MFT: Birthday Edition!

That's right. I just had a birthday. I'm one year away from my next kid being born to someone of "advanced maternal age" (if you can do that math, 10 points for you). My birthday was last week and my sweet husband and baby boy made it a special day - more about that in another post but part of my birthday gift from him was FOUR bags of Badass Coffee. If you are ever near one of their locations (which apparently are in a lot of places besides Hawaii where I first encountered them) do yourself a favor and go get a cup of Hula Pie coffee. Or really any of their coffee. I got 2 bags of Hula Pie, one of North Shore Pineapple (really good!) and another of a coconut flavor that we haven't tried yet. I'm quite excited about this! Seriously, if you're near one, go there. I just discovered they're all over Florida and am praying there's one somewhere near where we are going for vacation this summer!

I'm linking up with Abby at graduate "extraordinaire" for MFT! Happy Monday everyone!

9 Months!

I think I say this every month but I cannot believe our baby is nine months old! He's getting SO BIG! We had a little setback in the weight department at his 9 month appointment, but I attribute that to the fact that it was at the end of him being sick for a week and a half and not eating much. And I'm pretty sure he's made it all up plus some in the last two weeks! We've been eating all kinds of big boy food: yogurt, lentil and rice (which he LOVES), green beans and rice (which he also loves), veggies, etc. Actually, there's not much he won't eat. Carrots (which I find kind of odd since they're pretty sweet) and peas (which I totally get) but everything else is good as far as he's concerned.

Waiting patiently for dinner.

Things that he's mastered in the past month:

Completely escaping the swaddler and sleeping like this:

Looking completely adorable anytime anyone gets a camera out:

Getting one arm out of his pjs (I have no idea why but clearly he's very proud of himself):

Reading!

He's also started crawling. Not with "proper" crawling form. It's more of a semi-army crawl. He reaches out w/both hands and pulls while using either his toes or knees to scoot forward. Even though it's not traditional crawling, I can assure you he gets where he wants to go, and fast. I am so not ready for this stage. Other exciting things include getting two more teeth (for a total of four - you can kind of see the top ones here),

waving bye-bye (and occasionally saying "bye" at the same time), and just generally being a really happy kid. He's also definitely showing a preference for Mommy and Daddy over others now. We love our little man and can't imagine life without him (and can hardly remember life before him)! And now, I will wrap this up because the little monkey has awakened and is not so patiently banging his pacifier on his crib bars (a la prisoner with his cup on the prison bars) to be let out.

I'll leave you with a few pics from our 9 month photo shoot:

Still here...

...and I owe you (and by "you" I mean specifically my mother and other family members) a 9-month post with pictures. And it will come. After deadline. Which is Monday. For federal returns. Friday if you're a trust or partnership. And Tuesday if you live in Massachusetts. Ugggghhhhh.....

MFT: Swings!

Look! I'm on time! (Wait, it's still Monday, right?)

I'm linking up with Abby at graduate "extraordinaire" for My Favorite Things!

This week, my favorite thing is the weather. Oh my word, I have been LOVING it. I'll tell you, running is MUCH nicer in 80 degree weather than in EIGHT degree weather. And we get to go for walks after work, we've gotten to do a BUNCH of much needed maintenance in our flower beds, and tonight (after making a much dreaded trip to the grocery store) we walked to the park where Milo got to swing for the very first time!

Well, he sat in my lap and we both swung (swang? swinged?) because I'm still a new mom and a germophobe and there was no way on earth I was putting him in one of those infant swings w/out wiping it down (or maybe running it through an autoclave) and I really didn't have the option of doing either of those things so he sat in my lap. This kid LOVES to be outside. He is just so relaxed when we're outdoors. And I really can't say that I blame him - the warmer temperatures, the nice breeze we've been having (well, the nice breeze with gusts up to 40 mph anyway), and all the blooming flowers and trees...I'm relaxed too! We are trying to take full advantage of this awesome spring weather before summer gets here (probably sometime next week). Gotta love Oklahoma weather!

Happy Monday to you all!