(Baby) Party in the USA!

Judging by the mess, I'd say Henry's first birthday party was a success. I'm tired and relieved AND overwhelmed by the fact that my little baby is growing up. I know, he turned one almost a week ago but I think I've been so busy planning everything that I just now have the down time to realize that time is escaping me and there is nothing I can do to stop it.

I'll post more pictures tomorrow. Until then, I'd like to leave new moms or moms to be with a little piece of valuable advice I learned today:

SLOW DOWN.

Seriously. Especially when you're preparing for the huge ONE year. Don't waste your time focusing on silly details like party decorations or snacks for your friends because honestly? at the end of the big day, all you're going to remember is how awesome your baby looked with blue icing smeared up his nose and the fact that your life is pretty damn good.

As cheeseball as it sounds, eat up every precious moment, breathe in every baby scent, and focus on every quiet time you two share because these are the memories that really last forever and time moves us forward faster than we'd often like it to.

A ONE YEAR Video for Henry

Happy Birthday Little Bear! I can't believe you are already ONE, where has the time gone? Seriously! You make us so happy and we love you more than anything.

One Year of Henry from allie on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday Henry!

Well, almost. Tomorrow my baby will be one. One! This time last year I was starting on some wretched Pitocin and having my water broken. CRAZY. His big day lines up perfectly with my day off and we've got some serious frozen yogurt eating, mama-baby napping, and balloon hunting planned. Henry loves balloons and we're going to find the coolest one in all of Georgia tomorrow!

Happy birthday my sweet baby!

What's Up, Chuck?

The thing about babies is the bigger they get, the bigger all their gross stuff gets.

This is what it's really like to be a mom some days. Showering an extra time to wash off the crusted puke that's cemented to your skin and washing an extra load of laundry because your bra cups are filled to the brim with vomit BUT still aching to cuddle your little, miserable sicky until they are fast asleep.

Poor sick Henry! Booooo!

HOTEL WEEKEND YEEEAH!

On Friday we decided we needed to escape for a couple of days and headed south to Florida last minute. Last weekend was....weird. Like, we had a ton of stuff to keep us occupied but we both just sat around in a complete funk, bored for the first time since Henry's birth. Garrison bought a new amp and needed to pick it up in Jacksonville anyway so we booked a hotel and just left everything for the weekend.

It was awesome spending time together as a family in a new environment with nothing better to do than swim in the pool and watch SO MUCH cable, eat tonnnns of junk (seriously guys. i ate HALF OF A PIZZA. wth?!), and just enjoy being lazy.

Family hotel awesome vacay = success!

could you take a second and vote for us? thanks!

Nannying Today...

Martin Luther King Jr.
a report by little f (age 3 1/2)

Some people were naughty to people and they were fighting. King said, "That's not nice! You have to be nice to people because if you be naughty to people then you will hurt them." King didn't want them to get hurt. He made people say, "We're not nice! We're not nice! We're not nice!" and he made some other people say, "We have to be nice! We have to be nice! We have to be nice!".

If some kids are the same and some are different then they might fight. We should play nice because if you be mean then you'll get hurt and when you be nice you won't get hurt.

THIS is blowing my mind right now.

Is it really possible to grow from this:

To this:

In less than eight months? Holy crap DJ Lance, babies ARE awesome!

vote!vote!yeaaah!

Henry Houdini

This is the kind of stuff Henry likes to pull when I'm not paying attention to him. Seriously, strapped in super tight for the ride home and ten minutes later he's all like, "Oh haaaay mom! Look at this wacky way of carseat riding!" I pulled over to flip him back around and he was seriously laughing in my face like an evil child until he tried to turn back around and realized that he couldn't because his arm was caught under the buckle.

Today's Fortune:
Go ahead, buy that car seat mirror you've been eying at Target!

Stuck hella. Henry thinks, "Hmmm, maybe this isn't so awesome after all?"

Henry's First Birthday

I really can't believe it's already been a year. Time totally speeds up when you have a baby, it's crazy. I'm in the process of getting his first party put together and holy overwhelming batman! Why'd I wait so long to even begin thinking about this? His birthday is next Wednesday and I have done nothing NOTHING but make his invites (pictured above). And they aren't even printed or sent out yet.

While I was still pregnant with Henry I'd daydream about his first birthday party. A lot. Like, I had a handful of themes set aside with decorations and homemade appetizers and awesome playlists all planned out perfectly in my head. HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA! Now that I actually have a baby, I'm realizing that these ideas were pretty unrealistic. I mean, I barely have time to pee these days let alone put together a picture perfect party that only we will remember.

So, for Henry's first birthday we're laying low. I still have a theme, but it's an easy cheater theme (nautical) and we're only inviting a small handful of friends (okay, everyone we know. but that's still a "small handful"...we need friendz! pathetic!) We'll have homemade cupcakes and some of Henry's favorite snacks and mayyybe some goody bags for the kids, if I feel like it. The amount of stress this has removed from my days makes the whole thing enjoyable and fun. And isn't that what a party is all about? Fun?

He Makes a Mean Omelette

Henry Wilder Marr, Kitchen King.