Saturday, September 19, 2015

Saturday fun featuring some tall tigers

We wanted to get the boys out to do something this beautiful Saturday and went downtown for the Saturday market. We were in for a fun surprise down there! Clemson Men's Basketball was doing some sort of expo along with the Tiger and the Rally Cats. We got there and saw four of our favorite basketball players right as they were leaving and unfortunately missed the Tiger and Rally Cats all together. The players were seriously about to hop in their (very nice and customized!!) van to leave and I ran over and {politely} asked if they wouldn't mind taking one more picture. I told them that we had the three biggest triplet tiger fans. They smiled and agreed to take a picture with us. The triplet thing gets 'em every time. I was glad that the boys had their Clemson hats on!!

L to R: Jaron Blossomgame, Stokes, Donte Grantham, me, Jordan Roper,
Ryan, Thomas, William and Josh Smith
I was seriously so excited! These guys were so nice and gave the boys lots of smiles and high fives. Class acts! The team is actually playing at their home games in Greenville this season while Littlejohn Stadium gets renovated. Hopefully we can make it to a few games. I love basketball (not as much as football, of course, but it's still lots of fun!). 

After we left the market, we strolled the boys down to Falls Park to sit and have a snack in the shade. There were lots of ducks and pigeons nearby that were very interested in us (really, the snacks) and the boys were quite entertained. It took a little vigilance to try to make them stay seated and not run away after all the ducks!

Snack time!


Da-da and William looking at the ducks

Da-da and his boys :)

On our way back home, we swung through a car wash. I thought it might be fun for the boys. I remember always liking riding through the car wash when I was young. It always seemed so exciting! By the time we got there, Stokes was passed out. William was a little freaked out by the car wash phenomenon. He shed some tears. I was trying to distract him/show him how cool the car wash was and he eventually settled down, but I couldn't help but laugh at his car wash fear. And I also couldn't resist getting a picture. Future William, I'm sorry, but it was just too cute!

William at the car wash

The main reason that we needed to wash the van is because it drove us down to the beach recently. We had to get the salt and sand off of this beautiful vehicle. I'm late on my beach post, but stay tuned because it's coming soon. And it's going to be awesome.
Uh oh...too much pressure.
It will be a decent post with lots of cute pictures of the boys on the beach!
That's better. :)
xoxo

Friday, September 4, 2015

24 month well check

We had the boys' 2 year well check on Friday, 9/4/15. It was fairly uneventful since there aren't any major concerns that we have right now. I think back to how many questions and concerns I used to have at every appointment and now we just go and check in to make sure everyone's still doing OK. What a difference 2 years makes!

Stats:
Stokes - 24 lbs (7.74 percentile) & 32.75" (17.44 percentile)

Ryan - 23.8 lbs (6.65 percentile), 33" (22.49 percentile)

William - 25.7 lbs (17.44 percentile), 34.25 (56.24 percentile)

They're still peanuts, but getting bigger!! 


La La reading to Ryan

Snack time for Stokes

They have a TV in the room, too :)

Stokes and William had to get a finger prick and 4 shots each. Ouch! Ryan had to get a finger prick and 2 shots. He's a little behind due to being on medicine that prevented him from getting certain shots at previous appointments. He's catching up on the shots but is on a different schedule than his brothers. Stokes and William cried a little when they got their shots, but were pretty tough. Ryan, my strong man, did not even shed a single tear! He's super tough.

S pre-shots - not too sure about what's going to happen

S post-shots - not happy :(

W pre-shots - doing ok...

W post-shots - upset but getting distracted by the bubble
machine in the room

R pre-shots - doing good!

R post-shots - still doing good and liking the bubbles!

Stokes got a flu shot, which contains eggs, to which he's allergic. Since his allergic reactions have only ever been topical (red areas around his mouth) and not anaphylactic, they said he was OK to have one, but we had to wait there at the office for 30 minutes after the shot to make sure he didn't have a crazy reaction. He was fine, thankyouverymuch. :)

Waiting was actually kind of fun because our pediatrician's office has this awesome little playground. The boys had a blast! See ya in 6 months, well visits!

LaLa and Ryan in the shade

Playground time

Wrong way, buddy!

Wheeeeeee

So much fun!

Sliding

Loving life

Very agile

Hey William!

Ryan was ready to go home haha

Cutie boy

#TheColt

This week I met this little guy, Colton Bender Herceg. He's the son of my bestie, Steph (aka Nator) and is 4 weeks old. He lives in Atlanta, so I packed up my laptop and drove down there to visit him for a few days. He's precious. I was so glad to get to meet him and spend time with him and Nator. 



He smelled so sweet! I forgot what newborns smell like. YUMMY. 

Nator is doing awesome job as a new mom. I'm so proud of her!
BTW, hi, Johanna! ;)

Colt and his Mama

Look at that sweet face

So snuggly in his rock n play

Colton, his Da-da and big sister, Emmylou

We got to see Adam, too! Nator, Adam and I left Colt with
his Da-da and went to dinner one evening. Good times!

I love everyone in this pic

He slept a lot - which was great!

Auntie Katie holding my little Colt

Just so cute!!

One last snuggle before I had to hit the road

I think we're already besties!!

Monday, August 31, 2015

Oh, TWOdles!

Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse hot-diggity-dog 2nd birthday party!

My 2 year old Mouseketeers - Stokes, Ryan and William

As you can guess, we went with a Mickey theme for the boys' birthday party and kept it pretty small and low-key. I lucked out with getting to borrow a lot of the party decor and we put together a really simple menu and some fun friends and voila - it's partytime!

Cute Mickey centerpiece and red placemats

Balloon vase

More balloons and a Mickey canvas art piece :)

Happy Birthday Banner

Close-up of the banner
Mickey ear paper lanterns hanging up throughout the house


Dining room with centerpiece
(we didn't even use the dining room but
it was ready, just in case!)

Cute boys with their birthday shirts on!


Cupcakes!

Mickey made out of Oreos

The favors - Mickeys with M&Ms inside and Mickey lollipops

Cute Mickey door wreath


The back porch


More paper lanterns





Toys set up on the patio


The BOUNCE HOUSE!!!
The bounce house was the boys' birthday present this year. It was a pretty big hit at the party and I was so glad that we have it! It inflates really easily and I think we may be able to set it up inside for rainy days or this winter when it's too cold to play outside.

It's time to party. Oh, toodles...or as we like to say "oh, TWOdles"!!!

MaSha and Ryan

Brady and one of his biggest fans, William

Hayes and a balloon

Ryan and Stephanie

MaSha and Ryan - cruisin' around

Brady

Catherine with Brady, Stokes, William and  Hayes

Claire and George

Caroline and Heather

Bounce house action

Stokes coming down the slide to Da-da

Cutie pie, Hayes

MaSha and Brian, Claire and George

Stokes on a trike

Our Grill Master, Thomas, grilling up some hot-diggity-dogs

Ryan and me

The Atwoods - Brent, Hayes, Catherine (and Brady on the steps)

Clark, Walker, Caroline and Heather



Our food table

Grilled hot dogs (with ketchup, mustard, relish, onions,
chili, cheese and honey mustard), chips, cole slaw,
baked beans and veggie tray

More playtime

Brent and Brian manning the bounce house while
Thomas manned the grill

Hayes and Brady eating dinner

Stephanie and me

Bob Henry and Wiliam

Stokes and William dinnertime

Brent with Hayes

Walker and Caroline

Stokes and his mama

He's a wild thing!

Caroline making her Daddy laugh

Hayes accidentally unplugged the bounce house while
Brady was in it and it started deflating. It was so funny!
Luckily it takes less than 1 min to inflate, so no worries!

Caroline!

Brian and George
Cupcake time!


Stokes and his Da-da

Mama bringing a cupcake to MaSha and Ryan

Time to blow out candles!

Blow it out, William!

Blowing out his candle

yummy!








Hayes liked them, too!

Cute little guy!

Hey there, Bob!

We had the hot dog song playing on the iPad and they loved it!

This guy cracks me up!

Hayes and Clark

Big bite, Ryan!

He loved it!

More bounce house time!


And riding (and falling off of) trikes!

Oooh!

Slide!


Totally unplanned, but we were TWINNING!
Catherine and me

Ryan and Da-da

I got my hands on this sweet girl. She is a perfect model and
she will pose and smile just right for every picture!

Da-da with Ryan and Stokes

Family picture!

Happy 2nd birthday, boys!!!

Up to no good!


Heather and me

And William crawled up behind us and wanted to join the fun

So we gave him big smoochers!

Dads and kids - awesome!

the beautiful Young family!

Ryan looking like a big boy!

Their party loot!
Thank you to our friends that came to celebrate with us!

We waited until Sunday morning to open gifts, and the boys had a great time!
Ryan is checking them out

Going for the gold



Reading new books!

Huge smile :)

Unwrapping!

Ryan loved this card


OMG - it's a big truck!

Go Ryan!


One word for this: OBSESSED




The boys got some great gifts and have been having a blast playing with them and reading them.