6 Months Old - 7.26.10

Happy Half Birthday to our sweet boy, Drew!

Drew is 6 Months old!

At 4 months, I knew it was OK to give Drew solids, but I wasn't quite ready. Everything I read said that all babies need for the first six months is milk, and my doctor confirmed. So we decided to wait until Drew's 6 month "birthday" to try solids. I geared myself up for this event because I really appreciate and enjoy the fact that up until this point every little cell in his tiny body was once part of me! Super cheesy, but this was a big milestone for mama! We skipped all the cereals and went for homemade sweet potatoes for his first meal. Here is the result...

He likes it!??? Not so much.

We do love his "Baby Flea" bib that Grandma made!!

The video is hilarious. I will see if I can post it on youtube and I'll put a link on here if I can.

Drew with his Dottie the Giraffe from Grandma and his Ellie the Elephant from Grandpa. It will be fun explaining one day that Grandma isn't married to Grandpa...she's married to Pops. Hmmm. :)

Here's to another fabulous 6 months with Mr. Drew!! Love that boy!

Day in the Life of Drew

The other day I pulled out some of his 6-9 month clothes and, lo and behold, they were too small already! This outfit is a size 12 months!!! He is still technically only 5 months old. That's a big boy!

**Let's just say there was an explosion and the outfit didn't make it all day with Drew. I decided to spare you the pics.

So Mr. Drew had a mid-day bath. Here he is as a baby burrito!

And all clean!

Practice...

When it comes to advice from our pediatrician, I am a huge rule follower/stickler. So when he told us absolutely nothing in the crib until he was 6 months old, I took him at his word. Drew hasn't had any blankets, bumper, lovies or toys at all in his crib yet! I'm not quite sure how the kid sleeps because I wouldn't be comfy like that, that's for sure! We lay him down with just his footie jammies on and that's it. Well, he turns 6 months old on Monday, so I decided to let him practice sleeping with a blanket for his afternoon nap today! He's on the floor in the living room with me watching him :) Whatta big boy - sleeping with a blankie! Wooo hooo!!

Gone are the Days....

...when I can put Drew on a blanket and pop out of the room for 5 seconds!

Sorry Blogger, Drew Loves Face Book!

Rock on, peeps.

Check out my new 'do, folks!
(Oh, and my first mosquito bite on the middle of my forehead!)

My 3 Cuties...

Cookie Monster

4th of July and Sleepy Guy

This post is a little belated, but we spent the 4th of July weekend in Ctown. The 3rd was Katie & Wes's wedding and on the 4th we went up to Me-Maw's for a BBQ luncheon.

Me, Drew, Gma & Me-Maw

Me-Maw and her Great Grandson

Daddy and Drew lounging

Sometimes he sleeps with both arms up like this! Too funny!

Baby Bjorn

Ignore the sweaty mama and look at this cutie pie who went for a walk with his sun hat on! Love that lil guy!

Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Watts!

On 7.10.10 Kala and Andrew were married! Congratulations to the newlyweds!

Mr. & Mrs. Watts

Sneaky pic of Kala (don't worry, this won't make it to FB)!

Tracie & Amy

Me, Mandy, Malinda & Chaunie

5th grade teachers w/ Kala

aka Awesome Dancers

When Kala first got engaged, she sent out an email to a bunch of girls assigning us each a song to perform to at her reception. We decided to play along with this joke and found some hideous spandex dance costumes online. We emailed Kala a pic of the costumes and told her we'd be there with feathers on, ready to dance! SO, at her reception we heard our names being called over the microphone to come up and perform our dance!!! Chaundra broke out in hives as the song "Don't You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me" played over the speakers. What choice did we have? We busted a move on the dance floor. OOoh, Kala, thanks for that one! Fun times, fun times!

Congrats to the happy couple!

The Armentrouts Visit!

Keri and Karl made a pitstop at our house on their way back home from California. Here's what our living room looked like for a day or so.....

Filled with kids, babies, and a pup! I loved it!!

Holly & Molly

Violet also loved Molly, but she didn't want her picture taken with her!

Mmmmmmmmm, cookie dough.

Titus & Drew. Serious cuteness.


Hey, buddy!



I've known Keri since the 1st grade back at Liberty Elementary. It's so fun that our boys are 3 months apart!


Future Aggie Roommates?
Whoop class of 2032!

While they were here, my friend, Kala, got married! So the Armentrouts were Drew's first official "non-family" babysitters! Whatta milestone (for mommy!!!)! Actually, when you've known someone as long as I've known Keri, she pretty much counts as family! Thanks for a great visit and a successful babysitting adventure, Armentrouts!

Let's give it up for....Mr. & Mrs. Baker!

Last weekend my awesome friend and college roomie, KatieAnn tied the knot! I am so happy for her and Wes. Their wedding was beautiful and Katie was a gorgeous bride!! As noted in the toast, Wes deserves the award for the "marathon pursuit of Katie."

I think a life married to her is just the right prize :)

Wes & Katie Baker

The wedding was in a beautiful vineyard

They escaped in a silver Mustang with sparklers all around!

Me with Dre

Kilgores

(excuse the humid drowned rat hair I have going on)

The girls with Mrs. Baker

Andrea, Me, Halie, Katie, Laura, Sarah

Emily, Traci

Fun Peeps

Sarah, Dre, Steve, Traci & CJ

Drew hearts Sophie....the giraffe, that is!

Sophie the giraffe is a pretty popular teething toy for babes. It's all natural rubber and the ink is food grade. So, it's super "green" and safe for kiddos. It is also light weight and has lots of smaller parts that 5 month olds can actually fit into their mouths! Matt's dad was over the other day and noticed that the teething rings were too big and heavy for Drew....so he bought him Sophie! Drew loves it!!! Look at the enthusiasm in that first pic....hilarious!

5 Months Old -- 6.26.10

Drew is 5 months old!

He had his first ear infection last week, but he is on the mend. At that Dr appt, he weighed in at 17lbs 9oz. That's my big guy!! He is also rolling around like crazy, so getting these 2 pictures (with Dottie and the elephant) was no easy task! He's a serious roly poly (in several ways)!

Whatta Life!

Loooooooove me some sweet cheeks!

I found a fun new (well, new to me) website called Photobucket. You can upload images and play with them for free! Here's Drew in his cute Nike track suit from Valarie and the gang! So funny!

Dallas Aquarium

It's hard to believe that after all the years we've lived in Dallas, we've never been to the aquarium. It was awesome!! It was really more of a jungle/rainforest exhibit than a true aquarium, but very very cool. The babies loved it. Drew especially liked the "Pintada" and Katelyn loved pretty much everything! The only thing Drew didn't like was the Mayan dancers - ha!

Katelyn was into the "baby" exhibit here.

That's a gigantic crocodile behind the glass. Drew would've been a light snack for that fella.

Carrying the babes.

Gma and Pops

Woah!

Very cool.