Happy 4 Months Ryder!!

My little Ryder Bear turned 4 months yesterday!!  How is that possible??

I just can’t get enough of this little fellow!  He truly has my heart!  I ADORE!

Ryder.. you

• are around 16lbs now (we will get an exact weight at your check up on Wednesday)
• are in size 2 diapers
• I bought you some Tom’s that are size 2…they are a little big on you but I wanted you to be able to wear them all Winter.
• are in 3-6 month clothes

You haven’t started rolling over yet but I don’t think it will be long…you are starting to do that twist movement that leads to rolling over.  Mommy is just not ready for you to do it yet!

You are an awesome sleeper…you go to sleep around 9 and sleep until about 8.  You usually take a 30 min nap around 10ish and then a long nap around 1..that one last anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours!  Sometimes you take another quick nap in the evening.

You have been drooling like crazy lately…could you be getting ready to cut a tooth?  You love to suck on your fingers and especially your thumb…I think you prefer your thumb over your paci!

You are eating 6oz of formula every 3 hours and we put a little rice cereal in your night time bottle.  I’m sure the Dr will tell me to start you on baby food…I know you will love it….but once again…I’m not ready for you to be to that stage already. tear.

You love your Bumbo, swing, play mat and being propped up in the corner of the couch.  It won’t be long before we break out the doorway jumper…hmmm..I’m not ready for that either.

You smile A LOT!!  All I have to do is look at you and grin or talk to you and you give me a big adorable smile!  You have 2 tiny dimples in the corners of your mouth…so cute!  You are still just laid back as can be!

I think your eyes are going to stay blue and your hair is lightning up…it’s starting to look like it could be blonde.

You LOVE watching your Big Brother!!  You have really started to pay him a lot of attention and he is starting to pay you a lot of attention.  He doesn’t like to share his things very much but we are working with him on that!

Blowing bubbles is your new trick!  You are ticklish and it gets you laughing every time!!  Gosh I just Love you!!

I know this is Ryder’s post but I have to add in a story about Maddox for my records.  I forgot to put it in yesterdays post and it is really important.  After church, we ran thru McDonald’s and got lunch to eat on the way to Lazy 5.  Chris said “let’s pray” and Chris started to say his normal food prayer but as soon as he started it  Maddox started saying “God is Good, God is Great, Let us thank him for our food, by his hands, we all are fed, give us lord our daily bread, AMEN!!”  We could have cried!!!    We pray over our food at home but we forget to say that prayer.  We couldn’t believe he knew the whole prayer! Thank You Nana for saying that prayer with him.  It was too cute and very touching to hear coming out of my little 28 month old boy!

I love them to pieces!  Thank You God for My Sweet Boys!

Beach Days–Part 2

I wanted so badly to blog my vacation while I was on vacation so that I could remember what we did each day.  Unfortunately…that did not happen.  So now I need to try to remember last week…I will do my best!  Monday and Tuesday were beach days!  We would go out about 10 and stay on the beach until 12-1….come in and eat lunch and then the boys would go down for a nap and me and my Mama would go back out to the beach for a couple more hours.  She would read a book and I read magazines and worked Sudoku puzzles.  (I know… I’m a nerd!!)

I love the view at the top of the sand dune!!

Ahhhh…..so perfect!!

This was our oasis for the week!  Can you believe we set our tent up on Sunday morning and we did not take it down until the next Saturday evening!!  We also left our chairs and sand toys there.  Nobody stole them or our tent!!  Wow!!  In this day and time that is a miracle!!

It’s hard to believe that next year at the beach….Ryder will be running around!

Chris and My Daddy would get up early every morning and go fishing!!  They had a lot of luck Tuesday evening fishing on the pier.  My Dad caught a 6.4 lb Sheep head…and apparently that is a pretty big one!  They took his picture and said he was going in the paper!! Yay Daddy!!  Chris caught a few too!!

Me, Mama and Maddox went out to the pier to visit them!

This is special father/son moment….Chris teaching Maddox to fish!!

If there is One thing anyone should know about my Daddy…it is that he LOVES hunting and fishing!!  I LOVE My Daddy!!

The lighthouse is at Caswell Beach.  If you look to the right you can see Bald Head Island….you can only get there by a ferry and no cars allowed !!  That is where Kate Gosselin took all her kids on vacation last year and they filmed some shows.  (yes…I watch Kate plus 8…but only b/c I’m intrigued by how ridiculous she is!)

Meanwhile back at the house…little Ryder was getting extremely spoiled by my Mawmaw!!

He is almost ready to start sitting in his Bumbo…his head is still a little wobbly but he can do it for a short amount of time.

Tuesday night we had a girls night out!!  Me, Mawmaw and Mama went and saw The Help!!   The movie was really good!!!  I had not read the book so there was no disappointment from me!!

Mama wanted a picture with the gnome showing that he went to the movie.  I told her the best place to take the picture would be in front of the poster that advertises the movie.  It wasn’t hanging outside so I thought it would be inside.  Mama was too embarrassed to just carry it in so I stuck it in my purse and his head was sticking out.  I sit my purse on the counter to pay for our tickets and the girl working there said “that’s an interesting thing to have in your purse”….I said “ yeah…there is a story behind it” and she said…”I figured” as she gave us a crazy look!  There was no poster inside either so we had to snap one outside.

I’m pretty sure we ate Dairy Queen both nights! Yum!  I’m having withdrawals!!