Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

Aaron crawled for the first time on July 15th when he was 9 1/2 months old. It was in my room at home and he first crawled to get Sammy's hair pick. He then crawled over to me. It was a crazy moment and I was so proud of him and glad I got to see it. Sammy was literally five minutes away from home when it happened.  Since then he's had fun crawling all over. Whether that's at grandma and grandpa's house, the library, or church.  Every night when we get him undressed for his nap he crawls all the way from his room over to the bathtub.  My favorite is when he crawls to follow me when I go to get a drink of water or something like that. It's so cute!  What's not cute is how much I have to inspect the floors everywhere we go now to make sure there's not something that he's going to try and eat there. We've already had a few times where I've had to dig out whatever random scrap of paper he found and stuffed in his mouth. 

Our neighbor got a new puppy and watching Aaron play with him is seriously the cutest thing ever. Remi never lets Aaron pet her, but the puppy does and he absolutely loves it. Once, the puppy ran into my house when I came back home so him and Aaron played for a bit. Aaron offered to take him for a ride with my car keys.

Aaron is now big enough to sit in the shopping cart and it is freaking adorable.   He had so much fun looking around at everything and banging on the cart. People didn't stare at me as much when I talked to him and asked for his opinions. I have no cell service in Target so I can never ask Sammy what he thinks about things so it's just me and my bestie Aaron.  We found some really awesome shower curtains on clearance. I found this awesome gold one and decided to put it in Aaron's bathroom so guests don't have to look at all his bath toys when they come to visit.  Then I found two fabric curtains that were $25 for only $4. One was pink splotches and the other was this toucan. I let Aaron pick and he picked the toucan each time so here it is. I like it, except for the fact that the eye stares at me in the middle of the night and creeps me out.  I love my little shopping body and I love that I can put things in the cart now that his carseat isn't...

We were going to church and it was a supposed to be a bit chilly and I couldn't find any matching socks for Aaron. I did find these handmade booties that our neighbor gave us and his feet finally fit in them so we had some fun.  He kept kicking them off but he was so cute!

I don't know if I would classify it as an official haircut, but I had to do something about Aaron's hair. I've been putting it off because I see all the pictures of baby's getting their hair cut and then they look SO MUCH OLDER afterwards and I'm not ready for that. Maybe after his first birthday, but I'm not sure. Plus, there are so many baby's out there that have no hair at all so I didn't want to get rid of his! Aaron kept waking up in the morning looking like this, so it was time to do something.   I put him in his high chair with some teething biscuits and did what I could as fast as I could. As long as he was eating, he was fine.  That was the after. Then my mom buzzed behind his ears and gave me some tips on how to cut it better next time. When I'm ready for that, we'll get there. 

They built a new bowling alley near us and Aaron and I went with my family. It was a ton of fun! Between the four of us, we were able to all take turns bowling, eating, and playing games while also entertaining Aaron.  My mom was a beast at bowling and had a score double of all ours. The second game Aaron needed to eat so my brother bowled on my turns and his and did way better when he was bowling as me.   We won Aaron this bouncy ball with all of our tickets. We also got a bag of M&M's and split it between us all, ending up with four each.   We had pizza and fries and Aaron stole a bite of a fry from me. He chewed it up just fine! Also I love this outfit so much, I want him to wear overalls all the time.  I love the classic arcade games so much!  This is my son.  I love him.   My bother had to crouch quite a bit for this picture since he's almost a foot taller than me. 

Aaron has been to the zoo twice in his short life. We have a sweet friend who brings us with her on her zoo pass. The first time we went it was a bit cold and Aaron's stroller faced me so he wasn't able to really see any of the animals. This second time we went I was excited for him to actually see the animals. Aaron however didn't really care. He rides in this stroller quite often but he's never sat like this before. He refused to hold his head up so I tried to prop it with a blanket.  He just sat there like that through most of the zoo. I tried to get him to look at animals and took him out a few times, but all he would look at was his little friend we were with. The only animal he actually looked at were the bats because they flutter around so quickly.  Aaron had lunch by the gorillas and I had some much needed friend time. After eating I peeked at Aaron in his stroller and found this little sweetheart. I'd been a little stressed because we were going to...