First Day of Fall!

Rice cereal proved to be a success! This morning you slept until 7:30am! If you had met me a year ago, 7:30am would have been practically the middle of the night on a Saturday morning...not sleeping in! We were all up so early, we went to Wal-mart before church! This trip to Wal-Mart was special...we purchased baby food! Tme out...you just woke up...you had fallen asleep drinking a bottle. I'll have to finish later :) Okay, so it's later...much later, a different day actually, but regardless; Sunday,let me think??? Ahhh yes, so, we went to church in El Dorado. We do this sometimes because daddy's grandma and aunts and uncles live in El Dorado. Daddy's Aunt Sue invited us over for lunch after church. You slept all through church until the very end. At Aunt Sue's you were getting a little hungry so I fed you some baby food peas....you really seemed to like them. I

Solid food, car seats, and RAZORBACKS!

You are sitting in between my legs. We are watching the Razorback's play Alabama. This is your first Razorback game (we are in our living room), and you just finished your first big girl walk in your stroller without your car seat, and you just finished your first go at rice cereal! I have been so excited to try rice cereal. The last three nights you have pretty much woken up every hour...which is killing me. It is Saturday and you woke up for the day at 5:45am. We went to Lori Fast's rummage sale and picked up some things, and then killed time driving around until Daddy called letting us know he was awake...this has become our Saturday ritual. So once home, we all went for a stroll around the neighborhood. You in your stroller sans seat, and Ollie sans collar! You both did well. After the walk, we took a snooze. Usually you would snooze as long as I. However, today you would awaken every few minutes to nurse. Daddy wanted to wait until Wednesday, your fifth month birthday, to introduce solids...but I couldn't stand another sleepless night; so we decided to try today...your birthday weekend! So, I went to Woods supermarket, about two blocks from our house. I got rice cereal, and some coffee for me. I came home, you and Daddy were hangingadcz (you are typing too now) out. I got your cereal ready, using a measuring spoon, I fixed the cereal exactly according to the directions. I opened our new big girl bowls, and your spoon; I put your bow around your head, and picked out the perfect bib...we were READY! Daddy had the video ready, and I had the camera close at hand. We decided on the bouncy vs your high chair (bad idea) and away we went. Turns out the cereal was so runny, it looked just like milk...and you had just had a bottle with Daddy. Regardless...we took pics and videoed you slurping your first tastes of rice cereal. Long story short...you are now on my lap "drinking" your rice cereal from a bottle :)

Potential first night in your crib......................................................

Sooooo much has happened since I last blogged. Last weekend we travelled to Chicago for a wedding (you were perfect on the plane), you had your first taste of ice cream in the Midway airport, you are now dabbling in sitting up without support...but do really well for a 4 1/2 month old either way, you ate at your first McDonalds, rode on your first plane...the list goes on and on it seems! I will for sure elaborate but for now, I think I am going to keep grappling with the decision of wether or not I leave you snoozing in your crib...or sneak in and take you to bed with me. I have NEVER EVER left you in your crib at night. I am spying on you via monitor and you are totally zonked out, I hate to bother you...but I hate to leave you alone too. It is storming, what if there is a tornado?!? Ohhhhh what to do???!!!