Sleepy Baby

6 Months Old!

HALF A YEAR!

Happy 6 months sweet boy.  You are growing like a weed!

Blake's current favorite foods are sweet potato and carrots.  And his current favorite pastime is what we like to call "snow plowing".  He's got so much lower body strength, but not as much upper so he basically just scoots across the floor on his face, bottom up.  And it's awesome.

Here are pictures from our photo shoot!

(Ignore the skid mark on Abby's face, she had a run in with the play kitchen at school...and the kitchen won)

"There's that cat again"

"I think I can almost reach it"

"So close!"

Food!

Blake's doctor likes us to wait until the 6 month appointment before they give us the go-ahead to start solids.  But Blake has shown so much interest in food lately, that we decided that waiting is just silly...so we just went for it.  We tried some purees first to see how he'd do.  He chowed down the sweet potatoes like a champ!  Since then I've tried several other things some of which he hasn't cared much for (apples, oatmeal).   So I took a banana tonight and just mushed it up some (it was still pretty thick) since he didn't seem to bothered by textures...and he ate half the banana!  I couldn't mush it fast enough for him, so I got yelled at several times during his snack.  It's a bit overwhelming because Abby just never got into food and could really care less to eat.  Crazy that we are on kid #2, but I feel so new at this!  I really, really hope this is a good sign and that he will be eating good, healthy food very soon!

Here is a video of the banana-crazy kid!

Cuties

Abby asked me on July 4th if we could go to the "coffee place".  

And who am I to deny her of that. :)  I've trained her well!

Good Morning!

er, bad hair day?

Swaddle

And this is when you know it's time to ditch the swaddle...

Ballerina!

Abby is loving her dance class.  My little ballerina!

This is how they start the class, each girl gets up and says she's ready to dance and gets to do a little twirl.  Abby was a little nervous up there alone for some reason...

It's always better to have one of your best friends for support. :)

5 Months Old!

Seems our photo shoots are getting a little tougher these days...no longer do I have a tiny baby that will just sit there. :)  At one point he took off his tie and ripped it in half before I even had time to get it out of his hand!  Happy 5 Months sweet boy!

Abby finally had enough of the tie shenanigans...and just decided to wear it herself!

Blake again...because he's just that cute!

Waco mini-vacation

Since we are doing our big Disney World trip this November for Abby's birthday, we decided we'd just do some mini-trips this summer.  Our first one was the "happening" city of Waco, TX!  On Saturday we met Heather and my Dad  there and went to the Dr. Pepper museum and ate Dr. Pepper and Root Beer floats, then on to the Cameron Park Zoo which was actually really nice.    Dad and Heather had to head back to Ennis that night after dinner, so we stayed in a hotel room so we could do more exploring on Sunday which was also Father's Day.

I might have to say, Sunday morning was probably the best part of our whole trip!  Maybe we didn't think that way at first though. :)  Here's how the morning went....

We loaded up the family and went to a local Cafe for a big Father's Day breakfast.  We ordered, got our yummy food and the best mocha's we've had in a long time.  Things were going great....and then...

Blake decided it was nap time, and refused to sleep in his car seat, or take his pacifier, or be soothed in any way actually.  He wanted in his crib.  Period.  So, as we are finishing our meal, he's wailing louder and louder.  Matt's trying to find the waiter so we can just pay and go back to the hotel to put him down (keep in mind he rarely fusses, so this frazzled Matt because we just aren't used to him crying!).  During this time of Matt standing holding Blake, and me packing up our stuff...Abby announces, "I need to go Poop!!".  Matt tells her to hold it because we are leaving for the hotel in a minute.  Her response was "But it's coming out now!".  I rush her to the potty and even from there can hear Blake screaming in the restaurant!  So she finishes up and we go back out, to which she then announces "That was a really big poop, can I have some M&Ms, please"?     That girl has a one track mind!!!

And that is what I like to call a Happy Father's Day!

Abby and Matt playing weather reporters on the green screen at the Dr. Pepper Museum!

Beginning of the trip....

End of the trip...

You can see his head in the lower left.