Monday, January 30, 2012

Little Boys

Cooper's first bowling experience
 January is almost gone and it's been a fun month! Here's a few random pics of my babies.

These crazy little kids!!

These are little men I always step on
 Never a dull moment!
Yum yum yummmm! Me want cookies!! (Teething biscuits, that is)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Teeth!!...and stuff

  Clayton is 8 1/2 months old now! He has two little teeth that have popped out in the last couple weeks and working on some more! He is growing so very fast! He had his first teething cookie last week and loved it...it was a complete mess, of course, which made it that much more fun to watch.
   Cooper is growing, too! He is getting tall and I am beginning to notice that shirts that were just right in the fall are now a little on the short side. He is soaking in everything as well. I finally had to ask the preschool director the days of the week and months of the year songs so that I could help him with them and he's getting pretty good! We are starting to learn reading a little and he seems to be super excited to do that. And, we are still doing speech therapy and his hearing was going to be checked, but his ears weren't all clear. Next week, we actually have to go to the ENT because he has fluid on his left ear again...praying we don't have to do tubes again.
   Dennis is staying busy and I have my hands full with keeping books and taking care of the boys. This month is flying by and I will be another year older in about 6 more weeks. That's about all the updates here, now back to taking care of business (:

Monday, January 2, 2012

Happy 2012!!!

Wow! I didn't get a chance to blog over the course of our four Christmas celebrations, but we had a great Christmas! Dennis has some time off, which has been wonderful for all of us and the boys are so much fun!! Kids really help you remember the joy of Christmas and it is amazing! Cooper is really understanding that Christmas is Jesus' birthday and he loved playing with the little nativity dolls and telling me the story, as well as having a little Santa fun, too. Clayton just wanted to touch all the presents and stare at the lights. Luckily, he didn't learn to army crawl really good until just a few days ago or the tree might be in jeopardy.

We had Christmas with our friends, the Stotts family first, then with Dennis' family, then our house with some of my family, and our last one this past Saturday with more of my family.....what a whirlwind! We are so amazingly blessed to be able to celebrate with our friends and family and we are so thankful or each and every one of them.

2011 was a little bit crazy but also wonderful with the birth of our second child! For me, personally, I was not physically well for a majority of it between recovering from giving birth and turning around and having gall bladder surgery, and part of it, I thought I would literally go insane. But it ended wonderfully and 2012 will be awesome!

Clayton hanging out

Cooper, David, and Grace

Dennis and his new hunting gear

All the Rains cousins!

Mommy helping Coop with his Bat Cave

Adorable!

Santa's goodies- Coop insisted we leave coffee, too

Trucks on Christmas morning


Santa has been here!

Santa left us a letter

...and the reindeer ate their food, but Dancer left a little something

Dennis and his new chair blind....what was I thinking!?!? I created a monster!

My sister, Sasha & niece, Chloe

Mamaw, the boys, and Dennis

Papaw with his sign that Chris (next to him-sister's boyfirend) made...I got one, too....way cool!

Chris, Sasha, Chloe, Cooper, Marie, and Poppy

Uncle Ryan and Clayton


I just loved this one....a boy and hid dog

My little party animal