Chicken (and Veggie) Dinner

This little gem was shot about a week ago, a few days before Mr. William's first Christmas. Daddy and William were home alone, and this is how dinner went.

How Sweet It Is

Sleepy time in daddy's arms...during an early Christmas celebration. 

Let's Do This

As the guy who started this blog, it is up to me to try and revive it! I have recently started blogging a little for my business (womackfinancial.blogspot.com - sorry for the shout-out, had to), and have enjoyed it...so I will try to carry that momentum to this blog, and see if I can get my lovely bride to assist as well :)

 

Quick updates from the last blog in May.

1. William is consistently getting more awesome, while consistently producing more smelly diapers. He is now speed crawling everywhere (10 months and 12 days old now) and pulling himself up on everything. All he needs is a wall to balance on, and he can stand and shuffle his way around. He is also opening any and all cabinets, drawers, doors, that he can get his awesome little hands on. He is eating real people food, which is always entertaining to watch. My favorite food thing he does - William trying to feed me. He is a very giving little man...particularly when he is full and just wants to watch daddy eat little bites of food.  
2. Dixie is getting older and less mobile...just harder to get up and down these days, but still getting from A to B ok. :(  Also, her breath was getting so bad, it actually trumped the diapers on the smelly test, so we recently got her teeth cleaned. Anesthesia on an old dog is hard, hopefully we won't have to do this again anytime soon.  
3. The weather is definitely colder than it was in May, a good change.
4. There is more I'm sure, but those will have to creep out later in other, future blogs hopefully.

 

** Note, I am publishing this without review from my in house editor, so please forgive any grammatical errors. :)

 

Josh

William Elijah Womack

I think I've decided to stop blogging for a while because clearly, I don't keep up with it. But, I wanted to leave you with some of our favorite pics of William. We are so in love with this little guy. We've been blessed with such an easy and happy baby, and we look forward to all the fun times we'll have with him in the future.

Cousins

My cousin Holly's husband, Kevan, professionally creates shorts/films of children and families. His company is called Origin Productions. He played this video for us as a surprise and of course we all cried. It's of William and his cousins Noah and Sydney. We knew he was capturing stills and video of the cousins but had no idea he was going to turn it into something so special. Enjoy, and if you are interested in having him create a short for you and your family, let me know.

Cousins from Kevan Lin on Vimeo.

This is for our teammates

We had our baby.

40+ weeks

Funny how the babynamey.com thing on the right side of the blog says "Your baby is 2 days old."

Yesterday at 40 weeks and 1 day.















We are patiently awaiting the arrival of the little guy b/c we know we'll be meeting him within 1 week! We're enjoying spending many date nights together and I'm getting lots of great sleep, which I am very thankful for.

Nursery

I shared with you our inspiration nursery a while ago.














What we took from this is a slightly altered version of the letters wall and brown and white furniture. We had Kate Duff, a friend from high school, do the letters/numbers wall. She did such an amazing job. We are thrilled with her work! This is the sketch she drew up for us. We changed some of letters and added a 2 and a 3. (No, his name is not hidden in here. We've gotten that question a couple of times.)
















She did most of it by hand, using a laser to trace straight lines. The rest, like the 3, were done with stencils. She's a perfectionist, which is a good match for me.


































Complete!


































Dixie loves her baby brother's room. She can't wait to be a big sister.



















Cardboard Safari. Josh put this together piece-by-piece.
















































We want to get this to go above the dresser, but without a name and a birthday, we have to wait on it.












Update on mom: I am 39 weeks and 5 days and feeling great. Definitely can tell it's going to happen soon...feeling more and more pressure. Baby will most likely be here no later than Friday, 2/4, but we're hoping it's sooner than that.

Update on dad: He's feeling great and is sore from playing tennis on Sunday. Can't wait to be a daddy!

Update on our families: Some of them may be a little impatient with us since we haven't finalized a name...totally understandable. They are all waiting by their phones. Each time we call they think it's "that call." Soon enough!

37 even though I'm almost 38

Like I told my teammate, Aaron Leifeste, I haven't posted anything since week 28 because I don't look any different. This is not true. Here's last week's pic at 37. Tomorrow I'm 38, which means I have 2 weeks (2 weeks!) until the due date. Pretty soon you'll see nursery pics, but I am not ready to post those yet. We have a couple of walls that need decor, but that might not happen until post no-named baby boy Womack's arrival. We are so ready to meet him and go through the labor and delivery process. Until then, we are enjoying spending time together and sleeping as much as possible.













And here's my nephew, Noah, holding my 5 1/2 week old niece, Sydney. Uncle Josh is head over heels for her. :)