Wordless Wednesday

i heart faces~ Reflection

I was so excited when I saw that the theme this week for http://www.iheartfaces.com was reflection. I love, love, love pictures with reflections! Mine don't always come out so wonderfully, but I love seeing how my son reacts to himself in themirror.
So here is my kids entry:

Finally...

I read a tutorial (a while ago) about how to use a mask in photoshop, and Finally I figured out how to do it!
The ratio of the color one turned out a little funky, I really like the idea though.
I've since tried a few more that arent' so weird looking!

Random Picture Challenge

This week the Random Picture Challenge from

4 little men & girly twins is:
2002 8th folder -July

25th picture

{if you don't have this far back pick the next closest year}

I am sure there are pictures somewhere from July 2002, probably of lifeguarding, and I know there is one of me & hubby that was taken by a good friend of mine BUT none are on this computer (or any computer that I know of)

SO... instead I have a picture from July 2005.

This is from our honeymoon at the beach. It was me attempting to be "artsy". I do love this picture because it reminds me of what a wonderful time we had that weekend. Makes me think we should honeymoon every year!

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More Teeth!

Is it any wonder my generally happy baby boy is a little crabby? He's currently on meds for his 3rd ear infection in 2 months, but he's been teething also. Today he was particularly irritated when he woke up from his nap, and when I finally got a peek inside his mouth....
3! new top teeth were just starting to break through. This brings the total to 6 (4 top, 2 bottom)

It's Loud!

While my darling baby boy is not yet crawling (we kind of think he'll just roll everywhere until he decides to walk) he has figured out some exciting things.

I put him in the kitchen sometimes while I'm making dinner if hubby is out and about. There isn't really a good place to set him, so I stuck him by the dishwasher. He promptly threw down the Ritz cracker he was eating (another new development) and started to fidget with the cupboard. It didn't take long before he discovered that if he let it shut, it would BANG. So he opened & closed the door over & over & over. It did keep him entertained the entire time I made dinner! (of course I had to take many pictures :-)

I Heart Faces~ Self Portrait

This week's catergory at i heart faces is Self Portrait. Make sure to visit www.iheartfaces.com to play along!

Kids Catergory: Mommy & baby

Here is my Adults Entry (UGH!)

Random Picture Challenge

Time again for a random picture challenge from 4 little men & girly twins! This week it is

APRIL 2008 or 13th folder

42nd picture or 4th if you don't have that many

Since I hardly ever took pictures before the little man was born here is the 4th picture from my 13th folder.

The Park

Once again my poor baby boy has an ear & eye infection. So, once again, he couldn't go to daycare. So, once again, we stayed home. (It was a little embarassing, when we went to the doctor we saw the same one we had seen last week. I guess it was a little vindicating to know that I was right about him having an ear infection, just a couple days early!)

So today we had a nice mommy-baby day together, the medicine started working so my baby was almost back to his normal self.

It was sunny this afternoon, and Dean was kind of cranky, so we decided to go to the park. (I thought the park had swings, it does not. What kind of silly park has no swings?) He has never really been outside & able to play in the grass, so he sat in the grass for a bit & I took pictures. He was a fan of pulling up the little flowers & trying to eat them!

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i Heart Faces~ Amateur

This week iHeartFaces has an amateur catergory for Easter/Spring pictures. Go to http://www.iheartfaces.com/ to see the other (better!) entries!

Easter Morning!

Sleep

If I hear one more mattress commercial that claims you can "sleep like a baby" I might punch something. My darling baby boy is usually an "alright" sleeper, we still haven't managed to make it through the night, but 4-5 hours is usually doable.
Then we have nights like last night. I had Finally fallen asleep at around midnight, after feeding Dean so hopefully he would just sleep. So far, so good. Then at about 1:15 he wakes up crying, and crying, and crying. So he and I got up, we sat in the living room, I changed his diaper, we sat in the living room & watched TV. Each time I'd try to go back to bed the screaming started again. Finally around 3 we managed to go back to bed.
Now, fast forward to 11am and baby boy is fast asleep on my lap, dh (who got a great night's sleep) just left for fishing, and I am once again exhausted & awake. I thought it was supposed to get better!!

Friday off

I don't think I ever fully appreciated the beauty of having a day off work until all of the ridiculousness this year. So finally today was a Friday off, and it was lovely to be able to have a guilt free day with D.

I started off by sleeping in till 8:30, thank you son! Then when he was eating he was pulling on his ear an awful lot, so I figured "Great, another freaking ear infection!" & called the Dr. & made an appointment. I was not going to be a terrible mum (again) who didn't notice that her kid had an ear infection or RSV for a week! So...off to the Dr we went. He loves to look at himself in the mirror & play with the paper, so that was fun. We were also in the "space room" and he liked looking at the planets hanging from the ceiling. The Dr. came in and pronounced him to be 22 lbs 3 oz! of healthy boy (though he does have a cold). I breathed a sigh of overprotective relief, and off we went for lunch.

Since we were already near there we went to Chipotle for lunch (& picked up some for hubs). YUM!

Then off we went to get the "big boy" carseat. I had a great time trying to get the ridiculous box into my Civic, but as you can see it is a hit! Makes me sad that he's already too big for his baby seat, carrying him around gives me one heck of a workout.

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SUN!

Maybe it's just me, but after our long, yucky, soggy winter, I was thrilled when it was nice & sunny this weekend. (before all the grass pollen is in the air!) My car got a bath thanks to dh, and we went on nice, warm long walks. My darling son hasn't yet figured out the point of sunglasses, thank goodness the stroller has a hood!

Eight Months!

Today my baby boy is 8 months old!
I can't believe how much he has changed!
He has tripled his body weight (~28 pounds) & grown 8 inches (~29").
I can still always count on the car to put him to sleep, but he doesn't Always fall asleep anymore.
He still loves to eat, but now has veggies, fruits, cereal, & crackers in addition to milk.
He can roll and pivot and scoot backwards all over the place, and loves to stand & jump.
He loves to laugh at the cats, to play peek-a-boo, to splash in the tub, and to snuggle with mommy (that's my personal favorite).
He loves when Daddy comes home from work, and he loves to blow raspberries.
He wears size 3 diapers & mostly size 12 or 12-18 month clothes.

He is a funny, happy baby boy.

Random Picture Challenge

Time for another Random Picture Challenge from 4 little men & girly twins.

This week is Feb 2008 or 17th folder 33rd picture.


I was hoping I had a picture from Feb 2008 because that was when my girls won the State Swim Meet, and they pushed Coach and me into the pool. No such luck, so....

Here D is with Grammy for his first Christmas. He really liked that bow!

Yum

Dean has been working on the "pincer grasp" for quite some time now, I just couldn't understand how everything in the house except puffs could make it to his mouth. But yesterday I left him in his high chair with some puffs & his cup. He ate the puffs and held his own cup, I guess practice makes perfect :)

A new game

I mentioned a bit ago that during break we took a trip to Ikea to finally get curtains for the living room. DH was great and hung them up right away for me, and a couple of days ago we moved the coffee table out of the room to give D more room to move around. He has also taken to laughing at all of our cats.

So now with his new "big" living room to play in, he has found a new game. Tonight I was doing some work on the computer for DH and Dean was playing on the floor and all of the sudden we heard loud laughing from the area of the curtains. I looked down and D and my cat (Leo) were playing peek-a-boo with the curtains. Too be fair, I don't think Leo knew he was playing, but the baby thought it was HILARIOUS!

Looking @ the kitty

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