Super Doopey Poopey :)

Playing with my new toy!

Skyping Gramma and Big Papi

Ha-I have to laugh just thinking about what I am about to write for this post!! ;) First, Jack has hit another milestone-6 months old!! I can't believe he is half a year old. The time has gone by toooo fast! He is growing like a little weed, with little rolls getting more plentiful on his thighs each week and a little belly that hangs over his diaper when he sits up. I love it. He has completely mastered rolling both ways and now is never still. We put him down and he immediately rolls and rolls to get to something he wants (usually something he can't have...aka...the wires to the tv, etc). He desperately wants to crawl and does this squirming thing to wiggle his way to what he wants. He has also started sitting up on his own and does really well. He will stay up for a few minutes at a time and usually ends up on his belly b/c something he wants ends up out of his reach and he topples over trying to reach for it. He still is enjoying his exersaucer and we are going to borrow a jumper soon for him to try!

Ok, so our big story for today is as follows....we all enjoyed a beautiful day today, taking Jack out for some errands...his first car wash experience and a lot of play time with mommy and daddy. At dinner time, I had him in the high chair and he enjoyed some peas and cereal. He gobbled them up as usual and was playing in the high chair while I checked my email. I saw and heard him start to grunt as he does when he is doing a big poop. Good thing bath time was next!! So I finished up what I was doing, and picked him up. I then felt something wet on my arm when I looked down I saw a HUGE glob of POOP all on my arm!! I held him out away from me and called for Tom as I realized the poop was squishing out of the sides of the diaper! We ran to the bathroom and in a frenzy got the baby tub ready for him! Tom (gagging ) had him standing in the tub while I cut off the onesie he was wearing and pulled off the diaper that had poop exploding from every opening. After a quick once over with a cloth to get the majority of it off, we plopped him into the baby tub and soap him all up! Finally he was clean.....the tub and the two of us were not! Everywhere we turned there seemed to be more poop! :) Needless to say it was an evening we won't soon forget! If only we had gotten some pictures to remember it by!! Jack, I am sure, will thank us one day for NOT getting it on film!

Hope this left you chuckling to yourself! Have a good week!

OBX-Girls and Babies Weekend

This past weekend Jack and I hopped our a plane and headed down to NC to see the girls! This was Jack's first airplane ride and he did great! I am not a great flier (a little nervousness + a LOT motion sickness = not a fun time for me!). Jack was a pro. He fell asleep as soon as we took off and slept until we landed. Made my job pretty easy! We arrived in Norfolk, VA on Thursday afternoon and Colby picked us up at the airport, we picked up her daughter Sydney (age 1) and then we were off to the Outer Banks of NC. It took us about 2 hours (a great time for some catching up). We met up with Camilla and Marissa and we employed their empty hands to help us unload a SUV full of baby gear! Marissa set us up with a great condo on the beach in Kill Devil Hills. We settled in for the night with a fridge of groceries (thanks to Camilla and Marissa), two full and clean babies! On Friday, Lauren arrived just after the morning naps and we all headed down to the beach. I don't think the other girls were prepared for what it is like to go to the beach with 2 babies. Ris and Lauren did a phenomenal job setting up the beach tent, amidst the gusting winds! It was overcast, but in the 80's. A good introduction of the beach for Jack. Colby also brought a little travel swing that we put in the tent and Jack took a great nap while the girls all chatted and caught up! Friday night we stayed in and made dinner. Jack was completely mesmerized by Sydney. He loved watching her crawl and walk around. They would get real close to one another and try and figure each other out. TOO CUTE! Colby and I shared one of the bedrooms with the babies. They were great roomies and both slept through the night every night! In the mornings we would bring them into bed with us and they would snuggle together! Again, TOO CUTE! Saturday we headed down to the beach again after the morning naps...it was a little too hot, sunny and windy for the babies so we moved our party to the pool which had a lot of shade, no sand and a nice breeze. Jack and I even ventured into the pool. He loved it! I started with just his feet on the first step and eventually had him about waist deep. After his "swim" he took a nice snooze in the swing. We headed out to dinner on Saturday night to a restaurant called Goombays. Delicious fish tacos all around with more great conversations!

Sunday came too quick and we were already packing up, saying goodbye and heading out! Jack treated me to a nice snooze for mother's day and slept until 8am! He was partied out :). I am always so sad at how quick my visits with my best friends go by. We definitely try to make the best and most of all the moments we have together because we know they are not as frequent as we would like. I will give us all credit that we started to talk about planning this weekend and actually saw it through. I miss them all so much day to day. I love that we can make the time in all our busy schedules to get together. I know now how hard it will continue to be as our families get bigger and bigger.

Jack and I made it home safely and we were greeted by a very excited Daddy who missed us both VERY MUCH! We were both happy to be home and sleeping in our own beds. Daddy treated me to a very nice mother's day surprise! Tickets to see Jersey Boys in NYC in the fall. I can't wait! WHAT A NICE TREAT! I also received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my brother Chris....what a sweetie to think of me on my FIRST MOTHER'S DAY!

A quick thank you to all the girls for their help with Jack and all his equipment all weekend, I couldn't have done it without all your support.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

A Day with The Cousins!

Today Laura and Allie packed up all their kids, Ava (almost 4), Ella (2 1/2) and Michael (1), and drove out to CT for a play date with Jack. Tom and I were excited to show them where we have been living for the past year. Shortly after putting Jack down for his morning nap, they arrived. The girls tried very hard to be quiet (as best as an almost 4 and 2 1/2 year old can :) ). Needless to say, when Tom went up to check on Jack he found him awake in the crib, just staring around...wondering if he was ready for the attention he was about to get! Ella and Ava were both very excited to hear that he was awake and went right up to see him and help with a diaper change. The rest of the morning went very well, with lots of playing, running, screaming, laughing and a few tears :). Ava and Ella even tried their hands at photography and were able to capture quite a few pictures on my camera and Laura's. It was so cute to watch them working the camera and see what things grabbed their eye. Ava took a couple great shots of a lamp, baby jack and even a few of me. Thankfully the weather held up and even though it was cloudy it did not rain. We packed up the kids and went to a park in South Windsor with a great playground. I had seen the playground many times during walks I took during my pregnancy, but never actually went to it. It turned out to be even better than I thought. There was a little music center, lots of swings, slides and things to climb on and it was all on different kinds of rubber, so it they were not all dusty and dirty. While we were at the park, Tom started lunch and had it all ready when we returned. The girls had a little picnic on a blanket on the floor and Michael sat happily in the Bumbo to have his mac and cheese. After lunch and a little more playing, it was time for them to pack up and go. We attempted and finally achieved a "group" photo before packing them all into the car and saying goodbye. It was such a fun day and so nice to have some family visit and show around our little bit of CT.

On another note, Jack can now roll both from back to front and front to back. He achieved the back to front roll last week (first not witnessed in the crib) and then while playing with Tom and I. Now when we put him down on the floor he wiggles all over the place and just starts rolling away. It is too funny. He has mastered all the fruits and veggies in the stage one series. We have decided that he doesn't favor the green veggies, but will tolerate them and still eat them all, it just takes him FOREVER! He loves the fruits, even the prunes and you can't get them in his mouth fast enough. We are giving him a fruit with cereal in the morning and a veggie with cereal at night. We both love watching him play and how fascinated he is by his surroundings. We put together his exersaucer and he LOVES it. He is babbling up a storm and LOVES playing peek a boo. Just about anything we do from saying a "funny" word/phrase to popping up from a hiding spot to finding his "tickle" spots starts the cutest belly laughs. They just melt your heart! We have been working on sitting up and have gotten him to do so for about 5 seconds before he starts toppling over to one side. I think that is all of his tricks so far. :)

Have a great weekend!!