Clearly, Henry is a BOY

This past July, Bryan and I decided to plant about 7 "mini-trees" in the backyard. ( I say mini-trees, because that is what they are NOW. Hopefully they will be bigger in the next 2 years to provide some privacy to the backyard)


Anyway, we were in the process of planting the last three on Saturday morning. Henry was playing in the yard in his jammies... having a good time I might add. He had managed to eat some dirt, throw some rocks and chase a bunny.... In the mean time we were busy trying to get the trees planted. We turned around at one point and saw this:



(and yes that is his knee covered in mud... let me just say, his entire backside was dirty!)

Playing with the mud and rocks

Digging in the hole.

Thank goodness he hasn't started playing with bugs... I am not sure I can handle that. Seriously. I freak out when I see miller moths. My family can attest to this. I scream. No joke.

See what I have to look forward to... by next summer he will want me to hold worms and will be collecting rocks. Ahhh. Boys.

Just like Nana?

Everyone knows that Nana is a clean freak , obessesd with cleaning , hates dust , likes her house clean. Everyone also knows that Henry's momma is nothing like that....

Well it seems to be rubbing off on Henry (this is actually a swiffer 360, he wouldn't let go of it). He likes to help clean up. Here are a few examples:



When you ask him to clean his hands off- he brushes his hands together quickly to get rid of anything dirty on them.

When he is done eating, he sweeps his hands across his highchair top or table top to clear everything off (even if there is still food there)

If he spills something on the floor, on his shirt, or anywhere else, he tries to rub/brush it off.

It is so cute, he must be a boy after nana's heart :)

Haircut

Although not TECHNICALLY his first haircut (we did one in the bathtub before Easter- and we will most likely do another one this fall/winter where they cut ALL the hair) Henry did get a trim at a real barber the other day. (I say "real", it was one of those places where you can sit in cars or on motorcycles- it was a hit)


Here are a few photos. It hurt my heart a little, but all they did was trim the bangs and around the ears. They weren't allowed to touch the curls... just too sweet for me still.(Daddy says it looks like he has a mini-mullet. It SO does not)



He didn't cry and he sat still (kind of) the whole time. He did tell the lady who was cutting his hair "NO!" and pushed her hand away a couple of times, but being the big boy he is, we got though it.

Halloween Costumes

So, I am aware that it is only the middle of August, but today while shopping at BRU my mom and I found an adorable costume.

It is a green dinosaur- it has purple spikes on the tail and purple spots. The picture online doesn't do it any justice, and Henry will look much cutter than this kid....

courtesy of www.babiesrus.com

Hopefully this year Henry will not cry when we put the costume on, but don't count on it!

He will get lots of wear out of this I am sure- we have three sets of grandparents to celebrate with!