i can't resist

I can't keep my hands off this sweet little guy.  He is just too funny.  He's like Moose- he makes us laugh every day.  Matt is always asking for texts through the day so I end up with a ton of photos on my phone, and these were some favorites.  Sorry if you've already seen them on one form of social media or another!  

getting serious with his farm.

there is a certain baby who likes to flip over and crawl away when getting his diaper changed.

(faces blurred to protect the innocent)

i am beginning to suspect that Bo thinks he's a puppy. 

or a bear.

this is a date gone bad . . . she fell asleep on him. 

in everything. on everything. under everything. if it's a preposition, he's all over it. 

i love this hat. matt does not. 

Getting extremely comfortable at Stop & Shop.  What can I say?  He loves to lounge. 

this would be much cuter if the fire extinguisher wasn't present.  I'll have to talk to the library about that.

one of our 'night, night, daddy' photos when Matt is on call.  

creepy crawly

Monday afternoon I was working in the kitchen and I turned around to find Bo in the dog bowl.  As this is gross, I moved him away from it and went back to chopping or stirring or whatever it was. (Sidenote- I was making this Vegetarian Quinoa Chili because we were having friends over for dinner who are of the meatless persuasion, and it was tasty!  Matt even said he didn't miss the meat.  I do love quinoa these days . . . anyway . . .) Half a minute later I turned around to find him with the bowl in his hand again . . . at this point I was feeling super sleuthy and knew something was out of the ordinary.  I placed the little guy in the middle of the kitchen and kept an eye on him while I pretended to work away.  Sure enough, he was on the move.  

So, our little buddy has joined the crawling club.  I would say 'finally,' because most babies his age have been crawling for a while now, but I have not been too eager for him to be fully mobile!  I'm taking note of what needs to be baby proofed.  Outlet covers, here we come! 

40 weeks

This Wednesday we were at the library with my nanny kiddos and I thought this rug was a pretty cool backdrop! 

Bo is loving the books these days.  He especially loves chewing on them, which could be explained by the wittle bitty incisors peeking through on top... but he also gets into pointing at the pictures.  Sometimes I'm like, who is this kid and where did he learn to do that? He's really changing so much.  

Snow Baby

Well, we had our first winter snow today.  I'm not going to say I was happy to wake up to a white world, but I am so very thankful that it has held off until the end of January!  I'm also glad it happened on a Saturday- I hate driving in the snow and worrying about Matt driving in it, so we stayed put all day.  We had the required snow day lunch of grilled cheese and soup, Matt kept the fire roaring all day, and we've watched several episodes of Downton Abbey.  (Which, I love . . . perfect for a snow day, too!)  We had to wait all day for the snow to quit falling to take Bo outside to experience his first snow.  

 At first, he was a little unsure.  He just sat and took it all in for a bit.  He also looked so tubby in his bear suit, which is getting a little small on him, not to mention he had an entire outfit on underneath.

Then we started having a lot of fun throwing that tubby old bear cub up in the air.  

 

As always, Bo is best entertained by his Moosey.

Happy snowy day, Bo! 

9 months

Little Bo turned 9 months on Friday.  He was happy about it!

Bo's made a lot of changes over the past month.  He has his two itty bitty bottom teeth now, and while we have to pry his mouth open to see them, we can certainly feel them should they ever clamp down on a finger!  Bo is not crawling . . . still . . . but he gets around!  He scoots backwards and occasionally that gets him stuck under furniture, and he loves pulling himself up to stand and 'creep' around the coffee table.  He is quite zippy when he holds onto our fingers and we often take him on 'walks' across the length of the house to tire him out, but he is pretty cautious about walking with the help of his car-walker.  I think he gets that we can pick him up, and the car can't.  This child has been good at taking things out and throwing them for a while now, but lately he's been putting things in places.  He loaded all the little animals into the silo of his farm this morning.  He's great at peekaboo and will pull the blanket up over his face and down again.  It's just crazy to see him getting these things!  Just yesterday he started sitting up in his crib - not standing - just sitting.  It's cute to peek in on him playing away. . . the day he realizes he can stand in there too is going to be the beginning of a wild time. 

Our skinny little man has disappeared and he's quite the fatty now!  He won't get weighed for another month, but trust me, he looks different!  Quite the belly.  Two chins.  We're getting into finger food and these pictures are after we split a lunch of sweet potato fries.

He does this little head tilt thing now which is pretty cute, if you ask me.  

39 weeks

my sweet and happy little guy!

getting big

One of my Christmas presents was a new lens for my trusty old Canon.  It is a 50mm f/1.8 and I thought it would help with all the pictures I take indoors.  Of Bo.  Yes, I needed something so I could take MORE pictures of our child.  

Last week . . . standing by the chair feeling like a big boy and LOOKING like a big boy!