Mack at 11 months

This is our sweet boy at 11 months. Hard to believe it's almost been a year since he came into the world! Love him to pieces! More summer pictures to come! 

Mack 10 months

Mack was 10 months this past Saturday, the 21st. He had his check up today. No surprises that he is a little fella. He weighed 17lbs, 10oz (4th percentile.) Length was 28 inches (23rd percentile) and head circumference was 17.75in (which I'm pretty sure she said 50th percentile on that?) I guess his head is bigger than anything else! He has his first ear infection. Hopefully, he will not follow in his sister's footsteps and have to have tubes. (Although, I'm all for tubes if it is recommended - BEST thing we ever did for Ellie!)

At 10 months, he has 2 bottom teeth. He is eating pretty much every kind of baby food. He doesn't turn his nose up to anything yet. We have started giving him finger foods, and if he stops throwing them around the room, I think he will really enjoy them. He took his first step on May 30th. But, one or two steps is all he will do. He is a master crawler and seems very content getting everywhere that way. He can wave hello and bye, bye. He says "mama," and on a couple of occasions "Da" correctly. He smiles the biggest smile ever when his sisters enter the room. He LOVES them both! His fluffy blonde hair cracks me up. He laughs and smiles most of the day and so far, this kid has the best personality. He is learning how to pose for a picture. He did so good taking these for me this weekend. He's such a ham!

Father's Day

We took it easy for Father's Day. We lounged by the pool and smoked ribs and a boston butt. It was a good day! I love these 2 dads! 

Stone Mountain

We took Ellie and Emma to Stone Mountain this weekend. (We left Mack in Tifton with my mom.) We had a blast! My cousins, Mark and Ginger Whitley live basically at the foot of the mountain. They were very gracious to allow us to stay at their house while they were out of town. We went up Friday and made it to their house by lunch where we met up with Uncle Amos ( my brother) and headed to the mountain. 

The park was great and we tried most of the attractions including the 4D movie (which Ellie hated and kept her head covered the whole time,) we rode the train, and we played mini golf. We rode the gondola (sp?) up the mountain, but due to lightening in the area the sky ride was shut down indefinitely. So, we decided to foot it down the mountain. It was a 1.3 mile hike and the girls did awesome! Worth carried Emma only briefly down a really steep section, but other than that both girls bounced down the mountain. Ellie looked like Tigger bouncing down each ledge. She even said "this is the best hike I've ever been on!" (This was the only hike she's ever been on.)  

Late that afternoon we headed back to Mark and Ginger's for a quick dinner and some down time before heading back for the laser show. The laser show was fantastic, and the girls were completely delirious by the time the show was over at 10pm. But, fun was definitely had by all! 

Getting ready to ride up on the gondola

Taking in the views

The carving: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson

Running on the mountain with Uncle Amos

Family shot just before the hike downhill

May Madness

It has been super crazy around here, at least the past 2 weeks have been! I'll let all the pictures speak for themselves. Included are recital, end of year pictures, preschool graduation, and Mack at 9 months (which was Wednesday the 21st. ) I'll have Mack's 9 month stats in a month - he doesn't see the doctor until mid June but he is doing awesome. He's crawling EVERYWHERE, standing for about 5 seconds, eating me out of house and home, and he laughs alot which makes all of us happy! He did get a tooth while we were at the beach (bottom left tooth) and it is finally all the way through. That was not fun! Get ready for picture overload!

RECITAL 2014

My little ballerina

Ellie and Anna Clark

Getting a pep talk from their teacher, Ms. Karrin

Ready for the tap routine

Boogie Shoes

Strutting off stage

Some mother was smart enough to bring activities to keep girls busy and in one spot back stage

I did crop this but I guess it didn't save. Excuse the ugly background.

Ellie and Ms. Karrin

Me and my ballet princess

The crew that waited anxiously for Elle's performance

After the show, her grandparents brought her flowers

I stole this from Worth's mom. The song was "Defying Gravity" and this was Ellie's favorite move the entire dance - the leap.

The group pose at the end.

  END OF YEAR PICTURES

Ellie's end of the year class pool party

They didn't last long in the water. It was so cold that morning

Having snack at the party

Cute cupcakes for the preschool grads

We left the pool party early and headed to Emma's end of the year program.

Emma and her class sang their hearts out

ELLIE'S PRESCHOOL GRADUATION

Walking in

Sniff, sniff

They each had to pass the mic and say what they wanted to be when they grow up - Ellie wants to be "a singer"

Singing

They did a handbell version of Jesus Loves Me that brought tears to my eyes. It was so good! It amazed me that they had 30+ 4-5 year olds coordinating handbells so well

I had to put this one in here. It was too funny of Worth. Outtakes!

Ellie and her proud parents

Grandma got to come to graduation

Ellie and Kenzleigh

Ellie and Bo

The graduate (these got a little out of order)

with her diploma

 MACK 9 MONTHS

very hard to keep him in one spot, we finally resorted to a lying down picture