Milestones and Updates

Beau took his first step on Sunday. He can now take 1-2 steps at a time. He is so cute when he realizes he is moving!I can tell he is trying to figure out how to keep going by the look in his eye. He is a smart cookie, so we know he will get the hang of it soon. His favorite toys are drawers and doors. He loves to open and shut them all the time.

Beau also has really started to stack things, and sort things. If you show him how to to something, he will copy what you do, and then start doing it all the time. We are having so much fun seeing what new things he can learn each day.

Mom also had a milestone...running 2 miles at one time! Rodney and I are getting ready for our 1st 5K run together. Rodney has been a runner since he was little, I on the other hand have never been a runner. It has been fun to let Beau go with us in the jogging stroller and check out the scenery as we run. Hopefully, this week I can reach my milestone goal of running 3 miles at one time.

Also, a quick update on my Mom (for those of you that may not know, she was admitted to Brookwood Hospital Monday afternoon for a high fever, confusion, high heart rate, and more)...she was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and a possible heart attack. However, she is doing much better. She is being treated for pneumonia and they will run tests on her heart Monday. She will hopefully be going home sometime next week. Please just keep her in your prayers for a complete healing and speedy recovery.

What a Cutie!

Showing off his 6 teeth

My New Favorite Toy

He loves playing with these shapes that Mrs. Gayle and SammyBoy from Sylacauga gave him. They come in lots of different colors, but as you can see, the blue ones are his favorite...

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Rodney celebrated his birthday this weekend. We woke up Friday to celebrate his birthday and Beau gave his Dad a great present....he clapped his hands by himself for the first time when we sang "Happy Birthday!" Rodney had a great weekend of dinners with family and friends and a great golf outing that his wonderful wife surprised him with. :o)

While Dad was golfing with his friends, Mom and Beau meet their friends Jenn and Harrison at the Zoo. This was Beau's first trip to the zoo and it was great! Beau LOVED looking at all the people and Harrison. I am not sure if Beau even knew that there were animals there.

Here are a few pictures....


Ready for the zoo

Checking out monkeys

Hanging out with Harrison

10 months old

Beau turned 10 months old on Wednesday. I know that I have not posted in a while. But, I only have 30 more work days left in my career as a 5th grade teacher. :o)

I can not believe how time has flown by! He is crawling everywhere, pulling up on anything he can(including my aunt betsy's dog's leg), and standing for a little while at at time. We are working on transitioning to a sippy cup....one feeding at a time. Beau is babbling a lot. He can say mama, dada, daddy, and a lot of g sounding words. He loves to see us clap and puts our hands together to clap, but will not clap on his own. He coughs if no one is paying him attention, so that they will turn and look at him. Then he gives a big grin! He is super sweet and we could not imagine loving anything more!

Here are some pictures since my last post....
Eating Cantalope out of a mesh teether

Taking a bite out of Dad's apple


Looking in.....

Crawling in to get a toy

Cousin Jenna carrying Beau around like he is one of her baby dolls

Too Cute!!


Play Time...if you look very closely you can see his hair sticking up on one side. For one entire day, it stood straight up like this....nothing would help it...if he has a buzz cut when he is older, you will know why


Smiling at Super and Memie (his great grand parents)

Happy Easter

We had a great first Easter with Beau this year. We went to the 7:45 service with my Mom at Church. It was wonderful! Then we ate lunch with Rodney's parents. Then, we had Easter dinner with my family. Beau got several Easter baskets and lots of toys (but Rodney and I did not get any pictures)


Easter weekend wrapped up the end of my spring break with Beau. I had such a great time being home with him for a week. We got to catch up with friends, play, and run lots of errands. My two new favorite things that Beau does are (1) climb over anyone and anything (including his Dad) to crawl to Mom ....this may get annoying later, but I could not get enough of it over spring break! (2)when he is riding in the car, he reads (holds) his book and turns the pages....he looks like a little man...so cute!

On Monday, I returned back to work. When I pulled out of the garage and looked in the rear view mirror and saw Beau's empty car seat....with no little man reading a book...I cried the whole way to school! But, I pulled it together and made it through the day.....Only 8 more weeks for me to teach and then I will be able to be with Beau all day. This has definitely been the hardest season of our lives so far. Working outside the home full time, even though we have great babysitters (the grandmothers) has been challenging. The Lord has been so faithful to watch over us, provide for us, and protect us during this time. We are just so thankful it is almost over!

Beau and The Easter Bunny