February 2016

February 2016 was a super fun, exhausting blur!  

Thomas is doing great.  He had a big time at Disney World and absolutely LOVED the characters.  He is doing great at school and loves getting to eat big kid school food.  I'm pretty sure they said his favorite is beef tacos...of course!  He is still a great sleeper - 12-13 hours at night and usually takes one good long nap every day.  He obviously loves food.  We are giving him more and more table food along with baby food.  He seems to really love blueberries and strawberries.  He is crawling, pulling up and standing by himself for short periods of time.  He weighs 20 lbs, 13.5 oz (70th Percentile) and is 29.25 inches long (85th Percentile) - which makes him a big boy but the smallest of our three kiddos!!!

Our Disney trip was a HUGE success.  An exhausting success but still a total blast.  We spent 13 hours in the Magic Kingdom the first day which may have been a bit much but we were totally going to get our money's worth...haha!  We met all the princesses, rode all the rides (we were tall enough to do), saw all the parades and shows and even stayed for the night parade, Castle lighting and fireworks.  The girls ate lunch with Winnie the Pooh and friends and even got princess make-overs at the Bippity-Boppity Boutique.  We also ate dinner in Cinderella's Castle where we met Cinderella, Ariel, Jasmine, Snow White and Aurora.

Day 2, we spent 9 hours at Hollywood Studios.  We met more characters, ate lunch with the Disney Junior crew and did all the rides we could fit in.  The hit was by far the Frozen Sing-a-long b/c Elsa made it snow in the building.  It was pretty cool.  

Day 3, we went back to Magic Kingdom for another 8 hours.  We did even more rides (some more than once...It's a Small World...awful...which happened to be Sobe's favorite....of course).  We watched the parades again, ate lunch in Belle's Castle and finally met Elsa and Anna!

Our last day we spent about 6 hours at the Animal Kingdom.  We did the Safari, watched Nemo and the Lion King Show and the girls even did some scarier rides.

Over all, it was an awesome trip.  Thomas was a total trooper and Sobe even kept it together (most of the time) for a 3 year old without naps!

Here are a few pictures from our trip.  

As you can see Thomas LOVED the characters (especially Pooh and Friends and Doc McStuffins.)

The girls got to pick out some ears...it took Hudson 3 days and about 45 minutes in the shop to finally make a decision.

The finished product after the girls' Princess Make-Overs!

FINALLY meeting ELSA!!

Of course, we had to get the family Castle picture!

The rest of February was spent recovering from Disney, celebrating Valentine's day and our 7 year anniversary.  We enjoyed some warm weather which means all-day playing outside with neighbors.  We had a great neighborhood cook-out - topped off with another sleepover.  

The girls are wrapping up gymnastics and March brings us a whole new crazy schedule.  We have soccer starting in a few weeks which is always fun.  The girls are trying tennis for the first time.  They are also taking swim lessons so they will be ready when the pool opens.  Also for my sanity since Thomas will be all over the place this summer and I want them both to be strong swimmers!

That's about all for now.  Here are the rest of our pictures from Disney and February:

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January 2016

What was supposed to be a pretty boring January turned into an exciting month full of snow!  We also celebrated a birthday, 8 months and a Hall of Fame Induction!

We enjoyed some down time after the Holiday madness.  The girls are loving their gymnastics class and are working on all their trampoline skills.  We have a few more weeks of that left and then we start a new soccer season and they are trying tennis for the first time.  I think they are just in it for the gear and new racket but hopefully they like it.

After weeks of pretty mild weather, and even some HOT winter days, we finally had our first snowfall.  The first threat was kind of a let down with just ice and dusting but the second storm did not disappoint.  Nashville got about 8 inches of snow, which is the most this town has seen in well over 10 years and man did the girls LOVE it.  We spent 3 fulls days sledding, building snowmen, making snow angels and having a blast with neighbors.  Although I think the jury is still out on who had the most fun...the kids or the adults!!!

By 9am on the first day...this is how much we had!

Here is a video of Hudson working on her snowboarding skills.  She would have stayed outside all day everyday if we had let her!

Thankfully this winter storm, Tom was actually in town which was nice compared to last year's two week long Ice Storm.  Thomas even got in on the sledding and loved it.  After the Snow storm, Thomas turned 8 months old (on my birthday).  He is growing so fast!  He is still trying to crawl but has really only mastered going backwards...haha!  He does scoot around on his bottom when he wants to get somewhere.  He also pulls up on everything.  All he wants to do is stand up!  He still only has 6 teeth and has enjoyed getting to eat more real food instead of just baby food.  We go back to the doctor this month for his 9 month check up so we will get to find out how much he has grown.

Last weekend, we got to spend a great day in Bowling Green celebrating Tom.  He was inducted into his High School Athletic Hall of Fame.  They had a nice ceremony and celebrated all the inductees at the basketball game that night.  I think the girls were more excited than he was. (Hudson has his plaque in her room!)

He will kill me for putting this in here....

That is about all for now.  The girls are super pumped that their countdown chains are so short....because we leave for Disney World this weekend!  So February should be a pretty exciting month for sure!!!

As always, here are the rest of the pictures from our Snow Month:

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