Meyer Dave 15 Months

This. Kid.

This silly, sensitive momma's boy is growing into a toddler right before our eyes!

He literally could not be any cuter, but I might be a little bias.

 

He weighs in at 20# and 15oz and he's 30.5" tall...on the petite side or "a trim young man" as our doc likes to call him. 

He wears size 12-18 month clothes, size 3/4 shoes and size 4/5 diapers.

As you can plainly see, Meyer can walk! It is still crazy to me when I turn around and see him toddling into a room. He still is the fastest crawler in all the wild west though, and when he gets a chance he is right back on those hands and knees just whizzin' on by!

Meyer has 4 little teeth, just two on the top and two on the bottom...so weird because his older sister and brother had way more at this age, like 3x more; I keep waiting for more to poke through...maybe even molars! But for now he is just gummin' his way through life and we aren't dealing with painful teething so I will take it!

All of a sudden he is spoutin' out words left and right...my favorite it "Elliette!" such a big word for such a little boy...but he loves his big sissy.

Some other words in his vocabulary are....

"Mom"

"Dad"

"Bruh-Buh"

"Sadie"

"Ball"

"Thank You"

"Hi"

"Bye"

"Cheese"

aaaaand

"nun-nun" which is his word for "nurse" because we are still proudly breastfeeding at least 3x a day.

He can also use sign language, he knows the sign for "more, please and all-done".

He is a middle-of-the-road eater...there isn't much he won't try at least a bite of; sometimes he scarfs up everything we put in front of him and sometimes he barely touches it...ah toddler-hood where all good eaters go to die...One of his favorites at the moment is a cheesy omelet!

To say this boy has completed our family is an understatement...he is the perfect icing on our family cake.

Halloween

Our Halloween was a week long celebration including pumpkin carving, cookie decorating, festive costumes, class parties, school carnivals, trick or treating and wayyyyy too much candy for our own good. Even though of couple of us suffered from the stomach flu just a few days prior, everyone was nice and healthy for Halloween night and fun was had by all!

Ending the weekend with a candy hangover, homemade meatball subs for the Bronco game, and being super thankful that there isn't any school tomorrow! Happy Halloween!!

A Weekend In The Woods

Hustle, bustle, repeat. 

Hustle, bustle, repeat.

Do you ever feel like you don't have a moment to relax? A moment of silence to even hear yourself think? To hear your children giggle?

Do you ever feel like you're so busy that you forget to watch your children? No, I don't mean like when they run out the front door without you knowing (that's never happened to me)... I mean actually watch them. Watch them laugh, watch them play, watch them have fun, watch them interact, watch their eyes light up as they make mud pies, watch them dip their little toes into a cold creek, watch them roast marshmallows over an outdoor fire, watch them as they hike to discover new things?

Sometimes putting away the phones, the iPads, the video games; getting away to a place where there isn't a television or cell service for miles is the perfect remedy to that over-busy feeling that can often take over our lives as we shuffle school, homework, sports, laundry, making dinner, etc. 

We spent last weekend at a cabin in the woods & even without all the social networks to bury my face into, I've never felt closer to the world.

Sometimes you need to take a bath in the sink to wash off after you've crawled around in the mud. Sometimes you need to strip down to bare buns and take a little dip in the creek.

Sometimes you need to take a cruise on a 4-wheeler.

Sometimes you need to stay up late learning how to play poker and discover that you might really suck at it.

Sometimes you need to spend two days surrounded by nothing but trees, fresh air, and a handful of your favorite people.