Thoughts in the Kitchen

Okay so I have spent a ridiculous amount of time in the kitchen this week and my thoughts go wandering while I work….so I have a few topics to blog about. Topics have been sparse lately.

#1 Michael and Naomi, you are in Kauai right now and I am horribly jealous! I have been praying for your trip and hope it is AWESOME.

#2 thinking about Michael and Naomi’s vacation got me to thinking about something that was shared at a baby shower devotional last weekend. We spend so much time planning our vacations and how we will maximize every bit of time. Do we do the same when we think about how we will teach our children about the Lord? Do we deliberate and plan how we will teach them about Christ and how to maximize every bit of time we have with them? YIKES….good stuff huh?

#3 our church recently hosted a Ladies Day Away with guest speaker Susan Hunt. Some more good stuff. I have one main goal from that day, to not forget to live out the gospel in my marriage. I think that is something way to easy for me to forget…there is no dichotomy between home life and outside home life.

I really liked Susan Hunt, she reminded me of my momma! =)

#4 Mothers Day, Scott brought me breakfast in bed and surprised me with, nope not a mommy mug, but a beautiful pearl necklace (Liam’s birthstone). It was very strange being celebrated on Mother’s Day, made me feel old.

#5 Liam milestones….

He has decided that he doesn’t need me or Scott to feed him anymore, he can do it all by himself. As a result mealtimes are much longer and much messier. Does he ever get mad if we try to feed him with a spoon! YIKES. Anyhow, I have stopped making “baby food” he eats everything we eat now. We shared a burrito the other day and he loves subway sandwiches =) Strangely enough, paper is pretty high up there on the list of his favorite foods. He ate halfway through my grocery list the other day before I caught the little booger!

I decided to start cutting back on nursing so I don’t feed him during the day anymore. = ( And I started him on whole milk we are on day 3 of whole milk. I have to guard the whole milk though, Scott tries to sneak it! GROSS….I tried some the other day….are heavy cream and whole milk the same thing?

I am VERY ticklish on my neck...Liam had me pinned the other day!

Me and my sweetness!

This is what Liam thinks of baby gates =)

Real Quick....

Yes Bibi, Nana, and Great-Grandma.....I know your dying to hear all about Liam.

Well I think the "Little Man from Upstairs" moved into his room. We lost all our pacifiers so last week was Liam's first week without and he did really well. Well...this week Scott went in to get him out of his crib and BEHOLD he had a pacifier in his mouth! Who put that in there huh? THEN....this morning he had a random stuffed monkey in his crib with him....Scott says he didn't put it in there and I know I didn't so how did he get a monkey as big as he is in there? STRANGE! ...and this concludes Paranoid thoughts with Amanda.

Lets see...oh Liam can now stand for a few seconds on his own....very exciting. He is babbling away, and he is just so stinking sweet it almost breaks my heart! This is my first mother's day, I am pretty sure I am getting a mug seeing as Scott randomly turned to me the other day and said, "Hey where can I get one of those Mom mugs?"

Happy Boy

My makeshift baby gates =)