Recently...

The past few weeks have been filled with smiles, the beginning stages of laughing, cooing, discovering hands and feet, and the cutest faces I've ever seen. And of course I've been documenting it all ... on my iPhone. So the images may not be great, but even though we just bought a really nice camera to take pictures of our sweet boy, my phone is the handiest thing I have. It's great for capturing images when Barrett is in his element.

The pictures below are some of my favorite moments from the past couple of weeks. He's growing so fast!

The two pictures on the left are from our morning playtimes. Barrett is in the best mood in the morning. It's our best playtime. The picture on the right is from a walk we took. Not sure how much he was loving the hat.

This is one of my favorites. Barrett was having a fussy day, but I did get some play time out of him. I also captured a video of it.

If you listen really close, you can hear him laugh. So sweet.

Mommy and Barrett. Starting the brainwashing early!

I love that I get to look at this sweet face everyday.

And this is how we end our days. Matt worked so hard to teach Barrett when bedtime is, and little man did not go down without a fight! But now that he's figured it out, I'm the one who puts him to bed. It really is the sweetest part of my day. Matt gives Barrett a bath, I feed him, read a book, swaddle him, then give him a bottle (we've done it his whole life ~ why change it if it's working?) And he passes out. Because of his reflux, we still have to keep him upright for a little while after he finishes eating, but I have no doubt that he would go right to sleep if I laid him in his crib as soon as he finished his bottle.

He's also a pretty good sleeper. Even if he wakes up more than usual to eat, he always goes right back to sleep. And then we start all over with new adventures in the morning.