Insta-Friday!

What's this?! Three weeks in a row where I have been linking up with Jeannett at Life Rearranged for Insta-Friday! This is a new record :)

Quick summary - The following pretty much shows my week in pictures. Nearly all of my pictures include Grayson! Makes sense because my days and nights revolve around him! What a privilege it is to be responsible for him - we really enjoy being parents - and being home with him has been hard, trying, fun and wonderful all at the same time.

The other night while Mike was working OT and Grayson was napping, I decided to go through some bins in the basement. I came across this...a card from some flowers Mike sent me years ago. How romantic, right? ;)


Due to a broken water main (the second one in two months), we were under a boil alert.
Made bottle washing interesting

Grayson loves his play mat! He spends time here nearly everyday. And you can see that we have run out of  clothes that fit him, so now he is wearing things that are too big. 

We were housebound for several days this week -
I had an ear infection, and Grayson was under the weather from his 2 month vaccines.
Once we were feeling better, I needed to get out of the house,
 so I bundled him up and took him across the street to the Subway.
He cried the entire time. 

When I first saw this bib, I thought it said - Mommy's a chomp-a-saurus. :)  I was like, "What does that mean?!"
Until Mike pointed out that I really needed to actually read it.
Such a happy baby!

Sleepy.

Of all the places to sit on the couch, Daisy decided to sleep on the arm. What a weirdo. 






life rearranged



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