July Blog Post –Fourteen Months of Sweet Baby Levi Rhett

Goodness gracious

we sure do love and adore

our newest little ray of pure joy and SONshine!!

Sweet Baby Levi Rhett,

life with you just keeps on getting sweeter and sweeter

and we are all so grateful for fourteen months of your adorable little self!!

You LOVE the sunshine, water, and being outside 24/7 just like your “big bubba” Judson

and are a summer baby through and through!!

You love to nurse

and cuddle,

are taking your first steps these days, and saying lots of words (like “mama,” “dada,” “bubba,” “ball,” “boat,” “uh oh,” “dog,” “bye bye,” and more!!

You always always always want to be with bubba and keep up with everything Judson is doing – and it is the absolute sweetest thing EVER watching y’alls little “brother besties” relationship grow and grow!

You adore him, and he adores you right back!! Probably my favorite memory this month was when you woke up early from your nap and, while I was finishing cooking dinner and had you playing at my feet, I turned around and you had made your way over to Judson’s room and crawled into his bed to wake him up from his nap – it was soooo stinkin’ adorable!!

You are obsessed with your “dog dog” Red and love to “pat pat” him, give him kisses, and rub his belly! You are for sure an animal lover and giggle every time when I sing “Old McDonald had a farm” with all of the animal sounds… and I just know you are going to LOVE it when we are out living on our farm and raising more and more animals down the road… because right now, your favorite part of the day is walking with mama’s hand down to the chicken coop to fetch our daily moring eggs and wave to the “bach bachs” (what you call chickens haha) – be still my heart!!

I will always remember these memories with you and love this stage so much!!

This has been such a joy-filled month for our family right in the peak days of sweet sweet summertime – our very favorite season of all!

From spending our mornings and evenings out in the garden

picking homegrown flowers and homegrown veggies,

to baking the yummiest peach cobbler,

to pool play dates with friends,

baking yummy homemade tomato pie, the most wonderful Fourth of July beach trip

(full of watching the most stunning daily sunrise and sunsets over the marsh,

trips to our favorite local icecream shop, spending all day every day playing in the sand and sea, walking out on the dock and taking in the views,

soaking in the sweetest baby beach nap snuggles,

watching the town of Oak Island firework show with a sleeping baby on my chest,

spending a day boating

out on the Intracoastal Waterway, celebrating the Fourth of July with family and watching fireworks right off our deck,

all the sweet cousin time, swimming in the ocean, and more!!),

backyard inflatable pool fun,

trips to the local children’s museum,

loving our daily walks and runs (and picking allll the “flowers for mama,” ofcourse!),

family pool days,

trips to the park,

backyard splashpad fun,

big garden harvests,

and the sweetest trip back home

to visit with my parents this past weekend

(full of pool days,

a date night for Wes and me,

and more)!!

We are loving this sweet slow simple summertime so much and have lots of exciting things ahead we are looking forward to as well –

from even more upcoming beach trips

to lotssss of exciting things to come

out on our farm sweet farm… eek!!

Full hands and fuller hearts these days and so grateful to the Lord for this family of ours

and all that He has in store!!

And if you haven’t already… make sure to go read my birth story blog , “first 2 weeks” blog, one month of Levi Rhett blog, two months of Levi Rhett blog, three months of Levi Rhett blog, four months of Levi Rhett blog, five months of Levi Rhett blog, six months of Levi Rhett blog, seven months of Levi Rhett blog, eight months of Levi Rhett blog, nine months of Levi Rhett, ten months of Levi Rhett blog, eleven months of Levi Rhett blog, twelve months of Levi Rhett blog, and thirteen months of Levi Rhett blog too!!

And friends…. as I mentioned in my recent blog posts, I have been shortening these blogs more and more these days – as all of what I used to share here you can easily find over on my personal Instagram page - @emilyjoannemabry – so if you haven’t already, head on over and follow me there to see a full month recap and keep up with our fam of four these days!!

That is where you can see all the pictures, videos, and memories I love to share!

With that being said, I am not longer going to be sharing those lengthy captions (or all those pictures!) here… instead - you can find them ALL over on Instagram - with many many additional photos, videos, full captions, reflections, and more that I love to share over on my personal Instagram page but just simply don’t have room – or the time haha -  to share it all in this blog post) for you to check them out there!!

My personal Instagram page is where I am doing most of my “content sharing” these days and where you can follow along with all the exciting things in this sweet season of raising babies and building dreams with my best friend!!

We have lots of fun things in store ahead for our family and I’d love to have all of you following along there in efforts of streamlining all the things!! 

You can also follow me over on my LTKit Shop to “shop” all of my posts and what I share that we are using and loving these days in this baby/toddler season of life!

In a world that can be so negative about motherhood and children, I am so passionate about my little #joyfulmotherhood corner of the internet and what a blessing and gift from God that our little ones are!! Follow along over on my personal Instagram page for more JOYful motherhood content - because motherhood truly is a gift and children are a blessing from God!!

And onto an EMC note…

I have been so grateful for your constant love and support of this sweet small business of mine over the years! I can never thank you enough

and I will never stop thanking the Lord for the sweet blessing this business has been for our family in this season - especially now that we have another sweet baby here for all the fun!!

With that being said, I am currently only taking prints orders  – no custom orders – as I am fully savoring these precious days at home with my babies!! All of my popular EMC designs and card sets are perfect to share as the sweetest and most unique gift ideas with all of your friends this summer and upcoming “back to school” season ahead  - for all of their special cities, towns, and places - and perfect wall art and stationery for you to stock up on for gifts in the coming months, too!! As always, send me a message to order and I’d love to send some happy EMC art your way, too!

And for those of y’all who may be new around here, make sure to head on over to @emilymabrycreative over on Instagram to see all the fun lettering art things I’ve been up to and my personal page @emilyjoannemabry to keep up with our little family! I’d love to have you following along there, too!!

And for those of you who are new around here to the EMC Blog, you can also find me and “shop with me” over on the LIKEtoKNOW.it app. So, if you haven’t already, make sure to download the app and “follow” me there (I put instructions over on my LIKEtoKNOW.it story highlight over on my personal Instagram page @emilyjoannemabry) - where I’m always sharing all my favorite lifestyle products, baby/kids’ items (and cute clothes, of course!), mommy items, pregnancy items, and finds!!

You can download the app and follow me here:

https://www.liketoknow.it/emilyjoannemabry

I am also constantly sharing “links” on my Instagram stories where you can click, and it will take you to be able to “shop” that specific photo & what you see!!

Like I always say… this blog is such a fun little creative outlet for me and truly just feels like one big “scrapbook” in a lot of ways!! I absolutely love getting to share our lives with you on this EMC Blog as well as over on my personal Instagram page!!

We are living in the sweetest days and are absolutely loving being a family of four!!

We are absolutely smitten with our Sweet Little Baby Levi Rhett and soaking in allllll the sweet baby snuggles, giggles, and lovin’ these #babyandtoddler days!! So grateful to have each and every one of you here following along – we love you and this entire EMC Community so!!!