Upchuck

I suppose it's that time of year with sickness going around. Some of my friends at Chesterbrook were sick last week and I think I got part of it, or something.

Last Monday Daddy stayed home with me because Chesterbrook was closed for President's Day, but Mommy still had school. Then overnight Thursday into Friday I didn't feel so good and tossed my cookies. So Daddy kept me home again to keep an eye on me.

I slept a lot Friday, but in the afternoon I felt much better! Still though I had some issues overnight, but the rest of Saturday and most of Sunday, I was close to my old self.

Which let me tell is a whole lot of fun if I may say so myself. I really like exploring the house and seeing all the stuff I can get into. I like hugging the kitties....when they let me!

A couple of times, Mommy sat me on her lap and called Grandma on her laptop. Grandma's in Florida with Luke and Alex and I got to see them too, that was pretty neat.

I did okay today with feeling better and keeping my food down, so maybe I'm getting past whatever sickness was going around. We'll see...

Catch Up 2

Since mommy's school is done for the summer, I'm pretty home all the time now. Which means I finished up at the Learning Express - my favorite day care school! So an extra special shout out to Miss Donna and Miss Valerie (a former East Lincoln color guard member!) for taking such good care of me the last 6 months. I'll miss you guys!

That also means Grandma Connelly's not coming over as much anymore, but mommy takes me to see her which is fun because she's almost always getting me neat stuff.

Like a few days ago she took me to this place and was buying me a hat (I'm not that big on hats right now, but since it's grandma I let it slide) the problem was she had to buy the hat size for 18-24 month olds because my noodle-noggin's so huge.

Daddy makes fun of my big head but it just makes me giggle because I'll end up being smarter than he is, he just doesn't realize it yet.

Oh hey did you all hear??? My cousin Lukas is getting a baby brother this Fall!


That's it for now....we're still working on the videos.

Milestones: Snow and Rolling Over

Six days shy of my 5-month birthday I got to see my first snow! And boy was it cold too. Mommy said no 2 snowflakes are alike, but all I saw was white on everything, then mushy stuff on everything and then just plain chilly rain.

So that's snow, eh? I could do without, but it was something new so a big "yay!" for me I guess.

Mommy was more excited yesterday because of the thing I started doing with Grandma Connelly at Gymboree. I flipped over from my front to back.

After I did that at Gymboree people started clapping and that felt pretty good inside, so I figure I'll have to do it again. When mommy got home Grandma put me on my tummy and asked me to do it again.

But first I impressed mommy by holding my head up high and strong, how 'bout that, eh?

Then I remembered the clapping thing so I rolled over and mommy got all kinds of excited, so we did it again and then once more just to show it wasn't a trick or anything.

Mommy says it won't be long now before I start crawling.....whatever that is I hope it doesn't involve any of that snow stuff.

The week that was

Last week was fun and interesting. My new bestest buddy Bridget watched me all week. Some of you may recall me mentioning Bridget's name earlier, she was the wonderful person who subbed for mommy while she stayed home with me for a while.

Well, of course mommy went back to work and Bridget was available to watch me for the week. We went for some walks and played a lot....okay yeah, a lot of sleep in there too, but you know what I'm getting at.

See, the day care mommy and daddy were planning to use fell through, but so far no big deal. I get to stay home and between Bridget and Grandma Connelly (psst...she just had a birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!) they've been watching me.

But here's the other thing, last week was my buddy Ryan's last week helping mommy teach her bands. Some of you know Ryan and some don't - Ryan is heading off to the Air Force, but before he flew off, he took time to help help teach the bands.

He's a fun guy....makes me laugh. Well last Friday, we went to his other job at Longhorn Steakhouse to help celebrate his last night there. We had a good time, you should've seen daddy trying to eat his dinner and feed me my bottle at the same time - funny sight!

So to close - thank you Bridget and Ryan!

3 Months Old

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been 3 months already! I've been learning lots of new things and working on perfecting others.

If you haven't seen me in a little while, I look very different. Maybe daddy will post some of my new pictures on my picture page... it seems as though they are constantly taking new pictures of me. Grandma Connelly says I'm starting to look like my mommy, thanks to my new chubby cheeks. (Mommy wasn't sure how to take that comment, but she was happy nonetheless.) I'm still losing my hair faster than it's growing back. I keep hearing that this is how I'll look when I get a lot older, too. But, that's million of years away.

My vision is getting much better. I can see almost 15 feet, which means I can see my mommy and daddy from across the room. My eyes are still a deep blue color, which my mommy loves. I recently watched my very first Baby Einstein video... WOW, it was sooo cool.

I'm working on holding my head up on my own. It still wobbles every now and then, but I'm working hard to steady it. When I lay stomache-down on my Boppy pillow, I pretty good at holding up my head to look around. I'm still working on lifting my head when laying flat on my stomache. (I'm not a big fan of "tummy time.") Mommy and daddy are trying to teach me to use my arms to push up, but I like to pretend I'm a seal and lift from my chest.

I'm still not sure what these things are on the end of my arms, but I'm discovering I can use them to grab my favorite baby-sized blanket (mommy says its a washcloth) to stuff into my mouth. This also helps me wipe off this wet stuff constantly dribbling out of my mouth...I always like to look my best. These things on the end of my arms are also fun to stuff into my mouth and to make some of my hanging toys move back and forth.

And then there are these things on the end of my legs... I have no idea who they belong to!!

I learned something very fun recently -- Mommy was holding me upright and whenever I pushed and tried to straighten my legs, I zoomed very high into the air. Oh, how fun!! I could do this all day. I tried doing this again while laying down in my crib, but I didn't seem to go anywhere. Hmmm...