The little man!

I wrote this blog a couple weeks ago and forgot to post it, but now I need to change some thing because Champ changes every day!...

December 30th Champ had his 6 month check-up…I can’t believe our little guy is already 6 months old! (now he will be 7 in like a week!)
It was the normal thing, check his height, get him weighed, played with the doctor for a bit (we love her so much, she is amazing!) and then the dreaded shots!
Only good news to report! Champ is perfectly healthy! He weighed in at 18 lbs 9 oz and was 28 inches I think, and we got the okay to start feeding him twice a day. And yes I’m that mom who generally doesn’t do too many new things (like start feeding him food) without the doctor’s approval. He was such a good boy and he even got a new book…then the nurse came in with the dreaded shots! You know, at 2 and 4 months I was perfectly fine with him getting shots. It was no big deal… he cried for two seconds and then got over it, but not this time. He knew he was being held down and hated every second of it! And not only did he just get the normal two, he had to get two extra (H1N1 and the regular flu shot). Let me just say that I’ve never ever heard Champ cry like that, and I totally cried too! If this is how its going to be then Joe needs to cowboy up and start taking him because if I hear that cry again, I'm most likely going to cry again.

So some updates on Champ…(mind you that some things he had been doing for a month or two)
He eats baby food twice a day.
His favorite food so far I think is Apples and Blueberries.
He loves those little puffs things and we are still working on him getting them into his mouth himself. (funny because everything else goes into his mouth)
He knows how to put his binky in his own mouth.

He HATES green beans (like father like son)
Same goes for holding his bottle (done that for awhile) and putting that in his mouth himself.
He has 8 teeth, 4 on top, 4 on bottom.
He hates it when I leave the room and he can’t see me.
He is a maniac in his walker in the kitchen, and that thing HURTS when it slams into the back of your heels.
He is a talker!
He is definitely a mama’s boy :)
He likes a blanket over his head or by his face when he is falling asleep but will eventually kick all of his blankets off.
He still doesn’t sleep through the entire night.

Not only does he not sleep through the night, now he just sits up and screams.
He loves the dogs. He pulls on Lola’s ears and thinks its the best thing ever when they run around and play with eachother.

He has been sitting up for some time now, but he can now sit up from laying down.
And it WAS going to be "last but not least" HE CAN CRAWL but thats old news! (he started officially crawling right after New Years day.

And Champ can now pull himself up to stand! He pulled himself up holding the couch on Thursday morning!

Our first Family Christmas

Catching up

It was a great holiday season!

The week before Christmas we got to go to Pittsburgh to see Joe's family. Delayed an hour leaving SLC made it so we had to RUN through the Cincinnati airport to catch our next flight...I couldn't tell you the time I ran before that and it SUCKED (I'm lazy, what can I say). I made Joe run ahead to make sure they didn't leave us, and they almost did. Champ was pretty good on the flights. There was like 3 minutes on the first flight where he just screamed because he was so tired and was fighting it, and so what if I had a little break down too and cried...it happens! Other than that he was fantastic, can't complain! We had a great time with the family. Champ sure does love his Pops! It was pretty busy busy though. I think we want to go back someday when 1. its not winter and cold and 2. we don't have the whole week planned out. While we were there Joe gave me an early Christmas present...but the turd put it in my stocking so I was very confused but in the end it still was amazing...1/2 carat diamond earrings ;) Can't complain! And Champ cut 2 new teeth while we were there...and when we left we noticed that he had FOUR coming in on top all at once! He now has four on the bottom and four still popping out on top.

Champ's first Christmas was awesome too! Besides getting spoiled by his Mema and Pops and Grandma and aunt Vicky, Champ had quite the Christmas at home too! Joe told me a couple days before that he got a couple things for Champ, then came home and more things kept coming out of the bags, the only thing I said was "well Champ is done!" Then of course I went and got him just a couple other cool things! My favorites being: his hooded monkey blanket and his rubber banana toothbrush/teether! On Christmas morning Champ woke up at about 6, I gave him a bottle and put him in our bed with us and he laid there and talked and talked until we woke up. We thought we had a couple more years until we had to wake up early and open presents.

The next night after Joe got off work we left for Twin Falls to have Christmas with my family. That of course was fun too. Champ apparently just wanted to hang out and party with everyone because he only took one nap while we were there and stayed up WAY TO LATE! But he had a blast!

New Years Eve was just as boring as usual! We don't do a whole lot, and Champ in I were in bed by 10. I know, I'm lame!

2009 was a good year, but I'm excited for this year too and watching Champ grow up!