Turtle Treat

Last weekend, we went out to the Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island for their Turtleween celebration.  It was a chance for the boys to get dressed up in their costumes and do some exciting Halloween activities.  There was a hay ride, fishing for water pollution, turtle cookie making (no actual turtle ingredients used), and they even got to pet an alligator and a couple of snakes.  The sea turtles were pretty incredible also.  They had eight or ten of them that had been injured in some way or another and were being brought back to health before being released back into the ocean.  Pretty cool creatures to check out, plus - lots of Halloween candy. 

Mmmm... turtle cookies.  This poor turtle spent six months in rehab only to be devoured by this Great White Shark shortly after being released.

Ninja's and Pirates!  Sounds like the making of an amazing summer blockbuster!

This pirate needed a wicked cool tattoo on his cheek... like a sea turtle, naturally.

 What is thy bidding, my master?  You're about to get ninja chopped...

And finally, here's Paul with this year's costume winner... it took this guy months to put together this costume he called "The Uncle Josh."

Good times, and fun for the kids.  And when you spend the money on the costume, you might as well find as many opportunities as possible to use them!

Pickin' Pumpkins!

Becky found a pumpkin patch out on St. Simons, so we stopped in and picked a couple out.  Halloween is already just around the corner, which only means it will be the holiday season before we know it.  But for now, we’re enjoying Fall… even if it feels far too warm to actually be Fall.

 

Adam will take... uh, this one!

That one is a little too big, Paul.  Better get one more your size.

Next up, costumes, candy, and that whole trick-or-treat thing.  Another fun fall for the Sellers boys!

The beach life...

Of course we had to take Nolan to Jacksonville Beach.  You can’t waste any time getting to the ocean, and the sand and waves are fun for people of all ages… even one-week-olds!  I don’t think he’ll remember it though, since he spent the entire time asleep.  But oh well, the rest of us enjoyed it.  Made some sand castles, walked in the water, looked for shells, avoided Great White Sharks… the whole nine yards.   

Not exactly a water-boy, but he still enjoyed making and destroying castles.

Granny G and the Florida Gator made their own sand castle.

Nolan and Mom just relaxed in the sand... 

Occasionally peaking out from his blanket, but only if the breeze wasn't coming in.  Not a fan of that.

The biggest, most obnoxious of the bunch.

Looking for shells in the surf.  The water is definitely a lot nicer here than it is up over the border in Georgia.

Dad and the boys hanging out in the warm water, even in October.  Gotta love Florida.

The first two weeks...

Well, Nolan is now two weeks old, and we’ll always be amazed at how fast time flies by.  Granny G came for a visit and was a huge help, as usual.  We went to Savannah, the beach multiple times, and back down to Jacksonville.  So already Nolan is following in his brothers’ footsteps and starting interstate travel!  Here are just a few pictures…

Nothing's better than the beach after dark!  Made more than a few trips out here already...

The boys got to go out to the Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island to check out the sick sea turtles that were being brought back to health.  

Typical brothers.

Sometimes you're just glad Mom is there to hide behind...

Just hanging around like a couple of monkeys on St. Simon's Island.

And yes, Nolan was actually there too, though this is what he's normally doing.  He hasn't gotten to the "look at the camera and say cheese" stage yet.  Just give it time!

And when you do all this traveling, you gotta get cleaned up.  Had his first bath... this Georgia boy is living the good life! 

Spaceship Attack!!

Nolan Matthew Sellers was born two days ago, on October 4, 2012 at about 3:35PM.  He came in a little smaller than his big brothers at 8lbs 3oz… but his mother didn’t complain about that.  All in all, it took about ten hours from the time we showed up to the hospital, and it was the easiest delivery we’ve seen yet!  He’s a healthy, quiet baby boy and was wide eyed only a few minutes after he showed up.  Now he starts a long, exciting journey of dealing with two noisy, sleep disrupting, overly active big brothers.  Wish him luck!

The first day! Already getting to spend some time with the big brothers who code named him "Spaceship Attack" and haven't yet been able to stop calling him that!

Another Baby Burrito, sleeping soundly on the warm blanket Aunt Amber made for him!

Mom did great, again.  Next time we'll just swing in one of those Now Care places at a mall or something, get in, have a baby, and be home in under an hour!

And he got to step out in the sun for a few minutes after we got him home.  Going to be a fun road ahead, so here we go!