Kingston and Kinley

Last night we offered to watch Kinley for Brandie and Doug while they went out for dinner. It was def. a crazy feeling to have two car seats in the car and two babies to get fed. I give parents who have multiples props for what they have to do!

Kingston is at such a fun age right now, how he interacts with us and other babies. I love it so much. His personality is just shining through fairly brightly now. He is our social butterfuly! I was lucky enough to catch Kinley and Kingston talking back and forth so here is the video of them playing. :)

So much to say...just not alot of time to say it. :)

Kingston is growning and becoming more of a character everyday. It just amazes me that the little human being that was in side of me is now almost 7 months old. He is def a perfect mixture of Sam and I, but I am now def. seeing Kingston as a little Sam. He totally has his smile. I love it.

We went to the doc for Kingston's 6 month check up. All is well. He is almost 17 lbs., 24 inches long, He's right on track for his body. Our doctor said that he was pretty advanced for his age. He is already pulling himself up inside of the crib to peek over and see what is going on. He sits up by himself so easily now, just hanging out with me during the day. His eyes look at everything with amazement and excitement. When he looks at me, his face lights up and a huge smile grows over his face. It makes me melt, it makes everything I went thru worth it.

Kingston wants to talk so bad now. He now says dadadadadada, blah blah blah, all while rolling his tongue around in his mouth. It just amazes me how excited his little face lights up when he discovers something new. Everyday is a new adventure. He now sleeps most of the night in his crib, as long as he is laid on his stomach. We have gotten as much as a 9 hour stretch. It felt great, we were totally suprised. Kingston also now loves the dogs, wants to pet them and talk to them. It's really sweet to see him interact with our first babies, I know they will be friends for life! Maverick and Duchess love him alot!

I apologize for not posting often enough. I have been so busy keeping up with him, being a wife, and cutting tons of hair. I am very blessed to have the life I have and I thank God for it everyday. I will try to post more pictures of him. I still need to post our family pictures and his ridiculously, amazing 6 month pictures! He is def all smiles here! And so are we!

Christmas Day and New Years Eve.

I know it is almost January 12, 2010 but I have now learned that I cannot get the things that I want to get done as fast as I used to. Between being a mommy and a wife and a stay at home hairdresser, my life is pretty full...but I love it. I am so blessed with the life that the Lord has given me.



Anyway, Christmas day was absouletly amazing. We stayed up way to late Christmas Eve and woke up way to early on Christmas morning. We had a busy day ahead of us! We opened gifts at our house early that morning, then we were off to my parents house to open gifts with the Brooks', after that we went to Sam's sister's house to have Christmas with Sam's family. We were so tired! I made sure that everybody had something to open...even Maverick and Duchess, because we all know they were our first babies. My mom made a good point. This will be the last calm, laid back Christmas for a while. Next year we will have to be watching Kingston to make sure he doesn't hurt himself with the tree or get into his presents too early. We all know that's what we liked to do when we were younger. :)



This has got to be one of the best Christmas yet in my adult life so far. I love starting new traditions and making it special for Kingston and our kids to come. And it is kind of weird how I look at the Story of the birth of Jesus differently since I have a baby of my own. I think Kingston is something else, but man just imagine what Mary and Joseph felt knowing that he was the King of Kings and he had huge journey ahead of him. I love it!

Christmas Eve

I am so sad the holidays are already over. It is amazing to me how things change when you have a baby. It used to be about what I got for Christmas or what I got everybody else for Christmas. But this year, it was all about my little man Kingston. I wanted to buy everything for him and Sam. I knew I could get the dogs taken care of--you don't spend much on them because Duchess taught Maverick how to tear them up. They tag team destroying all the toys they get. But that is ok, I still love them. :)

We got a huge Christmas Surprise from the good Lord this Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. We got SNOW! And alot of it. It was so beautiful! I don't remember a time in the 17 or 18 years we have lived in Lewisville on Christmas Eve. I wish that Kingston could have been just a little bit older for one day so we could have played in it together!

We went to church on Christmas Eve this year so we braved the storm. We were determinded to not miss the service. It's one of my favorites out of all of them during the year. We came back home and had a relaxing night just hanging out, glad to be together. Kingston and I had some conversations by the Christmas tree and I wanna share them with you. We definately got alot of laughs from them...

Forgive me for the videos, I thought I would be able to rotate them but for some reason I can't. But I will put them on here anyway~

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to add those, I have had fun watching them and laughing.

I told Kingston that he was one of the best gifts I could have ever gotten, along with his Daddy, Maverick, and Duchess!

A Surprise!

This weekend has been a weekend full of fun! Our relatives came into town to celebrate Christmas together. It is always nice to get together with the ones you love and have time to fellowship and catch up. We spent most of Friday, all day Saturday, and half of Sunday together. Man, Kingston was the life of the party everywhere we went. I swear he never gets put down no matter where we go. :)

On Sunday, we went to Six Flags with my family for the Holiday in the Park. We went got there at around 4:30 and stayed til about 9pm. After we left Six Flags, Sam, Kingston, and I went to the Vista Ridge Christmas party to hang out with everybody. Here again, Kingston was the life of the party literally. Everybody was circled around Kingston sitting in chairs and just awwing over him. So in all we were pretty busy this weekend.

When we finally got home I decided to give Kingston some much needed belly time. And something happened that Sam and I have been waiting for. Our little man finally turned from his stomach to his back all by himself. And praise the Lord we just got a video camera to capture it. I had a feeling it was going to happen so I made sure it was on! Here it is everybody!

Seeing Santa

On Friday, Kingston and I saw Santa. I remember being young and always getting anxious when I knew we were going to see the "jolly ol' man". I wasn't going to take him at first because of how I thought, then I began to think I would regret not taking him for the first time.

Since had waited so close to Christmas to take him, I thought I would be in line for hours. Praise the Lord I wasn't. Kingston slept while we were in line and right before we got to the front he woke up all smiles.

I set him in Santa's lap and he grabbed Santa's finger and began to smile. I am very blessed to have a smiley, happy baby boy. It was a great experience!

Wishing I would have started earlier...

Looking back to all that has happened in the last 15 months and those leading up to it I wish I would have started writing about the memories that were made. But instead of dwelling on it I have decided to start now! Today we went to go get our family pictures taken by our friend Kayde Lane. She has taken our family pictures last year when I had just found out I was pregnant, our belly pictures right before Kingston was born, and now our family pictures with Kingston in the mix. We had so much fun! It was quite challenging to get both Maverick and Duchess to sit still and behave but to make sure that Kingston was happy and ready to go...without his little thumb in his mouth. :) Sure enough, Kayde did a great job and I cannot wait to see the finish product. I will be posting the pictures soon right after I get them!

This week has been a week of firsts for us. We put Kingston in the nursery for the first time at church. It about broke my heart. During Monday night dinner at my parents we fed Kingston rice cereal for the first time. He absolutely loved it! It was hilarious because he put his full face in the bowl he was so eagar to eat. I cannot believe my little man is getting so big! Sam, got down the exersaucer out of the attic for King to be able to play in and he also loved that too.

Kingston turned 5 months on the 16th. Almost half a year. I turned 25 eight days earlier. I am now a quater of a century. LOL...I know, I know, I am not old. It's just crazy to think that way.

How I love this time of year. Christmas means so much more to me having Kingston now. I want to make Christmas and all the other holidays so special for him and our other children we will have one day. The Lord has been so good to bless us with our family. I could not be happier!