Week Fifteen

This was a really big week ... on Saturday the 19th we left on our first vacation ... we were just going up to West Virginia to meet mommy's friend Naomi from her message board but it was a vacation none the less ... On the way to West Virginia daddy got a phone call from the head chef at a country club where he wanted to work - they wanted to hire him starting Sunday ... since we were half way there we decided to continue on and just come home early enough for daddy to get to work ...

I did pretty good during the ride ... mommy and daddy stopped a couple of times to let me stretch out and I even got to have a bottle while sitting outside at a picnic table ... I really enjoyed eating in the great outdoors ...

Once we got to the hotel we met Naomi and her husband Todd and her children; Terran, Tony and Mia, who was born a month after me ... I had a good time watching Tony ... he is almost 3 and ran around entertaining me ... it was great ...

While our daddy's were playing golf ... we all went up to the pool ... Tony and Terran went swimming while Mia and I lounged with our mommies ... it was really hot out but really nice to be outside ...

After we all went back to the room we changed clothes and went out to dinner ... everyone stopped by the table to say how cute Mia and I were ... I think everyone had a great time hanging out ... once back at the hotel mommy and daddy decided it was better to drive home at night so daddy could get some sleep before his first day at work ... before we left mommy and Naomi took a whole bunch of pictures of Mia and I and then we loaded up the car to head home ... Daddy was very tired but not as tired as me ... I slept the whole way home ... made it faster not having to stop to feed me or anything ...

So daddy started his new job bright and early Sunday morning and they loved him there ... I miss him because he is gone a lot more now ... but it is great he is working somewhere where he is truly appreciated ...

So Mommy and I were on our own a lot this week ... we went shopping and hung out at Starbucks and took walks ... it was very nice ... mommy even gave me a bath for the first time this week ... it wasn't my first bath it was just the first time daddy didn't give it to me ... it was fun ... I've started kicking my legs and splashing the water with my arms ... mommy laughed the whole time ... and for an amateur she wasn't too bad ...

On Friday morning mommy and daddy interviewed Berthe to be my nanny ... she was really nice and seemed to really like me ... she held me and rocked me the whole interview and even gave me a bottle ... I really liked her but I will miss mommy so much ... we have fun together during the day ...

I've been sleeping really well this week too ... most nights from 10:00 PM all the way till 7 or 7:30 ... mommy is not quite sure what to do with all the sleep she is now getting ... but she sure tells me a lot what a good baby I am ... :)

Week Fourteen

On Saturday I met Daddy's friend Sydney ... he does some of their installation work and boy did she get a kick out of me ... and all I had to do was smile ... then Mommy and Daddy took me out to dinner for the first time and I was AWESOME ... we went to their favorite diner and I just dozed in my car seat until Mommy was about half way through her dinner ... so she fed me a bottle while she finished eating ... I think Mommy and Daddy were pretty excited to go out to dinner for the first time in months ...

So excited that they took me out again on Sunday night ... we went to Panera Bread and since the weather was so beautiful we ate outside ... I was awake the whole time and had a blast ... smiling at Mommy and Daddy and enjoying the breeze on my face ...

Sunday I also turned 3 months old ... which ment on Monday I had a doctors appointment ... everyone there was gaga about me too ... Mommy carried me in her arms rather than in my car seat cause I am getting so heavy ... so everyone could see me which is probably why they all wanted to check me out ...

I weighed in at 16 pounds 4 ounces ... up from 13 pounds 2 ounces at my 2 month appointment ... I was also 25 1/4 inches tall ... up from 22 3/4 inches at my 2 month appointment ... the doctor said I am doing great ... and told Mommy to keep up the good work ... then I had to get a shot ... but it was a lot better than the 4 I got last time ... although the doctor said at my 4 month appointment I would be getting 4 shots again ... so I am not looking forward to that ...

I have really started smiling at Mommy and Daddy ... if they make faces at me or talk to me I light up ... so you guessed it they make faces at me all the time ... I am also much better in my Bumbo seat ... and I am liking it more and more every day ... I don't even wobble in it much anymore ...

On Tuesday night I had my first real food ... well as real as I am going to get at this point ... it was rice cereal and I ate it like a champ ... didn't push the spoon out or anything ... I of course got it all over my face but that is half the fun ... I wound up sleeping through the night too :)

On Thursday I hung out with Grandmommy, Aunt Jenny and Eliana ... it was a lot of fun ... Mommy went to get her hair cut and a pedicure ... two things she hasn't done since they put her on bedrest before I was born so I know she had a good time ...

Aunt Heather also planned a trip to come and visit ... she will be here at the end of September ... I can hardly wait ...

Week Thirteen

Our kitty cat Kramer has been acting weird for several days now ... staring at the same place in the corner of the kitchen so Mommy and Daddy decided they should take it seriously ... they talk about how Kramer knew there were bats in their old house and that he must see something in this house ... so on Tuesday Mommy called an exterminator and made an appointment for Wednesday ... Tuesday night Daddy decided to investigate for himself and sure enough he saw something under the stove ... to say the least Mommy got a bit freaked out ... especially with me waking up anywhere between 3:30 and 4:30 in the morning lately ... she did not want to go down to feed me with the possibility of something visiting us ...

Mommy was telling Grandmommy that it must be some rite of passage because when she was a baby Grandmommy found a mouse in their house too ... I don't think it made Mommy feel any better ... but she did keep saying "at least it isn't another bat"

So I got to move back into Mommy and Daddy's room ... Mommy brought bottles up so she could feed me in her room during the night but to her surprise I slept through the night Tuesday ... 8 whole hours ... Wednesday night I slept 8.5 hours and Thursday night I slept 9 whole hours ... Mommy seemed so refreshed ... that is until Friday night when I woke up only an hour after Mommy went to bed ... :)

Mommy is trying to figure out why I sleep so much better in her room than my own ... I can't see them but some of the women on her message board have suggested that I can smell them and that I like the sound of the fan in their room ... so once they move me back into my own room she is going to try a couple of things ... for now I am enjoying being in there again ...

I have been cooing a lot more lately ... and Mommy and Daddy sware I said "hi" a couple of times this week ... at least my coo sounded like "hi" ... I also giggled again this week but only once and only briefly ... I do break into the biggest smile whenever they lay me down to change my diaper and I now lift my legs on my own to help Mommy out ... she sure gets a kick out of it ... whatever I can do to entertain ... :)

We went on a bunch of walks this week because the weather has been cooler and Mommy has been reading me "The Little Engine That Could" and I coo the whole time she reads ... I have also outgrown so many of my 0-3 month clothes that Mommy has had to start packing them away and I am wearing all of my 3-6 month clothes now ... it is a whole new wardrobe and I just love it!!!

Week Twelve

Well Saturday July 30th was supposed to be my first night in my own room ... but after a day of eating every 2 hours I projectile vomited like nobody's business ... Mommy said she was waiting to see my head spin around ... even though I felt a lot better afterwards Mommy and Daddy had me sleep in their room again ...

But on Sunday night I slept in my room all alone ... I didn't sleep my usual 7 hours ... Mommy was up with me at 2:30 ... I had scooted all the way across the crib and my head was jammed up against the rails and my arm was hanging out ... it freaked me out a little because I don't know how to back up yet ... but Mommy was there to get me ... so I had a bottle and went back to bed in my crib and slept till almost 6:00 AM ... but then my limbs were hanging out again ... so Mommy is trying to come up with something to help me out ... she is looking for a mesh bumper ... then maybe I will start sleeping longer in the crib ... she misses the 7 hours of sleep night ...

Mommy finally finished making my birth announcements on Monday and they came out beautifully ... she took them to the post office and hand cancelled them all and sent them out ... I'm excited for everyone to know I am here ...

Tuesday night reverend Gaffney gave mommy and daddy a call ... he is the man that married them 2 years ago and he got my birth announcement and wanted to congratulate them ... he asked all about me and how they were doing and mommy said he sounded so happy to hear from all of us and that it was just so sweet of them to think of him when mailing them out ... Miss Marianne got her announcement too and said it was so beautiful that she was going to frame it so when she has grandchildren she can make one like it ... :)

On Wednesday Mommy and Daddy got me a Bumbo seat and I LOVE IT!!! ... I work on sitting up all the time and this lets me sit up on my own and check everything out ... We took it over to Grandmommy's on Thursday night and she and Aunt Jenny and Eliana got such a kick seeing me sit up ... Eliana even helped give me my bottle ... it was so much fun ... here is a picture of me in my seat ...


I've slept in my room all week and I am liking it more and more ... I've even started going to bed earlier all on my own ... I've been going to sleep around 9:30 PM and getting up at 4:30 AM ... I'm still getting my 7 hours in a row but Mommy can't seem to go to sleep at 9:30 PM so she is still struggling ... eventually we will get in sync ...