Flash Me (almost) Friday: catch up day

I am still a couple weeks behind everyone else on the whole Flash Me Friday thing. So I'm doing two this week to make up for it. And a day early because we're going to the cabin after I get off work tomorrow. First one: favorite piece of art. Second FMF: your garage. To join in on the fun, head over to Jen's blog!

In our whole entire house, this is our only piece of art. Compliments of Target. So since it's my only piece of art, I guess it's my favorite! The rest of our house is all picture frames with family pictures.

The second Flash Me Friday is your garage. It's not very organized. The boxes are a bunch of Joe's work files that haven't made it to the basement yet. And the black shelf is full of junk!

The third stall of our garage doesn't have much in it. Just garbage cans, strollers, lawn chairs, a grill (we need a deck someday to put that grill on). The standing tool box is NOT ours. It's my brother's. It's currently being stored at our house and that's okay because we can use some of his stuff (not that we're handy by any means, but we can pretend). The hub cap is from my trusty old Camry is still with us as a souvenir too!

Flash Me Friday: Open your front door

Flash Me Friday: Open your front door. What do you see?? To join the fun, head over to Jen's blog to see what it's all about!

Open the front door...

Look to the left....a sitting room that we don't use that often!

To the right, a 1/2 bath and a little bench...

Have a great weekend! I work, so you can imagine how mine will be...

Screetching Ryder

Here's a video from about a month or so ago I just found. It's the first time Ryder really found his voice and was screetching for a bit with Daddy.

Ryder is not a fan of rice cereal...

Apparently rice cereal tastes bad...a little video clip for your enjoyment...(2 videos actually...they go together)

Now, watch the next video of his continued hatred towards rice cereal. We're going to have to wait a bit and try again another day. Haha.

Weekends go too fast

Once again a weekend comes and goes so fast. Too fast. I shouldn't complain because we started our weekend early too! Thursday morning we took off at about 7am for Park Rapids to go to the cabin (sorry, no flashing this week because we were gone!). The weather was okay on Thursday, but it was absolutely stunning on Friday--a perfect summer day! Then we came back Saturday afternoon for our friends Kelly and Brian's wedding. It was also another great day and it was fun seeing people even though it wasn't for too long because we had to get back to little Ryder. We stayed till about 10pm though...pretty good by my standards considering the last wedding we only stayed till 8pm...

Tonight is our first night trying rice cereal. I seriously can't wait :)

Ryder's 4 month appointment

This afternoon we had Ryder's 4 month appointment. I HATE doing shots, it's so sad to watch him go from smiling and cooing to instantly screaming. Actually, more like not breathing. He cries so hard his face turns into a tomato and he doesn't breath. Luckily I have two perfectly good calming tools called "breasts". So right after they give the shots, Joe hands him to me and I put him to the boob and it calms him down within about 30 seconds. Then he was fine--fell asleep right away in his carseat on the way home. Hopefully he won't spike a fever or be crabby tonight. Poor buddy!

On a better note, he weighs 16 lbs, 2oz (75th percentile). Two months ago he weighed 12.5lbs (70%). He is 25 and 1/4 inches long (65%). At two months, he was 23 1/2 inches (70%). So he's a healthy "chow hound" as the pediatrition called him! She also asked if he's sleeping through the night, in which I promptly replied NO to. He still enjoys eating at 1030, around 230 or so, and again around 530 to 6am. The pediatrition gave us the okay to start him once a day on rice cereal at bedtime to see if it will fill his tank longer and hopefully help him skip that 2am feeding. She said he probably isn't satisfied enough and that's why he's still waking up to feed. And trust me, it's not that I just walk right in there and scoop him up and feed him. I try to put him back to sleep by giving him his paci, rocking him, sometimes even just letting him talk to himself and try to get himself to put himself back to sleep. 9 times out of 10, it doesn't work and I finally feed him and he acts like he's never eaten before in his life. SO, it's not a guarentee that he will sleep better with the rice cereal, but I'm hoping it does anyways!

I'll try to take some video of him eating rice cereal for the first time and post it for you all the enjoy with us :) Take care...

Thanks Amy Grace :)

Amy Grace (my sister-in-law) came over the other week to take some pictures and test out her sweet camera for Ryder's 3 month pictures. There are a ton to pick, but here are just a couple of my favorites.

Look at that little booty :)

I LOVE that face (and belly)!