Friday, October 16, 2015

Lovin' on Fall

I love fall and I have been loving showing all of my favorite things to Thomas this year. We've been having a lot of fun adventures together.  Have I mentioned I love the stage he's in yet?  Because it's the best.  I am seriously loving how excited he is about everything.  Here's some pictures of our fall adventures so far this year...


A few weeks ago we drove up Provo Canyon to see the changing leaves...
These are my people.  I love them so much.




<3



Then over General Conference weekend we went to Peterson Family Farm up in Riverton :)


All he wanted to do was to pick up and throw all the little pumpkins haha. Boys.









Playing in the corn pit


Last week Thomas and I went to Jaker's Pumpkin Patch in Springville with some of my mom friends and their kids...

Group photo.  Thomas is quite the ladies man.

Smiles are hard to come by in pictures these days. I'm glad I caught one.

What up world!?


The reality of group pictures.  Sometimes life is hard haha

 Cutie.

This time his favorite thing was putting pumpkins in his wagon... and throwing them.

No smiles but he's still cute.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Thomas the Toddler. An Update for the Books.

It's so weird to me that my baby isn't much of a baby anymore.  I mean really.  Where has the time gone?  I now have this cute little guy that can walk and is constantly exploring and learning new things.  It's pretty great. He's much fun to hang out with him now days and honestly cracks me up all the time.  There's hardly ever a dull moment because he is such a cheese.  Life is good my friends.  Life is good.

Well, I wanted to document some of the things that Thomas can do and say now so here it goes...

- He just officially started walking on Friday of last week (October 1st).  He had been taking steps and walking across our house from Matt to me and back again for a couple weeks, but he really started walking last week and he's gotten better and better from there.  Now he can walk all the way to the park by himself (although I of course hold his hand when we cross the street :) ).

- He knows a bunch of words now, too including: mama, dada, ball, up, eat (he usually walks over to his high chair and says "eat" when he's hungry), out, dog (do), duck, uh oh, keys (gee), Kortney (also Gee), no, yeah, banana (nana), apple (a-ul), cheese (for both the food and when he looks in my phone to take a picture), hi (which he honestly probably says like a hundred times a day), leaf, chalk, bubbles, that, chalk, baby, light, bye bye, lion (yi yon), water (yeah yeah?  I know... weird), and "wee" which he says for the park which isn't exactly a word, but it's pretty cute.  I'm sure I'm missing a couple, but you get the gist.  Pretty fun.

- He also knows animal sounds for a dog, a monkey, a cow, a lion, a leopard, a snake (sometimes), a owl (that one was new today), and a Thomas (a Thomas says "hi" by the way haha).

- Thomas loves to play hide and seek with Matt and I and say "boo" when he finds us.  He also says "boo" whenever he peeks around a corner which is pretty cute too if I do say so myself.

- He LOVES to be outside.  It makes me a little nervous for the winter, but right now it's great.  We've been exploring Provo by bike recently and it's been a lot of fun.  It's been an awesome way to be cheap, explore, and get some exercise.

- His favorite books as of right now are "Llama Llama Zippity-Zoom", "Hands Hands Fingers Thumb", and his book of 100 words.  He hasn't sat still to read books for a long time, but those ones have been golden over the past week or so.


I really love having a toddler.  Yeah he's super busy, church is rough, and I'm often exhausted by the end of the day, but I really am loving this stage.  I love seeing his face when he's proud of himself for figuring out how to do something new.  I love teaching him new things.  I love making him laugh.  I love when he makes me laugh.  I love seeing his relationship with Matt.  I guess to put it simple... I love being a mom.  Yeah, it's hard sometimes (a lot of the time), but I'm so grateful I get to hang out with such a fun little guy.  I am so blessed.

One Year Old Pictures


Remember how I have an almost fifteen month old and I haven't posted any real one year old pictures?  Yeah, me too.  I'm usually on top of taking pictures because I LOVE taking pictures, but for some reason these one year old pictures were so daunting to me.  I was so stressed that they weren't going to turn out cute.  I didn't want to miss this monumental moment in my child's life because I skimped and did my own pictures instead of paying someone else to take them.

Anyway, I finally took his pictures about a two months ago or so and I decided I'm happy with them :).  He's pretty busy now days and he's harder to photograph (hello fast shutter speed), but he's pretty adorable.  I just love him.  So here are some pictures of my cute little man :)