Home of the Hollars : November 2015

How is this even possible? Isaac is HUGE! He is wearing mostly six month clothes, and I feel like every time he wakes up he's bigger!! This month was filled with so many fun things as I was living up the last few weeks of maternity leave.

On that note, work is going so much better than I expected. Obviously, I am hating being away from Isaac all day, but he's having so much fun with my mom, GRAM, at home. On the other hand, I have loved getting to hang with all my favorite people at Palmetto, and my students have been super sweet and silly so far! I guess I forgot how much I loved teaching middle school kids since it had been nearly half a year! I'm trying to be super productive at work -- even while pumping ;) so that I can have every extra second at home for snuggles with my man.

One of my favorite things we did this month was go to Panama City Beach with one of my very best friends, Jules. Every one kept telling us we were crazy for taking five kids under five to the beach, but it was honestly such a blast. The car ride down was really the only difficult part. Driving 6 hours (took over 8) with a two month old alone isn't really the greatest, but we MADE IT! Jules has four incredibly hilarious and sweet kids, and I loved seeing them interact with Isaac! She is such an insanely awesome mom, so you better believe I was taking notes the whole time! What's funny is Jules and I used to loooove to lay out all day long in college, catching as many rays as we possibly could. We quickly learned that is not the way to beach with babies. We would go out early, come back in for lunch and naps, and then go back out before dinner! Long gone are our days of laying out from sun up to sun down, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

I feel like Isaac is changing so much every day. He had his first giggle which literally made me cry!!! We've only seen it a few times since then, but he smiles all the time now. He loves weird noises and me doing my crazy high pitched voices. I definitely miss my morning snuggles terribly, but I am just making up for them with some extra after school squeezes. He's getting better at holding his head up, loves kicking his feet - especially in his bath, is obsessed with his hands, usually sleeps through the night in his crib, can roll onto his side, and I THINK he is starting to recognize me/my voice. I could be delusional on that last one, but whatever :)

Ok now for the pics.....