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Harrison is 4!

Harrison is FOUR YEARS OLD today! Time is a thief, isn’t it?

Harrison is the smartest, funniest, most thoughtful, and most energetic little boy I know! He is so smart when it comes to geographical directions that we can go somewhere new once and he can get us there after that.

He loves trains (especially the train arms and lights) and playing with his wooden train tracks. He loves watching Spidey and PJ Masks and pretends that he’s a superhero.

He’s the best big brother and loves Banks so much. Whenever Banks is crying (and let’s face it, that’s anytime he’s not being held haha!), Harrison will console him and tell him everything is okay and that Momma is on her way. It’s the sweetest!

Harrison is the happiest little boy who loves big!

Harrison, you were the first to call me Momma and you will always be my baby!

Life Lately

Happy Monday, y’all!! Today is officially the first day of Christmas break and it’s a busy one–it’s Polar Express morning at the local library; I have lunch with some girls from church; Harrison has a dentist appointment; and then my best friend and her family are coming over for dinner!!!

So, grab a cup of coffee and check out our life lately…

Harrison saw Santa and Mrs. Claus one night at the outdoor mall.

Harrison handed out roses to our Hoopcoming Princess nominees at a basketball game one afternoon–he did so great in front of a giant crowd and literally ran each rose to the girl.

Then that night we went to our downtown for the annual Christmas parade and it was fantastic! My grandfather owned the local meat market downtown when I was growing up, so I have the best memories sitting in the bed of his truck that was parked in front of his shop watching the parade. Now the city doesn’t allow cars parked on the street during the parade, but I’m so happy Harrison will grow up with the same memories I will.

We’ve had movies nights this month watching The Grinch and The Polar Express–and that one was Harrison’s favorite!

Hope and I are on our preschool teaching rotation at church and we’ve shown up matching a few times! This morning we were both wearing green dresses and brown boots haha! Hope and I have been friends since we went to the same daycare, and now many years later, we’re at the same church teaching together and in the same small group.

A friend is making these cross-stitch (I think that’s what it is ha) hoops to raise money for their adoption from India, and she made Harrison this train one for his room! I love it and am going to get it framed after Christmas.

Harrison loves getting a sticker from Kroger every time we go. The last time we went inside, the register we went to only had these stickers to give out and I laughed so hard hahaha

We had some flooding from our bathroom one night and it went under the walls and into our bedroom and the closet under the stairs. This is what our bedroom currently looks like right now–minus the fans. We’re waiting to hear back from insurance so we can get trim redone and new carpet laid…..Merry Christmas to us! LOL

Harrison had his Christmas program at his school and it was the sweetest ever!

He and Dustin ran into friends one day at Chick-fil-a while he was off work and I was at school. I got this sweet picture from my friend after Harrison and her daughter saw each other 🙂

And we’ve done some Christmas shopping!!! We were able to pick up a few gifts for Daddy on Saturday while he was at work. I was nervous there would be a million people at the mall, but we got there as soon as they opened and they didn’t get busy until lunch time.

This week we’ve got to do our Shaneyfelt Christmas Light Drive By, visit the Trash Pandas stadium, and watch a few more Christmas movies!

Happy Halloween 2022!

Happy Monday and Happy Halloween, y’all! If you’re anything like us, you’ve been celebrating for the past few days! We went to our church’s fall festival on Wednesday so Harrison could dress up and trick or treat and then he got to wear his costume to his little school on Thursday for their Halloween party and trick or treating.

Then he woke up very sick on Friday morning and ended up testing positive for the flu. So that meant we couldn’t go to our small group’s Halloween costume party yesterday and no trick or treating today :(. At least he’s already worn his costume twice!

Because we won’t be out and about tonight, I thought I’d look back at his past Halloween costumes and remember those!

2019–his first Halloween at 8 months old!

Harrison started going to a church daycare once he hit 5.5 months old. The baby class he was in chose a theme for everyone to dress up as and they went as superheroes!!! I picked up this $3 onesie from Buy Buy Baby because….

…I spent $80 on this one! You may think that’s crazy (and it kind of was) but I had been looking forward to having a baby to celebrate all holidays with and also dress that baby up in a cute Pottery Barn Kid costume. Harrison looked so cute as he helped us hand out candy that year!

I have never loved Halloween more than when I became a mother 🙂

2020–the one with croup at 20 months old!

You read that right. Harrison was diagnosed with the croup this Halloween, so we couldn’t go out with our friends like we had planned. And for those who know me, I am not the craftiest person, so the fact that I even attempted to create his costume meant something huge! I did that for two reasons: first, he was obsessed with watching Charlie Brown, and second, I couldn’t really decide on a costume from Pottery Barn that I was just in love with.

I ordered his Snoopy and he will still sleep with it sometimes 🙂

And this pretty much sums up this Halloween–just not the most comfortable 🙁

2021–Halloween at age 2.5!

After “creating” a costume the year before that we didn’t even get to enjoy, back to the Pottery Barn website I went! And it was a great find because Harrison just so happened to be obsessed with DINOSAURS!!! I wish I would have gotten a picture of the back of him, but his spine and tail lit up and some people asked is he was an alligator haha–he had the best time running door to door trying to keep that head on LOL!

This was such a fun costume!!!

2022–the one with the flu at age 3.5!

Just like everyone else in north Alabama and according to my IG stories, all over the US also, we are down for the count with the flu. I did snap a picture of Harrison at church Wednesday night so I wanted to share that. Right now, he is OBSESSED with trains and when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween, he said a train “deductor”! The first costume I ordered from Amazon literally smelled like poison, so I mailed that back asap. Then I waited a little too long before ordering a new one, so what he got was what had his size in stock–and he ended up loving it! He was so excited when it came in, and when I tried it on him, he was so proud. My heart literally melted. You can tell from the picture below just how proud he is to be a train “deductor”!

He is so handsome!!!

I hope everyone’s Halloween is full of lots of candy–whether at home or out trick or treating! And now it’s time to start up the Christmas music, right?! LOL