Watch Me Grow

8 Months Old

8 Months and 8 teeth. Very busy this month. Continues crawling like a mad man. He momentarily will let go of what he is holding on to and realize he is standing unsupported, waivers and sits on his butt. Happy baby unless his teeth are bothering him. Still chooses to fight the bottle when he feels like it. 5 outta 7 nights he sleeps straight through, the other couple of nights he screams and acts like he is starving and is completely calmed down by nursing. Which I was refusing to do for awhile, but now decided is just plain easier to nurse him and go back to bed.

He is sporting his new "mummy's boy" shirt which is so perfect...he is a momma's boy and of course it's in honor of my favorite holiday.

Daddy has been working on the road these last couple of weeks, so it's been just me and the boys (and all my family that is available to help me out to keep me from losing my mind). We made a trip out of town last weekend (more to come on that) and now daddy is back home at night, right where he should be. Right in the middle of the living room floor playing with the boys...

a toothbrush, laundry basket and baby legs

Emmitt went from crawling one day to pulling himself up the next. He is getting much better at it now, but it took a few weeks to master it. The laundry basket proved to be a great toy! And of course his baby toothbrush. The big boys were out at the shack so it was just Emmitt and I. What a fun day. It is good for all of us to split up once in awhile and have some one and one with the kids. He was just chillin' in his baby legs and going a hundred miles an hour around the living room.
Oh that hair...people are constantly touching the fuzz, and grabbing the "top curl". Bear wants it off, but people, myself included, would freak if we cut it.

The side view of "Crazy Hair"
This is how he sits. I can best describe it as a track hurdler. It looks unnatural to adults but you put him down, he crawls and when he goes back to the sitting position, his legs do this.
And of course the push off to start crawling again. Another trait he has is "the puppy". He always carries something is his mouth, breathes fast through his nose and crawls. It is hilarious to watch.

The Giant Puffball

Bear and Jonny were out hunting for birds at the farm last week and come upon this big white thing off the trail.

Bear: Hey Jonny check it out, what is that thing?
Jonny: A dinosaur egg?
Bear: holy cow that thing is huge!
Jonny: let's pick it up
Bear: it's a mushroom
Jonny: is it poisonous?
Bear: I don't know, let's take it home and cook it!
Jonny: I don't like mushroom's
Bear: I have a book, I'll look it up and have my sister-in-law see if it's poisonous since she works in the soil for the feds

Okay-so he comes home with this dinosaur egg and swears it's not poisonous and expects me to eat it! I don't think so.

I told him if he died from eating that thing I would kill him!

So he looks it up in his "How to Identify Edible Mushroom" book he got for Christmas one year and discovers is "just a giant puffball" and you can totally eat it! So he starts slicing it up and giving it to people. Then he starts cooking it. Referring to online recipes of what he can do with it! I refused to let him feed it to Parker. The recipes he got all say it tastes best when sauteed in butter and would resemble the taste of tofu or melted cheese...yum! I could hardly contain myself with excitement to eat it! (sarcasm there in case you couldn't tell).

This is actually only half of the mushroom...
Just to really compare size-it is huge!

The Journal

In case you didn't see the print version...our Curves Quilt made the Journal. The pictures don't show up online and the print version isn't in color...but it is beautiful!



http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/leisure/curves-quilt-reflects-bond-faye-whitbeck-staff-writer-11069