Ears

Mac's poor little ears have been so infected, but they're finally clearing up with the 3rd antibiotic. We could tell they were clearing up b/c he has been saying a lot more words. I wanted to share what Mac's been saying :)

"Uh Oh"
"Hey!"
"Hi"
"Doggy" (sounds more like "Goggy")
"Kitty"
"Paw Paw"
"More" (he signs this more often, and it sounds like "Mo")
"All gone" (sounds like "gone gone")
"Daddy"

New Video

Thanksgiving Laughs

http://vimeo.com/8431038

Jump Jump

This is from Thanksgiving:

http://vimeo.com/8415649

"Hopeful" Christmas

"Hopeful" is actually the name of the area that Patrick's parents live in near Cheaha Mountain. You have to travel through Camp Mac and over "Lake Mac" to get to their house in the woods. Their house makes for a very cozy Christmas. We had a WONDERFUL time with Patrick's family this year. As you can see Mac got A LOT of presents and the best part was watching Tre and Mac play together. They are becoming very good buddies.

I'm going to attempt to list all of Mac's wonderful toys:

Cute clothes, socks, baby einstein kaleidoscope, radio flyer pony, blow up cozy coup with balls, lawn mower, Night Before Christmas book (with recorded voices of MeMe and PaPa), Furry hat with ear flaps, touch & teach turtle, riding fire truck, Micky Mouse riding plane, tractor with animals & farmer, bath toys, high chair, ornaments, baby laptop, dvd player for car. I'm sure I left something out, but man oh man, this child got a lot of stuff!

Heeeeey!

Here are some recent pics of Mac. His new favorite word is "heeeeey!"

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Mac and his cousins exhanged gifts this past Sunday, as well as my brother and sister and I. All the babies got some cool toys and clothes. Mac didn't last too long since he was long due a nap after church, but he stayed awake long enough to open his gifts. Ruthie and Lottie were angels as always. We had a great time together!

Thanksgiving @ The Bevs!

Extra table leaf, turkey feathers, fine china...

The turkey was sooooo good! Good job Pat!

My sweet nieces, Ruthie (almost 2 months) & Lottie (almost 4 months).

Yes, we had a big blow up castle for Mac & Tre.

First time all 3 grandkids were together: Lottie, Ruthie, and Mac.

My favorite things about our Thanksgiving:
*Both sides of our family together at OUR house
*AMAZING food
*My parents staying with us at our house
*Grandkids getting to be together
*My dad hand washing all of our fine china! AND washing most of the other dishes as well. How awesome is he?!!

Washington DC

Outside the White House

Jenna & me at the Washington Memorial
Arlington Cemetery
Matt, Jenna, Me, and Patrick

Annapolis

Walking in downtown Annapolis

Eating crabs at Cantler's
Chesapeake Bay outside the Naval Academy
Naval Academy campus

15 month checkup

24.3 lbs (.2 decrease from his 1 year)

31.5 inches long (grown half an inch since his 1 year)

He's in about the 75th percentile in both areas. Everything else checked out pretty normal, tantrums and all :)

Lottie

My sister sent me these pictures tonight, and I just had to share them!

Happy Halloween!

Go ahead and say it, our pumpkins are lame. If it weren't for MeMe and Papa Rob, all we'd have is Mac's baby pumpkin. We thought we'd be out of town...

Me, Patrick, and The Dark Knight aka "Macman"

He kept his mask on for about 2 seconds.

Macman and Robin

Playing inside after walking around the neighborhood

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy...

This is Mac playing on the Spain Park baseball field at the tailgate last week. It was a beautiful day!

Mac, Me, and Brody

Auburn Reunion

Some of my best friends from Auburn and I met for the day there last Saturday. We ate at the Pita Pit, roamed and reminisced around campus and warmed up in Taylors bakery with some hot Chai. During our girl time, Patrick went to a pumpkin patch with Jim, Deena, and Blakely. It was a great day!

Mac and his aunts!

Mac's not quite sure about Blakely's affection.

Jealous Mac

Check out this video:

http://vimeo.com/7238908

90 years...

Today my Granny is 90 years old! We had a birthday party/weekend at Baytowne Warf this weekend with my mom's side of the family. We had such a happy time with everyone, and best of all, Granny was happy.

Dinner @ Grafittis Friday night. We took up 2 rooms!

Nancy, Mom, Granny, Ruth, and Jim

Saying bye to Granny before we hit the road to Bham.

Outside our room at Baytowne Wharf

Mom & Mac

Me, Mac, and Granny @ Poppy's.

Trying to be good at the birthday party

Mac didn't like Liz paying attention to Lottie

Cousins in their PJs

Mac spiked a temp on the last day there. This is him on the 5 (miserable) hour drive home.

At home, crashing on Patrick while he's trying to make out the grocery list!

Tired and crashing again...