6 months old today!

It feels like I just blinked and our baby is now turning 6 months old! When I speak of the past it completely baffles me that I usually have my time frame completely mixed up.. I will typically reference something that happened at least 9 months ago, but I usually say " a few months ago" because it really only seems like it was a few months ago! Time does fly by when you are having fun...

Owen is turning into such a cute little grown up munchkin'.... He is a babbling baby right now- no real detectable words/sounds at the moment, but I am patiently wishing for 'mama' soon/.... or a 'mama' in sign language! Owen loves fruit, any and all fruit... peaches, bananas, apples, pears etc which makes COMPLETE sense... all I craved and all I ate when I was pregnant with him was fruit... tons of fruit!!! Being pregnant was the healthiest 9 months of my life! But along with fruit I craved vegetables.. but he hates green beans ( we have tried at least 6 times, so I have at least 6 more to go, I am told). He has been army crawling for about a week and a half now. He still LOVES "Old McDonald Had a Farm" song and loves to smile at people behind me while we stand in line. The other day he laughed the entire time I was in Target.
We are starting little gym, 2 music classes and a playgroup this week- Owen is very social :)

We go to the doctor in a week for his 6 month check up and immunizations- Ill give you his stats then! I am guessing he is around 20lbs and close to 25 inches...








(@ music class with daddy!)

Adorable... and true.

I usually don't post You Tube videos on facebook or links to my blog but I saw this today and it was just too cute... and all too true! Take a second and watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxm5ol6GE48&feature=youtube_gdata_player

A few baby favorites...

I had some time to catch up on some of my favorite blogs this weekend and these are just a few posts that I found interesting and wanted to share...

A very interesting post on motherhood advice....
www.simplelovely.blogspot.com/2010/10/channeling-talia.html

An interesting article on the importance of babbling and what that means developmentally...

www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/health/12klass.html


(a photo of my babbling 6 month old) in 'mid-babble')


My new favorite baby blog... I wish i knew what the posts meant...
http://ledansla.blogspot.com/

I love this book... such a sweet story and the illustrations are beautiful!

One unforgettable year!

A year ago to the minute we were preparing to deliver our vows.....

I am so lucky to be married to such an amazing, strong, loving and handsome man.... not every girl gets exactly what she wished for...and I did.

Its been an exciting, whimsical, magical, eventful, and unforgettable year...!


























Indonesia (Yogyakarta, Central Java & Bali)...








London...


Preparing for a baby....



Welcoming the newest and most exciting family member...





Chicago...


Nantucket...





Bermuda...

So much to be thankful for!

This Thanksgiving brought our family and friends together once again... without all the hustle and bustle of last year's wedding but still all the fun! This post has the potential to be entirely too long so I will make it a short, but good one, because I will have more to post tomorrow.
My favorite things about Thanksgiving at the farm (in no particular order):
- the homemade monkey bread
- a kitchen full of food for continual grazing
- hot coffee on the front porch in the morning
- the mimosas we make in the morning after your hot cup of coffee
- green bean casserole
- the gravy
- frost on the ground in the morning
- eating, sleeping and then eating again
- the relaxing feeling that comes with being in the country

The monkey bread right before it goes in the oven...



Food... (Uncle Rob)


More food and thanksgiving feast preperations...


Last night while we were sitting in the hot tub underneath the beautiful clear sky we saw quite possibly, one of the biggest shooting stars, ever. This star was not just your average white shooting star that crosses the sky in about 2-3 seconds- it had red fading behind it as it ripped through the atmosphere for every bit of 6-7 seconds... it was beautiful.

Here are a few pictures I took over the weekend... and these are just a FEW, I have too many to post!

Uncle Chance and Owen...






The oak trees where Jeremy and I were married....


Henry in bed with mommy and Nona after a long day...


Owen and his daddy on the couch...


Uncle Jake!...


Doing what we all do best on Thanksgiving... lounging/piling on the couch...


Bath time!
Cousins together in the bathtub (kitchen sink)...




It was hard to get a picture of the two of them... In Henry's defense, this doesnt count for this Christmas because Henry doesn't know that "Santa's always watching" just yet! Precious cousins (Henry 19 months, Owen 6 months)







Goin' fishin'...