mr. personality

Henry turned 17 months on the 11th. Almost a year and a half?! It can’t be true. I feel like every mom says this about their kid but I cannot get over how fast time goes. Despite my slight sadness in my always growing baby we are absolutely loving seeing him progress and watching his personality develop more and more. He is such a character, we are honestly laughing at him all day long. and even though he’s getting older and bigger he still is the best at giving hugs, we’re talking tight tight squeezes here. He loves to cuddle (sometimes) and I still choose to rock him to sleep for naptime. I think I might hold on to that as long as I can.

He’s pretty independent in a lot of ways, particularly when it comes to eating. He insists on feeding himself and has been for months now. He is a really good eater for the most part but I sometimes have to get creative to get him to eat his veggies.

You would think that his independence with eating would make him independent in other major skills, say walking. But no such luck. He is this close to walking, but we’ve been saying that for weeks and weeks now. He just doesn’t seem to care about walking, he loves to walk when he’s holding someone’s hand, and moves pretty fast. But he is so speedy at crawling that he’s sticking to that. We have managed to get a few steps out of him in the past few weeks, usually tempting him with treats. his record is 5 in a row but then he realizes he’s walking with no help and gets mad. So now we’re kind of just letting him decide when he wants to do it.

This boy loves the water.

This past weekend my family was in town. He is so loved by all of his uncles and aunts on both sides. He played with Toby (he loves dogs),

shared a bowl of Captain Crunch with Grandpa,

and got to spend some time with Chris and JJ.

Yesterday Henry and I had a play date with Brittney, Liam and Charlotte at Farm Country. Henry loved seeing the animals, riding in the wagon and playing on the grass. He definitely did not love riding the pony. When I tried to set him down he got super stiff and grabbed onto me as hard as he could. We decided to just watch instead.

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We are a little obsessed with our sweet baby boy, we can’t get enough of him. Hopefully my next post will be of a few projects I’ve been working on and am desperate to finally finish.

family photos.

but first, a story. we had been trying to get family photos done for months but for a variety of reasons hadn’t gotten around to it until a few weeks ago. I had been starting to feel major guilt at having no professional photos of henry. I love how these photos turned out. kind of wish Mckay wasn’t sporting a mustache at the time but oh well. so this photo session was highly anticipated in our house, we found a great photographer, perfect date, perfect location. I thought I’d picked a good outfit. reminder: if the camera adds 10 pounds, a maxi dress adds 20. I had timed the day perfect, Henry had napped, bathed, eaten and was happy. 20 minutes before we needed to leave: I was dressed and ready. Mckay was dressed and ready and had started to dress Henry. I was in the bathroom trying to get my stupid boy lashes to stay curled, I turned to go into the living room to grab Henry’s pants for Mckay and instead of going through the door walked straight into the wall-whilst still curling my lashes. My elbow hit the wall, shoving my eyelash curler into my eyebrow aaaand ripping out half of my eyelashes. I freaked. at first I just stared at the eyelashes stuck in my curler, then looked at the gaping bald spot on my eyelid, then started to feel the little cut on my eyebrow. then I cried, more than just a little. 20 minutes before we were supposed to leave. and I looked like a monster. I eventually calmed down, my eyelashes still haven’t grown back but at least I can say I love these pictures, and I love that most of them aren’t close ups. ps aren’t my boys handsome?!

weekend.

This past weekend was a doozy. I don’t know why but everything that we did or that happened just seemed perfect to me. It was a good weekend. Friday I met my mom and Grandma at Highland Gardens where we spent a beautiful sunny morning picking out flowers and herbs for me to plant for our little porch. I also picked up a cheap little pool to put in our front yard for Henry. After shopping we met my dad for sushi. heaven I tell you. Henry refused to take a nap but chose to play happily in the crib (never happens) long enough for me to plant everything. We loaded up the car and headed home. We met Mckay at home and spent a couple of hours outside playing in the yard and playing with sidewalk chalk. We made burgers on our new grill for dinner.

I’m going to be honest I’m quite obsessed with my little garden and check on my plants more than I’d care to admit. for the record I planted : mint, rosemary, thyme, chives, dill, oregano, cilantro, basil, boxwood basil, jalepeno’s and in front of our house: roma’s, bell peppers, salsa and anaheim peppers, we eat a lot of salsa in this house. anyways, we’ll see how long I can keep them alive…I don’t have the best record. We’ve used the herbs in sandwiches and salads, last night I made homemade pesto and my new all time favorite thing in the world, mint limeade. there is nothing better.

Saturday we had waffles and berries for breakfast. We took a walk to visit the ducks, then Henry took a blissfully long nap. While Henry was napping Mckay biked from our house to my parents house in Alpine. We met him there and then went with my family to Thanksgiving Point. Ever since our visit to the Museum of Natural History I’ve been dying to see more Dinosaurs (so random). I love them right now. We thought Henry would enjoy seeing the fossils and mostly playing in the huge sandbox they have there. About 5 seconds inside the museum we realized being outside would be a better option. So off to the Animal Farm we went. It was such a nice day and I loved seeing how interested Henry got in the animals. We decided farm animals are kind of gross, and stupid, but we had lots of fun. We took a ride in a horse drawn wagon and ate at the Deli before heading home.

Sunday brought Mothers Day. One of my new favorite holidays. Mckay completely surprised me with a beautiful quilt from Anthropology. We went to church with my family, then relaxed and took a wonderful afternoon nap. In the afternoon we went to the Ryttings to anxiously wait for a call (via skype) from Elder Rytting in Chile. We also skyped with Mairin and it was basically the funnest. It was so fun to see and talk to Chris and all be together as a family, even though we were in three separate places.

                              

and just because these are so funny: