A name of honor

David's grandmother (Gaga) passed away last Sunday afternoon. She was a wonderful woman and lived a full life. Before she passed, she spent Saturday afternoon visiting with most of the members of her family, including my precious ones. David took David Jr and Grant down to Charleston to see her last Saturday and I'm so grateful they got to have a wonderful visit with her. Big David is doing well but he was very close to Gaga and has been living with her in Charleston the last 6 weeks. What a blessing they had that time together! We will miss her but we know she is home and as Lil D says, "Gaga is walking on streets of Gold"! We have decided to name our son "Oliver Morrison Corry"- he will be named after Gaga and her husband, David's Pop. Gaga was Kathryn Oliver and his Pop was Carl Morrison. So, we are thrilled to give our son this name of honor. We look forward to meeting Oliver real soon!

No More Passy

Grant has been attached to her passy from the moment she was born. We have tried several times to talk her in to giving up passy but we really didn't think she was ready. Grant is still very oral and inappropriately puts everything in her mouth, at least the passy was appropriate and kept her mouth occupied. However, for several months she has had nothing short of blisters all around her mouth from constant licking and sucking passy. So, last Saturday we decided it was time to force the issue. We explained to Grant that passy was hurting her mouth and she was too big for it. I bagged up all of her passy's in a ziploc bag and placed it in a tree. We waited an hour and went back to discover that the Mommy birds had taken her passy's off to their babies in the nest! It was the only thing that Grant would allow....we made a huge deal about how special it was that she shared her passy's with the baby birds. It has not been an easy transition but as time passes, she seems to be doing fine. She still cries for it and getting her to sleep is harder but it needed to be done, especially before her baby brother arrives. Now we sit in the kitchen window and try to spot the baby birds with passy's in their mouths! Hooray for Grant!

One for the books....

David lost his first tooth last week! It was a momentous occasion since most of the kids his age have been losing teeth for awhile now. I figured he'd be a late "tooth loser" since he was a late "tooth bloomer". He got his first tooth at 11 months old! So, he has joined his peers in their gapped grins. He was so excited when it was loose that he was determined to get it out so he could get on the tooth chart at school. He wiggled and wiggled until his determination paid off...I thought he'd never stop bleeding. He placed his prize tooth under his pillow and was thrilled to discover the tooth fairy paid him a visit....a $2.00 visit!!!!

Weekend trip to Hilton Head

We went to Hilton Head this past weekend to visit with Nana and Papa Stanley. We had a wonderful visit. The kids had a blast playing at Harbor Town and Daddy and David even went to the top of the lighthouse. We had beautiful weather and enjoyed making crafts and planting an herb garden with Nana and had lots of wonderful meals. We capped it all off by stopping by the beach Sunday morning to take some family pictures. What a great weekend! Oh, and those of you in Texas who have been asking for belly shots....here they are!

Visit to the sheep farm

BeeGee and Papa took us several weekends ago to the Ovis Hill Sheep farm which is just right around the bend. The kids loved seeing the sheep and they even got to feed some of the babies. Grant even got to "hold" a one day old newborn. We finished up our visit with a quick stop in the store and came home with some 7 year old cheese. It was a great way to spend a Saturday morning!