Grow.Make.Brew.Eat

OK we're exhausted. The house is kind of a mess. There are random cupcake sprinkles on the floor. But oh did we had a great time. The guest list was comprised of about 45+ family and friends. Yeah, that's a lot. We borrowed lots of tables and chairs from others and enlisted the help of my Mother in law, Peggy, and my Dad (my Mom was sick...bummer). Peggy came to our house on Friday to help prep. We prepared the fruit, veggies, Augie's cake and frosting (more on that later) and Peggy made an awesome door monster, that Andy named Dory. I drew some monsters on our entry way chalk board. Augie loves running his hands over the monsters and smearing the chalk. *Warning-LOTS of pictures ahead* Saturday arrived and we did some last minute prep. Decorations, streamers, balloons, googly eyes, etc. My Dad did a great job with the googly eyes. We had lots of great food. Monster cupcakes! We had tons of fun playing. ...

I can't believe it's happened. As of Wednesday, Augie is officially ONE! It's been a heck of a year. And honestly, it's flown by so fast.  Everyone says that they grow up quickly. I didn't really believe it, but now I do. My little guy is less fat and chubby infant, and is looking more and more like a thinned out, super active toddler each day. Augie a few days old Augie at a few months Augiepants at almost a year I look back at the last published blog post. It's from 7 months. The last 5 months have been a whirl wind and so much has happened that I literally have had no time to sit down and type. I feel somewhat sad about that, but I do have 2 unpublished posts which are lacking pictures that I can look back at. We also have about a thousand an a half pictures and videos that we have taken throughout this past year. Occasionally Andy & I sit down after Augie has gone to sleep, and we look at all the pics and videos. They make us smi...

This was supposed to be a 6 month post, which turned into a 6 and a half month post and well..here we are. Augie was officially 7 months old on August 16th! The past 7+ months have completely flown by. It's obvious by my lack of posting that we have been keeping busy with other things....mainly this guy- We've had some long, sleepless nights, but overall everything is running very smoothly in the Eikstadt household. Augie is growing by leaps and bounds and is healthy as can be. We had his 6 month well child visit with his pediatrician, and he weighed in at 16lbs 4 oz. He's definitely growing! Here is what the little man is up to these days: Sitting up for long periods of time without support Rolling from front to back and back to front and then again and again and again... Army crawling and recently doing "push ups", planks and getting ready to crawl (I'm estimating within the next 2 weeks) Sleeping on his belly! (Ok not all the time, but ...