Water Baby

Today was a day of firsts. Today B sat in the front of the grocery cart with his floppy (a cover over the seat that prevents kids from sucking on the handle of the grocery cart). It was like a new world to him. He could see everything around him. It made my job of getting groceries easier because he wasn't fussing to get out of the car seat. Also, B went to the pool for the first time and loved it! I thought he would hate the cold water, but it wasn't bad. He watched all the kids play and was fascinated that he could see his hands (and dad) underwater. He laughed and kicked his legs around. I am going to look into swim lessons for sure next year. The pool is now so much more fun for me too. I love seeing the world through his eyes. I find myself getting excited about introducing new things to him. It is so much fun!

On a sadder note, bedtime is now really hard. Just when I got the nap thing down, bed time is a struggle. The pool is awsome for naps. He slept two hours after the pool. Love it! I don't know what his deal is but he is fighting it hard. I think I figured out that he is a little more hungry at night. Plus, we need to just put him to bed instead of rocking him to sleep. The whole transfer from rocker to crib wakes him up now and then it is just down hill from there. The last two nights I put him to bed screaming and he calmed down after about 5 minutes.

Here are some pictures from our day at the pool:

Update

Before we get started, this is why Mike can't work from home and watch Blake anymore. No more napping all day like he did when he was a baby. He gets into everything now, especially now that he can army crawl around. So cute though.

Having showings on the house, but no bite yet. We a least got it presentable for showing and I don't feel as claustrophobic anymore. We received the pool key for this summer. This is about the only thing good to come of this situation. Excited to take B to the pool. I got him two really cute swim shorts and a turtle floaty for the pool. They only had Dora swimmers, but I think the trunks will hide the fact that it is girly. I hope they are made the same and the absorbent pad isn't placed more in the female position the male position (if there is such a thing) or else it will be a very yellow pool ;-) Heck I might want to wear them if it means I don't have to peal off a wet swim suit every time I need to use the restroom. lol.

Next week is our 4th anniversary and we are planning to go the Glennwood springs. Yes, we are taking B. You're probably thinking "why? It's your anniversary!" Well, momma hasn't quite cut the cord yet. I have a practice run coming up towards the end of July. That will be one night possibly two nights away from B. I don't know how that will go. One thing is for sure the booze will be flyin' because that is the only way I will get through it. Besides doesn't everyone like a bawling drunk mother talking about how much she misses her baby?! Seriously, I will try hard not to cry. If this goes well, I see Mexico is our future.

7 Months old.

Wow time is flying by so fast. B is army crawling and he can stand (sometimes) while holding onto the table or a chair. I can't believe my baby is getting so big. Still not going to cut his hair until he is 1 year old. We did have a first really big scare over the weekend. B decided he didn't want to sit in his bouncy chair and Mike thought he could run a grab something really quick. This made for a trip to the emergency room. B fell onto the kitchen floor from his bouncy on top of the counter. We think he slid feet first. Cried right away and doesn't have any bruises on him so I am sure he will be OK. My life flashed before my eyes and Mike's too. We wondered how we are going to handle him getting hurt in sports. Science camp isn't looking so bad after all. I'm sure this is the first of many (well hopefully not too many being my fault).

On another note...so frustrated right now. The buyers for our house decided to move to Texas instead. Half my house is packed up since we were suppose to close next week. So pissed I can't even explain. We'll probably lose the other house now. I love keeping my house clean and leaving every time there is a showing (this is called sarcasm). Maybe I will leave a sign on the door that says "This house didn't magically gain a basement over night, so if that is what you need just turn around right now." So many people commented on our house saying that they liked it, just wanted a basement. Hello people, it says in the description NO BASEMENT! Do us all a favor and stop wasting every one's time. Okay vent over. (that was not sarcasm, starting to get it?)

I get around

B man is starting to crawl. He is trying really hard to crawl, but I think it is getting really close. probably within the next month. He is sitting better too, but not able to be left alone yet. I went to my mom's house for part of mothers day and B and hid cousin J (who is 2 months older) got to play together. It was really cute. B is taller than J. I thing B is going to be a tall boy. Probably by the time he is a freshman in high school he will be taller than me.

Going to try a garage sale tomorrow, we'll see how that goes. If it is slow on here it is because the moving process is taking a toll on me and I am just plain tired.

Busy Busy Busy

A few things here...
1.) We found a house that we are both excited about and comfortable with living there. The only problem is we have three days to move and one of those days Mike is going to be gone and another day I am going to be gone. So this is going to be awesome! I can't wait to move my entire house, paint, and take care of B man all in one glorious day! I mean doesn't get much sweeter than this?

Change of Heart

After many sleepness nights and prayers, we decided the house we chose just wasn't right. We had a gut feeling about something not feeling right about it, but were confused on why exactly or what exactly was causing it. Maybe it was the fact that this moving thing was happening too fast, maybe it was the fact that one of us liked the house and the other was "making it work", maybe we just didn't see enough houses to be convinced that this one was the one.