Winter Wonderland

I believe the reason I haven't experienced the "Baby Blues" is because of Boise's incredible winter weather this year (& hopefully I'm not jinxing it). It's been so beautiful & sunny with very, very little snow (Hallelujah!) & it's almost December. We have made it out of the house every day for various events & taken walks almost daily as well. Inspired by the Christmas music I have had cranked in the house for weeks, life lately has truly been my "winter wonderland".

Life has changed dramatically from my busy schedule which included no couch-time to starting 6 different projects & having to drop them all to feed our little angel or dance with him to George Michael's Last Christmas.

Nights are getting much easier. Cashe is such a good eater (already well over 9 lbs) & has me up every 3 hours on the dot. We have our routine down now & he's usually back in (his own) bed after a feeding within 45 minutes (which was NOT the case for the first few weeks - he insisted on being held).

Aside from that, life is grand. Cashe certainly has his cranky times, as do most babies from what I understand. He fusses for no reason & one night, Shad & I had to let him cry himself to sleep. It only took 4 minutes, but until you experience it, you have no clue how hard it is to allow your child to cry & cry & cry (this is coming from a girl who thought she was going to be super strong & disciplined when it came to not allowing her child to run her life or rule the home!) We managed to make it through that 4 minutes & Cashe will also live to tell about it as well.

So besides this new addition that has most definitely consumed our thoughts, attention & love, not much is new ... visitors have come & gone & we look forward to a Christmas with lots of family. I have to prepare dinner on my own now (gasp!), which is actually a good thing I suppose - the remainder of these pregnancy pounds could use a jump start with fewer delicious temptations.

A few more pictures from over the past month to enjoy ...

We just woke up from naptime ... well, I did.

We're teaching him to hold his binky in all by himself. He's gettin' it.

My tiny chick magnet.

So tired from a walk around the neighborhood. I think this outfit is 3-6 mos & he has 2 or 3 layers underneath. Undoubtedly, the warmth puts him to sleep & he has no clue when he's outside.

Thanksgiving 2009
He would not move his hands to show off his "1st Thanksgiving" outfit.
(Doesn't he hold his hands like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers?? Does that make me a bad mom?!?)

His first bath in his big tub (& he hated it).

He was watching me put up Christmas decorations with the "kissing Hallmark bears". Something freaked him out - maybe it was me or the kissing bears?
This picture makes me laugh so hard.

More Christmas love.

Naptime with Dad.
(It really looks like Shad & I never change clothes, but I promise we do.)

We will be traveling much of the month of December (note to blog-stalking-robbers: we have an alarm on our home), so rather than drag out the Christmas tree, I put up a few Christmas decorations & decorated the Mirror From Heaven.

"... & the stockings were hung by the chimney with care."

... including Cashe's new stocking from cousins Dyl, Jadon, Kody, Kaylee & Colty. Thanks you guys. We love you.

Here's to an amazing holiday season!