tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90924534232474540662024-02-18T19:36:16.118-06:00Sweet Home HelenaSweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-43120666373723642872014-02-21T18:22:00.001-06:002014-02-21T18:56:50.470-06:00To Die For Blueberry Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Corny title, you say? Well, I didn't name them. I got the recipe and the name from <a href="http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/To-Die-For-Blueberry-Muffins/Detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Thumb&e11=blueberry%20muffins&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe&soid=sr_results_p1i1" target="_blank">allrecipes.com</a>, and whoever named them.... Let's just say, they were...<i>absolutely correct. </i>The goodness of these muffins can't really be over exaggerated. <br />
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<li>3/4 cup sugar </li>
<li>1/2 tsp salt </li>
<li>2 tsp baking powder </li>
<li>1/3 cup vegetable oil</li>
<li>1 egg</li>
<li>1/3 cup milk</li>
<li>1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries</li>
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Pre-heat the oven to 400*. Sift the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder together into a largish bowl. Pour 1/3 cup of vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup. Add the egg, then fill to the 1 cup mark with milk. Add to the flour mixture and mix until just incorporated. Fold in the blueberries. Fill muffin cups just to the top with the batter.</div>
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For the topping, mix the sugar, flour and cinnamon together, then either cut the butter in with a fork, or just use your hands to fully incorporate it. Sprinkle on top of the batter.</div>
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Cook for twenty minutes, or until done.</div>
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See how the side of the muffin is all smooshed in? That further proves its amazingness. I was in such a hurry to remove it from the muffin tin and stuff it in my face, that the smoosh happened. The fact that I didn't have another muffin to photograph stems from the fact that the rest of them are gone. Inhaled. Eaten. Never to be seen again.<br />
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This muffin only takes a few minutes to put together (unless you're veeery slow at measuring), and twenty minutes to bake. So make some in the morning! You won't regret it. Unless you gain six pounds...then you'll regret it for a second, but <i>then </i>you'll go back and break the crusty, sugary edge off another one and pop it into your mouth. No more regrets.</div>
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Well, <i>Tuesday </i>(as I'm sure you all know), it didn't. It actually accumulated! However, the same stuff that provided a few inches of fluffy white beauty at our house, immediately turned to thick sheets of ice on all the roads in Birmingham, and shut the entire city down for a couple days. So many people were stranded and separated from their families...for hours or even overnight! Thankfully, the sun is shining, the temperatures are rising, and things are starting to return to normal.<br />
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Allow me to translate Silas' little baby thoughts when we plopped his non-walking self down into the cold stuff:</div>
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"Huh? I mean....why...." </div>
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"I mean...you guys seem to be enjoying this...."</div>
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(Anthony throws a snowball at his leg) "Ok. I'll admit. That's pretty funny!"<br />
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"Look...I'll even poke it a little bit for you. Woooo!"<br />
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(Anthony "accidentally" throws a snow ball directly in his face)</div>
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"I'M OUT!! DONE! Remove me!! This is the worst thing two loving parents could ever do to a child!"</div>
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And that was that. His first snow experience. Short and sweet(ish).<br />
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Then we went inside and drank lots of lattes and kept the fireplace going. My kind of snow day!<br />
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Anthony had quite the intricate system of drying out the logs then taking them to the garage to split them... Whatever works! He kept are house toasty all day long :)<br />
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Well that amount of snow oughta do us for a few years...Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-66299618229526552492014-01-28T11:00:00.000-06:002014-01-28T11:00:14.074-06:0016 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This child. Amazes me every day. He's soaking up the world around him at a fantastic rate. Of course, he's <i>still</i> not walking, but hey, he'll get to do that for the rest of his life. Might as well enjoy scooting while he still can! He informed me that wearing a onesie was for babies, so he graduated to a real shirt this month. Such a dapper dude.</div>
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He's saying lots of words, and doing lots of pulling up and <i>almost</i> standing up without assistance. Oh, and he eats like crazy! I think he eats more than I do most of the time! And his appetite for books is insatiable. He'll follow me around, scooting while clutching onto one of his favorites, while persistently saying, "Buh! Buh! Buh!!!" until I give in, Then the moment we finish he starts up again, "Buh!!! Buh!!" until we find another one. I love it.</div>
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Those holidays. They'll throw you off your game. This is Si as of December 18th. Cute as a button and ready for Christmas. We had so much fun with him this year...he really got into the whole thing. And he loooved having lots of cousin playmates!</div>
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This particular day, he was in quite the mood. I'd already put him down for a nap, then realized it was picture-taking day! After pulling him out of his crib and changing his clothes, he was not thrilled about posing for the camera. We got quite a range of emotion!</div>
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I am not a professional photographer or photo editor by any stretch of the imagination, but here are a few tips I learned along the way. Oh, by the way, I got this idea from the oh-so-famous <a href="http://younghouselove.com/" target="_blank">Young House Love</a>, so if you really want to see how it's done, you can hightail it over there!<br />
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First, try to keep as many things the same, as you can. The location, the lighting, the angle, and the distance from your child can all be pretty uniform. I tried to take the pictures by a big window with lots of indirect sunlight. The time of day that we took the picture varied through the year, just depending on when we could get good light. It ended up being somewhere in the mid to late afternoon, typically. Don't forget to turn off that flash!<br />
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Silas wore a plain white onesie for every picture. I just put him in whatever size he was currently wearing, however, I've seen pictures sequences where the same size (like a six month) onesie is used the entire time, so the kid can be seen growing into it. Kind of a good idea. I didn't think of it... You could also put a stuffed animal or something in the picture to show how much your baby has grown. <br />
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Take lots of pictures! The beauty of this digital age, is that you can take as many pictures as you want, and sift through them later. If you finish, and look through your images only to find you don't have anything that will work, you aren't going to be thrilled to have to drag the fabric and baby back out to try again! Better too many, than not enough. When you're going through your pictures, try to find a different facial expression than last week. Not every picture needs to be an angelic grin!<br />
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Be creative with your backgrounds! I was fortunate to already have quite a bit of fabric on hand, but I also used a rug, a pillow case, one of my husband's dress shirts (I should have used more of his shirts when Silas was little and could fit on them!), a shower curtain, my Christmas tree skirt, a winter coat, several blankets, wrapping paper, sheets, and probably several other things I can't recall at the moment. Start looking through your house...you'll be surprised how many things you come up with! I also perused the clearance bins at JoAnn's, Hancock and Hobby Lobby for fabric remnants. Those were always very cheap. This can be a very low-cost endeavor if you just plan a little.</div>
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I didn't always do this successfully, but I liked to try to think ahead to any holidays that would be occurring that week, and tried to allude to it. I would change the shape of the circle, or use a special background for those weeks.</div>
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Have fun with it! I always tried to make it a highlight of the week. If you're dreading another picture session, you probably won't get too many adorable expressions out of your little one. Pump him up about it! Play peek-a-boo with the camera, sing silly songs, make funny noises...you'd probably be worried about me if you could have seen me taking these pictures! But the kid loved it. Give him a few years, <i>then</i> he'll start worrying about me.<br />
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Okay. Here are a few quick instructions for editing the pictures in Picmonkey. <a href="http://Picmonkey.com/">Picmonkey.com</a> is a free photo-editing website...you <i>can</i> pay for a subscription, but everything you really need is free. I think by that statement, I've made it pretty clear, but if you're still wondering, no this isn't a sponsored post. Picmonkey is very much not aware of my existence. I just like pictures and I like free. Boom. Found my perfect match.<br />
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Now adjust the size of your circle, place it where you want it (try to make the circle approximately the same size every time), then using the "Overlay" pop-up tool bar, choose a color. You can match your fabric, or choose a contrasting color. When you get it about right, go ahead and "Fade" it a little...usually less than 20%, then under "Blend Modes", choose "Multiply". This changes your circle's color a tad, so you may need to play with the color a little bit more at this point. These last two steps make the circle look like it's more a part of the onesie instead of just a bright circle sitting on top.</div>
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So we had family! Lots of them. And instead of cleaning my house in anticipation of their arrival, I whipped out some gold glitter spray paint and created a Thanksgiving wonderland on my mantle. Behold.<br />
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It's hard to properly portray that extreme glitteriness of this spray paint. You know what <i>isn't</i> hard to portray? The price tag on the back of my chipboard letter that I was too lazy to remove. This "project" took approximately ten minutes. Plus drying time. I just sprayed the letters not very carefully, then took some extra linen material, burlap and a ribbon I had on hand, and cut out my flags and letters for the "Give" banner, and hot glued them to the ribbon. Sooo quick and easy. </div>
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I got my extra fancy (and extra free!) Thanksgiving printable, from <a href="http://www.nestofposies-blog.com/2013/10/thanksgiving-chalkboard-printables/" target="_blank">here.</a> Oh, and I stuck a Command strip to the back of that frame and just smooshed it in a approximately the correct place. Don't tell my husband I didn't use a level...<br />
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So where were we. Ah yes. Festive mantle, dirty house. But hey, it wouldn't feel like company if I weren't dashing about mopping or something as they walk in the door. <br />
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Is it just me, or do you feel like this post is turning into a gigantic confession? Lack of motivation, laziness, procrastination... <br />
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Well, things got cleaned, and we had a grand time. Here's a representation of most of the party animals occupying my house. We're missing Grandma...she came the next day. We've got Anthony's twin brother, Andrew with his wife Rachel, and their three girls: Alayna, Hannah and June. That's Anthony's sister Angela in the middle. Lots o' Johnsons.<br />
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And by "favorite pictures", I mean mostly pictures of my adorable nieces.<br />
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Hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving!Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-78115310730020729682013-11-19T08:00:00.000-06:002013-11-19T08:00:05.205-06:0014 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Silas is learning and growing so fast. Still no walking, but he's pulling up now and then, and scooting like a little champ. He discovered cheese this month and loves it with all of his little baby heart...gets it from his Mom. Favorite food is still probably clementines, but he loves him some beans, kiwi, bananas, salmon, plain yogurt, and just about anything else we offer him. His newest trick is scooting around the house, pointing at things he's not allowed to touch and saying a very solemn, "No, no, no." He also learned how to blow kisses and say "thank you" in sign language recently (confusing, as those two things are strikingly similar). Love this kid.<br />
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Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-51722609608636082192013-11-18T22:02:00.001-06:002013-11-18T22:03:12.213-06:0013 MonthsAfter fifty-two weeks I couldn't very well stop all together, could I? We're going monthly, y'all. Yeah...stole that idea from <a href="http://younghouselove.com/" target="_blank">Young House Love</a>, too. For your viewing pleasure...October 18th.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/younghouselove.com"></a><br />
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We will eat beans around here. In a second. It took me a little bit to come up with a good black bean soup recipe, but I think this is a winner. Take the extra time to make it from dried beans rather than canned...it makes a huge difference! Plus<i>, </i>having soup simmering on your stove for an hour or two, will make you feel like you've got this domestic thing <i>down.</i><br />
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Ingredients:<br />
1 pound dried black beans<br />
1 Tablespoon oil (coconut or olive)<br />
1 onion, chopped<br />
2 large carrots, peeled and chopped<br />
2 stalks of celery, chopped<br />
2 garlic cloves, minced<br />
2-3 teaspoons salt (to taste)<br />
1 Tablespoon cumin<br />
5-7 cups water<br />
2 Tablespoons lemon juice<br />
Salsa<br />
Sour Cream (or plain yogurt)<br />
Cilantro<br />
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Directions:<br />
In a large bowl, cover the dried beans with a few inches of water and let them soak overnight. Over medium heat, saute the onion, carrot and celery until soft (around ten minutes). Add the garlic and cook for another minute. Next, add the beans, salt, cumin and five cups of water. Bring to a boil on high, then reduce to medium high and simmer until the beans are soft (around an hour and a half). Add water if needed, to keep the beans covered. Add the lemon juice, then transfer the beans to a blender or use an immersion blender to create the desired consistency. I like to leave it a little chunky. Add up to two more cups of water while blending if you would like your soup a little thinner. Just before serving, add a spoonful of salsa, sour cream and a sprinkle of fresh cilantro.<br />
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<br />Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-48902545455137889822013-11-07T09:24:00.000-06:002013-11-12T08:27:13.362-06:0049 WeeksPhew. Si Guy's first year finished in quite the flurry of activity. It isn't every day that I turn thirty and my kiddo turns one all in one week! We had such good time, and maybe are still recovering? I can't believe I have a thirteen month old. Sigh. I'm going to play catch up here for his last few weekly pictures. Hold on to your hats, y'all. It's a lot of cute.<br />
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Y'all. Silas has learned so much this week, I can hardly remember everything. He can sign "more", "all done", and "please"; and can show you where his head and tongue are. When we sing around the house, or he hears music, he starts kind of singing along. Oh, and for a few weeks now, if you clap, brush your hands off, or say "hooray!", Silas will start clapping like mad. Killer.</div>
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Just keeping it real...taking these pictures isn't always all fun and games. Sometimes it's like....trying to wrestle a little slippery pig. But a super cute slippery pig.<br />
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This child. He's a genius. I feel like his little brain must just be exploding with all the new information he learns daily. This week he learned to wave bye, to pat his head when asked where his head is, sometimes touch his nose when asked about it, and to sign "please" when prompted. All of the sudden he's mimicking us. Kiiinda scary. Also, he ate salmon for the first time. So there's that.<br />
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Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-66388551951355704882013-08-10T15:51:00.000-05:002013-08-10T22:02:58.201-05:00Insta-Coasters...and a little living room update.A few weeks ago we <i>drove</i> out to Ft. Riley Kansas to visit my bestie and her family. There's a whole lotta not much between here and Kansas, y'all. We're talking out in the sticks. I mean, what was General Custer thinking...<br />
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We really had the best time. Makes me want to move to Kansas for a few years just to keep hanging out with some of the coolest people we know. Here we are looking appropriately festive for the 4th of July...<br />
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One day we headed two hours away (!) to the "big city" - Kansas City. We tooled around and ended up at one sweet antique market kind of thing. While we were digging through all the treasures, JP handed me a tile and said, "You'd like this." He was correct! So I got five more. Actually six more (totaling seven) because the dear lady at the cash register couldn't count, and rather than try to get my money back (all whopping $1.50 of it) I just grabbed one more.<br />
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Aren't they adorable? And to think that pig would still be sitting in a bin in Kansas City if that woman had charged me the correct amount... What a travesty that would have been.<br />
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Fasten your seatbelts. Here comes a very detailed, step-by-step tutorial for making tiles into coasters. I know. You've been waiting your whole life for this.<br />
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Grab some sticky rubber things from your nearest home improvement store:<br />
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I love them! I think they have a lot more character than the ones I was using. And whose coffee table couldn't stand a little more character?<br />
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At that same shop, I found this tiny bust of Beethoven. For seven big ones, how could I pass him up? He <i>is</i> however, a bit more scary looking than I remember him being. Just don't look directly into his eyes...<br />
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When I was taking this picture, I remembered I forgot to tell you about a little addition to our living room. Meet our new buffet, a la Craigslist!<br />
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Staring at the back of our couch while coming in the door and up the stairs was getting pretty old. I really love it! I don't necessarily love that it looks like that bird is about to eat Beethoven's head, though... A work in progress, I'd say.<br />
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Speaking of a work in progress, my son is screaming rather than taking a nap, so I'll quit rambling. Go make something into a coaster!Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-912496062684370952013-08-10T07:00:00.000-05:002013-08-10T22:02:30.029-05:0046 Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week was sad. Si's great grandpa passed away on Saturday after fighting a twelve year battle with Parkinson's. We're sad for us (and sad Silas won't know him), but happy that he's finally pain-free in Heaven. We had a good time getting together with family up in Chicago for a few days for the funeral. Silas traveled like a champ. Of course, he had lots of entertainment since we made the trek with my brother, sister-in-law and niece. </div>
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On a lighter note, he got his eighth tooth this week! Now he's nice and even - four on top and four on bottom. </div>
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Guys. I'm caught up on these pictures! Silas turned 45 weeks yesterday and I'm actually posting it today! Huzzah! Maybe now I can actually work on posting something other than my adorable baby's face. Although, it doesn't get much better, my friends.</div>
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I feel like this kid's brain and hair have been growing by leaps and bounds of late. He signed "please" a few times this week and will pat his head on command. Sniff. So proud! Another first, my husband's co-worker Patrick, fed him his first taste of ice cream (thanks for ruining my kid's life, man), but he actually wasn't thrilled about it. I'm sure if we'd given him another chance... He's got too much of his mama in him to stay away from sugar for long! Aaaaand he also got his first bruise this week! Right over his cute baby eye. I won't linger here as the person who is under the impression that she's responsible for his dive from a foot stool, feels terrible... The first of very very many, I'm sure! </div>
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Si Guy got his <i>seventh</i> tooth this week! He's like a little baby piranha. Maybe he's trying to make up for his lack of crawling by producing teeth like a champ...</div>
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Si visited the beach for the first time this week. Big fan of sand. And tiny shovels. He wasn't really dressed to get wet, so we'll save the water for next time. Something to look forward to, my man.</div>
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Silas celebrated his 42 Weekiversary at my bestie's home in Fort Riley, Kansas. Her husband recently graduated from law school here in Birmingham and was stationed at Fort Riley this spring. We could just pause here and discuss the gigantic gaping hole this has caused in my life, buuut we should probably move along. We surprised Jamie's socks right off by showing up on her doorstep a few weeks ago. Anthony returned home after a few days (somebody's gotta bring home the bacon around here!) while Silas and I stayed for over a week. Good times were had. </div>
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This week Si started a teensy bit of army crawling (how appropriate), but still would rather just hang out...totally fine with me. Immobility = fewer head-long tumbles down stairs and fewer fingers stuck in electrical outlets.</div>
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We're falling a bit behind in getting these pictures posted! Busy having a fantastically wonderful summer...lots of travel and things of that nature. I've got the pictures, though, so I'll be sure to catch you up! This week's picture was taken at our good friends John and Ashli Bontrager's home in St. Louis, Missouri. Of course, I bought an adorable 4th of July-esque fabric for this week, but forgot to bring it on our trip. Ah well...a pack n play pad works.<br />
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Silas welcomed his fifth and sixth teeth this week - on the bottom. I'm thankful he's such an easy-going teether. I don't really know they're coming until I see them! He wears a Baltic Amber teething necklace and uses Hyland's natural teething tablets, but who knows...they may do nothing. Except make me feel better ;)</div>
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Sweet Home Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18175804978855151884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092453423247454066.post-12195186557764326482013-07-08T11:44:00.000-05:002013-07-08T11:45:51.874-05:00GestationiversaryThe only thing I truly enjoyed about being past the 40 week mark with Silas, was the look of horror on people's faces when I answered their question of "When are you due?". Pretty highly enjoyable. They usually kinda backed up a little when I answered...I guess so my baby wouldn't drop out and land on their new shoes. But hey. I'd be tempted to do the same if I ran into a woman who looked like this.<br />
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Large and in charge, y'all (I'm on my way to the hospital at this point...)</div>
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So here's my little sweet face after I grew him for 40 weeks and 6 days.</div>
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And here he is having been out and about for 40 weeks and 6 days.<br />
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He's been doing this for a few weeks now, but it's worth telling you, that almost every time I pick Si up, he gets extremely pleased and pats my shoulder. I mean really. Pats it. With his little chubby hand. That's definitely my favorite new thing he's doing these days. He's also pretty great at clapping and feeding himself blueberries. Sooo...there's that.<br />
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On Tuesday this kid turned 39 weeks and 9 months on the same day. Mind boggling. He's been around almost as long as I was pregnant with him (and that seemed like a veeeery long time). This is how he looked at 39 weeks while still inside:</div>
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