{The BIGGEST Update Ever!}

Ok, here it is people. Sorry it's taken me a decade to finally update, this little man keeps me so incredibly busy! Here are the last few months of what we've been up to. 

March 2011

Some milestones Paxton did in March are:

-Got his second tooth {bottom right}

-Pulled himself up from sitting to standing 

-Got up on all fours

Family picture at The Spaghetti Factory 

Swinging for the very first time, this kid loved it! The higher the better!
{We have gotten a swing in our backyard since and he is it every single day!}

APRIL 2011

We are baseball people here so this is our tribute for opening day.

In April Paxton's milestones were:
-How to sit up all by himself
-Able to pull self up to standing
-STARTED CRAWLING
-And got his 3rd and 4th teeth {top right and left}

Easter fun with Grammy and Pops this year! We found out that grass is very scary and had lots of fun playing all day!

MAY 2011

These are what Paxton gave his Grandma's and Auntie Heather for Mother's Day

Emory turned 8 and we had a fun trip up to Idaho to celebrate his birthday and to be part of his special Baptism day. We also celebrated Mother's Day over the same weekend. We had a blast!

Paxton's May milestone's were:

-STARTED WALKING!!! {He crawled for only 3 weeks before he decided to start walking (a few days before he turned 9 months! I was not ready for it to happen so quickly, I had just barely got used to having him crawl. He learned in Idaho and it was fun to have everyone there to witness his big moment.) And I filmed it and forgot to take pictures, I'm so bad at remembering to do both!

-He also started to mimic a bunch of words with us! He's very vocal and has no problem letting us know what he wants!

Paxton's first time swimming! We took him to Crystal Hot Springs and he absolutely loved it! This boy is a water loving, splish-splash'n little fish! Which does my heart good, I can't wait to take him on all the fun adventures this summer!

{wow}

Wow. I am behind. Please bare with me as I chase around a very mobile, very busy boy. My goal is to be up to date by the end of the week {hopefully}. 

Love, 

      Tara 

{FAMOUS}

I'M SO EXCITED!!!! 

Paxton made photo of the day on one of my favorite blogs!!! I submitted his "smolder" picture to 

 Spearmint Baby. This blog has thousands of visitors and a huge following of mommies, I've submitted photos before and this time he got picked! It was on April 8, 2011 and to say the least I was very excited to show off my little love bucket! It sure was fun to be famous for the day!

You can go to the blog here to see the whole thing yourself! 

{You may have to scroll a page or to now since new things have been added!}

{6 Months}

6 Month Stats:

Height: 26.9 inches {78%}

Weight: 15.6 lbs. {25%}
Head Circ: 16.4 inches {10%}

Paxton this month:

-First hair cut

-First tooth {bottom left}

-Started eating solid foods

-Can sit up all by himself

-Gets around by rolling {Can't hold still. Ever.}

-Can walk if we hold his hands {see picture above}

-LOVES to eat!
-Thinks he needs to feed himself & doesn't accept help from mom or dad
-Favorite Book: Do Bears Buzz?
-Favorite Toys: His Midnight Monster, Cell Phone & Keys
-Loves to scream {happy screams} and grunt
-Becoming very interested in Boston & Squeaker {poor cats have no idea about what is to come...}

{Eat Your Heart Out}

Alright listen, I didn't want to have to do this,

But you leave me no choice....

Here comes...THE SMOLDER!

{This smolder was brought to you by: "The Spatula"}

 {"The Spatula" Being eaten by adorable babies since 1923.}

{Thank you "Tangled" for the inspiration!}

{Gluttonous}

Well the day finally came! On Paxton's 6th month birthday he got to try rice cereal! I was secretly hoping he would hate it but he's his father's son and that means he likes food and likes it a lot! He did so good though, such a big boy! His daddy had the honor of feeding him since lets face it I've been doing it for 6 months lol. 

Mommy & Paxton getting ready for the big moment!

Ok here it is! First taste of solid food!

 Hmmmm interesting...

This stuff is good! Here, let me help you daddy...

Faster! 

 Dad's not fast enough, I'll do it!

Who needs help? I can do it myself...

Better have 2 spoons going! {See Gluttonous}

Oh man this is great!!!

Yummers!

Wow I loved that!

All Gone!

As you can tell he LOVED it! He thinks he needs to feed himself and doesn't like us helping him. He loves bananas, rice cereal, apples, and carrots so far! I can't believe how big he is getting, we just love him more every day if that's even possible!

{Big LOVE}

I LOVE YOU...

AND YOU...

AND YOU AND YOU...

AND ALL OF YOU!!!

 Happy LOVE Day Everybody!

{I Heart Photography}

I love photography. What, you knew that? Well I do. I consider myself my little family's historian, the memory keeper if you will.  I love to document what is happening in our lives through photography. A self proclaimed "Momarazzi", I always have my camera trained on Paxton. I am just so desperate not to miss any moment because unlike the Hubs I do not have a photographic memory. My mom has album upon album documenting our lives growing up and my Grandpa took thousands of slides of their lives. Tradition? Yes, I think that the importance of taking pictures to document memories is in my blood from Grandpa and my mom. I have loved taking pictures since probably before I can remember, and have albums full of my furry models Chance, Randy & Mowmow, my childhood animals who were always my willing subjects. I took photography camps during my summers, in High School I was the yearbook photographer and my very first job was at Inkley's (a photography store). So yes I love it. Pictures are me and I am pictures. They make me who I am.

 With that said, I desperately need to organize all my pictures, just to give you an idea I have 367 pictures of Christmas this year. Yeah I know. And I am getting annoyed with just plastering them all on here. So I have been looking for some ways to display and store all my pictures. So here are some ideas I have found while stalking design and craft blogs.

I want this stairway, love the way the photo's are displayed and I love the actual stairs too! ;)

 I already plan on doing this in the nursery

Love this!

One day I'm doing this when I have a house that has a good foyer or hallway :)

Again pictures in a hallway = Love

One day I'll have a wall covered like this 

 I just got a huge cork board from the Hubs that I am going to do something like this on and put it in Paxton's room

I'm making one of these too with Paxton's cool 8/9/10

Already bought my extra large clothes pin to do this!

 

 I want to make one of these. Bad.

Umm Hello! I am totally getting one of these, someday! From For all Time Clocks

I'm in the process of making a silhouette of Paxton right now!

Mmmmmm big square of photog love!

Nothing better then just some gallery wrapped canvas!

 I see a big J in our future

Another great stairway

Old window & pictures, YAY!

I WANT this for my Birthday this year so I can document Paxton's next year. It's called Project Life by Becky Higgins LLC and it's a scrapbook that allows you to journal your everyday life. You take a photo a day and then write a little something about it. Instead of cutting pictures and needing all these scrapbook supplies you use plastic photo pages that she supplies and you get little journaling cards and a whole bunch more fun things. I like the idea of documenting this way. More my style. I LOVE IT! So much.

Here are some examples of some Project Life books:

These are from Ali Edwards (who has TONS of cute ideas for PL)

I've decided to make some photo books through Picaboo & Shutterfly, I made one for my coffee table with Paxton's newborn pictures and Love it! I think I will make one of his first year too!

I bought one of these for myself for Christmas, 6 pictures can go on them. Now just which pictures?

I'm taking this course right now too, way fun so far! It's from Willette Photography and is a free month long photography workshop!

Ohh and the last thing I need help with, I have like 25 ultrasound pictures of the peanut and have no idea how to store/display them?? Ideas?


I also really want to clean up my blog, I feel like it is sloppy and over run
with things not organized. To Do List... So much I want to do, now just to do it all!