Pray for Conner

*UPDATE*
He is home and going great. Auntie Jamie said he's already running around! So much for that nap huh?! See you soon little buddy!!!

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Today my little cousin Conner goes in to have surgery :( He's been sick for a long time with his ears and nothing seems to make those nasty infections go away so he's having tubes put in BOTH of his ears. Mommy says it's a quick and easy procedure and he'll be running around in no time but if you don't mind praying for him anyways, I'd appreciate it. He's got to be better so he can dress like a punkin' on his very first Halloweenie! So PRAY, mmkay, thanks peeps!

Happy Friday and Happy Halloweenie Eve! I have "trick or treating" at school today so I get to dress up!!! Whoop! :-) Pictures later. Have a spooktacular day!

Boos & Kisses -

Holden

so fresh, so clean clean

I luvre a bath!

so i've had the sickies lately (Tuesday night) and so I got to stay home yesterday with Mommy. Yes, truthfully I just didn't want to go to school because after a quick nap I was running around crazy like. ;-) So after my doctor's appointment I got ready to go to girls night with Mommy. Yes you can be jealous! I rock and they want me there :-P nahnahnahnah booooo booo!

Anyways I got sick AT girls night ON Auntie Ber's floor {Sorry again!!} and got ANOTHER bath {that was bath #4 in less than 12 hours} and then was ALL good ;-) I think I gave them a slight PEEK into a future life, at least Mommy hopes so! hehehe. {no laughing Jill, you are on that list too!} Thanks again Auntie Ber & Aunt Holly. You definitely earned that title!!!

So long story short I am NOW so fresh and so CLEAN CLEAN!!!!

Squeaky in fact -

Holden

Wordless Wednesday with some WORDS

* shout outs to all my girls*

HI

Auntie Ber, Jill, Stef, Auntie Kristin, Holly, Aunt Julie, Mimi, Aunt Anne, Aunt Kelly, Gigi, Mema, Auntie Jamie, Aunt Lee Lee, Nana, Megan, Peggy, Alecia, all the NCSU library girls...I am sure I left some of you out but if you no comment you get no shout out ;-)

LOVE to you ALL -

Holden

future heartbreakers

This is my buddy Julien and according to our Mommies we are going to be future heartbreakers but our Daddies said we need to get ready to be wingmen, whatever that is. Either way I think we have a long way to go since we are both still in diapies ;)

J + H = Heartbreakers!

handsome Julien

me!

I sure do love having lots of buddies to play with. Thanks to all their Mommies!

Love,

Holden

18 months

There it goes again. Life blinked and I am now one and a half! Wow! I have so many things I can do now and am going to the house of pain Wednesday for the routine check up plus some shots. I am going to try to flirt with the nurses to get out of those, but we shall see :-)

Life at 18 months

I have moved up into my big boy room at school

I drink from a cup (it's pretty messy, but I do it)

I have added some words to my "mmmm" sound -bubba & mama are my faves!

Had my second trip to the fair

Love to go outside and help Daddy

I LOVE to Dance and nod my head to the music (I get it from my Mama)

eating is #1 priority for me! Feed me and all is good ;-)

I have 7 1/2 teeth {one still has a little to go to}

shoe size 4 and oh do I lub shoes. everyone needs to have them on

I am still a big ole' flirt

I have a new buddy at school, his name is Jacob

I run everywhere. seriously

am still a ham for the camera. just tell me to say "CHEESE"

speaking of cheese, I am a carboholic but have started eating real peas (go me!)

I can spot a Bojangles cup from the backseat, so don't be stingy ;-)

25 lbs 10 0z

31.5 inches

49.25 cm

"picture perfect"

"I was running"

all growed up...

"one 1/2 and growing"

Holden

MAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that's all.

I said Mama yesterday to Mama.

Life is good :-)

Add one more to the Holden finally decided to start talking list + added some major brownie points!

I ROCK -

"Mama's Boy"

Happy Friday!

Hurray for Friday! Today is my pumpkin patch day at school! I can't wait to pick out my very own punkin' ;-) Also I have a new buddy I hang out with other than the teachers! We play outside together and even read books! AWESOMENESS!

Can't wait for a fun weekend with the 'rents. Heard they were dog sitting my favorite dogs EVER! Seriously these dogs let me rub them, lay on them and pretty much do whatever I want. I'm sure we'll have pictures I can share on Monday. I may even talk them into going to a pumpkin patch FARM with hay rides, corn maze, big slide and a tractor! Hope you all have a fun weekend too!

Love,

Holden

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Mash

He did the mash

He did the monster mash

The monster mash

It was a graveyard smash

He did the mash

It caught on in a flash

He did the mash

He did the monster mash

It's now the mash

It's now the monster mash

The monster mash

And it's a graveyard smash

It's now the mash

It's caught on in a flash

It's now the mash

It's now the monster mash

HDC

TEN

...and three away from the big ONE...

lots of head pats & fist bumps

Hold

Life's Fair!

Fair time has finally arrived! We waited to go Sunday so that Daddy could join us for all that FUN! Gigi, Grumps & Uncle Jare happened to be out there Sunday too! We met for Breakfast (my snack) and were off to find all that yummy goodness after that. I saw the cows, baby chicks, piggies, and lots more. They don't let you hold the little chickies anymore though. bummer.

It was a bit chilly so Mommy wrapped me up and I decided it was a great time to take a AWESOME nap! They went through all the buildings and loaded up on pickles, peanuts, fresh COLD milk and saw lots of things without me. Daddy & Uncle Jare even got weighed :-) I'll let them tell you the big ol' numbers. hehe. Don't worry I am sure I'll get to see more next year and even ride some rides. I did get to eat mini donuts and a yummy biscuit and milk though. Hopefully next time it will not be as cold and great weather for napping!

Here's me and mommy in the "Children's Petting Zoo" although you can't touch any of the animals. Me thinks it needs a new name!

Uncle Jare and me outside the "petting zoo" in front of the hand washing! Like anyone needs that with the sanitizer-atizi around.

Leaving the fair and awake ready to go eat lunch! Yes I ate again!

Peace out fair and peeps.

Until Life's Fair Again -

Holden

ps it was so cold the Mama-ratzi only took her "real" camera out once. Sorry for the camera phone pictures, but hey you get to see me, so who cares! *

New Do

Hair-Do that is! I got my second "big boy" haircut on Friday. I always do great at stuff where I normally would NOT sit still. I sat right there while the nice lady trimmed up my mullet and watched a four year old boy SCREAM his head off while he was getting his hair cut. Apparently that was his first. Mommy couldn't believe it either! He must have been a BALD baby ;-)

Anyhoo here I am looking handsome again and I even have a part {please watch your fall ladies, you know - when you swoon}.

So anyways as I said before I did not go to the fair Friday but did eat lunch with my favorite Auntie J and my best bud Conner at Chick-Fil-A, then went to my daddy's work to see all my fans {Hi Ms. Tabitha & Ms. Heather} & a two hour power nap later, Daddy was home and it was PLAY TIME!

Life IS good!

Holden

Cha..Cha..Chatterbox!

So, the time has come. The weather is beyond CRISP and has gotten down right frigid and perhaps that's all I needed was to do a little chatter-boxing ;-) That's right folks - No one is going to be able to keep my lips from chattering ANYMORE!

I started out today babbling which trust me isn't normal. I am more of an action kid and love to observe my surroundings more than a loud one but out of the blue my lips just started to tremble. hehe. not really but I decided I could say more than mmmm...although that hasn't let me down yet.

Next time you call make sure you ask to talk to me. I am pretty sure the parents think it's the greatest, they called EVERYONE - trust me!

bubbabubbabubba...bubbabubbabubba...bubbabubbabubba...That's what I've been running around saying all day long. Maybe it's because I like to say "bye" or daddy sometimes calls me 'bubba" and mommy calls me "bubs" but the "B's" definitely won!

So after a LONG wait since I stopped saying "hey" I am BACK and I don't think anyone is going to be able to put a cork in me now!

BUBBBBBBBBBBBYYYYYEEEEE for now!

Holden aka chatterbox ;)

* will update more later on my day - too busy talking to be typing! *

Flipped Turned Upside Down!

Yes, yes I know - I've been slack with the updates. Sorry peeps! I've been a busy boy!! This past weekend the 'rents were in HOUSE MODE aka lots of trips to Lowes & Home Depot. I heard the kitchen is about to get a partial remodel and Daddy also needs to start painting, trimming & such! I can't wait for the DEMOLITION!! WOO HOO...maybe they'll at least let me hammer?! I mean I DO watch Handy Manny!

Pretty soon we'll have a home tour via pictures, pinky promise! kay?!

Also on Saturday Mema came and hung out with me for a little while and took me to lunch. FUN STUFF! I heard her talking about Christmas presents too! I am so excited that's around the corner! AND you know what else....IT'S FAIR TIME!!!!!!! Enough said! Mama is taking me Friday. HECK YEAH! Speaking of fair this year I get to try ALL the yummy food! :-)

Alright, time for me to go to bed but there is your update. Next keep looking for a fair post!

Lots of Love and Dreams of FRIED THINGS ;-)

HDC

Wordless Wednesday

Savannah

Hadley & me....I was not allowed that close since I felt sick :(

This past weekend we FINALLY made it to Savannah! It was a LOOOOONNGGG ride but on the way down I pretty much slept the entire way. We got there pretty darn late but I decided to stay up and party a little bit, I mean really I had a 4 hour nap :-) hehe plus Hadley was up and she's way younger than I am! I eventually went to bed but pretty sure they stayed up way later.

All the 'rents were dragging in the morning. :-) Saturday we toured around downtown and saw some sights and I got a super duper cuppycake from this cute little shop. It was WICKED AWESOME!! (no pics because sleepy mommy left her camera back at the house!) She eventually used it to take pictures of Hadley though. I also got to play at the park in their 'hood. She remembered the camera this time! :-) Way to go Mommy!

Sunday I wasn't feeling too hot (sorry Alisa!) so we packed up and headed back for the LONGEST CAR RIDE EVAH! *sigh* so darn glad when we got back home. I was one cranky toddler.

Well that's my weekend recap. Thanks again Alisa & Jon for hosting us and letting us have fun with baby Hadley! I sure did have fun! Can't wait til next time, maybe she'll be able to play :-)

her shirt said "Princess in Training" :-)

Hope everyone has a GREAT Monday!

Love,

Holden

"Picasso"

Fabulous artwork of mine done on 8-30-09. Yes we just got it home since I am such a great arteeeest that it hung on the wall at school for awhile. But the funny thing is the paper on the bottom. My teachers helped me but I did all the rest by myself. Mama can back me up since the paint was all over my crisp white (not anymore!) polo shirt that day.

It's a little blurry but here's what it says about me

Name: Holden

Birthdate: 4-25-08

Age: 1 yr. 5 m.

Height: 2ft. 7 inches (31 inches)

Weight: 25 lbs

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Blue

and best part ev-uh

KNOWN FOR : Doing Yoga, making cute sad faces & closing doors.

Explanation of "know for facts"

Now yes we do baby yoga in school and I LOVE the downward dog position. It is so wicked cool 'cause all the blood rushes to your head. The making cute sad faces = anything I want (for serious!) and what can I say I am a boy and just love slamming doors shut. So watch your fingers! But what's funny is that's what my favorite teacher wrote and Daddy and Mama totally agree! I do slam the cabinet doors, fridge door, bedroom door, shower door every. single. time.

Also, I can make anyone become a sucker for me...all I do is break out "saddest face ever" and wahla I am golden! So next time you come see me - watch out for the known for stuff. I'll get ya every time! Now have a HAPPY THURSDAY!

We have a big weekend planned and can't wait to show you pictures later!

PEACE OUT!

H