Big Boy Bed

Yesterday, Davis kept talking and talking about sleeping in a big boy bed. We've talked about moving him out of a crib, and he probably is ready, but I know that we also have to be ready to have him with the freedom to get out of bed. Not just that, we have to be ready to enforce the rule of not getting out of bed until we say so.

Well, Davis's future big boy bed is the daybed/guest bed in Isaac's room, so everytime he would talk about a big boy bed I would let him know that he'd have to wait to go and lay on it until Isaac wakes up. When Isaac did wake up, I was feeding him downstairs and Davis let me know he wanted to go and lay in the big boy bed. I assumed he meant go and lay in Isaac's room, so no problem there. A few minutes later, Isaac and I arrive upstairs to find Davis resting on his "big boy bed."

He had pulled the safety rail out of the closet and was relaxing with Pup pup on it!! It was so funny!

Happy Birthday Dan!

January 16th, Dan turned 32 years old! We were traveling so we celebrated a couple days early as a family. By Davis's request we all wore "Bob" birthday hats for the eating of the "happy cake!"

Dan's favorite dessert is Chocolate Pecan Pie.... Notice the smoke rising from the 32 candles. Davis put everyone of them in the cake and helped Dan blow them out!For Dan's birthday, Isaac and Davis gave him a bicycle helmet! He also recieved a bicycle, so this was a very appropriate gift from his boys. :)

I love you Dan! Happy Birthday!

Isaac Meets More Family and Friends!

Last weekend we ventured out on a 5 day road trip to Pensacola, FL; Valdosta, GA and Lake City, FL to attend a close friends wedding reception and also to introduce Isaac to a lot of family!

Davis and Isaac did really well traveling and spending about 20 hours in the car over the 5 day period. Yes, we had our moments of crying and/or whining, but thankfully they were only moments! This is the view we had of Davis for much of the time. We are thankful our little boy LOVES to read. We checked out a bunch of library books, and books on tape to listen to on the road, and are so glad that we did!


First stop was Pensacola, where Isaac met the Brooks side of our family. Rob and Melody hosted a brunch Saturday morning and we were so thankful for everyone to come out for a visit. We loved seeing all of you!!!
Dan and Tommy have been friends for a long time... since elementary school, right? Dan will have to correct me if I'm wrong on this one!! His wife Melody is from North Dakota so they were married up there December 27th. Instead of all of the Pensacola folks traveling up that way, they had a separate reception this past weekend. We loved meeting Melody and seeing lots of friends!
This is where Davis spent a bit of the reception. He pressed his lips up against the plastic of the podium on the stage in the sanctuary, which doubles as a reception hall. Wish we had some windex before it was time for the pastor to preach the next morning!! There were several other kids to play with so Davis had a blast. We also were introduced to just how uninhibited our little one is. He is not shy. Hmmm.

Next stop was to Valdosta and Lake City. Unfortunatly, I did not end up with any pictures from visiting with Aunt Audrey and meeting our newest cousin, little Brooklyn who is 9 months old. Here we are with Grandma Davis, Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Grady.

Isaac loved all of his time on his Great Grandma's lap. They played and played for much of the day that we were there.

One of Davis's highlights was riding Uncle Grady's tractor.

Thanks everybody for having us! We loved getting to see you and wish we could more often!

Davis's Photo Essay: "My Room"

Davis recently was given supervised access to our digital camera, and he took some pretty good pictures. Here's life through the lens of a 2 year-old toddler.

Happy 6 month birthday Isaac!!

We can hardly believe that half of a year has already passed for our precious Isaac! He is doing great and has grown so much! We can't wait to take him in for his check up to see how much he weighs but we are guessing he is well over 20 lbs...



Isaac's favorite activities these days include smiling, bouncing in the exersaucer, smiling more, sitting in his bumbo seat, reading books with everyone, eating rice cereal, smiling, and giggling at Davis. Pretty much anything that has Davis involved Isaac is very interested in. He loves his big brother and his big brother adores him!

My boys. :)

Friends from Far Away

This past weekend had very special friends of ours come and visit. We served with Jean and Del in the Philippines and also lived just down the hall from them for a lot of that time. Scruffy always wanted to stop at their place after his walks and would often just sprint to their door wanting to visit. (He especially appreciated all the hugs he recieved this weekend!) They are now living in Dallas and preparing to be recruiters for Wycliffe in the USA.
We realized the morning that they were leaving that we hadn't taken any pictures all together, so here we are just after the boys were up. Dan is ready for work, but I've just gotten up also!


Davis and Aunt Jean spent a lot of time together. SO much fun to have them with us!!

Davis decided it was a great idea to push Isaac around in his Tonka truck. No major injuries occured, in fact, I think Isaac enjoyed the ride!

Blue Song

Over the Christmas break, Davis and I got accustomed to doing his bedtime routine together. This story starts during one of those nights, right after we had read his books. I started to sing to him "Hey Davis", which is adapted from the song "Hey Baby" (popularized by the AU Marching Band).

Me: "Hey...hey...Davis...I want to know...if you'll be my boy..."

Davis: "Daddy, sing 'blue song'."

Me: "Uhhh...Daddy doesn't know the blue song."

Davis: "Sing 'blue song', please."

Me: (a little worried that not singing the right 'blue song' might hinder the bedtime routine) "Can you sing it for me?"

Davis: "Daddy sing it."

Me: (wondering if he heard it on a CD, at the library, in Sunday School, at MOPS, or anywhere in between, and now EVERYONE knows the Blue Song but daddy. So, after a frantic moment, I sang the first 'blue song' that popped into my head...)

"BLUE...MOON...I saw you standing alone..."

Davis: (sticks his thumb in his mouth, leans back, closes his eyes, and has this look on his face that says: "Ah, yes...the Blue Song. Just as I remembered it--very nice. Now I can go night-night in peace.")


So if you are ever at our house at bedtime, and you hear me singing "Blue Moon" to my eldest son, you'll know why.