My Baby and I Project - Week 24/52

Week 24 was my closest to missing a week. For no particular reason, the week was over before I knew it. I thought that no pictures had been taken that week of us until I was looking at my phone photo album. Monday night I was nursing Andrew and snacking on some pretzels. He is so easily distracted - just the mere presence of toys in the room is enough to capture his attention but the noise of a bag of pretzels was just so interesting to him. Before I knew it Mr. Monkey feet was kicking and then grabbing the bag of pretzels. He grabbed it with his feet so that he could bring it to his hands and inspect it like he does everything he can get his paws on. I couldn't get over how he realized he could do that and now notice when things are out of the reach of his hands he kicks, pushes or grabs them with his feet! Anyway, I was trying to take pictures with my phone of him inspecting the pretzel bag so intently and not really intending on being in the shots. Luckily for my project I was in them; not my best shots but they're something :)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to Duane, G-Pop, Poppy and all the other dad's out there!

New Andrew photos

He likes bubbles and his jumper! It was amazing to watch him figure out the jumper. One day he just kind of sat there and knew there were toys all around then the very next day he got it and realized he could stand up, jump and spin around to play with all the toys. He hasn't stopped jumping since :)

My Baby and I Project - Week 23/52

After work on Tuesday, June 9th, I was talking on the phone to a friend. Andrew was whiny and wanted to be held. I knew he was tired because of the whining but I didn't realize how tired the poor boy really was...by the end of my conversation, he had fallen fast asleep sitting on my lap! Coincidentally, that night we put him to bed and I only got up once to give him his pacifier - mark it down as the first time he slept through the night! I, of course, didn't sleep quite as much as him because I woke up a few times wondering if he was ok. Learning to be a better sleeper is just one of the few things he's learned this month!

Andrew's Six Month photos

For Andrew's six month birthday we had a professional family photo shoot with the fabulous Amy Ro Photography. She is the one who did our maternity and newborn photos. We're sorry to say she's moving away to Rhode Island this month but we love what she's given us in the past shoots! We'll really miss having her do Andrew's one year photos. Here's a link to her blog post with our sneak peak. You must check them out, the family shot is one of my all time favorites so far!

Amy Ro Photography LINK

Also, a few weeks ago I rented a professional lens and hoped to get some good photos of him and good practice in. Although I still need a LOT of work, I got a few keepers to share:

My Baby and I project - Week 22/52

Dinner time is a bit of a messy time, especially when it's something like carrots! Andrew has gotten really good at eating his dinner and has had rice cereal, apples, sweet potatoes, peas, pears and carrots so far. We introduce something new every 4 days but in the meantime can mix up the things we already know he's not allergic to. When he doesn't seem to like something (peas are the only thing so far he really didn't like and I don't blame him to be honest!) or isn't in the mood for his plain rice cereal, it goes in a lot easier if it's dipped in a bit of applesauce! That's what we had for dinner in these photos for this week. Rice cereal, carrots and applesauce, sometimes all in the same bite! He ate it all up and despite the way it looks, ended up with not too much on him, the floor or me!