HAPPY 8 MONTHS!

 Today, Samuel Blake is 8 months old........ MY GOSH time is FLYING by, its crazy!  My sweet baby is almost not a baby anymore!

  After 6 months they change so much.  Start eating more, personalities flourish etc.   I just read that at 8 months he can start having some water, he can eat so much more food.  Today, I made baby food for the first time!  It was so easy and I loved doing it... a bag of frozen peas is less than $2.00, and 2 pack of baby food stage 1 is $0.99 if it's on sale- that lasts me maybe 2 days if I decide to do that veggie or fruit once a day.  Can't wait to play more with different foods!

I used our blender, and when I pulled it out I saw that it had a setting for baby food!  I was not going to buy anything special to make baby food, was going to use the blender regardless.  But saw that and got very happy!  :)

2 great sites for out of the box ideas and when you're done doing the basics are:

homemade-baby-food-recipes.com
and
http://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/

Soon-to-be new addition to our family!...

We will be having some baby chicks soon!   Matt has been wanting for the past year and half or so to have fresh chicken eggs and a garden!  He is definitely a farmer at heart!   If he lived in another life or time, he'd be a farmer with plants and animals and a carpenter! Love that about him

This past weekend he started building the chicken coop, should be completed soon!   Not sure how many we'll have yet but excited to have baby chicks and to have fresh eggs!
This should be interesting  :)

Everyone has helped a little bit, even if holding a piece of wood for him...

   

Happy sick Boy!

Samuel has had RSV (think and hope we are at the very end of it)...  We've been busy doing breathing treatments 3 times a day and I've been sick as well but finally got some antibiotics from the doctor yesterday!   He's been so happy still while being sick, it amazes me haha!  I'm so grumpy when I'm sick... fever, cough, snot and all and he still screams and laughs in his jumparoo! 
He's been running fever every night for about a week... but he's back to his happy self and we're down to 1 treatment a day :)
We had to take some pictures of him doing his treatments... the more we did them the more laid back he got.. it was so cute.  We started off with the mask you put over mouth and nose which with tv on, he would sit and watch it calmly but luckily a friend had the pacifier attachment, which is so much better!

Hopefully soon, we'll be getting out more again!  Just in time with this beautiful weather!

Thought I'd Share...

Tim Keller and his wife, Kathy, share a small bit on the book they wrote on marriage, and well, on marriage itself... this is such a good, rich, Truth based book

http://www.faithfamilyfoundation.org/?p=720