A week or two in Review!

We Reppards have been wild with activity, and we wanted to update everyone on the latest happenings! Here you go . . . there are about a bajillion pictures to catch you up! Enjoy!

William and I visit with our friends Metiben and baby Grace--so precious!

William decides to try to inhale a bag of Pirates Booty at a picnic with our friends Meghan and Molly; and, to say the least, his plan was unsuccessful!

We had a going away party and a sad goodbye to Joy, Spence, and Spencer Dixon! We loved having the Dixons in our home group over the last two years. Spencer is especially upset about leaving . . . (from the Left: Sylvie making her move on William, Hudson snuggling up to Harper, a very sad Spencer, and a solemn Grayson)

Hudson has learned to flip over in bed, which is usually fun for a few minutes and then he starts to scream. Here are two pictures of what I found after naps!

Why sleep when you can play?

My sweet little Chubby Bunny!

We headed to Lake Anna (aka Lake Nana) for 5 days with the Murphy crew. There was no shortage of love and entertainment for the babes. We all had a great time! The babies LOVED their baby pool on the dock! Thanks, Uncle David!

We had a great Father's Day as a family. Hatch is a fantastic dad and husband. It was such fun to be together at the lake on Hatch's first Father's Day! My cousin Cameron organized a Father's Day Extravaganza where the dads each got a gift bag with a goodie in it each HOUR of the day . . . Hatch is especially excited about his ShamWow. :) Cameron definitely set the bar high on the first Father's Day!

Hatch and Hudson


A Father's Day treat . . . napping on the dock!



Cousin Meredith was a HUGE help with the boys . . . and they LOVED playing with her! (Cousin Cameron took this great picture!)

William with sharkfin hair

Fishface Hudson (photo taken by the fabulous Cameron Murphy!)

Tasty Hands from William (photo taken by the fabulous Cameron Murphy!)

Hmmmmmmmm . . . from Hudson

Bumpa and his boys (hudson and will)


Will enjoying the exersaucer on the dock


Hudson enjoying a happy hour snooze on the dock in his mommy's arms . . . ahhhhh, vacation! (photo taken by the fabulous Cameron Murphy!)

Hudson swimming with Sugie

Sun-baby Will

All I know is that Uncle David made this ducky very sad (or hungry??) (photo taken by the fabulous Cameron Murphy!)


Will was so excited about the lake, he decided to sit on his own for the first time!


We then headed down South to visit some friends in Greenville (forgive us Aunt Jill for not scheduling a visit!) for four days . . . the babies were great travellers, and we had a blast with Meg, Travis, Hatch-the-dog, and the Caldwell FOUR! Sweet Watson was born here in Richmond, and we LOVED watching him grow! Trib joined the crew in March (on March 2--he and Hud and Will are literally 3 months apart!) It was such a treat to enjoy sweet Trib!

Morning time with the BOYS! (L to R: Hudson, Trib, Shannon and Will, Watson)


The Trio: Hud, Trib, Will

The Big News . . .

We have a TOOTH!

All week long, we had been focusing on little William teething! (but we haven't seen any pop through quite yet . . .) But, when we were at the pool the other day, Hudson giggled with his mouth wide open, and there it was . . . One big tooth! (and a second is on the way . . . it appears that we like to do things in twos around here!)

This is William working on his teeth and pulling on his gums!
Our big boy, Hudson!


We had quite the busy week last week!!
We took our first trip to Nottingham Green to meet several of our friends who live there--everyone loved seeing the babies for the first time!

This is Will and Hudson with their amiga Ariley


After our visit to NG, we headed to the pool to play a little with Daddy. We have been blowing in the boys faces so they hold their breaths, and then we put them under water! Here are some pictures of the fun!

Hudson and Daddy


William and his Mama


Our little fish!

Hudson

William
The Turtle (Hudson)
Our tired little shark! (william)

Sunday Blue!

These are some pictures from two Sundays ago! (I'm feeling very backed up in getting pictures on the blog--sorry!) I love these because Hatch was home, so in most of them, the boys are looking at and smiling at their Daddy even though you can't see him! Enjoy! and, yes, more to come!

Our sweet boys, Hudson and William




Happy Hudson! (check out the cheeks!)


Precious William! (check out the eyelashes!)

A few shots from last week . . .

I realized that we had neglected to post a few pictures that we'd taken from last week . . . so, here they are. Pictures from this week coming soon . . .

Sweet William!
We took Will back to the pediatric opthomologist for her to have a look at his eye. She has decided to put him back on steriod drops in order to try to reduce the size of the hemangioma, which seems to be growing slightly larger (although it is growing at a slower rate than before). Please pray with us that God will use the drops to heal Will's eye and stop the growth . . . we are also praying for the hemangioma to begin to decrease in size. It still does not seem to impair his vision, but it could if it continues growing. Please do pray with us for God to fully heal Will's eye!


Life with William doing raspberries continues . . .


Sweet Hudson is loving looking at and exploring the world around him. He is grabbing a lot and instead of babbling or crying, Hudson yells and screams. It is funny most of the time :) . . . I have had a few headaches in the last few weeks though!

Our little chubby bunny!


Anyone think these babies look alike (will and hud)?


Our friend Neveah (and her twin brother, Max) came over last week for a visit . . . in this picture, Hudon was impeding Neveah's new crawling technique by resting his large head on her rear!
This picture makes me laugh because Hudson looks like Chris Farley and both boys look so googley eyed . . . I have no idea what they are laughing at . . . if I had to guess, I'd say their hilarious mother . . .


This was a sweet picture we took last Saturday of Hudson and Hatch with William watching and smiling from behind: