Surgery

I my gall bladder taken out yesterday. Feeling pretty good, alot better than I thought I would by this point.
I think the worse part of it all was getting the IV. They never seemed to bother me before, but the nurse missed the first time, then her second try she thought she got it but it ended up blowing out. The area got super swollen and hard so she took it out and got the anesthesiologist to put it in......and he missed the first one too! dang. FINALLY the fourth one worked. When he did it, he decided to switch arms. He had to cut off my ID bands. I kept seeing the nurse walking around with a cool looking lime green bracelet (they were the pediatric ID bands), so I figured since they had to cut my old plain white one that I asked them for a green one! Made the whole IV thing better! =) I was the only adult getting surgery that day.



Back to relaxing =)

Firsts

Last week Cole started clapping. He thinks its the greatest thing on earth. =) For the past month he's been doing this weird crawling thing, except it's not your conventional hands and knees crawling, he was getting his belly in there somehow so it looked like "the worm". Today he started 'REAL' crawling! too cute! I can't believe how fast babies are! He's been holding himself up really well, and even taking steps when you hold his hands.

I tried loading the video on here, but its taking too long? You can see it on my facebook.

New Food

Cole tried "3rd foods" on Sunday. He HATED it! He gagged the whole time. He can eat foods that we give him like pancakes and eggs. But he doesn't understand that you have to chew the stuff that comes out of a jar. So, we'll see how it goes.




Again, if anyone has any suggestions on topics for the blog....let me know....

Bad Blogger

Alright, I keep saying I'll get better and better about this.....I've really dropped the ball haven't I? ***SIGH*** I'm sorry. So as for an update....

Cole: Moving forward! yay! It's about time. I guess you could call it crawling, but it looks more like he doing "the worm". Pretty cute actually. Getting more teeth, this time the top ones. Believe it or not, he's STILL his happy lil self despite waking up at 3am to play with Mommy. :) Started sticking his tounge out a little bit, SUPER cute! Still saying "Mamamamama" and "Dadadadada", and now theirs "nananananana" which my guess is he's saying "no". Had his 2nd haircut about a week ago! Looks adorable as always!

David: Doing well. Still working out of town during the week. Getting ready to take an herbacide test for work. Hopefully when he gets certified that means a raise? We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Me: Started exercising yesterday. Well see how long it lasts, hopefully this is something I can stick to. Other than that, I'm not too sure that anything else has been going on. (maybe this is why I should blog more often).

6 Month Check Up

Ok, so I realize that Cole will be 7 months on Tuesday, but last week he had his 6 month check up with his doctor. Here's the update....Cole's 27 3/4 inches (92%), 21lbs 8oz (>95%), 18 1/8" Head (93%).....Meaning he's the size of a 1 year old! The dr asked how he was doing with grabbing things or holding onto things...and not more than a second later he grabbed the paper off the exam table. His doctor asked me how he was doing on "1st foods"...I told her he was already on "2nd foods"...the dr said that we could start giving him adult food. Not just super soft stuff like mashed potatoes.....as long as its really soft, like steamed vegetables that are cut up really small. His development is that of a 9 month old!!!! & His doctor says he's healthy as can be! Next appointment is at 9 months (April).

He's getting closer and closer to crawling everyday! Right now he rolls....then pivots....then rolls some more....he's getting around pretty good! I'm impressed!

Yesterday he went to his friend Logan's 1st birthday party. They had tons of fun together. Can't wait for them to play together again soon.

Need to get better at this!

Alright, so I have to somehow get better at blogging....not sure how I'm going to do it....but i'll have to figure something out. 3 weeks without a blog is too long and i'm sure you agree. let catch up on the past few weeks....



Cole is getting on all fours now. He's not crawling quite yet, for right now he's just rocking back and forth. Today he started to stick his butt in the air. He's been getting around by rolling, and is getting pretty darn good at rolling and turning and rolling some more. Smart little man! His teeth are coming beautifully...not to mention sharp! For the past couple weeks Cole has been saying "ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma" & "da-da-da-da-da-da" etc. Super cute. He's been eating baby food, and has even started eating some 'big people' food (with the help of his feeder thingy, it looks like a big pacifier but its mesh and you put food inside so he won't choke on anything big). See the picture below...and let me tell you what....HE LOVES IT! In one day Cole ate a WHOLE peach and half a banana!


Two weekends ago we took Cole to the Boat & Sportsman Show to see the GRIZZLY bear! I don't think Cole really payed attention much, but oh well, we took pictures of it so we can show him later. This next weekend is the Logging Conference....Dave's SUPER excited about taking Cole. Then we're off to a birthday party for Cole's friend Logan who will be turning 1.

Dave was recently promoted at work and I couldn't be more proud! He's worked so hard to get to where he is today and he definatly deserves it!

Lent started last Wednesday....I decided to give up cookies....wish me luck! I've done pretty good so far. I realized that it was a HORRIBLE idea on Saturday when I went to Walmart and there were Girl Scouts selling cookies outside! Oh My Goodness....what a test! I'll have you know...I didn't buy a single one! Not even to save them until after Easter! I'm proud of myself!

Cole's doctor's appointment is this week....so I'll do my best to post after that!

Oh yeah.....if anyone has suggestions of topics for future posts...feel free to share your ideas!

Cutting Teeth

Cole's cut his first teeth! Bottom middle! Jenny thinks there will be some top ones soon. But here's a picture.....hopefully you'll be able to see em. Cole's 6 month appointment is on Wednesday. More to come then.