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August 29: Fun times

Mame bought this go go girl costume after halloween one year. Haley loves it...I think because she looks like a disco ball. She had to have her picture made!
My boy Austin is a strong little boy. He can now hold himself up while standing. He can do it for about 3 minutes and then his legs get tired and he looses balance.

Currently we are in the process of ripping out all of the carpet in our house!!!!Yeah!!!! If you have seen our carpet lately you will know why , it was gross. In place of the carpet we are putting in handscraped handwood floors. They are reeally pretty but it is quite a process. They rip out the carpet then they nail plywood to the foundation, then they nail each individual wooden slat to the plywood. After they have done that to all 7 rooms (4 bedrooms, dining room, gameroom, and living room) then they will sand it, scrap it up, sand it agian, stain it, and then cover it with a poly finish. So like I said it is quite a process and of course while this process is going on we have to be out of our house. Luckily for us we have someone to stay with. Unlucy for my parents we are staying with them. hopefully we will be home soon! Below is a picture of our bedroom. It is before being sanded, scraped, sanded agian, and stained! It is just raw wood!

August 28: Meet the teacher

Haley got to met her new Weekday school teacher today. Her name is Mrs. Holly and Haley loves her. She can't wait to go back on Tuesday. Haley working on her art project!
Haley was very proud of her fish she made all by herself!!!
More pictures to come of her first day!

August 27:Austin Stats

Austin had his 6 month check up today...the poor boy got 3 shots. He has been in a pretty good mood since the shots. At the doctor he weighed in at 16 pounds 11 ounces and he was 26inches long.

He is getting so big!

August 23: Kate Grace is two!!!

Kate is two years old...here is a picture of her at her tea party! Haley and Calista having tea (lemonaide) and sandwiches together.
Haley is crazy about her Baba!
Sweet Calista looked so pretty in pink!
Austin and Grandma!
Grandma and the Swann kiddos!

Austin not so heppy to have sunglasses on!

Now he is thinking that they make him look pretty cool!!!!
Haley loves going to parties that gicve away gift bags!!!
Austin sitting up so good!


I don't know if you can tell but Austin is up on all fours in this picture. He is rocking back and forth preparing his body to crawl!!! He is growing too much!

Speaking of growing...look at her! She looks like a person...not my sweet little 5 lb. 5 oz. preemie! She not only looks more like a person but she sure has an attitude to go along with it!
So cute!! Mimi bought her this dress and it worked great for the tea party!
Austin is officially 6 months old yeaterday!

Here are somethings that he does...

He eats about every 4 hours

He loves baby food (squash, greenbeans, carrots, sweet potatoes) he is not crazy about peaches!

He will give you huge open mouth kisses if you ask and he is in the right mood.

He sits up great!

He makes razzing noises all of the time

He is beginning to try and crawl

He like to talk...I can't understand it but he sure thinks he is saying something great.

He would rather be layed in bed awake and go to sleep as opposed to being rocked.

He has no teeth!

He is not crazy about men, he loves for a women to hold him!

He is so tender hearted.

He is down for the night and I forgot to get his height and weight. i will do that tommorw and let you all know that.

All in all the past 6 months with Austin have been great...he is such a little miracle and we thank God for both he and Haley all of the time. I am so excited to see them grow up together!!!!

Summer is officially over!

You can tell that summer is over by the crazy weather...but I can tell it is over becuase I have started back to work. This right now is the worst part of the year...it lasts about one week and it consists of late nights at school, lots of meetings, and frantically just sticking things up just to get them off of the floor. The worst part is seeing the kids less....but after this week I will be like every other working mom getting home at 4. Dustin took these pics. of the kiddos when I was up at school working late.
The pictures below are from Aunt Laci, Uncle Jeff and Calistas new house. Yeah for them and their first house together!!!!

Austin was soooo cute in his overalls! He is so big but still no teeth!

Haley and Austin!
Aunt Krystal sliding down the slide! Haley loves Calistas car!
Little Miss Calista showing off her new street!
Austin trying to stay cool and out of the sun!
We had a great summer and I hope that you all had a great summer too. On Friday Austin will be 6 months old...so be sure and look at the blog sometime this weekend. Many new things happening in September. Haley will start weekday school and CHAT. So keep looking back for updates.

August 15: Dustin and Austin

Haley and Austin love to watch TV together!
Now that Daddy has shaved he and Austin look so much more alike!

Austin loves his daddy!

We all go back to school on Monday :( Dustin has been back in school since the 4th. For about the next 2 weeks or so I think the pictures will slow down a bit as I get ready for a new group of kindergarteners! Haley won't actually start weekday school (Tues. and Thurs) until September 2nd. She will start CHAT (speech class) on September 18th (Wed. and Fri). She is looking forward to going back to school! I am so looking forward to her CHAT class so that she can be up at school with me...and she will learn to speak more clearly!!! Have a great Saturday!

August 14th

I left Austin in the living room for a minute (don't worry grandmas I was just in the next room) playing with his toy and then I came back and this is what I found. I love it that his hand is on her back! He really thinks that she is the best thing ever!


Dustin had to shave his face for his job and now Dustin and Austin look so much more alike...I didn't even think it was possible! i will try to get Dustin to let me take their picture together! We will see !!! And Happy Birthday Aunt Laci!!!! We love you lots and we will see you this weekend!

August 12: What a playhouse!!!!

So today we went out to Northpark because my Aunt Cathy and Uncle Patrick (architects/designers) built a playhouse to be raffled off for charity!!! We got there and Haley immediately ran up to their house...she refused to even go look at any other ones (50 other houses there). We tried to explain to Haley how a raffle works and we thought she understood. We bought 5 tickets, but we looked in the raffle box and there are a lot of tickets in there! As we were leaving Haley asked "how are we getting my playhouse home" then we reexplained the concept of a raffle! Aunt Nana told her that on Sunday they are going to call the winner. So again we thought she understood the concept but on the way home she said "we need to get home because they are calling us because we won my playhouse". So again we explained it but she still says that she is going to win. I hope that she does because it is a really neat playhouse! These pictures do not do it justice. If we don't win we might be calling Aunt Cathy for some floorplans!!!:0) Dustin will be so happy about that because he would have to be the contractor. So here is some pictures of Haley posing with "her" playhouse!!!!

August 10: Alligators, sitting up, and frisbis!

About a year or two Haley bought this very ugly looking alligator! And well she named it after Michelle...it is Aunt SheShe which is what she calls Michelle. Michelle is a lot pretty than Aunt She She the alligator I think she decided on that name because they both have glasses! Anyway, it was a big day her yesterday for Aunt SheShe...after all this time she finally got a new dress and it just so happens to look like Haleys dress. Haley insited that we take a picture to show the world Aunt SheShe's new dress!

Haley and Aunt SheShe dancing.
Austin loves sitting up... it has opened up a new set of things for him to explore!!!

Daddy taught Haley how to throw A frisbi...she is actually pretty good!
There she goes!

Haley and Daddy.