Oh how I love these boys!!!
This was our activity for family night. Wrestling seems to be the activity every night! I'm seeing glimpses of what my life will be with boys and it's fantastic but I'm slowly becoming the spectator. Once they start walking they become daddy's boys.
Mac loves to wrestle but sadly I think G likes it more.Gray was squealing with laughter the entire time.
Notice the drool marks all over Drew's shirt. Now that's love.
It's been cold here. Like, really cold. All last week temperatures were around 14 but with humidity and wind chill it felt like -10. The schools were closed last Friday not for snow but because of the freezing temperatures. I thought Utah had weird weather but I think Kentucky takes the cake. Today the temperature has b
een in the high 40's! It's strange how cold it can be one day and then the next day have unseasonably warm weather.
Sunday night it snowed a lot (for us). Mac loves the snow. This winter he has had a fascination with snowmen and calls everything that looks like snow "snowman". So Drew before he went to work (yes it was a holiday!) took Mac outside to make his very first snowman.
Well, the snow wasn't the packing type so they ended up drawing a snowman instead.
While the boys froze their buns off, G and I stayed warm inside!
Mac is binkiless and in a big boy bed!! YAY.Saturday we decided to get bunk beds for the boys. I have been looking for months and finally found one cheap enough, sturdy enough and cute enough for Mac and G. As we were setting up half of the bunk (we only set up the top part of the bunk, for the railing) I thought this might be a good time to take away Mac's binky. We have tried before, cold turkey and cutting the tip off, neither worked for us.
So Mac and I collected all the binkies in a basket. I told him that other babies needed his binkies cause they were sad and that he wasn't a baby anymore. Then WE decided to throw them all out the window. So we did...
Later that night as we got him ready for bed he asked for his binky. I reminded him that he threw them out the window for the crying babies. Then he did this...
"Oh no!" He's quite dramatic.
Then he got up, waved to the window and said "bye binky, bye!" and that was that. Yes, he asks for his binkies at night and at nap time and either Drew or I, have slept in the bed with Mac every night. Not great, but we will slowly ween him from that too. Naps are rough but we are just glad he is sleeping without that binky!
Wrestling in Mac's new bed.
I've been bad, I haven't taken any pictures of the boys since Christmas. Because Gray turned 7 months old yesterday I thought I better take a few pictures and jot down some funny things the boys are doing.
The poor thing is cutting his top front teeth and is getting his fourth tooth on the bottom. Have I mentioned I hate teething!
Today I took Gray in for his 6 month check up (just a month behind). It's always interesting when we go to the doctor's office. Mac hates it!!! When it's Mac's turn to go, Drew comes along and we literally have to hold him down just so the doctor can listen to his chest or check his ears. It's a nightmare when he gets shots.
This time when we walked into the room Mac covered his ears and said,"No, hurt ears, shots hurt." I explained that it's GG's appointment not his and we would need to cheer for GG. From then on Mac encouraged Gray saying "Good job GG. YAY GG. It's ok GG," and clapping after every exam. He was trying to be brave:) It was pretty cute. To top it off he kept calling the nurse Grandma and the doctor Grandpa. I think Mac is needing to see his own grandparents again.
Gray weighs 19 lbs. 12 oz.(70%), he's 29.6 inches long(95%) head circumference was 90%. PS I love how they call it "brain growth". It makes me feel better about having big headed babies:)
Showin some skin...
Gray now can sit by himself and is eating solids like a champ. We are in the process of getting him to sleep through the night. The last two nights we have let him cry. Last night was better, he only cried once for 2 1/2 hours. It's terrible but I couldn't take another night of multiple feedings and waking up between feedings to give him his binky and rocking him back to sleep. We are hoping for a peaceful night tonight. fingers crossed.
Mac update... He loves nursery now and asks to go daily. Which is the total opposite of just three weeks ago. I have been working out at the gym three times a week. Mac calls it church and the day care, nursery. It's a little confusing for the sitters. He is talking up a storm and has started tattling on me to Drew and vice versa. He started praying which melts my heart and even helps me with grocery shopping and putting away laundry. Well, kind of helps, lets just say he loves to throw:) We love our boys. Oh and I don't have any pictures of Mac cause he refuses to look at the camera. So all the pictures I have are of the back of his head.
We finally did it. We were planning on waiting to give Gray solids until he was six months but when that came around he was sick so we held off a week until the fam was in town.
G wasn't the biggest fan of rice cereal and nothing has changed since. I thought he would love it and want to nurse less but the exact opposite has happened.
Happy to be done!
Another great visit has come and gone:( These past eight days have flown. We have loved having Grandpa, Grandma, Jed, Annie and Maggie all to ourselves. Here's a little of what we've been up to...
Saturday, after a long and successful trip to the Gap clearance center, we hit the track outside of Cincinnati. Highlight: Annie asking if the jockeys were real people.
Monday we went to the Henry Clay Estate. The whole weekend we had amazingly nice weather so we planned to meet Drew downtown at his office and go to the Estate for a picnic. Well, the weather wasn't so perfect (chilly) but we had fun being outside, reading all the plaques and next time we go we'll make sure the house is open.
Horse farms
When we weren't site seeing or shopping we put our guests to work. Rita made me curtains, pillows and a giraffe blanket for Mac. Jed and Bret fixed every possible thing in our house, helped put away Christmas and Jed finished my magnet board. THANK YOU!!! Not to mention all the entertaining everyone did for Mac and Gray. It was a great break for me and the help with the cooking and cleaning was priceless. I don't know what we'll do tomorrow.
This week was amazing, we tried to soak up as much family time as possible. We got our fill of board games, junk food and countless episodes of The Office and 30 Rock, but we weren't ready to say goodbye but we never are. Thanks again for coming to Kentucky and making our first Kentucky Christmas absolutely perfect!! Love you. Come back soon!!
This year we had a wonderful Christmas. Since Drew's family came into town late Christmas Eve, we did things a little different this year. Instead of doing a big Christmas Eve dinner we went out to dinner and then went over to a friend's house to watch their kids do the nativity. After, we came home to open a few presents and get the house ready for our visitors.
Our attempts at a cute brother picture...
That night Mac opened up his presents from Grandpa and Grandma McAllister. He LOVED his rocking horse.
ChRiStMaS DaY...
When anyone asked Mac who was coming Christmas Eve, expecting him to say Santa, he would say "Grandpa." It was the best Christmas present to wake up to Grandma and Grandpa Millar, uncle Jed, and aunt Annie and Maggie.
Grandma made Mac a "Super Mac" cape. He spent the whole day running around "fast" saying "superman Mac."
Maggie got Mac a doctor kit. Jed checking out Mac's ears
Later we made sugar cookies. I ruined the first batch by putting 1 lb of butter instead of the cup it called for. Mac and Annie decorated all the cookies. Well, Annie decorated while Mac imitated the Cookie Monster. We couldn't even get him to stop eating them for the picture.
