johns journal

Gideon has been begging for an advent calendar, so last night we scoured the internets and landed on one! My prerequisites: no candy, nativity centered laced with scripture, artsy, goes with my living room. Yeah, kinda crazy list, right?!! I'm certifiable sometimes, but etsy came through as it…

To say my two year old loves toy story would be a gross understatement at this time! I try and veer from overly themed rooms just because they grow out of the phase so quickly, but when I saw this rocket canopy on land of nod, I had to come up with a whole room centered around that piece!



canopy, r…

If I sat a watermelon or even a tomato in front of this kid he would have gone to town and chowed down which would have been a great show! Unfortunately or fortunately for me he isn't all bonkers for cake yet, but the pictures still turned out cute! Can't believe he's one year, I feel …

Here he is at 11 months! I'm in full denial that next month he'll be a year, that was a blink geez. We've fully entered the "climbs on everything" phase, so not fun. I literally can't not turn around! Here he is on our ottoman!

The inevitable has happend, Boaz started walking actually around 9 1/2 months....seriously crazy baby. This one wastes no time. Here he is in all his superhero glory! This is that picture, you know the one you show to his future wife!

Walking video:

Typically parents encourage their little ones to take those first steps, not this mama. His motor skills are still too advanced for me and his babyhood is speeding by like a fast train. Slow down honeybee, really pretty please. He's taking 3 steps and climbs out of his highchair and jumper, ser…

{Boaz as a newborn}
So I"ve mulled over this post for quite some time now because I realize this topic opens a can of worms and if you don't believe me just google it! I'm willing to go there and share because of my terrible experience with getting my first kiddo to sleep. I beg you not…

I failed to get a picture of the two teeth on the bottom, but honestly its a miracle any of these were captured. He is fast and on the move. In pure desperation I resorted to tantalizing him with the sock monkey to look at the camera. Yep, sock monkey works every time.

Hubs and I celebrated Valentine's Eve yesterday with flowers and some great conversation, what more could a girl want? But of course a little dinner date will be in order for this weekend and were gonna shoot for a late night and head out after the baby goes down, so smart right?  It was a light…

And now we are pulling up to stand and attempting steps, this kid is crazy! I would love it if he just sat there and was a baby, but no he's got places to go people!

Bo is 5 months today, but he's been doing this whole inchworm/crawl thing since last month. Did I mention his name means, "He who comes in strength"? Check out his perfect downward dog mid movie!

Make it stop! He's growing so fast and trying to crawl?! Crazy baby man!



Note, how he's not on the playmat. Yes that would be him inchworming his way onto the carpet!