Busy Boy!

So, yesterday was a big deal for our little guy! He has been on the verge of crawling for quite some time, he has even made a few "shuffles" but hasn't ever really moved more than a couple of feet. Well, yesterday he took off and has been on the move ever since! He also decided to pull the cat's tail while she was asleep- not his best decision ever. She scratched the back of his head pretty bad. I think he really scared her, she is usually really good around him and other kids, but I guess being asleep and getting "attacked" she just went into her natural defense mechanism! She knew she was in big trouble as soon as she did it though. I guess we will have to watch them more carefully now. Kitty might be getting de-clawed or put outside permanently if she can't control herself better! Then he pushed a plant off a table, opened a cabinet door and tried to pull up on the ottoman and office chair! Whew! It was a busy afternoon! I stayed home with him because he was running a little fever and even though I thought it was just from an incoming tooth, they still can't go to daycare with a fever. Ends up, after one dose of Tylenol he acted just fine the rest of the day and never had anymore fever. He did take three good, long naps which also might have helped him feel better and have so much energy! I am actually glad I got to stay home with him, otherwise I might have missed his first real crawling! I took a ton of videos since Jarrod is gone. I didn't want him to miss it!  I might post a couple more later so that he can see them tonight.

[talking to his reflection in the glass]

[all smiles after a good nap]

[playing peek-a-boo behind the ottoman]

[pushing the plant off the table]

[leaves a mess wherever he goes!]

He's on the move!!

This weekend he really starting "shuffling" but wouldn't crawl more than just a few feet, but today he took off, and has really been on the move this evening! I took off work today and stayed home with him since he was running a little fever this morning. I think he is just getting a new tooth. But throughout the day he has gradually gone further and further, so I am really glad I was home today to get his first crawls on camera!!

Jennifer's Baby Shower

Due to the weather, we were only able to decorate about an hour before the shower, so it didn't get as much "tweaking" as I would have liked, but the main thing is that Jennifer had a great shower and got lots of great baby stuff and we were all able to spend the day together! Here are some pics of the table. I made the banner, cupcake toppers, candy bars, Hershey kisses and decorative tins. I also made the oreo truffles on sticks and pretzel sticks and cream cheese mints-all BLUE of course!!

Stratton looked so cute, I wish I had taken more pictures at the shower, but I was busy watching Jennifer opening all her neat stuff. And also watching my son be passed around! He was quite the attraction!

I think Jennifer still has one more shower at her school but she shouldn't need much! She got loads of stuff-and she got a good mix of both practical and cutesy stuff! She is due June 12th just 6 weeks away! It's weird to think when I was as far along as she is I had a baby?!

Scary storms

Friday night we spent most of the evening watching the weather and it finally got pretty bad and we were under a tornado warning so we prepared ourselves and got in the hallway off the garage-the most inner part of our house- we don't really have a lot of options, all our rooms have windows and outside walls. We got Stratton out of bed and huddled in the entryway and waited it out. Luckily nothing major happened. Just some wind and lots of rain. He slept through the entire thing!

After the first round went through we opted to leave him in the hall laying on some blankets, rather than take him back to bed and risk having to get him out again. He slept there in for quite a while. Then he sort of rolled off his pillows and it woke him up.Well after that he didn't want to go back to sleep. So, after trying to let him "cry it out" for 20 mins, I gave in and moved to the rocking chair with him and I didn't get to bed until 3:30am!! We had planned on trying to head for Searcy around 9:30 Saturday morning, but then Jarrod got called out around 6:30 and I was so tired I didn't feel like going by myself. Friday afternoon I started running a fever again and the dr put me on some stronger antibiotics, so between not feeling good and no sleep I really wasn't in the best position to be driving anyway. My mom came up around 9am and took care of Stratton so I could get a little more rest.

Jarrod got home about 2pm and then we left for Searcy. We got to Jarrod's mom and dad's house and fed Stratton his supper and then we all went out for Daniel and Jennifer's bday- Daniel's was in March and Jennifer's was like three weeks ago- we tried to get into Who Dats but the wait was longer than we wanted to wait, so we ended up at KJ's in Judsonia. They had the news on in the restaurant and we were keeping a watch on the weather, and of course it started heading our direction. So our meal was cut short and we took off to Jarrod's aunt & uncles storm cellar. We drove through the heaviest rain I have even been in. I was pretty nervous that we were going to end up being in the middle of something really bad! But we made it and after a RUN to the storm cellar we were all soaked, it looked like we had all just gotten out of the shower we were so wet. I bet their yard had 3-4 inches of standing water! I had on flipflops and I really thought I was going to loose one running, but I was just going to leave it! With all the wind, rain and lightening I could have cared less! It was Stratton's first time in a storm shelter, and it was getting close to his bedtime so he was pretty sleepy, but he acted fine. I think he was just really confused about what we were doing and where we were. In the storm cellar there were 10 of us! I don't know that we could have gotten another person in there! It was packed. But a least we were all safe! After that storm finally blew over we went back to Terry and Margie's and stayed up till after midnight watching the weather. It continued to storm but not as bad. I guess the conditions were just perfect for severe weather, but what are the chances that we have to deal with it two days in a row?!

Say Momma?

When he first started jabbering he said "momma" all the time. But not anymore. He likes the Ba-Ba sounds and says Dada a lot. It's frustrating to me that he was saying it perfectly and then all the sudden stopped! I try to get him to say it all the time and will repeat it over and over and he'll just grin at me and say dada. Little stinker, I think he's doing it on purpose!!

Conversations with a brush. . .

. . . it's usually this brush or a shoe or some other inordinate object that he gets fired up at? I don't know what he was trying to tell the brush, but you can tell by his voice that he meant business! If we could only know what they are thinking. . .and trying to say!!

This boy loves his bath!