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Saturday, June 22, 2013

we {heart} daddy!

For Father's Day this year, we gave Jeff an ice cream maker!

Now let me just say that I didn't come up with this on my own (I wish). We were shopping in Sam's one day and we saw them. Jeff took a closer look at one of them and then as we were stepping away, he said, "I want that for Father's Day!"

:: cue the file upload into my "gifts for Jeff" folder in my brain ::

He is kinda hard to buy for unless you have gobs of money or you're a computer geek.

Or a woodworker.

So anytime I hear him say "I want that" and it's reasonably priced, he's pretty much getting "that" at the next occasion to celebrate him (birthday, Christmas, etc.).

Hence, the ice cream maker purchase made just a few days before Father's Day.

So I wasn't even gonna try to wrap that big 'ole box and keep it somewhere secret. Instead I decided to hide (read: camouflage) it in this junky closet we have. It wasn't hard to cover it up after I found a large enough space for it.

And then we had a scavenger hunt to find it!

We gave him his card which had the first clue inside. Then he was off!

Since we gave it to him, we've made 4 batches of ice cream! We're getting our money's worth out of that "reasonably priced" gift. :)

But no matter what the price, no matter what the gift, Jeff is totally worth every penny! He is such a good daddy to our boy. Deacon and I both love him to pieces! Happy Father's Day, Daddy!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

7 weeks already!

Deacon is now 7 weeks old. He's growing so fast and changing so much, though I can still see my little newborn munchkin when I look at him. :)

We are enjoying him so much. We take random photos of him ALL the time, we love and kiss on him ALL the time, we talk to him and try to make him smile (we've both been able to do that a time or two by now and it just thrills us to no end -- I wish you could've seen Jeff's face the first time he was able to make him smile. :).

He's growing so much, gaining weight as he should and feeling heavier each time we pick him up. We think he's probably up to 11 lbs by now. He's filling out his clothes and has actually grown out of his short-sleeve newborn size onesies (at 5 weeks ). He's also in size 1 diapers now. Not that the newborn diapers don't fit anymore, but more so that they don't hold what he fills them with. If you know what I mean. *eyebrows raised* Yeah.

Ahem -- but going back to the smiling thing...he really started smiling "on demand", if you will, around 5 weeks old. The smiles were sparse but we saw them when we'd talk to him, etc. Then the next week, at about 6 weeks, he really started smiling and sort of laughing/gurgling at me when I would put him on the changing table to change his diaper. He seems to be his happiest in the mornings after he's eaten and it just melts my ever-lovin' heart to see him smile and laugh at me. He's cute anyway, but when he breaks into those grins -- YA'LL. He.is.DANG.cute. :)

We had a parent/child dedication on Sunday, Dec 12, at our church and we participated as a family in that special ceremony. They called us up on stage with about 10 other families (5 of which were friends of ours :) and gave us a sweet dedication certificate and a little New Testament Bible for Deacon. Then our children's pastor gave a charge to the parents and read from Deuteronomy --

You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land... 11:18-21 (ESV)

Amen.

He prayed for all the parents, that God would give them wisdom and knowledge to raise their children in all His ways and that their chidlren would never remember a day that they didn't love the Lord.

Amen, I said.

Deacon did wonderfully through the ceremony, sleeping mostly through the whole thing. That was just fine with us. :) And he looked adorable in his little vest and corduroy pants with his little shoes & socks! Our sweet friend, Stephanie took photos for us so we'd have them to remember this special day in the life of our little family. Thanks so much, Steph!

We got our first family Christmas card mailed out just a few days ago. We had a friend in our neighborhood come up and take some family photos for us. I was going to try to set the self-timer on our camera just like I usually do for our Christmas card photo, but with an infant, you kinda just need to snap away in hopes that one of them will look okay. My brilliant husband pointed that out to me. Duh.

Anyways, Alissa did a great job getting some good shots for us. She is due with her first child, a girl, in April, so she enjoyed holding Deacon after the "photoshoot". Thanks, Alissa!

Here's what we ended up with: