6 months... OH MY!

Just minutes after being born. Hands down this has to be our favorite picture! He looks as if to say "PUT ME BACK IN!"

Getting ready to leave the hospital!

I woke up yesterday thinking "Oh my gosh Corbin is already 6 months!" Where did my tiny little guy go?!" I have enjoyed every minute of being a Mommy to Corbin! I love to see how he changes almost daily. He is now a super active little guy who is crawling pretty much all over the place. He is also pulling up to standing when given the chance as well! We still haven't gotten around to baby proofing. Corby and I were out of town last weekend. (Its our top priority this coming weekend. Along with getting his things for daycare, which he starts on Monday.)

We went to the doctor for his six month check up yesterday. He had to get three shots and an oral vaccine. Poor little guy, I always feel horrible when he cries. I feel helpless! Corbin weighs 16 lbs 15 oz and is 26 and 1/4 inches long. So basically tall and skinny! Just like his daddy! We knew we would have a skinny baby as Jason and I both had trouble packing on the pounds when we were little. Wish that was the case now!

Weekend in Wichita

My family and I originally were going to Wichita, Kansas to celebrate my grandfather's 80th birthday and have a party for him. Well about a week ago my Mom got a call from her father saying he was in the hospital.

My mom decided to fly up to Dallas on Wednesday and then drive the five hours with her brother to Wichita on Thursday to see her father.

Corbin was so awesome during the eight hour car ride!

Well, as my family was driving to Wichita on Thursday my dad, who is a doctor, called my grandpa's doctor. (who my dad knew from medical school). The prognosis was not good at all. My grandpa's heart was functioning 10-20 percent than that of a normal person and his kidneys and liver were not working right and he had Staph pneumonia. He also did not have any sort of appetite. He also said to one of his sons that he thought he would never leave the hospital alive. We were preparing for the worse. When I walked into the hospital room that day, my grandpa looked as white as a sheet. It was heartbreaking to see him like that. Of course I was nervous and never know what to say in those situations and I say "how are you doing?" I immediately wanted to kick myself. DUH, you don't say that to someone who is sick!

In the hospital waiting room with Boompa. No kids under 10 allowed in the hospital rooms.

When we went to visit my grandpa on Friday he was out of bed and sitting up eating! He had the color back in his face and he looked a lot better! He completely changed overnight. My mom later said she truly believed that since we all came and saw him and showed that we love and support him, he got better. I truly believe that as well. He is now supposed to hopefully be able to come home in the middle of this week.

My grandpa's cake!

I had my cousin Eric take a pictures of all my siblings. They came out kinda blurry but oh well.

Second attempt.

Reese loved playing with Corbin as he CRAWLED on the floor!

Saturday we had the 80th birthday celebration for my grandpa, who was not able to attend, sadly. My sister Merritt made a slide show of his life, which was beautiful, and we videotaped the party and showed them to him later. It was wonderful because we saw a lot of our relatives that we had not seen for many years. My Dad and I had not been back to Wichita since his mom passed away in 1996.

We did some nostalgic activities that both of my parents really enjoyed. We went to a hamburger place, Nuway, where my dad, mom and her brothers grew up on. We also went to the house my mom and her three brothers grew up in. My uncle Jon started walking around the house and checked out the backyard... we were surprised they didn't call the cops! Well the lady who owns the house came out and even let my mom and brothers and a bunch of other family come in and see the house. My mom said that it has barely changed at all in 50 years. The lady even told my mom that some of the same neighbors were still living in their homes and so my mom and her brothers excited, like little children, ran to go talk to them.

The house my Mom grew up in!

At Nuway, My dad loved it!

We are very happy to be home. We missed Daddy very much! Whenever I called Jason I had Corbin "talk" to him. Every time Jason talked Corbin got a HUGE smile on his face, so I know he really missed Daddy! Corbin did really well on the trip. He even stayed up until 11 or so a few nights and then woke up at his usual 7:30 and was not cranky at all.
Even though his routine was thrown off you wouldn't know it. I hope this is an indication that daycare will go well when he starts a week from today. :( I start back at work on the 18th. I am nervous that he will not sleep there at all and once he comes home all he will want to do is sleep. It will be an adjustment for all of us.

First official crawl... and more??

For the past couple of weeks, Corbin's been extremely mobile - though he wasn't quite doing an actual crawl just yet. He started by learning how to get up on his hands and knees and wobble back and forth (my mom said I used to do that a bunch too when I was first learning to crawl). Then, Corbin realized from there he could simply move his arms forward and then pull himself forward, basically dragging his legs whether they were propped up on his knees or slumped down. Then just over a week ago he learned that this whole process of moving would be much easier if he brought one knee forward (his right one). He hadn't quite got the hang of moving his left knee.

Well last night, when we went to MacKenzie's parent's house so they could get ready to leave for Kansas the following morning, we plopped him down to show MacKenzie's dad how his progress was going. And then there it was - he had finally gained control of his left knee and did about 3 full crawl movements, moving both arms and knees at the correct times... I think it startled him a bit because he basically had jolted forward and was like "What the?! how did I get over here so quickly??" Unfortunately I don't have any pictures just yet since MacKenzie took the camera with her on their trip :)

After this, he was incredibly anxious to get moving even more. So much so that he went from hands-and-knees to hands-and-feet as his legs pushed his body up even more. Not only that, but he was able to pull himself up to his feet by bracing his body on one of Aunt Merritt's bags - but only for a bit.

I'm a little torn by all this. On one hand, I love seeing Corbin learn how to be so mobile, and I love seeing his wide eyes and huge smile when he's wiggling and crawling around the floor. But on the other hand, it feels like the little baby we have is growing up crazy fast. And yes, we've had tons of people and relatives warn us how quickly the time goes by. I just hope he's not the one driving everyone back when they get back from their vacation!

Rubber ducky your the one!!!

Mommy and Daddy got me this really super cool bathtub at HEB the other night. When you squeeze the bill the ducky quacks! It is so cute!

Mommy and Daddy had to have me try out the bath in my p.js that night.

I like my rubber ducky bathtub!

I am just so cute!

Ducky hangs out until the next bath!

Friday night at the disco

Friday night we went to our friends house, Sarah and Dave's. We brought over some luggage for them to borrow for their trip to Ireland. Sarah is going to beautiful Ireland for her sisters wedding. (Sarah you MUST take a ton of pictures so I can live vicariously through your adventures!)

We had a great time enjoying beer while Connor and Corbin played! Thanks Sarah, Dave and Connor for having us over!

Strawberry Fields Forever

Last week Daddy was eating a strawberry Popsicle and I really wanted some of it! I got my first taste of the sweet yumminess. After Jason gave Corbin that first taste he only wanted MORE! Our little guy is so funny and is really interested in 'real' food! By the way, Daddy ate most of the popsicle I just had a few tastes!

See its just oh SO GOOD!

6.5 hours...

Is how long Corbin slept in his crib (yes, you read it right... CRIB) last night. I was reading about sleeping for infants in our Baby 411 book that Minor recommended to us. (Love it by the way, Minor, thank you!) It said that babies 5 months can sleep seven hours at night without eating and that six months old can sleep 12 hours without needing to eat.... it you teach them to. This was an astonishing fact for me because Corbin has been waking up two or three times to eat since birth! We decided to have him try to sleep in his crib. So as Jason and I were desperately trying to find the manual to lower his crib, we put him in his room and let him cry it out. It was a VERY hard 30-40 minutes listening to him cry. I told Jason that I needing something to do because listening to him cry was killing me. Jason and I started going through all our junk in the study because we thought we had thrown away the manual. Well we ended up finding it buried in the closet in a file box.

It was really hard for me to sleep without cuddling with Corbin all night. Although I know it is best for him to sleep in his crib. Truth be told that he slept a lot better by himself. For about a week now he has been getting about 3-4 times a night crying, I tried rocking him, and holding him etc and the only way I could get him to stop was to nurse him. Well, last night he slept from 9:30pm- 3:15am without waking up. I didn't sleep as well because I kept getting up and checking on him. He did wake up at 3:15 though and nursed and then I just had him sleep with us. Then he did wake up several times after that crying. I think tonight I am going to have to brave it and just take him back to the crib to sleep once he wakes up.

This is all bittersweet for me because going back to work I was wanting to have that cuddle time with Corbin because he is going to daycare and I won't get to see/be with our baby as much. I know in my heart it is the right thing for both of us and I need to stop being selfish. Ok gotta run Corbin needs a nap, hopefully in the car. We are going to my Mom's house because she is coming with us while I get my haircut to watch Corbin. Yay thanks Mimi!