Time Flies - It's Already Month 15!

Here we are again, another month has passed, another Mother's Day has gone by and it has almost been a full year since I have been back at work. Time flies!

I know I probably say this about every month, but this month was truly special: E started walking on May 8th (we love our little Frankenstein), he can do the motions from the "If You're Happy and You Know It" song and he is currently trying to master the "Itsy Bitsy Spider", he dances when his toys sing to him and he even tries to "cut" his own orange slices (its a mess, trust me). We also welcomed a new member of the family this month - Miss A. Congrats to Matthew and Emily. She is absolutely precious. I am so looking forward to watching A & E grow up together. Fingers crossed that I will get invited back to hold Miss A soon. Aww.....cousies.....love it!

As we get ready to go on our first vacation without him this weekend, it is fun looking back and seeing just how much our little man has grown in the past few months. Wow.

We love our little man.

The Official Month 15 Pictures and Stats:

We are raising a square...E is 30 1/2 inches tall (30% percentile) and weighs 25 pounds/3.4oz (80% percentile). It is almost official, at least for the past few months, that he hates the photoshoots, so this is the best we could do.

Come on, E, it's not that bad!

So, it would be nice to say that we have taken lots of trips and kept busy with a wide variety of activities, but not so much. At least not this month. Instead, it was lots of hanging out with our little guy. No complaints here...some shots below from our month of hanging out:

holding the umbrella for dad...

playing with coasters is lots of fun apparently...

it looks like E is finally playing with his pet snail toy...

he also likes to "help" with laundry...especially folding...

reading House Beautiful....just like mom

strollin...

playing outside (can't wait to get our new backyard!)...though E is mostly concerned with the sticks right now

doctor's visit

our attempt at reading with E...

eating is a fun adventure around the house these days...despite the inevitable mess (Goldie is a big fan), the high chair offers us some of the best photo ops for obvious reasons...

Last, but not least, Mother's Day 2013. 

We had a great time hanging out with family for brunch and then hanging out with E & J at home. Of course, we snuck in a quick trip to Target too. If nothing else, it proved to be a great source of photos. These expressions from E are classic.

Our attempt at family photos...at least Goldie was a good subject!

Love these boys...

Time for some E wrangling...what a great day. Thanks guys :)

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Happy Mother's Day and Finally, Month 14!

I know, I know...this post is horribly late. But, better late than never, right?

In honor of Mother's Day 2013, here's a re-cap of Month 14 from the Cohn house. I blame the great move of March 2013 for the lack of posts. But, alas, we survived and from our new house, here is Month 14!

Although Month 14 did not see any walking from Mr. E, he did start standing this month (March 26th) and sadly, got his first almost black eye (April 3rd). And, perhaps most importantly, E seems to have transitioned perfectly into his new house. Now, if we could only get his new room re-painted and decorated...

Mr. E loves his new house

The Official Month 14 Pictures and Stats:

24.2 pounds and 29.5 inches, we have a growing boy on our hands!!!

As the above 14 month photo shoot shows, E is getting to be a tricky subject. Thank goodness for Landria's great pics. Here are some of our favorites from his one year photo shoot, which we took at the end of E's 13th month. But, who's counting?

Needless to say, the big event of this month was our move. A huge thank you to the movers who not only moved us, but who also packed our stuff. Writing this almost two months later, it is still painful to look at all of those boxes...

Before:

During:

After:

Well, at least after most of the boxes on the top-two floors were unpacked...and some unobstructed views of the new backyard...

and from hanging out on our new back porch....once the boxes were gone...

Before I forget, here are the milestones of the month - 

standing and the first (almost) black eye... 

How fitting was it that E was wearing his Boy Genius shirt when he decided to stand up by himself for the first time!?!

Last, but not least, some photos from around the house. 

I love that E is already trying to wear dad's baseball hat....

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Happy 14 months, Mr. E:)