11 Months...Can it be?!

It is absolutely crazy that Blake is 11 months old! Time has honestly flown by. This month Blake has become quite the cruiser. He pulls himself up on anything he can reach and has even been caught standing on his own a couple times. He is obsessed with books, the outdoors, balls, peaches, and blueberries. He got his SEVENTH tooth (whew) and is able to talk in a string of dadada's. He has developed such a silly personality. He will often do something and then look back at us laughing waiting for us to laugh with him. He loves blowing raspberries with his lips and moving his tongue back and forth. He is getting to be so much fun bringing lots of joy and laughter to the Kubalewski household.

It is so crazy to think we will be celebrating his first birthday next month!!! I. Am. In. Denial.

Where does the time go?!

Ahhh! It has been forever since I've updated Blake's blog! So much has happened since my last 9 month post. For starters Blake turned 10 months (and is almost 11...crazy!). I've been racking my brain to think about the new things he was doing at ten months and of course I can hardly remember! I know he was growling a lot more, pulling himself up, cruising along anything he can reach, waving (at ten months he was waving only to papa....so sweet), eating finger foods, meeting his cousins, and flying on planes.

All of my pictures are on my old computer so here are some candid shots I've taken recently. Enjoy!

 Blake's new obsession is books! He immediately drops what he is doing and comes to sit in your lap if you have a book in your hands.

Finger Food!

Finger painting a Valentine for his dad. This was an...interesting experience but Blake is starting to get the hang of it and is getting much better!

Playing outside is another one of Blake's favorite things to do.

Ha ha! He is so fun to play with!

Love him! :)

9 Months

Wheew, where does the time go?! It is so hard to believe that Blake is 9 months old! We have loved watching him show more of his personality and he has recently changed our lives forever with a little 8 letter word I like to call CRAWLING! He is all over the place! What happened to my sweet boy who was so content just sitting in my arms or in the same spot of a room playing with toys?! The second I set him down (if he'll let me) he is off making our lives very interesting. When he isn't crawling he is making us hold his hands as he walks us around every room in our house. Oh the joys of parenting!

 Blowing raspberries as he crawls...crazy kid!

 A rare still moment...

 That didn't last long.

Again it is getting so hard to remember what he does each month (and to take his monthly pictures!), but at 9 months he is crawling, blowing raspberries (he does this for so long that he ends up cracking up when he is finished), growling, walking when we hold his hands, singing, ma ma ma-ing when he is upset, and da da da-ing when he is happy, eating puffs, and weighing 20.8 lbs at 27 1/4 inches long (50-75th percentile for weight....and 25th percentile for height. Poor little guy!). 

First Christmas

Although Blake couldn't have cared less about Christmas morning, it was still fun to wake up and open presents with him. We didn't get him much but what he did get he seems to love. Tom and I can't wait for him to be old enough to get excited about Christmas but until then I'll leave you with some pictures of our quiet relaxing Christmas.

 Although I am a firm believer that you can never start kids too early on deodorant, this was not one of his Christmas gifts!

 I'm sure there will be many more of these pictures in years to come.

 Blake literally held on for his dear little life the whole ride!

 It was a perfect 1st Christmas as a family of three.

Oh Christmas Tree

Too cute not to share, I love Christmas time!

I need to work on my settings so Blake doesn't come out blurry, but I still think that these turned out cute blurry and all.

Savannah

Tom and I celebrated our 5th anniversary this year with a quick trip to Savannah. It was awesome! When we first arrived we took a trolley tour so we could get an idea of what places we would want to go back and see. Blake loved it (until everyone on the trolley acted like a pirate, that moment ended with tears).

We learned this weekend that vacation with an infant is not really a vacation at all! We had early nights, early mornings, and we were subjected to his sleeping patterns throughout the day. But overall he was such a trooper and let us walk around and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Savannah.

Eating breakfast at Goosefeathers.

 I just can't handle his cuteness...

 We even saw Santa. Pretty sure this is as close as Blake will get to him this year!

 Taking a break.

 Picnic at the park, where all Blake wanted to do was eat grass! While we were here a random lady with ugly dogs came up to us and the dogs proceeded to lick Blake in the mouth while he was eating lunch....naturally I cringed inside.

 Of course Tom had to take a picture in Chippewa Square where Forest Gump sat on the bench. You can tell they definitely edited the scene!

Don't they look alike?!

 It was a perfect way to spend our anniversary! I love the new memories that are being made at this point in my life.