Happy 1st Birthday Wesson!

You are the best baby in the world! Your birthday party was awesome and you thought so too! You were a little late because you decided to take a 1.5 hour birthday nap. I had to wake you up because your guests were waiting! Aunt GiGi and Emily helped me get you dressed and boy were you set. Trying to act shy, you eased your way into the living room full of people. It took you all of 30 seconds to start showing off. You put on a little show in the floor for everybody to break the ice! 

We served your favorite food groups - sweets, chips and Pb&Js.  

You greeted your guests like a true gentleman...

You enjoyed a Birthday PB&J standing up at the table.

Pierce and Ann Elise loved their first PB&J!!!

Your birthday hat was love/hate relationship... I made it with love and you hated it!

Since it was Sarah Pierce's birthday too, she was your candle helper.

Everyone was watching you so you took your sweet time getting into your cake. Aunt Gigi ended up helping you out and making a huge mess for Mama to clean up!

You were covered in gifts and appreciated them all, but you were really taken by the cards. So, the other kids opened your gifts while you told us who they were from.

Move over Jimmie Johnson! Wesson is a mean driver... a little slow... but man, can he steer!

And then you were done...

Ooh Ooh Aah Aah

This little monkey rolled into town for Halloween! Isn't he just precious!!!

Miss Cathy hosted a wonderful Pumpkin Patch day for the children last weekend! Mimi and Granddaddy came into town to go with us and to celebrate my birthday. It was a lot of fun for our first time. But, next year will be wild! Wesson will love running around all the pumpkins and the hay ride when he is a little older. After picking out a few Wesson-sized pumpkins for the house, everyone went back the Cathy's for a yummy cookout. Wesson showed off his mad driving skills (even though his feet don't touch the ground). It is very funny the way he steers like you are supposed to. Its not just back and forth. He turns the wheel all the way around and does hand-over-hand like Coach Mayfield taught us. Jimmie Johnson better watch out!

The only downfall is that the pictures are cute but there are no big Wesson smiles. I think it was a little warm and may have been hot in the turtleneck and corduroy longall. It was the official Pumpkin Patch outfit, though. He had to wear it! Plus, I spent an hour "hemming" his pants. Longalls are about 2" too long for Shorty.

 

 

"Where did it go?"

This is Wesson asking "Where did it go?". Even though he does this a thousand times a day, it's so stinking precious! 

The Beach!

Daycare was closed for Fall Break so we took a little family time off, too. Well Well, Paw Paw, Uncle Scott, Aunt Gigi, Daddy, Mama and Wesson all went to the beach!!! The weather was more than perfect, and Wesson loved the sand, the salt water, naps in his tent, just everything. Of course, he came back more rotten than before. I would get used to six people waiting on me 24/7 pretty quickly, too, so I don't guess we can say much. It was such a nice break to not do anything planned. We just did whatever we wanted to and gave Wesson our undivided attention. It was so wonderful (did I say that yet?). October is really great for infants. Spring is too cold, Summer is too hot, October is perfect! Anyways... here are a few shots...

 

Oh-So-Sweet Smiles

I know he is mine, but this baby has the most precious face! I just love him to pieces! Here are a few smiles from the past several weeks for you to enjoy...

 

 

 

Ok, so this one isn't quite so innocent... This is what a week of vacation does to a rotten boy!

Wesson loves Peek-A-Boo! This is his idea of hiding and jumping out at us. Too funny! I know these are a little old but I'm so far behind. Peek-A-Boo has evolved into hiding anything then looking at you with his hands out saying "uh?". Its hard to type what he says since its not English. But you can definitely tell he is asking a question.

Where's Wesson????

 There he is!!!

This big boy is 10 months old now! His likes are so not hard to list: cheeto puffs, music & dancing, waving in his various styles, talking on the phone, pushing the on/off button on the sound system, reading books in fast mode (think cartoon flip book), chasing his Daddy in his walker through the kitchen, splashing in water.

Yes! There is a theme here... its called ALL BOY!

He is so much fun... wild and crazy... but fun! I just noticed how red his hair looks in these pictures. Not so much... its just the lamp. As you can see, Monkey has a war wound from this photo session. He could not avoid the Cheeto fingers and now has it all over his face. I'm sure he will earn many more battle scars over the years.

Hello...

Hello!?!?!? Who's there? Wesson loves to talk on the phone! Give him a call anytime!

Christmas Presents!

Yep, I got a Christmas present..... FINALLY! Lee gave me a new back door last Christmas and it is finally in business. I put it off and put it off because we decided to go ahead and replace all three doors. We could not even use the fireplace because the draft was so bad. It sucked the smoke right into the living room. The front door is whole other story. The forty year old solid wood double doors are over the hill and gone! Well, not yet. Something had to be exchanged so its behind a week. It will be a nice, long-awaited grand finale. The back doors are great. No storm doors. No squeaks. No washing one pane at a time. It's a major improvement even though it doesn't look totally different like the kitchen door does. Drum roll.....

Big Boy Playing Outside

Sunday afternoon was gorgeous and perfect for a little outside fun! Wesson loves his walker but not crazy about having to wear shoes outside. He can get a shoe off faster than I can stand back up from triple-knotting them onto his feet! I, the terrible mother that I am, let him try it without shoes. Yes, he would have let his toes scrape all the way to the bone before making a peep. So we ended up with shoes on for the whole five minutes the fun lasted.

War Eagle and God Bless America!

I have been trying to get a picture of Wesson's two front teeth without looking like I was abusing him.... finally! Last night he was chewing on his finger while he was playing with Lee and I got one! Excuse the mucus and slobber.... we are having a little allergy and teething spell this week.

Then, of course, we celebrated Patriot Day this past weekend! God bless our country and thank you to everyone here and around the world keeping us safe and FREE!

Sleepy Baby and Happy 3rd Anniversary

You are all aware that Wesson looks just like his Daddy, but I had to share this photo. I took it with my cell phone one morning last week. You have to know that some mornings this boy just does not want to get to school on time. This was one of them. I had to pick him up and bring into our room in the light before he realized it was time to return to Earth. Is this not the sweetest face you ever did see??? Clinique would not have anything to fight those bags!


On another note, Lee and I have been married three wonderful years. It is truly amazing to have found my soul mate all the way down in Auburn. Life is so good!

We decided to buy ourselves a new camera since we have no motivation to take pictures when Well Well isn't around with her mack daddy camera. Our camera was just behind the times, and the darn thing wasn't fast enough for our little monkey! We went with the Coolpix by Nikon because, well to be completely honest, David Joiner has it and loves it. I got another gift that wasn't expected at all. I guess I'm just so wonderful that he thought my jewelry collection needed more pearls. That sneaky fellow was taking notes at Shane Co. when we stopped by to have my rings cleaned, but yeah for me!