"Tacter"

I knew it would happen one day when my son would come close to throwing a fit to get a chance to ride the "tacter" with his daddy. He loves his tractor books and is obsessed with lawnmowers. When Austin got home and Lane saw that he had the "tacter" on the trailer, he almost had a come apart to get to it as fast as he good. So, Austin took him on his first grass cutting experience on the tacter!! The last picture is of Lane telling and waving to me "Bye" because he obviously has no time for pictures!





Since I am writing about my baby boy, I guess I will update on his little tricks and new words. He will be 16 months old on Aug. 10th. He is walking, no sorry, RUNNING everywhere!! He gets into so many things, but I try to look at it as he is learning so many things about the world around him. He is eating with a fork and thinks it is the GREATEST thing ever. He has not mastered a spoon yet b/c everything falls off and he gets frustrated with it. He is saying alot of words (can't list them all) and has also started saying some two word phrases. He will say "get down", "what tat", and when we went to Ross Bridge, he would say "ore lide" (more slide). He also has been using the sign for "more", "milk", and "please" more frequently. I think the funniest translation of a word that he has developed is "TAH" or hat. The onlyreason why I think he says "TAH" for hat is because he ears the "T" being the strongest syllable when we say it. He climbs onto everything which makes me very nervous. He takes in everything, loves to "sing" and dance and is just a joy to have running around my house. I LOVE MY BABY BOY!!

Shout Out to Austin

A couple of weeks ago I went to DeerStep with Austin and his Sunflowers were in full bloom and are absolutely gorgeous! Here are a few pictures of his greenthumb and God's creativity!

I found this picture on my camera card and absolutely love it. Austin was at a duckhole in Mississippi and that is our dog DJ hard at work.

Austin also writes articles for a magazine called "Farming For Wildlife". Here is a link to one of his articles.

http://farmingforwildlife.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=64

This is just a small glimpse into what Austin does on a daily basis for the wildlife of the South.

4th of July

This was Lane at last years 4th of July celebration...a few days shy of 3 months old.

This is Lane at this years 4th of July celebration...a few days shy of 15 months old.

Time has flown and Lane has grown so fast. He is such a little boy (all boy too). We had a great 4th of July with our families. Lane got to play with his cousin Michael and Rylee at my parents house and then went to Cicle and Pops that evening and got to play with cousin Riley Delano. They fought over the cozy coupe and being the gentleman that Lane is (HA!!) he finally compromised and decided to just push Riley.
After getting really, really hot pushing this little lady, they decided to play on the sprinkler mat.

Lane thought it would be funny to pour the water on Riley's bottom:)


We are teaching our babies a little early about water guns...

Of course the big people could not let the little people have all the fun...so we decided to have a water balloon/water gun fight. Austin was the only one that brought a CANON!!! THis think was ridiculous! I think Tressa actually fell down from the pressure of this thing!!

Michael trying to be all sneaky.

SIbling rivalry. I think Jesslyn won.
And this is pitiful, but Jess and Austin was using the kids sprinkler mat as their reloading station. If you look closely in the background you will see Tressa on the deck, aiming for Austin but missing and getting Lane. He was not happy!!

It was a wonderful day of eating WAY too much food and having WAY too much fun!!

E.A.R Update

Since my last post on the E.A.R. situation I was given a name of a pharmacist who created an Excema cream that has done WONDERS for Lane's skin. Thanks Shera for the contact. Also, he is on Soy milk (SILK) b/c we figured out that cows milk in conjuction with allergies was causing the reflux. He has been on SILK for 3 weeks and has not needed any reflux medicine! YAY for a happy Lane!! Also, we have come to discover that Apple Juice and Pear juice makes for an upset tummy so we are only giving Lane diluted White Grape juice. Hopefully we are on the right track with correcting the E.A.R problems! I apologize to those of you that have had to "smell" his blowouts in the nursery. Hopefully those will come to a cease now that we have begun to figure out his sensitivities!!