Update

Beau has only been able to play with 2 of his big toys that he got for Christmas. We are saving the rest for him to play with when he gets tired of these toys. Also, we are downsizing to a sweet, tiny house and don't have room to have all of the toys out at one time. We are downsizing so that I can stay at home with Beau after May when I finish teaching my 5th graders. This Christmas break has been great so far and it makes me look even more forward to the days when I no longer have to work.....Even if this break has been filled with 2 baby teeth coming in, Beau having a cold, Beau passing his cold to Mom, and Santa coming through our neighborhood on a fire truck Christmas Eve night at 10:45 pm! Beau was not a fan of that at all!!

As of yesterday, we are the proud owners of 2 homes....once again! This is the 3rd home we have owned in the year 2007. Sounds crazy, but we decided to sell our townhouse to upgrade to a family home, then I realized I wanted to stay at home with Beau, so we downsized to a smaller family home. We are praying that our current house sells soon, and then we will move into our new home.

Here are a few pictures of Beau playing with his new toys:

Beau and the learning puppy

Beau and the Shape and Sort Cookie Jar....He just likes to try to dump everything out of the cookie jar right now.....

Beau's favorite bath toy.....Mr. Duckie....not new but he just learned how to put Mr. Duckie's head in his mouth!

Love the blue eyes and long eyelashes!!

Merry Christmas

Today was Beau's first Christmas.....to him it was pretty much like any other day. He loved seeing all the family and getting new presents too. Too us, this Christmas took on a whole new meaning. Having a child changes your perspective on so many things, one of them is understanding on a new level how much God loves us. There were many nights when Beau was a newborn when he woke up crying in the middle of the night. We would go and rock him and while we were doing that, I would look at a picture that was hanging up in our hallway of Jesus. It is a picture that Rodney gave me as his wedding gift to me....it is "Smiling Jesus" that a man in our church painted a few years ago. Looking at that picture always gives me comfort knowing that Jesus is right here with us and that the Lord is watching out over us. But, holding our son, looking at that picture, I could not imagine how much the Lord loved His son, but loved us even more to give up His son for us. This Christmas we are so thankful for our son, family, friends, church, and for our Savior.

Here are a few pics of Christmas morning......

In his new bouncer because his newborn one was too small

With my Dad

Beau now has lots of new toys and clothes to play with. He also had his first taste of wrapping paper at Aunt Betsy's house. We were opening gifts and Rodney put his finger in Beau's mouth and pulled wrapping paper off the roof of his mouth. Yummy! Beau must have asked Santa for his 2 bottom teeth for Christmas because he had the first one and is currently working on the 2nd one.

Fun Times

This week was very exciting for us because Beau cut his first tooth! It was one of his bottom teeth and it came through with a little fussiness and lack of appetite...but nothing as bad as I had imagined it might be. It is so funny when he tries to eat our fingers now because he actually bites us....the tooth may be little, but it is sharp!

Beau also has really started flipping over this week. He has been able to roll for a while, but was not too interested. I attributed this to Beau rolling off our couch when he was 5 weeks old (while Mom was sitting next to him) and getting rushed to Children's ER....he was fine, but I do not think that I will ever recover from it! Anyway, he is flipping from front to back and back to front all the time now. He just gives a big smile every time he flips himself over. What a cutie!

We were cleaning up in Beau's room the other day and I got out his activity gym....we were getting ready to put it in the attic because he was never too fond of it......Well, it is now his favorite thing to play in, besides the exersaucer. Here are a few pictures of him in his newborn gym....He is almost busting out of it!

His favorite move is to wrap his legs around the arc and try to do a flip

Feeding himself the bottle.....He has been doing this for a while, but it is so hard to get a picture of it!

Santa Party

Saturday night, our friends had a "Santa Party." We heard Santa's reindeer outside and then Santa came inside with gifts for all the girls and boys. Santa surprised Beau with a rattle and he loved it! Beau's bib said "I Love Santa," but it is hard to believe that from the way Beau stared Santa down!

Santa said Beau was a big boy and would be even heavier next year!

Santa pulling Beau's gift out of his big bag

Beau checking out Santa


Beau leaning back to get a better look at Santa

Sitting Up

Well, we are still working on sitting up....

Nothing to do with sitting up, but I thought the AU hat turned backwards was too cute!

Elf Yourself

Our friends Jenny and Michelle emailed us an "Elf Yourself" website. I laughed so hard at theirs that Rodney and I decided to make our own "King Elf Yourself" video. Click on

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1247631946 to watch ours.

Just Playin'

We are having so much fun with Beau. He loves to play....he is in to everything! He smiles, laughs, and squeals all the time. We took out his jumper that he is finally big enough to play in and he loved it!

Playing in the jumper

Love the smile!

About to hit the frog to make it twirl

Checking out Mr. Butterfly

Showing off the new AU hat that he is working on growing in to

Lots of Changes

Well, the past week has been full of changes for the King Family. The most fun change is that Beau has started to eat baby food. He loves sweet potatoes, but has not been so excited about squash.....we will see how the carrots go! He is like a little bird opening his mouth up to get every bite of cereal and sweet potatoes that we feed him.

A not so fun change was me going back to work. Monday was my first day back in the classroom. The only thing keeping me going is knowing that I can quit in May and be a stay at home Mom until Beau is in school. My first day back at work had a rough start. Over the weekend I cried off and on the whole weekend...poor Rodney! Sunday afternoon ,after I cried through church because they showed a video clip of baby Jesus and it reminded me that I had to leave my baby, Rodney and I watched "The Ron Clark Story". It is a great film about a teacher who went to Harlem and changed the lives of his class because he cared. I think Rodney thought it would help me realize my purpose for the rest of the year......it didn't work. I left to go to work without a tear Monday morning and I was so proud. Beau was doing great with his grandmother and I knew we would all be okay. Until, I had to get my classroom key from my Principal. He asked how I was doing and then I lost it. I cried and cried and cried and cried. He was so sweet and let me skip our Monday faculty meeting after school because he knew I wanted to be home with my baby. Working outside the home will be rough, but I know it is only for a short season.

A few pics........

Trying to eat the butterfly

Trying to tell us something important

Too cute!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We had a busy Thanksgiving Day! We left our house at 9:30 am and didn't get home until 8:30 pm. We saw Rodney's family and my family and had a great day. Beau hung in there through all the car rides and going in and out to see different family. When we got home that night, I was holding Beau because he was a little over-tired and fussy and we looked at him sleeping so sweetly on my shoulder, and agreed that this was the best Thanksgiving ever!
Starting off the day not happy that Mom didn't wipe his face between spoonfuls of rice cereal....
Having a great time being tickled on the belly by Dad
Beau having a blast with Super! Beau Carl is named after Super (whose names is Carl)

Beau relaxing on Memie
Beau with Aunt Mary. He loves her because she always wears something sparkly that he can touch

Beau with Krissy and Marie

Beau with Aunt Betty and Cousin Daegan
This picture is extremely special because Beau got to meet Geneva for the first time. She worked for my grandparents , "Granny and Bo," for many years. Beau is named after my grandfather whose nickname was "Bo." This was the first Thanksgiving that my family celebrated without my grandmother, "Granny". Thanksgiving actually fell on her birthday this year, so it made it an extra-special day. Geneva has always been considered part of our family and we were so glad she could spend Thanksgiving with us.

This is a new facial expression that Beau learned....he looks like he is trying to chomp down on food or trying to talk.....either way it is funny!

Thanks Tracie!!

Our friend, Tracie, came over to take pictures of Beau for our Christmas card. She did such a good job! Our son refuses to smile at a camera...He is not this serious all the time, but when a camera comes out his smiles turn into a super serious face. Here are a few pictures that she took....

.Sort of smiling....

Love how he is holding his hands!

A little smirk.......

Getting Sleepy

And, we're done!

We did get a cute family photo that we are not posting...you can see it on our Christmas cards in December!

Just Hanging Out

We have been having so much fun with Beau! He is getting bigger and bigger every day and is so fun to play with. He loves to play with all of his toys, but he is easily entertained with no toys. He likes looking at colorful shirts, looking at the trees chaning colors, and watching people. We took him to our friend Kyler's 2nd birthday party and he had such a good time hanging out in his stroller watching everyone. Of course, he still knows how to put on the show....when you smile at him, he flashes a big smile right back (most of the time!)

After bath time

Beau has learned how to make a new noise.....a SQUEAL....it is sharp and loud! He does it and then smiles really big. I love it, but am hoping he learns how to make a new noise soon!

Here are a few pictures of the past week or so.....

With my Mom's dog Sam. Beau loves Sam, but Sam is terrified of Beau! That is the closest Sam has ever gotten to Beau.

Ready for bed...his PJ's say "World's Cutest Baby Boy"

Eating rice cereal in the high chair for the 1st time

This picture just shows that when Beau is tired, he will fall asleep anywhere. He was in his crib watching his horse mobile, it is playing music and spinning and all the lights are on in his room, but he decided it was naptime, not playtime!

A few pictures....

Beau and his friend Parker playing. I thought it was so sweet that Beau is holding on to Parker because Parker can sit up, but Beau can not yet. Parker is already such a good friend!

Hanging out

Eating my doggy!

Rolling over.....almost