I found these sweaters at Childrens Place the other day for $5!!! I couldn't pass them up!! Kallen just loves his uncle Jacob.

Snow!!

I am a little late in getting these on but here are some pictures of last weeks storm! I just LOVE big storms!! I am not sure why...maybe it's just the excitment of it all or because it means extra family time. I think most of my excitement is because I feel like storms give us a small glimpse of God's power. Perfect white crystals that glisten in the sun, then dance and swirl in the wind, only to land in beautiful formations. It is just amazing!!

Baby Food

One of the decisions I made while I was pregnant was that I was going to at least try to make most of Kallen's baby food. I experimented and made a couple batches in the beginning, then got lazy and bought a whole bunch, but last week I decided to go back to my original plan. The reason why should probably be because of nutritional value, but anyone who knows me knows that it is not really my personality to look up all the little facts about what vitamins and nutrients are in different foods. Honestly, I was just getting really sick of constantly running to the store to get more baby food. So I spent the last two days trying to keep Kallen busy with other things so that I could whip up a bunch of food for him. Here is the website I referred to: http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/

Last year for christmas I asked for a food processor- anticipating that I would one day be making baby food. I had no idea how much I would really use it. I throw almost everything in here and it comes out instant food for Kallen!!

Here is what my refrigerator looked like by the end of the day. I only have 2 freezer trays so these containers are just waiting to be frozen.

I found these trays at Babies R Us. Each section is 1 ounce so it makes it super easy to just pop out a cube and warm it up!

Here are the bags of "delicious" food just waiting to be eaten! :P

Foods I made this weekend:
Sweet Potatoes
Apples
Pears
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Blueberries
Spaghetti Squash
Carrots
Pears

8 Months

Ok, I slacked off last month so I wanted to make sure and get an 8 month update on here! I am absolutely LOVING this stage- it is probably my favorite so far! (although it is keeping me extremely busy- you can't take your eyes off of this little boy for one minute or he is into trouble or putting something in his mouth) Here is what Kallen has been up to:

- Weighs in at 17.4 lbs

-Crawls all over the house

-Has one tooth on the bottom and

one more just breaking through next to it

-Is completely weaned

-Sleeps through the night....FINALLY

- Loves banging on things (drummer maybe?)

- Has moved up to his "big boy carseat"

You know it's time to lower the bed when....

.....when you hear a ruckus, and check the video monitor to see your baby standing up grabbing for the camera. We rushed upstairs to find Kallen sitting there, camera in hand, with the biggest smile of accomplishment on his face. He was seriously so proud of himself! Needless to say, we lowered the bed. :)

And it all begins....

Well, it was inevitable

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I was just hoping he would know the word "NO" before it came. I guess I know what I will be busy doing for the next several days....or weeks...or months. :P It's ok though, I love it that Kallen is exploring things!! It is soo fun to watch him study different items and put it all together. I can only imagine what this world looks like through those sweet little eyes!

I will say that Daddy would be proud to see what movie Kallen chose!

And he's off...

Kallen has been working on crawling for a while now...so we have just been waiting for him to put it all together. It has finally happened and I am now realizing there's no turning back. Gone are the days where I can just set him down with a toy and know that he'll be right where I put him. Oh boy, here we go!!