Yes, I’m still here. Slowly, but surely we’re plugging away. I will try my hardest to post an overall catch up with the goings on around our place….but for today, feast your eyes on the adorable chocolate covered face!
While I adore each of these shots, there’s something about these tiny toes that tickles my heart. The first steps, the paths they will take….this is my best shot this fine Monday.
Among their great giveaways, 5 Minutes for Mom is also hosting a photo contest sponsored by Prego. Now that Calder is getting a little older, I’m finding meal times to be quite adventurous. More often than not, we end up going right from dinner into the tub. I especially love his hands-behind-the-head move which does wonders for his hair!
While it was tricky to choose just one of a growing number of favorite food photos, this one still makes me smile.
Here’s hoping we’re one of the finalists – we’ll find out next week!
I really can’t complain about sleep patterns around here. For the most part things have gone remarkably well. Seneca is actually a very good sleeper. Sometimes she forgets that sleep happens at night time, but when I think back to how Calder slept at this age, let’s just say I’m happy with her habits (we’re talking 4-6 hour stretches, folks!)!
Honestly, it’s most the big boy who is throwing me off kilter these days. Perhaps it took him a while to fully realize that this new little being was here to stay or the monstrous teeth that are pushing their way through his tender little gums. Or maybe it’s the incessant snot that’s making him persnickety.
Whatever the case may be, I can’t seem to get a handle on his unpredictability. And Garth is equally perplexed. One night we’ll do bedtime and he’ll go down like a champ without making so much as a peep. Other nights, he’s screeching off and on for 30+ minutes! We’re second-guessing ourselves so much now, or trying to help him get back to the beautiful bedtimes we’d enjoyed for nearly 10 months now that we’re starting to muddle the routine.
I guess this is the first of many experiences that humbles me and softens my attitude towards my own parents. As the oldest, I guess now I should cut my folks a little slack because clearly I can see that much of parenting is trial and error. And believe me, I’m not above learning from others’ trials or errors. So if there’s any advice to be had, please (PLEASE!) comment away!
Until then, I’ll meditate on these images, trusting that they both know how to sleep…we’ll just keep working to get it at the right time! 🙂
So we survived our first week of Dad being back to work. Honestly, it went far better than I anticipated, except that they were extremely l-o-n-g days! It didn’t help that Garth had late practice last week, so he wasn’t home until after 7 each night.
With more time at home, and less time spent engaged in conversation with other adults, I’m finding that I have just as many (if not more) pictures I have taken, but far less (read: zip, zero, zilch) time to actually process and post them.
Here’s a series from a couple weeks ago that makes me laugh every time! For months now, Calder has used anything and everything as a phone – shoes, tub toys, plastic utensils…and yes…food! In fact, food has become one of his all-time favorite mediums for this fascination. We’ve had pancake phones, spaghetti phones…you name it!
The hilarious part is that he always starts his “conversations” on his “phones” with some version of “ummm,” followed by gibberish I wouldn’t begin to know how to type!
Here he is enjoying lunch as usual…
When he suddenly feels the need to employ the use of his “phone”…
Oops, it’s slipping…
This one, is definitely my best shot for today. Not necessarily because it’s a great image, but because of the adorable smirk on his face. Apparently his “chicken phone” is the best one yet…because it looks to be bluetooth capable!
Cornwell Crew 