Silas at 6 Months

Tidbits About Our Chunk

1. He's not as much of a chunk anymore.  He's dropped down into the 49% for weight at 17 lbs and 6.5 oz.
2. But he's still at the top of the charts for length and head circumference.  He's 27.25 inches long (78%) and his head is 17.5 inches (83%).
3. He's sitting up more and more on his own when placed in position, yet he's still not rolled over.  Lazy?  His pediatrician seems to think it has to do with his round belly. 
4. He responds to anyone who will sing to him with a big gummy grin. 
5. He finally gave in and starting eating baby cereal.  We've even ventured on to applesauce and bananas.
6. There have been several times that I have had to pull his toes out of his mouth to feed him food.  Yes, his toes.  He may be round, but he's flexible.   
7. He's sleeping more and more at night.  Not all night. But more.  Typically, he'll get up once to nurse between 11pm and 1am and then he'll sleep around six hours. 
8. He loves his big brother!  He watches every move Micah makes.  Micah loves his little brother too.  Everyday he kisses Silas on the head before we leave him in his classroom.  It's sweet.  I'll try to remember these moments in 10 years when they are wrestling, breaking things, and putting holes in the drywall. 

Six Month Portraits

Here are my favorites.  Enjoy!

Wordless Wednesday

Easter Weekend: Easter Sunday

Have you ever heard of a priest telling the congregation not to come to mass on Easter Sunday morning? (He suggested everyone come to the 3 hour vigil Saturday night or wait until the Sunday night service.) Ours did.  Considering the circumstances, I totally get where he was coming from. 

We are currently smack-dab in the middle of building our new church right in front of our current church where a large portion of the old parking lot once was. 

Since non-practicing Catholics tend to come out of the woodwork on Christmas and Easter, we were expecting a crowd larger then the church could accomodate.  Last year the fire marshall had to guard the doors because the building was at capacity.  We stood in the garden and listened to the service over the outside speakers.  This year the garden is fenced off for construction. 

Instead of the mass confusion and crowds, we drove down to Denton for Easter Sunday service.

I'm glad I took these photos before church.  We had a flood on our way home from church.  Water came halfway up our driveway for a little while. 

We ate some good food and enjoyed having Nana and Grandaddy for the weekend.  Micah and I even found a few minutes to dye some Easter eggs.  These are the ones that were left after Nana made deviled eggs for lunch with the rest of them.  Yum!

Easter Weekend: Holy Saturday

At the Ballfield

My favorite part about little league sports has nothing to do with being competitive.  It's the moment just after I yell out, "Let's go Micah" when he looks up into the stands for me and smiles the biggest grin he can.  I'm so proud of him for merely walking out onto the field, and his grin is his acknowlegement that he's proud of himself too. 

We don't have the traditional dog pile of the entire infield after the batter hits the ball.  Our coach lines up the team on the pitcher's mound, and each player gets their turn to field one ball before they rotate to first base for one turn.  The games are still just as hilarious because there's always a couple batters that run the wrong way, one kid will slide into first base, or the player fielding the ball will dive and roll on the ground with great drama to make the catch. 

Easter Weekend: Good Friday

My parents came to visit for Easter.  It's always great to have them come visit.  Micah is always giddy from the time I tell him they're coming until their arrival.

On Good Friday my office closed early and celebrated with a spring family picnic in the park nearby.  I picked up the boys, and my parents and Tom met us there. 

Micah's favorite part was the pony ride and all of the live animals to hold and squeeze.  [I felt sorry for those poor animals.]

There were ducks, baby chicks, a hen, a goose, a pig, guinea pigs, lots of goats, and several bunnies.

But, this if my favorite animal to squeeze.  Come on, don't you just want to squeeze those cheeks!

Micah rarely passes up a chance to play on a playground.  He can spot them from a mile away. 

After the picnic we relaxed with Nana and Grandaddy in our backyard on the patio and down by the chimenea.

Kids In The Kitchen

Another one of the reasons my blog posts have been lacking lately...

This year I served on the Kids in the Kitchen committee.  KITK is a nation-wide project for Junior League.  The main objective of the project is to teach kids about healthy snacks and good exercise.  The JLCC held a big event at Children's Medical Center in Plano in late March.  Our special guests were Sunny Sinclair from The Biggest Loser and Olympic gold medalist Carly Patterson.

I had a great time putting together the event with all of these ladies.

Here are a few shots from the rest of the event:

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to the Greatest Mom! 

I hope you are enjoying San Antonio!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter From The Deens!

Silas at 5 Months

Tidbits About Our Chunk

1.  Hmmm...No doctor visit this month.  I need to measure and weigh him.  He's sleeping though.  It'll have to wait.

2.  He started eating rice cereal mixed with formula and applesauce.

3.  He still loves taking a bath.

4.  He's started to sit up.  Briefly.  What can I say, he has a round bottom.

5.  While laying on his back, he'll reach for his toes, but only reaching his calves. 

6.  Nana and Grandaddy claim he's said "Dada" several times.  I refuse to believe it.  I've made a mental note to practice saying "Mama" with him at every given chance.

7.  His eczema on his neck and ears is clearing up. 

8.  His hair is growing back in, and it's a lot lighter in color.

9.  He slept through the night once.  Only once.  Although he has made it 6 hours straight a couple of times too.

10.  I believe I have lost the bet with Tom.  I think his eyes are going to stay blue.  I'm not giving up until October though. 



Wordless Wednesday

Egg Huntin'

The city of Frisco held their annual Easter Eggstravaganza last weekend!  There were 80,000 eggs covering 6 soccer fields for all of the little ones to gather. 

If only we could gather that many people to pick up trash for approximately 45 seconds, there would never be any litter.

He gathered 35 eggs and had great joy opening each one!

Blastball Opening Ceremony

We've already had our first game, but for the sake of chronological order I'll save that for another post.

We started off the season with low attendance at the opening ceremony and parade.  I'm not sure what that says about our team.  Micah and the two coaches' sons dressed out for the occasion.  They had alot of fun despite the expresson on Micah's face in most of these photos.  I think Micah was still half asleep.  We had to be at the field at 8am.  He's used to enjoying his morning waffles and cartoons at that time.

(Please notice the dirt stains on his white pants.  We hadn't even played a game yet...I might as well invest in mass amounts of stain remover now.)

Okay, so I have this great entrepreneurial idea if anyone out there would like to follow through with it. 

I've found that sports opportunities are opening up for the younger kids like crazy.  The age brackets just get younger and younger.  Well, the uniforms are still the same sizes.  Our boys are drowning in these extra small jerseys and baseball pants. 

Someone needs to start a line of sports uniforms in toddler sizes.  Even cleats are impossible to find in an 8.5 toddler.   I've searched high and low with no luck.  You know moms will pay to have something fit their babies.  I would.

So, whoever decides to take my idea and run with it, don't forget to send me a little kick back ;)