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20
Jun

Cabin On The Lake

By Matt 0 Comments
Categories: Sam, random, Nana and Papa and Emma

We are back from a 4 day weekend with my family over near Gatlinburg, TN at Douglas Lake. We had a great time and got some good pictures along the way. Emma is a lot of fun and being around her makes me excited about Sam getting a little older. I had to work on Thursday until late so we didn’t leave Murfreesboro until around 9pm, which put us in Knoxville at about 2 in the morning, so we were pooped. Friday morning we got up and all of us headed down the road for about an hour or so to the cabin. We spent the rest of the time there either out on the lake or in the cabin relaxing and getting in some good talk time. Sam did great and it was good for him to get to spend some time with Nana and Papa. He also hasn’t had much time with my sister and her family so that was nice too.

Heather goes back to work in a couple of weeks so we’re trying hard to get Sam used to his schedule. It’s easier said than done. He was doing great there for a while about sleeping for 4 or 5 hours at night before waking up but we’ve gone back to 3 hours max. We’ve been pretty busy lately with going out of town and doing other stuff so it’s been a little complicated with sticking to a set schedule, but hopefully we will be able to solidify some stuff over the next 2 weeks. It’s not all going to be easy, but overall he is doing really great and we’ll get it worked out. He’s gotten past the point where he would sleep no matter what noise was going on around him, so we have to be more conscious of how loud we are when he is napping. He is also a smiling machine. It’s obvious that he recognizes Heather and I now and that just makes you feel good when you can walk into a room and make your baby smile.

This weekend Emily and John are coming up to visit us from Georgia, so we’re looking forward to that. Then next weekend I am going camping with the dudes and I think Heather and Sam are going to head down the Georgia to stay with Mimi. Heather isn’t sure how much she’ll like staying here at the new house by herself without my strapping male presence, and really who can blame her. Talk to you later!

The Mosley Gang

Emma loved to give Sam kisses,
and Sam just thought it was time to eat again

Emma loved the boat and the water

I am wearing a bathing suit, it’s just a tricky color

07
Jun

You lookin’ for me?

By Matt 0 Comments
Categories: Sam, random and Nana and Papa

It’s been a good week or so since my last post. I have no excuses for my lack of posting, I just got out of the habit, so I’m working on getting back in it. Things have settled down here quite a bit, which none of us are complaining about. Graham and Greta are home and we are about 99% unpacked, so I’d say our new house is actually starting to feel like a home. Sam is changing every day. He is smiling and making little noises on a regular basis and I’m pretty sure it’s because of the faces I make at him, and not just gas. He is still sleeping well, usually he’ll go between 4 and 5 hours between feedings over night at least once. Heather is going back to work after this month so we’re trying to get Sam on that schedule so it won’t be a huge transition for any of us. Nana and Papa came to town last weekend and they were keeping Emma for a couple of days while my sister and her husband were out of town, so that was fun. I didn’t get enough pictures, as usual. I WILL have more to post tomorrow, if I don’t then you have my permission to yell at me.

 

These are either some really sleepy eyes or he is just giving me a preview of the looks I’ll get when I ask him to pose for a picture when he’s a teenager.

 

Here Sam is showing the dogs how to properly execute the
Flying Crane Kick from Karate Kid

 

and finally, a little bit of Nana time.

13
May

First Mother’s Day and a Ton of Pictures

By Matt 0 Comments
Categories: Sam, random, Nana and Papa and house

We had a great weekend. Nana and Papa came into town on Friday and we spent most of our time with them. The weather was beautiful so we took the opportunity to get out of the apartment a lot over the past 2 days. Yesterday we got up and met my parents at Cracker Barrel for some breakfast and from there we headed out to Opry Mills for a while. On the way there Sam had a major blow-out, probably his most impressive so far. We had to change all of his clothes and throw away the onesie that he had on, there was no saving that one. Here are some pictures of the event. Don’t worry, I’m not pulling a Brittney Spears and driving with him on my lap.

At Opry Mills my dad and I split off from the girls and Sam so we could do some shopping for Mother’s Day. I got Heather a bracelet with an aquamarine stone on it, which is Sam’s birthstone. I’m always a little nervous picking out jewelry for her, but she says she loves it, so I’ll take that as a job well-done. After a while Sam started to get tired of the mall scene, so we left and got him some lunch in the Jeep before we headed over to the Caney River Fish Camp for a little lunch for ourselves.

After that we were all pretty tuckered out so we decided to part ways for a little while and take naps before we met back up later in the afternoon. We came home and did our best to rest for a little while, it’s not quite as easy as it used to be for some reason. My parents came back over and we took them out to the house so they could see the progress. Unfortunately there wasn’t much progress that Heather and I noticed from the last time we were out there earlier in the week, so I’m trying to be optimistic about it. We supposed to close on Thursday of this week, so they have a lot of work to do before then. They’ve been telling us for a while that we might close early, so I’ll be pretty disappointed if we end up closing late instead. We’ll see. We’re very ready to get this move over with and get settled.

Today I got up at 6 and headed to church to play for the 3 Sunday morning services, and my parents, Heather and Sam all came to the 11 o’clock service. After church we went to Panera to get some lunch before my parents headed off back to Knoxville.

After they left we tried to take a nap again but again found it difficult. It’s not necessarily that Sam keeps us awake, it’s just that we’re not good at utilizing the time when he’s asleep to sleep a little bit ourselves. We usually get distracted by talking or cleaning or something and by the time we’re done Sam is waking back up and ready to socialize. It was a really pretty day today so we decided to take Sam to the park for the first time. It was awesome. He was awake the whole time and seemed to really enjoy being outside. We took tons of pictures and video and I want to make that a regular thing. It was relaxing.

 

It started to get a little chilly after a while so we packed everything up and headed over to Camino Real for some dinner. Camino was the restaurant we were at when Heather went into labor, so it was a fitting place to spend our first Mother’s Day together. It seems like we eat out all of the time, and I guess we sort of do, but we figure that we won’t always be able to and once we move out to Christiana it will be a lot harder to make it out as often. Plus we didn’t really bring much to cook with to the apartment, knowing that we’d only be here for a little while. So it will be nice to get back into the routine of picking out recipes and cooking dinner every night again. Tomorrow starts another week, and hopefully it will be a good one that ends with us closing on our new home, I will keep you “posted”. Good night!