Warm weather, where are you!?

I'm back at work this week after having last week off for Spring Break. Let me say that Grey can sleep until 8:30now and getting up this week for work has been HARD, on both of us! He refuses to wake up and if this is any indication as to how it will be when he gets older, then I'm in for some hard mornings. I love the fact that he's sleeping later though, but it won't last long for me!!! Remind me again why I'm a having another baby?! Ha!

Last week was filled with park visits and play dates with my best friends nephew, Portland. These boys were born 3 months apart and they are the best of friends! They love each other and play great together.

I think this was taken when Grey was about 5 or 6 months old and Portland was about2 or 3 months. So cute!!!!
The rest are taken from this week at the park.

This last one is my favorite! Grey is giving Portland a hug! They are just the sweetest boys EVER!!! I'm so thankful for Grey's loving and gentle spirit, except when he's throwing a fit, but he really is a sweetheart. Both of these boys are just the best!!!

Me and Kenny took Grey to the zoo this past weekend too, and he loved it! We've taken him before, but now that he's older, he can enjoy it more and he know what the animals are. It was so cute seeing him get so excited over the tigers and especially the fish! The boy loves animals, or memals as he calls them :)

Pay no attention to the big mama!

This was after a haircut. Everyone needs yogurt after, right?!

After of weekly Target trip. My cool dude with his spider man Easter basket with his hulk smash in it! He loves super heroes and dinosaurs right now. Lord he chases us around with his dinosaurs roaring at us, verrrryyyy loudly!

This last picture is of Grey and pawpaw. He loooooves his pawpaw and neenee! Me and Kenny are thankful for the support system we have. Our families are amazing and they love this little boy to death. Needless to say, he loves them just as much!

We're having a..........

We found out after Christmas that we're having a BOY!!!! Two boys, will I survive!? Ha! After a lot of back and forth, mainly because we only had a girl's name picked out, we decided on Gibson Lane Luther. We are beyond thrilled to be having another sweet boy and I pray him and Grey are the best of friends! We have been blessed with such a sweet little boy already, I pray Gibson is just as sweet.

Here is his picture :)

And here I am at 26 weeks. Much bigger than last time!

Once again, I pray Gibson has a healthy, long, and blessed life!!!!

So, I guess now I might need to rename this blog because it won't be ALL about him anymore! haha!

Grey has turned 2, so he is officially my little man now. He repeats EVERYTHING, so me and Kenny are having to watch what we say. Two hasn't been so bad, though. He only goes to  time out a few times a week, if even that much. He's still my happy little boy, when he's had a good nap!
Christmas was so much fun this year! He loved opening presents, his and everyone else, but he "got" it this year. He loved saying ho, ho, ho like Santa!

I can't wait for warmer weather so this child can go outside and run some of his energy off! The days that have been nice, we go outside and let him play. He LOVES being outside, thankfully, because we do too. He still loves his pawpaw and nene and Lindsey. He always wants to go to pawpaw's house! When we leave to go ANYWHERE, he asks "pawpaw, nene house?" And he cries sometimes when we pull up at our house because he thought we were going to their house. Maybe they spoil him too much? Ha! He spent the night with them this past Friday night and had a blast!

My baby is not a baby anymore and I'm not sure how I feel about it. He has grown into the sweetest, most loving little boy! I definitely think someone upstairs had some help in it :) Even though I miss my mom and brother everyday and I wish they were here to share and experience this little boy, I am still so thankful for this life and I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Almost Christmas!

Well, it's almost that time of year again! I'm writing this time before Christmas because we had a national tragedy this week and I just want to remind Grey how much I love him and absolutely adore him!

There was another school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday December 14, 2012. Twenty precious babies were killed all 6 and 7 years old. This has totally broken my heart! I look at Grey and couldn't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. I promise to never take anything for granted, especially my children.

It's only a week until Christmas and my tummy is growing like a weed! I can't wait to see Grey be a big brother to his sister or brother! We find out next week what we are having annnndddd Grey will be 2 next week!!! I can't believe how fast time flies, especially when you become a parent. All I pray is that these two love each other and stand by each other through thick and thin. Me and my brother Michael fought like cats and dogs, but we ALWAYS had each others backs when it came down to it. I'm just overwhelmed with joy at the thought of being a mother to 2 sweet babies!

Long Time No See

Once again I have procrastinated and not taken the time to blog. We have some great news though......Grey will be a BIG BROTHER in May!!!! Of course he doesn't understand, but he still kisses my belly and says baby! Of course now, we need a bigger house. :)

Just a few highlights...........

These are from October when we went to Cedar Hills Farm

The next few are just random pictures from the past few months.

                             This my absolute favorite picture!!! He was soooo excited!!! hahahaha

                                                              NeNe and Grey

                                                         Aunt Lindsey and Grey

  

 Needless to say, we don't have a baby anymore. I can't believe he will be 2 in a month!! Time really has flown by. I still look at him everyday and thank God for him. I will never be able to explain how much love I have for this sweet child.

 

Back to School

Back to school

I'm going to make this a short one because I should be working, but this is the only free time I get! This summer was the BEST summer I've had! It's funny how just hanging around the house or outside with a 1 year old is the best time I've had. I never thought I'd say that. We went to Hot Springs, of course. I'm so thankful that we have family that has a house on Lake Hamilton and loves us all enough to let us stay there whenever we want. Uncle Ron and Aunt Bren surely spoil us all! This is Grey driving the boat. He loved it, but seemed to fall asleep every time! HAHA!!

He's finally started talking more! I was scared because he stopped saying a few things, but I had to realize they do things on their own time, not mine. He loves to get pictures in the house and point out and say "mama" and "da-dee"!! He does the same thing at grandma's and paw-paw's house. He somewhat say Aunt Lindsay, kinda sounds like dinsey, but too cute! He loves looking for Louie and saying Ew-e. This child is definitely an outside child and he's definitely ALL boy! If there's dirt or mud anywhere, he's gonna find it and be all up in it! We went to the Collierville sprinkler park this summer and he didn't really care for it. They had a playground 10 feet from it and he wanted to play on it instead. So I drove an hour away to go to the playground!

Here's a picture of Grey and Portland playing in the pool. And the next one is of him helping us wash the cars, which he absolutely LOVES!!!

A few first's have happened in just the past week.
1. He started a new sitter. Our previous sitter called on Friday to tell me that she started a new job on Monday!! Nice notice! But it all worked out for the best because he loves it at "Memaws". He has other kids to play with and she is just like his 3rd grandma. 
2. He got a "big boy bed"! It's too cute! It's Toy Story and he loves getting in it and watching tv. Sleeping in it is a different story. He sleeps with us, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I mean, it's not like he's going to be 16 and still sleeping with us, so I'm enjoying while I can.
3. He got sick for the 1st time!!! He's never even had a fever, only a few colds, so know we've been lucky. I figured once he got around other kids he's eventually get sick. He's had a cold all this week, but Friday night his fever got up to 104.8!!!! He started throwing up and that's when we got scared. Kenny called his mom and she rushed over with lots of goodies for him. Suppositories and Pedialyte! haha!! We were about to rush him to LeBonheur, but his fever went down pretty fast. We took him to the doctor Saturday morning and of course it was just a virus. So we had to just let it run its course. Thankfully we didn't have any more fevers after Friday night.

Here Grey is in his bed, with Louie!

He's turned in to a little boy overnight! I miss my little baby, but I love how independent he has become. He's still a mama's boy and I pray that NEVER changes. He still loves rubbing my hand when he's sleepy. He still has to make sure mama is always in his sight. He'll definitely always be my baby. :)

Here's his 1st big boy haircut. The next few are just some cute pictures I love.

This last one is of him and my dad, his grandaddy. He watched him for 3 days when I started back work and I was so happy they got to spend that time together. Grey adores him!

This wasn't as short as I thought it was going to be!

Summer time!

Well, it's officially summer time in the Luther household!! I'm off work for 2 months and so far it's been GREAT! The first week I was ready to go back because Grey was throwing some awful fits and hitting me! I think it had to do with changing his routine and momma being home everyday because he's back to his same old funny self, thank GOD!!!

I swear he's doing something new every day and he's definitely keeping me on my toes. He wakes up in the morning and looks at me and with the sweetest voice, says "backpack!" From Dora, of course. He has the sweetest voice I've ever heard and it's nice to hear him babble ALL the time. Kenny's mom thinks he's gonna be a preacher the way he talks. haha!! He loves to rub my hands and my knuckles for some reason, especially when he's tired. I love it of course!

He LOVES being outside and will take off running anytime he hears the word outside! He loves helping Kenny water the flowers, while pulling some off of course. My favorite thing he is doing right now though is a sound he makes anytime he sits down, steps up a step or down a step.......he'll go "ahhhhh!" Like is was such a hard day! haha!! He loves to wave and say bye bye. He is still waving backwards,which makes it much cuter :) But he tells his books bye, the bathtub bye, and when he gets out of bed in the morning he tells me bye! Too cute! He keeps me laughing for sure! He says da-dee constantly, but I can't remember the last time he said momma :( Don't know if it's because he's always around me, but he just won't say it. Guess I'll hear it enough when he gets older!

We are heading out to Hot Springs on Thursday and I'm excited! I'll be chasing him around the whole time I'm sure, but I still can't wait for him to ride on the boat or the jet ski!

We are so lucky to have such a happy child and anytime we are out, someone always comments about how happy he is and how good he is. Of course it's all because I'm the best mom in the world! HA! Before I ever had Grey, I would pray every night that he would be happy and healthy. He is thankfully both.

Brock! Brock! Hoppy Easter!!!

Well Grey's 2nd Easter has come and gone. This year was so much fun! We woke up and brought Grey his basket the Easter bunny left for him. He was so excited about his new toys and books!!! We got up, ate some pancakes (that I cooked), and got ready to go! (Of course I had to put in there that I cooked because it never happens :) ) 
We went to Holy Springs and ate lunch and let Grey hunt eggs. The food was yummy and the weather was awesome! Grey had a big time running around, trying to get in the pool, and riding around in the 4 wheeler or whatever it's called! Ha! When it came time to hunt eggs, he just ran around opening them because he realized the Easter bunny put toys in them!!! He didn't care for putting them in his Easter basket. I, of course, took LOTS of pics. 
I can't wait for the summer to bring him down there to go swimming! I hate rushing things because it's already gone by SOOOO fast, but I just look forward to so many things with him. Being a mom has exceeded all my expectations and even my worries. This little boy is very loved and I'm afraid very spoiled already!

  

 

Standing in front of the exact place where me and Kenny said "I do!"

 

I forgot to add that I took him to Cedar Hills Farm again this year to see the Easter bunny! I was anxious to see how he's react, but he wasn't scared at all!!!! He wouldn't look at me so I could get a good picture, but what's new, he NEVER does! So I had to get a picture of him grabbing the bunny. He had such a good time. He was able to play this year! He was all about the sand box and the playground.