Show Us Your Life: Bama Nursery

I thought I might join in on Kelly's Show Us Your Life again this week.  I love Colyn’s nursery and am so glad I decided to do it in Bama colors.  I am a little obsessed with houndstooth so I knew when I found out I was pregnant that I wanted to use that pattern regardless of the gender (although had it been a girl I would have used hot pink). 

I have posted pictures on here before (obviously since Colyn is about to be 10 months old) but I thought I would share again in case anyone was looking for the same idea.  I looked everywhere on the internet when I was trying to get ideas and could not find anything, so maybe this will be helpful to someone out there.

The extra bed that has never been used, HA!

I bought a red crib sheet after I took these pictures.  It looks much better.  My grandmother also made a houndstooth cover for the mobile.  And I still need to hang something over his bed!

All the bedding was custom made by a lady here in Birmingham.  My sister made me the awesome canvas with Colyn’s name on it and I made the wreath.  I hope you enjoyed looking at our bright, bold nursery.  Roll Tide!

*  I should add that I would have put Jacob’s room on here but it looks nothing like any pictures I have anymore.  Still the same colors but completely rearranged and  FULL of toys, HA!

Here Lately

So it has been over two weeks since I last posted, where has the time gone?  Well, my camera that I love so much has been broken so it is in the shop and I have only had my little camera.  So, I have not taken many pictures in the last few weeks. 

We have had the usual going on; soccer, Alabama football, sick babies and this past weekend the beach for Momma.  Our month is pretty slam packed with things going on every weekend.  I need to take more pictures!  We have a BIG week ahead with birthdays and parties!  So, for now, here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks.

Out!

Morgan, me and Allison at the beach for Bon Jovi

Colyn ridin’ with Jacob

I hope you all have a great week!

9 Months Old

Colyn you turned 9 months old on September 28.  Only a few short months and you will already be a year old.  Here is what is going on in your world.

• You weigh 18 lbs. 2 oz. and you are 27 1/2 inches long.
• You wear mostly 6-9 months clothes but can wear some 9-12 months and still some 3-6 month onesies because you a skinny little thing.
• You have started eating finger foods and really like cheese puffs!
• You love your bottle but will drink from a sippy cup.
• You have the cutest crawl, we call it the pimp crawl because you keep on leg up and crawl on the other leg, LOL!
• You are pulling up on everything and cruising around pushing toys and holding on to things with one hand.
• You FINALLY have two bottom teeth (I did not think they were ever going to come in).  You cut them 2 weeks ago.  It wasn’t too bad just a little fever.
• You are such a happy, smiling baby.
• You are mostly a Momma’s boy but Daddy can get you to calm down and fall asleep in a flash.
• You sleep in your crib and will fall asleep on your own most of the time.

You love to stick that tongue out!

You look like you are cheesing here.

Daddy, Jacob and I love you so very much and could not imagine life without you in it.  We can’t wait to see what all you have accomplished this month and the ones to come.

Don’t Jump

Fooled you right, HA!  After Colyn was poked and prodded at his doctor’s appointment he probably felt like jumping.  They have these huge windows overlooking the city.  Colyn liked banging on it to pass the time.

I am so happy to report that he does not have any more infection in his ear.  I will be back tomorrow with his 9 month update.  Happy Wednesday!

Me and My Boys

I love my little men!  I do not get my picture taken with both of them often enough so even if they aren’t looking I was happy they actually both sat down and cuddled with me.  Even if it was for 2 minutes, HA!  They are growing way too fast so I have to enjoy every chance I get of them being little.

Show Us Your Life-Master Bedroom

Kelly over at Kelly's Korner has started the Show Us Your Life series back on her blog this fall and I thought I might actually participate this year in a few of them.  This week is Master Bedrooms. 

This past winter while I was on maternity leave I decided it was time for us to finally get a king size bed. I wrote about it here.

The furniture is dark chocolate so it looks almost black.  The only thing that I do not like about it is that it shows dust pretty bad.

It was so hard to find something to fit in that little corner to hold our TV.   It is an odd size so most chests and armories will not fit there. 

This is looking in from the bathroom.  We do not have a door going into the bathroom just an open frame.  I also need to hang curtains, I just have not gotten there yet.

My favorite part of the whole room are the canvas prints I hung about my bed.  The ones on the ends are the boys feet when they were newborns and the middle two are Jacob at 2 weeks and Colyn at 1 day old.

I still have a lot that I would like to do in my bedroom but so far I am pretty happy with it.   Make sure you go see all the other bedrooms that are linked to Kelly’s blog.  Happy Friday!

Firsts…

This past weekend was full of firsts.  Jacob had his first soccer game and Colyn finally cut his first tooth.  Jacob did good for his first game, considering they had only had one practice EVER.  He played the first two quarters then a little boy from the other team ran into him and that was it, HA!  He said that he did not like that other team and he was done.  He had another practice this past Monday and did awesome, so hopefully today will go much smoother.

To add to last weekend, Colyn finally cut his first tooth.  He came home from daycare with a fever but acted fine, so I told Jarred that it might be his tooth.  Sure enough, Jarred put his finger in Colyn’s mouth and the tooth about cut it off.  That bad boy is sharp!  He was a trooper going to Jacob’s game and then having all of the guys over for the Bama game.  He is such a happy baby!

You can’t really see it, but it is the right one (looking at the picture).