Christmas Card

I was going to send out Christmas cards this year... I had a really good idea, ahem, Gap had a really good idea, and I was planning on copying it. Every morning I'd get up extra early to snap some pictures since that's when Beck is at his hamminess. But then this happened...

all deez? for me?

ohhhhh yesssss

gimme gimme gimme

more, more

deez mine too?

100 pictures later, he stopped going after his presents and spinning around to grab the ornaments and he looked at me. SNAP.

And in good Christmas cheer he makes a mouth fart.

Merry PHGPFHHFH Christmas

Rice Rice Baby 2

Ok, so the last pictures didn't really match with me saying Beck loved rice. And really I guess that was a lie because I don't think he actually loves it. BUT he doesn't hate it the way those pictures let on. Here is a better video showing his taste for rice, or at least the spoon.

Birthdays

Seeing as how my birthday was a month ago, these pictures are really old. But, I just got them from my mom's camera and I had to share because they are SO cute! (and maybe some of you forgot to give me a present) Uncle Rob's birthday was just around the corner, so there's one from his birthday too!

Half (store bought) cake vs. Full (homemade) cake.... I'm clearly the middle child...

Rice Rice Baby

We introduced rice to Beck for the first time last week. It was a bit of a disaster. I waited until he was hungry and fed him 4 ounces of his 5 ounce bottle and then started on the rice cereal. He really didn't like it.

At first he would just spit it out but then he got to the point where he wouldn't even open his mouth. At that point, I had to be smarter than a 4 month old so I started pointing the bottle towards his mouth, he'd open up and then I'd sneak attack him from the side with a spoon tip of cereal. Sucker. Then he'd just spit it out so I guess who's the real sucker there. That's when I really put my college degree to work. I would act like I was giving him the bottle, next push in the spoon and then really give him the bottle. He didn't know if food was coming or going. MUAHAHAHA. All in all he didn't really eat any cereal.

So I remembered some veteran moms telling me they'd put cereal in their babies' bottles to get them to eat. I thought I'd try that. He had about 1 ounce left of rice/milk combo so I put it in the bottle and he sucked it down. 1 point mom, 0 points baby.

Although I ended up getting Beck to eat the rice, I decided to look it up online because I really had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know how much or how often so I decided to find out. Didn't really find out how much, didn't really find out how often but I didn't find out you should NEVER put rice in a baby's bottle.

OOOOPS

Apparently they can choke to death or cause obesity later in life. Babies have a mechanism that tells them when they're full by the volume of food they eat, when you add cereal you are increasing the calories but not the volume which makes babies overeat. While choking my baby is enough reason to stop putting cereal in a bottle, I think this may be a bigger obesity factor...

Now I'm rethinking "1 point mom, 0 points baby." I don't know if almost killing my son justifies a point. Maybe a half point.

So we retried the rice thing a couple days later. At first Beck hesitated, but eventually, and with a lot of reshoveling back into his mouth, he started eating it! What a BIG boy! He even got to the point where he had his mouth hanging open and following the spoon! He sure loves him some rice!

oooooops

They wanted the family photo for a Family Tree project....

if you need me I'll be nursing my son... and my quick temper.

4 Month Check Up

Beck had his 4 month check up yesterday at our NEW pediatrician. I was so excited, I HATED our old one. Anyway... apparently our scale is not accurate and we needed to add on a bit to Beck's weight. He weighs 15 lbs 5 ozs (56 pecentile), has a 66 percentile head circumference (who cares) and is 25 inches long which is the 76% percentile. Looks like Seth's genes are starting to take effect...

He also STEAM ROLLLED!!! I couldn't believe it. He was laying on his back, I was talking to the doctor and BOOM, flipped to his stomach. Our doctor was even impressed- he said it was early to be rolling over. He said "early," I heard "superior athletic ability." Thank God because we are really banking on him going straight to the pros. For the rest of the appointment, he was obsessed with looking at that thing the doctor looks at your throat and ears with. He loved it. I guess that means he's gonna be a doctor if he's not a professional athlete.

The doctor also told me we can start giving him cereal! I was really excited about this, I wanted to ask if I could, but I've always read your supposed to wait until 6 months so I didn't want to sound pushy. He said there's new research that shows you can start feeding solids at 4 months. We're gonna try it out tonight.... pictures to come.

Besides the immunizations (Beck didn't struggle or cry nearly as much this time), it was a great trip!

Then we went to KinderCare.

Remember how Beck won Star of the Month? That was incorrect. He was ASSIGNED Star of the Month. When I got there they had a note for me that said "Please bring in a family photo." Now, I read it as "Please ATLEAST bring in a familiy photo since you still haven't brought your son's Star of the Month poster in." Umm, sorry KinderCare, I don't know if you've realized or not but I have a baby. I do not have all the time in the world to go print pictures, get poster board and construction paper and make a dumb poster! And by the way, I have gotten all my supplies together, I just need to make it. And no, I won't bring in a family photo, I'll bring in a poster boad full of pictures like we discussed earlier, especially this one.

And then I got to thinking... what if they just want a family photo to make me a Christmas ornament or something and are not repeatedly asking for my poster. Oops. Ok, I'll bring in my poster tomorrow AND a family photo. If you accept both, I'm very sorry. If you do not and were just passive aggressively asking for my infants poster than please see the picture above.

Star of the Month

Of the many accolades Beck has already won (Cutest Baby Alive, Smartest Baby Alive, Baby with the Cutest Mom Alive), we are most proud of his latest accomplishment:

Star of the Month!

KinderCare awarded him Star of the Month for the month of December. How did he get this award at the ripe young age of 4 months? Why, by being next in the rotation. As Star of the Month, Beck gets to bring a poster board with pictures on it and it hangs up in the infant room for the month. It's a good opportunity for Beck to show his friends what his home life is like and it's an even better opportunity for me to show other parents how much more creative I am than them.

These are the pictures I'm thinking about using. Eat your heart out infant room....