January 5, 2009
Blake is Already 7 Months!?!
Shameful post.
I don’t even want to check and see how long it’s been since the last post. We have been busy. Here are some highlights.
- Mommy started and quit a full-time job working downtown for Marcus & Millichap. Blake started preschool 4 days a week and really likes it.
- Blake and family visited his North Carolina family outside of Charlotte, NC for Thanksgiving. He got to meet Mimi and Poppy as well as his great-great Grammy Toni and 3 aunts and uncles.
- Blake has 4 teeth now! 2 on top and 2 on the bottom.
- Blake got a fever of 101 degrees after his 6 month shots!
- Blake is really good at ROARING like a dinosaur.
- Blake can also say Da-da-da and there is debate over whether he’s associating it with Ben. I witnessed a pretty convincing demonstration in which we were looking at family pictures and he said "Da-Da" EXACTLY when a picture of Ben came on the screen.
- Blake is also practicing waving – but we don’t know if he knows what that means, either, he could just be nervous.
- Blake has joined the ranks of babies would rather Wear It than Eat it. We are introducing rice cereal. It is messy, but I think he’s starting to get the hang of it.
Update – since I started writing this post, I got really sick, so did Ben, we both had pink eye, and bad colds (sinus infection?)
Blake seems to have sailed through.
I can now see 2 new side teeth coming in on top next to the front teeth.
I also fed him some strained pumpkin with his rice cereal and he seemed to like it.
He has the army crawl down and can race forward pretty fast, especially when he’s going after the computer wires and surround-sound speakers under Daddy’s desk!
Auntie Wawa said,
January 6, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Ooooo! New teeth?? I can’t wait to see them! I miss you guys now that we’re all quarantined away from each other!
I can definitely vouch for that dinosaur roar too – I can barely hear people on the phone when he’s up to it! Time to start baby-proofing my house… and the days of easy baby-sitting sound like they’re over!
Emily said,
January 6, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Last night he was biting my shoulder while I was holding him! I think the new teeth want to get “gnawed” through the gums.
We will have to stock up on baby gates somewhere since we all have stairs now… maybe we can find some used ones somewhere. Or we can bring one to you when you babysit.
Now, the good news is that if we put him in a nice fuzzy sleeper when he comes, he can buff your floors while you watch him. Just put some computer wires on one end of the house, and Blake on the other, and he will be magnetically attracted to them, cleaning whatever is between him and the wires as he army-crawls toward them.
Roar!
Anna B. said,
January 7, 2009 at 12:10 am
Emily, you’re hilarious. I love the idea of Blake buffing the floors while crawling around in his sleeper.
Paula P said,
January 10, 2009 at 7:27 pm
WOW! A Post!!! Please keep it up (if at all possible) – I really like to keep up with the goings on! Loren IMs Ben quite a bit, but that doesn’t mean I necessarily get to hear
Congrats on the teeth and the crawling and whatnot.
Emily said,
January 27, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Thanks Paula,
I know the feeling. It seems like the boys talk all the time, but I never get a report. I think they just talk about Mr. Jack… missed opportunity in my book!
How is Gideon? Is he walking on his own yet?
Emily
Renette said,
February 4, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I enjoyed the update…but, I’m dying for some pictures of the three of you!
Mimi