A Christmas Miracle and a Then/Now bonus

They were both smiling at ONCE!!! Now I have fingers crossed that we avoid last years results from our Santa experience...I will keep you posted!

and for fun....here is last years "then" 2008. What a difference a year makes!

Disneyland recap - Photo heavy

Ok, so this is how our Disneyland trip for my birthday felt....and a pretty accurate representation of how my world looks most of the time these days with you two. Go, go, go...

Hi Mom! Bye Mom!

I gotta go!!! The boy never. stops. moving...

Here is what happens when you try to get him to sit still.

Radley saw his first Disney parade.

And Mack finally settled in once things got moving.

And I got lots of Radley sugar...

As it should be, Radley's first ride was Dumbo...but I did not get a good picture...

Maverick loved it...

Radley flirted with the ladies in line for Peter Pan...

Maverick and I rode teacups...

We checked to see if White Rabbit was home....he never is.

Radley slept through most of it...

Mack rode Alice...

And then we rode the train...

The Disney exhausted glazed look in the eye started just about......now...

I got grossed out at how many hands and faces touch that phone on any given day. I just knew he would come down with something. He was obsessed...fortunately he did not...but still....ew, ick...

He explored...

and played...

and explored...

and played...

and practiced...

for a spin in the "real" cars...which he loved.

Then we chilled.

It was perfection...and a perfect way to spend my day with my best two guys...

Dear Radley - Month Five

DISCLAIMER ABOUT MY POOR NEGLECTED BLOG: Ok, so this was written almost 2 weeks ago, but I just now am finding time to put the images with the text...so due to the holiday crazies...this is quite late. So after an unintentional blog hiatus, I offer you Mr Radley's Five Month letter. And I am hoping to step it up on further entries...we have a lot to catch up on...

Dear Radley,

Today, my precious boy, you are 5 months old. Your five month birthday finds us on the road in Texas where you are developing quite the fan club following amongst your cousins who repeatedly call who gets to get you up from your naps, who gets to put you down for one, who gets to feed you, hold you, make you smile...etc. Currently you have no less than 5-6 people that cater to your every grunt, squeal and especially those smiles.

Oh the smiles! You smile all. the. time. And not just simple smiles. You smile with your whole body and so completely and your legs scrunch up and your arms curl up and you smile as if you have not seen the person in forever.... it is about the cutest thing ever.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B...

and Exhibit C...and I have about 4,000 more where these came from. You literally smile almost all the time.

Another byproduct of these smiles is that you get us lots of attention as we move our little family circus about our the world on a day to day basis. With you I have been much better prepared for this "stranger interaction" phenomenon that I first experienced with you brother. It still amazes me how much more time I spend talking to strangers now that I have children. But your smiling habit takes this to a new level where we have to stop and answer multiple questions about how I must have my "hands full". And although it may be somewhat inconvenient at times, it is very easy to talk about the best things that ever happened to me. I could never tire of talking about you and your accomplishments which up until now have consisted of sleeping, eating and pooping. But change is coming...

Month Five has turned out to be a really fun month for you as we start hitting the fun developmental milestones. This month, you have finally perfected your rolling abilities both back to front and front to back at will.

You also seem to have a strong desire to start crawling, though you do end up incredibly frustrated at times when you look like you just kick and kick and kick your little legs and can't seem to get anywhere. But you do somehow manage to scooch yourself across the floor a good ways at any given moment.

You are also working really hard on sitting up. Currently anytime I manage to get you propped up, you simply slump over, but I see you trying oh so hard and I figure any day now you will master this important skill and oh what fun opportunities it will bring to your world!

You also seem to be working on breaking through your first tooth. I keep checking every few days and nothing is there yet. However, if the amount of drool you are generating is any indication, you will bust through the first one any day now. Because you have definitely stepped it up on your drool proficiency this month. Sometimes I have to change you because you have just soaked through your current outfit to the point of not really being fit to be seen in it in public.

You also are developing quite an iron grasp. Here is a picture of what happened to Bella when she failed to listen to me when I said "You might not want to let him so near your head. He can really pull hard! You are going to have to pry his fingers off!"

And when she did not listen!

We officially spent your Month Five birthday in the great state of Texas. I expect by the time we leave you will be quite adjusted to being held, adored, played with and virtually spoiled rotten for a full week and a half and we will be in for rough adjustment period upon our return home. It is a good thing we will be back in a couple of weeks and you can get another fix for our Christmas vacation. Ultimately little man, I just want you to know how fascinated I am by watching you grown and nearly daily I am astounded at oh how much I love you.

You are just reaching the age when you start to really be able to interact with the world and the people around you. And I love seeing you take it all in, but perhaps my favorite moments in your life right now are when you light up when your brother gives you the slightest bit of attention. He is starting to realize that you are more than 3rd base in the middle of the living room. This has resulted in much investigation and analysis by both of you...

And in the rare moments you find yourself face to face...you both have started to smile...

Maverick has started watching over you, talking to you when you are upset, patting your head when he babbles his toddler babble and at the best moments he runs up and gives you a quick kiss on the top of the head and then scurries off to finish his very important toddler tasks of the day leaving you to register what just happened and look around for where it came from...

Your smile as he runs off is priceless. And for me, in that instant, life is beautiful. Our little family.

I love you so so very much,
Mommy

Beautiful Boy...

Slide!!!

Your first experience with a water slide....you loved it and I loved watching you love it!
XOXO,
Mommy

The Big Cheese

The first meeting of Mack and Mickey. Of course we just wandered into the house and left Radley outside to eat a bottle so it was just the two of us....and awesome.

Randomness...

The following is a collection of snapshots that really don't have a home in terms of a full blog post. Just little bits of life around the Travinski house on any given day...

1. Maverick loves this ballpit. He always has...

He also likes to dump all the balls out of it. Needless to say that mommy doesn't like this game much...

2. Maverick has taken to dancing and singing quite a bit lately...he has some interesting moves...if you catch us at just the right time we are having quite the party around here...

3. Maverick and Radley are interacting more and more each day. I love it! I love watching how you two are with each other. Usually Mack's ulterior motive is to take possession of Radley's pacifier...

4. Do you like green beans? Maverick does....

He likes them a lot....and to futher document my wonderfully quirky kid...

He likes his green beans RAW....

5. One day we were headed out to the car. Mack had picked up a passenger along the way...

It did not seem to phase him at all...hung up (no pun intended) in a tangle in his yes-I-know-I-need-to-cut-it-sometime-soon hair...

6. Oh how I love this little punk...he doesn't have any hair...

Maverick vs Radley - Jumper 4 months

Maverick - 4 months (needed 2 game boxes under you even on the lowest setting so your feet could touch)
Radley - 4 months (so tall...no boxes needed)

Then & Now - Rainforest Jumper edition...

Then 2008....3-4 months oldNow 2009....21 months old

Then 2008....3-4 months old

Now 2009....21 months old

Dear Mack - Month 21

Dear Maverick,

I hereby declare Month 21 of your life to be "The Month of No." or "Don't." or "Stop." It's not exactly that you learned to say no for the first time this month. But it seems you have suddenly grasped that no is a word you can use in your interactions with the world and to reiterate your strong personal opinion on whatever subject is at hand. According to the child development books you are a bit overdue on this and for that, I thank you. But I was not so foolish as to think that it would never happen. These books declare that this grasp of the word "no" helps you to defend and strengthen your sense of self by opposing others.

Ha. Hahahahaha. Ha. They are not even kidding. Obviously, I knew the day would come when you would learn this word, but the most surprising thing to me about it is how many different ways you say it depending on the situation and how emphatically you can let me know your opposition at the most inopportune moments. There's the cut tiny shake of the head business-like no, which you use when I ask you if you want more water. No, definitely not more water. Next question. There is your funny no, which you use when I ask if you will give me a kiss or do some other thing that you actually like to do. You always smile after you say no in that context, to show that you are teasing. Then there's faker-faker whiny moaning "no", which you use when I'm making you do something you really hate, such as have your diaper changed, your face wiped, or get out of the car seat, all of which are activities you are strenuously opposing these days. "Noooooo! Nooooo!".

And finally we have DEFCON "NO"...usually blended with "Stop" and "Don't" at very high decibels and with tears for good measure. This is for when you are really really ticked off at whatever it is you either need to do or stop doing or want to continue doing when I need you to stop. Usually this one kicks in when you are really, really tired. But not always. You like to keep me guessing.

This means that as a mom, I am working on what I believe is a fun game called Picking My Battles. I am proud to say that you now allow your teeth to be brushed without being restrained or making me afraid that I will lose a finger. This sounds like a small thing, but Maverick, this has been a four month battle. Four. Months. And it was worth it, because your teeth are important and I don't want them to fall out of your head. But I do not have months of my life to spend waiting you out on things that don't really matter, so the rest of our time together I am learning a giant lesson in Letting It Go. This is a big stretch for me, to say the least.

This "Letting Go" thing is HUGE for me. I'm learning through being your parent this month that parenting is a lot about letting go. I'm sure the parents of young adults would tell me I don't know the first thing about real letting go, but I'm trying to start small in the hopes that one day when you're a grownup I'll have some practice in standing back and letting you be who you are. I am learning that if it isn't hurting you, or inconveniencing others it isn't worth fighting over. However, for the record, when mommy says "no", mommy means "no". I am just making sure that I take a moment and be sure that I really mean "no" before I head down that path and all it entails. The following was a moment I just "let it go"...but not before taking pictures...

However, "Letting Go" is a much harder attitude for me to have when we're talking about something that does inconvenience me or is inconsiderate of others, like an upheaval in your sleep patterns or refusal to get out of the car when we arrive at our destination or defiance when we are out in the world. It isn't that I don't do the work I know it takes to get you back to normal when you go through a rough patch with sleep or discipline issues. I do. It's just that I'm learning that it's going to be a lot easier on everyone if I can let go of how much I want everything to be predictable and simple and fixed once and for all.

When I succeed in doing that, I am able to notice each day how much fun it is to be your mom instead of just dwelling on what can be hard about it. I know the fun is what I'm going to remember most about this time when you're all grown up anyway. And at the rate you're growing up now, I know it's all going to seem like yesterday.

You know where your eyes, nose, feet, toes, tummy, bottom, mouth, ears, fingers, hand and hair are now. I am not sure where you learned this as it was never something we worked on actively, but somewhere along the line you picked it up. More out of curiosity after reading yet more on child development and that you should know a couple of these body parts I gave you a pop quiz a couple of nights ago. It surprised me how much you knew! Clearly you have been paying attention...well done little man!

We have ditched the pacifier except for naps and night night which I am very happy about. As a result, your vocabulary is really improving and every few days it seems you have new words to share and still a good bit of gibberish that I cannot quite connect to something, but when I ask you again, you repeat exactly what you said before and are so animated that I know you have something really important you are saying. I am just trying to figure out what it is.

Sometimes I wish I had a Toddler Mack to English dictionary because I am truly interested in everything you have to say and as animated as you are it sounds like something really really interesting. You have a couple of two-word sentences, but I am not convinced that you dont just think they are one word. The one you seem to match up with other words regularly is "bye-bye.." followed by whatever has gone bye-bye. You definitely have a grasp on the following and what they mean:

Ball Bath Apple Bubble Bye-bye Bird Ice
Wow Whoa! Uh-oh What's that?
Trick or Treat (sort of - see previous post)
Cheese Agua Dos Go Duck Box Bite Book
Oh, wow! Radley (sounds like raw-eee) Hi No
Stop Don't Shoe Hola
Ta-da!!! - (cutest thing ever!!!)
Balloon (more like boon)
I do! (which you say over and over and over)
Rock,rock (as in rocking chair or horse)
All done/all gone (sound very much alike)
Up and down (usually used together)
Battery (strange I know)
Stuck (which you frequently get)

I think you are on the front end of the language explosion I keep hearing about but I dont think it has kicked in just yet. I read another fact stating that a 20 month old (or in your case 21 months) can be learning up to 10 words per day. How so very exciting. I can hardly wait to hear what you have to say...

I love you so much,

Mommy

And one more thing we could never forget....Happy Birthday Bailey!

A Boy and His Tractor...

Love Love Loved THIS!!!! Could barely drag him away...

or would that be a MACK-tor?!?!?!?

Awesome/Not Awesome Toddler + Infant Travel Edition

As I have mentioned, we have returned from a trip to Texas to visit with Aunt Jen and to check out our new hunting ranch. I must admit for the past few weeks I have had travel with a toddler AND an infant on my mind, in a post-traumatic stress kind of way. Don't get me wrong, Radley was great and slept for most of it and Maverick was pretty good for the most part. But there's really just no way to take two kids their ages on a plane and not have a few moments that make you want to get out on the wing. I went it solo this time and in an attempt to help myself not suffer the amnesia that clearly sets in between plane trips with people under 3' tall, I'm blogging Awesome/Not Awesome, the Toddler Travel Edition. This will be a list of the good and bad things about traveling with my boys, so that I can maybe not be so shocked by the bad and can remember the good makes this worth doing. So here we go:

Awesome: When you wake Mack up at the crack of dawn to get on a plane, he is actually sort of excited, because he seems to sense that we're going to do something special. He chatters all the way to the airport. It is crazy cute.

Not Awesome: When you wake Mack up at the crack of dawn to get on a plane, by the time it's 4:00 in the afternoon and he has not stopped moving on the plane much less sleep, he is so epic-ly cranky by the time you touch down and has been conscious for nearly 9 hours that you think you might just get sanctioned by the FAA for bringing him on a plane to begin with.

Awesome: Airports generally offer lots to look at and plenty of new ladies for Maverick to flirt with. The first couple of airport hours and exploring options are like the Disneyland of people for him.

Not Awesome: On the other hand, when your airline suddenly announces its time to board after you've schlepped your two kids, your stroller, and all your worldly belongings across LAX and the airport starts to feel like the Amazing Race, and not in a good way, because you're definitely losing. And the nanny and Maverick will disappear from the gate area just as they call to begin boarding everyone thanks to the not-so-new-but-still-annoying- non-existent Southwest family boarding policy. You panic as you watch your prime boarding position evaporate while you frantically look for them while wearing your heavy 97th percentile height/weight baby and get incredibly frustrated because they have completely disappeared and because you cannot imagine boarding with both of them and 40 pounds of baby gear while 100 other passengers breathe down your neck waiting to get by you and you absolutely HAVE TO HAVE three seats together if you have any hope of maintaining your sanity for the flight only to see them waaaaay at the far end of the terminal returning nearly 10 gates at a pace best described as Sleepy Turtle. Upon arriving Maverick will choose that exact moment to develop a strong objection to riding in the stroller, and therefore you will pin him in the stroller whilst screaming (him, not me) and quckly dash down the jetway cutting off other passengers cursing your perfect nanny for leaving the boarding area and cursing your perfect "plan" that up until now had you sort of in an ok zen sort of place with this process. There is no more zen...just sweat, screaming and tears...(him and me)

Awesome: The Apple i-Touch is the greatest invention in modern history because you can put videos on it. Maverick has his own i-touch. Don't judge me. Whatever it takes. Maverick, at only 21 months old and after one week of ownership, has figured out how to slide the lock release button, where the videos are, and how to hold the little ear bud up to his ear so he can hear the music while he watches family movies, Nemo, Mickey Mouse and any other videos or games that may strike his fancy, though he is not sure how to play the games...he does love touching different things on the screen and gets so excited when he makes something happen. This makes you look like a terrible mother, but it is really useful at times.

Not Awesome: Since Maverick has his own i-Pod that he pretty regularly needs assistance with and the big baby is sitting on your lap, your entertainment options for yourself will be to stare out the window, do a people watching study of all passengers within 3 rows of you as they stare back at the circus you have become, change diapers for both as needed, wrestle baby and toddler when toddler tries to climb under the seats or over them to the row behind, or wrestle screaming exhausted toddler while trying not to injure baby you are holding when you hit turbulence and he does not want to put on his seat belt. None of this very entertaining.

Awesome: Radley gets confused by the time zone and sleeps through the night until a relatively decent hour in the morning during the first part of the trip.

Not Awesome: Maverick gets confused by the time zone and wakes up a full two hours EARLIER than usual for the last 2 days and carries that over to our first morning back home. Rarin' to go. At 5:15. Cue up Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

Awesome: Coming home again.

Not Awesome: Coming home again. We miss these people we fly such a long way to see. This trip it was especially fun to see Maverick and Radley have fun together with their Barziza cousins. We can't wait to see them soon!

I can't believe I am going to be doing this again in another 20 days or so...
Coming soon...Travel with Two - Thanksgiving Edition
Fasten your seatbelts...

2009 Halloween Roundup - Photo Edition...

Lots of carving...this years pumpkins...Jack Skellington, Malificent's Dragon, Mickey. We shockingly ended up with an unintentional Disney theme...

Our Party...with Maverick's buddies..and Halloween candy waiting for what turned out to be 200+ Trick or Treaters...

My little Monkey Men...

My Radley...holding on for the ride...

Learning to say "trick or treat"....3 seconds of cuteness...

How our trick or treating ended up this year....night, night baby...

Oh well, there is always 2010!!! I can hardly wait...

Cutest Pumpkin on the Block...

Farewell, October...

Warning...photo heavy post ahead! Proceed with caution....

Now that November is about to arrive, Little Radley an Mr. Mack are all tuckered out though you couldn't tell it from the smiles on their faces! We have had so many Fun Fall Adventures , and have many more in store. The changing of seasons is just so fun with little ones. I was so excited about this month and Radley's first holiday season to come. The weeks leading up to Halloween for me kick off my favorite time of year. I had so many fun events planned with my boys to show them what Autumn fun is all about!

I just love that each new season, change, event or activity is SO MUCH more exciting and fun with children. And the added joy of seeing them experience things together really is amazing. I realize that Maverick and Radley won't remember what all we did this October, but it sure is fun for me watching them experience everything and my Little Radley for the first time. They both have such excitement in their eyes.

Our month has been filled with pumpkin patches, pumpkin carving, pony rides, baking, dressing up, trick or treating, Disneyland, Hay Rides and lots and lots of memories (and pictures). I can hardly wait for what November holds...

Here are waaaay too many pictures of our month...
Pumpkin patches....too many times to count!

Pumpkin Carving...

Disneyland!..

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Dressing up...(more on this in the next few days...)

Hay Rides...

Wagon Rides...

Pony Rides:

Bring on November!!!!

Radley, more Radley...

Unbelievable how much I love this kid...

I Can't Decide!!!

So, with Halloween around the corner, I thought it time to pull out our options for Halloween costumes this year. I have been pondering for nearly a month now, and cant come up with anything as creative as last years Michael Phelps...

or our duo costume Lobster and Chef.

But a choice needs to be made...so we brought out all the hand-me-downs from your cousins and had a little Halloween fashion show...we started with Dumbo....

I am not so sure about those ears...so we moved onto a Dalmation...

I still remember your cousin Bailey wearing this one! Hard to believe that was about 12 years ago!!!

Love, LOVE, LOVE the tail!!!!

This one has some promise. We moved on to the monkey...darn cute...

with its little monkey feet and monkey hat...

And finally the LION...which was much much too big...and the mane was very itchy...but it cracked me up...

Maybe next year....and I still have no idea for Radley...hmmmmmm

Radley - 4 month stats & video

So you had your 4 month visit today and are just growing off the charts...we had quite the wait this time and spent the time playing with mommy's new iphone in the mirror...

You are a whopping 17 lbs 6 oz and 26 1/2" tall...

That puts you in the 85-90% percentile.....and way ahead of your brother who at the same age was only 14 lbs, 14 oz and 24 1/2" long...so you outweigh him by 2.5 lbs and are a full 2" longer. Even at 6 months Mack was only 26"...so you are already taller than he was 2 months from now.

If things keep up at this pace, you are not going to be the "little brother" for long. And I want you to know that this pace will completely disrupt my clothing hand-me-down plan as I am starting to believe you will be in the same size soon...

You are already in a size 3 diaper and he is still in a 4...this is crazy! But while I go off and fret about my future clothing budget...I caught this cute little snippet of you in the doctor office mirror checking out one super cute baby....

Dear Radley - Month Four

My Dearest Radley,

As I type this you are sleeping soundly on my chest on the evening of your fourth month birthday. You are very deep in sleep sometimes cooing lightly, sometimes smiling as you dream your sweet baby dreams and I am just full of love for you right at this very moment. I think my heart may melt into a thousand little puddles.

You are so very perfectly perfect for me. I find myself on the verge of bursting into tears of joy at the beauty you have brought into my world. I am not sure what I did to deserve someone as wonderful as you, but I cherish every moment. It seems so very unfair how quickly it seems these four months have gone by. It is like someone is playing a cruel joke on me for how fast the time is passing and how quickly you are growing. But meanwhile, moments such as this one tonight I want to freeze in my mind forever and never forget. I know I am gushing...it is just my heart is so full. I want you to know how so very much you are loved totally, completely and forever and ever. Amen.

As we come to the end of your first 120 days or so on earth, you continue to amaze me with your laid back personality and charm. You are such an easy baby. You see, when your brother was born, I counted my blessings that he was such a super easy baby and it is true that he was. Your Aunt Jen even declared him maybe easier than your cousin Bella, and that is saying something! As I was pregnant with you I told everyone how I held no expectations of you being "as easy as Mack". I was certain that all the stress I was under was going to marinate you in a cocktail that would most certainly result in at best a mildly colicky munchkin and most certainly a difficult baby.

But the Lord had other plans for you my sweet. You entered this world smiling and happy and for the most part have spent the last 4 months making your "easy baby" big brother look kind of "high maintenance". You rarely cry and if you do are easily pacified once we diagnose your need of the moment - diaper, food or sleep. You sleep well and often and for nice long stretches. You sleep in the car like I expected babies would, yet your brother did not. You "go with the flow" wherever and whenever that adventure may take us never failing to sleep-on-the-go as needed. You smile at everyone. You have started to laugh. You are just really, really happy...all. the. time. It is wonderful and I am so very very blessed. I am just the luckiest mommy in the world.

You have also discovered your hands this month...

You spend a large portion of every day staring at them...

In the last week or so you have started drooling like crazy and putting them in your mouth where you pretty much put everything these days.

I think this may be the beginning of the "teething phase", though when I feel around in there I don't feel anything coming in. Come to think of it, you pretty much put everything in your mouth and the drool is out of control.

One night recently you seemed a bit "off" so I gave you a shot of Tylenol when I just could not figure out what you needed and it seems to calm you down, take the edge off and let you get to sleep for the night. I guess time will tell, but it seems something is happening with you...so I am guessing teeth.

This month you have really enjoyed being talked, read and sang to...pretty much anything that gets you some one on one attention and you seem to have a definite fondness for my voice. And though i do question your taste in vocal talent, I do look forward to spending a part of each day just getting down close to you and talking about how your day has been or all the fun things we will do one day...ride bikes, fish, build big bon fires at the ranch, buy mommy great presents (I can dream) You don't answer much yet, but you smile and get so very excited.

Sometimes, if it is close to a nap time, I can sing you a few songs...usually limited to You Are My Sunshine or the annoying Barney "I love you, you love me" or even just tell you over and over how very much I love you and how awesome I think you are...and you will smile so very sweetly and stare deeply into my eyes until I see you start to blink heavily, and your eyes roll a bit and fianlly you drift off to sleep with a silly grin on your face. I just love that.

You started your lifetime of travel adventures this month and took your first flight to Texas as a bit of a dress rehearsal for the upcoming holiday travel season and followed in your brothers footsteps and slept through nearly the entire flight. I am sorry to say your brother didn't sleep a wink and juggling the two of you was very interesting and I have more to blog on traveling through airports with TWO of you, but will save that for a future post. Ultimately we managed to make it there just fine at the end of it all. It was a quick trip, but you were a rock star traveller and as I really have no interest in being anywhere you and your brother are not, it is a very good thing. I look forward to sharing world travels with you two as we roam the planet. On this trip we saw our ranch for the first time and oh how much I look forward to our times there and I am excited for the memories that will be made in the future. Here you are with some people who love you very very much and spent a good part of their time with you gushing over you ...

I also have spent a good portion of this month trying to come up with your nicknames which is a long standing family tradition from the birth of your cousin Bailey...you have your cousins B and Boo and Bo-bo...and the list goes on and on. And you see with Mack there has literally been an unlimited number of options that he has been called in the last 21 months..Mack-a-roni, Mack-enstein, Mack-a-licious, Mack-a-doodle, Sugar s-mack...you get the idea. You on the other hand....well, I am having a heck of a time settling in on ones I like. Right now I am settling on the obvious...Boo (I am sure Ashton wont mind sharing) and then I have my little "Rad-diccio" as in lettuce...not very cute, I know...Rad-man, Rad-a-muffin, Rad-a-maker...and well in a huge leap and based on your incredible size as you are still topping the charts in height and weight I call you my little "Beast-y Boy"..or maybe my Jolly Little Giant - eh - ...I cant say i completely happy with any of these options, but I am continuing to try on different ones until I find one that I like and seems to suit you. I am sure you are thrilled with that. I will keep you posted.

All in all, my precious, I am so very lucky to be your mommy. I love to watch you and your brother get to know each other. You are just the light of each day. If I am ever down, I can always count on you for an amazing smile and in a matter of moments I can't remember what was bothering me before. You make me a better person little man. There are not really adequate words for how much I love you. I hope you can feel it.

I love you,
Mommy

Radley - 3 months

A couple of pics to celebrate Radley turning 4 months today! These were from our 3 month photo session that I still have to order. I hope to have your 4 month letter done soon! I love you, little man...