Swank Grandparents visit

We had a nice visit with Nana and Grandpa Rev. We took them to the Aboritum. The weather wasn't too spectacular, but the flowers were nice. Cole behaved like a champ. He slept when he was supposed to, was happy at the Arboritum, was good at a birthday party and didn't do too bad when they watched him during my working on Monday. He showed off his smiles and his rolling.

Makaila quite enjoyed having many books read to her, getting Sonic ice cream treats and chocolate milk, going to the library with Nana, getting chocolate milk at Starbucks, singing songs with Nana, getting a few new spring/summer clothing items, and all around being spoiled as Grandparents like to do. Even though this was a short trip, the non-stop activity has worn her out and I'm glad we get some days of normal routine before the other Grandparents come next week.

Eating machine

Cole is just an eating machine lately. I know he hasn't been on solids (baby food) for that long, but we're ready for him to move to food. This baby food is expensive. I wish I had stock in Gerber right now! Nana and Grandpa Rev were amazed on their recent visit how long some meals can take because he just keeps on eating. And some times I think Chad cuts him off before he is really done eating.

God Questions

Makaila has just been asking some great questions lately. She has been asking Chad about baptism. She has asked why we can't take anything to heaven. She will ask when is God's birthday. We tell her that he doesn't have one, he's always been around. Then she tells me he can't have been here before everything. I told her yes he was. She wants to know how he can create everything and we tell her she'll have to ask him when she gets to heaven. Then asked me what I think Jesus' voice sounds like. She constantly goes back to the issue of the trinity. She will say something about someone knowing everything. We will tell her no person, only God can know everything. She will say but Jesus was a person and he's God (she says this to us a lot). And then she doesn't like it when we answer that a lot of adults don't understand that either.

Roley Poley Coley

Cole is now rolling lots. He doesn't use rolling to move across the floor, but he will be in a different place in his bed when we go get him now. He has begun rolling tummy to back when he's put in tummy time. Now when on his back he will roll to the side to reach for something. In his bed he always has his cuddle toy, but now he will half roll to reach for his frog and that has usally been moved whenever I get him from sleeping.

2 hours

Don't know what was going on with Cole last night, but he cried for 2 hours. I turned on his aquarium to look at. Chad changed his diaper. I rocked him. I went back to check to make sure he didn't roll over (he rolled twice from back to tummy recently. Only Makaila has seen this new skill). I turned on the lullaby CD. The entire time my body thinks it is time to feed him and it is MORE than ready. He finally slept some. But he still woke up early this morning.

Cole is such a smiley baby. He smiles back at strangers who smile at him. I think Makaila was more reserved with strangers. He definately wants me when I walk into the room, but he will smile back at people. We were out to lunch after church today and Makaila was kissing Cole's hand and just getting him to giggle. So fun.

No naps

Well, I am very sad to say, but it looks like Makaila's nap-taking days are getting few and far between. We began skipping one here and there, which then went to every other day. Lately it has been every third day she gets a nap, but on those days she has one 45 min-1 hour after she goes down she finds an excuse to get back up. On the days she doesn't have a nap she yawns around 5 or 6 and goes down without a peep anywhere between 7:30 and 8. So sad to see it go because she is NOT very good at "room time" or "quiet time". If I let her "rest" too long alone she will lay down and take a nap and then we are right back to a full nap and not staying in bed. So, it is either a DVD on the portable DVD player or just counting on getting only about 35 minutes of her playing in her room. Bummer.

Tub Time

Now we're getting big enough for baths in the big tub. Cole sits so well we went for a bath in the tub the other night. He did fine. He wasn't scared at all. He played with the water and with a few toys. Makaila was very excited to have Cole in the bath with her. Now sometimes she asks if he can have a bath with her. She is even willing to have her bath earlier in the night so he can be in with her.

Park

We've been having beautiful weather lately. We made it for a short trip to the park the other afternoon. I decided Cole was big enough to try out a few things. He played on the grass, took a ride down the slide with sister holding him and did some swinging. His least favorite of it all was the swinging! But we've got to start somewhere.

Cole sits and plays really well. He also likes playing in his high chair with toys after eating, jumping in the jumper and still some in the exersaucer. He likes to be held in standing. He likes to grab for everything. It is quite a challenge to hold him while you are eating because he is grabbing for the placemat, plate, napkin and even the food. He's eating lots of babyfood now and we may begin to make it a little thicker soon (second kid, let's progress this a little sooner - this baby food is expensive!).

He is still not a fan of his tummy time. Or having his nose wiped (it's been running this week). He is getting close to rolling from back to tummy. If there is something interesting to him above his head he will turn to reach for it so much he almost rolls over. Now he's adding the leg too, so it won't be long. We had his 6 month check up and the doctor says he's doing fine. We've about tripled weight since birth.

Cole continues to like to be tickled and just laugh in general. Makaila is getting better at getting him to laugh too. She still really likes him. Only once in a while does she get jealous when he gets attention.