Yeah it's been awhile...

It's been awhile since I updated...and a lot has happened since then. The main reason for the delay is Charlie and I both have been battleing the cold from you know where. It's bad enough when baby is sick, but when mommy is sick too...obiviously not a lot gets done.

So...where to begin. I guess I will start with his 4 month check up. Everything was great other than head and neck (more on those later) and he got his second round of shots...poor little guy. Here are a few picutres...
Waiting for Dad to load him in the car seat to go to the Dr. Looks really happy about it huh?

His stats

Waiting on the doctor

Sleeping off the shots


A few days later we attempted baby rice cereal. I've kind of been lazy and have only done it twice because...let's be honest...it's a lot more work than just nursing. But here are a few pics of the event...
Here is Trey feeding him

And me

He actually did really good except he kept wanting to grab the spoon...so I gave him his own to hold

He got pretty messy, but overall he really enjoyed it


Here he is after clean up. On a side note he really loves Trey. I know that may sound like an obvious statement, like of course your baby loves his daddy, but for a while there he would just stare at Trey and make no expressions or turn his head away when Trey tried to kiss him. But now Trey just has to look at him and he grins and stares at him. It is adorable.


Also, since I've updated last we got Charlie a new carseat. It is for when he gets bigger, but we got such a good deal on it we couldn't pass it up. Babies R Us was having a sale so it was already $50 off, then we had this old carseat a coworker had given me that we traded in for another 25% off. Plus it's orange which we love!


Ok so about the head...we finally got insurance approval (Thank the Lord!!) so we picked a company (Star Cranial) and took Charlie in for his final head scan to have the helment made for him. Next Tuesday we go to get the helmet put on and so the process begins. I want to take a few moments to talk about this whole helmet thing...whenever people ask me how I feel about it, I usually so...oh it's no big deal...in the long run it is for the best and only for a short period of time...yada yada. But if I can take a minute here to be honest, I'm really sad about it. I feel like Charlie is so beautiful and when he gets this helmet no one will look at him and his beautiful face...they will just look at the helmet. It makes me sad to think that he will be ignored or even stared at. I know that rationally everyone will argue that it doesn't matter what other people think and it will be over before you know it. But, these are months in his life that I can never get back, all the photo oppurtunities and cute outfits will be over shadowed by this huge white thing on his head. I know that is just me being superficial and silly, but it's my true feelings...and hey isn't that what a blog is for?? I do plan on decorating his helmet to make it less of an eyesore, but I guess I just have to buck up and get over it. Ok, enough of my pity party...here are some BEAUTIFUL pictures of Charlie waiting to get his head scanned...



Now his neck...it is actually get much better. The PT is really helping and as he gets stronger he spends more time looking around and really streching it on his own.
Here are a few tummy time shots from today...this was really the first time he has ever pushed up that far and held his head up...he is a little behind on this stuff so I was extrememly proud of him!

Here is a video of the event...


And then there was the sickness. Charlie and I both woke up Sunday morning with very stuffy noses. All week we have been battling the sickness. I fortunatly can take medicine...Charlie on the other hand was stuck with rounds and rounds of saline nose spray and snot sucking. He started out the week sleeping in his swing that sits him upright and then as he got better we started him sleeping propped up on the Boppy. I felt really bad for the little guy. You know when you are so congested and you blow your nose over and over...I'm sure that is how he felt, but couldn't blow his nose. He is FINALLY feeling better today, but here are a few pictures of him at various stages of the sickness...


And finally...some random pictures and videos just for fun


Talking to me...this never gets old to me :)


Falling asleep while playing with his giraffe