Big Pumpkin

Mr. Blue Eyes is eating me out of house and home! This kid is five months old and typically out eats his almost three-year-old sister most nights. I mix his diner daily thinking, "There is no way he is going to eat all this." Oh, but he does and more usually. Not to mention, he's keeping this milk machine working on overdrive.

The real eye opener has been how fast we are going though his clothes. I was given a ton of hand-me-down boy clothes. I spent hours sorting though all the glorious gifts, handpicking items by size and season and carefully arranging them in his dressers. I was so relieved to know I would probably not have to buy anything for the first year of this little boy's life.

By my careful calculations we should be smack dab in the middle of his 6M late summer/fall wardrobe.

Reality - he is five months old and fits perfectly in a 9M anything and could quite possibly pull off some 12M items.

It's time for an intervention!

I am having heart palpitations now thinking about High School - Lord help us if he plays football!

Handy Man thinks spending over $100 a week at the store on groceries (food, household items, even diapers included) is ridiculous, even for a family of four. It is high time he gets ready for reality. We are now parents of a growing boy. Time to get out the checkbook my friend.

Forget saving for college...

Forget saving for our retirement...

Time for a second job...

We have eighteen years ahead of us... just hand over the debit card now! (think it's too late to get stocks in Walmart?)

I was saving this cute little shirt for Halloween and maybe again for Thanksgiving. It is the first week of October. He had to wear the shirt yesterday because after this week I am pretty sure we won't get it even over his head again!