Softball...State Champs

Last week was a whirl-wind of events in our lives! I don't know if I have mentioned that our house is on the market. It has been for a couple of weeks. You and I have been spending the night with G&G Headrick at least once a week for the past few weeks it seems, and last week was no exception...except for the fact that daddy joined us! It was like a little vacay at the Hotel Headrick. Ollie, Maggie, you and I and daddy all packed up on Thursday evening and spent the night! I said spent the night, I did not say slept because that would have been a lie. You have had a pretty rough cold. You have had more snot than any baby should be allowed to produce! So, sleeping and nursing were pretty much out of the question. We started out the night in Uncle Coles room with daddy. But you only snoozed for a couple of hours. After that you were awake and cranky and I couldn't get you to rest at all! I finally, for the first time ever, resorted to cruising around Nevada at 2am to try to get you to fall asleep. You did. So I tip-toed back into the house and down to Aunt Blairs room so as not to disturb daddy. You slept in your carrier for about one hour almost on the dot! So at this point in time it was 3:22am you were awake again. We didn't sleep after that. I watched a little tv upstairs and then decided to get ready. While I was in the shower I heard

This past weekend started early and ended late! School was cancelled on Friday due to the fact that the girls softball team made it to the final four state playoffs! The bank let daddy skip work on Friday to attend the game with us!

Sleep...glorious sleep!

I think we finally figured out that we MUST delete your mid-evening nap. So last night, we ate dinner at G&G Bishop's house and you started to get really tired around 7pm. So we started to pack up, once in the car, you were so sleepy that I couldn't do anything to keep you awake. So, we let you sleep once we got home. Daddy spoke loudly to Ollie and you started crying. We decided to skip bath time and we all (Mommy, Daddy, Ollie, Maggie, Max the cat, and of course YOU!) went downstairs to watch Dexter and hopefully get you to sleep. You were pretty restless, I expected the worst of course...another sleepless night. But once you fell asleep for good, you slept until 3:37am, and at point you nursed, drank a few ounces from a bottle and slept. You slept so long that I overslept too! I only had about 30 min. to get ready. But, that was fine with me! Sleep was the best thing ever, and it still is! Don't get me wrong, you have been a peach in the sleep dept. and it seems that you only have trouble when I don't keep up with your dietary needs. Since you are crawling like a madwoman now, you need more to eat! Basically you started a couple of weeks ago with the first foods, and really and truely skipped the seconds...even though that is what you are eating now...and we need to get the thirds I suppose! Did I mention yesterday that you tried macaronni and cheese dinner this weekend at G&G Headricks and LOVED IT! You come by that honestly...that is your Daddy's most favorite meal! One of Mommy and Daddy's first dates consisted of mac and cheese, chocolate shakes, and

Crawling

You are on the black and pink quilt from your Great Grandma Bishop right now...crawling up to Maggie! MADE IT! Just as you grabbed onto two handfuls of hair, Maggie hopped up and took off to wrestle with Ollie! Now they are wrestling in the living room...you are  the audience. Ughh they smell awful. I don't know how to give them a bath with you around...without your daddy, now that you are extremely mobile. I have to find a way...this is ridiculous. My sense of smell has been 100x since I was pregnant with you. Oh my gosh, you were on your way to Ollie just now and Ollie plopped down into his "play" stance...I had to get his attention, I was afraid he would pounce on you to play...now you are on your way back to him and he is watching you like you are a new toy...oh no!?!?

Okay...Doggies are clean. You really didn't enjoy sitting in your walker during the bath session. But I got you laughing on the bed by tickling your neck, toes, feet, basically every part is ticklish.

So crawling. Two Tuesdays ago, you started showing interest...you would get up on all fours, and sway back and forth like you were gaining momentum to get going. Over the past two weeks you have gotten better and better. This weekend we spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Headrick while daddy was out of town at BC's homecoming weekend. While at G & G's you really worked on crawling to get to Maggie and Ollie and to Mocha as well.  We took all of your toys out, and you are more used to our walker vs their walker b/c you would RUN super fast in our walker chasing the doggies at their house.( oh no, you just realized I was on the computer and you are now trying to crawl up ME to get to the computer which is now on the ottoman. ) Daddy came home last night and  you really started actual and "fast" crawling. You wanted the computer. I was checking facebook or something and you just wanted to touch the keyboard so badly that you would crawl to wherever the computer was! ok time out...Im gonna hunt for a baby site for you. Duh...why not create our own video of you crawling up to the computer!

Weekend Fun!

So this weekend I was actually super excited for you to wake up so we could do our "thing". You woke up early at 6:30am...actually your warm leaky diaper woke us both up around 6:30am. So we got up and got into the bath...together! You were so confused. I just thought that since we were both covered in pee pee, that it just made sense. Daddy was snoozing away, and since we had slept on the couch, we were able to take a bath and slip out the door by about 7:15am. Our Saturday morning business includes a trip through the McDonalds drive thru to pick up my "usual" of a coffee, diet coke, and an egg mcmuffin sans the meat. I need lots of caffeine to make it on Saturdays. Then for the second time, we begin our hunt for cool garage sales. Rarely do we actually get out at the sales...merely hunting is satisfying enough. It's like a game, can we find an exer-caucer, or a jogging stroller?! I did buy a few jammies and some toys from various sales of people we knew. Daddy called around 10'ish, so we headed back home!

Mommy and Daddy went to the NRMC gala to represent Daddy's bank. Grandma and Grandpa H. were there too. It was fun. You hung out with Aunti Blair for the evening. She said you enjoyed playing peek-a-boo with Uncle Shane, and that you had really stinky gas...and you would pass a little and then smile really big!

Sunday we decided to take a trip to KC to pick up your bat costume from Pottery Barn Kids. Once we got there and tried the costume on, it wasn't as cute as we had planned. SO, we purchased the bumble bee costume. SUPER CUTE, with a matching treat bumble bee! So, now you have enough costumes to wear one each day of Halloween week :) Obsessive? Maybe...Cool? For sure, I mean, you will only have your first Halloween once!

We also got you a cute jacket for you and a super cute fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving outfit from Janie and Jack...a favorite shop of ours! And to round out the trip, we picked out a jogging stroller.

Once home we ate pizza with Grandma and Grandpa B. and hung out with Aunt Brooke and Uncle Darrick. Last night we went to sleep around 10:30pm and you woke up at 12:47pm,1:47am, and then you were ready for a conversation of great magnitude at 3:15am...so we got up...you ate, talked, played, rocked......all until around 4am...I finally got you to sleep and I snoozed until 5:33am and then got up. I am getting ready to rush out the door to get you, maybe I will be up for a jog in your new stroller...doubt it though...more like a nap :)