Halfway to a Year

 

Some highlights from the last six months:

*Javi smiling at me for the first time on Christmas Eve

*Traveling to Florida, New Jersey, Canada and New York City with an infant.

*Marveling at the beautiful blue eyes our baby has. 

*Watching how much Javi loves his daddy. He wakes himself up every morning just to see Lover before he goes to work. 

*All the little sounds and noises he makes, and how he cracks himself up with them.

*People's reaction when they ask how old he is... some variation of "he's so... healthy!" because of his size.

*His open mouthed, slobbery "kisses", offered to any girl he finds pretty. 

Bear and Chair

 The first gift that we received when we found out we were having a baby was from my brother and sister in law. They gave us a tiny wooden rocking chair with a toddler sized teddy bear all decked out in a bib and a giant bow. It was awesome! Here's a pic that I pilfered from Steph's facebook page where she was working on the chair. 

Cant wait until Javi is big enough to discover this chair and sit in it all by himself! 

I knew I wanted to do monthly pictures of Javi after he was born, and I decided that taking a picture of him next to the bear would be a fun way to see how big and fast he would grow. So I got his first one at one week old, cuddled up next to the big old bear. 

Isn't he precious? I love how sweet and tiny he was, and how he is totally dwarfed by the big ol' bear. Cutie patootie.