The Good Life

Summer life is the good life - can I get an amen?!?  Don't get me wrong fall is totally still my favorite season, but there is something about summer that is sweet and relaxed and wonderful.  We have been busy with a lot of home selling/buying and packing type activities this summer, but we have been also been doing much more fun things life going to the pool and listening the country music :)  So here is an update of what we have been up via the pictures from my phone!

We are an ice cream loving family!  Amaia particularly loves ice cream and knows just where we are when we pull into the orange leaf parking lot.  The night that we bought our new home we went out for an ice cream celebration.  Haddon was there too, though he did not get to partake in the ice cream.  Next summer buddy!

We have been loving the zoo this spring and summer!  Amaia is ALL about the zoo right now.  Seriously, if it is getting close to a week since we have been she starts asking me over and over again if we can go to the zoo, so we have been going most Sundays as a family.  She also loves to talk about the sounds that different animals make or runs around the house acting like different animals.  Her current favorite animal is the flamingo and of course she has inherited a love for lemurs from her daddy.

Is it strange that Mexican food makes me feel like summer??  Well it does.  We took Amaia out for her first mexican food experience last weekend and she was so cute!  I could tell she was observing us eating our chips and salsa and then she just took a chip and slid a bowl of salsa close to her and started dipping.  She just kept eating the salsa though and not the chip.  She was double dipping over and over :)  It was the cutest thing!  Also, as you can see from this picture, Amaia is starting to really enjoy accessorizing.

Haddon has been being his cute, cute self this summer.  Here we are hanging out at the splash park together.  We have been going the pool/splash park a lot this summer.  Amaia loves it SO much! She, however doesn't have a lot of fear so I must have my eyes on her and hands available at all times while we are at the pool...thus I don't really have any good pictures of her in the pool.

Haddon has also been entering the wonderful world of solid food this summer.  So far he has had rice cereal, which was not really a hit and peas, which are going much better.  Next up - carrots!!  He has also been lengthening out his eating schedule, which is exciting for me!  We still have a lot of work to do on his spoon/swallowing skills, but I can confidently say that he has actually ingested some peas.  Amaia is slightly confused about why Haddon is sitting in "her" chair now :)

Just a little bit of what we have been up to so far this summer!

Happy 6 months to my blue-eyed boy!

Haddon is officially 6 months old! I know that I say this every month, but he is seriously the sweetest little guy.  So full of smiles and such a happy boy.  He brings so much joy to our family and oozes cuteness all day long! The past couple of months have been crazy at times as we have been selling our current home and looking for a new one, but holding him and seeing his sweet smiles make me calm down just like that.

Haddon continues to take after his sister by being long and lean as well as having a big head :)  Here are his current stats from our doctor visit this morning:

Weight: 15 lbs. 13 oz. (18%)

Height: 27.75 Inches (91%)

Head: 17 1/2 Inches (82%)

Haddon adores his sister!  He is happiest when she is around and surprisingly doesn't seem to mind when she pokes at him, lays on top of him or drops things on him :)  You can't tell from this picture (Amaia isn't the best at smiling for the camera at this point in her life) but she adores him too.  She is beyond sweet to him and it makes my heart melt.  She greets him the in the morning, sings him lots of songs, always gets his toys out for him and gives many hugs and kisses throughout the day.

She loves to do tummy time with him too!

Haddon is quite proficient at rolling over nowadays!  Though he still does not enjoy being on his tummy for very long.  We are making progress on sitting up but aren't quite there yet. He mostly likes to roll around on the floor and check out what is going on.  He loves shaking his rattle around and playing peek-a-boo with him is a sure way to get him to giggle.  He is starting to become more easily startled lately.  His lower lip comes out and it is so cute and sad at the same time.  He typically recovers pretty quickly but he doesn't like anything too loud or to much in his face.

We started on the some rice cereal a couple of days ago.  He is doing well and opening his mouth for food, but I don't know if he has actually swallowed anything yet.  I plan on making some peas and carrots for him in the upcoming weeks, so that he start his journey into the world of big people food!  He looks so tiny in that chair!  And yes....I need to get him some non-girly bibs :)

Haddon is sleeping wonderfully.  He goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 and sleeps until 6:30 or 7 in the morning, eats and then back to sleep until 9.  After that he is still eating every 3 hours during the day and taking 3 naps a day.  I do think he is ready to go a bit longer between feedings so we need to try that soon as well.  He is so easy going that I often go in his room to get him up and he is awake just patiently waiting for mommy.  

Aaahhh!  I just love my Haddon.  It is simply a privilege to be his mommy and spend my days with him. 

Family Update: Moving!!

Over the past couple of months we have been busy, busy putting our house on the market, decluttering, cleaning and then disappearing for lots and lots of showings, looking at houses and finally a couple of weeks ago selling our townhome!!  

We had been praying and hoping to move for a year or more now, but this spring we felt that it was the right time.  I mentally and emotionally prepared myself for it to be a long process.  The market (obviously) is not ideal to sell and home and even harder for a townhome.  Keeping your house always ready for a showing is not for the lazy - especially with two little ones around!!  Although, Haddon doesn't make too much of a mess - yet! 

Thankfully - and totally an answer to my prayers - it only took a little under two months for our place to sell and we found a wonderful new house to move into! I am SO excited to have a yard and quiet neighborhood for our kids to run around in and explore and SO excited to have a larger home that is much more conducive to having people over and hopefully filling with more children.

So, now we are busy, busy with lots and lots of packing! The last time I moved I had bedroom furniture and dining table....we have accumulated quite a few more things since then :)

So excited!