Three squeaks for Grandpa Tom!

 

Happy Birthday Grandpa Tom.
You know, I've been wishing a lot of people "Happy Birthday," when do I get a birthday...?

Swaddling: Cruel and unusual or a parent's salvation?

Despite the objections of some of our 6 readers, we have swaddled Mac since he came home from the hospital. We were told that it seemed mean and torturous.
However, Mac started sleeping through the night by 6 or 7 weeks old and it was hard to argue with those results. After all, "If it ain't broke..."

We knew that we could not swaddle him forever: I mean, they don't make wraps big enough for 10 year olds. Plus, that might make sleep-overs awkward.
So, we have been trying to decide the best way to wean him off of swaddling. Without any great ideas, we pressed onward.

Well, about a week ago, Mac "politely" refused to be swaddled one night. We decided to let him have a chance at freedom and figured we would have to get up in the middle of the night.
Much to our surprise, he slept straight through until morning and has been free from the bondage of swaddling ever since.

Here is a picture of him napping sans swaddle.

Happy Birthday to Papa John!

Today is my Papa John's birthday (we won't mention how old he is today). In honor of him we have some pictures of my first University of Georgia football game.

6 Months!!!???

We don't know about you, but we really can't believe that it has already been 6 months.
Time has just flown by. We are constantly amazed at how much he has grown. He likes to roll around and sometimes likes to sit-up. Crawling is just around the corner.
It will probably be no time at all before he starts driving...

From MABC Block Party 2008

On another, exciting note, Doug started his new job yesterday. Some of you may not have known, but he was let go from his old job a month ago due to the poor housing market. So, its back to the grindstone, but we are excited about it.

Mac eats

Mac is now eating baby food.
Well, he has actually been eating that for a while now.
This video is from one of the first times we fed him carrots.
I guess he wasn't too sure about the texture or why his food wasn't in a bottle, but we think it is funny how he makes that terrible face and then immediately tries to get more.



He is a very good eater - he eats three meals a day and eats all kinds of foods that I don't eat.
I guess I will need to work on being a better example and start eating more vegetables, but hopefully he will continue to like those things even if I can't.

Dennis the Menace?

UGA Lamb Show

Click on the picture for more photos of Mac's first lamb show.
He was a pee-wee exhibitor at the 4-H show.
He was very interested in the lambs, but mostly wanted to put the rope into his mouth.

Reading

We've been absent from here for a while, but wanted to let y'all know that Mac is a little advanced for his age. We recently found him sitting in our bed, reading.

There has been a lot going on recently and we will try to get caught up soon.