Crazy Life of the McNeill's: August 1

Garrett

He is now 9 months old. He started crawling last month and now is everywhere. He is pulling up on everything he can get to. I caught him the other day trying to climb the stairs he made it to one. We are now in trouble.

He has cut 6 teeth since June 16 and has two more coming in. He hasn't been too fussy with all of them coming in. He is such a happy go lucky baby. You can just look at him and he will give you a smile that will warm your heart.

Reagan

He is now 33 months old. He was doing a great job at potty training then he got sick so we have had a setback. We are working on it again he is slowly getting back to the swing of things. Reagan is talking so much now in complete sentences. We can finally understand what he says and wants most of the time. He is becoming such a big boy.

Shane takes him swimming a couple of times a week at our pool in the neighborhood. He LOVES it!!!! He wants to jump in and float on his own. He can almost swim by himself.

Shane left for Scotland on the 1^st and will be gone to Aug. 12^th. The boys and I are in Alabama to August 11^th. We are staying with my parents.

We drove down to AL on Wednesday afternoon. We had supper with my parents and then my sister, Michelle, brother-in-law, and niece came over for dessert. My niece decided to spend the night so trying to get Reagan to bed was a challenge but I got it done with a fight from him.

On Thursday we got up and just hung out at the house for awhile. Then we all headed over to Chelle's house to see her new boat. My parents left from there to go to work. My sister got in my car with the three kids and Lucy and headed to Mom and Dad McNeill's house. We were taking Lucy down there so they could keep for the night and then take her to the vet on Friday to get fixed. We were there for about an hour when the vet called and decided that with her weight and age he didn't want to do it. So I then called our vet in Nashville about getting her fixed and they said it was $145. I knew that my mom's vet in Decatur was only $120 so I set up an appt. with them. Reagan and Dakota got to see some cows and Michelle took their picture with them. Garrett was all smiles for them and they got to see him crawled.

We left and went to Michelle's house for her to fix supper. Once Jesse got home and ate supper they all went swimming. I forgot their swimmies so Garrett swam in his diaper and Reagan with just his swimsuit. Reagan had a blast jumping in from their ladder. He would call my sister's name and jump right toward her to splash her. He loves the water.

Garrett just smiled and splashed the water while my sister held him. He was having a great time.

Yesterday, we got up and went to my grandmother's house. The boys and I haven't seen her since March. She absolutely loved us coming. Garrett fell asleep in her arms and she was in heaven. We tried to move him to make her more comfortable and she wouldn't let us. Then we were leaving and Mom had him leaned down for Granny to kiss his head and kept leaning down for her to kiss him. It was so cute. Reagan played with balloons and a ball while there. He actually told my Granny he loved her without me having to coax it out him. He was leaving and said bye then he went love you.

I still have to get the pictures from sister that was taken on Thursday with the cows and them swimming.