4 Months of Love

Today the little dude turns 4 months old!  I could go on and on about all the mile stones he has hit and how excited Matt and I are every time he so much as farts but I won't bore you with that.  All I will say is that we are both smitten as kittens with this little man and as a fantastic Valentine's present he is getting his third round of vaccines today...he is NOT excited.

love really does stink!

Happy 4 months little man!  I will be giving you extra hugs, kisses and cuddles today

Happy Valentine's

If you have already celebrated your Valentine's day this weekend I hope it was fun, if you are waiting until tomorrow to dive into those box of chocolates enjoy!

As for me I am going to count this as my Valentine present from Matt, even though he has some sort of surprise hiding out in our loft, but this weekend he planted me a lawn.  We went with a drought tolerant Eco-lawn.  Pros = less watering.  Con = slow growing.  We will just have to wait until we can roll around on our own grass.

those biceps are my second valentine present!

While Matt was outdoors enjoying the beautiful sunshine we are having here on the west coast, I locked myself in the house to bake and decorate Matt's valentine presents from me (well, one of them anyway).  This was my first time using the flooding method to decorate sugar cookies and the final product wasn't that bad.  Although, next time I will use royal icing instead of the butter cream frosting because it dries harder.

on another note, is it a bad thing that I would rather stay inside all day baking, cooking and decorating even when it is beautiful and 60 degrees outside?  Sometimes I feel like I am obligated to go outside and enjoy the sunshine but today all I wanted to do was make cookies and look after my little boy.  Perhaps when the grass grows in I will be more tempted to spend time outside.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone out there in cyberland and stay tuned for some 4 month old photos tomorrow.

happily domestic,

Danielle

sweet dreams

sleeping in his own crib

Life is Good

I walked out on the deck this morning and this is how I found my two boys.  Talk about eating in comfort!

Lets take a closer look, shall we?



I hope your weekend is this relaxing!

By the way...if you were wondering, Matt picked out Finn's outfit today

New Digs

In one week Finn will be 4 months old, and it is high time he started acting like a 4 month old and sleeping on his own, so this week he slept like a big boy in his own crib, in his own room!  To celebrate the occasion and give Finn someone to talk with in the mornings (now that he can't converse with the light in our room) Matt painted a rocket boy on the wall.

The design was from a drawing I found online by Charuca.  Slowly but surely the nursery is coming together!  And as for Finn's transition into his new digs...it went seamlessly, which makes me wonder if by posting this tonight I am jinxing myself.  Fingers crossed I'm not!

Here are some bedtime routine photos I took last night.  Sadly I get home so late now after work all my photos are going to be tungsten light orange.  I try to color correct as much as I can in photoshop but I'm just going to have to wait until the days get longer and summer comes.

Going through the Alphabet with Dad before bed

My son is duck footed!

"maybe it's Maybelline" this kid has eyelashes that go for days!

Goodnight!

Sacked out

This was Finn last night after spending a full day at daycare.  We got 2 pages into his bedtime story and he was completely sacked out.

First day of school

Today was Finn's first day of daycare.  Yesterday was my first day back to work but today was Finn's first day of daycare.  He gets to spend Monday, Wednesday and Thursday with Grandma and Grandpa O'Brien, and Tuesday and Friday he goes to daycare.  Finn enjoyed both days away from mama with no problems and to be honest, I was pretty happy to join the land of adult conversation myself.  The teachers at daycare reported that Finn made a new friend named Mateo and settled right into the routine.  Hopefully this wasn't a fluke and this transition goes well for us.

"off to school, off to school to prove to dad that I am not a fool..."

Finn looking excited; Mom looking unsure