A Post Just Because

Thoughts for the day.
Glee is awesome
Modern Family makes me want to pee my pants
My friend Rachel's post about the firemen fixing her stairs made me piddle a wee bit
I love the fall and pumpkin goodness that comes with it
On a high note I celebrated my birthday last week which puts me too close to that 30 mark than I like, BUT what was awesome is that last week alone I had three people say to me that I look to young to have a child of my own.  Hooray for the fountain of youth and never aging (though my knees feel the age).

Because I don't have much to say today enjoy some pictures

The moment we put him in jeans he looked like a completely different kid to us.  And:  you should vote for Edmund here

Finally you should check out this blog.  Its awesome and there is an awesome give-away.  But don't enter it because I want to win it.

Food Invention

Its been a while and I have a lot to blog about.  This one is about food.  One of my favorites.  My friends and I always use to say that we only think about 3 things: Jesus, boys and food (sometimes in less good order).  Well, today that is still primarily what I am thinking about.

I am not going to say I invented this, but I have yet to see it on a menu at a restaurant, so I will claim it as my own creation.  I call it the 'Yogurt-Applecake'.  What is it?  Simple.

• Silver dollar pancakes (because they are awesome
• Yogurt
• Apples (or a delicious fruit of your choice)
• and I didn't do this, but I think a pinch on cinnamon may be nice.  

And here it is.  And it truly was quite delicious (and I may add nutritious!)

As I am in the business of making baby food, I think this is a soon to be good treat for EddieBear, but opposed to apple slices maybe shred the apple into the pancake batter....

Now, to get you through to the next post, here is what you really came here for.

sometimes after breakfast it looks like he ate a cat or other small woodland creature.  

Eight Months of Love

Eight months have come and gone.  Sometimes I can barely remember what have a two week old baby was really like.  Crazy, just crazy.   He's gone from a sweet little breakable yet resilient sack of flour to an always on the gone, smiley, loud little man.  Every day with him is truly a blessing.  Even though we still struggle with sleep, I wouldn't change his happiest baby in the world temperament for anything.

I don't have stats at this time, but he is heavier and taller.  And he wears shoes that have little dinosaurs on them.  He is a speedy crawler  and loves obstacle courses.  He can pull up on anything and he has already shown that he has his dad's talent when it comes to climbing.  He cruises around the coffee table, to the couch to his friendly dinosaur with ease and he still loves to roll down the hallway in his walker....just now he pokes into boys rooms who have open doors!  He is a proficient waver and has just started clapping and we are now working on the high fives and fist bumps.  

Next to chillin' with mom he loves being outside more than anything (I will show this to him when he is 16 and wants nothing to do with me).  He will jump for as long as someone can help support him, and he is starting to think a big orange basketball is pretty stinking awesome.  He plays with all his toys quite well, but his new favorites are the cups in our pantry.  He thinks they are awesome and he is pretty good at fake drinking out of them.  I would encourage any visitors not to drink out of these cups.  Ever.  He can say the mama's and dada's we are just working on making them more consistent (and correct) and he is pretty good at babbling.  I think that some of our students from Bahrain may be able to understand him, but we haven't tried for the translations yet.    

His newest cutest trick is throwing his head back when he smiles.  Gosh I love this kid.  He's just too dang cute.

This smile and laugh is the highlight of my everyday, possibly of my life.  It doesn't matter what type of day I've had with Edmund around.  When I walk in and am greeted (always) with this smile and his speedy crawl to be in the arms of his mommy, my life at that moment could not be any better.