pounds! Yikes. He is going to be a big boy!! :) He is a really good baby, but has started to puke all the time like his sister use too! :( Ugh. I feel like 90% of my day I'm covered in poop, puke and urine. Between trying to potty train Ansley and of course the "flying" pee from Karson I'm constantly cleaning and looking at booties! :) That's ok, I don't mind, I love staying at home with my kiddo's! :) At least most days!!!

Here are Karson's birth stats: 8lbs 12oz.    21 1/4 inches long.

At our one month appointment he weighed 11lbs 14oz  and was 22 1/2 inches long!

Here is what he is up too this month:

• Can hold your head up for several seconds/minutes while being held with no trouble
• nursing only, haven't given you a bottle yet
• You are fussy in the evenings for about 2 hours-although I think its getting better
• You are in size 1 diapers and 0-3 month clothes (you lasted one week in newborn diapers and about 3 weeks in newborn clothes)
• You sleep everyday from noonish to 4 like clock work
• You sleep at night from 10 to 1 or 2am. Seems like most night's you eat 3 times :)
• You love your swing and it puts you to sleep everyday for your long nap
• You only cry when your hungry and by looking at you, its all the time!!!
• You love to cluster feed in the evenings and I'm pretty sure you would eat all evening if I would let you :)
• You sleep the best on mommy at night! :) I'm sure going to miss this when I go back to work

You are a growing baby boy and I love you bunches little man

OKC: July 2011

I had every intention of blogging about our first family vacation way before Karson's arrival, but as you can see that didn't happen! :)  We went to OKC for a weekend with our great friends Jamie and Luke and their kids! We had a great time and sweated our booties off! It was HOT! We went to the zoo and lets just say we lasted a whole 3 hours. I was 35 weeks pregnant and sweating profusly and everyone else may not of been carrying around an extra 35+++ pounds, but WE WERE HOT and sweaty! There was actually a lot of shade and we arrived right at 9 when they opened, but it was still too hot for us. We stayed in Bricktown and enjoyed our evenings walking around and enjoying what Bricktown had to offer. Our hotel had a great indoor pool for the kiddos and we had a great time! Thanks again for going with us! We are great travel buddies! :)