Grandma Laurie

Today is a very important day for my family ... the day my mother was born!!! I am one of those lucky people who can say my mom has always been there for me. She has been a wonderful mother and now she is a wonderful grandmother. You can see it in our little man cubs face that he loves her; whenever she talks to him his little face lights up!! So today I want to wish my mother a very happy birthday!!!

And because every post is better with a picture here is a picture of Grandma Laurie as a cute, chubby baby!

I'm getting married in the morning ...

well I'm not getting married, but my good friend from college did! It was a family only ceremony followed by a cupcakes and hot coco reception. It was so beautiful and they are a wonderful couple. We had to snap a few pictures of our little man cub all dressed up :)

He didn't want to look at the camera; he wanted to eat the flowers!

6 months!!

Our little man cub is 6 months old!!! and since we are wonderful parents we took him to his 6 month check to make sure that he is healthy and document it so we can prove to him that we were good parents when he becomes a punk big kid :) Anyways, he did really well. The poor nurse had quite a challenge though, we went first thing in the morning so he was wide awake and ready to play. Everytime she tried to stretch him out to measure him he wiggled like crazy and started laughing .. we think this might be due to a tickle game we play while changing his diaper. Then when she went to wiegh him he wouldn't stop moving. The scale usually will set on a certain weight if the baby stays still for a second... he didn't stay still, even for a second! So we took some educated guesses and here are the stats: height 29 inches putting him in the 90th percentile and weight 18lbs 4ozs putting him in the 75th percentile!!

My Valentine!

My wonderful husband usually takes our little man cub for a walk to get the mail when he gets home. That way I get a few precious minutes to myself. Well, he was very excited when our little man cub received his very first valentine!! His godparents were so sweet and sent him his own card as you can see he enjoyed it very much (so much that he tried to eat it!).




... and here is the picture that we sent out as a Valentine. Isn't our little man cub adorable?!?!?!

The SwaddleMe ...

is a lifesaver!!!! When our little man cub was 6 weeks old we decided it was time for him to sleep in his own bed. Well, needless to say he totally disagreed with us and put up quite a fight ... until I remembered the SwaddleMe. The SwaddleMe is a bag of sorts that you slip the baby into and velcro them into a swaddle. We swaddle the little man cub up and he fell fast asleep, and has continued to do for the last 4 1/2 months!!!

Anyways, I thought it was so cute that I wanted to get some pictures of our little man cub in his SwaddleMe before he outgrow it. The first picture shows you the steps ... 1. pull out tab, 2. attach left side, 3. attach right side. It is that easy!!


You can tell in this picture that he is a bit confused. I don't usually swaddle him up for no reason, so he is trying to figure out if it's naptime :)

Fire Drill!!!

This is a long story and for the sake of telling it smoothly we need to name some people, so here they are ... Neighbor A lives next door, Neighbor B and her daughter (both are handicapped) live across the way, and Neighbor C isn't a neighbor, but helps Neighbor B and her daughter.

So the other day my wonderful husband decided I could use to get some sleep and took Our Little Man Cub for a nice long walk while I took a nap. Well, about an hour in to my nap I was awoken by a loud (I mean LOUD!!!) noise. I jumped out of bed, looked around for the baby, remembered the baby was with dad, grabbed my phone and ran out the door. As I stepped out the door I smelled and saw a ton of smoke. In the hallway Neighbor A was yelling something, but I couldn't understand so I left the building.

Once out of the building I called my husband to see were he was. He said he was down the street and he saw the fire department heading in the direction of our apartment complex. At this point I realized that Neighbor B and her daughter hadn't made an appearance, so I ran back upstairs to find them. Luckily Neighbor A and C were helping them out!! I helped them finish getting down the stairs and then was shocked to see not one, but three fire trucks pull up .. I mean within 10 minutes of the alarm going off there were firemen with axes running up the stairwell, A huge latter going up to the roof (with a fireman on it), and a paramedic truck!!!

Well I was standing to the side trying to stay out of the way when Neighbor C filled me in on what had happened. Neighbor C went to get the mail and when she came back the whole hallway was filled with smoke. So she knocked on Neighbor B's door to find out what was going on. Neighbor B called the fire department and pulled the fire alarm while Neighbor C ran down the hallway feeling all the doors to see which one was hot. When she got to (hummm... let call this person dumb lady) dumb ladies door it was open with smoke pouring out of it. She yelled in to see if there was anybody in there and dumb lady answered that she was there and everything was fine!!! Fine ... there is smoke everywhere?!?!?! Well we didn't trust dumb lady, so we evacuated the building.

As it turns out dumb lady had put a dish towel on the stove, forgot about it, lite it on fire, and then took a long time to put it out. So by the time she got it out and opened up her door to air it out there was a lot of smoke. So everything ended up being fine, but since its such a big complex the fire department like to start out aggressive just in case. And since I'm a dork I thought we need some photographic evidence of my little adventure :)

Eating!!

My little man cub is eating now! He loves rice cereal and of course his sippy cup.