Excited To Be Leaving

Our little one has started to pick up on some hand motions.  Nothing too spectacular, but he can wave goodbye sometimes, or sometimes when you say byebye, he claps, as in "Yay!  You're finally leaving!" It's so amazing to me what he has picked up already and I guess it's time to start working on our baby sign language!

In other news, we close on our house next week and have to be out by the end of August, so we're busy finding boxes and packing everything up for storage!  It's going to be a hectic next few months, but I'm excited for this next chapter in our lives!

Heart Dropping Moments

Happy Belated Fourth of July!  It seems like we had a pretty busy weekend, but also seemed like we sat around a lot, too, so I'm not sure how we could've had both, but I guess I'll say we had a busy relaxing weekend.  Our little one also had two scary moments this weekend, and I know they're not the last two he will have in his life, but I'm glad he's okay and I was probably more scared than he was both times.

Scary Episode #1: His first dive
We were visiting my parent's house this weekend and our niece was playing in a plastic baby pool in the afternoon.  It was extremely hot, mid to upper-80's, so at one point I took the little one and put his feet in the pool, to which he, of course, whined about.  How dare I try to cool him down!  So, I set him down on the grass outside of the pool, so he was standing there holding the edge and playing with toys in the pool.  He seemed to enjoy this and my niece was having fun handing him toys.  I was sitting right next to him and was talking to my niece when all of a sudden I hear a splash and turn and grab the little one out of the pool, as he had fallen head-first into the pool (of only about a foot of water).  He coughed and whined a little after I pulled him out, but he seemed to be okay.  I think I was probably more scared than he was.  In the end, we all got a good laugh out of my excellent mothering skills and the hubs was just glad he wasn't the one to let him fall in a pool, because he would've gotten an earful from me.  Sorry, hubs, I'll try to be nicer about all the bumps and bruises you let our child get under your watch.

Scary Episode #2: mmm.. new food!
We took our little one to the nursery in church on Sunday.  It's only his second time going there, but our church isn't very big and there aren't usually many kids in the nursery, so I've been trying to be better about putting him down there so we can actually pay attention in church.  We dropped him off and I told the sitter that there was container of snacks in his bag if he gets fussy.. just some cheerios and puffs. After church, we head down to pick him up and I notice the area around his mouth is all red and he's sitting on the floor with some snacks that I didn't send.  The sitter mentioned that maybe his mouth was read from shoving food into his mouth Which, could be possible if you've ever seen him eat snacks, shoving as much in as he can, but he's never had that before, so I asked if he had anything other than what I sent.  She said she gave him some animal crackers, which I didn't think would cause an allergic reaction, but maybe, or maybe it was the other food he was eating.  In any event, we left church and when we got outside in better lighting, I noticed that the redness was actually hives.  At that point, I sort of panicked and called our doctor's office to speak with the on-call doctor.  He was breathing fine, but I was worried in case it got worse.  The doctor said to wash his face when we got home and just keep an eye on it, and if it didn't go away, to just call back.  We washed his face and hands when we got home and he was already looking better at this point. Everything cleared up soon after and he's totally fine.  I guess I need to just be clear not to give him any extra food while he's there next time. It just makes me worried for what kind of allergies he might have...

I wish time would slow down...

Babies sure do grow up a LOT faster than I ever expected.  We sold our house a few weeks ago, there have been a few bumps in the road, but if all the stars align and 5 contingency offers go through, we will be homeless in August!  We finally got a baby gate put on the stairs going down from the living room and silly me thought "well we'll be moving soon and he JUST started crawling, there's no way he'll be going up the stairs before we move, so let's not put a gate going up the stairs."  The words were barely out of my mouth and the next thing I know he's standing on the first step on his way to the second, and third, and fourth... with ease.  Hardly any stumbling or hesitation.  This little guy is determined!  Here's a video of him going up the stairs for the third time in his life... http://youtu.be/yW9-UZfAUTU

I miss the days when he would just sit contently on the floor with an old spaghetti sauce jar and a couple of rings.  Now, it's literally 3 seconds with a toy and he's off to the next big thing!

In other news, we just got home from a week's vacation at Treasure Lake near Dubois, PA with my family.  The weather was nice at the beginning of the week, but was a little rainy/overcast as the week went on.  We took Seth to his first time at both and beach and the pool, and he hated both of them.  I think he just hates fun...

Seth and Cooper going to the park!

How many cheerios can I shove into my mouth at once?

Boo with his two grandsons!

Having a big boy bath!