3 months

Can you believe this little guy is already 3 months? It's crazy how much he's grown! 

Caffrey is still a little guy, but those cheeks have really started to fill out, and he's beginning to outgrow his 0-3 month clothes. We may make it another month in them, though. He still wears size 1 diapers easily, which is good because we still have a huge box that we just opened!

Nights are starting to get better, although I hesitate to say that in fear of jinxing myself. He has slept through the night for the past three nights! Which means he wakes up around 5 starving, but I can deal with that.

Caffrey really wants to be independent already. For example, he HAS to be sitting up and has even started trying to sit up in his car seat. Of course, he isn't quite big enough yet, but we have pulled out the bumbo seat to use some.

He also is "talking" a lot more. I love listening to his coos and seeing his sweet smile. If he's not sitting up, he wants to lay right beside me to and talk. 

Right now we're pretty sure he's teething because the fingers are in his mouth all the time. Keagan was an early teether, so I'm not shocked. Just hoping it goes quickly like his older brother's.

Even with some teething problems, Caffrey is already proving to be a pretty chill, happy baby! I started taking him to the church nursery pretty early on, and today was the first time they had to pull me out of service because he kept fussing, which is rare for him. Turns out he was hungry for another bottle (even though he'd just eaten). I'm blessed to have such easy kids and praying it doesn't catch up with me later.

I had to go back to work Thursday and was sad to leave him. He's such a momma's boy already, and I love my snuggles with him. But I know he's in good hands while I'm away!

And I didn't actually make a 3 month post for Keagan, but here's a comparison picture anyway. (Also, my photography skills have definitely improved, along with having a much better camera.)

Curb Appeal

We love our new house, and it was in great move-in condition when we bought it. Unfortunately, the exterior required quite a few projects. It had been neglected for who knows how long, and we have a fairly long list of things we want/need to do to clean it up.

Here is our list:

• Remove trees/ivy in the front
• Trim bushes
• Remove chain link fence
• Replace rear chain link fence with a privacy fence
• Screen in back porch
• Add a floating deck off the back porch
• Paint door and shutters
• Landscape

So far, we haven't gotten to anything in the back. The rear privacy fence was originally more of priority, but the dogs are fine with the chain-link for now, and that will have to do. That will be a big chunk of money, and we're not quite ready for the expense. But the front is starting to look like a completely different house!

The trees on the left of the picture were the top priority. They were SO overgrown (I think there were 6 trees over there), and we also discovered poison ivy along with a lot of other ivy that was just making a mess. We ended up paying professionals to remove it all, and I'm glad we did.

Then we needed to take care of the shrubbery up front and on the sides. Steven and our oldest nephew spent an entire day pulling up and trimming the front to make it presentable. I'm still not in love with the bushes, but it looks worlds better and will work until we can plant new things that are more our style.

Last night, we had some friends come over to help Steven tear down the fence in front. It was old and rusted, and I couldn't wait for it to go! We aren't going to put up a new fence in the front.

We browsed Pinterest for the perfect color to go with the brick and decided on orange. Then I found this picture inspiration with navy shutters and fell in love. It just adds so much more to the look (even though it makes us look like UVA fans here in Virginia. Oh well, it could be worse!),

Photo courtesy of Tone on Tone blog

Steven's sister and her husband bought the paint as our housewarming gift, and we finally were able to get them painted this week. And by we, I mean Steven. Unfortunately with a newborn around, I haven't been any help outside, which has really slowed everything down because Steven has had to do it all. He's amazing, y'all! This was what made the big difference, in my opinion!

One of my favorite finishing touches was this pineapple door knocker. It's just so much fun and adds a little bit of our character to the house.

In the fall, we plan on adding a flower bed, filling in the front with pretty perennials, and planting grass seed where the trees were removed. Then we'll eventually start on the back yard, although it's way more functional already. I'm so proud of the overhaul that has taken place and can't wait to see the tranformation continue!

We Went to the Beach

After the insanity of July, a week at the beach was exactly what we needed! So we packed up the car and headed down to Virginia Beach for our annual family vacation. I chose just a few of my favorite pictures from the week to share.

Of course Caffrey didn't do much except sleep under a tent, but we were able to borrow the swimsuit from a girl at church, and of course he HAD to have a fedora! I was surprised to find one small enough, although it's still a little bit on him. Oh well, he'll grow into it soon enough!

I swear every year gets more fun with Keagan at the beach! This boy is a beach bum like his parents and couldn't wait to start his fun every day!

Caffrey did make it out one time to just dip his toes in the water. He didn't hate it, but it wasn't his favorite thing ever.

I think we started a new family tradition of heading over to the eastern shore and visiting Cape Charles. You should really check it out! And if you go, you have to visit Brown Dog Ice Cream. It's my new favorite!

And here are just a few more pictures showing how much fun we had!

And of course I had to get a picture of my cuties in their fedoras. Who needs baseball caps? We're much cooler!