July Photo Favorites

In an attempt to get this blog mostly caught up to date, here are my favorite photos from July! Be warned – this is a long post!  

We had a fun fourth of July at home. We cooked out and did fireworks in the backyard and watched some, also. Ava LOVES the 4th so much!

I think Reed was telling me Grant was crying!!! Like I couldn’t tell! ;)  

And Mr. Grant slept through the ENTIRE evening, fireworks and all!

Grant at six weeks old!

One night when we had Grant doing tummy time, he fell asleep. I walked in the other room and came back to find Reed had covered him with a burp cloth!!!! haha!

Grant and I often enjoyed an afternoon snooze together! :)

There is always a lot of help at bathtime!!  

We spent many nights playing games as a family!

Can you believe this pouty face?!! 

Funny story – the first few weeks after Grant was born, I spent a lot of days at home, not going anywhere and stayed in my pjs. One week we had stuff to do and I got up and got ready, and one of the kids asked me why I was dressed like that?! HA!? They had forgotten what my real clothes looked like apparently!

MELT. ME.

Grant loves his sleep. LOVES it. I’ve never had a baby that sleeps quite like him. He takes LONG naps. And most of the time he goes to sleep very easily. One afternoon I wrapped him up and was going to rock him. I laid him on my bed to change the laundry. I wasn’t even gone two minutes and came back to find him fast asleep.

Grant smiled for real for the first time on July 10!!! I waited and waited and waited for this day!

One afternoon Grant woke up and was fussing so i unwrapped him. I left him in his bed to finish putting away laundry in the boys’ room and when I walked over to get him, he was back asleep. 

Can someone tell me why Ava looks sooooooooo grown up?!

When we had our annual termite inspection, Reed grabbed his flashlight and followed the guy around. The man was so sweet to explain to Reed what he was doing and showed him so many things.

Ava spent a few days at my parents’ house with my cousin who is her age. They had a blast! This was the day she left.

While she was gone, Reed got to have a special day! We went to ToysRUs to use a gift card he’d had since Christmas and then we had lunch. He had a great time! 

I love this sweet sleeping baby, especially when he lays like this!  

Reed got to have a play date with his best friend, Maggie! They had the best time and had another one the next week! Zach’s sister got Grant this adorable outfit. Can you even handle the cuteness because I can’t!  

My grandma had been saving this little outfit for my uncle for when he had children. He passed away earlier this year and asked if this would fit Grant. He looked so sweet in this little outfit and it meant so much to everyone to see him in it because they remembered my uncle wearing it as a baby!  

Love me some baby yawns!

I found a recipe to make homemade ice cream in the mixer without and ice cream maker so we gave it a shot! The kids love helping me cook! Since we made the ice cream at bedtime, we decided to live a little the next morning and have ice cream for breakfast! 

The one thing good that came out of Leslie’s passing is that we had the chance to see a lot of family we don’t get to see often.

Ava loves to hold Grant. The morning we were leaving for Leslie’s funeral in her hometown, Grant was fussing and wanting to be held and I needed to be packing. I asked Ava to hold him, and she usually jumps at the chance and she put him to sleep. These two are going to be big buds I have a feeling!

Whew! If you stuck around to the end, kudos to you! :)