Trickster

Denver is all about doing tricks to make people laugh.  He loves to run and "fall down" or throw himself down and say "whoa Denver" or "oh no Denver". 



Tonight, he was determined to try to stand on his head. 



Apparently, trying it on the floor isn't nearly as fun as standing on the couch to do it.  This kid loves being a trickster!

It's a...

BOY!

The Darren Fountain Family is proud (and excited) to announce that we are having another boy.  His name is Decker Gibbons Fountain and we have about 24 more weeks until we can meet him. 

Road Trip!

I have to head to Dallas today because I'll be working out of our Dallas office while I train some people on a new technology we're starting to introduce to our field.  I decided to take my sweet boy with me and stop off in Ft. Worth so he could visit his Memaw for a couple of days while I'm working.  

We ate lunch with dad then packed up and headed out.


Denver made sure he had all of this "goodies" - cup, book, truck, paci and he was a happy kid.


Being the smart mama that I am, I planned to leave a little after he normally takes a nap so that at least part of the way there, mama could have some peace.  About 10 minutes on the road, I turn around and see this.  

Wish us luck on the rest of our road trip!

Cheap Enertainment

I can't stop taking pictures of our sweet boy! 

He wouldn't stop talking so I kept getting a lot of pictures like this.  lol 

D unloaded the water from the car and just put it down outside the pantry.  Guess who thought it was a new toy for him?

He was very impressed with all the noise he could make by slapping it and then he decided to shake the top flat back and forth and make them squeak and rock back and forth.  This kept him entertained for a good 20 minutes or so.

He was mesmerized by them!  It's funny to me the things that catches his attention.  Almost always something that cost little to no money.  I knew I loved that kid!  :)

Space Cowboy Sneak Peek

Yesterday evening Denver was a baby model for a local photographer.  She wanted to take some pictures with a new prop that she got.  This is the first photo I've seen but I have to say D and I are in love!  We couldn't be more pleased with it!

Denver is so easy to photograph and he is so photogenic!  We sure got lucky with this little boy.  We wanted to share this one!  I will post more when we get them.

High Chair Ribbon Banner

Today, I started and completed my first project for Denver's birthday party.  It came together so quickly, I was able to do it during nap time with materials I (mostly) already had.  I did have to get a couple of rolls of ribbon but I found them for $1 from the Dollar Tree, so this whole project cost me only a few dollars.

I originally saw this on Pinterest and added it to the list of projects I wanted to complete for Denver's party.  Since then, I've seen a few friends do it for their little ones birthday parties and I just that I had to do it - I think it's so easy and adorable.

They make something similar in the store out of really thin plastic, shaped like pennants (sp?), but I decided I liked the way this looked better.

Because I haven't done a "tutorial" in so long, I thought I would share how I made it and exactly how easy it is to make.

First I took a roll of white grosgrain ribbon and started one one side of Denver's high chair tray and unrolled it until I got to the other side, to see how long it needed to be. 

I then held up a roll of colored ribbon and let it hang down from the tray so I could see how long the banner would be and approximately where to cut the ribbon.

Then I just started unrolling ribbon and cutting like a mad woman.  I didn't want all of my ribbon the same length so some are shorter and some are longer than the "main" length.

Then I got out my hot glue gun and started gluing.  There is no rhyme or reason to it or any pattern, I just grabbed ribbon and started gluing.  As you can see, I cut the ribbon at different angles and at different lengths and I didn't worry about gluing the ribbons evenly.  I knew I wanted them to overlap so I just went to town!

An upclose pic - all of the ribbon is just glued on.  Don't spend a lot of time placing them just perfectly because no one will see this part.

I just overlapped and overlapped and then overlapped some more.  I used a lot of ribbon - a lot more than I've seen anyone else use.  I say this because you shouldn't worry if you want it to have a lot of ribbon or just a few ribbons - every way I've seen this done has been adorable.  You seriously can't go wrong!  Then I just measured a blue ribbon the length of the white base ribbon to glue over the individual ribbon pieces.

I had glued some of the ribbons too far up on the white ribbon, so I just trimmed the overlap and then heat sealed them with a lighter so they wouldn't fray.

This is what the finished project looks like.  So quick and easy and adorable!

Tada!  It's all done!  I used tape to hang it up, but for the day of the party I'll be using glue dots under the white ribbon to hang it where nothing is showing. 

Now, my first instinct was to iron all of that ribbon to lay down straight but the more I look at it, the more that the ribbons are different lengths and that some of them curl and twist and that they are cut at different angles.  I just went across the bottom of each ribbon with a lighter to heat seal them so that none of them fray between now and the party.

So easy and so cute!  Project 1 down, only 967 more to go!  :)

Corn on the Cob

Right now, Denver's favorite veggie is corn on the cob.  He'll eat the little kernels but he'd much rather have the whole cob.  I'm sure it's because all of those mean teeth he has coming in.  We just give him the little half size cobs and he goes to town.

He gets so excited when we give them to him.  It's always messy, but it's so fun to watch him!

Then he looks at us like we're weird because we watch him and just laugh and laugh!