Kitchen Facials

Every once in a while, I'll give myself a good old kitchen facial.  A nice steam, scrub and mask.  Derek decided to join me this time

Doesn't my man look good in pink?

Getting his dad's dimple, I love it!

Regardless of where he starts in the crib, whenever I come back to check on him, his head, is always touching the bumper pad.  Still such a great sleeper though.

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O Christmas Tree

We got our Christmas tree up this last week, and my house smells GOOD!  Smith only notices there's a big tree in the room when I turn the lights on.  We tried to get some Christmas card-worthy pictures last night, and this is what we came away with.

And the rest of these are just for fun.

He's just learned to sit up on his own this week, and it's great!  He's looking so grown-up!

Our friends are letting us use their circle-of-fun baby toy and Smith loves it!  He loves to be standing up.

Blue eyes.

Peas are his favorite, can you tell?

A Costume-less Halloween

 As many of you may know, Halloween is NOT my holiday.  I'd much rather skip ahead and put my focus on more savory things, like Thanksgiving.  But, costume or not, we did take a couple of pictures before our Halloween-eve outings.

I also thought I'd just throw in some recent pictures of the star of our family.  Smith is doing really well these days.  He is getting so playful, which is a blast.  And he just talks, talks, talks, and I LOVE it!  Winter is well on it's way now though, so I'm trying to collect ideas of what to do with him this winter, so throw over ideas all you mothers who are reading this!

Notice his nice, healthy, pudge of a belly.

Whenver he gets really excited or happy, like this in this picture, his hand automatically flys straight to his mouth, without fail. 

Baby face is morphing into a little boy face!

Another view, as requested by Mykal and Judd!

Zombie Half Marathon

Last weekend, Derek ran a half-marathon.  A couple days beforehand, he decided he wanted to take Smith on his first race.  So we got him a warm outfit, and they were ready to go!  It was soooooo chilly.  I kept thinking Smith would get cold, but Derek said he was perfect the entire race.  And when I met them at the finish line, they only cold one was me.  Derek did really well (and he didn't even train!).  Mostly, he just liked being in a race again, he misses all his marathons. 

Pre-race shot.

Getting seriously bundled up.

Last 20 yards. 

I hope he can do some more next summer. Derek said he got lots of comments about getting passed by a stroller!