Silas is almost 1!

Silas is almost one. He continues to attract attention everywhere he goes. Today we forced him to sit in a tiny room with stranger and lots of flashing things while carrie and i continued to hack our lungs off. MMMM nothing like some phlegm to make the day go by.

Meanwhile niblet is advancing nicely, right on schedule for an august appearance. the only thing missing is a nice fat lottery ticket :)

Silas also continues to develop new and interesting mannerisms. The most shocking involved bath time and a loud poot. (he gets that from the walker women) He also is starting to learn the gift of gab and continuously strikes up a conversation with the strangest of people and at the oddest of times.

One was nice but TWO are twice the fun....

So for those of you always asking, "whens the next one?" be careful what you wish for

'cause on or around august 24th 2010, Silas will have a new sibling :)

We are still in a little shock but making preps for this new bundle of joy.

Silas turns 1 years old in little over a month, so we are also in the debate of whether or not to throw the little guy a party. maybe we will just take him for some cheese dip and beans :)

Its 2010 and we have survived the first week

So its 2010 and we are still here....

Silas is now 10 months old (or very near there) and he continues to be the center of our days. Hes gotten his first tooth, but its a lonely tooth that we have nicknamed fang.

He has moved up at daycare and is in with the big kids now. he is now down to a morning bottle and night bottle, with only a partial bottle via sippy cup at daycare.

Silas is also becomming more mobile by the day, eating ravioli and whole green beans, and if lucky he even eats a piece of cookie here and there.

He continues to chase Gertie around the house and now with the aid of the walker toys, her days of peace and quiet are numbered......justice is sweet




for carrie and i, we are both here and doing our best just to go with the flow of corporate america :) gotta have some bitter dose of reality dont we

preparing the the TREK WESTWARD HO!!!!

(please note that the images below are VIDEOS for those that didnt click on the last couple :) - you know who you are)

So it has been while since we last updated, but we are all still here.

Silas had his 9 month check up

The stats:

22.9 lbs - in the 75th percentile

28.75 inches - in the 75th percentile

Head - 46 cm OFF THE CHART

a HUGE noggin :) but we live bighead junior.

Silas' first snow, well a whole whoppin 1-2" inches

Silas' first christmas presents :) - awesome zoo truck, fun flyer ride toy, and a beach buggy walkin toy. Of course nana and papa also threw in a wonderful noisy book.

and the best part - Silas got his first tooth punching through today! So dont go sticking nothing in his mouth that is attached to you.

as for the rest of this year, well we will have to see what is in-store for us in arKansas. Hopefully some long restful nights, a nice LOWKEY! birthday, and maybe a couple of sausage balls (even if i have to keep taking flippin crestor and the "pee" pill for my BP)

Katie - the new years resolutions are stacking up over here.

Oh yeah- i turn 31 this year to top it off.

All silas wants for christmas is his two front teeth.....

Well we are in our final countdown till turkey day, and we will be packing up the saturn to go onto winston salem to see nana and papa.

its also Dads birthday today, he is lot'sa old.

cant wait to see him and mom have to chase our lil capn' morgan around the house. he really liked all their magazines last weekend.

The weekend was just not long enough. Its just been one of those months.

But Silas hasnt noticed. We have a great new game, its alot like fetch :)

we also discovered Silas waiting for us this morning after his nap.

but alas, thats all for tonight. carrie wants us to re-organize the closet - good times yall.

Count down to CHRISTMAS!!!!

Why is it every year we creep closer and closer to having a Christmas season that spans from Halloween through December....i mean TURKEY day is a great holiday- when else can you blow up a turkey, fall asleep in front of the tv, and watch your baby boy ramsack his nana's collectibles.

well as we ponder that, Silas is 8 months old today.
He is still in the fussy mode. If this is not teething then who knows (and no katrina its not an ear infection, it might just be he is tired of this Edward character his aunt keeps drooling over).

but tommorrow will hopefully be precluded by a nice long 6 hours of sleep for mama and daddy which will let us prep the lil man for picture day - if they turn out, then we will post :)

YAY ITS HALLOWEEN

So yet another weekend is already half over. BUT it is halloween!

Derek and Katie have had their new baby boy, he is a small 11 lbs 9 oz. and is as cute as can be.
from the updates, all are doing well.

as for us, we braved elmos, this morning, silas got to see a sailor, a somewhat skimpy dressed red riding hood, and STATIC CLING - now that was a costume. after a rather, bleh breakfast (we think something was lost and is nevermore at dear dear elmos- so no going there a while) we went to goodwill and then to the Roomstore. Not that we can buy anything, but we wanted to see what they had. we need better seating considering all the visitors we get. that and carrie and i want to be able to stretch out with the boy on the couch.
after the assualt of the three furniture sales people, we then went to a bookstore, and off to target.
Target is kinda like costco on a saturday now.
Phew what a whirlwind of mean cranky people there. but silas handled it like a champ.

we still didnt win the million dollars at mcdonalds monopoly, but i did find a half chewed popcorn kernel in my sweatshirt, so that is better than nothing.

now its housework time. carrie has the cleaning stick out and im goin to have to scrub like i never have scrubbed before, well at least not in the last week anyways.

silas got ot go trick or treat to adam and elizabeth's house. he enjoyed seeing Aida their dog, and stared at the kong bone as if it was a treat for him the whole time.