we had a great little outing the other day with my friend stacy and her little boy adam. we took the boys to the children's museum at the gateway mall. adam was old enough to love it all and asher did really well too. first we spent some time in the area for little kids and he had fun, but he really liked being with the big kids. there was also an area that had hundreds of balls to play with that both the boys really liked. we are so lucky to be able to do fun things like this with such great friends. what sweet little boys!
he just likes to do what the big kids do.
i bet he doesn't even know that he looks like a shrimp when he is with them :)
of course he liked the ribbon best.
justin and i really only got asher one gift, the busy ball popper. we knew that he was going to like the wrapping paper and boxes better then anything that we could give him (not to mention grandma's, grandpa's, aunt's and uncle's generosity) so we were just going to have fun with that stuff this year, but i kept thinking that he would really like this ball toy, so when we saw it on sale we got it for him. this picture is right after justin helped him unwrap it and right before justin turned it on and asher was so scared that faster then i could blink he was climbing onto my lap. really funny!
our power was out for a whole day a while ago due to a car that crashed into a power pole (ouch...) so we all got to wear our hats and mittens to bed... and pretty much all day.
well, i have some major blogging catch-up to do, and i think i will start with sharing one of the many benefits of being a member of my family. it's lisa. she's fantastic. super creative, ultra caring and an out-of-this-world cook.
well, i put all the month birthday face pictures into the frame. there are seven months so far. more then half a year! i had been putting this off for a while now because i was telling myself that if i didn't see them all together then he wasn't really getting that old, and that his first year isn't on the downward slope. but, denial is useless...so here we are. i have loved the last seven and a half months and try so hard to live each day with asher fully present in the now. not wishing for the future or longing for the past. he is such a wonderful gift and i am thankful (whether i'm tired or fully rested) for every moment that i get to spend with him!!
aunt olivia was the first person that asher gave "kisses" to, and she is still the only one that he will always kiss when she asks.
well, the sock saga was a success! asher has been wearing his sock/mitten pajamas for a week or so now (more frequent laundry for me...) and his little fingers are SO MUCH BETTER!! other than the first night with a few extra wake ups (...he just made some noise and went back to sleep) it hasn't even been a bump in our road. he still sucks them during the day, but not nearly as much and this just gives them so much time to heal at night. eventually i think we'll be able to leave the socks where they belong!
oh, my heart is aching! i feel like such a mean mommy. asher's comfort is to suck on two of his fingers, but he does this so much that it has caused them to become terribly chapped and it's starting to cause problems with his little fingernails too. i've worried about this since the beginning and tried to give him other forms of comfort instead. we've tried the traditional pacifier and finally found one that he tolerates, but spits out as soon as i put him in his bed. we always have his special blanket that he likes to rub on his face, and recently i found a puppy dog
that feels a lot like his special blanket and he really likes that too.
