Off To D.C.

Jeff left this morning on his 8 hour trip to D.C. Along with 80+ other officers from Savannah they are going to keep D.C. in somewhat of a lower level of chaos on Tuesday for the inauguration. He will remember this experience for the rest of his life and most likely be telling Christopher about the experience over, and over, and over again. It is 2:30 in the afternoon and by now he should be in North Carolina, with about 5 more hours to go. I took a video (click on it above) of him getting on the tour buss and a few other pictures this morning. I also have a few inside shots of the Gaylord National Hotel he will be staying at. The same hotel that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are at. To give you any insight to how swanky this hotel is, it has a water park, a ''mall'', and a few restaurants inside. Here are a few photos. I doubt he's having a rough time "working" over the next four days. Seems to be more like a payed vacation but he deserves every second of it. So keep him and the other southern officers in your thoughts as they brave the cold, and pray from me having Christopher by myself for the next 4 days. Not to mention bubba on Wed. and Thurs.

An Awesome Picture Of Jeff

Evidently little kids are really liking Jeff as a police officer because a little girl gave him a picture while he was on a call to her house the other night. I cracked me up at first because she gave him a red hat, red boots, green pants and green eyes (which she was a little upset about because she didn't realize his eyes were blue). Not to mention she put him in rain drops and he's standing on a funky looking road. Other than those small things it was a striking resemblance of him. She even gave him a star on his chest.... cute! ;)

Who Knew 3 Months Would Arrive So Fast?

Christopher has been cruising past all of his developmental milestones this past week. For a while now I was beginning to worry that he would be behind in most of the areas that 3 month olds are supposed to be starting. In the last few days he has astonished me time and time again.

-He has finally started playing on his belly (after only 12 days of torturous crying)

-He held his own bottle several times in the past couple of days

-I have noticed him rocking from side to side when he is playing on the floor trying to roll over

-We began the scooting phase the other night, he no longer wants to be in one place for too long.

-We started rice cereal about 2 weeks ago and he is taking to more solid foods like a fish takes to water. He starts to cry if Jeff and I are eating something like he wants to try it (Sorry but pizza is a few years away!).

-This week coming up we are going to try baby veggies. He's had applesauce, and liked it A LOT. He also tried some peaches, although I'm going to hold off on fruits for a while longer (they don't agree with his digestive system just yet).

-We don't have another doctors apt. until February but as of today his weight is....... 14 pounds and 4 ounces.

I apologize for the quality of a few of the pictures I took them with my camera phone.

Christophers First Boo-Boo

Oh what a night! Christopher had his first boo-boo and I think that I was more upset than what he was. I was trimming his nails because they grow ridiculously fast, and he decided to jerk his hand at the same second that I went to cut. Instead of getting the nail I snipped the tip of his thumb. I can handle seeing a car wreck with blood gushing out of someones head, arm, & whatever else, but when I saw his finger with the tiniest cut I started to cry as if it were my finger. I assume that it was because it was my fault but none the less it was still bad. We got him all cleaned up and less than 30 minutes later he had forgotten all about it. I know it is the first of many to come (especially if he is as klutzy as I am), but I hope he gives me time to prepare for the next round.

I was on a picture taking spree yesterday as well and these are some of the pictures I liked. The first one on here is after his finger incident. You can see the band aide on his finger (which fell off in the bathtub last night). BTW a little piece of info: Don't ever put a band aide on a baby or toddler's hand who sucks on their fingers... too many babies choke that way :(

Photo Tag

Thanks Kim! I haven't opened that folder in a while. This is a picture of my little brother Jacob at about 8 months eating some yummy baby food!

Christophers 3 Month Pictures

It's been a few days and I needed to update everyone on Christopher's on again off again sleeping habits. it seems that our beautiful little boy only wants to sleep every other night. As much of a blessing as it is to having him sleeping at all it would be even better if it were every night. Last night was a 10 hour night (I LOVE being rested and awake). We went to get his 3 month pictures taken yesterday and while it wasn't to horrible he still wasn't a cooperative little fellow. He started out o.k. then went to absolute hysteria which was followed by a crash. We tried everything to get him to wake up at the end or even just open his eyes but nothing would work. I made a collage of his pictures (there were to many to do them one at a time) they will be in on the 19Th so we will get them sent out shortly after.

If Looks Could Kill....

... I would be on the floor dead in our living room! Christopher was not to thrilled about his rice cereal experiment. At first he was OK with it, something new, but then he gave me a look of absolute disgust and screamed like I had never heard him before. So I added the rest of the cereal to his bottle and decided we would try again tonight, tomorrow night, and so on. He also gave us the worst night of sleep since he was a newborn (I say it was payback for the cereal). He was awake after only 3 hours and then was awake every hour after that for the rest of the night. He however will learn to like cereal (hopefully soon!) and eventually will be sleeping trough the night.

We tried on one of his new shirts that he got for Christmas today, It is hilarious because it describes him to a "T" (Where do these goofy sayings come from I wonder.... I digress). Enjoy you day and hopefully we will enjoy some sleep tonight ;)

Our Son The Ladies Man

First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Jeff and I got invited out with some of our friends last night, but the place we were going to wasn't serving a very appetizing menu of foods (esp. for Jeff). We all decided to get dinner elsewhere fist and someone mentioned Hooters. Not a very high end place to go for dinner on New Years Eve, but hey I love the wings so we tagged along. We took Christopher along before dropping him off at Grandma's house for the night. Not even 3 minutes after walking into the door at Hooters and Christopher had a gaggle of girls flocking in his direction. The entire time we were there he was being passed from one girl to the next so we decided to get a picture of him with the girls to add to his memory book.

After we dropped him off at Grandmas we headed out to the Baja Cantina and enjoyed our New Year's Celebration and a much needed quiet full night of rest. It seems that Christopher also enjoyed his overnight stay with Grandma and Grandpa. They said he did fine and only cried when he woke up the next morning. I'm glad he had a good night because tonight we start rice cereal....Wish us luck!