Crawling Video

Here is some video of Justin crawling yesterday morning before the holiday brunch we hosted. He has really figured it out in the last 24 hours- which has been fun to watch. He can still get a bit awkward - sort of like a foal - his limbs don't always cooperate like he wants.






I'll post a couple of pictures from the brunch later - I wish we had taken more of them!

He crawled!

When I got home tonight Justin was playing on the floor. He's usually pretty excited to see me when I get home so I thought it might encourage a crawling attempt. So, I got down on the floor and tried to get him to crawl over to me to say hello and he FINALLY did it! It was more than just one little scoot- (after which he usually splats). He actually managed to make it over to me without ending up face down on the rug.

This means that actual movement is about to start..I'm excited for Justin and already exhausted for me! He's been pretty frustrated with his inability to get places without assistance and I know he'll be going non-stop once he gets the hang of it!

We'll try to get a repeat performance out of him and get it on video..

Sniffle....Snort...Hi Santa

Karen came to visit us this weekend- and of course Justin was sick all weekend. Poor little guy has been a snot machine. Regardless, it was great to have Karen here and we did make it to the Arboretum on Saturday for a bit.

Justin had his first visit with Santa. Karen snagged this photo with her phone while they were taking his picture. He didn't throw a fit but he was a bit unsure. The Santa was great- real beard and all.

After his visit with Santa, the Snowman and the Reindeer were walking around and came to get their picture taken with Justin. I imagine he was thinking "Seriously people, I don't feel well and am snotting all over and you want me to get my photo taken with these things?"

Fetch

I had to pick Justin up from daycare this afternoon. He has been really congested the last 24 hours and he had a fever this afternoon of 103. He's acting fine though - and the doc said to just keep an eye on him for now and give him some motrin to keep the temp down.

After we got home, he spent some quality time playing fetch with Winnie. It was so cute I had to grab the camera. The video is a little long but I just couldn't cut any of it out:



Karen arrived this evening and we're looking forward to spending the weekend with her!

Still not crawling- but he can wave...

Tonight when we were leaving daycare Justin finally waved bye-bye to everyone on our way out. Usually we try and get him to and he just looks at us like we're idiots. I made him show me at home tonight too while we were playing..



He still can't quite get the crawl down. He goes from sitting to on all fours - rocks a bit and tries to move...and then goes splat. Then he gets mad..

We're also hearing a lot of new chatter. Last week one night Dave and I kept saying da-da to him and he finally repeated it and has been babbling da and ka a lot. This video isn't that great but I was trying to get the sound without him realizing I had the camera out- cause he usually stops when he sees me with the camera:

Gobble Gobble

Happy Turkey Day everyone! We didn't get to spend Thanksgiving with our families this year- but we had a nice little Thanksgiving here in Dallas. Justin had his first Pumpkin Pie - with whip cream! Grandpa Riggan wanted us to be sure he had some whip cream..I think he's well prepared for his first birthday cake!



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We're very thankful for this little guy and the rest of our family and friends! Hopefully next year we'll get to be in Iowa or Philly - or entertain some visitors here. For now, it's nice to have a weekend at home with the three of us - it's been awhile! We're planning on spending tomorrow with friends and cutting down our Christmas tree on Saturday!

Welcome to the World - Walker Lyle!

I realized that in the chaos that has been the last two weeks I didn't post anything about Justin's new cousin! Walker Lyle was born on November 9, 2010. He was over 9lbs!
Hayden will be a great big brother and I can't wait to meet the new munchkin. I'm not sure when we're going to be able to get up to Iowa - but hopefully sometime in the near future!

Lyle was dad's brother's name. He passed away when I was in high school. Us kids were all pretty close to Lyle and his family and we still miss him terribly. I think it's awesome that Lyle is Walker's middle name and I get all teary every time I think about it.

9 Months!

Justin's 9 month stats:
21 lbs 12 oz
29 3/4 inches long
and his head is still in the 95th percentile....

He'll be in 12 month clothes any day now!

While we were at the doc we found out he has another ear infection so he's on medicine for it again.

Some video from tonight:

4 Teeth!

Justin now has all four front teeth. He still isn't really "chewing" so we're not able to feed a variety of solid food yet. It makes me so nervous feeding him things - sometimes he gags and throws up. So - needless to say we're taking it slow on the non-baby food solids. He's getting small banana pieces, peas, etc - but he isn't ready for the biter biscuits yet (we tried that about an hour ago and gave mommy a heart attack).




We ended up getting a prescription for the diaper rash last weekend. It is much better - though it hasn't completely disappeared yet.

Diaper Rash - boo!

I'll spare you the photo I sent Lori for confirmation that this diaper rash is indeed Dr. appointment worthy. Let's just say - it's not pretty and the little guy also has diarrhea so that isn't helping! I thought maybe we'd get to go hang out with some friends while Daddy was out of town - but instead we're stuck at home waiting for the next diaper change!

But - JD is still happy for the most part (when I'm not changing his diaper). You can see his three teeth in this picture. That fourth one just won't pop through: