Year of Tate: Day 8

January 8, 2014

Eating lunch off the floor because (1) I'm washing the seat of his highchair and (2) let's be honest...all of his food ends up on the floor anyway.

And I realize that half of these Year of Tate posts involve eating.  Eating takes up about half of our day so I guess it makes sense.

Also, he enjoys wearing one shoe lately...no idea.

My New Obsession

I have heard of Dirty Diet Coke for a while now but haven't tried it until recently.  Oh my word.  So obsessed right now. I just do Dirty Coke though because diet is disgusting and we all need a little more sugar in our diets especially right after we all make resolutions to lose weight and eat better.  (side note: Dirty Coke is a horrible name.  I need a new name for it but I'm too lazy and just going to stay with it for now.)

What has made the obsession even more intense?  I recently found that the gas station has coconut syrup.  Oh man.  I really need to just buy myself some of this delicious syrup but I'd probably have 24 dirty cokes in one day and need to go buy more syrup...or I'd just die after a diabetic coma.  One of the two.

I think Coke should make a Coconut Lime Coke except I know it would be horrible just like "Cherry" Coke made with syrup is not nearly as good as regular Cherry Coke.  But what if it's not? 

Dear Coca Cola,
I would totally be the taste tester and help you get it just right.
Love,
Ash H.

End of rambling and back to my baby.

Year of Tate: Day 7

January 7, 2014

 First time eating curry and he loved it.

Year of Tate: Day 6

January 6, 2014

You had one job, Tate.  Take a good picture.

 Devin's NIMA graduation.

Year of Tate: Day 5

January 5, 2014

First ice cream cone at Grandma's birthday.

 This ice cream cone was also all he ate for "dinner."  Dang you, Grandma and 3 molars coming in!

Year of Tate: Day 4

January 4, 2014

Tate's first haircut...with no before picture

Year of Tate: Day 3

January 3, 2014

 Tate playing his favorite game...Dump All the Things Out!

In addition to the Year of Tate post I'm also going to write things I've said this week that I thought would never come out of my mouth.

"Stop planking and just stand up!"
"We don't play with plungers."

Year of Tate: Day 2

January 2, 2014

Tate loves pulling all my clothes of their hangers.  Today he discovered that he can move the clothes aside and hide behind them.  This was followed quickly by pulling as many clothes of their hangers as he could grab.

Year of Tate: Day 1

I'm horrible at blogging.  It's just not a top priority and also I'm pretty sure my husband is the only one who still reads this thing...whatever.

With the new year I'm going to try a new blogging endeavor....I'm calling it A Year of Tate.  My thinking behind this is that it will make me take at least one picture a day and it will be fun to look back on how he changes.

So, here we go.

A Year of Tate: January 1, 2014

Tate insists that he feed himself yogurt now.  He gets about half of the yogurt in his mouth.

Halloween 2013

We went all out for Halloween this year.  By "all out" I mean Husband and I dressed up...and I didn't even have a classroom Halloween party to dress up for.

Baby H. and I went to Husbands work for their party.  Baby H. doesn't get Halloween yet.  He was just happy to be walking around and seeing other people.

After the party, we headed to my mom's to show off our costumes and eat some soup.  By the time we finally thought about getting a picture, Baby H. was not in the mood.

I have about 45 like this one but this is the only one that was mostly in focus.

Picking up Baby H. resulted in only slightly better photos.

Anyway, Happy Halloween from Mary Poppins, one of the penguins from Jolly Holiday and Bert.

Fall Family Photos

My sister-in-law, Rachel, and her husband, Michael, took our family photos a few weeks ago.  I may be weird but I really like getting family photos.  I like picking outfits, trying to make myself as pretty as possible without looking like I tried too hard.  But mostly I like having the photos and capturing that one moment in time.

Here are a few of my favorites.

All photos by Farner Photography.

Halloween Crafts

I freaking love Halloween!  Favorite time of the year, hands down.  I made some new Halloween decorations with my Silhouette and I love how they turned out.

First, a Happy Halloween banner.  I used this shape to create the banner. I deleted the spider webs and spiders then used the cracked font to make the words.

And a close up.  I love glitter paper!

Next, the spiders and web banner.  Same shape used exactly how it was made.

I also layered some of the spiders and webs. 


And the final Halloween decor...Bats.  So freaking cute...or scary?

I feel like I need a lot more for the space but they're looking awesome.  I used this shape from the Silhouette store and I only used the bottom bat in the pair.

Fall Leaves

Baby H. and I went to my mom's and played in the leaves today.  Baby H. doesn't really know what you're supposed to do with leaves.  He spent most of his time just walking around the yard and completely ignoring me and the fun I was having with the leaves.  Geesh! Maybe next fall we'll have a little more fun.

This is the only picture that looks like he knows he's supposed to play and have fun in leaves.  He didn't really.  This picture is a fluke.

Putting him in the leaves caused a bit of a melt down.

Pumpkin Patchin'

We went to a pumpkin patch today.  Baby H. was more excited about the helicopters that kept flying over the field.

When did my baby grow up?

Once we got in the car though, he was very excited to hold the pumpkin in his lap.

And, pretty unrelated, these pajamas were mine almost 30 years ago.