8 months

Here are some new pics of Preston at 8 1/2 months.

One day you wake up and you're ready.....

Preston decided he was ready to crawl this morning. I had heard to entice him by placing toys he wanted far away. However, it never worked until this morning....here's the video.

All I Want for Christmas...

Preston says: "All I want for Christmas is for my two front teeth to come in!" Preston's two lower teeth came in the week before Thanksgiving. He has been a little fussy this week and we noticed that his two top teeth are coming in as well. He is still sleeping through the night no problem...Chad says he just whines a little more than usual in the afternoon and prefers to be held at that time. He's slobbering and chewing on everything which is essentially leading to diaper rash of the face as his skin gets irritated from being wet with slobber all day. Chad came up with putting Desitin on it....works like a charm.

Thanksgiving 2008

Preston's first thanksgiving. Chad and I have always gone to separate Thanksgivings, but this year we had to make a choice. My family actually tried something new, with my Aunt Connie cooking at her house. We just decided to go to Chad's grandmother's house. We spent Wednesday night and Thursday night at Mimi's house. We went to Ma-Ma's house for Thanksgiving lunch. Aunt Kristy and Cousin Lily spent the night with us while Uncle Lee and Uncle Will went back to the shouse (to people outside the family....this is not a typo) to go hunting in the morning. Then we went antiquing in Hazel on Friday (didn't find anything good though). Mimi was in the mood to give out Christmas presents...so Preston got a new toy (see pic below).

After visiting Chad's family, we went to see Mamaw and Papaw Mabry in Jackson. Uncle Brek and Antie Allison came over. Chad and Daddy got in an argument over The Doors and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Momma made a delicious prime rib and washed some clothes for us. She also kept Preston so Chad and I could head out to Beech Bluff and see Lee and Kristy's house. We came back to STL on Sunday.....overall a good trip home.




Great Grandmother Ma-Ma Estelee



Cousin Lily



She immediately picked up the phone and said "hi"




Preston's new choo-choo train

Washington DC Trip, October 2008

So Preston made his first airplane flight from Saint Louis to Washington, DC. I wanted a little certificate, but I guess with the increasing cost of flying that has been scrapped. He did really well, slept about half of the time and played with toys the rest. Daddy had a little more trouble as he experienced motion sickness on the landing (we fixed that problem with dramamine on the way back (which had plenty of time to kick in since we missed our flight and were bumped to a later flight)). Anywho, the trip was great. It was a little chilly but the sky was the most beautiful clear blue sky as you can see from the pictures. Preston was the perfect age for sightseeing. He either 1) slept in his stroller on his belly (see pic below) 2) took in the sights or 3) politely requested a pitstop for food and diaper change.

We really got to see everything we set out to see: The White House (you think from the pictures on TV that it is sitting alone in this huge green yard but its smackdab in the middle of everything), the Vietnam, Korean and WWII memorial, Lincoln memorial, the Post Office Museum (just kidding, we didn't go in there), the capital, Museum of Natural History, Air and Space Museum, National Archives, Supreme Court, Washington Memorial and our favorite the Library of Congress. We stayed out in Arlington, VA but you don't get to see any of the city during the trip b/c the metro is all undergound. Overall a great trip.


Library of Congress.







How I got around in DC...many miles put on this stroller.


Preston for President!



At the Museum of Natural History.


World War II Memorial


Preston taking a nap....we got a lot of giggles when we passed people.

I have some catching up to do.

I'm a little late getting into the blogging thing. I have a couple cute videos that I made when Preston was a newborn and then around 2 months. We still haven't purchased a good video camera yet, but I think I will regret it if we don't. When I look at him, I think "I'll always remember when he looked like this." But when I look back at these videos I can't believe how small (or fat) he was.

Time to start a blog

Here is Preston's first blog post. I'm hoping this will be an easy way to share pictures with family and friends.