A New Look

It has been six months since my last hair cut but it looks like Little Man is going to be on the 4 week track. When he woke up this morning his 'fro was so puffy that if I had painted his face white he could have passed for a clown. With a fresh haircut and a new (sort of) wardrobe, compliments of the JBF Consignment Sale, Little Man is ready for spring!

Over the past month, we have been working on enclosing our back porch and tomorrow they are going to take advantage of the nice weather and raise the back wall. It is slow going when you pay out of pocket but I'll post some before and after pictures as soon as we are done. Should be fun!

By Popular Demand

By request of my lil' sis and her friend...

Highlights

It has been a busy few weeks...not because we've done anything out of the ordinary but because Little Man is changing more and more every day and we can hardly keep up! One of my good friends recently had a new baby and being around them just makes it so much more obvious that Little Man is no longer a baby...he is a little boy! Where does the time go?

Here are some of the highlights from the past couple of weeks:

Little Man is feeding himself with a spoon....he really can scoop the food by himself too but it was past his bedtime and mommy wasn't very patient. My favorite part is that he says, "thank you" every time I hand him a new spoonful....wonder how long that will last?

Now that Little Man will get on and off the bed without us telling him to go feet first, he has started sleeping in his big boy bed all the time. So far he hasn't even tried to get up at night but there were a couple of naps that ended with him sneaking out of his room.

As if.....

As if working out isn't hard enough.....

1st Haircut

Little Man just got his first haircut! Ms. Anita specializes in cutting curly hair has been cutting my hair for more than a decade so when she offered to give his first haircut, I jumped at the opportunity. Little Man sat perfectly still through the trip until time to take a picture with Ms. Anita and threw quite the fit (it was almost naptime). Ms. Anita did a wonderful job of preserving all of those precious curls while trying to trim it so he no longer looks like Bozo the Clown.

Donuts with Dad

This morning Little Man's Mother's Day Out program had their annual Donuts with Dad celebration. It was so neat to see all of the daddies, grandpas and even uncles that attended and my girlfriend and I got a kick out of the number of confused/overwhelmed looks on some of the dad's faces as they tended to their kiddos and their breakfast without the help of mom. I'm not saying dads are incompetant, it was just obvious that some were more comfortable than others. I was so glad that Trav's job affords him so much time at home to take care of Little Man. What fun!!!!

Woof! Woof!

We are finally back to normal in the Block household; Little Man is over all of the crud and Trav is taking horomones that should have him back to normal in no time. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for Trav and following up on his progress.

This afternoon I arrived home and found that Little Man's Pop had finished his custom-made doghouse bed and installed it in his new room to surprise us all! The bed looks so great that Pop is considering selling some beds on the internet so if you know anyone who would be interested let me know!

Thirteen months seems waaaay too soon to move Little Man into a big boy bed, we know, but for the past few weeks he has been pulling himself up on the siderail of the crib and then balancing his head, shoulders and stomach over the edge. The crib is a the lowest setting, the bar is all the way up and there is nothing in his crib that he can use to stand on to get up on the bar so we have no idea how he is doing it but it is dangerous enough that we'd rather him fall from a short bed than from a crib. Pop is still building the railing for the bed (to keep him from rolling off of the bed) and Nana is making him a puppy dog quilt but it won't be long before we are moving him into his "big boy" room.

This weekend Little Man's Grandma Block is coming in to town to spend some time with him. Grandpa Block bought her tickets to visit Little Man every other month for the entire year! Trav and I are excited because we get to go on a date Saturday night while Grandma Block babysits - woo hoo!!

P.S. My dad is considering designing a few custom bed models for sale and I'm trying to help him think of theme ideas (castle, doll house, boat, etc.) If you have any ideas let me know!