{6 months}

Happy 1/2 birthday!

[month 1]
[month 2]
[month 3]
[month 4]
[month 5]

P weighed in at 16 lbs 12 oz on the 19th.
He is also 27 in tall now!

HE:

enjoys jumping in his jumper......

plays "where's P" with me when it's time to sleep.....

empties the bathtub by the end of his bath with all of the splashing that takes place......

is trying really hard to crawl forward....
is pretty good at spinning circles and going backwards right now....

has been LOVING oatmeal.....

doesn't much care for green beans, but ate them....

really enjoyed peas .....
(ha! 2 against one now Chad!)

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Some things that were loved this month....

 Munchkin multi pack bowls super easy to clean and just the right size
Munchkin soft tip spoons  again, super easy to clean
Earths Best Oatmeal doesn't contain dairy or soy! WOOP!

Who loves baby book he loves looking at this book!

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We have a huge flirt on our hands!  His personality is so amazing.  He has been keeping us really busy this past month!  He wants to play and be entertained or know what we are doing.

He has a little "stranger danger" going on, but it's not too terrible!  My counselor tells me that it's a good thing =) it means we have a healthy relationship.

The boys have snoring contests, I swear.

I am so excited to go for walks OUTSIDE with the family soon. SOON. dang weather.  I'm also looking forward to playing in the park with him.  It's just right down and the street and it's calling our names!

Pretty soon he will be out of the infant bucket and into a convertible seat that stays in the vehicle.  Oye, he's growing so fast!

{commit} update 3

I'm checking in with my 2013 commitments!

The original posts with my checkin in red!!

Work comes home a few nights a week with me.  I don't always get to it though.  Playtime is WAY more fun.
Yep! Still not bringing home much work at all and haven't been going to work on the weekends! However I have been next door visiting a bit more lately.....
-----Totally doing this!  I don't bring much of anything home and I've only went to the school one day on one weekend...that's it! WOOP WOOP-----------
I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  

I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 

over talking to bugging Alysha :-)

I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

This past week was bad. We have been doing a lot better though.  
Less boxed meals are being made and we are now consistently having a vegetable each night.

---Let's not talk about this one yet.  I'm not making boxed meals and neither is Chad as much, but I still feel like they could be better. So, still working on this one.------
**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  

I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  

I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

We are cleaning one day a week still.  BUT I have started doing a quick 10 minute pick up after P goes down for the night.  I've also been trying to do a load of laundry each day or every other day so that it doesn't all get done one day.  

....still working on finding a happy medium.... hopefully something will find us soon because we are going to have a crawler in a few short months from the way he's trying to pull himself right now!
------This is still a work in progress.  We are teaming the cleaning but doing it all in one day--------
**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....

Cleanin' Fool

orGaniZe mE

A shelf has been made for our room, coasters were made for the house, I just finished a "welcome" sign for the entryway, and am currently working on some decor for the big wall in our bedroom.

...nothing more has really gone up.  I did put some blocks up and changed out seasonal decor....
----Got the coat hooks up finally! That's a start!------
**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

this one may just be a crap shoot....
not yet....
------Haven't done this yet-------

**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...

not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

Next up is the spare bedroom downstairs.....
We went through and got rid of tons of stuff! It's not perfect, but it is better!

------Haven't done this yet-------

**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

No new books lately!
I've read a sleep book and I'm reading a baby food book right now...so nothing for pleasure since the first two.
----I have totally read 2 books so far!-----

**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  
I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  

So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

Essential oils are being explored in my house (THANKS DAD) now.  
I went to a Pinterest Party and tried a maple bacon doughnut (but only because it was brought to me at work--for the record...it wasn't that bad). So that is 3 things already that I can think of currently--it may be more.
-----I tried new make up in January.  I really like it!  Yoga is in my near future also I think!-------

**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!

 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 

is not currently reasonable for ME. 

 5 is a good number...

Yeah I suck at this now.  I used to be so on top of it before P, but now by the time he goes to bed and I have everything laid out and ready for the next day I'm BEAT and I just want to go to bed so I push bill paying and checkbook balancing to the next day, and the next, and the next.....
I still haven't found a good solution.
---This is in place and is lame...not fond of it at all------

I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)


How are your 2013 commitments going???

{project} Pinterest!

We needed a shelf that would hold our cable box thingy and couldn't find any deep enough.

So, off to Pinterest I went. 

I found this pin....

Source

Cool.  Let's do it.  It's been pinned for MONTHS....

So I ordered 5 unfinished wood crates from Joann's Fabric because our store here never has them in stock.  Totally scored.  They were 50% off almost AAAAAAAND I had a free shipping code.

You need a cute helper or two....

The labels were glued on (yep...glued) so a little nail polish remover and some elbow grease and they were removed.

A little bit of stain.....

I'm apparently a messy worker....

Lots of lessons learned during this project.  I've never used a water based stain and I've never stained such a big piece.  Overall it's not perfect, but I like the finished project even with my oopsies.

See, again, you need a cute helper or two....

Voila! Finished project.  

Chad used the air nailer to nail two 1x1ish boards to the back to make it a little more study and to nail the crates together.

Is it perfect? No. Is it store quality? No. Does any of that matter? Nope!

It's perfect for what we need it for AND it looks pretty decent AAAAAND it was pretty cost effective. 

{easter}

Making Easter cards for some very important peeps {ha!}

Family pic!

Hunting for eggs!

After the hunt!

Mine! They are all mine!!

My dad made Pman this growth chart for xmas but it wouldn't fit in the car to bring home! it has to be mounted to the wall 6 inches up but its home now (thanks for fulfilling my request for one dad!!)

catch-all

Do you have a catch-all area in your house?

Is your whole house a catch-all area?

Maybe I needed to put this as a resolution of mine.  My table and the end tables have become my catch-all areas. 

I'm in need of an intervention I think!  

Maybe by tomorrow the table will be cleaned off so we can eat on it without 

clearing a space first....oye.

I would keep all my overflow catch-all items in my mom's buffet but it doesn't exactly fit nicely upstairs with all this baby stuff....well okay before baby stuff it didn't fit well either....so it's downstairs.

What's your organizational hints/tips/tricks?  

Where do you keep bills that need to be paid?

Extra pens, scotch tape, etc?

Help me out!

{5 months}

So, I'm almost a week late posting this...however we are all recovering from the stomach bug....Chad's actually been in bed for most of the day again. This afternoon it seemed to hit him again. However, he did not ease back into eating =) so it's probably his own fault!

[month 1]
[month 2]
[month 3]
[month 4]

He is now tall and heavy! 
{not for sure details because we haven't had to go to the dr recently WOOP!}

HE:

has been sleeping in his crib much better!.....
...however has spent the last week in the RNP again because of the stomach bug....

cut his first tooth!....
and second tooth!

holds his own bottle........

has mastered rolling over from back to belly......

moved into mostly 6 month clothes.......

battled the stomach bug again......

enjoys snuggling in the morning.....

is a screecher!

doesn't love his carseat that much......

likes to play with his pacifiers now...pulling it out and popping it back in.....

got his first bloody lip....he bit his own lip while chewing on a teether (dang teeth)

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Some things that we I couldn't have lived without his fifth month:

Little Remedies for Fevers-- however it was used for pain.  Poor dude and the teeth he FINALLY cut was in some serious pain while those little suckers came up.

  Gmail-- because I've been emailing my sister a lot about different questions I have!

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Our little man is growing and flourishing!  He recently started playing with Sadie.  She brings a toy over and sets it on his chest and he will grab it and play tug of war with her.  It's cute.  His personality shines through every day.   I asked Chad the other day "What did we do pre-Parker?"  He just laughed and said "Nothing".  Yes I'm a huge homebody, but really, who wants to go galavanting around in the winter??  Once the weather gets nicer there is MUCH more things we can go out and do!  

Enjoy the last month through pictures!

{commit} update 2

I'm checking in with my 2013 commitments!

The original posts with my checkin in red!!

Yep! Still not bringing home much work at all and haven't been going to work on the weekends! However I have been next door visiting a bit more lately.....
-----Totally doing this!  I don't bring much of anything home and I've only went to the school one day on one weekend...that's it! WOOP WOOP-----------
I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  

I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 

over talking to bugging Alysha :-)

I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

Less boxed meals are being made and we are now consistently having a vegetable each night.

---Let's not talk about this one yet.  I'm not making boxed meals and neither is Chad as much, but I still feel like they could be better. So, still working on this one.------
**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  

I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  

I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

....still working on finding a happy medium.... hopefully something will find us soon because we are going to have a crawler in a few short months from the way he's trying to pull himself right now!
------This is still a work in progress.  We are teaming the cleaning but doing it all in one day--------
**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....

Cleanin' Fool

orGaniZe mE

...nothing more has really gone up.  I did put some blocks up and changed out seasonal decor....
----Got the coat hooks up finally! That's a start!------
**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

not yet....
------Haven't done this yet-------

**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...

not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

We went through and got rid of tons of stuff! It's not perfect, but it is better!

------Haven't done this yet-------

**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

I've read a sleep book and I'm reading a baby food book right now...so nothing for pleasure since the first two.
----I have totally read 2 books so far!-----

**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  
I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  

So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

I went to a Pinterest Party and tried a maple bacon doughnut (but only because it was brought to me at work--for the record...it wasn't that bad). So that is 3 things already that I can think of currently--it may be more.
-----I tried new make up in January.  I really like it!  Yoga is in my near future also I think!-------

**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!

 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 

is not currently reasonable for ME. 

 5 is a good number...

I still haven't found a good solution.  
---This is in place and is lame...not fond of it at all------

I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)


How are your 2013 commitments going???