Sunday, December 17, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
SIX MONTHS!!! cont'd
Well...we are finally moved!!!
We had originally planned to move on Friday, Dec 1st...but there was just a small blizzard that tossed that plan out the window. It was funny. I called the movers the night before and asked if they wanted to reschedule. The lady told me "no, we never cancel due to weather." Well the next morning Rob and I got up bright and early and lets just say it was pretty scary looking outside....I called the movers again and left a message asking at least for a later start time so that the snow would have time to taper off and some serious plowing could begin. Shortly after that, the movers called asking to cancel due to the weather and to reschedule for the next day. Very amusing! Unfortunately that totally threw off our plans. We were trapped in pretty much an empty house with little to nothing to eat. Rob trudged through the snow to the nearest gas station and brought back watery cappacino and packaged muffins and donuts. YUM! Then we unpacked a few boxes that actuallyhad games in them and played. We received over 12 inches in less than 12 hours and the wind was just plain nasty!
The snow gave us a chance to break out the new snowblower and see how it worked. It was fun. Well moving day went smoothly with exception of robby locking the keys in the running vehicle. The move took a total of 8 hours, maybe less --not including travel time. The following week we had a goal of unpacking one room a day--which actually worked our pretty well. At this point the house is mostly unpacked with exception of the basement and the office. Things that can wait with the Holidays.
The closing of our old house was unfortunately also delayed due to the blizzard. We wasted a whole day in Milwaukee waiting for the postponed closing only to find out that it would not happen until two days later. ARGH. But all went well, and within days the new people has moved in. They got a great place. We did a lot to that house. And now we have lots to do to the new house.
So lets get to the important stuff...Kylan.
My boy just continues to grow by leaps and bounds. He is eating all types of food. I am experimenting with making his baby food and it is actually going very well. I steam his veggies, put them in the blender and then fill ice cube trays with the food and freeze it, then put the cubes of food in plastic baggies. Each cube is about one serving. I take it out in the morning to let it thaw and he has his food for the day. And talk about much cheaper. I bought a bag of carrots for 60 cents. This bag of carrots made 18 ice cubes of carrots...which is equivalent to 18 stage 1 jars of carrots which would have cost me around $9/$10 to buy. MUCH MUCH smarter to make your own food. Unfortunately there are some veggies that I cannot do myself because I cannot puree them fine enough--like peas and corn.
Well anyway back to Kylan. The kid babbles. All sorts of stuff comes out of his mouth. He is also sitting on his own. He can sit easily for 10 + minutes on his own. He also rolls back and forth, stomach to back, back to stomach. And lately he is getting up on his knees. A couple of times I could of swore he was going to crawl. I think it may happen any day now. Which really has me worried. We are still organizing the house and are not prepared for a mobile child. He is also very coordinated with his hands now. You really have to be careful when shopping with him. He snatches things here and there--and of course they go right to his mouth. And lately he has figured out how to shake his head "no". He looks really weird doing it. It is a very exaggerated motion. He is also making kissing sounds with his mouth now too...He just has to figure out how to give you a kiss instead of drool on your cheek...
Kylan is also the happiest baby --everyone tells us that...oh yeah and that he looks like a cabbage patch doll. Yeah that one I don't think he will ever live down. HE LOVES PEOPLE. The best thing I can do with Kylan is take him out. For example, the other day he got his flu shot. We walked into the clinic, the receptionists cooed, ooh'ed and ahh'ed. Then he went in to get his flu shot, where the nurses coo'ed, he cried for 2 seconds, when the nurse began to coo and away went the tears and a big smile took over his face. Then we went back out the waiting room, but a nurse came and asked if she could show him off to some coworkers. I said fine by me..and off she went with him (with me tagging along behind.) It was a long time until I was able to leave.
He also love cameras...he will stop crying just to smile for a camera. He loves having his picture taken.
So Kylan had his six month birthday. He celebrated by eating his pureed carrots and rice cereal. YUM YUM!!! Kylan won't have his six month appointment until early January due to the move. However, I did have him weighed with all his clothes on Shortly after his six month birthday and he weighed almost 22 pounds with all his clothes on. He is a big boy to be lugging
cell phone number is still the same...and I am not sure I feel comfortable putting our landline number on the web. That's all for now....Expect Christmas pics next blog entry.
We had originally planned to move on Friday, Dec 1st...but there was just a small blizzard that tossed that plan out the window. It was funny. I called the movers the night before and asked if they wanted to reschedule. The lady told me "no, we never cancel due to weather." Well the next morning Rob and I got up bright and early and lets just say it was pretty scary looking outside....I called the movers again and left a message asking at least for a later start time so that the snow would have time to taper off and some serious plowing could begin. Shortly after that, the movers called asking to cancel due to the weather and to reschedule for the next day. Very amusing! Unfortunately that totally threw off our plans. We were trapped in pretty much an empty house with little to nothing to eat. Rob trudged through the snow to the nearest gas station and brought back watery cappacino and packaged muffins and donuts. YUM! Then we unpacked a few boxes that actuallyhad games in them and played. We received over 12 inches in less than 12 hours and the wind was just plain nasty!
The snow gave us a chance to break out the new snowblower and see how it worked. It was fun. Well moving day went smoothly with exception of robby locking the keys in the running vehicle. The move took a total of 8 hours, maybe less --not including travel time. The following week we had a goal of unpacking one room a day--which actually worked our pretty well. At this point the house is mostly unpacked with exception of the basement and the office. Things that can wait with the Holidays.
The closing of our old house was unfortunately also delayed due to the blizzard. We wasted a whole day in Milwaukee waiting for the postponed closing only to find out that it would not happen until two days later. ARGH. But all went well, and within days the new people has moved in. They got a great place. We did a lot to that house. And now we have lots to do to the new house.
So lets get to the important stuff...Kylan.
My boy just continues to grow by leaps and bounds. He is eating all types of food. I am experimenting with making his baby food and it is actually going very well. I steam his veggies, put them in the blender and then fill ice cube trays with the food and freeze it, then put the cubes of food in plastic baggies. Each cube is about one serving. I take it out in the morning to let it thaw and he has his food for the day. And talk about much cheaper. I bought a bag of carrots for 60 cents. This bag of carrots made 18 ice cubes of carrots...which is equivalent to 18 stage 1 jars of carrots which would have cost me around $9/$10 to buy. MUCH MUCH smarter to make your own food. Unfortunately there are some veggies that I cannot do myself because I cannot puree them fine enough--like peas and corn.
Well anyway back to Kylan. The kid babbles. All sorts of stuff comes out of his mouth. He is also sitting on his own. He can sit easily for 10 + minutes on his own. He also rolls back and forth, stomach to back, back to stomach. And lately he is getting up on his knees. A couple of times I could of swore he was going to crawl. I think it may happen any day now. Which really has me worried. We are still organizing the house and are not prepared for a mobile child. He is also very coordinated with his hands now. You really have to be careful when shopping with him. He snatches things here and there--and of course they go right to his mouth. And lately he has figured out how to shake his head "no". He looks really weird doing it. It is a very exaggerated motion. He is also making kissing sounds with his mouth now too...He just has to figure out how to give you a kiss instead of drool on your cheek...
Kylan is also the happiest baby --everyone tells us that...oh yeah and that he looks like a cabbage patch doll. Yeah that one I don't think he will ever live down. HE LOVES PEOPLE. The best thing I can do with Kylan is take him out. For example, the other day he got his flu shot. We walked into the clinic, the receptionists cooed, ooh'ed and ahh'ed. Then he went in to get his flu shot, where the nurses coo'ed, he cried for 2 seconds, when the nurse began to coo and away went the tears and a big smile took over his face. Then we went back out the waiting room, but a nurse came and asked if she could show him off to some coworkers. I said fine by me..and off she went with him (with me tagging along behind.) It was a long time until I was able to leave.
He also love cameras...he will stop crying just to smile for a camera. He loves having his picture taken.
So Kylan had his six month birthday. He celebrated by eating his pureed carrots and rice cereal. YUM YUM!!! Kylan won't have his six month appointment until early January due to the move. However, I did have him weighed with all his clothes on Shortly after his six month birthday and he weighed almost 22 pounds with all his clothes on. He is a big boy to be lugging
cell phone number is still the same...and I am not sure I feel comfortable putting our landline number on the web. That's all for now....Expect Christmas pics next blog entry.
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