Bowling Playdate with Friends

Katelynn's best friend moved to Atlanta this summer.  Luckily she still has family here to force her to come back to visit (and ironically, Grandma and Grandpa Carney live around them for us to go visit there too!)  They came to visit this week and we were able to all go have fun at the bowling alley. 

The bowling gang- Justin, Miles, Katelynn, and Jadyn

My parents actually got here today to visit too so my dad helped keep Ryan happy and asleep while I took pictures of the kiddos.

Bottle Feeding!!

Katelynn and Justin have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for mommy to pump so they could feed baby brother.  When I finally pumped, they still ended up having to wait until the next day to feed him.  Katelynn loved it and fed him an entire bottle.  Justin lasted longer than I expected, but he gave up and let Katelynn finish when it was his turn.  Ryan seemed to do just fine taking a bottle instead of eating from mommy for a change.  As long as it was food, he was good!

July Baby Playdate

When I was pregnant, I went out with 15 other pregnant woman to dinner one night.  It was when I was probably halfway through my pregnancy.  Somehow out of those 15 woman, four of us connected and have been chatting ever since.  We all live in Charlotte (but the other three live in south charlotte and I live in north charlotte) and we all have older children around the same ages.  Oddly enough, three of the four of us ended up having our babies the exact same day on July 1st and the other baby was born just four days later on July 5th!  Today was our first meeting since having the babies.  One of us was unable to attend, but three of the July babies got to meet.  Justin and Katelynn thought it was pretty funny that we were going to play with Ryan's friends!

The BIG kids having snack (All 4 or 2 year olds!)

Several shots of the July Babies:  Lucas, Lauren, and Ryan

Lady in Red

Just another dress-up day ......

A Dress Up Kind of Day

We have been hanging out around home a lot more lately, but the kids still have tons of fun playing and entertaining themselves.  I have been getting ready to drop off items at the consignment sale and it got the kids into trying on the old winter hats and such I had pulled out that I was going through. 

We thought Justin resembled Dopey from Snow White and couldn't stop laughing... (and I have no idea what made him decide to take off his shirt but he went most of the day without it.)

Witch Hats!  (with winter hats underneath of course and winter mittens too!)

Big, Big, Little

I made the kids Big Sister/Big Brother/Little Brother shirts before Ryan was born.  I had the perfect picture in mind for these shirts, but as usual, I didn't have the perfect participants for my picture. The best background shot is my first one; then the kids wrinkled and moved off my background.. and not one where everyone is smiling perfectly but we will try again one day! 

Such sweet first smiles!

There is almost nothing better than getting to see those first wide-eyed smiles from your new little baby.  While Ryan is not doing them on command when we talk to him, he is now smiling some when he is awake.  I have been trying for days to capture the perfect smile and these are as close as I have come to getting the perfect smile shot.