My boy is 2!

Two years ago today

If someone were to ask what song I would dedicate to my son it would be "Baby Baby" by Amy Grant. Supposedly the inspiration for this late 80's pop hit came from a six-week old baby, however when the video came out Grant was singing and dancing with a hunky dude, much to the dismay of her Christian fanbase. Its still a "baby" baby song to me. And its exactly how I feel about my little boy, and how I've felt since the day he was born!

Baby, baby

I'm taken with the notion

To love you with the sweetest of devotion

Baby, baby

My tender love will flow from

The bluest sky to the deepest ocean

Stop for a minute

Baby I'm so glad you're mine, yeah

You're mine

Baby, baby

The stars are shining for you

And just like me I'm sure that they adore you

Baby, baby

Go walking through the forest

The birds above a' singing you a chorus

Stop for a minute

Baby they're so glad you're mine, oh yeah

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby I realize that there's just no getting over you

Baby, baby

In any kind of weather

I'm here for you always and forever

Baby, baby

No muscle man could sever

My love for you is true and it will never

Stop for a minute

Baby I'm so glad you're mine

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby I realize that there's just no getting over you

And ever since the day you put my heart in motion

Baby I realize that there's just no getting over you

screenshot of the Tiny Prints birthday card I made for him.
photo taken by my brother this past weekend

Easter

We had a delightful Easter weekend that included:

 

quintessential Holy Week movies like The Passion of the Christ and  

The Ten Commandments
egg hunts

candy (a little too much if you ask me),
chocolate-covered strawberries, 
yummy food, 

a rush to Easter mass in the morning rain (without an umbrella!),
lovely tulips,
laughter (mostly at babyCam and his latest antics)
and 

family

 

I'll post pictures later, but for now here's one of Cameron and his cousins getting ready for their Easter egg hunt:

 

 

What is Truth?

 

So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" 

John 18:37-38

D.C. Cherry Blossoms

The Cherry Blossom Trees are peaking right now in Washington, D.C.. I wish I we were there to see them in full bloom, as it is a lovely sight. We were there at this time last year but the blooms had not yet peaked on the day we ventured out with the crowds to the Tidal Basin. They ended up peaking about four days later before we flew back home, but we couldn't make it out to the city again. Here are some pictures taken by my brother from our visit to the 2010 Sakura Matsuri or Cherry Blossom Festival:

my family in the middle of the National Mall during the Kite Festival 

my niece getting her kite up

my mom

us with Cam who was 10 months old at the time

it was pretty cold, can you tell?

Sat Night: Cookies & H5O

Babybops fell asleep early on Saturday --- he was out for the night by 7:30pm. With the hubby at work and a whole evening ahead of me I decided to clean out the pantry and came across this box of vanilla with a recipe for chocolate chip cookies:

I just happened to have a  bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips on hand along with all the other ingredients so I got to work on some cookies from scratch.

It takes me a while longer than expected when I bake cookies because I can't accommodate both cookie sheets in the oven at the same time. Also I only have one sad little wire rack, sad because its not really a wire rack but the toaster oven rack that I use as a cooling rack.

And to create more manual labor for myself, I stirred the chocolate chips in by hand because the electric stand mixer started bouncing like like construction truck when I added them in to the mix while beating at a slow speed. I know, such an amateur. So after nearly two hours I ended up with 36 of these:

And with this kicker: I gave up sweets and desserts for lent.

Exhausted from baking...I sat down to enjoy my favorite DVR show: Hawaii Five-O.

Yes, I admit I'm a fan. I love it. So judge me. I spent every weekday afternoon from 1-2 pm, cradling a sleeping newborn while watching re-runs of the original H5O on KDOC during the long hot summer of my maternity leave in 2009, craving a visit to the islands. I hoped to squeeze in a trip before going back to work. You can just imagine --- a vacation in Hawaii with a three-month-old. Cabin fever gave me crazy ideas. I was still nursing and or pumping every couple of hours but still thought it would be good for us all to "get out of our element." My friend put the kabosh on my plans with only a few words: "You're taking care of a newborn all day and all night at home, but if you go to Hawaii you'll be doing the same thing - in Hawaii."

Back to Saturday night and Hawaii Five-O. The original series was known to feature locals since it was filmed entirely on location in Oahu. The new series does a pretty good job of featuring Asian-American and Pacific Islander actors and extras, which is nice to see. I told my husband, "its an Asian show!" But when Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minillo guest starred in a recent episode the hubby was quick to point out that, "the show has already jumped the shark!" Sure, the dialogue can be hokey at times and as one reviewer noted about the new McGarrett, "no one talks like that." But the scenery sure is nice.

We didn't take that family vacation to Hawaii until Cam was 15 months old. And by that point, the year went by so fast I wish I could take it all back because it seemed like I blinked and my newborn was suddenly a toddler. When a new episode aired on a Monday night while we were in Maui the hubby said to me, "Now's your chance to watch Hawaii Five-O in Hawaii." I said to him, "Watching Hawaii Five-O is for when I can't be in Hawaii. I don't need to watch it when Hawaii is just outside on my balcony!"

Aloha! 

~ Sheree

Wordless Wednesday

Once in a Supermoon

The Supermoon --- I'm sure you at least caught a glimpse of it on Saturday night. As I saw it, it didn't seem much larger on Saturday evening as it did on Friday evening. I wish I had my camera on Friday when we were driving to the fish taco restaurant and my husband pointed out the huge moon in the clear sky that appeared to be resting on the trees. They say the last supermoon this large was 1993. I can't find anything that predicts when the next one will be, but I'm guessing it won't be for a long time. So I just wanted to photograph it because the date of the supermoon was also BabyCam's 22-month birthday. Yes, the big TWO is just around the corner.

My amateur photography skills make it look like any other moon, and the logistics behind getting a decent shot with both the moon and my toddler are...complicated. So I popped out the screen of an upstairs window and rested the camera on the sill to snap this. I'm bummed that it was shielded in a ghostly haze by the clouds that were slowly rolling in to bring us the last rain of winter and the first storm of spring:

While my shot is certainly not National Geographic worthy, at least I have photos to remind me that on BabyCam's 22-month birthday when he looked like this: 

A rare supermoon looked like this: