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Zach and I have known Gage for several years now as we met back in Public Relations classes in college. Zach and Gage have stayed in touch and have met up for lunch once in awhile. Well Gage has always mentioned how he has a beach condo down in Panama City Beach and that we should go sometime! Why not go for Zach's birthday weekend? The view from his condo...so pretty!!! Kye LOVED the mirror wall! I even took a quick little video of it (yes, I'm taking more videos as our real video camera isn't working so these are all I have!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoPbwiv4AFM We didn't get there until LATE Friday night...we thought we'd be able to rush down after Kye's 3:00 feeding and make it to the condo before his 7:00 one but we were wrong and we ended up having to park in some random parking lot 20 min shy of the destination so I could nurse. Then of course Z accidentally left his Polo sunglasses I got him for our anniversary on top of the car and they we...
Friday was Zach's 25th Birthday! I really wanted to make the day a special one, and I think I was successful ;) Here's the old man with all his presents! Mom got him 2 really cool shirts that he loves and a cool hat too! This would make an awesome profile picture for him if he had a facebook! So good! Since we've been dieting and we're hurting for money I thought I'd get a smaller cake this year...we pigged out on it too and had a "cheat weekend" haha Reading the card Kye got Daddy! Helping open presents..good practice for Christmas! From Kye (it went with the golf themed birthday) Every year Zach and I have a budget for how much we're allowed to spend on each other at each holiday. And each holiday we go WAY over. My last birthday Zach more than doubled the budget...it was awesome but we just can't afford to keep doing that. This year for his birthday I am so proud of myself b/c I stuck to the budget exactly (well I don't count ...
First, let me apologize for this looong post filled with SO many pictures! I'm sorry but there were just too many good ones and I had to use them all :) The morning of Zach's birthday we decided to take Kye on his first trip to our neighborhood park to play. We went right after his 7 am feeding because we knew it wouldn't be crowded and the sun wouldn't be too bright. It was perfect weather and Kye LOVED it! Swinging with Mommy And with Daddy First time down a slide! Playing on his own Mommy and Daddy had to step in once it went in the mouth :) Peaking through the rock climbing wall Peak-a-boo! My favorites...such a big boy! I love that laugh Thinking hard Some lady offered to take a family picture of us! I'll never turn down that opportunity :) First time in a swing! He loved it, of course! "Hi Mommy!" Waiting to be pushed again On the play set Making music! It was such a fun morning, even though we only stayed out ther...
From the beginning the swaddle has been a wonderful sleep tool for our family! Kye LOVED it and it really helped him to be able to sleep. I don't know what we would have done without our Swaddlemes ! The first couple of weeks of Kye's life he was too small to use the size Small ones we had and it was tough to swaddle him the old fashioned way with blankets. He did great once the Smalls fit and then came the day when he fit into the biggest size they have. I bought 2 cotton ones and one fleece one thinking that we'd mostly use the cotton ones and guess what? Kye only liked the fleece one! The poor kid would be SO sweaty but hey he slept great! (Here he is last week when he broke out of the swaddle and moved to his tummy) For the last month or so my gut has been telling me that it's time to get rid of the swaddle but I've been too afraid to let it go. I worried that he wouldn't be able to sleep without it! So instead I spent his entire second half of each ...
Here is where What to Expect the First Year recommends that a 5 month old "should" be at developmentally and here is how Kye stacks up to that right now along with some cute pictures to remember his 5th month by! Kye and Payton...2 months apart! Kye can do all of the thigns a five month old "should be doing": hold head steady when upright on stomach, raise chest, supported by arms pay attention to an object as small as a raisen squeal in delight reach for an object smile spontaneously smile back when you smile (love it!) grasp a rattle held to the backs or tips of fingers keep head level with body when pulled to sitting Kye can do most of the things that a 5 month old "will probably. may possibly, and may even" be able to do including: roll over one way bear some weight on legs say "ah-goo" or similar vowel consonant combinations razz turn in the direction of a voice pull up to a standing position from sitting stand holdin...
