Baby Brunch!!!

Meghan and Michelle both welcomed their beautiful baby girls into the world recently...

Meghan: Annabelle Jean and Michelle: Eliza Ann They are both gorgeous healthy baby girls and I have had the pleasure of meeting them both twice now. Jim and Leslie were in town this weekend and some other people needed to "meet" the babies so we all met for breakfast over at Michelle's house. It is always so fun to have us all together! Will loves water and wine glasses, it is so cute because if I am holding him and a cup he always has his hand on it, like he is helping me hold it. I always tell him thank you for helping me hold everything! So of course Will wanted to try out Uncle Jim's mimosa! Mmmmmm!!!

Showing of his superior "scooting" skills!

Josie, Sophie, Grace, William, and Dominick! 5 out of the 7 kids that were there, gosh are we growing up or WHAT!!?! Cuties!

Uncle Jimbo being silly with Will...... Cant wait to have him living back in STL SOON! :)

Best girlfriends!

Nick sleeping with his baby girl.... precious!

Jim and Leslie (in coordinating shirts! ha!) meeting the two new babes!

Mommy and Will's weekend of fun!

My title of the post reminds me "Joey and Janice's day of fun!" Ha... good ol' Friends!

With daddy out of town from Friday to Tuesday it was just the little man and I. It was great to get lots on one on one time in with Will and lots of snuggles!

Our weekend rundown:

Friday night we stayed in and played and relaxed.

Saturday morning we got up got ready and headed over to Michelle's for "baby brunch!" (separate post because of too many cute pictures!)

After that we were going to go see the grandmas or do some shopping but it started to snow and kept coming to we went home and hunkered down and watched the snow fall...

Sunday we went to get Will's 6 month pictures taken, there are SOME cute ones but overall I was not too impressed so were going for round 2 this weekend.

Then Will hung out with a new babysitter I wanted to try out while I went and ran a couple errands. Later Colleen, Baby Jack, and Jessie came over... some wine and girl talk kept me up too late but it was a great end to the weekend! Hats off to single moms I had my first taste of it this weekend, and boy is it tiring!

Will is SO close to crawling, he now just scoots backwards and around in circles, I have been trying to get this on video! Will got really mad at Eeyore for some reason! Ha!

Playtime!

Ahhh all clean!

Last bath in my baby tubby!

5 months old and obsessed with the iphone....

I loved my Will weekend but I am super excited to see Luke tonight and hear all about his trip!

Just a few...

My love bug, my muffin man, my sungglebunny, my pumpkin, will-i-am, Luke's pookster, Crystals Boo..... Our Will.

This was Will's first time not "laying" in the bath, he thought it was pretty cool he could put his hands in the water and explore with all the fun toys!

Here are a couple pics I stole from Crystal's blog, I had to share! Are they not the cutest two boys ever?!!?

5 Month Boy!

Daddy and Will five months
Mommy and Will five months

Ut ohh he can grab now, going to make monthly pictures a little more challenging!

That's my happy boy!

HI!

Will you are five months old now and more precious every day! You are getting so big and doing so many new things it is hard to keep up with you! You roll over now and love to roll and scoot around. If we put you down on your back you are on your tummy and NO time and much prefer it. Once on your tummy you start to scoot scoot a little but only go backwards right now.

Your first foods were rice cereal and applesauce, you much prefer the applesauce... just proving you know what you like once again. Yes, still hate formula and only want mommy's milk.

You are mostly in 6 and 6-9 month clothing and wearing a size two diaper, though I think it is time to move up to a size three.

We started you on the overnight diapers to help with the massive amounts of pee pee you can produce overnight! Because..... right now you are sleeping! Going from about 8 pm - 5 am... I so wish we could make it to 6 but I'll take it for now :) Naps are a different story, they vary from day to day usually ending up with 3 naps per day, about an hour and a half to two hours of awake time between naps.

Right now as I type this you are on my lap and both your hand are on top of both of my hands... you are so interested in everything and such a smart little boy!

We love you very much Mr. William, I cant believe you are five months old!

New Trick!

A foot! A foot! Anytime he can see it, grab it, and sqeeze it, the foot pops right into his mouth!

Wednesdays and the Little Gym

I am so thankful my dad (boss) is being supportive and allowing me to work from home on Wednesdays. I can check emails from my house and phone and take care of any pressing matters. It was so much harder than I ever would of imagined going back to work and still (yes still) I think about Will every second of every minute I am away from him. I kind of think something is wrong with me, maybe it is just a momma side effect but it is exhausting to constantly worry and think about your little one! I cant finish work or drive my butt fast enough to go run and scoop him in my arms at the end of the day and know we are back together....till the next morning.

It has really helped me mentally to be able to have that one day... one day to not jump in the shower or out of bed to feed the second I hear the alarm, one day to throw in a load of laundry in between naps and checking some emails, one day to not panic around in rush hour and drive from work to sitters to home.

Most Wednesdays Will and I chill at home, he takes good naps in his crib and I get caught up. Sometimes we will venture out and run an errand together or go to the store but mostly we stay home. I cant wait for it go get nice out and maybe we can go for a walk or go to a park, or just sit in the backyard and get some fresh air for crying out loud!

This completely and utterly sums up my Wednesdays (or whole life for that matter!)

Last Wednesday I decided to take Will to the "bugs" class at the Little Gym They offer one class a week (Wednesdays!) for Bugs, infants 4 - 10 months. Will was having an "off" day because he decided to get up at 3 am and had boycotted his morning nap. I debated not going but he wasn't napping anyway so why not! Even though he was pooped he did GREAT! We sang songs, did exercises, played with the big parachute, and the cutest thing was seeing him check out all the other babies! I would love to keep going to this class with Will and I think it is a great chance for us to get out and do something for him, so often he is tagging along on our errands or watching us clean the house, make dinner etc this is something that would just be one hour completely devoted to him!

Hopefully they'll have us back... Guess who's kid was the one kid to spit up all over the cheese mat all the kids were rolling on????

This lady! (ohh well)

I was a busy momma bee during the class but if we go back I want to try and snap a few pics of him!

Big Boy Bennett is TWO!

After our long night and early morning it was showered and off to the next event, Bennett's birthday! I cant believe Bennett is two and Will is almost six months! I keep asking myself when my sister and I grew up? It seems like yesterday we were putting on plays in the basement and playing school up in the loft.

If you ask me Bennett's birthday (and Crystal throwing it) had to be extra special this year, I know it makes Crystal's {sometimes aggravating} life so much easier when she is surrounding by her family and great friends! She put on quite a party, from the fun decorations to the yummy sandwiches and cake it was a great success! We didn't have anywhere to be so we stuck around late and spent some special birthday time with the big big boy! Bennett had his whole piece on his fork at once, now that's skillz!

Momma and the birthday boy!

Our family.

My grandpa made a special trip in town for the event. It was the first time ever I have seen him without grandma Ad, I know she was watching and smiling down at us from heaven.

Bennett with his Aquadoodle we got him, This thing is pretty cool!

William got to spend some time with Grandpa Bill which was super sweet! This was his first birthday party to attend and I think he had a great time! He even got some fun presents of his own, score! :)