Back to blogging

Sorry I've been away so long! My wonderful mother-in-law (and her husband) brought up their old computer right before Christmas and Zack got me all set up. The only thing we couldn't find and get back from my old computer were my photoshop actions. I'm having to learn to actually edit my own photos (lol), but other than that I didn't loose anything.

We had a very busy Christmas season and there's no way I'm ever going to blog about everything we did, so I'm not even going to try.
I took quite a few pictures of our advent stuff during the month and I'm working on a scrapbook page (woohoo, I can scrap again!!) with all of the pictures, but here's a couple for now...

Making ornaments (which they LOVED)

cookies...

"Crunchy the snowman" with their cousins...


N had his 15 month appointment while I was without a computer too. He's still little (other than his huge head!), but he seems to be on a curve now and not dropping more, so that's good. He was 19lbs, 14ozs and 29.5" long.
He's talking SO much now, and I love it!! He picked up on the word "cool" and loves to say "Mama cool", "Daddy cool", "Kizzy cool", and "RyRy cool" among other things. M had to work really hard to get him to say she was cool. I also taught him to say "Awesome" and it's pretty funny to hear. He says "Ahh Hum".
He knows so many of his body parts now too, and will point to and say them when asked.
He's climbing on things, throwing, kicking, and running like a crazy boy now.
I can't remember what age the other kids did this stuff, but I feel like he's super smart and athletic and doing everything super early, like he's a genius or something. lol I'm just amazed at what he does every day and I'm so enjoying this age. :)
He's still nursing, we're just doing twice a day now, and I'm planning on weaning him in another month or so. I would love to keep going, but I would also love to get away for a night with just Matthew, so I think for my sanity he'll need to be weaned soon.
I've started eating some dairy and he seems to be handling it well. I've been eating mostly cheese and chocolate, but have had some dishes (and holiday treats) with milk and butter too. He's spitting up a tiny bit again, but nothing much. I've tried to give him grated cheese and he freaks out whenever I put it near him, not sure what that's about, but he won't even touch it. I guess I'll have to cut some up in cubes for him.

Here are a few pictures of him from the last couple days...

He's obsessed with wearing my heals now

Last night after nursing he decided to lay down and watch some TV with Daddy :)

(that's our new couch too, by the way) :)

The little climber himself

(ignore the wires and bad set-up, it's temporary until we get a cabinet or something for right there)

I think all the Christmas photos are on Facebook, so I'm not going to repost them all here.

So, I'm back online, and hopefully I'll be better about blogging now! Happy 2011!