The great thing about shots…

They give us an excuse for a morning bath!

Tent

One of my most cherished childhood memories was building tents out of blankets with my brothers and sisters. Our tents were pretty amazing.  And we would spend hours in them day after day until mom would say that the tent had to come down.  {Why in the world, I don’t know. I mean what’s the matter with the tent covering the entire living room?  we could have lived like that for forever….}

Yesterday Job and I made a tent for the first time. Nothing elaborate.  Just Job’s favorite blanket spread over the headboard and draping down onto the bed.  But he didn’t know the difference! 

He *was* smiling and giddy, but then the camera showed up!

What’s better than playing with the string from your sweat pants under a blanket?!

I think we have many more tent making days in our future…And here I thought it was just a thing of my yester-days!

Drool.

{Chill}

{Curious}

{Goofy}

{Sweetheart}

{Delightful}

Broken.

This week we said goodbye to a precious toy…

Job’s first rattle.  His tio Ivan bought it for him just a couple of weeks before he was born. And it had been with us ever since.  It was made from a gourd with a few seeds inside and painted with bright colors.  Mexican to the core.   From the first few weeks of his young life, we would shake it to catch his attention.  And over the weeks and months he learned to hold onto himself, use it was a tether, and eventually shacking it like made himself and throwing it down to hear the load bang….

…and that brings us to earlier this week.  The little man is so strong.  He threw his beloved rattle down and gave it the fatal blow.  It broke in two.  There was a moment of sadness.  But the best thing about being 5.5 months old and your favorite toy disappearing? Your long term memory hasn’t developed enough to remember it!  So the boy delightfully continues playing with whatever he can get his pudgy little hands on. 

For this momma it was a bitter sweet moment.  Because my babe is growing and learning and giggling his heart out, but to me these past 5+ months all seem like yesterday. 

A gift of sunshine.

 

{And no editing on this picture. Not that it’s a great picture, but just to say that the sky really is that blue and the sunflower really is that yellow.}

  Stunning.

BATH TIME!

Our favorite time of day! 

{Except for play time with papa, eating, going out for a walk, morning, story time, sleeping, being outside with the plants and animals, and….so yeah, every time of day is a favorite time a day with this bundle of sweetness around!}

The Land of Milk and Honey…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

….and giant avocados!