July photo challenge: Week two

Something beautiful


Fun


Something I can't live without


Work


Texture


Starting the day


A Treasure

5 Months

Where has my little baby gone? Newborn Milo has been replaced with delicious chunks of baby fat, roly poly thighs and huge smiles.

Milo's favorite thing to do is hang out on the floor and grab things. The kid can get all over the room. It seems like he might be an early crawler with the way he rocks back and forth prepared to propel. He makes lots of squeals and babbles and it's pretty easy to get him to giggle. Collin loves to lay next to him (sometimes with a little too vigor for Milo) and usually gets lots of smiles in response.

Milo is in the first stage of learning by mouth. He gets very excited and reaches for anything he can and immediately tries to eat it. One more month and we'll get to try solid food. By the way he reaches for food while we eat, I imagine he's going to like it.

July photo challenge: Week one

I'm doing a photo-a-day challenge (different theme every day) with a Facebook group of "momtographer" friends. It's inspiring and fun to see what others come up with and to think of different ways to meet the challenges. Here's the first week:

Self Portrait


Heat/hot/fire


A work in progress


Independence


Colors


Vintage


Water

Happy Birthday America

Summer finally decided to show up and luckily the 4th of July was clear and sunny. We had delicious food and celebrated with family on our deck. We're trying to take advantage of eating outside before we move. Chances are whatever house we find will not have a deck as awesome as what Mike built.





At dusk we started our fireworks display courtesy of Mary Ann and Jon. Collin's favorite are the sparklers. 



Then the real show began at nightfall. Our neighborhood suddenly turned into Afghanistan with professional looking illegal fireworks lighting up the sky. We watched our drunken neighbors across the street relive the show, "Jackass" while they shot Roman Candles at each other. Hmm some stuff I won't miss about this neighborhood.

It was a pretty awesome free fireworks show. We also watched from the "Pirate Deck" that Mike built adjoined to Collin's room, for the best view.

Finally, we ended the night with the grand finale firework that Papa brought. For a legal firework, it was pretty awesome. It lasted more than a minute with an impressive fountain of colors and sparks that blasted up into the sky. It was pretty surprising that it was actually legal. After that we resumed with watching some more of the neighborhood fireworks show. By 1030, Collin proclaimed he was tired and crawled into bed and fell right to sleep.