The other day I put my little pom pom makers to work for the first time and added a bit of homemade love to a few of the gifts under our tree. If you still make pom poms the old fashioned way, please look into these. They are inexpensive and SO much quicker/easier. I love the difference these little guys made. ;)

Isaac: 9 months

My baby boy turned NINE MONTHS OLD last thursday. He has changed quite a bit over the past month and is such a big boy now. He seems to understand things on a completely different level now. Isaac is so funny & keeps us laughing constantly.
He has started to walk across the house with this little walker that scares the life out of me since we have hard wood floors.

My sweet boy has two tiny bottom teeth, and four teeth ready to emerge on top!
He is crazy about food and wants to eat everything he sees.
He also had his first taste of dog food this month and really enjoyed it. He is constantly trying to sneak his way back to the dog food bowls.
He also has a little obsession with buttons & loves pulling up on the entertainment center to push every single one in sight!
Isaac's vocabulary now consists of mama & dada. The other day we got him to say bye-bye a couple of times before Matt left for work, but he hasn't said it since.

(Isaac eating my Avocado lunch the other day) 

This is such an exciting month for us since it will be my baby's first Christmas! He may end up being more interested in eating the wrapping paper than playing with his gifts, but I still can't wait to wake my sweet boy up Christmas morning and gather around the tree as a family.
Teaching Isaac about giving is something really important to us. Although he won't understand it for a while, we have planned to start making donations to different organizations throughout each year. I really look forward to the years that he is able to help me shop for and donate gifts to other children, drop off handmade kiddo blankets, bake cookies to donate, and other precious things that will always stick with him.

We have Isaac's 9 month checkup on Thursday and I'm so excited to see how my big boy is doing. I will add those updates after the appointment ;)

Isaac and Santa

My son isn't exactly keen on being held by many strangers, especially men, so as we sat in the 2 hour Santa line I fully expected his first Christmas picture with Santa to be a total melt down. I think he was just so tried by the time we made it to Santa, that he didn't really care at that point. We couldn't get a smile out of him, but regardless, he wasn't screaming for his mama or dada.

I've always thought pictures with Santa were a little weird, waiting in lines and paying high prices to have a quick snapshot of your child with some random old man... but as a parent I feel drawn into these silly traditions now. And I have to say it will be pretty exciting to compare the pictures each year! 

So here is my sweet boy in his first cheesy Christmas picture with Santa!