Best looking butt I’ve ever seen…???

Yep. Hands down. I totally rubber necked too .

-Linds

Standing,standing,dancing, and more standing…

I’ve been seeing a lot of this lately around these parts:

My big boy standing so tall.

Although he’s fighting his nap here, not gonna lie, I kinda like , strike that, LOVE being greeted like this

He said to me, “mom, if I do a little jig for ya, will you get me out of this baby prison?” I told him it depended on how good it was and instructed him to “show me whatchugot”. Folks, without further ado, I give you Eli, my little master manipulator (I apologize for the quality and the email notification, mid video ):

He got out of jail free.*Sigh*.

I know somebody who’s going na-nights early tonight!

-Linds

Some new tricks…

Have I mentioned how fun Eli is lately?! Gosh, he’s hilarious. Grandma has been working with him on stuff like singing, showing us how big he is, and high fives. So far he’ll sing on cue and follow your example, (we really need to work on melody though) occasionally give high fives (ok, so maybe some are low fives and I have to chase his hand) and sometimes mimic me smacking my lips. This evening I got a few new tricks on video, including him showing how big he is, doing strawberries with his tongue and lips (is there a real name for this skill? I have no idea what to call it but you’ll know what I mean when you see it in the video. It’s how he sassed me in the last video) and waving.

Oh and guess what else he did for the FIRST time today thanks to the off limits, (so therefor very tempting) remote?? He pulled himself up to a standing position against the couch to reach for it! I was like, “wow, what a long arm span. I could have sworn I made sure it was out of reach next to me.” Then I lean forward to see that he was no longer kneeling on the floor reaching, but STANDING!! Ahhhh! Aaron and I joke that we could probably get him to walk by tomorrow by dangling that dang remote out in front of him just out of reach . “Heeeerrree fishy fishy fishy”….Ha ha. Remember? It was the remote that got him to crawl for the first time!
Ok, enough excitement for one night. Na night folks.
-Linds

Comfy??

I’d like to know how this could possibly be comfy??!?! He is out.cold.

Hmmm. Some things I’ll never know.

-Linds

Excuuuuuuse me mister?!

It’s started. And it’s so soon! I thought these things happened around 2 years old. You know, the whole terrible twos thing? Eli sassed me today. He kept crawling away from me into “no-babies” land and I kept telling him “no” and dragging him back. Well this is how he responded to that:

Little stink pot is right! So stinkin’ cute though so I’ll let this one slide .
In other news, he’s completely, 100%, mobile now and into everything. This is his favorite spot lately. I’m just waiting for him to crawl right in:

Ha ha. He is SOOO fun! And showing a TON of personality these days

I must say, being a “cautious” momma, this helmet thing turned out to be a blessing in disguise . I used to joke with Aaron before getting pregnant about wanting my kid to wear a helmet while on a bike or anything “dangerous”, and he’d jump straight to “well if you could have your way, you’d just have him wear a bubble suit 24/7.” Well, now that you mention it…. I kid, I kid! Well sort of. Now I tell him that God was just answering the desires of my heart by forcing him to go along with a safety helmet because it’s prescribed by a doc. Ha ha ha. I get a lot of eye rolling from him..I don’t know why .

Alrighty, back to enjoying this awesome 70+ degree weather in March! Happy St. Patty’s day to you all.

-Linds

Project reveal…

Ok, thanks for being patient with me as I finished up my latest project. I’m happy to report that it is all done, and hung up . My friend from work Jen guessed it right as being a growth chart. Atta girl! (Thanks to those of you who humored me and played along in the guessing game ) I have thought about wanting to get Eli one of these for a while now, particularly before he turned 1. Like I said, I searched Etsy for personalized ones and they were around $50! So I decided to just tackle it myself. I stuck with his airplane/Mickey themed room but also added a bunch of color to it so it could grow with him and not always look like it belonged in a nursery. I wanted it to easily go into a big boy room when the time comes. (ahhh! I can’t think about that!) I had just bought a bottle of stuff that makes acrylic paint into fabric paint so I decided to use fabric for mine. I could have ordered a vinyl decal one I suppose, but we will be moving into a bigger house as we expand our family (God willing) and I obviously wanted this thing to be able to go with us.
Now the reason I said that I could have jacked it up many times and was surprised I didn’t was because I free handed all the lettering, airplane, and Mickey Mouse. And even though I started by sketching it on the fabric in pencil, being that it IS fabric, I couldn’t erase it. (I tried to in one spot and thank God it was in an area I was able to paint over! It just smears into a into a big ol’ smudge mark, and doesn’t really go away) So I held my breath and jumped in feet first hoping for the best. I worried that I’d get it all sketched out and then mess up painting it or something. (I used to draw cartoons a lot when I was little, especially Garfield and Goofy. I would use a picture as a reference, as I did in this case, and go from there but I hadn’t drawn in yeeeeeears so I felt pretty rusty.)

This was the fuller pic of the teaser I gave you yesterday. I had to crop it more because I realized with his mouth in the pic, it was super obvious who I was drawing. Sneaky, sneaky sir. Ha! I had just outlined Mickey in black marker paint and filled in the black areas with the acrylic paint at this point. (Don’t worry, I went back and outlined that top part of his hand that I missed near his back. Did you even notice it until I pointed it out?)
Then I proceeded to paint the rest:

Bottom of chart

Top of chart

The whole thing. Ta Da!

Eli wasn’t havin’ it.

I started it at 24 inches and it goes up to about 6 foot 5in. My plan is for every birthday, I will measure him against the chart, mark it, and put a birthday picture next to the spot. I tried to leave a lot of “blank” white space so the pictures would fit next to the measurement. I’ve never seen a growth chart like that so who knows if it’ll even work out but it sounded like a cute idea in my head . I don’t know, kids grow quite a bit from year to year right, so I won’t have a cluster of pics all in one spot, will I? Ha ha. We shall see.

And there you have it!

Thanks again Jac for the “blank canvas” that was just itching to be drawn on. (You know me and blank paper, LOVE!)

-Linds

New craft project…

So I’m pretty excited about the new project I’m working on for Eli because I’ve been wanting one of these things for him for a while now. I checked on etsy and on average they go for $50. FIFTY buckarooskies?!?!!? Are you kidding me!? Not on your life. Operation I-must-make-my-own-for-free commence. If you know me, when I get a “vision” in my head about how I want something to turn out, it can be a miserable process until I see it through. Well so far, everything has gone without a hitch when there could have been a lot of set backs and troubles. Yay me! I’m thisclose to being done with it so hopefully I’ll do the big reveal tomorrow, but we’ll see. Just one last step to take care of and now that I’ve jinxed myself…
Here’s a preview of what’s been involved, and a shout out to my wonderfully understanding hubby, for allowing our kitchen to be a disaster zone for a few days and to my girl Jac for giving me her left over “black out” fabric she used for her kiddo’s curtains. Thanks lovies!

Can’t do a craft project without my beloved coffee drink. Hello Lova

So? Any guesses? What in the world could it be using fabric, and paint, but not exactly be a sewing project…?
Hmmmm…..
Night yall,
-Linds