Day at the pool

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. Even though we worked all weekend, we were able to get off of work early on Sunday (thanks to awesome subs!) and spend some time with Josh's family at his parent's pool.





Dave loves water, but did get a little freaked out at the chilly water temperature. You can also see his diaper in this pic-we use prefolds and thirsties covers for anyone interested in cloth diapering. Love it!










Daddy is hilarious!











Dave and Sophie fought over my shoes. They had a bit of a squabble all day. Sophie stole Dave's hat and then Dave retaliated by pulling her hair.





Dave working on crawling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA2L1eQZgn8

6 months old!

Dave's half birthday was last Wednesday-he's getting so big! As he gets older, his monthly pictures are getting more and more difficult.






























As you can see, it took a couple of tries!

Here's a video of Dave's latest accomplishment...saying dada! (he doesn't understand who he's talking about, but it's still cute) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoLDPEXeKus

Movin and Groovin

This past weekend, Dave and I went to Evansville to visit family while Josh stayed here to organize our endless amount of stuff. While in Evansville, Dave received his first pair of overalls from his great-grandpa Dave.

The Daves.

Since Josh organized everything, we found all kinds of cute outfits that we forgot about. Check out Dave's jumpman outfit. That's right, it includes a zip up vest.

Finally, check out our little guy in action...

He is now lifting himself up on all fours (but hasn't coordinated himself to move while in this position-just kind of rocks)

You can tell he is very concentrated on this task.

Here is a video of him "crawling" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fNTbgJoL0

And one of him eating my foot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veq67d_TJk

The army crawl

Dave has taken on a new form of transportation in the last week. He now army crawls all over the place and gets into everything! Here he is in all his glory.



As you can see, he can't quite get his stomach off the ground, but he does get his legs up underneath and scooches around.







Dave likes to show off his burly chest after done crawling. This is an unfortunate side effect to the army crawl-all of his shirts are beginning to look like this.




This past week, Dave has begun sleeping in his crib full time. Up until then, he had been spending most nights next to our bed in his bassinet. Still swaddled. It was becoming a problem, since he was breaking out of his swaddle every night and rolling around. So, we quit it all cold turkey and Dave has been doing pretty well with it. We had a couple rough nights of several wake-ups, but he slept through last night so I'm pretty hopeful.






A nest of baby birds hatched on our fire escape. Now we have to go in and out through the cottage because momma bird doesn't like us near her babies.







One last picture-Dave loves his new cubs onesie that Josh's aunt and uncle sent him. Thanks Scott and Nancy!




The latest video-Dave slobbering all over himself. He really is going to hate me one day when I show these videos to his friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmx308Qjw3s



And I had a great first mother's day. Dave got me flowers and we watched the end of Gone with the Wind that I've been trying to watch forever. Perfect!

Chime Frog

Today's blog is dedicated to Dave's favorite toy-Chime Frog. This guy never fails to turn that frown upside down.

Dave likes to study chimey. I think the frog must be telling Dave secrets.

Maybe frog needs to be tortured to give up the secrets...

And here's a video of Dave and chime hanging out and working on sitting up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0vvyUxo91A

In other news, our sleep through the night baby has gone MIA. Now he wakes up every three hours to eat. We are still lucky that he goes right back to sleep. So, we thought maybe that he was hungrier than normal and started him back on solids-this time with oatmeal cereal. He really likes it, but the verdict is still out on whether or not it's working. Josh stayed up with him last night and he's still alseep so I don't know how it went yet.

We have been really busy with work (as usual) and still have a full cottage (which means 16). Thankfully, quite a few get to go home every third weekend, so that gives everybody a break. Summer is quickly approaching-we should have some releases at that point, but it all depends on their behavior.

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Happy early Mother's Day to all the moms who are reading this-have a great day!