5 Months Old (only 5 days late!)

It is so hard to believe that our little man is five months old! He is growing up so fast! It is really hard for me to remember what Raegan was doing at that age. I did pull out one of her photo albums to see what she was up to. She was definitely smaller than Gavin. He is starting to "scootch" now. Sometimes he will do an army-type crawl and other times he will put his head down and butt up and push himself. The whole sitting up thing does not seem to interest him yet so we will have to work on that yet. He is really grabbing at things now too. His favorite seems to be Raegan's hair! Since he has an interest in holding things, Bob and I are working on getting him to hold his own bottle. He is doing ok, but pulls the bottle down and then can't get it back up. We finally got the whole food thing figured out too! He is on a formula that works better with his belly, loves his cereal, has gone through all of the vegetables and is just starting fruit. Bob is much better at feeding Gavin his non-bottle food. I was feeding him last night and he ended up with sweet potatoes EVERYWHERE from the top of his head to all over my white tank top. I was really surprised there wasn't more food on the walls!

We are all getting ready for a vacation to ND so there won't be posts or pics for a while!

Out of the mouths of babes!

This morning I took the kids to daycare. This is news because Bob usually does this. As we were driving, Raegan kept pulling at her hair making a horrible face. After a couple of minutes of this I asked her what was wrong. She told me

"My hair is really, really gross. Don't touch it, Mommy!"

Nothing more was brought up about her hair, but can this be happening already? She's only two! She is not supposed to be so concerned about her hair!!

Good-bye Grandma Dennis

Sadly, we had to say good-bye to Bob's Grandma Dennis on Friday. She passed away after a fight with cancer. She was a great lady and it was really hard to say good-bye. In April 2005, she was so happy to finally have another girl in the family! We were fortunate enough that Grandma passed her cute, crooked smile on to Raegan.

Grandma will be missed very much, but we are all happy that she is done battling this disease and is at peace.

We miss you Grandma!

Toddler Flu . . .

Yuck! Raegan got a fever last night so we gave her Tylenol and put her to bed. We didn't think anything else about it. Bob and I got up this morning and got ready like normal. He went in and got Raegan. When I gave her a kiss, she felt REALLY warm. I went and got the thermometer while he took her pajamas off. The thermometer said 105.1!!!! Oh, my GOD!!! So, we tried to get her to take some more tylenol and of course, she wanted nothing to do with it. After much "mom" anxiety, I called the ask a nurse through our pediatrician's office. She said NOT to give her a shower, just get her to take her Tylenol. I was thinking "You tell a two year old she HAS to do something!" After I hung up, Raegan threw up! I was thining "Great! She has the flu!" Now, both Bob and I had things going on at work that we really had to attend to. I know, it's Friday and I am supposed to be off! Today is our annual employee picnic, which I am in charge of. Bob has an important meeting in Holland, about 3 1/2 hours away. So, I took Gavin (aka Mr. Smiley) to daycare and went to work at my normal time. He could stay home until 10:00, so I came home about 9:45 to tag him out. I called my mother-in-law to let her know what was going on and she said she would stop by. It was so sweet! She brought Raegan a get well balloon and a Dora balloon! While she was here, Raegan threw up again! Carol left and I just her down for a nap. I hope that all is well with her. I feel so bad! I wish I could be sick for her!

Cereal

Since Gavin is now four months old, it was time to start cereal. He did start with the rice cereal and didn't seem to care for it too much. Yesterday I started him on oatmeal and boy did he like it! I was feeding him while Raegan was taking a nap so it was nice and peaceful. Gavin just couldn't get enough of the cearal - BUT he doesn't quite have the swallowing thing down yet. By the time we were done with his little tiny bit of cereal, we both needed a bath!!

4 Months Old

Gavin was officially 4 months old on Friday, but he just went to the doctor today.

14 lbs, 5 oz
26 inches

He is a big and growing boy! Officially he has outgrown his infant car seat, BUT since he can't sit up yet, we're going to keep him in it. That way when I go to the store, I have somewhere to keep him. He's hitting and exceeding all milestones - coos and talks, grabs objects, laughs & smiles, etc. . . He does still have some acid reflux issues so we have switched his medication to Prevacid. It's nice in that he only takes it once a day, but it is not FDA approved for babies because noone is willing to sign their baby up for a clinical trial. We are giving it six days (number of free samples we got) to see if it works any better for him.

Other than that, he is just a sweet baby who gets more kisses than he can handle! (mostly from his big sister)

Happy Father's Day

Bob's first father's day as a father of 2 started out great! First of all, we were up north, but even better - Gavin slept through the night! When both kids were up, they crawled in bed with us and gave Bob his gifts. He did get his Magellan Maestro GPS navigation system early so he could play with it on our way up north but the kids did get him a book and bookmark. We're hoping that the bookmark is Raegan proof as she is famous for taking your bookmark out and handing it to you (just ask my parents!). We took Bob and Carol out to breakfast at Nana's Kitchen, stopped at the park to play for a while (Nana and Raegy had some problems on the swing!) and then back to the cabin to clean up for the drive home. Again, a present to Bob - both kids slept until the last 1/2 hour of the drive home. Everyone was in a great mood until bedtime. What a WONDERFUL weekend!