mamalogues

nine month-er

The baby is getting less and less baby-like lately. Sure he still poops his pants, drinks a ba-ba and isn't a walker yet, but he is definitely not a baby-baby anymore :( He is now nine months old and though he still isn't up on his hands and knees while crawling he is still army crawling EVERYWHERE--under the table, down the hall, into Mila's and Scout's rooms, into the kitchen and his favorite place to check out is the dog bowls at my mom and dad's, gross right? He is the happiest baby ev-a, if he isn't hungry or tired then he is just content to explore the floors and play with his toys. He is OBSESSED with the bath, my mom sends videos to me at work when she is giving him a bath, he kicks his little legs a million miles a minute, totally happy and loving it, I'd post one but you can see his man parts a little too much :)

Oh and he has the most gigantic teeth I've ever seen on a baby. I'm not sure what his current stats are because his doctor was unexpectedly out of the office the day of his 9 month appointment and now she is switching clinics so it might be a while before we make it in for that appointment.

Look at those lips!

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tickles from daddy.

We went to Shelton a couple of weeks ago....

Yes that's right, we made the 3 hour journey to David's hometown to catch up with his lovely friends and spend some time with the in-laws and great grandparents.

The drive wasn't too bad on the way over, the kids slept for about an hour and a half and then whined a little bit until we got to Tacoma where we stopped and ate dinner at Red Lobster :) Then we had another 30-40 minutes to go until we made it to Shelton.

We stayed with my favorite Shelton people, the "bobs." A fantastic family
that put up with our crazy kiddos for two days and even babysat when we went to a rad 80's party for David's best buddy, Mark, who was celebrating his 30th birthday. Their three kids, two high schools girls and an early 20's young man, are so awesome with the kids! I love that they all make us feel so welcome even though we probably drove them insane!

On Sunday I was hungover to the extreme from one-too-many jello shots, only drinking once a month doesn't help my tolerance level! After I finished revisiting everything I ate the night before we made our way to the Colonial house for David's step-mom's annual Christmas potluck, it was a beautiful old house with great photo op's outside, which is where I hung out for the hour that we stayed before packing up the kids and heading
home. They slept almost the WHOLE way home! I couldn't believe it, they finally woke up just as were getting off Blewett pass which is a mere 15 minutes from home.

So this 80's party. I just want ot say how fantastic my husband looked. We
went to Value Village the day of the party and found some neon green jeggings in the women's section, luckily he has a nice slender physique and they looked very nice on him :) It was nice to see David's friends, we don't make it over there as a family very often and The last few times I've been there I was pregnant and didn't get to partake in all of the fun, which is probably why I went a little overboard this time.

x-mas 2011

It was a good one! My weekend started off with a scarf party with my friends from high school, we exchanged scarves, ate yummy food, and went dancing. Friday night it was my brother's birthday so we all got babysitters and went out to Garlini's for a delicious dinner and then to Bob's for birthday drinks.

On Saturday night we had our first annual Christmas Eve dinner at our house where we made crockpot fajitas (very Christmas-y don't ya think?) and David and I stayed up way too late putting the train table + tracks and trains together.

Jones woke up at 7:30 the next morning raring and ready to open presents! We, I mean Santa, spoiled our children with an "ipad" (kindle fire) for Mila along with a Lalaloopsy doll, two dresses and two movies, the boys got a train table, tools, and trucks. David and I got each other new duds. Mila was excited to see that her cookies to Santa had been eaten and that he left her a note. We ate breakfast, took showers, played with toys, and then went to my parents' house for lunch and more presents. At four we went home had dinner and went to bed early. It was a nice four-day-weekend!

4 going on 14

As some of you may know, I'm not the only twi-tard in our house, Mila is also quite fond of the Twilight Saga. My mom got her an Edward (Eberd, as she calls him) doll a while back and she has watched the movies with me a few times. She is also Team Edward.

Well two nights ago we were watching one of her shows, Franklin I believe, and I leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek, just because. Then she took my face in both of her hands, closed her eyes, and tried to make out with me. I started laughing and told her that girls don't kiss girls and that a 4-year-old shouldn't kiss people like that, to which she replied, "well that's how Eberd kisses!"

No more PG-13 movies for this little girl.

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forgot to post these.

last Saturday, lights.

last sunday, santa.

10 on 10: december edition.

Another 10 on 10. Nothing too special, to check out previous 10n on 10's do so here, here, here, and here.

1. dressed and ready to go 2. Passenger 3. Personal Shopper 4. Kermit wannabe 5. Builder 6. Whiner 7. Muggles watching Harry Potter 8. Peir One pretties 9. Dinner with the girls 10. Yes, I saw it AGAIN, and YES it was amazing.

10 things i love: crewcuts edition.

If I had endless amounts of moula, Mila's closet would be filled with clothes from Crewcuts. So cute, so grown up, and so girly :) I do a lot of "shopping" on their website, which means I add dresses, t-shirts, skirts, tights, shoes, jewelry, and pants into my shopping bag and drool over the beautiful clothes and then never actually clicking that darn "checkout" button.

If anyone is planning on getting Mila a christmas prezzie, she would appreciate anything (and more) from the list below, also she is a size 3 in skirts and 4 in everything else :) Oh and size 10 for shoes!

In no particular order:

 

outtakes.

Last night I tried to take the kids' picture for our Christmas cards, keyword is "tried." This was at 4pm which was cutting it pretty close on lighting, I had to bump up my ISO which meant more noise, Mila was cold, Jones kept looking everywhere BUT the camera, and Scout kept moving too fast turning himself into a blur.

Here are some outtakes. I literally took over 120 photos last night, I tried changing the location and bribed them with cookies, but not one is decent.

Jones kept looking across the street so I was trying to stomp my feet to get him to look at me, which made Mila stomp hers, and Scout was feeling lovey so he planted a big kiss on Jones's head. 

The boys are blurry and Mila decided to let the "crazy" in her come out.

A nice shot of Scout's black eye. I put Jones in the middle, hoping he would have nothing to distract him (which didn't work), Mila is getting tired and cold and bored.

My personal favorite, Scout looks awesome and somehow I managed to cut half of Mila out of it. Jones was trying to flap his little wings to get him the hell out of there.

I tried taking them inside. They kept messing with the "backdrop" and Scout was way too into his cookie.

I'll be trying this again tomorrow during my lunch hour with the help of Grandma :)

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creeper. I hope she grows out of sleeping with her eyes partially open by the time she starts going to slumber parties :)