first haircut

so yeah... lucas is 16 months old and finally had his first "real" haircut! :) meme has trimmed it a few times, but it's been kinda outta control lately. to prove my point, our awesome baby-sitter kayla took this pic of lucas and his crazy hair yesterday! reminds me of my papaw's hair, which is adorable on him, but i thought lucas needed a haircut for the beach! (to see a few pics of when trace got his first hair-cut, click here! these boys def look a LOT alike!!)

i made a quick purchase of some dum-dum suckers before we went to mrs. debbie's... and they def did the trick! for the most part, lucas was content, still, and quiet while he was getting his first haircut! thanks to the dum-dum! of course, a few times he wasn't happy!

and this next one cracks me up. look at him cutting his eyes at mrs. debbie!

i'm telling you, he loved his banana sucker!

when is this gonna be over?? ;)

oh wee... love this one. he looks so grown up!

this next one is cute too!

and the finished product... all done!

lucas didn't get the memo to look at daddy and smile... oh well. i'm (fake) smiling so that should count for something, right? ha. i don't mean to fake smile in so many pics, but my close family and friends are quick to point out when i am faking it! ima try and work on that! :)

this is how...

this is how trace eats
an...

ICECREAM SANDWICH!

:)

.:. oh, this boy .:.

if you look (really) close, you can see a (very) few adorable little freckles. yep. he gets those from his mama! and the sun. but ya know what i mean.

being shy...

and silly!

aha! you can try... but you can't hide from mama!

he melts my heart!

slumber party- part 3

so after the kids woke up from their naps, we decided we would get out of the house for a while. we loaded up the swaggar wagon and went to chick-fil-a, where nate tried out the new spicy chicken sandwich! (he thought it was great btw. but he still loves wendy's better.) the kids ate all their food, so as promised, they got to play for a while. then we headed back home... where it was bath time and pajama time! then the kids finished out the night with bedtime stories by uncle dogg!

they were all about the story he chose...
"where the wild things are"

sunday morning rolls around, and we woke up bright and early (6 AM!) no such luck sleepin' til 7:30 again! nate had to be at church at 8 for praise team practice... so that left me to get all the littles fed, dressed, and ready for church! no worries though, we got ready on time... with EXTRA minutes to spare even! and i managed to take a few cute pictures of the monkeys before church.

COUSINS! i love the looks on each one of their precious little faces! priceless!

awww, i snapped a sweet one of caden and lala too!

and friends, miracles never cease to happen at the whitt house! low and behold, i managed to take a great picture of my boys. remember, nate wasn't home to help make them smile or look at the camera. but somehow, they were doing both! seriously, this might just be my new favorite all-time pic of the boys! i love how they are dressed all cute.. and their hair is fixed just right- trace with his "spikey hair" and lucas rockin his' MOHAWK!

SEE? isn't this the best picture? ever??? yep. i thought so too! ♥

after church we went to eat and play at burger king (please don't say anything abour our healthy eating over the weekend!) HA. i figured we'd let the kids run off some energy! while at burger king, lucas threw such an awful whitt fit that the poor lady working there felt sorry for him. she was like quick, get this kid a toy. so we got a free puppy dog toy. then he continued to scream and act like a brat (all b/c he wanted to hold my diet coke himself, and spill it everywhere!) then he earned a free chocolate milk out of it. wow, i was so embarrassed! anyways, we timed it just right where josh and shannon met us at the king and surprised their kids. caden and lala were so happy to see their mom and dad! then we all loaded up and went to our own houses. and once we got home, we ALL passed out, from such a crazy long fun weekend! seriously... it was crazy, and long, but we also had a lot of fun! it went better than i thought it would, and the kids had a blast. i must admit, i am proud of myself for pretending like i had it all together. :) and honestly, i am relieved that the worse incident was the little boo-boo lucas had. just glad it was one of my own kids, and not caden and lala!

slumber party- part 2

when you have 4 littles in the house (4 and under), 3 boys and 1 girl... you might be surprised at the funny, sometimes gross, things you say. first i want to share a few things i found myself saying to the kids saturday morning!

" get your hands OUT of your pants!"

"please tell me if you have boogers. don't you feel the snot dripping down to your lips?"

"well there's only 1 of me and 4 of you. so you're just gonna have to wait a minute."

"please don't sword fight while jumping off of trace's bed!"

"how did you go potty and get tt on the whole front of your shirt?"

"we do NOT pull dirty diapers out of the trash can. are you CrAzY?"

and last... "seriously, 3 out of 4 of you kids are on this nasty pink medicine around the clock? and i'm supposed to use a clean dropper everytime? i don't think so!" :o)

and now... the moment you've all been waiting for... POOL PICS!

... so after the kiddos got tired of playing inside, i decided to brave it out and let them swim. (i was home by myself saturday morning b/c nate was helping my dad fix his roof. so, i really was feeling brave to take the 4 little kids outside to swim!) we got in our bathing suits and the kids were so excited! caden and trace especially LOVED the pool. they played and splashed for a while. lala wanted in, then she wanted out. then back in, and you get the point. and lucas, well, he wanted in, but only if i was holding him. so he mostly just ran around and did his own thing, outside of the pool... which unfortunately included him losing a battle with the concrete when the beach chair folded up on him. :( he's ok though, just got a little strawberry on his sweet head! (nothing peanut butter and jelly couldn't fix though!)
so back to the pool.... most of the time the big kids are so sweet to lucas (except for when they are trying to take his toys away!) i love how they were trying to coax him into swimming with them. and i just love the look on caden and trace's face here. they love lulu!

mr. cool!

sun bathing beauty!

crazy caden!

the big boys got popsicles... and they loved them!!

this next pic is one of my favs!

ahhhh. this is the life!

lucas- just walking around like a big boy!

i am quite convinced this pool maybe the best $20 purchase from walmart of the season! we hope to spend lots of time playing in the pool and getting some sun on the weekends.

oh, and this next one just melts my heart. i'm telling you, trace loves his bubba. and his bubba loves him back!

after their pool fun, the kiddos ate lunch and all took a good long nap... and i took advantage of the empty pool! :) i figured out it is just big enough to put a float (or 2) in and get some good sun! hey, this mama has to work on her tan before our beach trip... b/c we leave in just "11 more sleeps!" woo to the hoo!

and the last segment of the slumber party is

...to be continued...

slumber party- part 1

this past weekend my sis and bro-in-law went out of town to bamajam, and we agreed to keep caden and lala while they were gone. (they will return the favor for nate and i when we plan a little weekend getaway soon!) so at our house, we had 4 whitt kids, ages 1, 2, 3, and 4. i know to all you crazy people supermoms, (like page, holly, and laine) who have 4 or more children of your own, this is nothing new. ha. but it is a big deal to me, when i'm used to only having 2 little people at the house! nate and i were outnumbered 4-2! but i'm happy to say we all survived, and there were only a few small meltdowns! :) and i think if you ask the kids, they had a blast! we had a picnic dinner on the kitchen floor, played wii, let the boys wrestle, read books, drank chocolate milk (except for lala belle who likes warm milk) and watched thundercats friday night. saturday morning we woke up and played inside for a while. so here's a few pics of the cousins!

look at these cuties! they can be really sweet when they want to!

caden and trace wrestling. if lucas had been awake, i'm sure he would have joined in!
oh he sure does look cute. sometimes i forget how much i want to strangle this little boy! (ok, i'd never ever strangle him. but he is so attached to me that sometimes i do feel like screaming!)

i love you lucas james!

the boys in their dragon pj's!

beautiful blue eyes!

sweet luc luc

this next picture cracks me up! the kids were pretending to be asleep... you can def tell trace is faking it! noone wanted to sleep in trace's race car bed friday night. so they all started out on the pallet in his room, but half way thru the night lala moved to a pallet in our room! and we all slept til 7:30 the next morning. hallelujah! :)

playing hard saturday morning... at one point the big kids started packing their bags, like they were gonna run away. please don't think i was mistreating them. i would, however, gladly let them run away to see how far they would have gotten. i mean, they could probably go days with their supply of 49 hot wheels, 5 swords, and dora books! totally kidding about letting them run away. ok, so maybe not! ;)

backpack, backpack!

after they got tired of playing inside, we ventured outside... to the new kiddie pool. stay tuned for more pics and stories from the rest of our slumber party weekend!!

sixteen months

do you see what lucas learned to do last month? W-A-L-K! it's about time! :) i forgot how cute the little drunk boy walk is. i love that he is finally walking (although he still crawls pretty stinkin' fast!) and becoming so independent. and smart! every day he will show us new tricks that he has learned. whether it's saying thank you when we give him something, playing with the motorcycles and saying vroooom vrooom, telling us "NO!" when he doesn't want a bite, throwing away trash, carrying trace's watergun and saying pow pow, he just surprises us all the time! nate and i will look at each other like- really? did he just say/do that? i know that he learns a lot from trace, which is so neat. in most cases, i think his learning from watching other people is a good thing. i'm sure soon he will say or do something that i'm not too proud of though! anyways, i just love this stage, 16 months seems to be fun so far... except for all those fits that he still loves to throw. the boy is rotten with a capital R! and he is seriously never happier than when he is attached to me. whether i'm holding him in my arms, or he's standing up with his arms wrapped around my legs saying MAMA, MAMA, or crawling all over me when i'm on the couch... he is in love with his mama. and you know, i think i'm in love with him too! ♥