First hair cut!

My little boy is growing up way to fast. He'll be 16 months on the 13th. That CRAZY 2 years ago around this time I found out I was pregnant. Now, he's a toddler running around like crazy, trying to make my hair go gray early.
He is the joy of my life, and my baby.
Or was my baby, now he is a toddler. His new hair cut reaffirms this too. He no longer LOOKS like a baby!

Before

before

during

during

after

after

Guh a buzz cut. What have I done? All his beautiful soft baby hair. It makes me cry, seriously, I cried.
He's got to grow up though right? And he looks cute regardless of what his hair looks like.
So even though he no longer looks like a baby, he'll always be my baby.
I love him so much.

Pictures

 Just a post filled with pictures that make me happy

Note, I'm not a photographer.

Big helper

Cooling off in the sprinkler

Slide!

Spin!

Climb!

Nana Robin love

Dare devil

Prefold "squish"

My style of putting a prefold diaper on

I call it the "squish" because you squish the middle instead of folding it.
Because I've noticed folding it can be hard with a pro-diaper escapee

Step 1) fold the middle in about one inch on either side, this makes it catch any solids that could leak out the sides.

Step 2) SQUISH it all together (make sure to keep the folds)

Step 3) Place baby in center of the squish.

Step 4) Pull up from the squish to cover babys crotch. Pull up tight as it will loosen when appling the snappy

Step 5) Snappy as quick as you can. Careful baby may roll

Here's the back

And cutie patootie posing.

Baby Nails

Baby nails.

Little daggers of love attatched to your childs groping hands.

They pinch and claw their way into your hearts.

Baby nails grow insanely fast.

You have to cut them atleast once a week,

or you get ripped to shreds.

I've found that Henry really doesn't like you playing with his hands.



How hard it is to capture a baby's hand



He pulls his arm away and starts yelling.

So I've found I have to cut his nails when he's sleeping.

But usually I'm stuck under him when he's sleeping.

I have to think in advance that I'm going to cut his nails.



Got his asleep!

Now time to cut.

Before

Them suckers were long.

After

Yay all nice and trim!



A day in the life of. (warning pictures of poo and side boob)

8:10am

Final wake up.

(first wake ups at 4:45ish and 6:20ish)

Happy sleepy Henry says "wake up momma"

8:12

First things first.

COFFEE

(macadamia nut)

6 cups brewing.

3 scoops of sugar and lots o' cream please!

(Carmal vanilla cream too oooooh yummie)

8:13

Diaper change momma!

(he moves FAR to much can't get a good picture about half the time)

8:22

Keep cleaning up all this mess Momma!

Seesh, were you raised in a barn?

8:28

Green is the color of the day

Time to get dressed.

Strike a pose!

8:34

Worst part of the day.

Spraying poo of diapers.

Ewwwieeeeee.

(These poos are from his 4:45 and 6:20 wake up. I LOVE being woken up to poo..... not)

8:40

Time to eat.

Oh, and short nap

9:10

Wake up and play!

10:10

Feed dogs.

Look at them waiting, such good puppies!

Watching the dogs eat.

Playing in my exersaucer

No I'm not tired.

10:30

Watering the lawn.

11:20

Nap time again!

11:40

Mommas lunch.

Yes I put pickles on my hotdogs!

Oh and seasonal Mtn Dew is YUMMMIE!

1:00

Good nap, time to play with momma!

Reading One! Two! Three! by Sandra Boynton

1:30

Poppa is on the phone!!!!

1:30-5:20

I have no photos from this 4 hour time span.

I don't know why.

We just played around the house, some facebook.

Maybe a nap.

*shrugs*

5:22

Henry knocked over the baby gate.

AND LOOK I CAN CLIMB IT MOMMA!

5:30-7

Dinner time.

Pork chops coated in a sweet basil and Jack Daniels sauce, Long grain rice, and Green beans.

I ate it all before I could take a picture.

7:18

Dressed for bed!

8:22

Asleep for the night.

Obviously I started slacking in the pictures the later part of the day.

But as you can tell, we have a pretty boring life.

Occasionally we'll go out.

But eah, we prefer to just hang out around the house.

Ooops

Ooops, I totally forgot to post this last week.

Actually the only thing I did to this post was upload the pictures.

Durp.

SO!

Better late than never.

Am I right?

(this is not true for things that can kill you, i.e. hiv test, diabetes, shark wrestling)

Anywhom! On with the show!

Matt was cuddling Henry and kissing his cheek and talking to him, and I look over and Henry is passed out against Matts face.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE (did I mention love) how much my baby boy loves his Poppa.

Even though his Poppa is out of town every week.

Once the weekend comes Henry is a Poppas boy.

More proof.

They take naps together all the time.

And of course, knowing me, I always take pictures.

So Henry likes to think of himself as the new Dorthea Lange.

He got a hold on the camera and took some VERY abstract photos.

The only one that came out remotely good was this one.

Zombie Matt in the back.

Flash bright enough for you Henry?

Soooo, I go and wash some dishes leaving Henry to play on the floor with all his toys.

The house gets quiet.

Veeeeery quiet.

Henry?

*peek head into living room*
Henry?

And there my little booger is asleep on the floor.

He pulled his blanket to come play with him.

Decided this looked like a good place to lay down....

Not on the 2 mattresses next to him.

Noooo, the floor.

Weird little guy.

So being almost 7 months is soooo cool.

He's pulling up on EVERYTHING.

Getting into EVERYTING.

Trying to explore EVERYTHING.

And I think he fancy's himself a mountain climber or something.

Yup, climbing the baby gate.

And he kept trying to go higher too!

I think I'm going to have an action and adventure boy on my hands.

Someone break out the bandaids and neosporin.

After a hard day of being baby its time to go to sleep and cuddle with Momma.

By far the best part of my day.

A Letter to Lucus.

I wrote this letter to a 6 year old boy who's 10 week old baby brother just died.

Dear Lucus,

                       You don't know me but my name is Lorren and my Momma is friends with your Momma. I heard that you lost your little brother. He's an Angel now. I lost my baby brother too, he was only 18 days old.
                       I know it's hard. Your Momma and Daddy are probably really sad. You might be sad too, or angry, or you might not understand how you feel. It's OKAY though. You can scream, you can cry, you can just sit and think if you need to.
                      Right now your Momma needs you to be her big helper. Can you do that? She needs your hugs and kisses. She needs your help doing little things around the house.
                      Your daddy needs help too. He needs help taking care of Momma and you.  He also needs your hugs and kisses too.
                      It's tough, I know, but it gets better. It might take a while, but everything will be okay. Your Parents love you, Noah loves you, and he is watching over you from Heaven.

An Understanding Friend.

Lorren.

Me holding my brother Nelyn