Mommy and Me... and Oh! The Things You'll Do Once You're a Parent

Today's picture is currently my favorite of Whit and myself. I saved it from my Easter post just for today, so it's a tad old, so sue me! But holy cow, that is a couple of good looking folks!

And by the way, I'm going to have to start a tag for all the weird shit I have to do now that I'm a parent. My latest conundrum: how do I go to a public bathroom with a stroller by myself... and there's a legit handicapped person in line. Thankfully she was totally sweet and sympathetic to the issue. She told me the stall next to the real handicapped one was a bigger than normal one. Au contraire! Btw, don't worry, this is the before, I'm-trying-to-figure-out-exactly-how-this-is-going-to-work picture.

Doesn't he look like, "Mom! Wtf, mate?!"

Mommy and Me... now in color!

Grabbed a quick picture after walking/jogging The Color Run Saturday morning. If you get an opportunity to participate in this 5k, get a bunch of friends and do it! It was a friend of mine, her three kids, Whit and myself all together and we had a great time. Basically it's a fun 5k, so it's not timed and there's no pressure to look like you know what you're doing. They were throwing free stuff at us at the starting line and every kilometer you reach there's a different color thrown at the runners. I don't know what the color is exactly, but they said it's similar to corn starch. Anyhoo, there's so much of it that it left huge plumes above the stations you could see in other parts of the city. We got to walk through the fun part of downtown Nashville and saw some pretty interesting places I didn't even know existed. Here's a few more of the few pictures I got with my seriously dusty phone:

Ahhh, all nice and clean.

The before. Just please ignore my looking so raggedy!

The batman building... and yellow!

The after. So many people told me how smart it was for bringing the rain shield. Ha, like I would have brought him without one!

He made it out mostly clean. He refused to keep his socks on, so his feet were blue.

The after-party at the finish line.

Oh my gosh, it was soooooo fun. I can't wait to do it again next year. I told Ben he has to come with us next time, even if he doesn't like running. It was really more like a leisurely walk with about a thousand other people and one unicorn. Oh yeah, their mascot is a unicorn they call the Runicorn. AH, love it! And Whit loved it too. He enjoyed the first half of the ride and the second half he squealed and babbled at everything. Then when I got him out for the after party he looked at me like I was a crazy woman he was ecstatic to see. I could just see him think "Mama! ... What is all that on your face?! ... I love it!"

Mommy and Me

I begged Ben to take a few pictures of me and Whit after getting home from story time since I actually looked nice (thank you skinny jeans that fit finally!). But Whit was insanely fascinated with my necklace, so all of them are some variation of this, ha! Guess I'll look into teething necklaces after all...

Mama

Today I was going to write a post sharing all these make-your-own toys ideas I've found and Whit's enjoyed, along with a few pics of him playing with said toys.

But forget that.

Last night, he said "mama".

Well, I'm pretty sure he did. I was eating supper and Whit was practicing his crawling technique when out of the blue I hear something that very well could have been "mama". I definitely heard the a's, but I'm not positive what was in front of them, but I'm going to say it was "mama" ;-)

Oh and let me tell you I melted into a puddle of tears and sappy, motherly love. I hugged him and tried to get him to say it again. All he would do is make the "m" shape with his mouth and his pterodactyl noise. It totally made this past week, with the whines, pooptastrophes, late nights, and Irish tempers, worth it.

sigh... "mama"!

And it makes today even sweeter! I had seen on someone's blog about a Mommy & Me link up at Everyday Love and wanted in on it. The world needs more pictures of babies AND their mamas!