7 Months

Today is Dominic’s 7 month birthday!

 

 

It’s been an emotional and busy few months so I’ve finally been able to process and upload new photos, here’s an album of photos from his  5 – 7 month photos

 

It’s so crazy looking at him now, he seems so different from that little (big) guy we brought home. He now babbles a lot when he wakes up in the morning and sometimes while he eats and at random throughout the day. He likes to do the raspberries as evidenced in the previous post’s video.

 

He can pull himself up pretty well and likes to stand and lean on his toys. He can’t crawl quite yet but he is getting really good at scooting around and pulling himself across the floor while on his tummy. He can also get up on his knees and he lurches forward sometimes but he hasn’t figured out how to coordinate his arms and legs to get an effective crawl.

 

He eats solid foods at least twice a day and we are beginning to introduce him to more bland versions of our dinners, though he’s still not quite into the texture of the ground up stuff. He plays around with his sippy cup while laying on his back on the floor and also enjoys chewing/sucking on frozen banana in a mesh strainer. He still doesn’t have his teeth but is working on them and we think we feel a few bumps on his bottom gums.

 

He’s still sleeping well at a very consistent 11 – 12 hours a night. He tends to take one 1.5 – 2.25 hour nap in the mid morning along with two 30 – 45 minute naps during the day and plays in between.

 

He is quite the happy baby and loves to smile and laugh. He seems to be developing quite a big personality and has us laughing often throughout the day. We are very blessed to have him in our lives, he’s quite the super baby!

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Rasberries For Sale

Probably nothing too exciting, but we’ve been getting a kick out of this.

 

Here’s Dominic’s latest thing/sound, he enjoys making raspberries. Some are small, some large and others go from cry to berry in an instant.

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In the first series of clips we put him in his new car seat (which goes into my truck) in order to properly adjust it, he was in a bit of a bad mood and acting out a bit. So he’d started to make raspberries and occasionally they’d turn to a whine/cry.

 

In the second clip he was playing in his exersaucer and making his new favorite sound so I grabbed the camera and recorded his fun noises.

 

I am blessed and really enjoy staying at home with him the few days a week I get to.

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How to cap off an emotional but great day

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What’s the best way to top off an emotional but great day? Dominic in his jumper laughing his little head off. I love this little guy, he loves to have fun!

 

After Lori figured out that her jumping brought out big laughter from Dominic I ran and grabbed the camera and captured this. At one point just before I filmed this, he was laughing so hard and continuous he was turning bright red in the face.

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Because Every Sad Day Deserves Some Joy

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This Post Is For My Mom

So my mom bought Dominic a sailor’s suit the last time she went up to Solvang. We had it in his closet and it dawned on me that we had better put it on him and get some photos because at the rate he’s been growing he’ll soon not fit in it.

So here is link to some more photos of Dominic in his cute little Sailor’s Suit. Thanks mom, I’m sure he’ll be very embarrassed later in life!

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6 Month Checkup

Today was Dominic’s 6 month Doctor visit.

Even baby gowns have that pesky problem of catching a draft, though he didn’t seem to mind.

 

Today he had 3 shots, and didn’t even cry for the first one and minimally cried for the next two.  He checked out well and his current stats are: His weight is 20 lbs 2 oz which means he’s slowed down a bit but is still in the low 90%. His head size is 18” or the mid 90%  His height is a little over 29” which puts him off the charts (above 100%).

 

We both felt his weight had slowed down and have recognized his height as he often has to wear clothing a few months ahead of him, so we weren’t too surprised.  He’s been cleared to move on to next stage foods and soon enough on to real food.  He will have to go back in a month to get the second part of his Flu Vaccination and then his next set of shots will be at 1 year old.  So for 9 months he’ll just go in to visit with the doctor and get measured and weighed.

 

Christmas was fun this year with Dominic and I can’t wait until next year when he’s more aware.  I finished editing through and uploading our Christmas Eve and Morning/Day photos.  I took way to many photos and now I feel bad for always giving the shutter heavy photographers a bad time at the award shows for overshooting :)

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6 months

Today marks 6 months since Dominic joined our family!

It’s still hard to believe and feels like it was so long ago!  Tomorrow is his 6 month checkup so There Will be Shots and we’ll get another official weighing / measuring.  I’m excited to find out how he’s progressing and will be sure to update you all.  No video to post yet because I’ve been too busy and haven’t had time to put anything new together, but I promise to update here when I do so.  Also I’m still piling through the 19 million photos taken during Christmas, but I will also update when I post those to flickr.

Stay tuned…

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I’m a glutton for punishment.

I just paid a fee in order to be brutally tortured. Yep, I signed up for the Camp Pendleton Annual Mud Run – AGAIN.

All kidding aside, I’m SO excited to run this race again. I’ve been stalking the website for weeks just waiting for the sign ups to begin… and the race isn’t even until June!

I’ve completed this course twice before and let me tell you, it is no walk in the park. It’s a 10k (or just over 6 miles) but it’s also an obsticle course… oh, and there’s mud. A lot of mud.

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Let’s see… there are a couple of 6 foot walls to climb, and then immediately following, a pool of muddy disgustingness to fall into (I’ll bet cash money that Jimmy Hoffa can be found in there!). There are sand crawls, rivers to wade across, a 2 mile hill to climb, oh.. and the hill of death – picture a hill that is so steep that you slip with every step you take.. oh.. and I forgot to mention that there is mud involved… oh.. and marines using a fire hose and spraying all who attempt to climb it! Good times! And it all finishes up with a belly crawl through another mud pit. I stinkin’ can’t wait!

This race leave me crippled for days but oh how I love it!

I’ve been fortunate to not have to endure the pain alone. Fellow bloggers Rachel and Linda have plugged along with me with the same desire for pain. Actually no, we all strive to be as strong as we can be and this race really pushes us to continue with that goal. I’ve included a few pictures from a couple of years ago.

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So here we are in 2009, the race is just over 5 months away and we have a lot of training to do. Time to whip my body into shape… no more post baby weakness. Time to get strong and prepare for imminent pain and suffering.

If you would like to feel what it’s like to be seriously whipped, you should join us! The feeling of completion is absolutely amazing and has always left me with the feeling that I can do anything.

oh… and having a bunch of marines there to cheer you on… yeah, that’s nice, too. :)

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What’s funny to a 5 month old?

Today Dominic is 5 months old and he finds this to be pretty hilarious:

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Thanks to Richard for taking some awesome photos, we have a great set of Christmas photos to choose from for our Christmas card. Thought he selection was hard we were able to nail it down and have printed our Christmas card and will send them out this coming week.

You can see the edited Selection of photos here

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100% Decked!

As of last night, we are 100% officially decked out for Christmas 2008!

 

It started on (Black) Friday of last week with me pulling out the decorations from the (meth)shed and I strung up lights on the outside of the house while lori hung up some inside decorations.

 

Saturday we hung our lighted fake pine garland on the wall opposite our TV. Tuesday came and I had heard about the awesome clearance discounts at Lowes on all holiday decorations including the expensive fake trees. I know, I know, first a neti pot and now a fake tree. Believe me when I say I LOVE real pine trees, in fact when we lived in Idaho we used to go to our neighbor’s house and pick a tree from his forrest!

 

Lori and I had considered getting a fake tree with now having Dominic (and eventually having another). We figured with him running around next year it’d be better not having to deal with the pine needles, watering, drying out, fire hazard and the other down side of having a sort of live tree in your house. I have to say after seeing the tree decorated and light up (oh yeah it’s pre light!!!) it looks very nice and always so perfect. The only drawback is that it doesn’t smell. So in honor of that I put a 3-pack of little trees air freshener on the tree as an ornament.

 

Here’s a time lapse video that boils down the hour it took us to assemble and decorate the tree into 2:30.

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I am so looking forward to celebrating the Holiday as a newly extended family this year!

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