Guess what I just did?

I just took the garbage out, made cookies, took the recycle out and cleaned up a bit around the house...all in an hour and all due to the greatest thing ever...the Ergo Baby Carrier. Yay!

The Many Faces of Patrick

He looks just like Grandma Kimmy here...

There's that one tooth

Cloth Diapers

So, we're thinking of switching to cloth diapers. With Patrick now in bigger disposable diapers (which means more $ and fewer dipes per package) and he's just still going through them like crazy, I think it's time. So, we checked out bumgenius the one size pocket diaper. We bought one and are trying it out. So far so good. They keep him so dry that I can't even tell when he's got a wet diaper. We went to Wildflower Diapers and they were very nice and helpful.

Getting a little messy with the sweet potatoes

6 1/2 month pictures

here's the tooth!

Brusha, brusha, brusha

We now have a sliver of a tooth poking out of Patrick's bottom left part of his mouth. I was feeling his gums last night to check it out and I noticed that it was hard and that there was a tooth. I'll be breaking out the finger baby toothbrush soon once it gets a little taller. Our baby is growing up so fast!

He Pooped!

While Daddy was letting Mommy have her weekly "time out," Patrick gave Daddy a great surprise. He finally pooped...like, a big poop. Not just the little pellets, but a great big poop "the size of his head" according to Daddy. Mommy was sorry she wasn't there to help clean it up but she was so happy to hear that Patrick has cleared out his slowage/stoppage. Yay!

Poor Patrick's in need of some prune juice

We've been working on giving his legs the "bicycle" and feeding him prunes. I hope to wake up tomorrow morning to have a nice surprise from the poop fairy. Who knew that giving your baby too many bananas makes them plugged up. :)

Update: 1/11/07 Patrick has pooped but not a lot, he's still having a hard time but not as bad since I gave him a sliver of an infant suppository per our doc's recommendation. I had no idea I'd be so interested and excited about his poops.

Christmas/New Year's/6 mo check up Update

Here are some cute photos from Christmas Eve dinner at Grandma Jo's house. We had some yummy ham and sweet potatoes and good family times. Patrick wore his Santa hat to be festive. As you can see, he loves to grab daddy's hair.

I need to take more pictures so that we can post more pictures. What you've all missed lately is the hit and run that Patrick and I had Dec. 21st, we're okay but the driver door of my trailblazer was bashed in. So, we've been crusing North Central Phoenix in a silvery-greeny Chrysler something or other. It's a nice rental car. My car should be ready by Jan 11th (fingers crossed). Oh and New Years came and went while we were visiting the sandman. I did tivo Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve so that I could celebrate the New Year with my sparkling cider and morning waffles the next day.

What else, oh, we went to Tucson this last weekend to visit my family some more and see Nana and the Manley's (where we got married). Nana is good and the Eegee flavor this month is Blueberry (not my fave...sorta tastes like blue dirt). Can't wait for the Peach 'n' berry each year. I should check to see when that is and plan a trip. You can check too: www.eegees.com.

Patrick also had his 6 month check up Jan 2nd. and he's in the 75th percentile for height, 70th for head and 25th for weight. He's still eating all the time so maybe he'll fatten up later. :) Oh, and my moles I had dug out of each arm came back from the pathologist with a clean bill. Yay! Guess that's it for now. Time to take today's shower. And what time is it....? 9:36 pm. Ha! I'm definitely a mommy now. Showers are sometimes hard to come by. :)