{3} Months

My sweet, sweet baby boy...I can not believe you're three months old (almost four). I know I'm a little late on this post but thought it important for posterity's sake.

At three months old you:

* Sleep mostly through the night. Usually you fall asleep about 8 and wake up at 4. It is AWESOME!

* Are now cloth diapered full time...finally!

* Roll from your belly to your back intentionally.

* Have finally found your hands and they're always in your mouth.

* Don't really care for a pacifier.

* Smile when you nurse.

* Aren't really a fan of baby wearing but we're working on it. You'd rather be carried in someones arms.

* Sleep in your crib like a big boy.

* Are crazy addicted to white noise.

* Are cooing all the time. Sometimes you coo, laugh, and smile at the same time and in those moments I'm reminded that this is what life is all about.

* Spit up all the time just like Daddy did. Which means you and I always smell like baby barf. Most of the time I can handle it but on your worst days, it's no longer a sweet smell...we just smell funky!

* Have the biggest smiles for people but not so much for cameras.

* Have sisters that make you really really happy, then usually scare you with their crazy!

The Things They Say {Thursday}

This Girl:

"Mom, I never want to go to Africa because there are hyenas there. Did you know they can like snap your bone in half?"

Really Monkey, really? I guess we're never going to Africa. You know, just in case we should run into bone snapping hyenas.

In other news, this guy:

Has decided to start rolling over from his belly to his back. We suspected he was doing it last month but had never seen him actually do it. We have now witnessed it three times. It's all just too fast if you ask me but he seems rather proud of himself.

A New Years Resolution: Of Sorts

I vowed to no longer blog during the day. There is simply no longer any time to blog. If I blog during the day time or evening time hours, it's taking time away from my love, from my kids, from our home.

This vow has posed quite a problem of sorts. If I'm not blogging in the day time and I'm not blogging in the evening, when will I blog? When will I write, edit photos, express myself in the way only this blog allows?

Try as I might, my mind couldn't seem to come up with a solution to this problem. Then it dawned on me...get up earlier. Set your alarm, drag yourself out of bed, make a cup of coffee, and write while the house is quiet and my time is my own. And yet, this solution still poses some problems. Mostly, in that, I am absolutely and emphatically not a morning person.

So we'll see how long this lasts, this blogging in the morning!

2013: Seeker of Contentment

Hello lovely 2013!

I have so many things in store for you this year. Big dreams, lofty aspirations and of course goals, goals, goals. And while I would love to say that all of these, resolutions per se, are of the utmost importance for 2013, I know this would be a lie. For me 2013 will be focused on this season of our life. I want to spend my precious days searching for contentment in all things, seeking joy, and above all finding the calm and quiet amongst the crazy.

I want the satisfaction of knowing that while life is not always sunshine and rainbows we are spending our days seeking the best from this life. The moments that are the most resounding, and above all, settling down into being a family of five.

With that, I've already prepared myself to say "No" a lot. In the past few years, I've realized saying "Yes" is a time suck...from my family, from quiet, from contentment, from joy. The more I say yes, the less quality time I spend on the things that are truly important. So saying "No" will be a huge part of 2013.

So hello 2013, it's a pleasure to meet you. I hope that you and I enjoy this time we've been given together!