I'm still planning to try to do week by week updates for Graeme so here's more details on what we have been up to... prepare yourself for a lot of photos to follow...
WEEK 8
Enjoying beautiful fall days outside with lots of park time
Family comes to town for Paul and Lori's wedding! (Graeme gets to go to the wedding, it feels so "easy" to just have a baby with us!)
WEEK 9
Graeme sleeps 8 hours a few nights!
James starts to want to pick out his own outfits
Mom gives James her childhood stuffed animal, a lion named Azzy, and now he wants it most nights!
Fitzwaters visit from Missouri
James' SECOND birthday party at a fire station!
Graeme with Eliza Fitzwater, exactly one month apart
WEEK 10
Check up with both boys! (Thank goodness for Mimi's help)
James gets to drive some trucks at Rental Works with Uncle Dane
Getting out of the house is getting easier, we even go for a muffin date one morning (James is very into "dates")
WEEK 11
Spent Thanksgiving week housesitting for some friends in Arnold
Marie and Dave Miller get married! (A nice break from the kids for mom)
Thanksgiving day with the Hiskeys
Mom's 10 year high school reunion
James has started to become very imaginative recently! He packs up bags to go "shopping" or on a trip like this one...
WEEKS 12 AND 13
Christmas is coming! Christmas sweaters, train displays, decorating, hosting a Christmas party, decorating cookies and an ugly Christmas sweater party!
A little indoor pool fun one cold day
We got James a little basketball hoop for his birthday and he loves it! He likes to "block it" when dad shoots or "slam dunk it" like here...
WEEK 14
Another fire house tour :-)
Lots of fun times with friends and Landon in town!
Annual Hiskey girls nail outing
WEEK 15
Christmas week!
James loves to play golf, here he's wearing hats like poppy he says.
Baking a chocolate cake for Jesus
David Terronez, two weeks younger than Graeme!
WEEK 16
Spent a few days in St. Michaels to get away, James loved riding the four wheeler and roasting marshmallows!
We have a rough few days with Graeme sleeping and think he possibly has silent reflux so we start him on medicine
James wanted to sleep in a big boy bed a few times
WEEK 17
Mom and the boys fly to Austin to visit the Boyds! An adventure but we did it and had so much fun!
We love James' dance moves!!
WEEK 18
Mom and the boys drive to Lynchburg to visit Rebekah, Charles and Landon, and Michael, Kathryn and Vincent!
Graeme is sleeping better, usually just getting up once at night.
Go Broncos!
WEEK 19
Mom and James go to Jacob's birthday party at Rollie Pollie kids gym, James Loves it!
Iversons come to visit, SUCH a fun weekend!
"Tot Monday" at a roller rink where we can bring kids bikes and scooters!
Play date with the Roberts, James loves all of their fun toys
James gets a double ear infection and spends a day laying around watching tv, poor buddy.
WEEK 20
We decide we are going to Honduras at the end of February and need to apply for passport photos!
Mom and Dad go to Williamsburg for a retreat and take Graeme, James stays with our friends the Shirlens and has such a great time with the boys.
WEEK 21
Unpacking and re-packing to go to the Washington Hilton for the Prayer Breakfast week, an adventurous week! All four of us in a tiny room and Graeme starts sleeping terribly this week, waking up 4 times a night!
Building forts on a rainy day before going to DC
mimi and poppy keep the boys one night so mom can go into DC on her own, what a luxurious night of sleep!
Entertaining the boys in our hotel room
Riding in a taxi with grandma and grandpa!
One nice day in the middle of so much cold! Graeme's first swing!
Just a typical day....
