10 months

okay so I got WAY behind on my blogging, but luckily I kept up on my pictures and I wrote stuff down, so I still have a record of the things Legend was doing from 9-10 months!

-you now have four teeth on top
-you are trying to pull yourself up to standing position on anything you can; Coffee table, tv stand, etc.  You figured it out very quickly!

-you are crawling all over the place and it's so cute the way you get around. You use one foot to push and the other leg is the knee that hits the floor.
-You wrinkle your nose, which we call your "cheeky" face

(look at all those teeth!)

-You have figured out how to pull open drawers and cupboards
-you sign "more" and "all done"
-You love to SCREAM everywhere we go. If we are at a grocery store and someone walks by, (especially a woman) you scream as loud as you can until they look at you.  Then once you have their attention, you give them the shoulder and your cheeky smile!
-You have figured out how to use a straw and love to drink water from your own sippy cup

-You have started to stand up in your stroller so now we have to buckle you in! You even wiggled yourself out the bottom a couple of times, much to your parent's embarrassment!  That cause quite the scene!

-You are a good eater and you are getting good at picking up food with your fingers. You LOVE strawberries!

- You are done wearing your helmet as of 43 weeks during the day, you only have to wear it during nights, naps and long car rides for one more month.  Your Dr was impressed at your head growth!

design on a dime!

Lately I have been looking and looking for some cute, vintage looking earrings that are "studs" but bigger.  I can't wear dangly earrings any more because Legend grabs them SO quickly and yanks them out of my ears. Ouch! So I though that studs would be a good solution. The problem was, I couldn't find any I liked!  The ones I did find were way too expensive or not quite what I was looking for, or way too small... So what did I do? Made my own!

I found some earring studs at the craft store, then went through a tin of all my Grandma Croxford's old buttons that I took along with some of her old fabric and supplies when she died.  I had a whole bunch I figured I'd never use that actually had a matching button, then also used some stuff I have bought in the past for crafts then didn't end up using.

These are some of the buttons that were in my Grandma's collection

and some of the things I've collected from other craft projects...

I used buttons that don't have holes, but have these hook things on the back

Then looked through Brian's tools and thought these would get the job done!

Then took off the back!

Then glued the earring backs on to the buttons! (I used hot glue but next time I'll probably use super glue, because they are pretty easy to pop off)

All the earrings I made! (it took me about 20 minutes not including the time I spent looking through the tin of buttons and my mess of craft leftovers.)  I should have been cleaning, but at least I was productive in SOME kind of way, right?

I'm planning to buy more of these white flower buttons (they cost $1.80 at Hobby Lobby) and spray paint them different colors so I have a variety to wear with different outfits!

From Grandma's collection...

Then, since they can't hang up with my dangly earrings, I cleaned out a baby food jar and put them all in there!  It will result in a little digging, but at least they are all in one place and easy to find!

Happy Easter!

We let Legend have a helmet-free head for church on Sunday and boy did he love it!  Legend is generally a pretty happy baby and it usually doesn't seem like his helmet bothers him, but he was ALL smiles for ALL of church for Easter.  Maybe it was the spirit overwhelming him, but somehow I think he just new how swag he looked and loved feeling a nice breeze on his head and showing off his long hair!  He has started doing this "cheeky" smile, as Brian and I call it, where he wrinkles up his nose, and it is SO cute! Here are some pictures from Easter Sunday!

 All ready for church!

so excited about the beautiful easter weather and his little basket of Easter eggs

(actually used for mommy's singing time in nursery)

Later in the evening we went to Nana and Grandpa's house to have birthday cake for Uncle Riley's bday.  We spent a lot of time outside watching Auntie's Graci and Makenna have a little candy hunt and I set Legend in this little chair. He thought it was SO cool and didn't try to get out for a good ten minutes... which is saying something for this little go-er!  I thought it was so funny he kept crossing his ankles and just chillin back in the chair! Now I know what to get him for camping this summer!

9 months old

Okay, this time I actually CAN believe Legend is another month old for a few reasons... one being that the month of March has gone by SO slow to me (possibly because I am SO looking forward to Spring Break), and because the little guy has made so many huge mile markers!  He is picking up on things so quickly!
Here are a few of the things I wrote down that he's done this month...

-You are constantly trying to stand up.  You pull yourself up on things (although you don't always make it in to a complete stand if you don't have a bar to hold on to).
-At the beginning of this month you couldn't quite figure out how to sit up after rolling around the floor everywhere and it would make you so frustrated, but by the end it just clicked and now I can't keep you still!
- You are getting around all over the place.  You aren't quite crawling but you are SO close. It's not stopping you from getting where you want though; you will find any way to get around.  Some of the time you roll, some of the time you scoot on your bum, and lately you have been laying on your back and kicking your feet to push yourself backwards! You are getting up on your knees and you can move them once or twice, but usually one of your feet will get in the way and you'll end up back in a sitting position.

- You are officially getting in to EVERYTHING!! You love to roll over to the book shelf where I keep all my piano music and pull everything out and apart.  You also love to get in to all the dvd's and cd's on the shelves. We've had to hide the wires around the TV as best as we could because you love to try to chew on them.

-You are getting so many teeth! You now have two on top and two on bottom, and they make you look so old!

-You've figured out how to open and close your hand in a waving motion, although you haven't quite figured out what to use it for. You usually do it if you want something or if you're just being silly.
-You are becoming so coordinated and can pick up little puff treats or pieces of food and get them to your mouth. At first you couldn't figure out how to let go but it didn't take long to get it down. You love your food!
-You will eat anything and everything that dad and I put in your mouth. The only thing I have ever seen you spit out or gag on was peas in a jar of baby food.... and I didn't blame you!
-You are sitting, and laying and rolling all around the bath tub and I just can't keep you still for a second. You love to play on your belly and lean over to try to drink the bath water!

- You always sleep on your side or your belly and end up with your legs sticking out between the slats in the crib.  I have tried a few times to take your blanket after you've fallen asleep, worried you might get tangled up in it, but it never fails that you wake up about an hour later wanting it back.

-You figured out how to suck through a straw and love to drink out of our drinks when we go to restaurants (You are only allowed to have water!)
-You have a new dog again and it doesn't even phase you when he knocks you over or comes right up in to your face. You seem to love all dogs (especially big dogs) and always try to grab is fur.
-You love to play peek a boo
-You've become a tiny bit shy and will sometimes hide you head on my shoulder if someone says hi, but you warm up quickly. If we are at the store and you're sitting in the cart you attract SO much attention and you seem to know you'll get a reaction if you flash those dimples and smile at all the ladies!
-You have enjoyed the warmer weather we're starting to have and love to sit in the grass. The problem is I can't seem to keep you from putting grass, leaves, dirt and sticks in your mouth!

-You are growing so fast I can't keep up with you! You wear size 18 clothes (even your 12 mo clothes are getting too small) and you are eating us out of house and home!

the ultimate disguise...

So, I like to think of myself as pretty fashion forward, and I'm usually pretty good with keeping an open mind when it comes to new trends.  I often find myself jumping on board with trends that people say, "Oh I could never pull that off...!" Or things that are a bit risky like chopping straight bangs or wearing big glasses when they are first coming in style.  When I can find the trend for cheap I'm usually pretty good at being able to say I wore it first or I had it before it was huge, (I like to think at least, I'm kind of tooting my own horn right now I guess), but today I saw a link to a jewelry website on a blog of one of my high school friends.  This girl was a dancer, pretty popular, very outgoing and always pretty fashion forward, but there was something on this website that made me literally laugh out loud. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE what I saw, but I really don'g think I could ever wear this, while keeping a straight face.   Can you imagine wearing your sunglasses to the fourth of july parade in kaysville, with a chained mustache attached?  Or just chillin, driving in your car with an Osama Beard on your face? ha ha.  Here's a look, just for fun.  I might have to invest in one of these just for the kicks, but even if they really do become a huge trend someday, I don't know if I'd seriously be on board with this one.  It's a bit too funny for me!  But HEY!  If I ever become famous and I need a disguise to avoid the paparazzi, I bet these would really help! They wouldn't attract ANY attention and I'd be sure to avoid any media attention from magazines.

http://littersf.com/collections/bear-cat/products/the-officer-1


http://littersf.com/collections/bear-cat/products/the-biker-1


http://littersf.com/collections/bear-cat/products/the-criminal-1


Have fun with those!

wish I were in dream land

I have never understood how people could have insomnia. Well, let me take that back, I understand how, obviously it isn't a choice, it just happens... I just couldn't imagine it.

Until the day my husband sold my dog.  I am so miserably sad that I can't sleep, and that is saying something. I can ALWAYS sleep.  I can always go to bed early, I literally look forward to bed time during the evenings, I can always take a nap, and you know how pregnant women often say towards the end of their pregnancies they just can't seem to fall asleep and they can't get comfortable? Ya... never had that problem.  I CAN be a night owl, but most often than not I just LOVE my sleep.  Even when I was pregnant and very uncomfortable, I could always find a good enough position to sleep, and during the day I can always take a snooze.  It's lovely. But not right now.  It is 3 am and I just can't fall back to sleep.  Initially I went to bed at 11 and fell asleep pretty easily, but then Brian came home from playing basketball and woke me up and now I can't get back to my dream land.  I just keep thinking of Mumford and how I am just sick with worry.  I think more than anything I am just mad.  You know when you have a really scary dream, and at the point in the dream that you realize you can't move or run, or you see the dead body or scary face or whatever, and you get those hot tingles all over your arms, your chest and your face?  I keep getting that, only I'm awake and I'm not having a nightmare. It's reality that is doing it to me!   (this is us tonight....)

I knew that we had to sell Mumford for the better for us all.  Brian and I have been having allergies, he's outside a lot, he is SO hard to bathe and keep clean and I just CAN'T keep up with his shedding AND keeping the house clean. But I am SO mad.  Brian promised me that we would let as many families as possible come and meet Mumford (we had about 25 people call about him), then the first guy who comes, BAM! Brian is pushing and pushing me to sell him to him... and for $100 less than we were asking! What the...
This guy is a very nice, LDS guy, but he is literally everything I DIDN'T want for Mumford; Which is why I am the most upset.  I wanted a family, lots of kids, close to Kaysville if possible, a stay at home mom that could be there with him most of the day, a fenced in yard for him to play in, and someone with experience with newfies so that he would have a slim chance of being sold again.  I wanted someone who knew what they were getting in to.  INSTEAD we got a single bachelor who shares a house with 3 roommates.  He has no fenced yard so I'm worried Mumford will be tied up while he's gone, (he has to work a job, right?) duh.  He's very active but I worry he thinks Mumford will be like a lab and just have never ending energy, which he won't.  He gets tired just walking the neighborhood, and he's only five months old!  This guy has no kids, not married, and what happens if he meets a girl, falls madly in love and she says, "It's me or the dog..." ??  What if he finds out he is allergic or has no idea what he's doing?  Not only does he have zero experience with newfoundlands, he has NO experience with dogs that I could tell. Period.  Brian kept saying he felt good about this, he is a great guy, but he just kept pushing and pushing every time I said I wasn't sure and now I just feel so sick to my stomach.  Even as I'm writing this I am getting those hot, nightmare tinglies up my arms and neck.  I should have put my foot down but sometimes I can be a push over I guess.
So, alas, here I am.  It is 3:15 in the morning, my eyes are tired but my brain won't shut off and I'm afraid it's going to be a while before it does.
I am very upset and frustrated. I NEVER berate my husband like this but that's just how mad I am right now. And he has no clue. I don't feel like he's even being very sensitive to the fact that I am just plain upset anyway because Mumford was my companion.  He doesn't understand what it's like for me to be home alone every evening.  Even if I keep myself busy, it just gets plain old lonely. There's not many options when you have a baby in bed by 7 to go anywhere and visit people, so that's where Mumford came in. It was nice to just have another living breathing thing around.  I'm not looking forward to having Brian go to work tomorrow. It's going to suck. period. I think Brian just never really attached to Mumford because he wouldn't PLAY with him due to his shedding, so he was just ready to give him to the first guy that showed him enough money, so he wouldn't have to worry about feeding him when I'm at work.  He didn't see his personality the way I did because mumford would spend the mornings outside while Brian was home, but inside with me when I was home.  He was the most amazing and well behaved puppy I've ever seen.  So mellow and so sweet with Legend.  I will miss him.
I am sad.