For the Aunties...

This video is for the aunties (and any other family and friends) who can't get enough of Baby B. If you're sick about reading about Baby B, feel free to skip this post. This is just a quick video of Baby B...there is music playing from the toy but it's hard to hear because we have water running in the background. But the dancing is cute, enjoy!

Happy Valentine's Day

So I'm only a week late and if you've seen my blog you will know that this is actually really good for me and so I'm not even going to apologize. (Okay maybe I'm a little bit sorry.)

So for every Valentine's Day that Jared and I have been together we have celebrated by eating at Maggiano's (a delicious Italian place with huge portions so we always get to go home with leftovers). However, this is the first year we actually went and ate ON Valentine's Day. We decided that we love Baby B and this holiday is about celebrating love so we took him with us. He was a gem! He just sat and smiled and waved at everyone. He played with his free crayons and ate bread and noodles and never made loud noises. (Are we sure this is my kid?) We had a fabulous time and we went at like 3:00 so it wasn't crazy busy and we could enjoy the quiet. And then my sweet husband took me to the Container store as my gift (along with some beautiful flowers). This place is organizer's heaven. There were things I wanted to get just because they were awesome, but I was good and stuck to the reason I wanted to go-racks for my cans in my pantry. Now I have the racks and my pantry looks great (well that shelf anyway) and I even found a bathroom drawer organizer that I love. I know, nothing screams Happy Valentine's Day like organizing things, but it did for me.  (Jared knows me really well.)

In the background you will see a darling little girl...pretty sure Baby B had a Valentine by the end of dinner-they totally flirted. So cute.

Happy Birthday Baby B!

Sorry this post is a few weeks late.....life gets you sometimes, ya know? So without further ado:

Say what?! My baby had a birthday?! That's crazy...he will now be aged not by months but by years and that's really really weird. I cannot believe that over a year ago I grew a whole human in me and then pushed him out, and he was so wonderful and beautiful and I didn't think I could love him more than in that moment. I was wrong. Each day is amazing and he melts my heart every day. And believe it or not, I do love him more each day.

In 12 months he's gone from this:

To this:

We were so blessed that all of Jared's family could come to celebrate with us. We spent the day at the Children's Museum in Seattle and then came back to the house for dinner, presents, and cake. I'm not going to get into details...but we'll just say that this first time mommy's expectations were thrown a little off skilter. Baby B's schedule was super thrown off and he was not in the mood to party, but we had a great time with family and I am happy with the way his cake turned out. So I'll just post some pictures from here and say that I love you baby boy and I'm so grateful that you are part of our little family. Happy Birthday!!

 

 

 

Spinning, Turning, Twirling...Whatever You Want to Call It

 

Spinning, Turning, Twirling....whatever you want to call it, B can do it! It's so fun to watch him.  My favorite is when he grabs his Winnie the Pooh and does it while I sing him the Winnie the Pooh song.

 

 

Snow?!

Okay people, I know what real snow is (18 years in Minnesota, 6 in Utah and 4 in Wisconsin will teach you all about that) but, when you don't see snow FOREVER....this is quite a delightful scene. B and I had a great time sitting at our back door watching it come down yesterday. And it even stuck for a while! And then it rained and melted away, but for an hour I had small, white winter :)