Baptism Baby!

Henry was baptized this weekend. What a wonderful celebration we had! The service was beautiful and Henry was a rockstar -- no tears, just gave us a very serious look as we held him over the baptismal fountain and water was sprinkled on his head. Henry has two amazing godparents and amazing group of people to share his life with! Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate this very special day!

Thank you for the pictures everyone -- and thank you to my brother, Ryan, who video taped the entire event!

Henry saying hi to Deacon Mike

Mommy, Daddy, and Henry

Mommy, Daddy, Henry, Godmother Katie and Godfather Brian

Henry turned 7 months yesterday! He's on the move and growing growing growing! We can't believe that he is closer to being a year old than to the day he was born! Henry got to spend his 7 month birthday with Grammie S. and Great Aunt Jackie while Mommy and Daddy went to work. He had a blast -- played with TWO doggies, (Grammie's dog, Ivy, was here) took a walk to the park, and played all day long. Henry is also looking forward to his day with Grandma Beach tomorrow!

Playing in his clean diapers :) 

Charlie and Ivy are good friends now, sleeping in the same bed!

I'm ready for my walk!

first time on a swing -- Great Aunt Jackie tucked him in all nice :) 

Having fun with Grammie!

Thanks for the trip to the park, Grammie and Aunt Jackie! What a fun day!

overdue update.

Wow, it's been awhile. Sorry about that...If you can believe it, Henry is approaching 7 months and also seems to be reaching a new milestone every week!

Last week he cut his first two teeth! The first one popped up right away, the second one just started to come through yesterday, which made for a long week. This is making the whole family feel better. Henry, who was feeling crummy with those teeth coming through and Mommy and Daddy, who are getting some more sleep now that those teeth are here!

Henry has been crawling a lot. He has mastered the army crawl, loves to chase Charlie, and has become quite helpful by becoming our new dust mop :)

Henry has been enjoying lots of new foods - squash, sweet potatoes, apples, pears, blueberries, bananas, avocados - just to name a few!

Grammie Sobczak has been here to babysit for us the past few Mondays -- Henry loves when he gets to spend time with family and loved getting his Grammie all to himself for the entire day!

We also took our first (and second trip) to the zoo the past two weekends! Henry loves it all -- the animals, the blooming flowers, all the people, and the warm weather! We enjoyed watching his face as he saw the camels, rhinos, monkeys, panda bears, penguins, and so many more fun animals! We got a family pass so we can enjoy the zoo as much as we want this year!

Loves his breakfast!

1st trip to the zoo!

Look at the camel in the background!

Hey! A monkey, a real monkey!

All ready for summer with his new shades. 

Good morning :)

Loves to "feed" himself.

Mom, can we go out and play? 

It was a beach of a day...

I went back to work last week. It was hard to leave Henry, there were a few (okay, a lot) tears, but once I got into the groove of the day, it flew by and before I knew it, I was heading home. Throughout the day, our babysitter sent me updates via text, videos, and pictures. It was so nice to be able to see Henry during the day -- always with a grin on his face!

So when this morning came, the start of a new week, I wasn't worried about Henry's day at all, just mine as I had things that needed to get done at work. I left the house feeling better than last week and made it to work in record time, excited to have a quiet office for an hour or so to dive into some work. Just as I was getting out of my car, I noticed a shiny set of keys in the cup holder... Ryan's keys. Keys he would need to drive his car to work! Sure, we have an extra key to his car... on my key chain. that.was.in.my.hand. Great. Great. Great. A lot of curse words, followed by a call to my managing attorney, a quick trip up to my office to grab files, and a return commute (in not so record time) home. Did I mention that my commute is an hour?

It was a hectic start to the day, but I managed.... I managed care for Henry, two dogs (dog sitting one for a friend), put in a half-day of work, and didn't go insane!

This morning was a beach, but thr rest of the day was just fine. I got to enjoy all the extra smiles/giggles/cuddles I normally wouldn't have gotten today!!

6 Months!

Henry turned 6 months on Friday!

Henry has been very very busy.... getting up on all 4s a lot, saying "ma ma ma mamma," and just being one happy guy!

We also did 6 month photos this weekend! What a difference 3 months makes! Henry was a happy camper and smiled a lot for the camera! (Especially during the part where he got to be in his diaper!) 

The past 6 months have flown by... he will be ONE before we know it!

leaping...

Minutes turned into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months... and somehow in the blink of an eye we arrived here, February 29, leap year, and the day before I return to work. I have mixed emotions about my return. On the one hand, I am excited to get out of the house, wear professional clothing (hopefully sans spit up), have adult conversations with my coworkers, and use my very expensive law degree on a daily basis. But on the other hand there is this:

Enough said. 

When I told people I was taking 6 months off of work to stay home with Henry, several people expressed that they couldn't wait to get back to work after their child was born. I don't judge those people, I'm just not one of them. I knew this was going to be hard, just not this hard. I thought I would have SOME desire to jump back into work, but to be brutally honest, I don't. I don't want to miss the smiles, giggles, the play time, and all the firsts. But I'm telling you all of this before I actually go back. The first day/week will be hard, but I'm sure once I get into a routine it will be easier. Right?!

In other news, Ryan and I FINALLY got to go out on Saturday night! Grandma and Grandpa Beach offered to watch Henry so Ryan and I could go out to dinner! We had a great time, and the best part of the night? Henry slept through the night!! (which he is doing more and more these days! yay!)

-- Pat and Mike, thank you for the night out!! You can watch Henry any time!!! :)

Other parts of our weekend:

Reading with Daddy

Henry has been eating solids a bit more -- he is liking the rice cereal more, and he also tried some avocado and sweet potato this week.

Not so sure about the avocado

How about sweet potato? 

Yum!

I think we have a winner!

Weekend Fun!

What a fun weekend we had! On Friday Aunt Lindsey came over to see Henry. We took a walk with Charlie, and she was around for bath, books and bedtime for Henry and then stayed for dinner and hung out with me and Ryan. On Saturday, Grammie came to visit! She made what could have been a hard weekend so much better! (Ryan had to work all day Saturday and then went to a concert that night, so it was so nice to have Grammie here to help!) We played all Saturday afternoon after Henry got up from his nap. We went for a walk, gave Henry a bath, read books, and put him to bed. On Sunday we did more of the same, but we were able to sneak out during Henry's nap and go shopping! (Finally found some nice black out curtains for Henry's room -- yay!!!) Later, we took a walk with Charlie and Grammie was even here for Henry's first taste of rice cereal! Sunday evening came too fast when she had to leave, but we plan to see her again next weekend! yay! Thanks for a fun weekend Mom! 

Grammie playing with Henry and Charlie

Henry using Charlie as his own personal footrest!

Usually Mom is behind the camera, but Grammie snapped a photo of us! 

A determined look to get the toy...

"Hey, Mom, can you get that for me?"

Grammie and Henry 

Loves all the kisses!

Reading books before bedtime

Loves listening to Grammie read!

Night Night Grammie! Thanks for coming this weekend!