F-O-U-R

My baby turned FOUR years old on Tuesday! I am a few days late posting, but we've been busy!

On his birthday, we started with birthday donuts at Crockett's house....with candles, of course! The boys played for a while after breakfast!

For lunch, I tried to think of somewhere he would REALLY love, not just our usual places. He LOVES fruit, so I thought we should go to Bless Your Heart, and you would have thought I gave him a million bucks. He was sooo excited about his fruit. He ate a small fruit cup, and then I went back and got him another BIG one, because you can have just about anything you want on your birthday, right? He ate about 1/3 of it, and then spilled it all over the floor, but he still got to enjoy plenty!

For dinner daddy fixed another favorite of Braidy's....shrimp! Fried shrimp to be exact! It was AWESOME and daddy did a wonderful job with dinner. Lulu, the Stone's, and Aunt D and Tabor joined us as well. The boys had a great time playing, drinking out of Aunt D's water bottle, and eating birthday cake! Braidy got lots of fun presents, but his favorite were his Cars 2 Cars....boys and their toys!

It was such a fun day celebrating my boy. He said at the end of the day, that his day was "Awesome"! That is a success in my mind! Happy 4th birthday, Braidy! We love you more than you'll ever know!

Crazy-Fest...or CritterFest!

LuLu treated all her grandboys to a day at Critterfest a couple weeks ago! It was SUPER fun, and SUPER crazy with all the people and kids everywhere, but we fit in nicely! The boys were really excited about all the animals....the rabbits were probably the biggest hit for the little ones,  and John probably loved the snakes most (he held one!) They got to see cats, dogs, alligators, a cow, bunnies, snakes, fish, an elephant, zebras, camels, ponies, and lions and tigers, too! A little slice of heaven for little boys who LOVE them some animals! 

Everytime we drive by the "Spectrum" Braidy asks one by one where each animal went. All the zoo animals went back to the zoo, and all the farm animals went to "Uncle Tin's farm". We miss the animals! Thanks Lulu for a wonderful adventure, you're the bestest!

Random Picture Dump!

This is a picture dump of good'ns but randoms!

Crazy. He is crazy.

This kiddo LOVES my Sonic DP's....so now I have to get a large so that I get a little! He steals it, and I swear he has a SONIC CUP radar....definitely runs in the family! 

He LOVES hats!

A few weeks ago we went to the Dr. because Quin had a really high fever....the Dr. heard a heart murmur (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER) so we got to go see the Cardiologist last week. They ran all kinds of tests, and the little patient was SO GOOD. I was so proud. Turns out when his little body grew so fast, his little heart couldn't keep up, so one of his valves has a small leak...which is causing the murmur. But the Dr. said it is nothing to worry about (Thank the Lord), and that it should fix itself in the next year or so! 

The boys while the new pool was filling up! They had a blast!

While at swimming lessons, I took a few pictures of Quin being content with his snack in the chair. While uploading them it took my breath away at how OLD he looks here. In my eyes, he's still my BABY...and he looks SO grown up here it just shocked me! WOW! This is also the day that I put one of Braidy's 4T shirts on him by mistake, and it wasn't really too big on him. I definitely have to look at tags now when folding laundry. Anyways, my baby is growing up and he is the sweetest thing under the sun.

I love this expression on his face. He knows he's cute....

Braidy holding his new cousin! He has been dying to hold him and finally got to! 

I looked back in the car and saw this the other day, and it melted my heart. Sweet brothers.

Braidy went with daddy last week to his softball game and INSISTED on wearing a pair of flip flops that were a couple sizes too big....and daddy texted me this picture on their way home with a message that said "He lost the fight". Poor baby. He was running and of course BIT IT in the parking lot. This picture looks A LOT worse that what really was, but it broke my heart. Really it was just a busted lip....poor baby!

We got a new pool last weekend and we have used it everyday since! Here are the boys enjoying an evening swim last week!

This is just a tease...but here is a sneak peek of Bowen's newborn pictures I took a couple weeks ago. As soon as my sister blogs and sends out announcements I will post the rest =) How precious is he!!

Swimming like a Shark!

             

This summer Braidy finally got to take swimming lessons with the one and only "Coach Donny"....who I've known forever! So fun, and what a fun teacher he is! Braidy LOVED "Coach Johnny"....he looked forward to it everyday, and was pretty bummed on the days we didn't have lessons. On our way everyday, he'd say, "Momma, I'm gonna swim like a shark!" and that he did! He did really good and actually swims by himself now. He can't quite get the arms down, but once he gets those he'll be in good shape! Right now he just kinda paddles under water, which works. He had 2 little buddies in his class, one of which was in his INFANT room at Hope Lutheran 4 years ago! So crazy to see them as little guys now, and not itty bitty babies. 

Here are some pictures of his adventures in swimming lessons!