The hat

I bought this hat to put on naked newborns during sessions, how cute right? So I thought i’d put it on Jake, last week it fit, this week….my baby is growing up too fast! But isn’t he soooo cute?

New Tricks

Yesterday Jake crawled for the first time. He got about a foot and a half before he crashed on his face. He also has polished up “mama” and “baba” and was babbling them both all day yesterday. He also started doing “so big” which involves him holding those chubby arms up over his head. Today he waved for the first time. I guess all that sleeping was for good reason. Thor and I are uploading and editing videos as we speak but I just tought I’d post about these new tricks before I forget!

I’m not a slacker… it’s cold.

Please don’t take my lack-of-blogupdatedness to mean that i don’t love my son or have all sorts of little tibits to share. It’s been busy and cold. Where are they pictures you’re wondering? Isn’t she a photographer? Yes and they’re coming. It’s been cold, did I say that already? Really blizzardy and since I live in the batcave here it’s impossible to get good shots in the warmth of the living room especially when it’s all cloudy. The front porch turned studio is an absolute mess of renovation, snow, mud, and my crap all over out there. But i’m itching for a few warm days so i can finish up the studio and drag my son’s naked butt out there for some new baby pics. Don’t worry i’ve got clothes for the kid too, in fact i just bought an adorable hat that i want to put on him for Easter pictures, but it had better get warm quick because his little head is growing!

Seriously last week Jake’s hair was looking kind of long but his head grew into his hair. In fact the famed blue stocking cap is now too small and i’m completely distraught at the idea that i’m going to have to pack it away. Jake’s making tons of progress in the last week. Apparently the cold has put him in hibernation mode because all the sudden he’s eating twice as much solid food as before. He was really getting frustrated with not being able to crawl forward so we think he’s decided to just skip it and walk. I’ve seen him pull himself up from a sitting to standing position on everything short of the cat this week. He can sit up, get into a crawl position, sit back down all on his own. I’m amazed and terrified of how he’ll be getting into soon. He’s still blabbering on with Mama and Dada and he’s now shaking his head “no” on command which makes me super happy. There’s nothing better about having a baby than when they learn to do cute things that you can show off to the world! Okay well enough rambling. Our lawyer files for finalization this week. There are just no words for us to use to convey how much Jake has changed our life…how sweet and happy he is…how proud we are to be his mom and dad. I love my little chibster. He’s the best!

PS. Since Dr. Yogi Bear’s tests were a very expensive waste of time, i think our GP is going to agree with Dr. Mom’s diagnosis…hypoglycemia. Seems kinda silly but it’s an expressway to type II diabetes, so we’ve changed what we eat, how i cook it, and when we eat it. OMG i may be skinny again someday.

Dr. Yogi Bear

Well for those of you who have been wondering what’s up with my husband’s health the verdict is in…we know nothing. Today we went to see Dr. Yogi Bear as I affectionately call him because I truly believe that he’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket. Truly this guy was all spazzy, asking questions about computers and shouting out “irrelevant” as I read him the long list of symptoms exhibited. I was trying to tell him what was going on (cuz my darling husband doesn’t remember things when he’s “sick”) and the guy was looking at me like I was bent over talking out of my ass like Jim Carrey. He made it clear that unless my husband was coming in with his diagnosis stamped clearly on his forehead, Dr. Yogi Bear had no interest in figuring out what was going on. Although he was terribly interested in my fertility…so I watched with a glaring eye as he examined my husband’s feet and eyes all the while thinking I was going to have to call down for a paramedic because Dr. Yogi Bear looked like he was having some sort of fit.

So I don’t know how well I trust this A-okay diagnosis from Dr. I graduated from Bedrock Medical School (before the earth was populated with fully evolved humans). All these symptoms and no clue. Maybe we’ll get a second opinion from Dr. Doolittle. This is the true health care crisis in America—boneheads like Dr. Yogi Bear who is going to charge me $400 for thumping my husband like a gourd. Well that is the one good thing that came out of today—watching my husband squirm on the table while this guy poked and thumped and danced around..Yes ,Yogi Bear danced around, after which he quickly disappeared, probably after another sandwich.

Jake-a-saurus Rex

A few weeks ago my Dad taught Jake to growl and he’s been doing it almost non-stop ever since. He growls at the cat, and at me, when I’m feeding him, when he’s falling asleep, and yes even in his sleep! Thanks Dad. J/K! His little tiny growl sounds more like a little dinosaur roar which is how he earned this newest nickname!

Coupled with these sweet little dinosaur pajamas it’s the cutest thing in the world. We love our little Jake-a-saurus Rex. And those 9 month jammies have gone extinct. Our dinobaby has moved up to the 97% for height while keeping his same weight almost (down to 70%), he’s too tall for footsie pajamas. A few more inches and the jumperoo and walker will be extinct too…then what will a mommysaurus do?

Sheep

“When you’re worried and you can’t sleep, just count your blessings instead of sheep, and you’ll fall asleep, counting your blessings…”
~Bing Crosby

When I was younger my mom told me that if you have a song stuck in your head it’s stuck there for a reason…figure out the meaning and it will go away. While I don’t know if that’s necessarily true of the Doodle-Bops song that gets lodged in there everyday, I do think there’s some truth to this!

This last few weeks have been overwhelming for me. We’ve completed our final homestudy visit, my business is taking up a lot of time and money, and i’ve had some injuries (my neck needs to be cracked so i have a constant headache and I managed to slam my arm in the van door (don’t ask) luckily i didn’t break it). To top it all of my husband has some major unknown illness that we’re trying to track down. I don’t handle my hubby being sick very well. So with all this going on I’ve been a bit of a slacker mom this week, about which i feel guilty which makes me more stressed and more tired…you get the picture.

So this morning I’m walking around like Rosemary Clooney singing this great Bing Crosby song and it hits me…it’s about perspective. Just like photography, life is about perspective. If i focus on the blessings in my life, these little things like laundry and proofing and paiting don’t seem like such a big deal. So today I did less worrying, played with my son, cooked and enjoyed an evening with my husband. The rest of this mundane world can wait…tonight i’m busy counting my blessings.

Baby Fun!

Winter Fun!

We’ve had an exciting weekend. Thor took a four day weekend and we spent all day on Friday out and about and bought Olivia a ton of adorable clothes for her birthday (about 2 weeks away). This afternoon Jake hung out with Grandpa and Grandma and we went on a date! Dinner and a movie, and Thor bought me a new leather diaper bag that I am truly in LOVE with.

Since it snowed like crazy we put Jake in his new snowsuit:

Okay well i’m off to admire my new diaper bag again (yes I’m truly spoiled) at some point I’m going to have to fill it.

~Kimberly

Christmas Pictures

Okay so I finally added the pictures from Christmas. The kids got spoiled but I think we all had more fun this year than we have in a while. We had Thor’s family over for Christmas Eve and went to my parent’s house for Christmas Day…by then Jake had the paper tearing down! I love these of him in the orange vest from his Aunt Kass. All these are shot with my new point and shoot, I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my Nikon and refuse to use my Canon in the meantime! It’s all for you Steph & Jen

Mommy & Jake’s Self Portrait
Livy is a messy eater
Livy in her Elmo chair (from us) it giggles when she sits in it and

now’s she’s scared and won’t sit in it! But isn’t she cute? Jake on the way to the radio show!
Daddy opening Christmas Presents

Livy loves her tunnel

hello!
Jake and my parents A self portrait, it’s been forever…yes i blew the highlights on purpose!