Jun 042011

precious…

About a week ago, I ran to our room to grab something quickly (leaving Jay alone in the family room) and when I returned the house was super-duper quiet.  This usually means that my little Jay Bird is up to no good so I braced myself for what I would find.  This is what I saw…

So, so  glad that my camera was sitting right there on the counter!

    Apr 082011

    reading

    Our little guy loves, loves, loves to climb in your lap and read a book.   Some days we read the same book over and over again and some days he will pull every book we own off of the shelf and have you read them all.  Either way I don’t mind- it’s great cuddle time and honestly the only time he sits still anymore…

    I got these photos of him curled up with his blanket and book a few weeks ago, not sure why it’s taken me so long to share them.  He’s precious, just precious…

    I also managed to take a few of us reading together, this is what my lap looks like so frequently…

    books, babies(or big boys), blankets and the occasional kitty...

    The blanket in the above photos is his baby blanket that I finally finished just shortly after Jay’s first birthday (better late than never) and I thought that it might be nice to grab a few photos of him with the blanket.  Ha!  Who was I kidding?   This kiddo is not going to sit still for that any more…

    remember how I said he never sits still...

      Jan 112011

      christmas catch up…

      We took so many pictures over the holidays and I have been steadily trying to play catch up.  I have finally sorted through all of our holiday ones so here they are…

      Sit back, relax and stay awhile :-)

      Jay and Mommy playing ball with Piper

      Daddy and Jay playing four square (they made a good team) at the Holly/Holly Birthday party

      YAHA playing four square- one of my two favorites from the game pics

      a Mimi victory dance- my other favorite

      Mary Playing a solo at the annual Sing-a-long

      I can't remember what song this was- maybe Josh would?

      Aunt Nancy getting the Sing-a-long quilt, it was beautiful

      Christmas Eve- the bows were so much fun!

      beautiful tree- spoiled family

      Santa came- Jay must have been good this year!

      proof that Santa was here- reindeer tracks in our family room!

      Christmas morning

      playing with his new pull toy

      Perreault Family picture- 2010

      Jay's first Christmas walk around

      the parade...

      dancing to holiday tunes with YAHA and Mary Beth

      Scott and Frannie

      Daddy with a sleepy boy after his nap

      Grandmom and Jay opening presents

      unwrapping time!

      annual holiday picture

      annual goofy picture of Scott and Frannie (or at least annual for Scott)

      Grandmom and Jay by the tree

      trying to get a group shot

      a little better this time

        Dec 122010

        projects…

        With the holidays right around the corner I have a ton of projects going on throughout the house- really it’s a wonder I find anything I need on my dining room table these days.  I love, love, love making (and getting) homemade gifts; they are so much fun, in my opinion!  I can’t wait until after Christmas so I can show off a few of them to you all.  But until then, check out the what we brought to the party for Leyton yesterday…

        I wanted to make Leyton an Airplane coloring book since he loved to color so much the last time I was there and he can't seem to get enough of airplanes- I'd show the front but it wasn't super exciting

        pages for the airplane coloring book- aren't they cute planes?! I thought they were adorable; Wally's my favorite :-)

        An airplane t-shirt to match the incredibly cute and creative party invitations. The party was an airplane theme party and Nan made the invites look like boarding passes. She's good isn't she?

          Oct 192010

          sunday fun day

          If you thought Saturday looked like fun you should be jealous of our Sunday.  To top off our weekend, Jamie, Jay and I spent the majority of our day at Mimi and Pepere’s house hanging out with Aunt Nicole, doing a little bit of swinging, watching Jeremiah cook and filling our bellies with the most delicious food!  Did I mention that Jeremiah is a chef?  Well he is and he’s a darn good one; I think all of us could have been rolled straight from the table to bed that night!  It was such a wonderful (food coma inducing) day filled with family and laughter, and seriously, nothing tops that!

          Yesterday, after going through the half gazillion pictures I took (a lot of which were food pictures- btw, I am more of a people-picture-taker than a food photographer but it was fun to try something new) I played around with aperture for a while.  Enjoy a storyboard of sorts from our Sunday…

            Sep 292010

            wordless wednesday (kinda)

            **Update: Since I have been asked multiple times if these pictures were staged I wanted to say that they weren’t.  I took these a few weeks or so ago prior to Mimi sending me a few of Jamie around Jay’s age and couldn’t get over the similarities between the four pictures.

              Aug 252010

              the library

              Yesterday Jay and I packed up in the morning before his first nap (this was either going to work out really well or turn out horribly for me- I chose to believe the first option and went with it) and headed to the library for story time.  Turns out that story time doesn’t start until next week however we enjoyed our time anyway.  There were two other little kids, both at least a year older than Jay, who were running around playing and he couldn’t keep his eyes off of them.  He watched them so intently only occasionally pausing to look at a few pages of a book that I was holding.  While we were there we filled our bag with a handful of stories for the week, got some information about story time, read a few of stories, watched some kids play and then I headed home with a tired little boy in tow… Definitely would say it was a success and the two hour plus nap that Jay took when we got home was an added bonus!

              The only “complaint” I have and I really hesitate to even call it that, is that there were so many picture books I didn’t know where to start!  Any suggestions here would be more than welcomed :-)

              yes, those are Bill Peet books- he loves them and his Daddy is so happy about that