Dressed up for Church!

Austin SMILES

We have been trying to catch a picture of Austin Smiling for quite some time now, but he is very curious about the camera and we end up with a deer in headlights look instead. I finally caught a couple with some distractions we make it work. He has starting sitting in his Bumbo seat and is doing really well and likes it for a little while. It's good for his core muscles and his neck muscles. He's getting strong!Next to get a good video of him talking and laughing!

Dirtbiking trip

Over Thanksgiving break we went up camping and dirtbiking to keep up the tradition we started last year. I love the Texas weather that allows us to still go play outside! We went about and hour from our home up to a friends home who has 80acres to camp and ride dirtbikes. The boys LOVE it! I was fun taking Austin there for his first time. He went for rides with Mommy on Kirk and Ashley's 4 wheeler and Daddy was able to take him for rides on his little 110. He smiled and seemed to have a good time. He even wore his motorcycle outfit. We had really good dutch over chicken and peach cobbler afterwards! The boys camped over night but Austin, Ben, Ashley and I went home to sleep in our warm beds... good thing too cause it rained on the boys that night. Austin had a mini camping experience taking a nap in the tent!

Playing hard in my Ocean!

Austin loves playing in his Ocean. He is getting really good at swatting at the toys and as now started to grab onto them. He kicks his legs and when he hits the little toys on the side it plays music and lights up. He was playing so hard this day it wore him out and he crashed!

Finally finished Austin's Room - he is all ready to be a little surfing beach bum now!!

A few More Halloween Pictures

Here are a few more pictures of Halloween. We had a really fun party with some friends. Devin and I went as the biggest looser and Devin was the before and I was after it was pretty funny. We also had a good time trick or treating with Austin. He was a really cute pumpkin. We missed one of the really cute pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch.
Austin is smiling more and more all the time and starting to laugh a little. The other night while Devin was saying out family prayers I was holding Austin and felt him start shaking so I looked to see and he was laughing it was so cute! I am trying to get pictures of him smiling but he still gets a serious look when the camera is around him. He sure is still a kicker... you should see how he kicks when I am changing his diaper (that's when he kicks the most!) It makes me laugh a lot. He seems to be going through a growth spurt right now... he is sleeping a lot.

Austin is getting big

I don't have any pictures to go with this post yet... hopefully he will get used to the camera and not be so camera shy :)
Austin is getting big at our last Dr. apt he weighed 11 lbs 9 oz and is 23" long. He got his vaccinations and he did really well he was a brave little boy! He only cried for a min and then he was fine... one of the vaccinations was a live one combined in sugar water and he LOVED it,when the Dr. took it away from him he kept trying to get more... looks like we have a little sweet tooth on our hands!
He is really starting to smile and coo and even a little laugh, but every time I get the camera out to take pictures or a video he gets a real serious look on his face and he stops smiling.