1 Month Until Spring

Official first day of Spring: March 20.  1 Month. 4 Weeks.
WHERE has the time gone?!

Usually around this time of year, I'm collecting every Victoria Secret magazine that comes in the mail and visiting their website daily... picking out my new 10 swimsuits swimsuit. Well, due to my wonderful baby weight, I now rip those magazines to shreds.  Then after I rip them, I burn them.  Then bury them.

My love/hate relationship with Victoria is only temporarily stuck on the hate.  The love will come back.  I've been working my big ass booty off to lose the baby weight by June (wedding time.. woop woop) and once I can get it off, my love for Victoria and her swimmies will come back full force.

In the mean time I have a little chunky hunk that I cannot wait to share Spring/Summer with!  I can't stop thinking about the new experiences to come.  Swimming in the pool with his cousins (err, floating in the pool. with his overly protective momma attached to his floatie..), going fishing with daddy, and the first time his little toes touch the sand at the beach.  Those little toes touching the same white sand that his parent's used to play in as babies/kids/teenagers/grown ups - literally gets me giddy! I can't wait to see what he thinks about the salty wind, loud seagulls, ocean waves, and the inevitable sand in his mouth.  The beautiful Spring weather can't come soon enough for this momma!

Spring is my FAVORITE time of year to shop for... and since I'm currently ripping up Spring catalogs, I've turned to the next best thing (if not THE best thing): shopping for my little.

He shall be the cutest thing that crawls in Spring (rhyming skills)

blue/green shirts  monkey trunks  tortoise shades  fedora

blue flops  shark shortall  striped trunks  onesies  aqua shades  woven flops

See those precious monkey trunks? Yeah.. we already have those...thanks to our dear Hayle...and I can't stand it.  I decided we needed to make sure they fit... so we had a pre-Spring photo sesh in our monkey swimmies. 

HURRY warm weather! We can't wait to enjoy you!

John's First Love Day

John Frederick wants to wish everyone a very happy Valentine's Day! 

We love 'Love Day' - It's a beautiful day outside and he's been getting tons and tons of kisses on top 

of the normal tons of daily kisses.  He is such a happy baby... which makes for such a happy momma :) 

Hope your Vday is filled with oodles of corny mushy love... and chocolates! 

...and of course I can't just show you ONE Valentine's Day picture... I have to post an album.....

Immediately following the photo session we decided to eat the props....

I've been a horrible blogger lately (shocker!), but I'll be back at it very soon! Our little man turned 6 months old on February 1st 

and I've been itching to tell you all about his first half year of life :)

Happy Love Day!

TACKY CHRISTMAS... only a month late.

So very tacky.  So very fun. 

....and then a couple several extras of my little Christmas ham :)

Praying for Newtown

You know the phrase, "All we can do is pray".  Everyone knows this phrase; chances are you've said this before.  Well, one night my mom said something very amazing about this phrase.  She was talking about something upsetting, and said "You know, the other night I thought to myself, 'well I've done everything I can- so now ALL I can do is pray!' and then I thought 'what am I saying? The BEST thing I can do is pray.  It's not a last resort... it's the best option!'"  That was so powerful to me.  Shame on me, but I had never thought of it that way.  Now, I think of that statement all the time.

So, let's pray. And let's remember. 

  

4 Wonderful Months

A certain chubby babe turned four months old on December 1st. (I'm completely aware that we forgot to do our 3 Month post. Whoops! In case you were wondering... he turned 3 Months a month ago.)

He has grown so much in these four short months.  Physically, he is so big! He was a big newborn.. but still so tiny lying in our long arms.  Now, you will catch us grunting when we pick him up.  He's our little Chunk Monster (if you live in the Mobile/Baldwin County area.. you totally have to say it like 93 BLX's Tha Crunk Monstaaa) and we love it!

He loves tummy time.. and tries his little heart out to move those chubby legs into a crawl.  He sits up in his highchair and jumps in his jumperoo! Okay, so I understand 'jumps in jumperoo' is not 'break dancing and cartwheels' ... but it's pretty much the same thing in this household.  Every single milestone is ridiculously exciting to Johnny and me! We basically have 'BRAND NEW PARENT' tattooed on our foreheads.

Mentally, he's the smartest baby on the planet...of course.  AGAIN, I have to tell you ...this kid smiles at EVERYTHING. Unless he just realized he was starving 20 minutes ago (which is no freaking joke), he is all smiles.  It's the best smile in the whole world.  This past month, he's also started laughing A LOT.  It's the best laugh in the whole world.  He absorbs absolutely everything... you can literally see the learning process go on in his little head.  He is completely mesmerized by Hank.  He loves Domino too.. but Domino is more of a moving stuffed animal.  He likes to touch Domino, and occasionally try to relieve his teething gums on him. Hank is another story.  He's just so huge...and that killer tail whipping around is the funniest thing ever to little John Frederick.  He just stares at Hank with random burst of laughter.

He grabs his bottle, and is so close to holding it on his own.  He's learned that when his paci falls out he can lean forward, bring his arm towards his mouth, and pop it back in!  Again: BRAND NEW PARENT

So here's what I'm basically saying: Baby John is the smartest, strongest, and cutest little 4 month old chunk monsta with the best smile and laugh in the whole wide world.