Hoppy Easter!

Today marks 2 things- Christopher's 1st Easter and my one year blogiversary!!! :) :) In the past year I have written 96 posts and have gotten 9,377 page views! That's just crazy!! In case you missed my very first post (and trust me it really isn't much) check it out here! It's nothing to write home about, but I do think the ending is kinda fitting.... since Matt is in charge of dressing Christopher!

On to Easter....

Family shot!

Christopher's Easter basket! He got 5 Easter board books, a Yankees shirt, Braves wind up toys, a Yankees sippy cup and a Notre Dame duck! Very sportsy. The duck was supposed to be for his birthday, but I thought he kinda went with the Easter theme.

This is the best I could get!

Christopher wouldn't take his eyes off of Rocco long ago to actually look at the camera. It was so nice having Anthony here this morning.... he helped me make my ham and cheese sliders and kept Christopher in his room for a bit so we could clean up without him crawling all over the place.

Christopher and his cousins.

Do you love my duck?

Getting ready to go outside and play after the rain!

Had to change into some pants because Christopher wanted to crawl around everywhere! Don't you love his bat and ball??? That was his Easter present from Ms. Jeanne! it came in a wrapper and looked just like a carrot!

Mommy and Christopher sharing a french fry!

Christopher's first time eating ice cream! I am sure this had to feel so good in his mouth. My friend Becca said my last blog post sounded like molars coming in.... and from what I researched, she sounds right! I haven't been able to get my fingers back there but today when he yawned I think I saw something white in the back. Needless to say, he has been getting some Motrin to help his grumpy butt.

We let Christopher be naked this evening. It was so warm in our house. I hate when the weather is starting to change so you don't need the heat during the day but it still drops down low enough to need it at night. We figured he could play around with no clothes! The first thing he did was crawl up to the couch and throw his leg up on it. He is nowhere near able to pull himself up on that yet, but without clothes on, his leg went way higher!

Playing with daddy after dinner... even though here he looks like he is watching tv. :) I can attest that he is NOT because we had music playing!

A video to leave you wanting more Christopher....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ojb9cax4g5duzue/Video%20Mar%2031%2C%206%2025%2052%20PM.mov

And that's it! Have a great week! 5 more days and it is Spring Break!!!!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good: Spring has sprung and the weather is starting to warm up again! It was a cold start to the week but by Thursday and Friday the weather was beautiful in the afternoons, which meant playtime outside for Christopher! It also meant there was beautiful weather for his Easter Egg Hunt at daycare!!!

There are supposed to be whiskers on his face but we are just thankful we got a nose! I also forgot to put on his bunny ears when we were hunting for eggs. Yes, Ms. Jeanne made them all bunny ears and each kid had their own because she did them according to their head size. How in the world with little kids like this- I don't know. I don't think I could even do one!

Someone is trying to steal his egg. I may or may not have thrown an elbow. Christopher was so good about picking up the eggs and then I would shake his arm really hard so that he would drop the egg in the basket.

Christopher was so cute with this egg. It was a big one and he just was standing there shaking it! I kept saying... come on. Take a step. I should have nudged him forward a little, but we were in the exact spot where another little girl fell and bonked her head so I didn't wanna chance it being a jinxed spot. :)

There we go! Full on (without the whiskers) bunny!

Christopher got to sit at the big kid table and eat his Goldfish! I cannot believe he can just sit there like that. Sad. Christopher kept stealing Goldfish from the kid next to him... and that kid kept stealing Goldfish from the little one next to him. The grass isn't always greener, boys.... (In Christopher's case it actually is though because the boy next to him had WHOLE Goldfish. I didn't realize that he could eat Goldfish (so I broke his up) which makes me very happy because I do love me some Goldfish!)

Thankfully a little girl from school spends the afternoons there so she was my picture taker! Matt has been super busy (so he says) so he had to work and couldn't come to the party. She took so many pictures that my space was full! These were just some of the highlights.

The Bad: Someone was Mr. Grumpypants 2 days at daycare this week. Who knows why but he was just not his normal self this week. He didn't eat very well those 2 days and he didn't exactly take the best naps. Ms. Jeanne said he got up from one of his naps and NOTHING would make him happy- not even a pretzel!

He refused to get into his highchair at dinner at Wednesday. The only way I could get him in was to lure him in with banana. And then he was the pickiest eater... on stuff he normally eats! So on Thursday... I made him all of his favorites so that I didn't have to go through that again!

Black beans with garlic.... and macaroni and cheese... and for dessert- WATERMELON! yummmmmmm!



The Ugly: Holy God I cannot get him in his carseat. He is a strong little boy! Sometimes he gets right in.... and sometimes I start to sweat and he starts with the tears. Thursday it took me 9 minutes to get him in his carseat- 9 MINUTES!!! We were supposed to go to the mall and see the Easter Bunny but after that- there was no way I was going through that again in a mall parking lot. No thank you.

And just a few random pics...

I love my daddy.

BLACK BEANS AGAIN!?!?!?!

Sock lover.

See yall tomorrow for a First Easter update! 

It's Here!!! It's Here!!

Surprise!!!! Do you love it?!?!?!  I am so thankful for Dana at 3rd Grade Gridiron for guiding me in the right direction!! I had been searching and searching for a baseball blog for Christopher but couldn't find any until she directed me to the right people! Thank goodness for fellow teachers! Misty at Think, Wonder and Teach and Erika with Honey Bunch Blog Design did the template for me! We will use this one for awhile and then when I get another itch to change it up, we will see what we find! :) :)

Since I am updating... here are a few shots from the day!

I "think" this is Christopher's shot for his birthday invitation. We shall see!

The little boy across the street came over to see if Christopher could come out and walk. I told him I had to unload the dishwasher first so he kept Christopher busy while I did that by playing with him in the window.

Lunch at Miss L's today!

Christopher playing this morning. It's only 38 seconds.. Yor for sure want to watch the end!

Tiny Update- 11 months!

Here is Christopher's 11 month picture. I cannot even begin to tell you how difficult this picture was. You can probably tell since it does not have him sitting on the couch like all of the others AND this is the best picture- enough said!

Christopher and Stroonz were playing this morning. Stroonz scratched my hand up pretty bad in the midle of the night so I was a little nervous about this situation... not my idea of a fun way to start the day, but they got along.

Christopher cannot get enough of the cat door. He loves watching Stroonz go in and then spying on him while he is in there.

My little reader!

That's it for today! Just wanted to show you the 11 month picture! :) Happy Friday! 

70 and Sunny!

This weekend was GORGEOUS. So gorgeous that I had to go out and get sunscreen.... for the pale people in my life. It did make me realize that Christopher is seriously lacking in the spring clothes area. Thankfully it is going back down to the 50s and 60s so I have an extra week to go and get him some shorts and sandals! We spent most of the weekend outside, unless Christopher was sleeping.

Here is Saturday in pictures...

We woke up and went for an early morning run at Swift Cantrell. Whenever we go there, I always say... Christopher, do you remember this from when you were a baby?

After Christopher's amazingly long nap, we went to see our nephew Brandon play baseball.

A little daddy-son smooching.

We came home... got sunscreened up and played outside. Christopher got some new bouncy balls to play with and used his walker. He also decided to eat some rocks. Yummmmmmmy.

And now Sunday....

Christopher was in rare form this morning. I guess sleeping for almost 13 hours will do it to you!

Mommy and daddy went to the tennis courts to play tennis. I use the word play very loosely. Thankfully my athletic ability allows me to do most sports well... just not perfect. :)  (But at least I am not the one that hit a ball that bounced off Christopher's stroller.)

We went across the street to celebrate Austin's first birthday! Austin got this slide for his birthday... Christopher loved it! He loved going down it but he also loved...

standing in the top part and looking out! We really thought Christopher was going to take his first step while we were there. He was standing... standing.. standing. But no.

Here he is Friday at daycare pushing his shopping cart around!

And as I was packing his bag this weekend I went to write his initials on the top of the cup.... but then thought.... Let me just write I love you, Christopher and every time he tips up his cup he will think of me. :)

Today is Christopher's 11 month birthday as well! I will post that picture later! :) :) Have a great week! 



A Weekend of Fun!

I had titled this blog post  "A Weekend of Fun!" Monday when I started this blog by uploading all the pictures... but then life took over and here we are Thursday night and finally adding the text!

Kate came this weekend with her boyfriend to hang out with Christopher. She babysat while me and the boys worked out Saturday morning and then she babysat again that night so that Matt and I could go to a wedding!

Kate took a million pictures of them playing! This is just one.

This was the best family shot we got. Christopher was so pumped we were leaving!

I am pretty sure they had LOTS OF FUN together! I did feel really bad though when we got home and Kate said- well there weren't any diapers in the diaper thing so I found one in his closet to put on him. OMG! Worst mom and dad feeling ever! Matt had gone to BJs and got a huge thing of diapers during the day, but things were so crazy before we left that neither one of us filled the caddy. Needless to say, Christopher sleeps in a level 4. He can handle a 3 during the day but at night he needs a 4. She put him in a LEVEL 2! We got him up when we got home to change him and it looked so itty bitty on him, but she must have done a great job because he hadn't peed through it!

Sunday we went to see Eddie for his surprise 60th birthday party! Christopher is wearing his "Little dude, Big muscles" shirt. It's only fitting. :)

Here is Eddie blowing out his candles! How do you keep an almost 11 month old content at an event like this for 2 hours... you walk, and walk, and walk. Christopher was having so much fun walking around holding our hands. He was zooming all over! When we got home we let him play outside with his little dog toy that he can push around. He is getting so good. Today we were practicing walking around with me only holding onto one of his hands. He was definitely more wobbly than he is with holding two hands, but I figured that was the next step to getting him to do it alone. The only deadline Christopher needs to meet is he must be walking by the time the pool opens.... which I am not sure if it will happen or not. He will only be just over 12 months then.

Pushing his doggy! We practiced walking outside a few days this week and plan to work at it again tomorrow- it's gonna be 70 here!

Here he is enjoying the sunshine!

I spent my Sunday morning making meatballs for Christopher to try! He wouldn't eat the store bought ones and he devoured the homemade meatball he had at my mom's.... so I made him 60 meatballs! You can;t just make one! He LOVED it! My little Italian Stallion.

Ms. Jeanne styled Christopher's hair for him! :) I am sure you have noticed that sometimes he can look like he has a mohawk flat on his head because of the way his hair grows in! She brushed it over and put a little spray in it to keep it there! :) I think he likes it.

Just checking out Stroonz. He loves to chase Stroonz around the house and hunt him down if he isn't around.

See what I mean... and Stroonz is ALWAYS around. Right in the middle of everything. I think he secretly likes the attention! Today Christopher leaned over and tried to kiss Stroonz. How do I know this? It was an open mouth slow movement which is what Christopher does when he kisses. Poor Matt though because Christopher won't smooch on him. Christopher loves when Matt and I kiss in front of him- he smiles so big. So we always say... Mommy and daddy kiss... Christopher and mommy kiss... but when we get to Christopher and daddy kiss... he turns away. I guess he is wanting us to say Christopher and Stroonzie kiss..... :)

Terrible picture I know... but I was trying to FaceTime so I had the iPad in my hand when Christopher started doing this! He had his walker in one hand and the dog walker in the other.... pushing them along the carpet into the kitchen. He made it quite far surprisingly! He would have kept going I think if he hadn't run into the cabinets! So there you have a picture.. of a picture!

And lastly..... I was picking out Christopher's clothes for the next day and he crawled over, picked up a book and started flipping. I think all my Reading teacher friends will love this picture.... or this one.

When I went to get Christopher out of his carseat this is what I saw. I know. LOVE.

#mommydidagoodjob

Okay... 1 more video I forgot about!

This is Anthony playing the guitar for us Saturday morning...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttytf722g25x09y/Video%20Mar%2009%2C%208%2016%2037%20AM.mov

And that's it! Have a great Friday!!!!