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June 15, 2009

Maddox is 9 months old!  Whee! I’m already starting to think about and plan the big 1 year birthday party. How fun! We will be at the County Fair that weekend, so that will be the theme. I’m so looking forward to introducing him to fair things - cows, pigs, sheep, and  food on a stick!

I found this site from the Design Mom blog. I love these knit blankets! There are also hoodies and dresses made from the same material, so cute!

I picked up this book recently. My interest is piqued. I’d love to do a simple baby quilt. First I’m going to make a bib and some coasters to get some practice.

The folks over at Purl Soho have some super cute fabric and their blog is full of great ideas!

As always Maddox is a growing boy. It is time again to start buying him another round of clothes, especially pants (he is finally starting to lengthen!). I just made a pretty good dent over at Childish Clothing. They have really cute punk rock stuff.

(And how cute are these boys?! I love the hair cut on the bottom right.)

Now that the weather has been better, we have been spending more time in the back yard. I’ve ripped up a big ugly bush/tree that was taking up valuable yard space and replaced it with a bed of shade plants. The area is a bit raised from ground level, so I had a carpenter build me a cute little retaining wall out of that fancy modern hardwood, Ipe. According to the history channel it’s fire rating is the same as concrete! I’ll post photos once I’ve finished putting in all the plants. This past weekend Dallas and I put in the 3 giant Hostas, but I have some smaller filler plants to install still. These sorts of projects get dragged out for a while when there is a kid involved.

Here he is sitting in his little bouncy chair by the lavender.

He has been getting increasingly more mobile. He is not crawling or pulling himself up yet, but he does somehow move around just by rolling and sitting and rolling and sitting. Every once in a while he’ll smack his head on the floor which makes mom freak out on the inside, but he handles it all in stride.

Eating is the current focus. I’d love to wean him sooner than later. I figure it is a long road ahead, so I’m going to start trying now. Baby steps. He eats 3 “solid” meals a day, and has for a while now. These meals make up a good amount of his total food intake. For breakfast today he had pureed blueberries with smooshed banana and multi-grain cereal. I tried to get him to eat the smooshed banana chunks with his fingers off the tray, but no go. He just pulled them off his tray and threw them on the floor then demanded real food. Ugh. Same thing happened when I offered him tofu pieces, and cereal soaked in milk. Moving on from purees is a whole other thing I realize.

Yesterday I introduced him to mango puree. He hated the first spoonful, but he always squishes his face at the first spoonful of anything (even the beloved apple). So I gave him a second spoonful - same reaction. Then he made a funny sound and Blegggha… He threw up all over himself, the highchair, and the floor. Guess mangos are a no-go. It hadn’t even occurred to me they would be offensive.

Maddox has been growing up so quickly. He is so fun to photograph these days - so animated and interactive.

The last couple weeks we have been hard at work on Project Upper Center Teeth (PUCT). Last Thursday the right fang came in. Then on Sunday, the right center tooth popped through - and today, after much crankiness, the left center popped through. To be honest, in the whole scheme of things, his “much crankiness” really wasn’t that bad, and most of it was directed at whatever he could fit in his mouth. Unfortunately he bit me 5 times today - so not fun. One time he was trying to chew on my tank top strap and got my shoulder by accident. I yelped loud enough that he let go immediately and gave me a look like he was about to cry (but he didn’t, and neither did i).

Here are some photos from this afternoon hanging out on the couch.

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Oh, and yeah, we got a new camera.  8-)

Just before Easter I saw this tutorial for making an adorable plush bunny out of recycled sweaters. I barely have enough time to maintain a happy baby and a clean home, but somehow I will make this guy (even if it takes me until next Easter!). I will make Maddox a plush toy. I will make Maddox a plush toy. I will make Maddox a plush toy.

This pattern for an owl plush toy uses old baby wipes packaging to make the toy crinkly. For some reason babies LOVE crinkly. If Maddox is having a fit, the only sure thing that will calm him is if I allow him to play with the wipes - crinkle, crinkle, crinkle! One of these days I’ll make a crinkly bunny!