Smiles, Giggles, and Drool

Trace is officially 3 months now.  How time is flying!!  He is becoming more animated and alert with each passing day.  He is full of smiles and giggles. 

As you can see as well, he is growing and growing!!!

This past weekend Trace inherited about 90 new grammies, aunties, and girlfriends.  He came along with me to the Rumney Bible Conference Women's Retreat.  I along with 5 other women from our church were actually the worship team for the retreat which was such a blessing.  So, since Trace is still breastfeeding, he had to come along as well!  (Poor Hugh missed him dearly all weekend!).  Trace did SO well throughout the entire weekend.  He absolutely soaked up all the attention and love, and was one happy camper.  Who would blame him?  I was worried that he would go through attention withdrawal upon our return home, but he has been doing well.

We are also making more wonderful progress on the barn!  The plumber and electrician are almost finished all their pipe and wire laying.  We have also had the contractor here for the past 2 weeks putting in the water line, new culvert, city septic, and today Hugh and our dads put in the conduit for the electrical wires.  So exciting!!!

God is so good.   He sure is teaching us patience throughout this whole process, but it has truly been an amazing learning experience.  The light at the end of the tunnel (or driveway) is looking brighter!!

Until next time......

Growing, Growing, Growing!

Well, I have attempted to post some videos for the last few weeks and have been unsuccessful for some reason.  So, I will just post pictures I guess!!

Trace is now 11 weeks and growing every day!!  He is about 13 lbs and 24 inches long.  Quite a difference from him birthday!  He is starting to smile a lot more and is cooing, which is so cute.  He is such a flirt already as well!!!  He has his eye for my brother Tim's girlfriend Dana.  It's really cute. He gets all smiley and giggly and coy when she is around.  We will have to keep our eye on him when he's older, I'm sure!

Trace had a pretty tough week as he turned 2 months a few weeks ago.  He was given his 2 month vaccine shots which was so sad to witness!  Poor little guy.  The next day, Trace and I were rear-ended while waiting to turn into our driveway and the car was totaled.  We were both ok though.  Then we took our first plane-rides as a family 2 days later which Trace did not really care for.  All in all, these events made for a very upset baby for a few days!  Thank goodness we are back on a schedule for him.

We enjoyed a wonderful weekend away over Labor Day weekend as we visited Hugh's step sister, Amy in North Carolina, and attended a friends wedding.  It was our first time flying as a family, which was nerve-racking!  Trace was very upset when we first got to the airport and cried all through security and trafficking.  It was pretty stressful! (at least for me).  Thankfully, both down and back, he slept on the longer flights (we had layovers both ways).  Although it was stressful, I would do it again, so I guess it wasn't too traumatizing.

 2 months old!!

Flying to Amy's in NC

 With Daddy at the Wedding

 Auntie Amy!!

One of his happier moments on the plane

Trace also went apple picking for the first time this past weekend.  I can't believe it's already that time of year!  I love it!!!  He slept though a lot of the festivities, but he was present!

 

  Trace flirting with Dana :-)

Along with celebrating Trace's wonderful milestones, we are also making GREAT milestones and progress on the barn!!  Last week we had a large tree cut down, which meant that we could start digging up the driveway for the utilities.  The contractor will be starting this week fixing the culvert for the stream that runs under the driveway, and then laying water, sewer, and electrical pipes.  So exciting!   At the same time, our plumber has started and will be working on weekends to finish up the project, and my father has just about completed all the electrical work.  Our next large step if for Hugh to go back to the Board of Appeals to see if they will allow us to dormer the back roof in order to make it a 3 bedroom house instead of a 2 bedroom house.  Pray, pray, pray!!!  

Until next time......Blessings!