Our little Teddy is already 6 months old! I can't believe it's gone this fast! He is still a very happy, easy baby and we love him to bits. He went to the doc last week for a checkup and weighs 16 pounds 14 ounces, which is in the 40% for weight and is 25.5 inches, which is 25% for height (seems he's right on track like Charlie, shorty!), but he must be smart because his head is 43 cm which is in the 60%! We'll take it! He has his two front bottom teeth (the first came on New Year's Day) and looks like he may be getting more shortly. He is starting to rock on all 4's and can helicopter around with the best of them. I think he'll be crawling before too long. Not sure I'm ready for him to be mobile, but looks like I won't have a choice. The last week he started sleeping through the night again which is really great. We travelled a lot during the holidays and it's hard for the 4 of us to sleep in the same room without waking each other up. Plus he was cutting teeth so that contributed to the night waking. But now we are back on track for now. We have tried to start him on solids and he just doesn't seem to want them. I tried rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, applesauce, squash and baby mum mums. We get the same reaction every time. Gagging, making faces like we just put the most disgusting thing in his mouth and eventual crying and fussing. So looks like he's not quite ready yet, so we'll keep offering until he decides he's ready.
We had a nice Christmas here at the house and Charlie loved ALL of the toys the boys received. It's hard trying to explain to a 2 year old that he has to share and that not all the toys are actually his. We went to Louisiana for almost a week to visit family and friends there and came home for Christmas, then went to Fredericksburg to spend New Year's with Jeff's family. As always, there are lots of pictures so you can peruse them at your leisure.
Pictures from Louisiana Christmas
Pictures from Fredericksburg Christmas
Pics from our house Christmas morning
Jeff and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary on January 5. We decided to take a quick getaway to San Antonio for the night while we had babysitters around. We stayed at a hotel on the Riverwalk and just enjoyed being kid free for about 24 hours. The hotel was awesome and gave us a free bottle of sparkling wine in our room! What was even more amazing was the wine they gave us was one of our favorites and we have actually been to that vineyard in California. How did they know?
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| view from our room |
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| Looking out from our balcony |
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| Present from the hotel |
I also celebrated my birthday a couple of weeks ago and I decided I wanted seafood. And rather than go out to a restaurant (which is harder and harder to do these days), we had a few friends over and cooked ourselves. It was an actually feast and Jeff was great and did most of the cooking. We had bbq shrimp, grilled redfish, fried catfish, fried shrimp, fried pickles and homemade chips. My friend Erin so kindly brought the cupcakes, Andes Mint, which were amazing! No one left hungry I can tell you that! I had a great day all in all.
Now it's been awhile since my last post, so we have tons of pictures, but I'll try to put up some of the great ones (since they're all good!).
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| Taking pictures after bathtime |
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| Charlie helping to decorate for Christmas |
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| Charlie modeling the onesie I made for him. |
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| Brothers |
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| Like Father, Like Son |
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| Sweet! |
