Again, I am going to play catch up. I'm sorry for slacking. My excuses are that I'm working three days a week, have class about two nights a week, chase Barrett around, planted a garden... I don't know that seems like a good enough reason for me to slack off on the blog. Anywho, here are my five catch up pics for project52. Some of them are just random and weren't actually taken on a Wednesday....

 5.2.12

5.9.12 

5.16.12 

5.23.12 

5.30.12

{Isn't this the cutest little IT guy you ever saw?! LOL He opened the laptop up and started pushing on the keyboard like he knew what he was doing! It's crazy how attentive little ones can be...}



Daddy is home!

YAY!!!! Dad came home very early this morning and we are unbelievably happy that he's back...

Here is our Wednesday picture of the week :)

Also, we went to the doctor this morning and baby numero dos is doing great! He/She is measuring right on track at 12 weeks and is a wiggle worm! It was crazy to me because Barrett was never that active in the beginning....

catching up....

I know I'm super behind... sorry! Anyway, here are the project52 pics for the past 5 weeks... Good grief I am a slacker!!!!

 3.21.12

 3.28.12

 4.4.12

 4.11.12

{I love this one because he's playing with TJ's boot... He loves daddy's boot :) }

4.18.12

He's starting to walk with his toys! It's so fun to see him growing up but also sooooo scary! Sometimes I just wish he was still a tiny little guy.... Does that make me horrible???

3.14.12

100!

Yipee! This is my 100th blog post! Anyway, here is today's project52 picture of my sweet little chubby cheeked fellah! :)

Doesn't he look so much older here? I think so. I can't believe he's nine months old!!!! I don't know if you can tell but he's standing by himself by holding himself up on the toy box. I'm pretty excited with how much he is growing and learning recently.

a boy on the go!

Our little boy. Oh my goodness he is a mover! Recently he has found the DVDs, the dog food, and the front door doorstop. Every day he finds something new! It is always interesting to see what else he finds :)

ah two late wednesday pics :(

Wow. I am awful! I am playing catch up this week (for two weeks!) and I will tell you all about why later... but for now here are my two late project52 photos!

2.15.12 

2.22.12

EIGHT MONTHS!

My sweet baby boy turned 8 months yesterday! I can't believe how quickly time has passed! I just want to share what's going on with him now:

• Loves to do the army crawl everywhere! And you are SO fast!
• bablling! Babababa and mamamamama
• "pppffffttt"- grandma Verhoeven taught you that
• spitting, especially when you have food in your mouth
• rolling all over! you love to roll when we try to change you and then you giggle away when we flip you back
• you are enthralled by Bogey
• screaming! :( and it's SO loud!
• sometimes you'll put yourself to sleep, sometimes not.
• go up on your hands and knees

Barrett, I love you so much! I can't wait to see all of the new changes that are coming up!

pretend it's Wednesday

I know that it's Sunday, but let's pretend that it's Wednesday and that I'm not four days late putting up my project52 picture. Thanks! :)

Scoot!

My sweet boy is getting so big! He gets up on his hands like a push up and he kind of gets on his knees! He will do "the worm" backwards and pull himself forward with his arms... Thankfully he hasn't truly started crawling yet. But I know it'll be soon! 

flax seed! how delightful!

Well, as you know, I've been trying to eat better and make better choices. Yesterday Barrett and I went to Draper with Steph to see Katie. She was telling us about how her and Dave have been eating {mostly} vegan and have been adding flax seed to their food. Have you ever had one of those "AH HA!" moments? I did. She reminded me about how awesome flax seed is! Then I came home and didn't really think much of it... But I decided to go grocery shopping at Sam's Club and guess what was sitting on the shelf beckoning me to take it home. FLAX SEED! So I did. :) This morning, Barrett and I had flax seed smoothies for breakfast and it was delightful! :) Would you like the recipe? OK!

• 1 cup of fruit (your choice)
• 1 cup of ice
• 1 cup of yogurt
• 3 tbsp flax seed
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

I used pineapple and orange (so it was more fruit) and I used Greek yogurt because I like it better. Yep, so tasty!

And here is Barrett enjoying his smoothie :) And yes I am a day late on my project52 photo but here it is anyway! Also, he has been getting up on his knees and scooting backwards. It kind of looks like the worm so I really need to get it on video... I will try!

ouchie

Here is my sweet boy this week! :) I'm not going to lie though, it's been a strange week. Barrett has been extra grumpy lately. I'm not really sure why either.... I'm thinking it's either his teeth or his bum. He has a yucky diaper rash that is starting to open up in a couple spots. It gets worse when I use sposies and desitin so I'm sticking with cloth and using cornstarch. I hope it will get better quick! It's so sad because he's never had any diaper rash issues up to this point...

Project 52

One of the blogs I follow did a project last year called project 52. I'm not totally sure of all the details but I think the jist of it was that she took a picture a week of her baby and then compiled them at the end of the year. This year she's doing more and taking a picture a day. That seems like a bit too big of a challenge to me so I'm going to do one every Wednesday. At the end of the year I would like to make a picture book and/or a slideshow of the year. I think it will be so fun to see such drastic contrast in just one year! So, here is today's picture: