Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter!  The GI bug went through our house last week for the 2nd time but we thought we were feeling good enough to leave and take a relaxing weekend at the lake.  Good news- we did get a very relaxing, pretty weekend at the lake.  Bad news- we went from the GI bug to bronchitis, laryngitis, cough, cold and everything that goes with that!!!  We have taken a lot of pictures recently- Watson's 1st Braves game, lake, Easter- so I decided to go ahead with a new update.  Watson was ~23 lbs when I took him into my office last week.  He is such a happy boy and is so much fun!!  We are so blessed with him!!!
(If you click on the slideshow it will blow up the pictures!!)

10 Months

Watson is crawling all over the place now.  He gets into everything!  His fave things are cords, dog bowls and anything else that is not a toy!  We went to Lake Blackshear this weekend and stayed at my dad's lakehouse.  He is just finishing up an addition to it and it looks great!  We can't wait to spend a lot of time there this spring/summer!  Jason's parents went and stayed with us because this weekend was the annual Grits Festival in Warwick, GA and I was in one of my good friend from high school's weddings in Albany, GA.  They babysat Watson and spent time with Gloria's family in Warwick.  Watson did really good the whole weekend.  We had too much fun at Kelly's wedding :)!  I am including some pictures from this weekend.
Our house went on the market today...so if you know anyone looking for a cute 3 BR/2.5 BA home in Marietta then send them our way!!!  It's hard to believe we are getting ready to celebrate Watson's 1st birthday.  It has been an awesome experience!!!

9 months old!!

Watson had his 9 month check up last Friday.  He is a healthy little boy weighing in at 21 lb 12 oz and measuring 29.5 inches.  He is still at the 75 %ile for both weight and height for his age!  We are completely done with baby food.  He eats all table food...and lots of it.  He feeds himself and won't let anyone else try to feed him- very independent already!  He is taking a cup for all his milk during the day (except when he nurses) and is still getting a bottle at night before bed.  He has started crawling and has even pulled to standing on his own once.  We are getting lots of vocals from him- he talks all of the time just like his mommy!  We are going to need to babyproof asap because he gets into everything!!!!!  Gloria is keeping him at our house this week and said she ran into the kitchen to get his lunch ready and he was being uncharacteristically quiet so she peeped in on him.  He was in daddy's candy bucket and had chocolate running out of his mouth!!!!  Happy as he could be!  That will find another place this weekend when we babyproof!  He loves looking at dogs and climbs all over Tucker.  Thankfully Tucker allows it.  I think they are going to be good friends b/c Watson loves throwing the ball for Tucker.  We are really enjoying the nice weather outside and looking forward to being outside with watson this spring and summer!  Here are some new pictures over the past month.

Watson gets Baptized!

We had a great weekend last weekend for Watson's baptism.  Our family came into town and we enjoyed the nice weather outside by going to Piedmont Park with Jason's family and my brother joined us as well.  There was a litter of 10 wk old yellow lab pups that Watson got to play with.  It was the cutest thing ever watching them play with each other.  I wanted to bring one home but Jason refused his only son of this opportunity to grow up with a new pup ;).  We already have 2 that get on my nerves with a baby, so that is a good thing that he kept me grounded!

Watson did so good at his baptism- smiling at the congregation and preacher.  He loved opening all of the presents at lunch afterwards. 

I have been giving him finger foods for about 2 weeks and he has already gotten to the point that he pretty much refuses most baby foods.  He does pretty well with the finger foods but isn't quite good enough with his pincer grasp, so he has a little bit of trouble but it works!

His new "skill" is throwing.  He throws everything!  He's been playing with balls and trying to throw them but now he's gotten pretty good at it.  He's got a strong arm and things can go a ways!  He likes watching it get thrown but then fusses until we go get it because he can't get it yet.

Watson 7-8 months old

New pictures of Watson over the past month are below.  He is getting to be such a little boy and he is starting to show his opinion!  He wants to stand up all of the time now and is scooting around but not crawling yet.  He LOVES yogurt and has even tried refusing his meals in hopes of his yogurt...but dietitian mom isn't falling for that!!  I am working on table foods with him now but he is just playing with them and the dogs are enjoying this process.  He is more and more into the dogs and Tucker has been great with him.  He is also becoming more and more vocal and is holding his arms out for us to pick up and starting to wave (although I don't think he realizes what he's doing quite yet!).  He is getting baptized February 20th so we will have family up and pictures from that in the near future.

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!  Watson's first Christmas was a great success and so much fun!    Dad and Pat came to do an early Christmas last weekend and we had such a great visit with them.  Today, Watson's present to us was to snuggle in bed and go back to sleep until 10 am after he got his 7 am feed!!  This is usually when he is up for the day!  So Jason and I were well rested!  We got up and started getting ready for our company to arrive when it started pouring SNOW!  And it snowed all day...still is snowing!!  We had 14 dear family members over to our house for dinner, which went fabulously.  It was yummy and fun to visit with everyone.  Watson really enjoyed all of the presents and was in such a good mood all day.  I hope all of you had a wonderful day as well.  Here are our pictures from this Christmas!  Enjoy!

Watson is 6 months old today!!!  He weighed 17 lb 14 oz at his 6 mo dr apt on Monday and did really well with all of his shots.  He is a healthy little boy!  He is sitting up on his own and reaching for EVERYTHING now.  He really likes the remote control and my cell phone.  He LOVES to eat solids and is doing great with it.  We put him in a booster chair to eat solids and he loves getting in it.  He is more and more alert and interested in everything going on around him.  We took him to Lenox Mall this past weekend and he just looked around at all the people and things the entire time.  Jason and I decorated for Christmas last weekend as well, including putting up our tree.  Watson was in awe of it when he woke up- he just stares at the lights and tries to touch the tree and ornaments.  He is such a happy baby- really only cries when he needs something...mainly food!  We are looking forward to having everyone at our house for Christmas this year.  Jason and I continue to fall more and more in love with this little boy- he just melts our hearts!!!