Six Month Stats, Even Tough He's Almost Seven Months!

Ben's six month appointment was scheduled for September 9th, which would have been one day after turning six months. That morning he was running a slight fever, so we aborted that mission and planned to reschedule for the next Tuesday. Then came Ike.... Finally I was able to get him in September 24th, so he was actually six and a half months. He weighed 19 lbs. and 5.5 oz and was 27" long. He's quite the tank! He got a couple shots, but did really well.

He has been sitting up all on his own since the beginning of the month and is so much happier now that he can play with everything around him. Ben's trying so hard to crawl. He "scoots" in a circle (mid-section staying in place) to get to toys, blankets, Jake, etc. He crawled backwards last Friday, but hasn't done it again since. He's getting mobile very quickly! He loves to stand up holding our fingers and even tries to pull away as if he wants to do it on his own. We do let him stand without our hands for brief moments and he loves it.

He now has a love affair with Jake. Forget Mommy, Daddy, food, T.V., nothing is more exciting than Jake. Something about that spotted creature just gets Benjamin cracking up!! It's the cutest thing. Jake is actually taking a liking to Ben as well. He's started laying next to him, letting Ben pet him and last night.... the action that shows it all... Jake brought Ben his toy to throw!

Jason and I leave for Vegas a week from today. I can't wait. It's my first time to be away from my baby overnight, so I'm very anxious over that... but I know he'll be just fine and I know I need the break!

September Pictures

Here's pictures for your enjoyment!
I got a bit behind with all the recent happenings!

There's No Place Like Home!

We got power back at our house! We actually got a phone call from Centerpoint "confirming" our power was back up. The ironic thing is we were headed to Katy from Bellville to get out of the house and right about the time we made it in to Katy on I-10, we got the phone call! So we went ahead and spent some time out and about in Katy (we wanted to confirm with neighbors that our power was truly on), then headed home. Yesterday we went grocery shopping to restock everything we lost from the power being out. The house is mostly back to normal at this point. We still have a little work to do on one of our fences. Again, we are counting our blessings!!!

Poor Benny-Bear (as Aunt Lani calls him) has had a really rough time sleeping the past week and a half. He slept terribly while we were away from home. I thought it was just because we weren't at home, but since we've been home... things have gotten worse. Last night he was up 4 or 5 times. The poor little guy is teething, congested and having tummy problems all at the same time. Needless to say Jason and I are exhausted! We had to miss Ben's 6 month pediatrician appointment due to him being sick two days before the storm and then the storm has caused even more delay. I'm hoping to get him in next week.... hopefully Dr. Kagan can give me some pointers to get him to sleep better!!!! Here's to hoping!

Blessings....

I just wanted to let everyone know our experience with Ike. I'll start by saying we are EXTREMELY blessed. Last Wednesday Ike was sill predicted to head to Corpus and Jason's "weather guy", Bob, at work gave an update that it would be headed to Galveston as a Cat. 4. He also said that the National Hurricane Center wasn't going to publish the information to the public until later that day and that there would probably be mass chaos when they did. We decided to pack up and head to my in-laws house in Bellville to attempt to beat the evacuation rush. (We were in the CRAZY traffic three years ago for Rita and weren't going to do that again!) We made it safe and sound with no traffic on Wednesday night.

The storm hit at 2 AM Satuday morning and out here, we just had a lot of wind and very little rain. We haven't lost power out here... thank goodness!

As for our house, we were SO blessed. Our trees were leaning slightly and some parts of our fence were down, but no structural damage at all! However, we, as everyone else are out of power..... with no idea of when we may get it back.

Jason's company is still trying to decide what they are going to do. Even though his office didn't lose power at all.... people can't get home, can't get gas and dont' have power at their homes. It's possible we may be put up in a hotel near his office later this week so that he can go to and from work.... we'll see!

I pray everyone made it through safely and that Galveston has a quick recovery!
Thank you everyone for thinking of us and praying for us!!!
Love to all....

Hurricane Ike!

Here's our friend Ike.... Jason's meteorologist at work is claiming the storm to hit in and around Galveston as a Cat. 4. There's still a lot of room for movement and changes, but with little Ben... we aren't taking any chances. We're packing up and heading out. We did the "sit in traffic for 14 hours to go less than 90 miles" gig three years ago for Rita. We aren't doing that again this time. Jason can work remotely tomorrow and Friday, so we're headed West. Say a prayer for the Texas coast!!!

More Pictures...

I was "informed" that I didn't post enough of our pictures from Saturday... so here's a few more!! :o)

Minute Maid Park

We went to Minute Maid Park (where the Astros play) today for our friends'/neighbors' oldest kiddo's birthday! We really enjoyed ourselves and got some priceless pictures of us with Ben. Our neighbor, Brock, works for the Astros... so he had a few extra perks for his kiddo. Every screen (including the huge one over the field) had running pictures of the birthday boy and company... it was really neat.