Blessed by Chance: July 2012

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Counting down the days

OOPS THIS WAS SUPPOSE TO BE POSTED BACK IN MARCH!!!!!

I can not believe that my 3 months maternity leave is coming to an end. It feels like this time has just flow by. So much as happened over the past 3 months, but looking back it only feels like it has been a few weeks. Although, when I look at Chance I can not believe how much he has grown. At his 2 month doctor check up he weighed 12 lbs and is 24 inches long and that was 10 days ago, he already feels like he is gowing and weighing more. Everyday he seems to be learning something new, especially smiling like you wouldn't believe, he giggles and is one big kickin' chicken.
Since my last post I am trying to think of all the big events that have happened, there have been so many! My best friend Jessica from Austin came to stay with us for a few days and brought her 18 month daughter Gwendolyn. We had the best time and laughed a lot of how far she and I have changed over the past 10 years. We had the same thought when we were driving to go to the Childrens Museum in Fair Park, "We're both mom's!" Here is a few funny photo's that I took of Chance at his first museum trip.

If you look at it, all these pictures look like I photoshopped Chance into them. Al and I started laughing histarically when we both looked back at them. Another big event that happened since my last entry is that Chance had his first babysitting gig. It was so hard for me, but I bought tickets to the Mav's game for Al's birthday, when I purchased them I wanted to make sure that I had introduced a bottle to Chance and make sure that I bought the tickets when he was closer to 2 months old. He did such a great job, when we went to pick him up he had only ate once (normally he would have ate twice in the time we were gone) and he slept most of the time. I was a little worried that he would be up that whole night but actually that was the first night he slept 6 hours straight! I woke up at 6:30 that morning in a panic thinking I slept through him crying, but he was just waking up when I checked on him. Since then he has only had 2 other nights of sleeping 6 hours straight, but these changes take time.

Learning about gravity

Learning about waves

At the farm

Playing in the sand with Gwen

Time does go by at a blink of an eye

I have been thinking about posting for a while now and can not believe it has been so long since my last post. Although, I am not going to feel guilty, because I take in every moment that I spend with my son and each moment creates such special memories. So much has happened in such a small amount of time. Chance is already 7 months old!!! He is crawling, babbling, has 12 million different facial expressions and is becoming so observant, it blows me away.

It was the day after 4th of July the first time that Chance truly crawled and he crawled pretty far for his first time. I was so proud of him. Now he won't stop moving. Al and I are trying to keep up when baby proofing each room, catching new things that we need to take care of when he gets into things. I have to say that my two favorite times of the day are picking him up from daycare and that first embrace I get from him along with a very slobbery wet kiss and sitting him down for dinner, or any meal for that matter. He started on real food at 5 1/2 months. He absolutely loves yams!! But he is eating everything from mango's, broccoli, pears, blueberries, zucchini to squash, and much more. He loves it all. We are not a fan of peas yet, but that I really don't blame him for they are not a favorite of mine either. Chance is an absolute hoot when it comes to eating. He just seems to want a bigger bite each time and can not get enough of the mushy goodness between his fingers.
Al and I bought a new home at the end of February and we are enjoying putting it together piece by piece and making it our own home. Tell you one thing, buying a house is time consuming but getting it the way you want it is a bigger project within itself. Of course though Chance's room was the first completed. We kept the nautical/under the sea theme and painted just one blue accent wall. It's very nice and calming and Chance seems to enjoy it as well considering we have both been blessed by him sleeping through the night since he was 4 months old and goes to sleep about 8pm every night. Well enough for now, enjoy the photos I have below of my little peanut!