Random

Here are 3 random pics that I wanted to share, they were taken at my friend Wendy's house after a snack of some good ole' fashioned cheerios of course. As I'm sitting here typing this Blaine is eating a whole apple by himself, hes gotten to the point where if you cut it up he will not want it that way, he likes to be such a big boy, I guess cause he sees us eat our apples that way. I have a pic of him eating one I'll have to find and post later tho. We are hoping to take our boat out soon, can you believe we've had a nice fish n ski boat for say 3 years and have only taken it out twice. It's a shame. We've been dying to take Blaine out on the water!! Just gotta get hubbs away from his shop. He's been working so hard lately. Hope you are having a wonderful Friday and enjoy your weekend.

13 months

Our Hoss turned 13 months old on the 26th. He's doing so many new things, and we get excited with each new one. I dont think I've ever said I've had a "favorite stage" of his age, but this one has been the most rewarding. I'll get to why a lil later.

He's walking now, he'll take about 10 or 20 steps at a time and will then make a bee line by speed crawling. He can sit in a chair, climb things like a monkey, he can very easily get up and off the couch, and our bed is a lil high, but he can get down pretty easy. He loves to climb the stairs (thank goodness for gates) we had a couple shocking realities with him climbing them in the split second that we looked away. Hes into talking now. He will say a new word each day it seems. and of course we may never hear it for a very long time, but when he says a new word we get all excited and try to get him to say it again. Now for the rewarding part.....He said LOVE YOU yesterday. I completely melted into a ball of jello. We have told him prolly 80758475847830495 times in his 13 month life that we love him, but to hear it BACK....utterly emotionallly priceless. Also last week he said his first 3 word sentence, It was "I get down" from his highchair, when he was finished eating, he said it 2 times and has yet to say it again.

He can regularly say bye-bye and thank you. and he just now has started to understand us it seems. He got a magna doodle for his birthday and while playing in his room one day I told him Go draw me a picture....which I always praise him for drawing on it when he does, and he actually went got it and brought it back to me and started drawing a picture on it. I was shocked. This was the first realization that "hey he knows what Im saying" and of course we never ever will get tired of the hugs and kisses he gives.

He loves to dance to music, its the cutest thing and I cant wait to get a video of him doing that. He knows a few body parts. Instead of pointing them out on hiself he will point them out on whoever is holding him. He knows, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, teeth and belly button. His belly button actually is red from him playing it with it constantly. He has quite a obsession over it.

Food: He is feeding himself finger foods, such as sandwich pieces, fruit & veggies, cheerios. We JUST started him on meats, as our pediatrician is a lil more holistic than others and doesn't recomend the animal protiens until 12 months of age, but so far, he loves Organic Chicken, and Organic Turkey, hes not 100 percent sure of the Organic beef yet tho. His favorite foods are still avacado, cheerios, and organic chicken and stars.

We haven't turned the carseat around, we plan to Rear Face just as long as his Recarro seat will allow which is 35 lbs. The AAP recommendations set forth recently were alarming to us and our pediatrician so we decided it was a better choice for our family. We never turned him around Foward so he wont know the difference anyway. He currently weighs 26ish lbs, and is 33 inches tall. He is over 100 percentile for his height and pretty average for his weight. Super tall is what his Ped described. :)

So thats a good rundown of how hes been growing. As parents we are baffled by how fast this all has transpired. I can't believe its been 13 months! I took some new pics this Sunday of him outside with our furkids. Here they are....

1 year shoot

Thank you so much Wendy, these are amazing. If wanna check out her blog, shes on my sidebar @ wbphotography.

Catchup

Its been so long my dear friends (mostly fam) sorry, but summer has been super busy here. I do have a few photos for you though. My canon camera drowned in the pool 2 weeks ago so I have really seen how much I missed it. Luckily I had a warranty on it so I should sometime or another be getting the new one. In fact, Toby felt so sorry for me, he bought me a cheap lil sony just to tie me over til I get my new one. It will become his for work once I get my new one sent. anyway, these couple of pics are from last month (Junish) but they were cute so I thought Id play catch up and post some more incredible ones above..... Blaine had his one year pics made last week, Wendy took em so you know theyre super. Thanks Girl I love ya and had fun visiting! Ill post them in a new post above shortly.





These next few were taken at my daddys house. Can you believe how sweet Blaine and his cousin Ava are?