who needs toys?

Who needs toys when you have laundry baskets..


wisks..

spatulas..

and cliff bars..


..??

I hope this means he is gonna be really good at laundry and cooking ;)

A mom can dream, right?

"Segatron"

Davin was given some pretty awesome toys a few weeks ago, and although he is too tiny to understand the use of this particular set... his Daddy sure got a kick out of 'em!

Allow me to introduce you to.....

SEGATRON!

Davin had it destroyed the next morning - I think it took him about 1.75minutes to see it, crawl over, and demolish it... sigh

'Tis life with a baby boy

pants on the head

Pants on the head.... its a fashion statement really. All the cool babies are doing it.


Am I am mean mom?

Oh no! I am totally that mom!

This is almost as bad as dressing up your pets...

A prayer for our children

Father, hear us, we are praying,
Hear the words our hearts are saying,
We are praying for our children.
Keep them from the powers of evil
From the secret, hidden peril,
From the whirlpool that would suck them,
From the treacherous quicksand pluck them,
Holy Father, save our children.
From the worldling's hollow gladness,
From the sting of faithless sadness,
Through life's troubled waters steer them,
Through life's bitter battle cheer them,Father, Father, be Thou near them.
Read the language of our longing,
Read the wordless pleadings thronging, Holy Father, for our children.
And wherever they may bide, lead them Home at eventide.

-Amy Carmichael

thanks to the Spirit of Adoption blog for posting this

Children are a heartiage from the Lord

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I am going to be honest right now. It wasn't that long ago that thought of kids was far from appealing. And given how the majority of this culture views children, I don't blame young couples for saying, "yikes! no way!"

There is just such a stamp of imprisonment that children have been given by pop culture that is hardly biblical.

I was just so freshly reminded of the blessing that my baby boy is when I read the words of Ps 127:

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! 

Children are a heritage. A reward. Blessings from the Lord..

How counter-cultural.

Sitting hear, listening to the coos my little one is making from his crib, as if he's saying, "hello, mommy... I am awake. I need you." or seeing that face that lights up in the morning when I peek over his crib, when I find him chewing on the bumper - he squirms with an excitement that squeals, "MOMMY! GOOD MORNING!" And when his eyes are heavy at nap time and I lay him down.. he cries in opposition and its so hard to walk out, leaving him - but knowing it is for his good that he be left. And watching him, everyday, develop more and more brings more joy than I could have ever thought possible. It makes me reflect and say, "How could I have ever despised this?"

Oh friends, I would encourage you to make a counter-cultural statement...

"One of the strongest statements you can make against a cultural of abortion or culture that just uses birth control to say, 'These kids are just in the way,'  is to go out of your way to add children to your life. Kids can show up unexpectedly and kids can show up by great effort. If you make a great effort to add a child  to your life, you are making an unbelievably counter-cultural statement in a world that just wants to used every means possible to get them out of the way and even when they are born get them out of the way so we can be about our lives..."  -John Piper

Friends, the road is selfless and not always easy but so much more amazing than anything... and I would really encourage you to dive in!

we must be related...

Davin is on the right and the left, and that is me in the middle - as a 6 month old (ish)

We must be related... right?

Do you think we look alike?

Anywho, my baby is 4 months old and growing like a weed... except much cuter than some ugly weed, and I have pictures to prove it! Lots of them in fact. 206 from the past 4 weeks to be exact. Yes, lets state the obvious... I am a new momma who happens to be an ex- high school photography student with a fashionable camera, who secretly wants to discover hidden photo taking creativity - that will actually only come from schooling - but still believes that it will miraculously appear so that I can open a photo studio and make the big bucks so that all profits could fund our adoption and a lot of other peoples' adoptions.... GOD CAN DO BIG THINGS, ALRIGHT?!?

But as for now, I have a doctors appointment very soon and still need a shower, need to wake the baby (gasp! yes, I do that sometimes), feed him, change him, and hit the road!

And we all know, I give myself a little to much credit sometimes and think I can do more in a small amount of time than I actually can..

ahem....

Story of my life!

Davin turns 3 months!

3 months old...

3 months!

Davin is 3 months old... I just can't believe it! I love him so much. Everyday gets better and better. I would highly recommend having a baby ;)
He is so good at holding himself up when in our arms now, no more jello spine and the bobble head is getting stronger. It is nice toting him around in one arm! (although he is getting so heavy, it's kinda hard to!)


We got his first laugh out of him last week, and I have been trying like crazy to get him to do it again ever since! But have failed, that booger won't laugh again! I know he wants to though, I see it in his eyes when he gives me the big smiles - he won't be able to hold back much longer... not with me making gorilla noises at him
(hey! whatever works!)


Davin does not, I repeat does not like the bottle being taken from his mouth mid-feeding.... no ma'm. He will cry like a baby (pun definitely intended) as if it's the last ounce of milk on earth.... Yet, for the most part he seems to be a bit more contained when we are in public (friends house, church, a restaurant). But you should see him at home! Except, the other day at Subway was an exception. He was definitely not holding back there. His face was WAY scrunched, I giggled. In fact, the guy behind us made a comment to his wife when Jonathan was burping our bawling baby.

"What an expressive baby.."

Sir, you have no idea...

:o) I actually still think he is the cutest thing, even when he cries like that... is this mean? I even giggle sometimes... I am so bad.

Davin has a million different faces, which is so evident when you roll through the hundreds of pictures I have taken. It is awesome. I think he will be good at impersonating people one day.

He chews on his clothes, pulling the very shirt on his body up to his mouth, which makes for very soggy clothing...

His eyes light up when he smiles, and the mirror is his best friend. If you wanna smile, stick the kid in front of a mirror.

Tummy time has gone from useless to a great success! He can only stand about 5 minutes of it before he cries like a baby (there is that pun again!) but he keeps his head up like a big boy, and squirms so bad - he'll be a speeding bullet when he starts crawling, yikes!

He is the bomb, sleeping from 7:45 til 5:30, then back down til 7:30 - I am definitely a fan of this.

All in all, I can't believe how much he has grown!

a bunch on B's

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baby burps belting, soundings like bombs in Baghdad..... that's whatcha get with a baby boy!

Okay, I will stop sounding like some sort of children's book or weirdo poem - but I am trying to be creative, alright?!

I am a busy, tired momma and I feel like I have lost my "bloggers edge"

j/k

j/k? really? is this am IM? ya know, instant message?

moving right along...

So back to the burping thing. I must admit, I love my my baby! He is great! So content, most of the time.... totally smiley. Really he only cries when he is tired and can't fall asleep or is hungry - and if I were a baby, I would cry about that stuff too!

But when it comes to burping time - GRAB THE EAR PLUGS because my baby is about to bangs on your ear drums!

I think it is because he feels the air bubble stuck, and that is not a fun feeling mixed with the fact that he has to stop mid-meal to be propped up on my lap and patted repeatedly on the back until this uncomfortable bubble of air coming belting out of him..... he seriously could join the high school band because it is like a trumpet sounding off.

The house rattles.

It comes booming out. I just can't believe that much air can be sucked in by a baby and held in that little belly.

Then again, he is 12 weeks old and eating 30-32oz A DAY!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a little piggy on our hands.

2 month old baby boy

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Well, technically I am 12 days late in posting this - but here is Davin at 2 months old!
Although he looks bald here, he is actually starting to get his hair back. So cute :)
He is cooing like crazy! It is so much fun, He sounds like he is having a conversation with me. I love it, but I do wish I had a translator... I think he might be saying some pretty interesting things in "Baby-ense"

At 8 weeks he started sleeping through the night consistently! - that is sleeping 7 hour stretches. And he has been having some random 10 or 11 hour stretches too! I really like those. But he is still on the road to figuring out the ALL NIGHT sleep :o) It will be awesome when he starts sleeping 12 hours and doing that every night! He is close!

At his 2 month appointment his pediatrician was shocked at how much he eats! (5ounces, 6 times a day!) 30 ounces, roughly, a day give or take- and 2 months old! We have a little piggy on our hands. She said that we might be starting him on rice cereal a lot sooner that usual.... ha! I don't even wanna think about what the grocery bill will be when he is a teenager!

The doc noticed that he likes to bare weight on his legs and try standing and said he might be an early crawler/walker..... I dunno if this is something to be excited about, hehe.... because that means he might be a mischievous little booger, and the sooner he is mobile - the sooner I will have to start seriously baby proofing!
Davin had his immunizations at that appointment too, and took them like a champ! Way to go little buddy.

Well, here are a few pictures from the last few weeks! I can't believe how much he is changing.








I love this baby to pieces!

like father like son

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Like father....Like son..


This is some serious hilarious cuteness

Little Drummer Boy

Our little drummer boy.



ha!

One month old baby boy of mine...

My Davin is 1 month old (and 2 days to be exact)! Did 4 weeks really just pass? At the same time... it's only been 4 weeks??

I feel like this will be the reoccurring phenomenon at every month that passes, then at every year that passes until one day I will find myself sitting at college graduation as he walks across and then at the front row of a church watching him get married, and then at the waiting room of a hospital as his first child is born.

Life seems so short when you look at it like this. I must not get ahead of myself! I sit everyday and find myself in one irresistible moment after another that I never want to let go of - I can already feel my heart grasping for it as it passes, knowing that life is so short! He is already 4 weeks old! My baby... my baby will not be a baby forever.

I am grasping!!

I don't want to let go of the precious moments where he lays his head on my chest and stays there - eyes open or eyes closed - he stays there. Cuddles. He smells so baby like.. so good.

But he is not mine to keep. He belongs to the Lord and I have simply been entrusted with this little life and blessed beyond all explainable words to cherish those cuddle moments. Not to mention his squawking, "talking", and cooing that have inhabited his wake times. He smiles so big and lets out an "AHHH OOOOooo squawk!" as if he is telling me something... telling me how goofy I look, making all the faces and talking so weird. Or maybe, "Oh momma, I love you"

One day...
But for now, I LOVE ME SOME SQUAWKING!

I can't get enough pictures. And I literally cannot post enough on here, it takes SO LONG! So find me on facebook... they are all there!
His facial expressions are absolutely the best.

Davin, this first month with you has been more precious than I could have ever imagined! The sleepless night have been worth it, pal! This whole mothering thing ain't easy, but the rewards are so sweet. We love you little buddy.