Anyway, here he is….. Myles and his smiles.

Also, we haven’t left our house in… 6 days? Yes, 6 days. It’s been snowing a ton and we live on a hill!

can’t handle how cute he is… can’t. I’ve been trying to get him to notice himself in the mirror and he has a few times. This time he was into it.. “i just can’t take my eyes off myself…”

We made it through the first month!! It wasn’t AS bad as I thought it would be, BUT I think that’s because both me and Grayson were home the whole time. I can’t imagine doing that alone, I have so much more respect for single parents, holy smokes. I would have had a mental breakdown if I was alone all day doing all that.

He still sleeps in our bed, we said he would for 2 weeks, but we can’t make the transition! We haven’t even made the transition to the pack-n-play in our room let alone being in his own room. It’s so much easier having him in bed when I have to wake up to nurse, plus we’d feel so bad making him sleep all alone in a room, no thanks! But we’ll make the transition someday! Plus every morning we get to have family cuddle time and we love that.

We’ve somewhat adjusted to life with a baby, it’s weird knowing we’ll won’t get to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time for a long while. But the midnight feedings {I hate calling them “feedings”, it makes him sound like a vampire} have gotten easier, we’ve gotten into a routine of me getting up to nurse while Gray sleeps, then I go back to bed while Gray bounces him back to sleep. He at least wakes up on his own when he’s hungry, we used to have to set an alarm every 3 hours because he wouldn’t wake up, he’d sleep all night if we let him! It’s hard to get up at 2am when there’s no baby making you, no motivation!

I haven’t been able to eat dairy for a while, he may be allergic, so I switched to eating a lot of Red Vines {I NEED sugar, haha} and we figured out that MAY be making him have green poo so I cut that out too! Ahhhh! My amazing midwife introduced me to Trader Joes Soy Cherry Chip ice cream, SO GOOOOODDD!

Every time I think about it I’m so glad we had a home birth, SO glad. We went to the hospital to get his newborn hearing test {passed!} and right when I walked in I was so happy we didn’t have our baby there, it felt so…. sterile and impersonal? I don’t know, just not for us. I walked up and stood in line and they told me I had to stand back behind some yellow line, what?? Anyway, here are some more photos of the boy!

Christmas Eve!

Christmas jammmmsssss!!!

Mimi and Pop Pops, double fisting it.

finally getting to use the blanket I spent way too much time making for him.

best nap spot ever.

We are not choking Myles or giving him a spanking… just an interesting burping technique.  Please don’t call CPS!  And sorry for all the leg that Grayson is showing… he’s all mine ladies

Breakdown…

part one of our completely trashed house. Gray on the little couch, Myles taking up the big one.

worlds most dramatic yawn.

so stinkin cute.

Grayson spending “quality time” with Myles.. he’s on his lap while he plays Skyrim… and our house is TRASHED..  We were all back to normal at 3 weeks

baby acne started kicking in!

when ever our friends who have kids come over they instantly put him into a coma somehow. I’m  jealous.

Auntie Sara got to come visit for New Years! Woooo hooooo!!

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Grayson thinks this is a weird picture of him, I think it’s cute :]

Our friends across the street had their baby at home too {6 weeks before us}. They’re going to be buddies :] We took our birth class together too and used the same {awesome} doula.

Kingston and Myles :]

Happy New Yearsssss!!! He’s a party machine.

These ones make me laugh, especially the mid-sneeze one.

passed out on the couch. He’s going through a phase of only taking naps on our chests.

So there it is! He obviously LOVES to sleep, unless we want to take a nap, then he just wants to eat and be wide awake. We’ve come to love the exersize ball, it’s one of the only things that soothes him. Or Pandora on the Page France or Iron and Wine station. He goes into an instant trance!

You learn to eat either really slow {with your left hand because you’re holding him with your right} or really fast before he notices you put him down to eat, but you figure it out! He’s a good baby, just likes to fuss when he’s awake, haha.

So overall, a good first month! Our house was overly trashed, dishes piled up and lots of people made us lots of food {THANK YOU, we grovel at your feet}. People came over and showed us tricks, how to properly swaddle… all the good stuff. Grayson has come up with a few tricks to getting him to go to sleep as well. You just learn as you go! Luckily he loves to sleep, and most nights he loves to sleep for long stretches too {YEESSS}

We’re really excited for the next months, for him to start smiling and giggling and all that. Having a baby is awesome, even when they pee in your mouth and spit up in your hair {yes, he’s done both to me}…. It somehow never bothers me that I’m wearing a pee or spit up covered shirt all day, what’s the point in changing when he’ll just do it again? haha. But we love him!

So, you may have heard via Facebook or someone that I had a long, LONG labor. We decided to have Myles at home in our bedroom and it was the best decision we’ve ever made {other than to get married and get pregnant, haha}. I’ll try to summarize this very long story. I went into labor at 10pm on the 6th so I decided to try and get some sleep since I’d be basically running a marathon soon. We went to bed and it didn’t work, my contractions were too strong already to sleep through. So we woke my friend April up and decided to try and watch a movie to distract me- yah right. My contractions were coming as close as 2 minutes apart and lasting up to 6 minutes!! WHAT THE CRAP!!! Keep in mind contractions are basically supposed to be 5 minutes apart and last 60 seconds in early labor. So we did this until 3am then called my midwife, Kim, to come over. She came, I was 1.5 cm dilated, nothing to write home about. She wanted me to take a hot bath to slow down my labor and get some sleep. Did that, it didn’t work, they came stronger. We slept between contractions and they were now 5 minutes apart. I managed this from 4-7am and at 8am our Doula, Mary, came over. She took one look at my stomach, my weird contractions and said he was in a slightly weird position. UGH!!

So we had to move him, and to move a baby you have to do whatever you do for at least 30-45 minutes. At this point I’d already been awake for 24 hours, luckily Gray got to sleep for a couple hours which was great! So we did this thing where I had to lift my belly when my contraction started and do these dip lunges essentially, and Gray had to do it with me and put pressure on my back because I was having back labor. We did this for 1 hour and 15 minutes! My contractions were still double and triple peaking, lasting 4-6 minutes. We continued on all day, then April had been at our house since Dec. 2nd but now had to go… she’d pushed her flight back twice already and my labor was just too long, she had to fly back to Long Beach. That was the start of mental breakdown number one. Mary called Kim and had me talk to her on the phone, she said it sounds like I’m still in early labor, THAT was really frustrating. It had been nearly 18 hours!! So around 5 Mary wanted us to eat dinner and go on a walk, she was going to run and do something. The second she left I broke down crying, I was SO tired and SO frustrated. My contractions were way stronger than they should have been for how dilated I was and I wasn’t progressing. At this point I was considering going to the hospital for pain killers. I REAAALLLYYY didn’t want to go but I didn’t think I could do this anymore. Grayson was telling me it’s ok if I want to go, that I tried and I’m not letting anyone down, he was crying to because he was upset for me and exhausted as well. We went on a walk outside and that didn’t help, I had 10 long contractions in the few minutes we were out there, every 4 steps or so. More crying, then we called Kim to come NOW. I needed to figure out what to do.

She comes an hour later and checks me “I have good news, you’re 3 plus!”. WHAT!?! That’s good news!?! It’s been 21 hours and I’m only 3cm dilated! I was about to throw in the towel but still no part of me wanted to. If we go to the hospital it will be NOTHING like what we’ve planned, and they’ll more than likely give me a c-section because we can’t get him to move into the right position. We took a shower and cried more, Grayson told me it’s ok if we go, but he really thinks I can do this. That really helped, so we got out with a new outlook. Mary and Kim really helped calm us down and tell us we could do this. We decided to keep going.

THEN… they decided to do this technique that they try to avoid if at all possible because it’s really painful for me, but decided it was necessary. They needed to move the baby so that he’d be pressing on my cervix and actually making me dilate, so they had me get on all 4s, laying my head on my arms, so butt in the air. They stuck a sheet under my belly and had someone stand over me, pull the sheet tight and shake it back and forth, basically jiggling the baby out of his position.. for 30, painful minutes, through all my contractions with no break. After the 30 minutes they sat me up into a squat and he slid into the right position. After this things really started to progress, YESSS!! I went into transition {8-10cm} pretty quick which lasted about 3 hours. {Funny, they say the longest it will last is 2 hours.. haha. This is considered the most painful part, people puke, cry, ask for drugs, etc}. Oddly enough, this was the best part for me. The contractions were REALLY intense, but I knew they were doing something now. She had me sleep between them {so in 1-2 minute intervals} because I was falling over before and needed sleep. Kim and Mary slept too, Grayson was…. amazing. I can’t say enough about how amazing he was, there is no way I could have done that without him. He could read my breathing and cues to know when I was starting a contraction and was at my side, holding my hand, talking me through it, every single time. My body kept involuntarily pushing, which made it hurt a lot more. They were moving up to my lungs and covering more of my body. After 2.5 hours downstairs I was ready to get in the tub and finsish this. So we went upstairs, had all kinds of problems with the tub, haha. The temp had spiked and the pump didn’t work so they took off our screen and were dumping water out the window, hahaa.

I had to lay there and wait! Yikes! I was 7/8cm!!!! THANK YOU JESUS! I got in the tub and it was freezing because they were putting cold water in it to cool and it all settled at the bottom, I was shaking but refused to get out, haha. My body kept pushing, it was making the contractions so bad and Kim said my body was trying to break my water, so try to break it. I tried and tried and could NOT break it so I asked  her to break it. She got me out, went to break it and said “Oh! That’s his head you’re pushing!” haha, what?! She popped my water and got me back in, I asked her how long first time mom’s usually have to push, “one to four hours”… ok, I’m going to plan on 3, I was NOT mentally prepared for 30 hours of labor but I can be prepared for this. So I start to push and this was the first point in the entire labor I clenched down at all and made any sound that resembled pain, it REALLY scared Grayson and he started to cry. I consoled him, telling him it’s ok, my body has to do this to get him out, he’s almost here. Did another push, yelled a lot, I had NO control over the sounds I made, it was crazy. He cried again. Then Kim and Mary said not to let the sound out, push it down, that really helped. I was also trying to hold it in for Gray’s sake.

Then they asked “do you want to touch his head?”. haha, no, scarryy! But I did, they asked how far he was, if I could reach him “yah he’s about 2 finger knuckles away”. That caused some excitement, he is CLOSE! With each, enormous and really painful push I got him inches closer. “Call our parents to come back!!” I yelled. They all went back to my mom’s so we could push in peace, but wanted to be here to hear his first cry. With each push he went pretty far. Grayson was supposed to catch him and Kim said “ok, it’s going to be 2 or 3 more big pushes” but I was such a pushing champ that on my next push his entire body came shooting out all at once!! He went from barely crowning to out all at once. All the sudden I am holding a baby against my chest, I’m crying, Grayson is crying, Myles is crying! HOLY CRAP!!! I just pushed out a baby, I just had a baby!! We have a baby! It was the most surreal moment ever. I just did that, I just went through 30 hours of intense labor and pushed out a baby in our bedroom with no medial help, no drugs, nothing but people and support.

They got me out, he was laying on my chest, they never took him from me, they did everything they needed to do with him right on my chest, Grayson got to cut his cord. I still couldn’t believe that all just happened and it’s all over now, we have our baby Myles and he’s beautiful! Crazy sideways cone head and all. He was born at 2:54am and weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces. I can not express enough gratitude for Kim and Mary, for a home birth, for Grayson and his amazing support. Both Kim and Mary said they were so impressed with how well we went through that together, they wish they could have video taped it to show other couples. Kim said she even teared up when Grayson was crying after my pushes and I was consoling him. It was such an amazing experience!

It was funny, our good friends came over later that day and asked if I’d do it all again, I said “right now, no.. but ask me in a week and I’ll say yes”. And now, yes I would, in a second. He was worth every minute of pain and exhaustion. I can’t imagine not having a baby at home in the water.

Wow….. that was not short, sorry, but it’s a good story! Ok, now onto the photos of his first week of life.

This is when labor started on the 6th..

About 2am, I got to be in labor by my fire and Christmas tree, amazing. April took these photos so they’re a little out of focus, hahah. Love you April!

Mary had me get in the tub for a few minutes of relief {as much as I could have, haha}

I know this photo is blurry, but this is when I was in transition downstairs.

just a few minutes old.

Grayson cut the cord!

The only picture of the 3 of us so far.

Mimi {my mom}. The only photo of when his head was all crazy, it went away in about 2 hours.

Pop Pop {my dad}

This is Grayson’s favorite photo, me after it all… haha

the next morning.. well technically the same morning since he was born at 3am,

I love this photo :]

after a 3am nursing, no sleep :]

oh sleepy bear.

Grayson bought me that necklace for after I had Myles.

hahahah we thought this was so funny, what a little ham, posing.

This is my favorite photo. I made him that bunny {Professor Bun Bun}

Gigi {Gray’s mom} was up for 12 days helping, AMAZING to have her there!!!!!

This picture kills me, he’s so stinkin cute!!!!!

THAT FACEEEEE!!!!!

lounging with daddy. haha

such a cute yawn :]

So there is it! His first week of life. Plenty more to come of course!

“Hey guys!

My name is Brittany, and my boyfriend and i have a mild to severe obsession with your work. My boyfriend said “I wonder what Jagger does when they are editing?” So we were just wondering if you had the time in your busy schedule to possibly make a short blog on what you guys do when you edit. Listen to music? Dress up your ferret? Have break dance sessions? And by the way..when i get married, you guys will be there! Haha Amazing work!”

So… what do we do while we edit? First of all, I WISH we dresses up the ferrets, we just save that for Christmas time haha. We’re going to use the wonderful world of google images to help explain what we do…

First, we always have Pandora playing. Usually we have it on the mix station, but sometimes it’s on Phoenix or Mumford and Sons. If it’s just me working I’ll put on my “80′s dance party mix”. Every once in a while Grayson is feeling extra fancy-dancy and bust out his classical station… that never last long due to my veto. We often take small breaks to when a good song comes on to have small dance parties {normally hoping the neighbors aren’t peeking in} involving a lot of “what if we did this move at weddings?” usually followed by something overly funny/inappropriate.

We used to bring the ferrets into these dance parties until it scared Sammy once and he was afraid of us for 3 days, poor little buddy :[ No more sweet moves for him.

Oddly enough, one of Grayson's favorites moments of the day is getting the mail, haha.... We're pretty sure all our neighbors think we're drug addicts because we're in our jammies all day {why wear jeans when you're working from home, really??} So, he'll often walk out in his jammies and no shirt, sometimes both of us {I wear a shirt, haha} and we just walk around holding hands... looking like we never do anything all day except leave for mysterious days at a time on the weekends.

We even had a neighbor come up and ask us "soo... are you working right now?" haha. We just bought this house in April and most of our neighbors are police men, fire men, attorneys, lawyers, business owners... we don't exactly fit in with our trashy {yet very comfy} couch on the front porch, taking the ferrets "on a walk" and all day jammies rule. We're pretty sure this is how some of them see us :]

We do eat a LOT of string cheese, or as Gray like to call it “strength cheese”. We buy the 36 pack. We used to have contests on who could get the most stringy piece.

We DO take a lunch break, make some Trader Joe’s mac-n-cheese, or pot stickers and watch an episode of something. All of 2010 we didn’t have cable {it was rotting our brain} so that part was out, but we have hulu plus now so we can watch some TV again!

Our work styles are very, very different. If it weren’t for Grayson I would never leave the office. He usually has to make me lunch to get me to eat something and pry me away from work. Grayson on the other hand, he loves breaks. Any time I get up to do something he follows as an excuse to get out of the office for a minute, haha. I always pick on him because I’ll look over and he’ll be doing something totally random or on his phone and I give him “the look”, haha. “That looook, oh I can’t stand that look” he says. :]

So if I didn’t have him I’d be a Mal-nourished workaholic with no life and if he didn’t have me he’s never get anything done on time {I like to call him “procrastination station”, good thing we have each other! We REALLY love working together, people ask us all the time how we do it. We literally spend 24/7 together and we love it! We really don’t get sick of each other, ever. We’re freaks I guess, or maybe just really blessed.

So that’s our typical day! We dance a lot, work a lot and enjoy good jammie pants. We never know what to make for dinner, we never have meals planned and we eat a lot of cereal!

So we have some news that we’re pretty excited about. Originally we were planning on having Myles at the Bellingham Birth Center, but we’ve decided to have him at home! The entire pregnancy I’ve been picturing it at home whenever I thought of it. I thought that was just because we hadn’t toured the birth center yet and once we’d seen it I’d picture it there. But we toured it and I STILL keep picturing it at home. I never in a million years would have thought I would have a baby at HOME, but here we are! Once we actually made the decision final {told our midwife and our doula} we feel a lot better about it all.

So we’re renting a birthing tub {just in case we decide we want to do a water birth} and that’s it! This way if I want to wander to another room, I can. If I want a grilled cheese sandwich, I can have someone make one! So we’re hoping and praying that everything goes well and Myles is born healthy and awesome!

This photo was at 32 weeks on the trail we walk by our house

35 weeks! {last week}

So that’s that, we’re SOOOOOO excited to meet him! I’m ready to not be pregnant anymore, the braxton hicks are getting a bit nuts and the amount I want to bake and eat sugar is out of control! I can’t get enough! I’ve been sleeping a lot better though, I don’t wake up at 4:45am anymore which is fantastic! I’d love to be able to lay on my back again, I miss that. I can only lean forward or lay on my side, don’t want him slipping into the wrong position. I hear back labor suuuccckkkksss!!!

It’s been so nice just relaxing and getting ready for Myles, finishing up his room {which he won’t be in for a few months anyway}

I’m sure we’ll post some more photos of the tum before he comes, and there’s plenty more weddings coming out too!

We broke some laws, we had to make Dana a little uncomfortable {at first, by the end she was a little renegade} by ignoring signs to stay out. When it’s a good spot to shoot it’s a good spot! Our moto is “just keep shooting until we get kicked out” haha, it works every time! So we just had  a fun, relaxed afternoon with some BEAUTIFUL lighting near the end! Once again she got some super cute photos which we love and plan on plastering all over our house!

We were joking the whole time about how hard it was to make me look pregnant in this dress, the funny part is by the time I got home from that week my tummy had grown 1.5 inches!! Since then it’s grown another inch, I’m huge now!

So it was great having a week down with our friends and family to just hang out! After 2 eight hour weddings in a row I was really ready to be done for the year. I didn’t realized how tired I’d get being almost 8 months pregnant and still shooting weddings, but at least they were awesome weddings! We’re sad we won’t get to see most of our friends for 4 months, but the next time they see us we’ll have a little baby!!! And quite a few of our friends have trips planned to see us right when we have the baby or WHEN we’re having the baby {if he comes somewhat close to our due date}! We love it!

I think this is my favorite shot! We’re suckers for wide shots :]

I figured out during this shoot that I’ve worn yellow shoes EVERY time we’ve been shot by other photographers…. it’s my subconscious “thing” I guess

We paid $3 each way to sit on this ferry ride there and back just to get the awesome light! Worth it!

I love this one :]

So… other than that, we’re getting REALLLLYYY excited to have the baby, I’m not scared of it anymore. I used to be absolutely terrified of having a baby, but I’m actually looking forward to it. Still no drugs and no hospital. We have our midwife, our doula and a lot of support to get us through it. Grayson isn’t as terrified either :] We knew we picked the right doula when she was telling us about stool softeners and said “the last thing you’re going to want to do after you have a baby is push out a rock hard monster”… THAT is why she’s our doula… because she says stuff like that!

So here are a couple photos from my baby shower. Sara is pretty intense when it comes to throwing my showers, so everything turns out overly amazing… which it did! She doesn’t mess around! Lindsey and April helped out with the shower too and with their powers combined- greatness happens. And…. don’t make fun of me for wearing the same dress, it’s cute… it fits.

She did a library themed shower so everyone got one of those whale stickers in their invites to get Myles a book and write him a note on that sticker to place in the front, so cute!

Sara’s husband Sean made the cupcake holders!!

This picture is purely a joke…. although it looks oddly similar to a lot of the photos my friends take. Remember Candice {Lunch Pail Pictures} and Tasha??? I love my friends, this one is going in a frame.

It was funny because half the people at our shower have been on our blog at some point.

I AM excited to be able to tie my shoes on my own again and bend over to pick stuff up without having to grunt like a beast, but being pregnant has been pretty awesome. I wouldn’t call it “bliss” like our midwife did {haha} but it’s been good! {not so much feeling my ab muscles split in half or having his tiny foot jammed under my rib cage for 4 months}.  Our house is quickly being taken over with giant baby things that people have bought for us of the wonderful world of garage sales has provided for us… Everyone should go to garage sales, every weekend.. They are a DEAAALLL! So we’ve been in “lets get rid of anything we don’t need anymore” mode… goodwill has been our friend!

And don’t you fret my pet, we still have about 15 or so weddings coming out on the blog. We do one wedding a week so they get pretty spread out, for example.. the weddings we shot the weekend of THIS shoot will be out in January! So there’s plenty to look at coming up… and baby photos of course :]

Thank you ,thank you thank you, Dana for taking some photos for us! We probably wouldn’t have thought to have someone do it but we’re SO glad you offered!!!

I decided to make raspberry ice cream {for my parents really, if ice cream doesn’t have some form of chocolate in it, I don’t want it}. Grayson ate 50 {he counted} off the vine… He’s theory is “one for the bucket, one for me, one for the bucket, one for me” haha… little thief.

The thief.

Anyone who know my mom knows she’s kind of a spaz {in all the best ways}. She insisted she could catch a berry in her mouth, here are her first 2 attempts…. she never got it, haha. No one said it was going to be graceful.

He never misses.

oh the tum.

we always get carried away and end up with WAY too many berries… way too many.

If you like what you see {we do!} you should check out her Etsy shop, you’ve probably seen her work around etsy, it’s aaammaaazzinnngggg!!!

She also does a lot of custom work for people like portraits and what not. Someday we’ll get the drawing of us riding our tandem bike with the ferrets in the basket on the front… someday…

This one is called “Lets Stay Home”

“Hello June”

The rest of these are some of our favorites from her Etsy shop:

“Joseph Ready to Hang” and “Trust Your Instincts”

“Hello July”

“Keep Your Friends Close” and “Peace Offering”

and last but not least “Masquerade”

Being pregnant is still so weird. Little things like getting out of bed {Grayson usually has to give me a good push} and going up the stairs are much harder than they used to be. I get out of breath SO easily. Just today I was going up the stairs while talking to a friend {multi-tasker all the way} and I had to lean on the wall to catch my breath once I got up there, haha. I can’t bend over at all really, and putting shoes on is a hassle and a half!

2 days ago he was kicking up a storm, my tummy looked like someone flicked a jello mold, there were feet and fists flying all over the place! I even GRABBED his foot!!! WHHATTTTT!! I screamed because it caught me off guard, I grabbed his foot! Grayson got to do it too, crazzzyyyyy!

He’s quite the fan of laying on his “bladder hammoc” as we’ve been calling it. I swear he seeks out my bladder and kicks it as hard as he can so I have to pee every 5 minutes. {Which is no good when you’re on a hike and forgot toilet paper!} And the back pain has kicked in! I’m currently hanging out with a heating pad tied around me, it helps! A little first/foot in your ribs doesn’t feel so nice.

So we have about 7 more weddings to go {don’t worry, there are about 10 that haven’t gone up on the blog yet} then we’re done for the year and waiting for Myles to show up sometime in early December! I’m doing it all naturale’ meaning no drugs, no hospital, no normal doctors. I know what you’re thinking “yah right, she’ll take the drugs at the first contraction!” BUT we’re going to a birth center with a midwife {not our house.. my mom thought this meant Grayson was going to deliver him all alone, hahahahaha he would pass out in a second} We chose to do it at the birth center because there aren’t drugs in the building. I worried that if someone offered me an epidural I’d take it, so there’s no one to offer it! So wish us luck with that one!! YIKES!

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The below photo was 4 weeks pregnant {we found out right away, we don’t mess around!}… I miss my normal tummy! There aren’t many photos of between month 1 and 3 because I felt disgusting and fat, haha. That was the worst stage.

then onto 21 weeks, a few days after we found out he was a he and now he is Myles! Grayson is a little obsessed with “the tum”, he’s always kissing it and saying “good boy Myles!!” when he kicks, it’s so dang cute.

And this morning! Week 25! {A little over 6 months} Right now he’s about 13.5 inches {give or take} and a pound and a half.. although he feels like 10 pounds already.

This is one of our “children” for now… little Sammy/Dogger/The Buns/Bunsaroonie Fantaloonie with his papa, love that boy.. my pride and joy! Just had to add this photo in :] I’m looking to get him and Fynny “big brother” and “big sister” ferret shirts if anyone knows where I can get them! IT WOULD BE AWESOMMMEEEE!

Well, just 3 and a half more months to go!! We’ve been collecting things for his “70′s nautical” room at garage sales and thrift stores. Who needs new decorations? If you know of any awesome whale, shark or nautical “things”, let us know!!