This one's for the ladies (with babies... or children)

Thanks for 

disciplining, 

spit cleaning, 

feeding, 

clothing, 

nose picking, 

rocking, 

picking up after, 

laughing, 

"watch"ing tricks (a million times over), 

holding, 

kissing, 

hugging, 

tucking in, 

talking to, 

yelling at, 

spying,

losing sleep, 

doctoring, 

missing, 

calling, 

and mostly loving.

Mommas truly are a picture of the unconditional love of Christ in full force. 

love you momma, mam, nana, and deb. happy late mother's day!

(i'm so not good at holiday postings!)

Why does it happen so fast????

Just two weeks ago my little CK turned one.

Just two weeks ago she could only say 11 words.

Just two weeks ago she was crawling, still!

Just two weeks ago she didn't mind having me hold her at a restaurant. 

Now that she is big she says, "cool," and "e-i-e-i-o," and "uh-oh," and "thank you." (Thank goodness we know a nice word now!)

And now she is walking.

And she MUST get down wherever we are, just to prove to me how big she is. 

I know the day is coming when she will be riding a bike, and driving, and going off to school, and getting married....

and I know it will only feel like a short time until those days are actually here.

Why does it have to happen so fast?

I'm working on some vintage custom party "baskets" for jalopy and gray on Etsy. Contact me if you're interested in seeing what I have so far, or if you have a  custom order for me! You can check out my work here.

My baby can say lots of words!!

My sweet baby Charlee Kai said her 10th word today! I'm not even sure that is developmentally "on track" for her 385 days of life, but I am so proud. She actually knows what the words she says means!!

Like today, for example... word #10:

"MINE!"

She said this as she was pulling the remote control out of my hand. The actual, direct quote was, "NO!! MINE!!!" 

GREEEEAAATTTT...

Who taught my kid to act like this? (maybe it was her dad pulling it away from her and saying mine, then laughing when she made this face-

sorry for the picture quality

and pulled it back from him.)

It's honestly kind of funny, when you are home alone. Not so funny when she stands up at her birthday party and yells at the baby friend helping her open presents, "NO!! DON'T! DON'T!"

How the heck do you stop this? How can you teach a one year old manners? Tell them "don't?" Or "no?"

Yeah, I have no ideas...

In case you were dying to know, her other words are hi, bye, dada, mama, wow, dog (she hates dogs and is so scared of them, don't ask me why she like to talk about them), and ball. She said "HO HO" at Christmastime, but I can't get her to do it anymore so I don't think it counts. Some people (my mom) like to think she says "baby," but I haven't heard it yet.

In case you forgot the cute baby after seeing the monster in the tub here are a few refresher pictures.