10 months

Baby Baby not so baby boy.
This was a big month for you!  You started crawling and crawling FAST.  You didn't even allow me anytime to prepare... you headed straight for the light socket and started trying to put your finger in the hole.  Yes European outlets are holes... not great when baby fingers fit perfectly!  You got your top tooth in and are working on the second one.  You now pull yourself up to a stand and can go from your belly to a seated position.  You crawl over and try to sit in my lap... you haven't quite mastered that yet but you are cute enough when you try that i help you the rest of the way.  You reach up at my knee and if i don't pick you up right away you scratch my knee.  You say dada and momma and i am pretty sure you know it means us know.  You SNORT, oh i love it!  haha.  When you are fake whining you put your head down and snort!  I love you my little man, but i want you to stay my little man... please don't get bigger than me!  Okay well i don't want you to be incredibly short either so... just slow down okay?  Let me enjoy your adolescence!

9 months

I think your biggest milestone this month was reaching.  You TOTALLY reach for us.  You lean in with your butt in the air and reach out with both hands.  Then you sit on our laps totally satisfied with yourself.  It is the best thing.  I love that you want us.
I thought i would share a few fun quotes that we have heard about you...
The doctor at the ER said that your dad and i should "keep having babies because not having more would be a disservice to the planet, you are the cutest baby she has ever seen."
A lady at the grocery store said to the cashier "he really is so cute, babies don't come out that cute."
and a coworker of dad's said "he doesn't know how pimp he looks right now rockin' those nice clothes."  :)
There you have it, you are our suave handsome little man, i love every minute with you.

BABY FOOD

So at the moment i have a DRAWER FULL of baby food from the neighbor

my cheap self wants to use that food before i start making more...

BUT my cooking/craft loving self is DYING to make more

so while i suffer at the thought of feeding baby Jack plain ol' Gerber bananas and carrots i will entertain myself with the wild combinations i will make when i am finally set free from the chains of boredom.

enter exhibit A:

Ella's Kitchen

Link to Recipes

I loved these when we were in the states.  

I made baby food a few times but it just makes such LARGE quantities and i didn't have my freezer jars so it went bad quick.  Plus Jack wasn't too fond of eating beets for a week at a time.  He DID enjoy the applesauce, go figure.

8 months

Little Man!

Stop it, stop it, stop it.  You brought me to tears this month when you sat in a shopping cart for the first time, took a few steps while i held your hands, started trying to crawl, reaching for things, and got your first two teeth. 

You make me so proud but i like that we are buddies.  I like that you light up when i smile at you or that i can make you giggle by "eating you like corn on the cob", or kissing you.  I know that this time is fleeting.  Before i know it you won't want me to kiss you.  You will wipe a kiss off of your forehead and say "Mo-om".  I don't want that.  I want to play with you and take you with me everywhere forever.  You are my precious little man.


If i feed you cookies will you stay small?
I love you bugsy.

7 months-a lot late

Dearest Jack,
This month you learned to sit by yourself!  This was a huge deal because now we can sit and play with you, roll balls to you, show you your animals without worrying about holding you too! 

You think that your feet are a second set of hands.  It is so cute.  You will grab a ball with your feet and pass it to your hands.  We kiss your feet and when we stop you lift them up to us again.  You chew on your feet now... I am pretty sure you are ready for teeth.  We call you drooley cooley.  Your shirts are ALWAYS soaked.  If we hand you anything it goes directly into your mouth and comes back soaked. 

While you were in America you tried some not so healthy things like Nana's Ice cream or the breading in a donut.  You loved all of those things but i think it is just because your momma has been trying to feed you beets.  I love you my little boy.  I love watching you grow.  I just wish it would all slow down. 

6 months

Dear Jack,
Where does the time go?  You are HUGE now.  You don't look like the same baby i gave birth to.  You giggle but you make us work hard for it.  You chomp on ANYTHING.  You Roar.  You stick your foot in your mouth.  You say momma.
You ate your first bits of food this month.  Grapes, mangos, apricots, bananas, carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, peaches...
I love you my little boy.  Stop growing please.

well...

So my goal was to make a stuffed animal for every letter of the alphabet...

So i made one but um this does not look like an alligator it looks like some sort of fish or salamander...

Um FAIL

But, i think at least attempting it counts for something right?

Try, try again.

On another note, check out the cool embroidery by new sewing machine does by itself!  :)

Happy Mothers Day to me!