A Lovely Lewis Life

It's hard to believe that our precious baby boy is 1. He still seems like such a baby to us, so much smaller than B was at this age (unless our memories have completely failed us). The day he was born was perfection. It will always be one of my most favorite days ever.  We had very few visitors, at our request (of course big brother had to be there!) and were able to enjoy the full day together since the scheduled c section was early in the morning. It was the sweetest day and I'll never forget how special his birthday was or how happy I felt to have another sweet baby boy to love. The first year went a little differently than B's first year. We didn't co-sleep after 1 month, we only made it to 10 months breastfeeding because of the 3rd pregnancy/miscarriage (which is still a major accomplishment but B went 15 months so of course I had guilt over that), we had a TIME trying to get him to sleep at night. Weight: 21.4 lbs, Length: 29.5" [caption id="attachment_4...

On Sunday we returned from our first family vacation! Joey and I took Beckett to the beach in SC when he was just over 1 but that was work related and only for a day so it wasn't actually a vacation. We haven't taken vacation, like take-a-week-off-work-and-go-somewhere-the-entire-time type of vacation, since our 1 year wedding anniversary 4 years ago!! I think with the year we've had so far, this family vacation was so needed for us. We wanted to take an anniversary trip since we just celebrated 5 years but I was supposed to be around 7 months pregnant so we weren't sure where we'd go that would be fun and also safe for me (hi, Zika). We tossed around a bunch of ideas but we never booked anything, mostly because we didn't really want to leave the kids. I'm actually really glad we didn't because it turned out to be so nice to just set off with my favorite 3 guys. Joey and I aren't travelers. Anytime we've ever gone on a trip we've always deci...

A few weeks ago we celebrated our sweet B's 3rd birthday with all of our family and friends. When we asked him what kind of party he wanted he'd tell us, "Mickey or dinosaurs". He's come to really love dinosaurs over the last few months and after doing some Pinteresting, I was able to get on board with the dinosaur idea (though I was really hoping for a construction theme.. maybe next year). I also asked him where he wanted to have his party and he requested it to be at home. I couldn't argue with that because it was saving me hundreds of dollars to not rent out a space but it also meant 40ish people at my house!!!!!! Now, I love to throw a party and have people over but since I knew it was probably going to rain (hello, race weekend) I knew the chances of us being able to party outside were slim. And I was right. UGH! The plus side of it being inside was that the decor looked super cute! I couldn't have done what I did in our dining room anywhere outside ...

I just can't say enough how sweet this baby is! However, he sure does give us a run for our money sometimes. He is into EVERYTHING these days. Our stacked stone fireplace = his favorite spot to mess around (inside the fireplace!) by getting the rocks out. You should see the grin on his face when he gets a rock and knows he's not supposed to have it. He will hike his little leg up like he's going to try to crawl on it and when we tell him no he will grin and start shaking his head no. He is rotten to the core. Sometimes I don't think I can handle another one after him. He wears us OUT!! haha Weight: 22lbs He's a professional crawler now. I love hearing his little hands smacking across the floor. He loves to eat. He will eat and eat and eat with no end in sight. He'll tear everything off the table in a restaurant in order to get to the bread. :-D He loves rolls, biscuits, bananas, and Popsicles, in addition to his baby food and formula. He's not a fan of...

It doesn't seem real that my first baby is 3 years old. THREE! I will never be able to explain what it means to me to get to be his Momma or what a special place he holds in my heart. He is the absolute light of my life and a guaranteed bright spot in all my days. Beckett it happy, energetic, funny and so loving. My heart is so full knowing that I get to raise him and mold him into a wonderful man. My hope is that he will always know how much he is loved and will always show love and kindness to others. I wanted to go heavy on the photos by my phone won't let me upload them so I'll come back later and add in some photos of him since the last post 6 months ago. 40.6 lbs 41" tall He is the best big brother. Period. I prayed for so long that he'd transition well to becoming a big brother and would love the baby and still know how much he meant to us. Well, from the first moment he met Lincoln he's been obsessed. We've never had any sort of jealousy issues wi...

This month has been another big one for us! Sweet Lincoln is still just as precious as ever and it's crazy to think he's been in our little family for 10 months. He has 4 teeth now! The top front 2 finally popped through. He finally started crawling! I totally forgot how stinking cute it is to see little babies crawl and hear their hands smacking on the floor. We didn't think he was going to crawl (same with B) but he just took off one day and now he's unstoppable. He can stand on his own for short periods. He pulls up on literally EVERYTHING and will sometimes, without even realizing what he's doing, let go and will be able to stand for a bit. Beckett was walking at 10.5 months and we think L will be soon too. He is into EVERYTHING.. and he's fast! We constantly have to be watching him or else he's climbing the fireplace or trying to get up the stairs. The other day Joey asked B to keep Lincoln away from the fireplace while he was fixing their lunc...