Happy Valentine's Day

To all my loved ones, but especially to the three that I live with. To my two little loves that make life so exhausting, rewarding, frustrating and funny...I love you more than I can even understand, my life is so full because of you. And to my man...I am so grateful to you for making my life so wonderful and blessed. I may not express that often enough, but I do feel it every day.

A New Haircut

So we might have mentioned how crazy Jack's hair can be:








He has a mop of curls on top that would never lay flat. So we gave up for awhile and just let his hair do whatever it liked, which usually involved a mohawk. But we gave him a haircut a couple weeks ago and his hair layed flat for the first time ever! So now our little man actually looks like a little man.




Although I do miss those curls sometimes....

Just Chillin'

He gets around....

Jack has started either rolling or army crawling everywhere. He's now getting up on his hands and knees and rocking, so we're only days away from full-fledged crawling. With his new found mobility, he now goes where ever he pleases, but he was particularly proud of himself when he discovered the new terrain under our living room ottoman.

A Bite of Sunshine

Jack has discovered the bits of sunshine that travel through the living room during the day. His first exploration involved trying to grab some light. When he found he couldn't do that....he tried to eat it.

Shades

The front window gets full sun so Ruby often dons her sunglasses when she hangs out there. This time, Puppy had to wear some too.

My Kiddos

There are few things that are sweeter than this...snuggling with two little cutie-patooties in bed. Of course Ruby requires bribery to snuggle for more than a minute (hence the IPad in very close proximity). But for now, Jack will snuggle as long as we want, and I enjoy every minute.

6 Months

Jack had his 6 month doctor visit and he's perfectly healthy and he's finally hit a growth curve! Go Jack! Well, that said, he weighs 14 pounds which puts him in the third percentile for weight. And he's 26 3/4 inches which is the fiftieth percentile. He's our string bean, that's for sure! And both the nurse and doctor commented on his crazy hair, which is yet to be tamed.

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Bobby had his birthday yesterday and we had a wonderful time celebrating with him. He requested clam chowder for dinner and tapioca pudding for dessert (a little strange but I love him and gladly indulged him). Ruby demanded party hats so we each had one and some balloons as well. We love this man and are grateful to have him in our family!

The Christmas Tree

I'm not one for Black Friday...I think it's one of the most horrible days of the year. Bobby and I have been out once since we've been married. And we only went out around 11 in the morning so that we could be sure the shopping wouldn't be too insane.

But this year I bit the bullet and went out at 5:30 (in the morning!) so that I could get a tree and have it up before Ruby woke up. She was so excited when she came downstairs and saw the tree. She could hardly sit down to eat breakfast she wanted to decorate it so badly.

She had a fun time pulling the ornaments out of their bins and handing them to me to put on the tree. And by the time we were finished we had a gorgeous tree all aglow and sparkling. Every late afternoon she begs me to be able to turn on the lights. And then she just stands in front of the tree staring and touching the ornaments.