11 Months Today

Do you see all this sweetness??!!!! Oh I could just kiss him all day!!!! It's hard to believe, but my baby is 11 months old today!!! You know what that means...we've got a big birthday coming up.

He is so fun right now. Yesterday he spent time studying the light coming in through the window. Do you see those bottom two pictures? It was precious to watch him try to touch the sunlight. He just could not figure it all out. 

He's feeling so much better now. He's eating up a storm and is loving real food. It seems like we're trying something new all the time. Yesterday he had some of McKenna's birthday cake and lu-v-ed it! The day before that he almost an entire grilled cheese. All the sudden, the boy can eat, which is good since he had two stomach virus' this winter all in the same month. Every time I would take him to the doctor they would have to mark in his chart that he had a stomach bug and that's why he wasn't gaining weight. I don't think they'll be too worried when we go next month.

In the art of keeping it real around here, I'll just tell ya that I'm not sitting around crying about the fact that my baby is about to be one. Honestly I can't wait for him to start walking. I can't wait for those massive molars in the back of his mouth to just come on already, so we can sleep and not scream at 4am (it seems like that's when the motrin seems to wear off). The poor boy actually rubs the outside of his jaw with his hand. He's having a majorly rough time and that's why "2 yr molars" are not supposed to arrive when you're only 11 months old.

11 Month Stats:

10 teeth - Wow!!

Says "dada" and "uh-oh"

Weighs about 23 lbs

Crawls

Stands while holding onto something

Cruises a little bit

Favorite Foods= cheerios & bananas

Wears size 12-18 month clothes

Loves Mickey Mouse Club House

Thinks McKenna's bedroom is fascinating

Bites

Is starting to understand "no" & cries if you use a "mean" voice

Loves to be outside

Is happy in the car

Is adored by everyone in our house!!!!!

A Pinkalicious Party

 McKenna turned 4 yesterday. This was supposed to be the year of NO party, but then Pinterest happened and I started finding all these adorable ideas that I just HAD to do, so we ended up having a little lunch get together with a few of her friends.

 McKenna wanted a Pinkalicious, ballet, Hello Kitty, Strawberry Shortcake, Barbie party. Hmmmm..... so we just went with pink and lots of it!

 We put a spin on the rainbow cake that's been so popular and we made ours different layers of pink.

 My favorite thing is the tulle pom poms!!! I made tons of them.

 They are so easy to make!! Check out this tutorial HERE, this girl has the easiest directions!

 McKenna thinks we should leave the pink up all year long :)

 

Fun favors for the girls!

 It's such a blessing that McKenna has such sweet friends to share life with!!!

They all had such a fun time together!!

Happy Birthday to my precious pinkalicious girl!!! We are so blessed that Jesus gave you to our family!!!

four

Bad Idea

My son is outside roller blading on the ice and snow that's still on our back patio. What do ya think??? Should I go stop him? Ha! Never a dull moment around here.

William is soooo Big!!!

I took McKenna to my friend Raeann's salon to get her haircut and while we were there I starting looking at Will's hair and the fact that his hair was growing down over his ears. So guess who got his first haircut?!! I only had my phone with me so the pictures aren't great, but he looks like such a big boy with his trimmed up hair!

He's such a big boy!

I sent this picture to Ryan later in the day to document the first chicken nugget Will ate! He is loving REAL food these days and we're having fun introducing him to lots of new things!

I was holding Will today while he was screaming and I got a good look in his mouth and noticed two huge molars in the back of his mouth! Aren't those called "2 year molars???" Seems to me we might be a bit ahead of the game, but I guess it will make eating easier.

Mud

 Anyone want to guess who's muddy little hand came knocking on my door??? She didn't want to open the door for fear of getting mud on it. I guess that didn't work out.

And then she planted this one on the wall as she tried to take off her muddy pink cowgirl boots.

I didn't take a picture of my girl with her hands completely covered in mud, her coat caked in mud and the front of her shirt that bore the obvious signs of that fact that she really did try to wipe her hands off before she came in. And then there were the pink cowgirl boots that were no longer pink.

I didn't take a picture because I didn't want to glorify the incident. Although I thought about it. But I had to keep my stern mommy face on while dealing with my oh-so-disobedient girl.

It took her five minutes outside alone to find some mud to play in.

She's like that these days.

Into everything.

She leaves a trail of destruction in her path.

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A Pinterest Party

I love Pinterest....I hate Pinterest.

I love all the ideas.

I hate the fact I never have time or energy to do all those cute ideas.

But every now and then I try to pull off a little project.

 Here was my inspiration....but I could not find wooden candle stick holders anywhere!! boo! They had them at AC Moore but they would sell out as soon as they would get them back in. I wanted to paint mine white, but oh well.

Here's what I ended up with and I think it's cute too. I still think I like the inspiration picture better, but this works for us! It's just a candelabra (from Hobby Lobby) and I hot glued the little tin Valentine Mailboxes that I found in the dollar bins at Target. Last night I saw teal Valentine boxes. How cute would they have been?? Oh I would have loved to have teal in the mix, but I was already done.

I told my kids that they won't be getting a surprise or a note every day this month, but if the flag is up then they've got mail. Christian came down the steps this morning and his face lit up as soon as he saw his flag up. Inside was a sprinkle doughnut. He was thrilled :)

Go check out the rest of the Pinterest Party at:

6 Days

In six days she'll be four.

Four.

Oh my word.

I think I'm going to go have a good cry now!