Happy Half-Birthday!

Owen turned 6 months yesterday! Can u believe it has already been 6 months?

To celebrate, our friend Courtney Navey and his wife Laura came over to take pictures of Owen and us as a family. We were so afraid of the threat of bad weather, but God is good and it was sunny enough to take pictures. The rain started almost immediately as we wrapped up. :) Courtney expects to have them edited this week so I'll post them as soon as I get them.

My parents also came over to give Owen a present. He got this cute little blow up penguin, which we call Chilly Willy. As you can see, he likes it a lot. They stayed for dinner and then we watched basketball of course.

Now that we hit the 6 month mark--it's time to start solid foods! We are using the Super Baby Food book as a reference for his eating. I am planning on making most of his baby food if I can. (I know there are some things I probably won't make and I don't agree with everything she says but I like the concept.) According to the book, the first foods he can have are avocado, bananas, and sweet potatoes. Since we were having a Mexican dinner, I decided avocado would be our first. As you can see, he wasn't too sure of it.

Before...ready and waiting...

The avocado made it in...not too sure what to make of it...
"Mom what is this stuff?"
I'm spitting it out...
Please don't make me eat it again!!
Haha!! Part of it may be my fault as I didn't have it pureed enough. We are going to continue with it and will introduce sweet potatoes on Tuesday.

We feel blessed to have our little man in our life. He has his 6 month checkup on Wed. so I'll post all of his stats and developments then.

Weeeeeeeeeeee

This past weekend my friend Kat and I went to work and shop at the KidsEverywear consignment sale in Morrisville. The sale is awesome! I got so much cute outfits for spring/summer for Owen. (Be on the lookout for pictures this summer!) Other than the clothes, I also got a swing for the backyard, a bathtub seat, a playtable, and a stroller toy. Luckily, the people who lived in the house before us already had the posts up for a swing so Sunday it only took 2 minutes to hang Owen's swing. You can tell from the pics below he really enjoys it. We are going to have fun this spring and summer in it!!

The Georges Visit

Yesterday we had some sweet visitors. Kim and I taught together for 2 years in Wake Forest. This past year she changed schools and is now teaching at a year round school. For the next 3 weeks, she and her girls are tracked out so they made a trip to Nashville to visit Owen and me.

Kim and Owen

Kim's daughters, Taylor and Sydney

Owen thought they were beautiful!

We enjoyed having them over! Come back and see us!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Reading blogs as finally paid off! Last Friday I registered for a free fabric giveway on Sew, Mama, Sew! and to my surprise I won! As a winner, I was allowed to pick a yard of fabric of my choice from their shop. I was way excited and spent an hour looking through fabric. Lately, I have stumbled upon Amy Butler fabrics and am in love. For my selection, I finally picked her Wildflowers Turquoise from her Daisy Chain collection.
I felt like it would make a fun spring bag or skirt.

Also last week a fellow sewer told me about a fabric store in my town that was going out of business. All the fabric was 40% off so I also picked up these other two fun fabrics. Now I need some project ideas. Any suggestions?

(PS. You'll recognize the title if you watch Dancing with the Stars. :))

Grammar lesson

While I don't claim to be a great grammarian, I do know a few things. As discussed before, I hate the misuse of apostrophes. (Evidently I'm not the only one!) Over the last week I have seen so many misuses that I want to scream. Therefore it is time for an apostrophe lesson!

Apostrophes are used to show possession like: Shannon's son Owen. It is not used to talk about a collective group of people like: the Piners. I have seen many people lately use an apostrophe to talk about their family, putting an apostrophe between the last letter of their name and the S. DON'T DO IT...IT IS NOT RIGHT!!

Ok sorry for that rant...it is just a pet peeve of mine!

Oh me oh my...

This is me today. I am low on sleep (thanks to my son's irregular sleep pattern last night) and have a million things to do here in the house before my inlaws come this weekend. How do I keep a 5 1/2 month entertained long enough to get it all done?

You would think I could get a lot done while Owen naps...ha! That's a joke. For some reason, the kid will NOT take a nap in his crib. I have tried to let him cry it out and 45 mins of screaming later...I couldn't take it and had to rock him to sleep. Too afraid to move, I just sat in the rocker reading a book while he slept. He will snooze on the boppy on the couch but he is getting too big for this, especially now that he can roll over. Any suggestions?

Owen gets into March Madness.

(Notice that he is sitting up all by himself!! The boppy was there for protection. )