Getting ready for Halloween....

Happy Birthday Teddy!

It has been one year since Joe hit every pothole on the way to the hospital and joined me in watching the Matrix trilogy during labor- thanks to Teddy's quick arrival I have yet to see the 3rd Matrix movie. In other news, Teddy is growing like a weed and gibbering up a storm. So far his words are:
-Da? What or Daddy- not sure
-Da du: we think daddy
-Zis? What's this?
-Up/Down
-All done
-Agua
-Mama - only when he's really mad that I'm not there to breastfeed him
-nom nom : this is now how Teddy relays that he's hungry or wants to breastfeed

I made him a cute little cake with his favorite berries. He didn't quite know what to make of it, but sure did ask a lot of incomprehensible questions before I got the camera rolling.  Here's the link to my YouTube account for you to watch the videos Carolyn's YouTube channel

-Poking a finger in the icing

 

-Fun with my birthday cake and berries

-My one year portrait

Butt in the air?

But of course 😃

 

Barbecue/Austin roadtrip

Joe didn't have to do anything with his mice this weekend, so we finally are going on a little vacation with our little turkey. So far he's only screamed only a few times in the car and was obviously in need of food. Here are pics from Friday and Saturday morning.

This guy's walking!

So beating even my prediction of being a 10-month walker, Teddy decided to start walking at 9 months and one week. On Sunday, the 7th we were playing in his room and he walked from Joe in the love seat around the ottoman, let go, took 4 steps and balanced and then another 4 steps and flopped on the floor. If I ever get on a real computer I will post the YouTube link but for now you'll have to use your imagination.

Happy weekend!

9 months in....9 months out!

Happy 9 month birthday crazy Tman!

Hoppy Easter!

Booze?

Now that Teddy's old hat at eating mushy foods we thought we'd introduce him to brunch out in Dallas and the glorious breakfast drinks. And what better day than St Patrick's Day?! So voilà, Teddy's first kir! Just kidding. I forgot his bottle to put it in so he could only watch me drink it ;) He did try to play with the glass as he loves grabbing anything new he can get his hands on to shove in his mouth!

Prunes!

Not my favorite, but as Teddy's first fruit, he really liked them. So much that he are an entire tub over the course of the day. Thought this was great until he has the nastiest diaper changes ever! Ugh. So not digging this solid food thing.

Look who's crawling now!

Yep, little Tman is mobile and now we are so screwed. It was so nice while it lasted that I could plop him down in a room and he wiggle about, but be relatively where I left him. Now he's starting to follow me out of the room! Crazy! I hope to add a video to this post. Hopefully I can figure it out on my phone. If not hopefully I remember to do it when I get home.

Monkey man!

Grandee made Teddy this sock monkey for Christmas and thought these pics were too cute to pass up!

Sleep Training: Day 2

So Munchkin Man is off to a rip roaring start to his sleep training! He managed to put himself to sleep tonight in his new crib with a few pats on the back and my lovely voice singing Rockabye Baby. (No, you're not crazy. There is no Day 1 post) Last night, on day 1, he put himself back to sleep a few times by find one of the 6, yes 6, binkies in his crib and parental intervention twice at 11pm and midnight. Then he slept from 12:30am til 5am for his morning feeding. Sadly, this is exciting! I had nearly 5 hours of continuous sleep!

Here's Teddy in his new crib!

New mattress?

Last night Teddy sat up while sleeping in the bassinet of the pack n play & scared the crap out of me. Of course he decides to do this the night before we were planning to look for mattresses for his crib. We've now removed the bassinet insert and he's sleeping in the bottom until we get the crib assembled and pick a mattress. Teddy had fun testing them out today!

Cereal!

No, I'm not talking about Cheerios. We introduced Teddy to rice cereal Thursday night. He was a trooper and got some in his mouth, which produced hysterical facial expressions of shock and hopefully not displeasure! We've been trying a little bit everyday so hopefully we can start introducing veggies soon. Tman's growing up so fast now!