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.

Stuff n stuff. Mostly boring stuff.

I'm such a picture addict.

I love taking pictures of Lukius jumping.
I use the sports mode so I can catch him mid air.

Seriously, his front legs are like 4 feet in the air, his back legs at least two!

Dog can jump!

This is the start to a painting I'm in the middle of doing.

It's the base coat, I still have to put one (maybe two) more layers to it.

Its oil on canvas board.

It's called "fly over state sunset"

Watcha think?

Me and Henry went to a splash park with my neice Rowan, and her Mamma.

COOLESTwater PLACE EVER.

They need to make one adult size that sells margaretta's.

I'd pay to go there.

ANYWAYS.

The kiddo's had to get use to it at first.

Heres Rowan standing on the sidelines getting splashed.

But once they got okay with it they splashed around and had fun for a while.

After about an hr they got tired of being there and nothing made them happy so home we went.

I loved the place though!

Splash park!

The cool part was it was only a dollar for me and free for Henry.

I love it more because its cheap!

Doesn't this face say,

"Momma, lets go outside!"

Henry's favorite place to be is outside.

I wouldn't be supprised if his first word was "outside"



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

Busted heads, Flying dogs, otherthingstoo

Henry is pulling himself on everything, getting into everything.

It's his new found trick.

But with this new skill comes falls.

Lots and lots of falls.

The other day he pulled himself upright on the couch.

I got the camera and took pictures, if you haven't noticed yet I love pictures!

He was so smiley and happy, he looked proud of himself.

"Mom I can STAND!"

I turn around to put the camera up and....

WHAM

He freaks out

I freak out

"MATT MATT OMG MATT WE HAVE TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM!"

Matt (who was a field medic in the army) did a few things to see if Henry was okay.

He says everythings fine.

I didn't believe him.

I'm a worry wort.

We went to the ER anyways.

The Dr did the same thing Matt did and said he was alright.

(wow to I feel silly)

Theres his goose egg after comming home from the ER.

Not that bad.

But better safe than sorry right?

I love seeing poppa love.

you know what I mean?

When your baby is asleep in your mans arms.

Or when they are just hanging out together.

Matt wrapped Henry on his back and did some yard work.

Within 10 min he was out.

Then later Henry was fussing up a storm and didn't want anything to do with me.

His Poppa picks him up and walks around with him and again he's out within 10 min.

Hey Guess what BOO! 

Hahahaha.

Peaches, Henry loves peaches.

I just gave him a huge chunk of ripe peach with the skin still on it.

He went to town!

It seems with the skin on it he can't get as big of chunks off it.

Which is good, because choking scares the CRAP out of me.

Lushious can fly and chompers is pretty.

Eek Scary spider!

Leaf bug!

Watermelon, Cantaloupe, and Tomatoe plant

(The watermelon isn't doing so good but it's trying so hard!)

And I don't have a segway but hey more pictures and stuff of Henry!

He tosses and turns so much when he is sleeping he almost falls off the bed.

Hehehe and he starfushes out.

STRETCH and take up space Henry.

Or look like a baby froggie

Hehehehe.

I was going to actually post something intresting.

But I'm not that intresting.

O well.

What happened to my title!?

Henrys sleeping.

I should probably be cleaning.

But instead I'm posting on my silly blog.

For some reason it wont let me move the allignment of the text to the left so center it is!

Makes it kinda look like a poem...

Kinda..

Except without the rhyme, or the vivid imagnitive speech.

Or anything that makes up a good poem.

OH WELL.



Weee CAR RIDES.

A very uncommon thing in the car is a smiling face.

Henry HATES THE CAR SEAT!

As soon as we put him in it...

OMG END OF WORLD!! DEAR GOD SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF THIS SEAT!

HHHHHEEEELLLLPPPP

If it wasn't so shitty it'd probably be funny.

So, I snapped a picture of him happy in his carseat.

Maybe one day I'll tell him that really deep deep down he enjoyed riding in the car.

Henry has been teaching me baby yoga.

I caught him like this and a few other positions while I was cooking dinner.

He would do this pose, downward facing dog, child pose and others.

He's crazy flexible and crazy mobile.

I can't just leave him on the floor anymore.

He scoots, and rolls, and crawls.

Eeeeek mobile baby!

(Makes me miss the blob baby stage! WHERES MY CUDDLE BUG!?)

So this week we did tons of yard work.

Tons o' Ton.

Raked, cut down dead little trees, planted veggies, sprayed for bugs, put down grass seed, feed and weed got put down to. (pray for rain guys I want my grass to grow)

and Henry wanted to help.

So me and Matt wrapped him on my back!

Its called the double hammock back carry (or Chunie)

Really east to wrap it this way and practically wiggle proof.

Double Hammock Carry Instructions

We loved it.

Henry sung into my ear untill he fell asleep.

I got to rake for 2 hours.

Though some down sides to this are.

a) My wrap causes pressure points because it is made out of thin cotton gauze.

b) Its Hot as HELL here in Georgia.

c) Raking with a 20(ish) pound baby back pack is a lot of work!

I got to take a 20 min break from being Momma!

(Yay shower time!)

My boys went to the store real quick.

Henry fell asleep on the way home, so his poppa scooped him up out of the car and joined him in his nap.

I love seeing them together!

Speaking of napping.

I put Henry down for a nap at the top of the mattress pile then step outside for a bit.

(its how I store our beds for the day)

Matt peeks inside to check on Henry.

"Wolfie, wheres Henry?"

He had rolled all the way to the bottem of the mattress pile then pulled the covers over his head!

He was hiding!

Still asleep so we uncovered his face, got pictures, and let him sleep.

He must have been comfortable he slept like that for 30+ min.

(don't worry I checked on him frequently to make sure he was still breathing.)

So we have this toy that sings songs when you press buttons.

But you have to be standing in order to play it.

HE LOVES IT.

I can have it just standing upright in the living room, and he'll go to pull himself up on it.

He needs a little help getting all the way up.

But jsut for ballance he has all the muscle strength.

He'll stand and play with all the buttons and slowly try to scoot himself around the little table.

He just competely skipped truly cralling and is trying to stand and walk.

Can someone tell him to slow down some?!

Thats all I've got this week.

Matts been home so I've been super busy with him.



durp n stuff

Its  been awhile.

Just a bit actually, not to long.

Been watching my sisters all week.

Arn’t they cute while they are sleeping.

If only they were ALWAYS so cute!

At my house last weekend we did lots of cool things.
I don’t have pictures right now maybe when I go back up there today/tomorrow I’ll take some.

But we stretched the carpet and put up base molding.

We have internet and phone now as well.

So when we go back up there I can hook up our computer and a phone! Yay!

But while we were there last weekend it ended up being over 90*

Wow that’s hot.

So to help Henry cool down we put some cool water in his exersaucer bottom.

He loved splashing in the shallow water.
Playing with his water toys, and having fun.

He also played out on his mat in the shade.

He kept rolling off of it into the dirt.

It was kinda funny, but I had to keep moving him so he wouldn’t eat bugs

He loves his Awah

He also loves Lukius.

Lukius is our golden lab, and he’s BIG, around 100 lbs.

But Henry LOVES him.

He’ll squeal with joy every time Lukius comes around, reaching out to grab him.

So cute.

I love watching them interact with eachother.

Lukius will lick Henrys face and Henry will smile and squeal.

All this hard work playing tired the little guy out

I love taking pictures of him as he sleeps.

J Probably my favorite time to take pictures.

So on memorial day we went to my aunts house for a little get together.

They had come cantaloupe.

Henry will gnaw on some cantaloupe!

One of his favorites so far.

Hey there’s me too!

And Awah (of course)

One of his most recent mile stone achievements is pushing him into a sitting postion.

He’s getting so good at it.

He’ll start in a crawling position then slowly put his legs under his butt, sit on them then push himself upright with his hands.

Its amazing how fast he is growing!

Also he’s taking supported steps.

If you hold his hands and gently lean him foreword he will lift his feet and “walk”

Though I don’t have any pictures of that.

Also he just figured out how to lift an arm/hand while on all fours without toppling over.

He hasn’t figured how to move with it so that he’s actually “crawling” but I give it a couple more days and he’ll be fully mobile!

He’s fussing now so I gotta ruuuun.