All For Abigail

As a new mommy (again!) I often get caught up in the busy-ness and new-ness of Tyler and neglect to do many updates on Abby. Even though we are having our jealousy/attention issues since his arrival, she actually has not taken it out on him. In fact, she can be a good little helper (when she is in the mood, after all, she is 2 with all the attitude that comes with!). I have to take a moment to tell you about a couple of "mommy" moments I had with her today that just made me chuckle. Abby often tries to comfort Tyler when he is crying in the car. She sounds like my little parrot. It's like a little Amy in the car seat back there. We often call Tyler a chunky monkey because he's well, you know, chunky. I had to crack up tonight when we were riding home and Tyler is screaming. Abby kept repeating "It's okay chunky boy!" in her sweetest mommy voice. It was the cutest thing! Also tonight we were trying to leave my parents' house and I was pretty frustrated with her because she was refusing to put on her coat. Finally, she hopped over to me, looked up at me with those beautiful eyes and in her most serious voice said "I a jumping kangaroo, mommy." How can you be mad after that?

Tyler's First Bath

Todd and I had a little break this morning. Nana had Abby over for a sleep over, so we have taken the opportunity to do some cleaning/organizing around here. A never ending task now that we have two children! We also decided to give Tyler his first real bath. I know, his umbilical cord stump fell off when he was too weeks old, and we could have given him a bath then. But, it's been just as easy to give him sponge baths, and we have not been able to find all the parts to the baby bath tub. As you can tell from the pictures, he is not super happy about this new experience. You can also tell what a chunky monkey he is!
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Snow Day!

Today was a rare day in NC...a real, live snow day! Our newest member is completely unaware, but Abigail was in heaven today! She went outside and played at Nana's first and then didn't want to come inside or go back to our house! We finally convinced her to come in and warm up and then get in the car to come home by telling her that we would make a snowman. We did make a snowman...sort of. He must be the world's smallest...you can see from the pictures that he is less than a foot tall! The important thing is that Abby had a blast. Also included are some pictures from our weekend in Sanford.
We took Tyler to the doctor on Monday morning for his one-month well baby checkup. Can you believe that?? He now weighs a whopping 11lbs. 7 3/4 oz...he's gained 4 pounds since birth. Well...even more than that considering he dropped down to 7lbs. 10 oz. right after birth! He's also grown over an inch and is now 22 3/4 inches long. He is definitely at the top of the growth chart! Dr. Greg gave him a clean bill of health and he received his second Hepatitis B vaccine, which was harder on Mommy than Tyler. We are also happy to report that he slept through the night last night! This may not be a pattern yet, but we'll take what we can get! Enjoy the pictures of our cuties!

January 2009

Superstar Children

On Saturday while we were visiting Todd's parents we rode up to Cary and let Tyler make his superstar debut. Abby got into the mix as well and the two of them together were just over the top amazing (if I do say so myself)! We had their pictures taken at Portrait Innovations and the people there were very good about keeping things moving for little kids. Thought you might like to see the session photographs, they're low-resolution, but you'll get the idea of how awesome they were!

Portrait Innovations Sessions

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Well, the last two and a half weeks have been a whirlwind to say the least! Tyler and Mommy came home from the hospital doing well. Tyler continues to grow and Mommy continues to recover. Tyler is a good eater and an overall pretty laid back little guy. This is good considering that Abigail is giving us a run for our money. She is still adjusting to having a new brother and the excitement of Christmas. Once things calm down she will settle in to our new routine just fine I am sure. We had a wonderful but busy Christmas with Todd's family visiting us. The house is finally back in some sort of order now that the new toys are organized and the Christmas decorations are packed away. For a while it was pretty risky to walk around our house...plenty of new toys to trip over! Enjoy these pictures of Abby and Tyler for the past couple of weeks, and we will be better about keeping the blog updated in the future!

Christmas 2008January 2009

Welcome to the World Tyler!

Tyler Leaton Williamson was born at 7:37 AM at Craven Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and is 21.5 inches long! Our little guy has a head full of hair and looks a lot like his sister! Will update this post with pictures once they are on a computer somewhere!

Tyler is Born!

'Twas the Night Before Baby

And Todd's poetic skills failed him, so he'll just type up a quick update :) It's almost 10 pm on Amy's birthday and we're gearing up for Tyler's arrival. Todd's mom is in town to help out with Abby and we all went out for a birthday dinner at Outback. We dropped off Miss Abigail for a sleepover at the babysitter's house tonight. We're heading off at about 5:30 in the morning to go the hospital and pick out a baby!  Oh, Amy just told me we don't get to choose, that we've already signed a long term lease on Tyler...guess we'll take him then :) Here's a final belly shot of Mommy...and a shot of the insane number of diapers we have stockpiled (Thanks to our folks who passed along quickly outgrown diapers!) We'll update you on Tyler's arrival tomorrow when we get a chance (sooner rather than later if the hospital has Wifi)