Could I be any cuter????

I know I am biased, but....We are so lucky. We seriously have the sweetest baby in the world. Just look at him...

That's his new thing...sitting in the bumbo or bouncy just looking outside. He loves it! He's is such a little nature boy. If he's fussy you can walk outside and everything's better almost instantly. It's pretty funny. I'm sure the neighbors laugh when they see me walking with a blanket wrapped around him because it's the quickest way to keep him warm and get out the door so the fussing will stop :-) He's really gotten pretty good at grabbing things and passing them back and forth.

He loves trying to stand....

I just thought this was funny- he kept putting his arm in Chad's pocket.... :-)




I had his bumbo turned away from the television the other night and he would do this to watch it...
The guy loves his Oprah. Seriously, when she's on he flaps his arms and kicks his leg. Loves her. Just wait til her "favorite Things" show airs- I'll be kicking and flapping with him :-)

My sweet friend Courtney had her 24th birthday and we joined her at Jim and Nick's...William's fond of pretty girls :-) Jenny's on the left and Courtney's on the right.

Happy Birthday Courtney!!!

William- post party...all that smiling and flirting with everyone wore him out :-)

Last but not least here's just a shot of how intensely he looks at things now. And to think Chad said he wouldn't like this toy.......

November's here already???

How can it be November already? And almost the middle of November at that? Time is flying by so quickly. While I find myself wishing away the time so it'll be winter break and then summer vacation, I want time to slow down. William's changing so fast, I want to take it all in...

William has just started sitting in the Bumbo and loves it. We have the little tray and it's perfect for setting toys on and letting him grab away. He looks at most toys with such intensity, it's pretty funny :-)

He has a new obsession with this ball Dad and Betsy bought him last spring (his first toy). His fingers slip right into the holes and he can pass it back and forth- so cute!

I've mentioned before how he has become a drool machine. We bought a ton of new bibs last weekend- he's started drooling through four or five a day. The washing machine just couldn't keep up! he's become quite fond of the thumb. We've tried hard to not use the paci- we folded and he has one (actually about 7! I can't keep up with sterilizing them!!!) We've tried to avoid the thumb, but I think hte thum is winning. The sad part is- Chad and I both think it's super cute when he gets his tiny little thumb into his mouth....

He's still not fond of tummy time, but he's tolerating it a little bit better....

For Halloween we just hung out at the house and passed out candy. Someone got very sleepy. He fell asleep as I was taking his costume off.....

The leaves are turning and it's starting to get a chill in the air(again- it was cold, hot, cold)- I love the fall!!! I've already got my fingers crossed for a few snow days this year.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Happy Halloween!

It's William's first Halloween and while I had big plans for the Perry Three to trick or treat, or more precisely- tailgate in our front yard with the grill and our pop up tent for all the neighbors to stop by and get a snack while they were out trick or treating.... Chad will be in Greenville all weekend playing music, so we're opting to be a little more traditional and just pass out candy at the house. My sweet friend Polly's parents sent me the cutest pumpkin outfit while I was pregnant and when I got it I thought he'll be so cute in this, but it was not until we put him in it yesterday that I fully realized how adorable he is as a pumpkin!!!! He is such a good sport about letting me change his clothes and dress him up a lot. I just can't get over how sweet he looks in this!!! We wish everyone a spooky and safe Halloween! Stop by our house next year for a tailgating adventure and look for the Perry Trio as Lenny, Tuck and MingMing......

Happy Birthday to baby William!!!

I can't believe he's 3mo old today! Happy Birthday Sweet baby! Things that are new to baby William:

1)He can stay awake on walks now and LOVES to look around at anything and everything. We're taking the carseat attachment off the stroller so he can sit like a big boy and look around when we're out walking. he looks so tiny in such a big stroller. I'll take some pictures this weekend.

2) He likes you to hold him so he can "stand"- his legs are really strong, it's the arms we need to work on....

3) He's started to coo and ooo in different pitches...well that's what Chad says. I'm not sure what "pitch" means :-)

4) He tries to stick his tongue out at you if you do it first.

5) He hates to have his diaper changed...as in he shrieks hysterically as if you're pulling out his fingernails and stops the second you take him off the changing table.

6) As much as he hates having his diaper changed, he loves having a bath. he loves to flap his little arms in the water. It's sweet.

7) He still doesn't like to sleep through the night, but we get a4 or 5 hour stretch every now and again....

8) He hates it when you multi-task. he likes 100% of our attention, which is OK I guess :-)

Happy Birthday to our sweet 3month old!

A chill is in the air....

Fall maybe my favorite season...then again I just love every season when you're switching from one to the next. This weekend we had our first cold snap. It was so nice! Just a little nip in the air- enough to break out William's new winter coat- isn't he precious?

He was smiling until I turned the camera on! Chad's new thing is putting him in the pouch and blowing leaves with an 18v blower- it's not loud... He found a hat I bought while I was pregnant and it's my new favorite thing for William to wear....I just love the ears...

Chad and I went out for the first time sans William on Saturday night. My teaching assistant at school for two periods has tickets to the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night through her husband's work and she gave them to me for this past weekend. It was so fun to just get out and be with Chad...I will admit that I called to check on him several times (he was with Molly so of course he was OK) and we came home right after the show because we both missed him, but the Opry was fun. We had amazing seats- 2nd row right in the center, and my favorite Bluegrass band, The Del McCoury band played. I LOVE them!!! Little Jimmy Dickens was there- he's too adorable. Here are just a few pictures from Chad's cell phone-

The Opryland hotel chefs carve opry star pumpkins- pretty cool looking...

William's starting to enjoy hugging a little bear Chad bought him in Atlanta one weeknd- isn't it sweet? I think he just likes chewing on the ears, but I like to think he's hugging it :-)

Three months this Thursday- I can't believe it!!! Here's to a good week and more fall like weather!!!!

We have had such a great week. Our new babysitter is so wonderful! William is so happy in the afternoon. It makes it so much easier to go to work knowing he's happy and being loved on! He has become such a drooler- his clothes are always wet! Surely he's not getting a tooth- right???

We went to Cabana to meet Stacy the other day. It was William's first outing to such a hip place....

He laughed for the first time yesterday. It has to be the sweetest sound I've ever heard- It was adorable. Hopefully we'll hear it again soon :-)
Tired tiger.....

I am trying to make a cute video to show everyone how cute William is these days, but everytime I get the camera out he stops whatever he's doing. It's so funny. Here's the best I can get...for now. I'm going to be sneaky this weekend and try to get some good video of him.

He's getting so big! Look how long he looks in this cute outfit from Becky and Finn.

Have a wonderful weekend! I will try to post some video Sunday!

The Big Race

William is still fighting through his cold. He is mostly fine during the day, it's during the night time when he coughs a lot- poor baby. He's sleeping on Chad's chest right now. I wanted to snap a picture, but he always wakes up when I take pictures of him sleeping....

Because of his cold, I almost talked myself out of running yesterday..."He's too sick" but really I think I was just too tired, but we got up, got ready and headed over to the school and did the race. It was only a 5K, but it felt a lot longer. I officially felt old. We did dominate the stroller division with an amazing finish of 36.33...OK, we were the ONLY stroller , but that means we win our division right? I had to stop and walk twice for me (it was billed as a "fun run" so I thought that was OK) and had to stop multiple times for him because he's so stuffy he couldn't hold his paci in and twice because he started to fuss and wanted someone to hold him. It was nice to have to take a small break...all in all I guess 36.33 isn't too bad. We'll shoot for not stopping next time. Of course William got lots of "ooohs and aaws" from everyone at the race. I love having a cutie-pie baby :-) I on the other hand am so sore from yesterday...again, another sign I'm getting old....How did I ever go run 10 or 12 miles??? Maybe if I step up our training and not just taper and carbo load.....

Big news at home for us- we've been fairly unhappy with our daycare situation for a variety of reasons and think we've found someone to come into our home to keep him- what a relief! She's a mom and asked all kinds of questions about what he likes to do during the day, what kind of schedule we want him on, etc- We are keeping our fingers crossed that this will work out. It'll make going to work easier for me knowing he is happy and someone is loving on him all day!

Yesterday I dressed William in a new outfit I bought from my favorite, yet so expensive I can never go there boutique, Snap, (we had a giftcard from our sweet friend Courtney)- he's wearing it in all of the pictures- I had just said to Chad I almost don't want to put him in it because he could poop...do you see where this is going??? Anyway, as the potential nanny and her husband were leaving William just let it fly and somehow it went all over me, the floor, and the ridiculously expensive outfit..it's in the wash now. I'm just hoping he can wear it twice because he's soo cute and it's so sweet when he's wearing it! The potential nanny just laughed... keep your fingers crossed!!!