1st Mother's Day...

Can I just brag a little bit?  Ya'll, I am SO proud of my husband and how he planned to make this mother's day -- my very first mother's day -- such a special event.  One I'll never forget.  Outstanding job, babe!

This past weekend was so nice.  Saturday we spent around the house for part of the day, getting some things checked off the to-do list.  Then after lunch, and naps all around, we headed into Wilmington to do some shopping and check off more things on the to-do list.  :)

While we were in town, Jeff (and Deacon :) took me to a local place downtown, The Front Street Brewery, for dinner as a Mother's Day dinner.  This was the 2nd time we'd been there and both times the food has been phenomenal.  LOVE it.  And the atmosphere is pretty neat-o, too.  It was loud enough that Deacon's squealing part-way through the meal didn't really disturb too many.  We were seated beside a table of 4 young girls who all thought Deacon was "the cutest thing" so I don't think we could have disturbed them anyway.  :)

Sunday was sooo special.  I went to get Deacon up to get ready for church and found a card in the corner of his crib addressed to "mommy".  There was a sticky note on the card that said "wake up daddy".  :)  Fortunately, I'd already done that before I went to get Deacon so Daddy had followed me into the nursery.  I opened my card and found 2 photos, one of which was THIS:

The other one is just.as.cute.

I had NO IDEA that Jeff was going to do this so I got pretty emotional over the photos.  Then I had to read the card from my baby boy, through my tears.  So precious.  Also inside the card was a gift card for a 1 hour massage!  Way to go, Dadd--er, I mean, Deacon!  :)

We all got ready for church and Jeff pulled out a beautiful corsage for me to wear -- what a really thoughtful thing to do.  It made me feel so special.  When we got home from church, Jeff had gotten sushi for lunch so I didn't have to cook.  Awesome!

The rest of the day was spent just relaxing and doing whatever.  We all took a nap after lunch.  We went for a walk.  We were able to skype with both my parents and Jeff's parents so that was nice.  We grilled out for dinner that night.

It was a perfect 1st Mother's Day -- my boys made my day and I love them both to pieces!

[6 mos]

6 months...

Alright, I'm a little late with this post, sorry.  I just can hardly believe that my baby boy is already 6 months old -- a HALF a year old.  Seriously...where do I turn the speed down?

Our boy is officially in size 2 diapers now.  I told you it wouldn't be long.  We're still using diapers that folks have given us which is such a blessing.  But we're to the point now that the size he happens to be wearing, whatever that is at the time, we only have maybe a box or something, so depending on how long he stays in that size, we may or may not find ourselves buying more of that size.

At this point, I think I prefer Huggies brand.  They seem to fit Deacon the best and give us the best results regarding leaks/blowouts (sorry if that's TMI).  We have tried some store brands like Costco's Kirkland brand and they're okay, too.  I have heard that Luvs is a really great brand and they're cheap, too, so when we get to a point that we need more, I think I'd like to try some Luvs to see how we do with those.

[24.5 weeks]

About midway through April, we saw Deacon roll over from his tummy to his back a couple of times.  We figured it was just lucky and we were right cuz we haven't seen him do it since.  That's not something he's rushing to do and though I'm surprised, I'm not rushing it either.  :)

He's really been playing a lot with his feet since he found them last month.  He likes to throw them in the air and then grab onto them.  He does that wherever he is, whether he's laying on the floor, in his bouncy seat, in his car seat or on the changing table, even.  As a matter of fact, I saw him stick one of his feet in his mouth on the changing table one morning.  All by himself!  :)

[25 weeks]

As you saw from my last post, Deacon had his first Easter at 6 mos old.  That was really special -- I'm glad it worked out that he turned 6 mos old right around Easter this year.  He went to his first Easter egg hunt and did really good.

The night before Deacon turned 6 months, we tried giving him some solid food to see what he would do.  We started with some warmed green beans (Gerber 1st Foods) and boy, the faces he made!  I knew he was an expressive child but holy cow, he had some faces that night!  Poor baby -- some of his faces were hilarious and pitiful at the same time.  :\  We quit with the green beans that night and moved on to some warmed bananas and I thought for sure he'd like those better.

Nope.

The faces he made with those were even worse, it seemed like.  We tried again the next night and still got the same reactions/faces, only that night he just stopped closing his mouth.  Yeah.  So the food would just fall right out.

We're still in the trying phase of solids...

When I took Deacon for his 6 month well-check at the pediatrician's office, I was really curious to know what he weighed.  That's a question I get asked a lot.  At his 4 month appt, he weighed 13 lbs 13 oz and was 24 in long.  At his 6 month appt, he weighed 16 lbs 7 oz and was 25.5 in long.

A perfectly normal healthy 6 month old.  Who is uh-dorable.