Ho Ho Ho Santa's Bringing A Sissy

According to Joey anyway :o)



Baby's First Haircut, Alternately Titled Shagmonster Gets A Trim

We decided it was time for Joey to have his hair cut. Actually, after looking at his before pictures, I can now see it probably should have been done quite some time ago. This hair was a long time coming though .. the boy was basically bald until he was fourteen months old.

 He's still cute but, omigosh, how did I let him go so far without a haircut?

 He was not loving the feeling of the scissors against his skin.

Poor baby. Subjected to such torture :o(.

We tried the magic snooze button :o).

 Notice the one quarter of his head that is tamed while the rest is still shag-mania.

It helped but he still looked kind of sad.

Progress was being made nonetheless.

 We broke a candy cane.

 Suddenly, this haircut thing was not quite so bad at all.

 And here we are with a whole new and much cleaner look.

And clinging to that candy cane for dear life :o)

Oh, Christmas Tree

Our tree has undergone some changes this year.

It has a flashing LED star on the top that alternates between blue and green, for one.

What does this coordinate with, you ask?  Exactly nothing would be the answer.

Joe likes it and I have been won over by his insistence that Joey will like it too.

Gone are the days of a nicely coordinated tree that matches our Christmas decor.

Our red and gold is packed away and resin Sponge Bob, Elmo, Santa and friends have taken up residence

There is Little People Christmas scenery under the tree for our little person.

In the past, I held strong to the idea that the tree in the living room would be "mine."

Joey has his own tree for his room ... that one could be crazy, I reasoned.

Joe said this was silly and now I know he's right.

I'm liking our family tree and can't wait to see what haphazard assortment of ornaments ends up telling our story as the years pass.  Will we have construction paper reindeer hung with yarn?  It will be beautiful.

This ornament is my favorite.  You can guess what it is.

How lucky we are to be able to hang it on our tree.

Next year we will have two.

It's true that having children changes the way you view things, both in big ways and in small.

This boy .. he's oh so tiny and oh so big, all at the same time.

As I try to shape who he becomes and help him grow I realize he is doing the same for me.

Isn't this how it is with children, as we try to grow their souls ... they end up growing ours?

Jabber Jaw - Growth

For the record, now Joey can say

1. Done
2. Down
3. Mama
4. Dada
5. Jake
6. Granpa
7. Papa
8. Linda
9. Sasha
10. Sister
11. Din Din
12. No
13. Yeah
14. Sure
15. Boom
16. Tissue
17. Waffle
18. Spoon
19. Shoe
20. Sock
21. Balloon
22. Ball
23. Bubble
24. Chair
25. I
26. Share
27. Night Night
28. Banana
29. Please
30. Elmo
31. Book
32. Fishies
33. Purple
34. Door
35. Wall
36. Pizza
37. Thank You
38. Apple
39. Up
40. Uh Oh
41. Oh No
42. Choo CHOO
43. Six

He can also do ten animal noises now including: puppy dog, owl, donkey, cow, snake, bee, sheep, dinosaur,  pig, and lion.

He is also Ho Ho Ho -ing for Santa :o)

We are loving this age where he is learning so much so quickly!!

Jabber Jaw

For the record, at 15 months Joey can say

1. Done
2. Down
3. Mama
4. Dada
5. Jake
6. Granpa
7. Papa
8. Linda
9. Sasha
10. Sister
11. Din Din
12. No
13. Yeah
14. Sure
15. Boom
16. Tissue
17. Waffle
18. Spoon
19. Shoe
20. Sock
21. Balloon
22. Ball
23. Bubble
24. Chair
25. I
26. Share
27. Night Night
28. Banana
29. Please
30. Elmo
31. Book
32. Fishies
33. Purple

These are the words he has mastered and will definitely say.  He also has some other words that seem to come and go like Grandma, and Joe Joe, and others that I'm not sure if we can really count.

He can also do nine animal noises now including: puppy dog, owl, donkey, cow, snake, bee, sheep, dinosaur, and pig.

Joey Has A Surprise for Daddy

When Joe got home from work .....

November 5, 2010

Joey is 15 months old

Baby #2 should be joining us next July :o)

Happy Halloween!

From Our Little Monster! 

Last Year

 For his first Halloween Joey was a baby mouse.  Every mouse needs a piece of cheese.

Joey played the part very well for a two month old and spent a large portion of the night "eating" his cheese.

 Mommy and Daddy dressed up as Buffalo Bill and Bufallo Jill :o).

We trick or treated at our family's houses and Joey collected his spoils.

By the end he was pooped.

Halloween is hard on a baby!

Enjoying his treasures.

For the Love of Fall

Little bits of heaven :o)

This just may be my favorite picture of Joey yet.



Happy Fall!

Joey's Voice

Look Dad :o)

*Notice the exicted running to the camera at the end to watch himself on the video?

Our boy is no stranger to cameras :o)*

Definitions Part 2

Ba-oon: noun
1.  A bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration
Baaw: noun
1. A round toy that bounces

Saa: noun
1. a covering designed to warm one's foot

Shair: noun
1. A seat, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back
2. A tool for climbing
Sou: noun
1. Something that goes on one's foot after a saa
2. A fun thing to carry around the house

Boom Boom:
1. What J declares when he falls down
2. What J say when he bangs objects together

Voom Voooom
1. A noise made while playing with toy vehicles
2. What J calls motorcycles

Apple Orchard

Fallapalooza Part II : Sunday

On Sunday morning we started our day with a fittingly fall-like breakfast complete with pumpkin muffins and  pumpkin cream cheese on our bagels :o)

Joey, of course, approved.

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We put our Halloween decorations up. 

Well, basically, my mom and Joe put the decorations up and I manned the baby.

Perks of the job :o).

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After nap time we headed here.

This place delivered and was everything I hoped it would be.

I can't wait to do this every year.  I so badly want to create family traditions for our kids.

Things they can both look back upon and look forward to.

Stunning.

 We rode a tractor up into the field.  J liked this but I think he will love it next year.

They had apple cider on the tractor and there were bees everywhere.  It kind of freaked me out.

Joey got apple cider in his sippy cup though so he was thrilled.  Let's just say, he consumed more than a child

 should .. no surprise :o)

We finished up with a little picnic consisting of apple cider and apple cider doughnuts. Sooo yummy!

I love Fall.  I love our little family. I love celebrating little things and making them into big things for Joey.

I hope our kids grow up thinking Fallapalooza is a real thing :o).