Busy Busy!

Wow! Has it REALLY been over a week since our last update? Geesh. I guess so! This week has just flown by! I will tell you all about it on video:

I have become quite the talker the past few days! And, as you can see and hear...I have been doing really good!

We went on some long walks outside when the weather was nice. I tried some mashed banana last week, so this week I got to try some sweet potato! Let me tell you...it was GOOD! Mom and Dad have been giving me a small bit when they are eating dinner at night, and I just love it. It really isn't enough to make up anything significant, but it is just enough to make me happy and let me try something new (and participate in meal time). Moses thought that if he put on my bib, that he might get to try some bananas and sweet potatoes. Ha! Fat Chance, Moses!

Molly thinks she can get by on her looks alone. No bib needed:

I'm also able to sit on my own! I use both my arms to hold myself up, and I usually get tired after a short while. But I'm getting super close to be an official sitter (pictures taken today)!


Let's see...
On Wednesday we met Auntie K for lunch:

Mom and Dad took the "Newborn" head support out of my car seat (and moved the straps up so that they fit over my shoulders better), and the nice ladies at daycare told Mom and Dad about how I have been holding my own bottle (BIG "sniff" from Mom). Mom washed all of my "6-Month" outfits this week, so I almost have a whole new wardrobe. I'm just growing up so fast!
Oh! Wednesday was a SNOW day. So, I got to stay home from daycare and both Mom and Dad got their work done from home. It was fun! It was also the same day that Molly had her 2nd knee surgery done. She did great, and hopefully her knee will now be 100% once she is fully recovered. She has just been resting quite a bit on the couch and taking it easy.

Mom and Dad ended their busy work-weeks, and we joined Grandma and Grandpa for dinner on Friday night. We just hung around the house yesterday afternoon and did some grocery shopping. Mom managed to gather some pictures up after slacking all week:



Plenty of smiles!



"YOU talkin to ME?"

Last night we went to visit the Turner's and enjoyed steak and potatoes. I managed to hang until 8:30 before I started getting tired and grumpy. Of course this didn't mean that I wanted to sleep in at all. Nope. I was still ready to be up for the day at 6:00 AM (with a meal at 4:30 AM and a couple of wake-ups through-out the night). We went and got some breakfast (and Mom had some much-needed coffee), and now we are just hanging out doing laundry. Fun! Hope everyone has a great week. Hopefully Mom will update everyone BEFORE next Sunday rolls around.

Happy Saturday!

We LOVE the weekends. A little bit of this and a little bit of that! No complaints coming from The Wright Family! Mom decided to put me in my vintage Pink Floyd shirt (that fits me now), and I was able to wear it for a whopping hour before I had Poopsplosion! Sigh. Mom knew it was coming. We had the "perfect" formula going. A Bath + A new shirt + Mom and Dad sitting down for lunch = BLOWOUT! Hahah. Ought to teach them! Here I was BEFORE the incident:


Molly always tends to sneak in the pictures. Moses is usually chewing on a bone somewhere:

Oh. And the other night at dinner, Grandma mentioned that I need my first haircut when I turn 6 months old in a few weeks. Maybe Grandma has a point:

It is starting to look like a small nest on my head:

And everyone thought it would fall out. HA!

Well. Not much else to report! We are just going to be taking it easy. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

"If you are lucky enough to be Irish, then you are lucky enough."

I'm celebrating my first St. Patty's Day by wearing my solid GREEN pants! Mom wanted to make sure that I didn't get pinched today! Funny thing about these pants...I was wearing them before Christmas! Almost 3 months later...they still fit me!
Me a week before Christmas wearing my GREEN pants:

I would like to say that we are going to go and eat Corn beef and Cabbage for dinner tonight, but I think it is Gunter Toody Wednesday. Which means...Hamburger. Hardly an Irish Tradition. But super yummy, nonetheless.

Hope everyone has a wonderful St. Patty's Day!

Fun, Blankets, and Another Cold!

Hey, All!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. We sure did! A little bit of relaxing with the perfect combination of socializing and we are ready for the new week. Okay, so that may be a bit of a stretch (especially since we lost an hour over the weekend due to Daylight Savings). BIG YAWN.

Friday night, I went to Panera with Grandma and Grandpa while Mom and Dad went to a St. Patty's Day Party that was hosted by some old friends. They had a good time, and managed to be home by 10:30 PM. Grandma and Grandpa did a great job with me also! NO major breakdowns. Woo Hoo.

On Saturday, Mom and Dad took turns sleeping in. We finally got around to getting ready for the day around noon!
"Molly and I are ready to go!"

After running some quick errands, we went downtown to set-up for Auntie Amber's Surprise Birthday Party. Mom just about had a heart attack on the way to the restaurant when she received a text message from a secret helper that the Birthday girl was getting ready to park and go inside. Luckily, the secret helpers were able to stall her long enough so that we were able to get everything set-up and ready for the surprise. Phew! We were cutting it close though!
Success! Auntie Amber was indeed surprised:

The gals:

Jen and Jeremy made it down from Denver (Jen's Surprise B-Day Party was just a few weeks ago):

Mom and Dad (They were REALLY hoping that I would stay awake so that we could get somebody to take a picture of the 3 of us together. No such luck):

Happy 29th Birthday, Auntie Amber!:

Auntie K and Auntie A:

This is how I spent the majority of the party (Hey...I didn't nap ALL day. Can you blame me? I was pooped! I even had on a new outfit to show off. Oh well.):

See! Look! I really am in there! Mom and Dad don't just carry around a covered-up car seat with no baby in it:

Oh, and let us not forget what makes Phantom Canyon so famous. It is their Gouda Soup (Beer-Cheese Soup). It is soooo Yummy (or so I hear):


Mom and the Birthday Girl:

Mom and the Birthday Girl being SUPER goofy:

Sigh. How embarrassing. Glad I was sleeping!

We spent all day Sunday in our jammies. I helped Mom make a fleece tie-blanket that is FOR ME! Oh how I love a soft blanket to snuggle next to my cheek. Mom and Dad just couldn't resist this pattern. It has little buggies on it with racing stripes and the text reads "This Is How I Roll." Too cute!


I decided to go ahead and test this one out with a 20 minute nap before Mom even had the chance to finish it:



Last week I helped make two blankets that are for two Mommy's that are having their babies in the next month or two. Crazy to think that I will be graduating from high school with these babies and they haven't even been born yet!



Yep! J.R Approved!:

In "COLD" news...I'm working on my 3rd cold in 3 months! This explains all the fussiness I had last week. For now, it is only a cough and some sneezing and a running nose. NO fun! This once-a-month cold stuff has got to go! Boo.
Have a great week, everyone.

Happy Friday!

Love,

THE CHEECH!

Sleep is for the BIRDS

Well. That was my motto last night. I was up off and on ALL NIGHT LONG. Mom and Dad were puzzled. Am I teething? Am I getting another cold? Did my tummy hurt? Was I too hot? Too cold? Did somebody slip a Red Bull my bottle? Who knows.
Let's just say that this is Mom today (and Dad):

But guess what? I'm so worth it.

5 Months, Plus 1 Day!

Ooooops! Looks like Mom forgot to post yesterday...on the day I was officially 5 Months Old! We relaxed all morning, went out to lunch, then went shopping, then came home and relaxed some more, and before we all knew it...it was BEDTIME. Last night was the first night in a LONG TIME that Dad rocked me to sleep. I was pretty tired, and needed just a little bit of help falling asleep. Thanks, Dad. YOU "ROCK!" This last month just FLEW by. I mean…FLEW by. I was 4 months old, and then BAM. Here we are already!

We celebrated with a bunch of pictures from my taste-testing on Saturday afternoon, so Mom didn’t get much of a photo shoot in yesterday. Just this ONE picture (her camera battery died in the nice camera, and she wasn't in the mood to fuss with the other):

She did want to capture a few things about me at this fun age for future reference, so here it goes:
*I can suck both of my thumbs AT THE SAME TIME. One just isn’t enough. Sometimes, I need TWO.
*If I’m upset with you because you A). You would like to give me a break from eating and burp me and I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE A BREAK or B). You try putting me down somewhere I DO NOT WANT TO BE, I will arch my back and push up with my feet and yell at you! Yes. I’m forming quite the little attitude. Hmmmmm. I wonder where I get this from?
*I still LOVE my baths. I’m not getting them EVERY night anymore. My skin started to show signs of being too dry, and the water bill has DOUBLED, so we have started every other night. That is okay with me. It doesn’t seem to disturb my bedtime routine.
*I just LOVE to have a soft blanket snuggled up by my cheek when I want to relax and suck my thumb. It reminds Mom and Dad an awful lot of this famous cartoon character:

*I love to kick kick kick! If you are holding me, I can’t keep my legs from flapping all around. If you put me on my belly…my legs go CRAZY! My legs seem to have a mind of their own right now. OH, and if you put me in my Activity Jumper…I jump jump jump!
*I become more and more alert and aware everyday. If I’m eating, and Mom tries to have a conversation with Dad, or answer a phone call…I will stop eating and just stare at her until she is done. “Excuse me, Mother. Can’t you see that I’m trying to EAT here?” I will also stop eating if I hear the dogs bark, Dad talking in another room, or a new sound coming from the TV.
*After my bath, I lie on my changing table and turn my whole body so that I can watch Dad clean up the bathroom. It makes it really difficult for Mom to do what she needs to do, but I just can’t stop watching all the action.
*I’m not quite sitting on my own yet. I can balance with support from both of my hands, but only for 10 seconds or so.
*I have started to act “bashful” when somebody smiles at me. I make a big smile and then turn my head and try and hide my face. Mom thinks it is super cute (go figure).
*Although getting me to Laugh Out Loud is a bit of a challenge, I still smile all the time and have moments throughout the day where I cannot stop talking. Hopefully this doesn’t last through school, or I will be in trouble often for talking during class...just like my Mom was.
*I have been sleeping pretty good here this past week or so. I generally fall asleep around 6:00 PM in my car seat. Mom wakes me up between 7:30 for my bath, a diaper change, and to eat. I’m usually back to sleep in my crib around 9:00 PM. I usually want to eat between 4:30 and 5:00 AM, and I will *usually* go back to sleep for another hour or so.
*Mom and Dad do not have my current weight, but I’m still wearing most of my 3-6 month outfits, and some 6-9 month outfits. They did put me on the doggie scale at the Vet’s office on Saturday IN my car seat, and the scale read 23 lbs! No wonder they get so tired lugging me around everywhere!
*Oh, and one more thing...Mom wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge how proud she is that her and I have made it to the 5-month mark of me being a breast-fed baby! Minus a bottle of formula on our trip to Dallas, a couple of ounces of juice (when I was backed up for a week), and the tiny amount of rice cereal this past Saturday...Breast milk has been my primary source of nutrition for 5 whole months! Mom has such an awesome support group (shout out to DAD), combined with a lot of luck, and motivation. She would have had a much more difficult time keeping this up if she didn't have her own office at work, and the support and understanding from her boss and co-workers. They allow her to "Pump in Peace" 3 times a day! It has not been an easy road, and there have been many times where she has been super stressed trying to keep up with me. In the beginning...she wasn't sure if we were going to make it two weeks! Our goal is to make it to 6 months, with breast milk being my primary source of nutrition. Anything after 6 months will just be "icing on the cake."

Well, that is it for now. Let’s hope that this next month doesn’t go by so fast. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

The Beginning of THE END

Guess what this means, ya'll?:

Yep. That's right. It is...THAT TIME. The beginning of the END. I have been showing a HUGE interest in food when Mom and Dad eat at home, and when the other kids are chowing down at daycare. My Doc also told Mom and Dad that we could start a mixed grain cereal at 5 months. AND...I turn 5 Months Old TOMORROW. Crazy, right? So, Mom and Dad thought it might be a good time to introduce me to my first taste of solid food. Well...I guess you could call it "solid." It was so thinned out that I wouldn't even call it soup. They decided to try rice cereal instead of the mixed grain cereal to start. BUT, I LOVED IT! I just couldn't get enough~ Mom mixed it with a little bit of apple juice (to give it SOME flavor), and water. Mom waited about an hour after my liquid lunch to let me try it. Mommy's milk will still be 98% of my food supply for the next month or so (if all goes as planned).
Oooh YEAH. Give me some of THAT!



They also caught my first taste on video. Enjoy!:

Here are some pictures from the taste-testing:

Mmmmmm. Not Bad!










Let's just say it was also very MESSY. Dad had to change my pants:


I decided I could use some play-time after my little snack:


Success!
Today, we also took Molly to the vet to get her knee looked at. This was a follow-up appointment from her knee surgery in November. Looks like the doc would like to do another surgery. Oh, well. The doc said that Molly's knee just isn't 100% yet. Poor Molly!


Tomorrow I am 5 months old! Mom is going to try to put together a post for me. I'm just growing so much everyday, and my personality is really starting to show.