Daddy come back!!!

Daddy is gone for work this week and we REALLY, REALLY miss him!!!  This week was a wake-up call for mom on how much daddy really does for us!

On top of missing daddy, we have a tooth coming in.  This thing has GOT to come through soon.  We normally get to sleep all night but the past three nights have not gone all so well.  We're hoping to go for a good night tonight!

On top of that, we're going to try to get into a new, better food routine.  We haven't quite kept up on the breakfast, lunch, dinner routine so that's going to be our new plan with snacks/bottles in between. I can't believe my baby is 7 months old now too...that is just CRAZY!  I feel like it was just yesterday I thought they were going to put me on bed rest and little did I know they told me I was going to go home with a baby! He's really trying to get up on those knees and elbows and scoot.  His super cool trick is to do circles laying on the floor. If you put toys in a circle he will spin around and play with all of them.  He got a new toy, well more than one, but a hammer that he's going to help with on our house!!  Thanks to Jackie!  We're also in our walker however we can barely touch the floor so we don't make much progress.  The fun thing while mommy cooks it to play with the animal magnets on the fridge.  **Pictures to follow once downloaded!

Things have been CRAZY busy as usual.  Mommy learned to golf, daddy tore down our shed, Father's day, daddy goes on a work trip.  I'm sure it will get crazier than calm down before we know it.  Since Cale has taken over our house we need more room so we're in the plan of an addition.  It's going to be a LONG road!

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Sleepy boy!

I'm really starting to love watching Gabby:) Soon I'll be pulling her tail!

Best news of all...I can hold my own bottle now!!!!

Happy 1st Father's Day!

Love my Mommy!

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Sippy cup!!!
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Swimming and sick:(

Well...we made our first trip to the doctor this week:(  He had a runny nose for the past week and we just thought it was teeth.  Then he started with a cough.  Tuesday night, after a VERY long and tiring weekend, someone was VERY grumpy and the cough was horrible.  We went to the dr Wednesday and he had fluid in his left ear and chest congestion.  Of course, they tell you to come back the next day if it gets worse and since he hadn't had a fever yet.

Good news is...we have our happy baby back after a few days.  Still a little raspy sounding and coughs once in awhile but we seem to be on the mend!

Anywho....Where has time gone?!  Can you believe that I bought my preemie baby boy 12 month clothes this weekend?  He's wearing 9mo. and I know will be out of those shortly.  He is growing like a week.  I almost teared up when I was buying them cause it made me realize just how fast time has gone.  It feels like just yesterday we were discussing having a baby.

Guess who can almost sit up alone?  That's right...this big boy...

We got this super cool toy at a garage sale that he has to sit up to play with and he loved it.  Which reminds me...NEVER again does anyone need to buy a toy from a store.  Seriously...$2 for what would cost me $20...guess where you can find me...garage saling!!!

And...we are also now in..

Our BIG BOY CARSEAT!  Woohoo!!!  That carrier was getting way too heavy.  Bad news is we haven't figured out how he's comfortable in it and when he's tired he screams until you get him out  So...I think we need to do some adjusting. 

Guess who went swimming for the first time?!??!  He loved it once he learned to kick his feet when we were in the water.  We also got a pool (garage sale find) that's just the right size for him to play and me to lay out!  We can't wait to use it this weekend and the rest of the summer!

We have a SUPER busy weekend plan...garage sales, swimming, mommy's doing a 5k and celebrating her birthday and daddy will be working on our new project....tearing down and building a new shed....then onto the house...

Adios amigos!

6 Months Old

Hi Everyone!!  I'm 6 months old and today...I learn how to use...a Sippy Cup!!!

I haven't totally gotten the concept yet...but I am working hard on it:)  We have quite the chunker on our hands...6 month stats:

Weight: 19lb 2oz (75th percentile)

Height: 26 1/2 in (50th percentile)

Cale has been rolling ALL OVER the place.  And whoa...can he sit up!  When you sit him down in his carseat or rocker he tries to sit up straight.  We really need to get switched to the convertible carseat.  He's kind of nosey too (not sure where he gets it:) ) and has a hard time napping when action is happening. Oh..and he LOVES to jump.  A few days ago he spent an entire hour in the jumperoo.  I could literally sit and watch him for hours playing.  The past few weeks he has really learned the concept of how to grab onto things.  His favorites are anything on your face or the cell phone!  

No teeth...yet.  WE (and yes I say we cause I hurt for him when I know they are bothering him) are working on it.  The hand rarely leaves the mouth unless its for something else to go in there.  

Otherwise--that's all that up in the world of "Baby Cale" as they call him at Donna's. We have a SUPER busy summer coming up....lots and lots going on:)  I'm sure next post will involve crawling cause that little booty "rump roast" as Daddy calls it is getting up the air and he can scoot from one end of a blanket to another.  

Tata for now...enjoy the pics below:)

Who you talking to?!

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Carpet farming with my daddy!

Always behind....

Since I'm ALWAYS behind on my blog postings...I'll post a 5 month picture since Cale is almost 6 months old!

In the past few weeks we have discovered our feet, ear, and mommy's lips!  That's the newest thing...when mommy makes a noise with her lips I try to find them but it takes me a little while to figure out where i"m putting my hand.  I love to pretend I'm in a boat with mommy and we sing "row, row, row your boat" and practice sitting up.  He's doing awesome...we are ALMOST there! I tried to sit in a high chair last week (5 mo. 2 weeks old) and I had a little trouble with sliding with I did pretty good!

 Trying really hard to sit up on my own!

Sitting in a high chair at TGIFriday's for Hailey's birthday!

Hmn...what else have we been up to?!!!  Oh ya...how could I forget...yesterday was MOTHER'S DAY!  Woo-hoo....mommy's get celebrated ONE day out of the year:)  Cale woke mommy up with presents in bed followed by breakfast!  Then we took a nice long nap together (after a full nights sleep) before heading off to Grandma Ackerman's to get kissed on a lot. Then Daddy, Cale, Grandpa and Grammy worked in the yard!  

I may be partial but I think I got the best present ever....here is a picture of the necklace they got me. I LOVE it!

Guess what else I'm REALLY working on doing....

You got that right....holding my own bottle.  I'm such a BIG boy.  It's pretty funny to watch because if he "starving" (or so he thinks!) he gets super mad and will grab onto it like if he doesn't get it in his mouth the world will end.  He can't keep it in steady so we help.  If he is at the end he gets mad cause he can't quite figure out how to tip it up.  It's so fun to watch cause he's slowly figuring it out:)  

Just incase you were wondering..Cale has been busy making his 1st birthday wish list..he'll get you all his list when he's got it written out:)

It is so amazing to look back and see how big he has gotten and to watch him grow and discover.  Aaron and I always say "I can't wait until he does ...(ex: walk)" but in reality...time is going WAY too fast:(  We're just so lucky to have such a happy, healthy, good baby!!

Videos I've been promising: ARghh....the uploader for videos isn't working....Will upload these later:(

Bed for now...I REALLY need to get my pictures uploaded to shutterfly..heck on my computer for that fact.  If only there were more hours in a day......Goodnight:)

SO BEHIND...

O-M-G...I am SO behind on posting to this blog.  Why does time go so fast and life is so crazy?!?!?!?!  I just want it to ssssllllloooowww down.  Guess who is now rolling over?!  You got that right...my 5 month old baby boy.  5 months already?...I know that's what you just said.  Where has time gone?!  5 months ago yesterday we were welcoming baby Cale and now he's a rolly polly little boy.

Easter is the weekend...so we HAD to go see the Easter bunny of course!  Luckily he wasn't taking a carrot break while we were there and we had to hurry cause Mr. Nosey would NOT nap while we were out in about and he was just starting to get cranky!

I have videos I desperately need to post.  Of course Mr. Congeniality does not like to display his awesomeness on camera.  As soon as we pull the bloggie out he gives us a blank stare and stops what he's doing! aah!!!  One day he'll show off for us!  

Next post...all about rolling over and VIDEOS!!! Finally!!!

Adios!