Well we have all heard me say that I am going to blog better blah blah but let's face it.. I have no time for anything.. but so goes life I suppose!
Samuel is officially 11 months today! I am not sure where the time has gone but it feels like a (almost) year has flown by before my eyes! My little man is now dare I say it.. WALKING! He does several feet at a time but still knows that crawling will get him around my quicker. He is also in the process of transitioning from the newborn side of the room to the one year old side (SUPER TEAR!) I am so happy and blessed that he is flourishing like he is but it just solidifies that my baby isn't a little baby anymore.
He is saying several words but mostly DA-DA and Bye Bye. He loves to wave bye bye to you if you leave a room and he also loves to give sweet kisses.
Over the past few months from my last blog (October I know!) we have had our first road trip to Indiana for our annual Thanksgiving trip and Samuel did really great considering how long the trip was and that we did it all in one day! We ended up leaving our house around 5 am- both mommy and daddy had a hard time getting moving in the morning since we were up late packing up the car. We even managed to take some pictures at our first rest stop in Arkansas.
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| Our Big Boy out on his First Road Trip |
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| Akansas Pit Stop! |
Once we made it to Indiana it was a lot of relaxing and family time! As you can imagine everyone was excited to see Samuel for the first time and play and love on him!
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| The Family out to Dinner for Adam's Birthday |
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| Spending some time with cousin Melanie |
One tradition Brandon and I started while we have been going to Indiana these last few years was to go to Santa Claus, Indiana and get a new ornament for the tree or sno-globe or something but this year was extra special because Samuel is here!! One thing you may or may not know is that last year when we went and I was pregnant, Brandon, AJ and I all went to Santa Claus and we took a picture on Santa's lap so we thought it was be cool to go back and let Samuel get his picture taken and needless to say we were not impressed!
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| Family Picture by Santa's Tree |
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| One of the Best Pictures of the Day |
We also went to the mall so Brandon could get a new pair of jean while we were there and we took Samuel on his first carousel ride which he also thought was super neat and of course mommy and daddy rode too.
Then it was finally turkey time! Samuel played pretty hard that morning and took a nice nap while we ate then woke up and had a little turkey of his own!
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| Happy Thanksgiving from the Hayfords! |
After we got back from our trip, I started a new job with a Houston company Ref-Chem which has been such a blessing to our family and then we celebrated Samuel's First Christmas!
Now all there is left is to snap our 11 month picture tonight and get ready for a first birthday party! I did get all the invitations addressed last night and in the mail today so be on the look out for yours!
