Loving the Fall!

The past two weeks the weather in Houston has been GREAT!!! So we have been outside a lot. One of the days Kevin took off of work early and played a twilight round of golf. Robert and I joined him for a couple of rounds and rode on the golf cart. Robert loved it!

Robert is keeping score.

One day during the week my friend Jill came over to meet Robert and have lunch. It was such a beautiful day outside that we had a picnic. Addison is about 9 months old. She even looks a bit smaller than him! They played very well together. He touched her head and tried to put it in his mouth and she tried to put her finger in his mouth. OF course he welcomed that! yummy fingers

Busy times!

My best friend Heather got married to a wonderful man named Brett who Kevin and I really like and wish them the best. That being said, we have had some busy days here lately. I had my first weekend without Robert when I went to party for Heather's last horah as a single lady. I had a hard time leaving him with my in laws on that Friday afternoon. It was so hard just to leave. Luckily they had some really cute pictures of Robert printed out and were nice enough to let me have the cutest one. I put it on my dash and stared at it the whole way to New Braunfels. Cops say cell phones are bad, pictures of cute little babies are way worse. I had fun at the bachelorette party but missed my family deeply. I have a great husband that kept sending me pictures every chance he had. These are just a few.

I want to put everything in my mouth.

It must have been a yummy dinner!

Bath time is always great. Oh yea he has found his toes. Sorry for the x-rated picture but what can I say he IS a boy!

Then the next weekend was opening weekend of dove season. Kevin, Robert and I went to Woodsboro for the weekend. Kevin hunted with my Dad and Robert and I stayed with my Mom. It was much needed. Meemaw took care of Robert while I slept for most of the day on Saturday. Robert did very well with all the traveling.

Finally the last weekend was Heather's wedding. I was a bridesmaid so I was very busy with that. Meemaw and Pawpaw watched Robert and then brought him to the weeding. It was great. My friends from college finally got to see my chunky monkey in person. After all the pictures I showed at the bachelorette party they were very excited to meet him. Robert had his first wedding and everyone know that with the first wedding means there was the first grand march. Kevin took him on the boys side. He looked like he was having fun watching all the people.

The Monday after Robert turned 5 months was the first day that sat up by himself. What a big boy!! Now he can sit and play by himself! He works on his fine motor skills of his hands. Everything must go in his mouth. If he can't bring the object to his mouth he will go to the object. Sometimes that object is Mommy and Daddy's face. So sweet yet so gross. MMMMM baby slobber!

Go Pokes!!

The first college game day and Robert is dressed in his game day attire! Robert and Daddy in retina burning orange, Go Pokes!!!

whoo hoo starting to eat food!!

After Robert's 4 month check up the Dr. gave us the go ahead to start Robert on cereal and then to move on to veggies, ect. Kevin and I were so excited a new adventure in raising Robert! He did well; of coarse most of the cereal came right back out but he started to get the hang of it. We have since moved on to green beans, peas and are going to try zucchini next!! I have made the baby food so far, it is alot easier than I thought. Finally I can use the food processer that we were given for our wedding, if only we could us the waffle maker more! He is starting to become a little more independent, he is trying to hold his bottles and is holding his knees for Mommy when I change his diaper. I am starting to feel like he is growing up so fast. All of it is exciting and Kevin and I can't wait to see more development but we are starting to see what everyone talks about. I really started to feel sad when I was shopping for bigger clothes for the chunky monkey and reallized that the pajamas for 12 mo babies are not one piece footies :( Of all the things to trigger my mommy sadness I know that it's weird that the pj's did it. I still can't bring myself to buy the two piece pj's.

Nice and clean, ready to start the big boy food! ooops Mom forgot the Bib.

This was the bib before we started eating. Isn't it cute with the little Dino.

Now we're talkin'. This is good stuff.

Now it looks as though it is snowing on the dino and Robert has a beard!

4 months!!!

Today was Robert's 4 month birthday! He had his check up where he was weighed, measured, and shot up:( He had a pretty big day. He rolled over from tummy to back Both directions and Mommy actually got it on tape. Unfortunately it is very shaky. He was given the OK to start on solids. The Dr. said he liked Robert because he is big and healthy! Robert is 18lbs and 11oz ( 95 percentile) 251/4 inches long (75 percentile). WOW what a growing boy!! You can really see that when you look at his turkey legs.

Katie's birthday

July 31 we celebrated Katie's 5th birthday with the family. It was Robert's first party and outing to the pool. He had a lot of fun! He likes his cousin Katie almost as much as she loves him. She makes him laugh. He is still getting used to her and her love! He was so cute in his little bathing suit!

Raising Robert

So I wanted to start a blog, mainly because my wonderful sister-in-law does it. It is a great way to keep people in touch with our family with out the time involved. I have quickly realized how much time I DON'T have.

The first three months of Robert's life was rough on Mommy and Daddy to say the least; but have since gotten much better. Three months was the turning point like everyone said!

Robert is now 3 and half months old!! Kevin and I weighed him on our scale and the chunkster is 19 lbs. WOW!! Boy has he grown. We were looking back at the pictures of when we brought him home and that first week. He was so small:( I know that we will have the rest of our lives of looking back and saying that same phrase and the very popular "he is growing so fast". I am enjoying it. He is sitting in his Bumbo chair. That is a chair that holds him up as long as he can support his own head. Which surprisingly is a task when you have to concentrate on doing that and trying to think about your hands and trying to get then to do what you want. He also has rolled from belly to back a handful of times. He does it more for Daddy than for Mommy. I better get used to that. Robert is already starting to try to stick things in his mouth. When he can get it TO his mouth! He likes playing on his play mat and sitting in Mommy's lab and talking to me!! That is great! It is like he trying to tell me things. He really goes to town talking on his changing table. This is when he is finding his voice, he lets out the cutest yells.

As far as this blog goes, I will try my best to keep it up to date. My husband seems to think that it will be like other things and will go to the wayside when I get to busy. Hopefully I will not let that ring true. So I hope that all my family and friends enjoy reading about Kevin and I "Raising Robert".