Wordless Wednesday

Taken at my nephew's first T-Ball game of the season!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

I'm so glad I got my act together this week and I get to participate for a second time in Scavenger Hunt Sunday! I truly love this and think it is so much fun. Once again most of the pictures below with be SOOC. :)

1. Time to Eat

2. Getting Ready

3. Playtime

This one is out of my archives because I simply couldn't go without posting this picture. I took it amongst other pictures I took for my first Scavenger Hunt Sunday, which you can find here. I thought it fit perfectly for playtime and had to use it!

4. Sweet Dreams

5. Scrub-a-Dub

When I saw this topic I wanted so badly to be able to capture a super cute tub shot. Well this week that just didn't permit. So this is right after the bath! Clearly he wasn't ready for bed yet lol.

Just like the first time I did this I had a lot of fun and hope I am able to participate next week as well :)

Dear James,

You are eight months old(note-blogging a bit late he was eight months February 2). I can't even believe you are this old. To me you still seem so small, yet you're so big. I can still vividly remember the early morning hours of June 2, leading up to your arrival. It still seems so fresh, so new. One of these days I should write your complete birth story so it always is fresh, and detail filled. I'm sure I've forgotten some of the minor details already but I will never forget the major moments of your eventful birthday. Fast forward 8 months and there you are. A handsome young boy with crazy hair! Yet to me you still seem so small.

I looked back at younger pictures of you recently and I cried. My baby isn't that much of a baby anymore. As you get closer and closer to being refereed to as a "toddler" I can't help but cry. My baby isn't a baby. Your hair was so dark, so thick. Your skin was so red. Your face so round. Now as I lay in bed staring at you, your not an infant. You're so old. Now that the sappy things are out of the way, James, I love this stage you're in. You can move baby! You are officially a speed crawler. It's not even like your trying to crawl anymore, YOU CAN CRAWL. Something else that is exciting is you can pull yourself up on things, to a standing position. And just today(2/11), you let go of the couch and for about ten seconds you were standing on your own. Of course once you realized what you were doing you fell, but hey, that's a start!

Your favorite thing to eat right now is....pretty much anything you see someone eating. You strive to be just like everyone else. If I'm drinking a smoothie, your drinking a smoothie. If I'm eating chicken, you're eating chicken. Something you do now, which I adore, is reach for people. If you want Grandpa, you're getting Grandpa. If you want out of your exersaucer, you now know how to express that. Sleeping is now down to a rhythm. You take two naps a day, one at ten and one at two. You fall asleep for the night by the latest 10:30. You are still addicted to pacifiers. Your favorite toy lately is the big legos. You love being able to sit on your own and play with the "big kids". You love untying everyone's shoelaces. You are OBSESSED with shoes. If there is a shoe left out where you can get it you better bet you will. You love going on walks and looking around.

You love being at restaurants. You are a huge flirt now, you love smiling at everyone. You still don't like sippy cups or water. You only get about 5 bottles a day now. You really like paper/magazines and ripping them up. I officially gave up even attempting to get you into your crib. Cosleeping is your top choice, and I don't mind it at all. I love being all snuggled with my baby. You still do not have any teeth. Although just recently it feels like we can finally feel a bump where one on the bottom is coming in, but who knows if I'm not just imagining that. You love my camera, any time I try to take pictures of you the first thing you do is reach right for it. Which has made it increasingly difficult to get good pictures of you lol.

You give kisses. If someone makes the kissing noise(and you're in the mood) you open your mouth as wide as you can and lean in. It's literally the cutest thing I have ever seen. Recently you have started having temper tantrums. If you are playing with something you shouldn't be and we take it away you let us know you didn't like that. By screaming as loud as humanly possible. You hate getting dressed and cry every single time we change your clothes. But you L O V E taking baths, and playing in the water. Which excites me for this summer when you get to swim in the pool. You love books and flipping through all the different pages. You make the "oooo" sound a lot. You are at my favorite stage right now.
I cannot wait to see all the changes that take place in the up coming weeks. I love you forever.
Love,
Mommy

Scavenger Hunt Sunday!!

This is my first time doing a Scavenger Hunt Sunday! I am pretty excited and these seem pretty fun. This week all of my pictures are going to be SOOC(straight out of the camera-in other words, no editing). I hope to participate in many more scavenger hunts but for now here is this weeks!

1. The Small Things

For this one I knew I wanted to incorporate my son, since he is a "small thing", but I wasn't sure how. Lately he has been obsessed with the BIG legos, which are still small, so I decided to use both of them for this one.

2. Illustration

This was a really hard one for me. Since I am terrible, and I mean terrible at drawing I decided to take a picture of one. This is hanging in my house, it's a drawing of my dog Daisy. It was drawn by Jose Ferrer, my brother-in-law.

3. Valentine

We don't have any Valentine's Day decorations up yet so the category Valentine was a toughie, I saw this calendar and figured it was the best thing I could take a picture of. 

4. Work of Art

Since I already explained I am challenged at making any form of art(besides music that is) I decided the only thing I made that I consider a work of art. My son, James. He is more of a work of art to me than anything else I have ever seen. 

5. Window Beauty

This one was THE HARDEST one for me. I didn't like the way any of the pictures I took of the windows at my house. While I was playing with James I saw this little car on the ground and figured it has windows on it so it must count! So there it goes. 

I had a lot of fun doing this scavenger hunt and really hope I am able to it next week as well!
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What I'll Miss

Often times I'll just look at my son and realize that he won't ever be like this again. Exactly how he is in this second will never happen again. Each day he is changing and growing and it's a sad thing for a mother to realize. I know that soon he will be too big to take a nap on my chest, or sit in his swing. Soon his tooth will be grown and he will say his first word. Soon he will finally roll from back to front and front to back. Someday in the near future he will crawl for the first time or eat off a spoon. Soon he will take his first step and fall for the first time. I know that soon he won't be making the cute faces he makes or the cute sounds. He won't want to suck on his, and everyone else's, hands. His favorite food will no longer be formula. His little feet won't be so little anymore. Every time he sees me he won't light up with glee. His favorite toy will no longer be the Oball. It makes me sad to think about my son changing, and growing. Even while I'm writing this and he is laying next to me asleep I know I will never get this moment back. It's a funny thing about time, it will always continue to move forward and you can never get it back.

Update from the Rockin' Green Winner!

The winner Samantha Frazier Griffis contacted me after she received her Rockin' Green and told me she loves the scent and was glad she could be apart of the giveaway! She also included this picture! Looks like one happy mama