Been a while...

ELEVEN days....until school is out and I can't wait! Spring is finally in full swing here in Northwest Arkansas and it feels like we are allergic to the indoors with all of this beautiful weather! Every free moment of daylight is spent outdoors and our evenings/nights are spent taming the BEAR that is our son while he is teething. John and I have been doing much planting this season including a Weeping Willow in the backyard and hanging tomato plants off the back porch. All of us neighbors are in a flower competition so be looking for a post with my WINNING pictures! :) My first Mother's Day was wonderful and relaxing. I promised myself that I wouldn't cry, but of course I was overwhelmed with all of those warm and fuzzy "Mommy" feelings and tears were most definitely shed. Here are some of the neat things that our friends, family and of course Owen did for me.













It was perfect! Owen is changing and growing everyday. He is 20 lbs and about 28 in long. He is sitting up on his own and working REALLY hard to crawl. He sometimes can army crawl to something if he really wants it, but usually just gets frustrated and results to rolling himself over. He is eating tons of different veggies and fruits and we are almost ready to introduce him to proteins. I have taken on the task of making all of Owen's food, so every couple of weeks or so my freezer looks like this while I am freezing his pureed food (I freeze it in ice-cube trays).



It just takes a couple of hours every couple of weeks and it is saving us a TON of money. I am very proud of myself for sticking with it! Owen had is first UH-OH moment this past weekend. I left him on the coffee table in his Bumbo seat for about two minutes while I ran into the other room. When I came back in, this is what greeted me....









It is amazing how far he will stretch to reach what he wants! I was laughing so hard when I saw him looking at me so innocently :)

Here are some other recent pictures of the little man...