My godchild's baptism!

I was so honored my best friend since college and all of living in Columbia, Kelly, asked me to be one of the two godmothers to her second little boy, Wade.  Wade is just a few months younger than Jack, and will certainly be one of his best buddies! The baptism was the first Sunday in November on a beautiful crisp day.  The service was beautiful at Trinity Episcapal church and the lunch after was at Forest Lake.  Champs and Jack looked adorable in their cordoroy sailor suits - my absolute favorite!!  Such a fun and special day for this beautiful baby boy as he was marked as Christ own forever!

I love when we got home I looked over and after Champs had taken his own shoes off, he was taking Jack's off for him.  Sweet brother!

Halloween Walk!

Like I said, by the time actual Halloween arrived we were over it  :)  I am only kidding b/c by the time actual Halloween arrived, poor Champs had a little bug.  I didn't quite realize it until later in the day, so the pics here are from his Halloween walk at school.  The parents dress up and stand around the big block  of roads around the school handing out candy.  Each class travels together, walking to each parent for candy.  I was so excited to dress up like Izzy from Jake and the Neverland Pirates for my little pirate, Jake.  Made me so sad to see him b/c I could tell he just wasn't himself. 

We went to the party that afternoon, but after truly 5 minutes there I realized Champs was sick so we went home.  Good thing was, he didn't mind one bit.  He just wanted to be on the sofa relaxing - tell tale sign my buddy was under the weather.  He was back to himself by the next day.  At least we had lots of fun Halloween activities earlier in the week. 

This picture shows Champs' whole sweet class and his teachers: Miss Morgan and Ms. Cindy!

Champs and Townsend - Jake & Jake :)

One picture we got of my little Skully and me at the party before we left!

And can we say HOORAY that I am now caught up on the blog through October!! :)

Beach weekend

I took the boys to the beach with my parents the last weekend in Oct while Barrett went to Tallahassee with some guy friends for the Clemson/FSU game.  We had the best time!!  It was beautiful weekend - I just wish I had looked at the weather a little more before packing!  I had long corduroy and coats and should have packed bathing suits!  As you can see, Champs ended up playing on the beach in his undies one day - oops!!  In addition to fun on the beach, we carved a pumpkin, watched football, had a great lunch at Bistro 217 (where Champs took Sammy in with us and proceeded to have a solid 30 min nap on him at the table after eating!) and Champs swung in a hammock for the first time.  It was such a wonderful time at the beach and the TIGERS WON against FSU!!!!

Little Pumpkin 9 months old!

Baby Jack turned NINE months old on Oct 28.  I just can't believe how big he is - it's going way too fast!  He's supposed to be our little baby and he is all the place now and weighed in at a whopping 23 1/2 pounds at his 9mo checkup!  He loves crawling so fast to find Champs when we're all upstairs or down in our bonus room.  The love they already have for each other is nothing short of incredible.  It makes me so happy and proud.  He loves snuggling with Mama best, but gives his Daddy the best huge and contagious giggles.  He is still happy baby Jack and pretty easy going, but has gotten a little more feisty to him these past couple months.  He is fast crawling, climbing stairs (until we pull him back down!) and standing for a few seconds on his own.  Will be interesting to see when he starts to walk.  Champs started 5 days after his 1st birthday.  I feel like Jack will be earlier, but who knows.  No words yet besides some mamamama and dadadadada.  He has the chunkiest thighs and I adore them and the sweetest cheeks that I kiss constantly.  He is ticklish and has the best little laugh.  He has 2 teeth on the bottom and no signs of any more yet. And did I mention that Jack for sure has red hair??  We were thinking it might possibly be for a while, but have full fledge confirmed in these past couple of months!  Never envisioned a red-head, but he wears it well! :)  We love this little love bug oh so much!!

1st Field Trip!

I have been looking forward to going on a field trip at school with Champs for so long!  The school kind of discourages the parents attending parties and such at school while they are in the Toddler room and the 2's because the children have a really hard time with the parents leaving after the parties are over and not taking them with them - Champs definitely fits into this - huge problems with this!!  Well in the 3's they start to include parents in the parties and field trips and I was so excited to sign up for the first field trip which was just across the street to the Methodist church's pumpkin patch!  Champs was so excited when he saw me arrive for the field trip he could barely contain it all!! He was jumping all around and talking a mile a minute!