Finley turns Four

June 5th is a super special day in our family. It's the anniversary of my in-laws meeting for the first time. It's my husband's Chosen Day. And it's the day that I gave birth to our firstborn. What an incredibly special day!! I still can't believe she was actually born on Kyle's Chosen Day...I mean I wasn't induced or anything, I went into labor on my own. How crazy!? Thank you God for allowing her to be born on such a meaningful day and thank you for allowing me to be her Mommy!! I love this kiddo so much!

Finley Rose has really turned into a super neat kid. And I say kid because that's what she is. She's no longer a baby...or a toddler...she's a kid. How did that happen?!? She is a fantastic big sister and so super duper helpful. She is smart, sensitive, funny, sassy, compassionate, stubborn, beautiful, and always full of joy. She loves parties and celebrations of all kind, she loves to help cook, loves princesses, books, dance, her friends, and special treats. She is just amazing. I see so much of myself in her, for better or worse! She is determined, loves fiercely, and strong willed. I love my baby girl!!

On her actual birthday, I took the kids out to breakfast. Finley (wearing her birthday girl pin) choose donuts. After breakfast we continued our tradition of getting a balloon from Party City. She helped me bake and decorate a strawberry cake (loaded with sprinkles) and then that night we went to Chuck E. Cheese. She's been asking to go there for months, so we went on her special day!!

I found this cute birthday interview online and had fun asking her the questions. She wrote her name and age, but was busy doing something else, so it's not her best work. I love her answers, especially that when asked what she likes to do with Daddy she says, "Make spaghetti!" So thankful for a hubby who loves to cook and always includes the kiddos. And when asked what her favorite day is she said, "Saturday & Sunday because that's when Daddy is home!" And when asked what she likes to do with Mommy she said, "I like to play with Mommy and give hugs!" Such a sweet girl!

Happy birthday sweet girl!!!!

Emerson @ 8 Months

I can't believe my sweet baby boy is already 8 months old!!! I am so in love with that lovey bug! I thought I'd do a little blog all about my favorite son!

He is such a busy guy. He was my most active baby in the womb and that is still holding true. He is always on the move, into everything. He will make for one interesting toddler. He can sit up and army crawls around the whole house.

 

He has been awarded the "Best Davis Baby" award. Seriously, he is happy, content, chill, a good sleeper, on a great schedule, and never really fusses. Finley was a happy baby too, but not on a great schedule..but that's mostly our faults! Ha! Rowynn....well RoRo, was not a happy baby...at all! Thankfully she is now a pretty happy and incredibly sweet kid, although she has her beast moments.

 

 

Anyway, back to my lovey bug. He is on formula now because he wasn't gaining weight on Mommy milk, so we switched him to formula and is gaining weight nicely. He is 16 lbs and in a size 3 diaper. He had an ear infection at his 6 month check-up but that has cleared up. He adores his big sisters, loves to swing, loves balloons, swimming, avocado, banana, sweet potato, his glo-baby, Mr. Fox, his blanket, his daddy, reading, balls, and climbing in tight spaces. He can say "Ma-ma" and "Da-da" and ALWAYS has his tongue sticking out. I call him "Brother-Butt" or "Lovey Bug" and Kyle calls him "Boudreaux" We have a thing in our family where everyone has several nicknames! That's just how we roll!

He is our one and only thumb sucker and it is the cutest thing ever! He usually wakes up between 6-7 and goes down for a morning nap between 9-10 and sleeps until about 12. His afternoon nap is sometime between 2-4 and goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes up about 11 for his last feeding.

 

 

I have made up a song for him (I make up songs a lot. Like all the time...I'm my father's daughter. And apparently I've passed this on to Finley because she makes up songs too)

                         Lovey bug, lovey bug
                         Oh my lovey bug
                         Lovey bug, lovey bug
                         Sweet-sweet lovey bug
                         Lovey bug, lovey bug
                         Oh my lovey bug
                         You are my lovey bug!

  (and sometimes I'll sing a second and third verse and trade Emerson or Baby Boy for Lovey bug)

Dear Emerson,

I love you so much lovey bug! You have made us all so happy and filled us with so much joy. Your sisters are enamored by you, they absolutely love their baby! Your Daddy is so smitten, he's so proud to have a son and so tickled that you both share a middle name. He loves reading poems to you and you get so excited when he comes home in the evenings. Although you are quite the Momma's boy!!! You are my little love bug and are always snuggling with me. You love to pull my hair and take off your Daddy's glasses. You aren't too fond of large crowds, but are a very happy baby. You love water..swimming, bathtime. You are such a sweetie pie and I feel so blessed that you are my son. I love you so much baby boy and pray that you grow into a man after God's heart. You are so strong and love to explore. You are my baby boy and I will love you forever!!

Ice Cream Party-Wotts

The other day our play group at a summer kick-off party! We had lots of different ice cream, games, sidewalk chalk, water balloons, and bubbles. We had a great turn out and my girls loved playing with all of their sweet friends!

Little man hanging out in his stroller!

The girls so  many compliments on their shirts! Thanks Ganny! Playing with water balloons.

Rowynn with her waster balloon "ice cream"

 

Running around the bucket without dropping the water balloon!

Yummy ice cream!

Sweet girls!

Random Pics!

 

Some random pictures of my sweet family! These are from the past several months....just on my camera and never got posted!

 

 

Daddy and sweet boy at the park!

These two have such a sweet bond!

My sweet girl loves to read.

Emerson turned 6 months old while we were living in the hotel!

My two guys---back in February!

Sure do love this girl!

This hot mess cracks me up. She insists on wearing this skirt all the time. Like every.single.day. And she picked out this shirt and did her hair...she loves putting it in headbands by herself!

This picture is a perfect description of Rowynn. Mix-matched clothes, headband with crazy hair, a marker in each hand...

Finley riding her bike she got for her birthday.

Little sis gets the old bike!

Rowynn can't wait to join Finley at dance next year

Finley's 4th Birthday-Circus/Carnival

On Saturday we celebrated my sweet Finley Rose with a Circus/Carnival themed birthday party...or as she likes to call it, her "clown party." She loves all things parties and celebrations, so it is so fun to see her light up and get all excited the weeks and months before her party. She is just like her Mommy...I'm pretty sure my love language is "Celebrations/Traditions/Parties" Hahaha! And I'm so super thankful that I have a hubby who loves celebrating with me. He absolutely loves that I like to celebrate every holiday, that I am big on traditions, and that birthday parties are a production at our house.

So anyway for her party we had a ton of food...nachos, hot dogs, mini hot dogs for the kids, soft pretzels, cupcakes, popcorn, cotton candy, apple slices to dip in caramel and then coat with toffee, sprinkles, or mini chocolate chips, frosted animal cookies, dumbbells (candy sticks with marshmallows at each end), lion tamer whips (twislers), ice cream cones, bottled drinks, lemonade...all your standard carnival food.






 We had a ton of games....


Ring of fire lion toss, Pin the nose on the clown, 3-in-a row, clothespin drop, duck pond, relay race, goldfish toss, shoot out(with rubberband gun), and a bounce house.

 

And of course we had prizes! Adorable stuffed clowns that I found at IKEA for .39 cents each, animal bubbles, animal pencils, squishy balls, goldfish, recorders, mini flashlight key chains, mini toy cameras, lip whistles, stickers, and of course everyone got a clown nose!

We also had a photo prop booth set-up!



 But the biggest hit was BUBBLES & WOWZA!! Two super fun clowns who did Balloon Art & Face Painting! We saw these clowns a couple of months ago at our church carnival and Finley LOVED them...I instantly knew I had to have them come to her party. She was so excited they were there!

So thankful for all of our family and friends who came out and celebrated our sweet girl!!!