The Duck & The Moose: August 2012

Mr. C - Rex is 6 months old!! Where in the world did half a year go? I am already nostalgic! He can say "mom" and "mama". He "sings" himself to sleep (sometimes with me sometimes by himself). He looooves his big sister; he always greets her with a big gummy smile in the morning as she is the first one to hear him and run into his room. And speaking of gummy smiles, he has his 2 bottom teeth now! He quite enjoys biting. He wants to eat everything! He can really grab too, so no small toys for this household anymore. His favorite food is carrots (peas and carrots!). He is just the most easy going, happiest little guy ever. He got 3 shots today and didn't let out a peep until the 3rd one. He yelped, just once. Then he went happily into his carseat and sat through a McDonald's drive-through (sometimes mommies need coffee) and getting gas with a smile. If Colin ever is fussy, he will cheer right up with a little music, game of peek-a-boo or bouncing. .. oh and lest I forget, we started sleep training & night #3 he slept from 10:30pm -7:30am - and woke up with some cooing and smiles. As Katie R. said, "Carrie, your kids make post-menopausal women ovulate!"

Just preparing for the beach!

Colin's 6 month stats:

Weight: 18.5lbs (50-75%)

Height: 28" (90-95%)

Adorable-ness: 100%

And shall we discuss the big sister? Big Sister Wendy Darling (from Peter Pan) as she likes to be called these days! And Colin is baby Michael. (Lova Baby is John) She is just hilarious! She makes up full imaginary games now. The latest is flying to Never Land, which of course leads to flying to Disneyland and then San Francisco. Her favorite thing in all the world is swimming - and she is becoming sooo good at it! She can swim around the pool in her life jacket and now she can swim to the edge or get her head up without it! We're just working on staying afloat. She listens to everything - you definitely can't pull one over on this little girl! She is intuitive, creative and oh -so- smart! And she cannot get enough of "little Collie".

Belle also loves to play beach - which is where we are going on Sat! For one whole week! SO an update on Sea World and the ocean will be coming shortly! We can't wait! Even Daddy gets to join us for 5 days!

I imagine we'll see a lot more of her in Grammy's hat :)

So close to sitting up!

And some photos of our recent trip to SeaLife

Truly engrossed

Pointing to the Sting Ray under the floor. She thought she would step right into the tank, even after she saw me step on the glass. She tentatively put one toe out and then both feet before believing she wasn't going to "swim with the fishes".