one cute little cranium ;)

i've seen several projects involving creating silhouettes of your little ones, and have wanted to do it myself for awhile.  i finally landed on this one in which the silhouette is actually the negative space, or in this case, the natural wood grain/color with the outside painted.

i eventually want to cover a wall in henry's room with frames/prints/art/crafty items :) and this will just be one little piece of it.  i decided to go with a small piece of wood instead of a larger one, like i was originally thinking, because it seemed to make the the entire piece more precious :)

i picked up this square wood tile at hobby lobby for fifty cents.

then, i went through all of my images of henry (which are quite a few-ha) and found a good profile of him.  i sized it to fit the wood piece, printed it off, and traced it.

it looks kinda weird here--haha

 then i painted it, with super fun blue craft paint

 tada!  the paint wasn't quite yet dry when i took this photo, but i couldn't wait :)  i love how it turned out--my sweet little boy's sweet little silhouette

bt-dub....super easy and only cost $1.50 to make....  ;)

our cowboy baby :)

last weekend we went to the buffalo roundup and hung out with the olivier fam!

henry was in horsey heaven and he even got to go on a few short rides.  at first, he wasn't too sure about it, but as soon as we started movin' he was totally lovin' it :)

 then he jumped on with pop pop 

(henry decided that grampa steve would be "pop pop" now :) )
haha--he quickly became his right hand man--giddyup Rocket!

 just a couple of cowboys :)

 we also spied some wild turkeys, which, of course, made henry gasp with excitement

 and he definitely made sure that rachel and morgan got a good workout!

we had such a great time there, hanging out around the campfire in the evening listening to the cowboys sing, strum guitars, and recite poetry :) of course he did cuddle up with his aunties and gran too!  earlier that week gran picked him up from daycare and they got to spend an entire afternoon and evening together out on the ranch with Tom (the horse) and doggy.  (Molly has a bunch of photos up on facebook if you're interested, go check 'em out! :) ) next year we might have to camp out too if henry is up for it!

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          henry......

                             want to go night night?