Happy Birthday Aaron

For Aaron's birthday we went to Texas Motor Speedway and both rode with a professional driver at 170 miles and hour and Aaron drove a Nascar at 150 miles an hour. Good times!

Baby Beckham!!

Two months old:
Weighs 11.5 pounds
Is smiling and cooing all day long
Projectile vomits on anyone within yards of his burping
Is sleeping from 10pm to 5am (most nights)
Is beginning to show signs of rolling over
Is incredibly patient with his older sister hugging, kissing, poking, feeding, attempting to change his diaper (alone), covering him in stickers, and squeezing him
Beckham's facial rash diagnosed as Seborrhea has mostly cleared up
Is a joy to have in our family. :)

Summer Fun!

Grandma and Grandpa Boyce were able to make the long journey to visit last week. We had a great time with them and were sad to see them go.
Never too young to start playing scrabble....
When you get hungry and no food is around...Sophia recommends eating your toes!
A family picture before church.
Aaron and Sophia playing at the splash park in Frisco.

Little Moments!

This morning as Sophia and I sat down to breakfast together, Sophia folded her arms and waited for me to initiate the prayer. This is normal behavior, in fact she will pray as many times as we will say them with her. However, this morning she did a first. Halfway through the meal I look over to see Sophia with her arms folded, head bowed, eyes peeking as she mumbled sounds aloud and then simply said "Amen". It was absolutely precious!!

Thank you Heavenly Father for moments like these. I think I can handle one more day of NO's. :)

NO! NO! NO!

Before having Beckham, I predicted that when compared to 20-month old Sophia, caring for the newborn, who requires a billion diaper changes and 7-10 feedings each day (all by me) that would be more challenging. Boy was that hypothesis wrong. Sophia has begun the phase of telling us "NO" to everything. She has never been more challenging. I had no idea how easy she was to raise until she began having her own opinion and that opinion is just about always the opposite of what we want her to do.

What do we do? Do we discipline her for it? Do we ignore it? How long does it last? Will I survive it?

Recent happenings

Beckham weighed in at his two week check-up at a whole pound over his birth weight!!! Yippee!!! It makes all the pain and fatigue of nursing worth it.

Here is a picture of Beckham during his first bath at home. Isn't he beautiful?!


We met friends at the park this week. Most kids played in spray waterfalls but, our little Sophia was not interested in getting wet or dirty.


Jamie and Maddie came over for a few days to help out. Three babies under the age of two was complete chaos but, it was so good to have another adult interact with while living through the chaos.


Here is a picture of Sophia having fun with her "Wo-Wo". I am SO jealous of his tan!

Reality has started!!!!

I have managed to find a few minutes while Sophia is playing independently and Beckham is sleeping to make a post. I cannot believe I have TWO babies!! Aaron was able to take a full week off work and unfortunately that luxury is over. Yesterday was my first day alone and thanks to good friends and a wonderful brother it went better than expected.


Beckham's demeanor so far, is absolutely pleasant. I can count on one hand how many times he has actually cried. He is sleeping like a champ at night. Allowing me to (sometimes) get a good six hour stretch. :) I guess he knows how badly his mom needs her sleep. Although Sophia was not Beckhams biggest fan at first she has turned into quite the lover, helper and care giver to Beckham.


I have exceeded Sophia's independent play time frame so...I must go.