Beep! Beep!

We have had a busy week and weekend. We went to visit Aunt Laurie and Uncle Anthony in Nashville and spent time with sweet Annie Barclay. Annie was so cute and called Spencer "baby" the whole time. Spencer got to see his first crawfish....wasn't too crazy about it...yet. We rode up there with Kate, Jim and cousin James. Kate and I had the great plan that coming home we would keep the boys awake for the morning, feed them lunch and they could nap in the car on the way home. Let me tell you how WELL THAT worked....it was like misery in STEREO. James slept for a little while but the "crazy monkey" (for futher explaination-see the cell phone story) was not having it. We did make it home alive and Spencer slept for FOUR and HALF hours on monday at Ms. Anne's. Oh well-you live and and you learn and I bet Uncle Jim has learned never to sign on for that again!!!
So, today we took another trip in a smaller car. This is a Spencer's very fun car that he got from Shannon, Joel, Parker and Jacob for his birthday. We are trying to teach Hailey to take Spencer for a walk and pull the car-but she's not too keen on the idea and just sits down. Spencer LOVES his car AS LONG AS IT'S MOVING. The second we stop (or Hailey sits down) he protests very loudly (see the last picture!) But the weather was beautiful here this afternoon and we went for a long walk as Spencer cruised the neighborhood looking for chics!! (think Mikey from "Look Who's Talking!")

No cell phones for me, thank you!

So Spencer and I had several errands to run this afternoon. I thought it would be fun and exciting. Spencer just woke up from a THREE hour nap, he was fed, had on shorts and was ready to go. We went to see his girlfriend (Julieanne Oldknow) then moved on to Kohl's and Target. Everything was FINE so I decided to hit the Verizon store because my cell phone battery won't hold a charge. We pull up to the store, I change a very wet diaper to ensure maximum comfort and trekked into the store. I open the door and I am NOT kidding-it was like Spencer was allergic to the whole store, sensory overloaded, scared to death and just plain P.O. ALL at the same time. He is climbing up my stomach,chest, shoulder like a monkey as I proceed to the counter. I see ALL the salespeople, especially the men, scatter like flies as we approach. (wouldn't you if a screaming monkey was approaching?!?! Can't say I blame them). I was waiting for one of them to start throwing food at Spencer to see if the monkey would stop screaming. I wisely (DUH!) decided to continue on with this adventure and approached the poor guy that innocently walked in from the the stock room. I held up my phone and said one word BATTERY. I am not lying: I had a new battery in TWO seconds flat. That guy could move! Off the shelf, package RIPPED open, old battery tossed and new battery on, back in my hand. All the while keeping a safe distance from the screaming monkey (who was now turning RED!) I pulled out my debit card to pay (which you mommies know is no small feat when there is a monkey climbing on you) and the sweet man said "no worries, no charge" which I translated as "take that monkey OUT OF HERE" So thank you sweet man at the Verizon store and thank you my little monkey for getting me a free battery!!!!
Happy Friday Everyone!

Lock Up Your Daughters.....

T-shirt complements of Big Daddy....Head injury complements of the baseboard....
And then there are pictures of the sweet cousins trying to figure out how to escape through the doggie door!

Firsts.....

Well, we have had some exciting firsts in the last couple of weeks. We had our first birthday (which there are several pictures), our first cut on the head (more pictures) OUR FIRST WORD and are first feel of grass on our bare toes. We had so much fun at Spencer's birthday and then we got to play with Anna Lauren and James for a couple of days while Matt and Mandi and Kate all went to the Masters (more pictures of the cousins)

The last couple of weeks, Spencer has been saying/shouting "A-DE" and Michael and I could not figure out what he was saying. We noticed it when Hailey (the 1 year old golden)was around. We finally figured out that he was saying "Hailey!" So, Spencer's first word is NOT mama or dada but Hailey. He also points at her and says "top!" for stop...Gee-I guess Michael and I need to stop yelling at Hailey to behave!

Another funny story: Michael was working in the yard-digging something, blowing something, cutting something (who knows what) so Spencer and I decided to go see what was going on. I put Spencer down in the grass barefoot and you would have thought I put him down on needles...he was NOT having it. He curled up his arms and tried to keep his feet off the grass. Well-the only way to overcome that is exposure-so that's what we did. We rubbed our feet and hands in the grass, put it between our toes and pulled up handfuls (Michael was pleased with the holes it left!) and evidently Spencer's little mind processed the new textured and he decided it would be OK to eat the whole yard!! So after digging out the 50th blade of grass-I gave up and went back inside. I can't wait to see what he does with sand!!!! So here are some fun pictures from the birthday, cousins, scratches. The "Lock up your Daughters" t-shirt came from Big Daddy. Big Daddy said he saw that shirt and it made him laugh! It makes us laugh, too! Thanks Big Daddy!!

First Pictures

So here are a few pictures from the weekend adventures!! We had such a great time at the wedding and at the birthday party! The wedding and reception was amazing and all the kids did so GREAT. The birthday party was a little crazy. I think we had more kids here than adults. It was so special to have all of our family here. We had "dirt" cake-hence the flower pots and "bugs". As we all know-Spencer is our Stink Bug.... In one picture-notice I put the "1" candle in backward-way to go mommy!! That's what happens when you try and have a wedding and first birthday all the in the same weekend! Enjoy the pics..more to come!

Video

So I failed miserable at trying to upload a video. We will try again after the craziness of this weekend dies down. Yea for Amanda and Lee are getting married on saturday and yea for Spencer who will be ONE on saturday and will have his party on sunday!! We are so excited that all of our family will be there (expect for Amanda and Lee-who will be on a beach in St. Lucia!) I'm sure we'll have lots of pictures to share next week!
I have to share a moment I had with Spencer on Tuesday morning...Laurie sent me Mandisa's CD (she was on American Idol last season). It is a Christian CD with a fabulous song called God Speaking. She sings about how God can use different ways to get our attention and tell us that he loves us and that he is enough for us. Now Spencer is usually pretty quiet on the morning ride-it's still dark and he likes to watch the lights go by. During the song, I reached back to touch his hand, he grabbed my finger and started singing "mamama..." God was speaking through that little hand and that little voice.