Still at it!

I thought that perhaps the baby had enough excitement in his life for a week. Nope, not so. This morning I discovered another tooth had popped through. So, now he has the two center teeth on the bottom! Woohoo for Harrison, boohoo for me. Why won't he slow down? Way down, as far as I'm concerned!

Sawyer is very excited for school today, which is a great day. He's first for picking jobs and he's going to pick song box. Translated: he gets to choose the song they sing today. He's been talking about it since Wednesday and this kid just melts me - I love it that he loves school and little tasks make him happy! LOVE it. After coffee this morning and song box today, he's going to be one happy little man!

Big things

It's amazing all of the things that have happened in the baby boy's life this week! Monday, a new itty bitty tooth poked through. On Tuesday, he rolled over for the first time. On Wednesday, he kept rolling. On Thursday he ate a fresh banana!

The banana is interesting. I put it in a product that has a mesh bag on one end and a handle on the other. The mesh bag doesn't allow any big chunks through, so the baby can mash the goodness with his strong gums. He gets the yummy goo but none of the choking hazard. Brilliant. He loved it! (Pictures today!)

The tooth has gotten bigger every day this week. And, sharper. That will teach me to put my finger in his mouth to feeeeeeel it! He's not very good at showing it off, either. He likes to stick his tongue out and cover it up.

The rolling is amusing since, well, he dislikes strongly being on his belly. But, it's all good. At least he's semi mobile and amusing himself. I, of course, *hate* all of this advancement because it means the baby is getting bigger. He'll soon no longer be a baby and he'll be a KID. Kids are all fine and good, but there is nothing like a sweet and yummy baby!

Carrot massacre

I only wish i'd taken picture of the lunch episode Harrison had. It started out easy enough - a few good bites. Then, it all went downhill. He grabbed the spoon of pureed carrots and a giant blob hit his eye and cheek. The ate a couple more bites and hit the spoon. He dribbled some out of his mouth.

By the end, it was all over his face, chest, leg and hem of his shorts. He didn't even mind when I cleaned him up. Thank goodness!

The perfect weekend

folks, i think this is it - we've had the perfect weekend. there were a few details missing from making it sublime - but it was just perfect. First, we're having unseasonable warmth. Today it was up over 90*! Yesterday too! There were no baseball games yesterday and we had a garage sale yesterday and got rid of some stuff. We sat around and enjoyed each other.

The Pottery Barn outlet opened 10 minutes from here - whoa! Cam and I spent some time there and picked a few must haves. The emphasis is really on MUST!

Gini and Christie came up for the night - andy and I went out for a date. We had soup at Panera and saw the movie 21! The movie was fine - but it was just nice to be out. We woke up to yummy pancakes courtesy of Christie - we hung out more - went to the Pottery Barn again and finished with a quick trip to Stater Bros.

Love getting stuff done, love hanging out. what a great weekend!

actually write something?

I guess I missed a key element in blogging. that you're actually supposed to write. ha! Well. A few things have gone on - Iowa, Sawyer's fifth birthday, Harrison is 5 months, baseball, more baseball...laundry. We reorganized the toy room and we are having a yard sale on Saturday and NO I've not prepped at all!

IOWA

Sawyer's birthday

sick

poor sawyer. he's a little bit sick. I heard him cry out once in the night - but that was it. He woke up and told me that he'd thrown up in Campbell's bed. I couldn't figure that out since Cam sleeps on the top and Sawyer sleeps on the bottom. Did he climb up on top and loose it up there?

Nope, turns out that he was talking about his own bed. He apparently thinks that the bed HE sleeps in is just cam's bottom bed.

Anyway...he's been laying around today. After we picked up Cam from school he promptly repeated the sickly act in the kitchen. Twice.

Here's the baseball boy! (At his first baseball game this year)

Getting ready for Iowa

the countdown is on! 11 days until we head to the aiport and go into the frozen tundra, otherwise known as Iowa. I'm excited, nervous and suddenly, cold. No, really, my feet are quite cold. (I just glanced up at the thermometer in the backyard. It says 82*)

anyway. i'm making lists of things we need (mental lists, not on paper lists) like booster seats and clothing -- plus all of that baby gear. we need coats (where *are* those?!) and hats, plus warm shoes for sawyer. luckily, we just bought him some spiderman slip ons since all he wore prior were crocs! it will be easter while we are there so we have to mentally take note of the bunny too! sounds like it'll be so overwhelming that I'll ignore it for at least another 9 days then frantically run around completely stressed out trying to get ready. I'll blame it all on not having time. HA HA!

In the spirit of planning our trip to Iowa -- above are a few pics of the boys and Chicky Bird. Also known as the Chick or Uncle Gary. He won't be in Iowa of course, but we saw him a few weeks ago!

4 months old today

say it isn't so!

just a little bit

Today is a great day. It's sunny, it's supposed to be 80* and Harrison is on the mend. On Monday morning (what a great way to start the week!) harrison woke up with a fever of 102*. Off to the ped we went. She said that he probably just had a virus or a cold and to give him some baby tylenol to bring down the fever. That definitely helped *some* but not entirely. Tuesday he woke up feeling better (I presume) but still not completely A-OK. Today, he seems much, much better. He's not warm any more and he's back to his happy, smiley self. He's still very sneezy and has a runny nose, but at least he's happy. (We all know how that is -- when you have symptoms but you don't actually *feel* bad, you know?) They weighed him and he's 16 pounds and 14 ounces. Certainly keeping up with the big boys, who were both 19 pounds at 4 months. Except they were both much bigger than him at birth. (Campbell was 9-5, Sawyer was 9-15 and Harrison was 7-9)

Anyway, he's just delightful. He's 3.5 months old (say it isn't so!) and he's just wonderful. If I had to guess I'd say he's just about perfect. Well, to me he IS perfect! He LOVES getting dressed and undressed. He starts smiling and giggling when you start taking his sleeves off -- he knows the big event is coming. FORGET IT when the shirt comes off of his head -- he's got an enormous grin and laughs and laughs. It is wonderful and really makes that part of the day really fun!

He's trying to sit up -- he'll be laying on his back and lifts his head and shoulders off of the bed/couch/wherever. It's like crunches for babies. He's actually enjoying the bumbo now, he can keep his head up to look around and see what is going on. That is not to say that he's still not completely enamoured with the fish friends (from the swing) and his best friend, the dog on his bouncy seat. But, he's adding things to his repertoire .

He loves to nap - weird, huh? But he does. He loves to smile and laugh. He's a dream come true!

it *was* valentines day

Yup, that's right. A few days ago, it was Valetines Day. And now, it's 3 days later. Also, two days ago, it was Andy's birthday. Yes, it's been busy around here.

So, it's absolutely wonderful that my beloved has reached another milestone and is celebrating another year on this earth. That is, of course, the only real thing worth celebrating. But, you know what he got for his birthday? Have you guessed yet? Aha! Guitar Hero III for Wii (forever referred to as GHIII). Have you guessed what obsessive personality has commandeered the GHIII for Wii?? Again, you know me too well.

So, I'm mildly obsessed with the game. In fact, I even had dreams about it last night. I love this game. I don't even know if I'm good at it. But, I do really like it. Poor Andy, maybe he'll get to play it - once I beat it! :) Apparently I'm not allowed to share photos now, but if I were I would show some of Sawyer and Andy playing. (I deleted the photos of me playing. They weren't pretty.) Good times around here.