Happy Birthday Granny D

We typically go up to Oklahoma City to celebrate the July 4th weekend. We usually take my niece with us, do fireworks at this great place outside of OKC where they still allow you to set off fireworks, eat great food and most importantly, celebrate Matt's mom's birthday (which is today-- Happy Birthday Granny D). It is always one of our favorite weekends. This year, however, I got stuck working (I know, pause for dramatic shock). Although I have spent most of the weekend working away, we did get in a early morning walk and trip to the park today.

Preemptive Uck!

David has decided that before he puts anything in his mouth, he makes a big sour face expression...just in case:

Fun Times with Granny D

Isabel is taking some much deserved vacation time this week, so we were lucky enough to have Matt's mother (Granny D) come down for the week to watch Peanut. From what we are told, David has been great for his Granny D (although I have a suspicion she might not tell us if he were not) and they have had lots of fun and great bonding time. We are so very grateful to have her here and will be sad to see her go back home!

Here are some pictures that she took the last few days. Notice the great picture of David's two teeth.

A David Update

Some recent pictures of David from the past week:

Destroying the newspaper:


Playing around:

Playdate with Parker:

Getting ready for his playdate with Parker (notice the cool new shoes):

8 Months

It is hard to believe, but Peanut is 8 months old today. It is amazing how fast the time has gone by. David has come a long way in 8 months - he is starting to stand up, although he refuses to crawl (hard headed kid - we have no clue where that comes from), he drags himself on his belly and makes an awkward attempt to maneuver around by crawling backwards (I hear his daddy was a master of the belly drag), he grabs everything and is super inquisitive, he is now capable of feeding himself Cheerios with a higher than 50% hand to mouth success rate and he is babbling away. He is also in to everything. A new favorite pass time is pulling everything out from under one of our kitchen cabinets. We put all the plastic glasses and tubaware in one cabinet, set him up and let him go. Here are some recent pictures:

As most of you know, we have put our house on the market. We had lots of little odds and ends to do in order to get it "show" ready and David helped with each and every task. Here are some pictures of peanut helping daddy fix the front door:

And Peanut popping into our house pictures:

Aunt Hayley also came over to have a date night with peanut so we could go out on Saturday night for a few hours. We hear that they had lots of fun and so did we!

Maybe a sign?

For those of you that follow the blog, we started the baby sign program a few weeks ago. For now, we really just do the signs for milk, cereal, all done, dog and book (we thought that was plenty to start with and, to be completely honest, that is as far as mommy and daddy got in the video). So...I was randomly video taping peanut tonight as he continues working on the feeding himself thing and I am pretty sure he did the sign for cereal. We show it to him every time we give him cereal, but this is the first time he tried to mimic it. The sign for cereal is touching your thumb and index fingers together (similar to pinching). It could just be a coincidence, but maybe a sign? What do you guys think?

High Five

Happy Memorial Day

Papa Bruce, Granny D and Uncle Luke came down from Oklahoma City to visit us this weekend. We had such a good time! They got here on Saturday and we had a great dinner at Mi Cocina..and, of course, everyone caught up on their peanut time. On Sunday, we went to Top Golf (part driving range, part video game and lots of fun), had another great dinner at Picasso's, another Lake Highlands favorite, and then had a fun Game night (including a pretty competitive game of Taboo).

David is working diligently on mastering this whole self feeding thing. Cereal puffs are one of his favorite things right now....although we're currently operating at about a 50% rate of success in getting them in the mouth. This puff was wet and sticky from David trying to get it into his mouth and... he just could not figure out where it went.

Pictures at the Arboretum

Baby Sign Lanauge and Everyday Life

A few weeks ago, we bought the baby sign language program. Supposedly, you can lessen frustration by teaching your baby sign language so they can communicate before they can talk. I don't know if it will work (and acknowledge that the claims are probably just a shameless attempt to get you to spend money on the program), but we figured we would give it a shot...... So, the program came with these DVD's that show you the signs and we have been working through a few each day and trying to incorporate them into our daily lives. Isabel is great about working with David on his signs. It is quite amazing how intently Peanut watches the videos. Here are some pictures:

I haven't posted much the last few weeks, as work has been pretty busy, so I thought I would just post some random shots that Isabel took last week.