Titan is 4 months OLD!

Wowza...the time sure seems to have flown and I'm happy to report that 3rd time's the charm. He's been our best baby BY FAR and eats well, is generally a very happy and smily baby, and sleeps like a dream.

Here are his 4 month stats:

Height - 25.5 inches (60 - 70%)
Weight - 16.2 lbs (70 - 80%)
Head Circumference - 42 cm
Heart Rate - 141 bpm
Temp - 98.4

He's doing really well and we found out at his Dr. appt that he has a mild ear infection. He just has him taking a decongestant trying to clear it up so we can avoid antibiotics so early. Our other kids only had 1 or 2 ear infections EVER so I hope this isn't a sign. He's been stuffed up, so I'm assuming it's leftover from that. He also started on those nasty liquid baby vits and I gave them to him for the first time this morning. He took the first 1/2 okay and HATED it and spit the 2nd half back out at me. The little pooper!

We also started rice cereal for the first time last night! He did really really well. I just sat him in his little "Bumbo-like" chair with the tray and it was perfect! He was fussy so I had to feed him a little bit to calm him down enough to sit there and finally try and eat. He finally did and really liked it! He liked playing with the spoon and most of it ended up all over him, but for his first time I think he actually ended up with a tiny bit INSIDE his stomach! He slept really well last night (a combo of the rice cereal and Dimetapp???), but was asleep from 9 pm until 5:30 am!!!!

True Confessions

So I finally took some time after many comments about not being able to blow up tiny pictures (after my "helpful" hint I might add sheepishly) to figure out why I couldn't blow them up either. Apparently I'd collage overloaded my post and so I've now put them in their own posts to allieviate that situation...please feel free to enjoy those pictures now! :) Sorry I'm not a tech-geek...maybe in another life! :)

On a funny note: We had a bird fly into our house today because our back sliding door was open and it was freaking out trying to get back outside. I closed all the doors to the bedrooms so it would only be able to go back out the back door, but it ran INTO the glass on the door and knocked itself out. Yates helped it outside and it sad there breathing hard and fluttering around for a little while. All of a sudden, a BIG bird (we don't know what kind) hit our sliding door again. It had picked up the wounded little bird that had been in our house and flew away with it! Crazy circle of life!

I should also mention we're FINALLY having potty training success with MISS INDEPENDENT a.k.a. McKinlee! She's had maybe 2 or 3 accidents in the last week and none were "#2" accidents. She even comes and tells us she needs to go! I can't believe it...really...CANNOT! It's almost like a switch just flipped in her and she "gets" it. We're still watching her really close, but she's not even wearing pull-ups at nap times any more. She only wears a diaper at night and she's even kept that dry a couple times this last week! I could jump for joy, but I'll settle for doling out cinnamon bears as rewards for potty success!

Tucker Birthday Collage

Camping Trip Collage 1

Camping Trip Collage 2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUCKER!

I do realize that if I posted more often that my posts would have the potential to be less lengthy. Alas, since that is not the case, get comfortable. I also realize that Tucker's birthday was Sept. 20th and this post is late. :)

We've gone camping for Tucker's birthday the last couple of years. We decided to do it again and all of us had a blast! We went up to East Fork by Tropic Reservoir and it is one of my very favorite places to go!!! Lots of fun, good friends, new toys, sticky marshmallows, dirt, cake with matches for candles (hey, can't remember everything lol) and one very adventurous motorcycle ride with Dad later (ran out of gas and hiked almost 5 miles with Dad on an old mucky cow trail over a mountain back to camp arriving almost at dark to a very worried Mom/Nana), Tucker has grown a year older. 6 years old...how did we get to this point?!

Tucker is such a good boy and is such a big help around the house. He's very smart and some of his favorite things are riding his bike, jumping on the tramp (with Dad), swinging, going to the park, watching cartoons, an obsession with superheroes in general - we've moved onto Ironman. He loves cookie dough, teasing McKinlee, kissing/carrying/holding Titan, getting into mischief, being a big helper around the house (as long as he's being bribed lol) and playing with his friends.

We love you Tucker!

I'm going to include pictures of our camping trip first and then some of my very favorites of Tucker up to this point! (Hint: You SHOULD be able to click on these collages and blow up the tiny pictures. :))

P.S. My gallbladder is outta here and everything went very well. A few needle pokes/scars later I'm good as new! Thanks for the phone calls, cards and dinners!