December 2017

Happy New Year to everyone!  Hope you all had a Great December like we did!

Hard to believe these two are 3 months old already.  They are getting so big so fast!

Conner is a BIG boy.  He wears 9 month clothes and is so long and lean.  He LOVES to eat and sleep.  He sleeps 12-14 hours a night but doesn't nap much during the day.  He has rolled over from his stomach to his back once and is starting to like sitting in his Bumbo seat that Santa brought us.

 

Tinsley is a big girl also...but not nearly as long as Conner.  She is still working on the whole sleeping thing.  She has done up to 7 hours at a time but usually its more like 4 hour stretches but she also enjoys a good nap during the day.  She also likes to eat and really enjoys rice cereal (which the doctor told us we could start b/c they are so big).  She is all about rolling from her stomach to her back and has even rolled from her back to her stomach once! She loves her swing and her bumbo and is super smiley all of the time.

We had a fun family filled Christmas for sure.  We got to join in on Frericks Family Christmas for the first time in a few years which was great.  All of the Frericks siblings, and most of the Frericks kids and grand kids came to Nashville for the celebration.  So it was nice to see everyone.

The weekend before Christmas, all of the Halters came to Nashville for a couple days of fun. We opened presents, toured Opryland, walked through ICE, drove through the Dancing Lights of Christmas and had lots of cousin time!

Santa was very good to everyone this year and we spent the rest of Holiday playing with our new things and trying to stay warm during the Arctic Blast that has decided to land on Nashville!

Seeing the Big Guy

Naughty and Nice?!!

Cousin Fun at Opryland

Ready for Church

Trimming the Tree!

January means the start of Basketball season and they girls are ready.  

We can't wait to see what 2018 has in store for us and hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year!

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November 2017

Well we survived another month!  The twins are now 2 Months old and doing great!

Conner

Conner is so big.  In 2 months he has grown FIVE inches!  Insane.  He is now 25 inches long (>98%) and weighs 12lbs, 14oz (70%).  So needless to say...he is LONG and lean!  He has started smiling, loves to eat and sleeps 11-12 hours every night!  He is a happy baby and likes to be upright looking around.

Tinsley

Tinsley has become the small twin after taking up all the room in my belly!  She is now 23 1/2 inches long (90%) and weighs 12lbs, 1oz (75%).  She also smiles a lot, especially in the mornings.  She sleeps about 5 hours at a time and is a little more high maintenance than Conner.  She loves to swing and loves her pacifiers!

All in all, they are both doing great!  We are really lucky that they are such good babies so far...since there are two of them...I'm not sure I could handle anything else!

Everyone else is going great also!  We had a pretty slow November which was nice.  We enjoyed some nice weather playing outside with friends.  Our days have mostly consisted of school and playing outside, riding bikes, raking leaves, etc.  All the fun Fall things!

Killing it on the balance bike

 We enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving at home this year!  We started our day off with the first Annual Aberdeen Woods Turkey Trot.  It was a little crazy but so much fun.  We all got together and ran/walked about 3 miles.  Nothing says Thanksgiving like 8 adults, 8 kids, 3 babies and 3 dogs clogging up the streets of Crieve Hall!

Grandma and Grandpa Frericks also came down for the day and our neighbors the Germains came over for a day full of food and fun!

 That is about all for now.  We are getting geared up for Christmas and the kids are dying to go get our tree and get the house decorated!  

Here are the rest of the pictures from our fun November:

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October 2017

October has become the Month of celebrations for us.  We spent the past month celebrating the End of another great soccer season, The twins turning 1 month old, Hudson turning SEVEN, and of course Halloween!

Hard to believe that the Twins are 6 weeks old already!  The past month or so has been full of no sleep, bottles, and diaper madness for sure!  But, they are both doing so great!  

Tinsley, who started as the bigger baby, is now 9 lbs, 7.5 oz (76%) and 21.5 Inches (90%).  She is the loud one for sure but is starting to get into a rhythm.  She has started to sleep more at night, usually 5-6 hours, which is nice!  She is also awake more during the day which is fun!  She loves to swing and ride in the car!

Conner, who was the smaller of the two, is now the big one!  I think he finally had room to stretch out!  He is 9lbs, 10 oz (75%) and 22.75 inches (>98%).  He is the more laid back one and seems to be very alert and awake during the day.  He sleeps well at night, usually going around 6 hours at a time.  He does NOT like to swing but likes to cuddle and bounce.  He also LOVES Tinsley and always tries to be next to her or hold her arm.....she doesn't always love it though!

Post Bath Snuggles

October is also full of fun fall activities.  We made our annual trip to Shuckles Pumpkin Patch.  We always have so much fun there with our neighbors, the Germains,  We spent a day playing outside, jumping, swinging, zip-lining, hayriding and of course corn mazing!  We even picked out our pumpkins before we headed home!

Our Pumpkins

We also enjoyed several other fall festivals including the Crievwood Baptist Block Party and PumpkinFest in Franklin.  It's always a good time when you get the have your face painted, sit on firetrucks, and play games!

PumpkinFest Fun

October also means the end of another Soccer Season.  I could not be more proud of this team!  The Purple Dragons, made up of 6 kindergartners, 3 First Graders and 3 Second Graders, played up an age group in the 1st/2nd Grade league and totally rocked.  They played hard every game and didn't back down against some much older/bigger girls.  It is so fun to coach such a competitive group of girls!  

Another Great Season, 5-1-1

We also had another big celebration - Hudson Turned SEVEN!  She spent about a week celebrating but it was so fun.  She had a great party at Above All which included a surprise visit from her favorite Aunt and Cousins - Eileen, PJ, Charlie and Reedo!  She chose to have Mexican for her birthday dinner and capped off the celebration with Cookie Cake at school!

Mazatlan Dinner Fun!

Above All 

Halloween Themed Party!

Of course, we end October with the biggest celebration - Halloween!  It is a huge deal in our neighborhood and everyone gets very into it!

We start the celebration with a Pumpkin Decorating contest!  It is so much fun every year to see what creative pumpkins everyone comes up with.  This year Hudson and Sullivan both got Second Place with their Racoon and Eyeball pumpkins!

We also LOVE dressing up around here too. 

Evie (From Descendants) and her Poison Apple

The Witch and her Black Cat

And of course Spiderman

Thomas got very into Trick-or-Treating this year.  He refused to take his mask off all night and made sure not to miss any house!  He followed Hudson around the whole neighborhood and hit every single house!

We wrapped up the night with pizza and a fire pit in the cul-de-sac!  Always a great night!

That is about all for now.  We are looking forward to a slightly quieter November before Christmas and Basketball season take over!!

That is about all for now.  Here are all the pictures from our super fun October:

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September 2017 - The Twins Arrival

Well what started out as a not too busy, soccer filled September, got a little more exciting on September 18!  The Frericks Twins decided to make their arrival 2 weeks early!

Late on Sunday night, September 17th, I started having contractions.  We headed into the hospital around 1:30am (Big Shout out to Our Neighbor Maureen and Grandma and Grandpa who all came to our rescue with the big kids in the middle of the night!!!).  After a few hours of being monitored, my doctor decided I wasn't necessarily in active labor...BUT, since I was there and hooked up to an IV and clearly having contractions, we could go ahead and have some babies!  After some discussion, we decided that a C-Section would be the safest and best option.  At the time, Baby A (Tinsley) was head down, but Baby B (Conner) was transverse (basically sideways right under my ribs).  Since there was no guarantee that he would turn on his own, we all agreed to go ahead with the C-Section. 

At 10:50 I was wheeled into the OR and at 11:13am Tinsley made her appearance and 2 minutes later, we met Conner!

Tinsley Anne was 8 lbs, 3 oz and 20 inches long.

Tinsley Anne

Conner Edward was 7 lbs, 14 oz and also 20 inches long.

Conner Edward

This was the first time they were reunited outside the womb and the Twin bond is really a crazy thing!

Reunited Outside the Womb

 The big kids were SOOOO excited.  I am pretty sure Hudson told everyone she saw that morning that we were having the babies that day!  Here is the very first picture of the Frericks Starting Five!

The Frericks Starting Five

 With 2 weeks under our belt, we are kind of getting the hang of things.  The big kids are great helpers.  They all love to hold the babies. Hudson and Sullivan are great at giving them bottles when I need the help and Thomas is all about holding Conner....and sometimes Tinsley...haha! 

Tinsley Chilling at home

Conner Taking a Couch Nap

He loves holding his little bro!

 We are working on a routine (which is hard to imagine I'm sure).  The big kids are all in school which is helpful but mornings can get a bit crazy!  

The twins had their first check-up with their doctor at One Week old and are doing great.  They are almost back to birth weight which is awesome and they big and strong!

The twins are starting to work out their sleep/awake schedule and have had a few nights where they put 4-5 hours of sleep together!  Conner sleeps better than Tinsley but we're working on it!  

I don't think they look all that much alike but sometimes they surprise me!  

Sometimes they look alike

 Of course, having twins doesn't mean we get to stay in the house all day....being Number 4 and 5 means you are just along for the ride!  The twins have already been to 2 soccer games, a neighborhood cook-out and a block party!  

This weekend we loaded up everyone and headed to the Crieve Hall Block Party.  We love this event and never miss it.  Free face painting, balloon animals, snow cones and dinner....it's an annual tradition for us now!  

Block party fun

He was pumped for his spider

Snow cones and face paint

School is still going well for the big kids.  Both girls did great on their progress reports and continue to LOVE their teachers and classes!  The Purple Hearts Soccer team is having a great season also.  We had our toughest game so far last weekend, taking on a team of really big second graders and battled hard to a 1-1 tie!  It was great to see our team play so tough against some bigger older girls (half of our team is made of Kindergartners!)!

That is about all for now.  We are looking forward to a fun October full of Fall Break, the Pumpkin Patch, Hudson's 7th Birthday and of course Halloween!!

Here are the rest of the pictures from last month:

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August 2017

Well we all made it through the first month of school and so far, so good!

Hudson really loves First Grade and LOVES her teacher.  She has several good friends in her class which always makes things easier.  She is becoming quite the Reader and asked me tonight to take her to the library so she could check out some chapter books!  I love that she loves to read!

First Day of First Grade

Sullivan is loving Kindergarten also.  She Love, Love, loves her teacher and even has 3 friends from her old preschool in her class.  We are working on her sight words and she is slowly but surely getting it.  I'm not going to lie, its not easy....but I think it will click for her soon (fingers crossed)!

First Day of Kindergarten

Thomas also went back to school at the same schools he attended last year.  He loves going to school and put on his backpack every morning until he finally got to wear it to school.  He is finally potty trained and while it was exhausting, I am so glad we did it!  He loves his big boy underwear and I love having him out of diapers!

August also brings a new soccer season and the blue hearts are back together again.  We moved up to the 1st/2nd grade league and added a few old teammates back to our team.  This season we are the Purple Hearts and are off to a great start with a big win in our first game.  Our second game is this weekend so hopefully the girls can keep playing hard!

This year, Nashville was lucky enough to be in the path of Totality during the Solar Eclipse which was amazing.  The kids were out of school for it and, I have to admit, it was pretty awesome.

Thomas was All About it

 We hit Totality around 1:30pm and it was so cool.  Our street lights came on, some people saw lightning bugs and the crickets went crazy.

Totality

That is about it for now.  September brings more soccer and getting ready for the Newest Frericks' to make their arrival!

Here are some pictures from the rest of August:

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July 2017

We are on the final countdown till school starts!  This is the last week of freedom for the kiddos before the first day of Kindergarten and First Grade for Sullivan and Hudson!

July was a fun, jam packed filled month for sure!

We got to spend a full week at the Lake with cousins and it was a blast.

We started the week off with the Rabun Ramble.  Hudson and Reed represented the family well in the 5K.  This was the first 5K for both of them and they did great.  I was so proud of them for running the whole thing without anyone.  I started the race with them and they left me in the dust.  I didn't see them again until the finish line!  The rest of the weekend was full of boat parades, fireworks and swimming fun.

Rabun Ramble

Spending a whole week at the lake can be exhausting when you are the youngest of 6 cousins.  Thomas was able to sneak in a "standing" nap in the boat post tube ride!

Boat Naps are best

 I love how well this crew gets along and plays together!  The big kids are so sweet to the little ones!

Cousins

Although, this is a more accurate picture of how they really act!

More accurate picture of how they act!

My 4th of July Crew

Hudson was all about the water sports this year.  She skied the most she ever has and LOVED to tube.  Even when it was just her and the big boys!  She also learned that falling off the tube is the most fun part and wasn't afraid to get tossed off every once in a while.

Back up on the Ski

 Of course we snuck in some sparkler time as well!

Sparkler Time

 Thomas discovered water sports this year too.  He was all about the big tube but really LOVED to ski.  He spent most of his time back there yelling at me to drive faster!

He was Obsessed!

 We ended our week with a pizza party on the dock and some night swimming!  Thomas loved being with the big kids!

Night Swimming!

These 2 did a lot of swimming too.

Buddies

When we got back from the lake we went straight to camp time!  The girls spent a week at Lipscomb soccer camp and loved it.  Of course it was the hottest week of the year (heat index over 100 everyday) so I think the highlights of the camp were lunch in the Lipscomb University Cafeteria and for sure the 100 foot long slip and slide on the soccer field.  They followed that camp up with Oak Hill Day camp and also loved that. They spent that week playing games, doing art, swimming and enjoying some huge inflatable slides!

Wacky Wednesday at Soccer Camp

We also spent a week of July attempting to potty train the big guy!  It was exhausting but I think we have made some progress.  He was very excited about his big boy underwear, especially the ones with Thomas the Train!  Thomas also made the move to his big boy room.  Thankfully he made the transition so well and LOVES his new bed.  I guess I would too if I went from a crib to a California King!

Big Kid Potty Training! 

The last weekend in July was all about getting ready for school.  Sullivan is very excited to go to Kindergarten and we had a big date night out getting all of her school supplies and a fresh new haircut!  She is ready to meet her teacher this week!

Kindergarten Hair-Cut!

That is about all for now.  The kids are enjoying a few days in Bowling Green with Grandma and Grandpa and then they are back here just in time to meet their teachers and kick off the school year on Monday the 7th!

Here are the rest of the pictures from our fun filled month of July:

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