Baby Logic 101 Lesson 4

Find endless joy in watching mommy search high and low for that missing flip flop. It's not her fault she doesn't know the best place for storing shoes is in the backrest of the computer chair.

Baby Logic 101 Lesson 3

When you open a small box and find awesome trinkets, such as paper coin roll wrappers, instantly find somewhere else to put them. Mom's shoes make a great new spot.

Baby Logic 101 Lesson 2

Anything that even slightly resembles a spherical shape is, in FACT, a ball. Regardless of what mommy calls it, it IS A BALL! I do not know what a globe is....it is a ball. What is that fuzzy thing you call a peach? ...because that is a ball and I will climb onto the couch and try to take it off of your plate 50 times while repeatedly telling you it is a ball....not a peach. The thing you call a balloon is also a ball. Watermelons, cantaloupes they are all balls. Your words mean nothing to me.

Baby Logic 101 Lesson 1

The most reasonable place to put the refrigerator magnets is IN the refrigerator next to the salad dressings.

WHOA!

Where on earth has the time gone? I remember vaguely my last posting about how any day now B could take his first real steps. That was almost 3.5 months ago now. He's very much walking and babbling on and on. His first steps came on a Sunday and a few minutes later he finally uttered his first word "mama", then I kid you not, later that day came "dada." For the longest time he didn't say mama again but man oh man has he not stopped saying dada ever...or daddy as it now is. He's grown so much. By his first birthday he knew and could baby pronounce 10 words. He's walking and almost running now and he has learned to throw...everything. He's so spunky and I feel he's going to be a funny guy, trying to make people laugh and he'll love to laugh as well. I bet he'll be a prankster, and a definite charmer. He's also going to be a handful, boy does this little being have a big personality. I love him so much each and every day, more and more. I pray every day for him, thanking God for this amazing blessing. He's recently begun doing crazy things that I've conveyed into my facebook statuses as "Baby Logic 101" I think I'll begin writing them on here as well, as a safe keeping for myself and everyone's enjoyment into the little insights of what must be going on inside that noggin' of his. I'll quickly upload the first 4. Enjoy!

Catching Up

It's been a few days since my last post and I feel withdrawals and  it's time to catch up now. My little monkey learned to clap, clap his hands 2 Sundays ago after church so I claim that new feat to our worship service. He has also learned to make his kissy sounds after watching a video of a dear friends little baby girl doing the same thing. Baby kissy sounds are super cute. (So cute they make the fact he just ground mandarin orange into my couch irrelevant) Not only those two things but he has returned to his skill of standing freely. He's so good at it now he can bend and shake his noggin' and clap while doing it. We wanted to see how long he could last and he made it though an elaborate singing of the Alphabet Song. I was elated and so proud of my strong little man. He just turned 9 months on Monday and there is no doubt in my mind he will be walking in the very near future. While this makes me happy it also breaks my heart. My tiny little baby is literally growing before my eyes. I can't believe how fast the time goes.

We had a play date with his little girlfriend yesterday and it was so fun finally watching them get to play together. Of course they weren't as interested in each other as they were in the others' toys. Kids! HA!

The beach is calling my name and I'm dying to get my sewing machine out and work on a Pinterest project and make a huge beach blanket. Oh the awesomeness of living so close to the ocean. The sand beneath my toes and the wind in my hair and the sun on my face and the cold water rushing up onto the earth...oh how I love it.

That's all for today as little monkey is trying to lay claim to the computer keys. Have a super fabulous day all. :)

The Mountain and the Hill

Sitting on the couch watching Braiden in the kitchen swing in his swing about to fall asleep. He's practicing his new trick: clapping his hands. A new trick he discovered yesterday. Not sure if he figured it out during church or not but that's when he first started so that's what I'm going to credit it to. He's so nosy trying to peek out around the back of his swing as it goes. Now he's shakin' his noggin'. Silly boy just needs to go to sleep.

I feel like today should be a pinterest and crafty youtube kind of day. But alas, there is a mountain of laundry and a hill of dishes that need to be done. Clean laundry that has needed to be folded for a week now and clutter to be put away. When it comes to being a rockin' housewife I lack the rockin' skills part. One day I'll get the whole Suzie Homemaker thing down but I'm pretty sure today will not be that day. 15 more days until my family comes to see us and I could not be more excited. My mom is absolutely fantastic when it comes to helping around the house. I don't know how she does it but I don't take after her at all. All before I get out of bed in the morning, she'll have gotten herself up, taken a shower, eaten breakfast, gotten Braiden out of bed, fed and changed him, washed the dishes, dusted and Windexed our tables, vacuumed the floors, done a few loads of laundry, cleaned the toilets, mopped my kitchen floors and saved puppies or something crazy awesome like that. She's amazing at being a housewife and mom and I couldn't ask for someone better. (Even if she didn't do all of that.) I really don't understand how she can manage her time so well when all I seem to ever do is, well, nothing. I'm generally a pretty lazy person when it comes to cleaning and would much rather spend my day browsing the internet looking for simple ways to clean and keep a tidy home. HAHA! Terrible I know! So on that note, I'm signing off to go start the mountain of laundry and the hill of dishes.