7 months old!

**For some reason this post disappeared!  I'm reposting.  Pearce turned 7 months on 8-25-12**

Pearce, you are 7 months old today!

I cannot believe you are already 7 months old....time is really flying by!  You are growing fast and doing new things all the time and I am loving every bit of it!  

Your 6th month has been the most fun so far.  You are so interactive and your sweet, funny, loving, happy personality really shines through.  These are things I want to remember about your 6th month.

*Last week you weighed 19 lbs!
*You had your first antibiotic for a slight ear infection.
*You wear 6-9 month clothes and some 6-12 month clothes, too.
*You now wear a size 2 shoe.
*Still in size 3 diapers.
*Still take 7 ounces of formula during a feeding.
*STILL vomit spew puke spit up all the time :)
*You LOVE food!  We make your baby food and you have had:  pears, bananas, apples, peas, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes (from Mama), zucchini, and squash.
*You rub your eyes and tug at your ear when you are tired.
*You roll in all directions and scooch on your tummy.
*From the sitting position, you will fall forward to get on your tummy.
*You still have a consistent napping schedule:  You take a 2 hr. long morning nap, a 2-3 hr. long afternoon nap, and most evenings, you'll take a shorter nap...maybe an hour or so.
*We've been putting you to bed by 9:00 and you wake up between 7-8 in the morning.  We are trying to get you to go to bed by 8:30, but that hasn't happened yet.
*Sometimes you'll wake up during the night, but I just put your paci back in and you go back to sleep.
*You started sitting in the front of the shopping carts and in restaurant high chairs!
*No teeth yet.
*You notice when I leave the room and will cry for me a lot more now.  I don't give in to you, because as much as I love you, I won't carry you all the time, BUT when you do cry as I'm walking away from you, I can't help but smile because I know you love me.  You know I'm your mommy and that just makes my heart want to burst out of my chest.  You will let anyone hold you but sometimes you'll get a little fussy and all I have to do is pick you up and you settle right down.  LOVE that!
*You are such a happy baby and you smile all the time!
*Daddy loves to feed you your baby food!
*You jabber all the time and you've started mimicking a few sounds and motions.
*It's easy to make you laugh now.  Daddy is good at making you laugh.  Daddy made me laugh the other day when he said, "I wonder which one of us will break our ankle first?"  He was referring to the amount of toys that accumulate on the floor :)

Pearce, how did Daddy and I get so lucky to get YOU?  You have fit into our life so perfectly and we are incredibly thankful.  I wonder what you will learn this next month....maybe crawling?  We'll see!  As long as you are happy and healthy, I don't care what you do!  We love you baby boy!

**OUTTAKES**

Mother's Day Out

No really, it was Mother's Day Out....today.....me....Mother (well, actually Mommy, but you get the idea)....out ALL . DAY . LONG :)  Pops and Mimi are in town to help me while Chris is in a little place called Ireland.  So, I started the morning by taking Otis to the vet for his check-up.  Then I dropped him off at home, gave a few instructions and headed out for the day! 

                                                   

 I made a hair appointment, but got to the mall early, so I decided to go to Penney's for a little bit since it was right by my hair salon.  I saw this top and thought it was so cute!  It will look great with jeans and flats....you know to go to Babies R Us in :)  Maybe Chris and I will have a date night soon and I'll wear this!

I was so excited about going out for the day that I forgot to change out of my shorts and t-shirt after going to the vet!  Oh well.

Hair cut time!  I'm letting my hair grow out, but it was getting scraggly.  Before...

After...

I get my bangs cut, but most of the time I don't like them down, so up they went when I got to the car.  I just got 2 inches cut, but it feels so much better!

Old Navy here I come with birthday money!!!!!  I wanted to get some clothes that are cute, but easy to wear and casual.  LOVE these jeans and this button up top.

This top is cute because it's loose and flowy but still a little fitted.

I also got a "lounge wear" top and the bottoms to match.  Good for running around.  All that shopping made me hungry, so I went to Panera for lunch.

I made a few more stops before heading home around 5:30 and I must say, I was missing my boy!  As soon as I walked in, he smiled at me! Pops and Mimi said he was a good little boy.  He took a 2 hr long morning nap and an afternoon nap that was almost 2 hrs long.  I know they absolutely LOVED having Pearce all to themselves and I know Pearce got all kinds of love from them.  It was nice to have an afternoon to myself and do a little shopping.  Thank you Pops and Mimi!!!    

Random iPhone pics

These are just some random pics I had in my phone...enjoy!

Sorry Pearce, lunch is over.

This was taken at 9:00 pm.  Yes, Pearce should have been in bed, but I found out Chris wasn't getting home 'til late and my play group was coming over the next morning, so I had to run to the store to get some snacks for the play group.  I just took Pearce in his jammies and he loved it!

This boy LOVES to eat!

Daddy's Razorback tickets came in the mail...Daddy is very excited!

We went to Marlee's 1st birthday party last weekend.  It was a breakfast party and all the kids came in their jammies.  It was so cute!  This is Gabriel and he is so funny!

Pearce's new Captain America t-shirt :)

Captain America is such a baby :)  We took a family outing to Academy to get Chris a few things.  It's so fun to take Pearce to stores because he can sit in the front of the cart.  Anyway, he needed his paci for this little outing :)

Otis loves Pearce and Pearce loves Otis!

It was bound to happen sooner or later!  Oh well....I always say Pearce reminds me of a little puppy....he might as well chew on a dog bone!

Story time at Cedar Park Library

Elizabeth and Brice invited us to go to the Cedar Park Library for story and playtime this morning.  It was so cute and fun!  The children's area has little seats and tables and reading areas for the kids.  Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday they have a story time for babies and toddlers.  It was fun to see all the mommies and babies.  We sang all sorts of songs with hand motions first.  Then she passed out board books to all of us and we all read the story out loud together.  Pearce and Brice were such good listeners :)  After the story, we sang a few more songs and then the teacher dumped out a bunch of toys and we had free play for about 10 minutes!  Afterwards, we went to IHOP for breakfast.   It was the perfect little morning outing!  

"That is one cute baby in that window!"

Elizabeth and Brice

"Hey look, we both have balls...hehe!"

Pearce is just 6 weeks older than Brice.  I think they will be buddies for a long time!

This is the lady that runs the children's time.  She was so sweet!  She kept getting Pearce and Brice with this little kitten puppet.

We went to IHOP for breakfast and these were our dates :)  They both conked out!  Elizabeth and I said we want to try to do this as often as possible...it was so fun!