Weekend Fun

Chase and Jaime
New highchair - before cereal
After cereal!
Chewing on his teether
Action shot!

This week, Chase continues to be the drool master and loves chewing on anything....toys, blankets, his fingers, our fingers..you name it. He is also pulling his bottle to his mouth and will somewhat hold his bottle for a little bit too. He got to try out his highchair for the first time and it makes feeding cereal much easier to have him confined! He loves to sit up and can do pretty good considering, but he can't quite do it on his own. He is very strong though and we think he will have abs of steel from all the "crunches" he is doing trying to sit up.



Friday evening, Famous and I went to check out Prison Brews for the first time with everyone from the salon. We had a really good time out and it was nice to get out for a while. Saturday, we went to visit James and Jaime for a while. We had to ask them an important question, if they would be our best man and maid of honor...yes, you read right, we are getting married. October 18, 2008....so mark it on your calendar! They accepted, oh and Chase will be the honorary best man!

20 weeks old and we have 2 teeth!

We have teeth! Chase's bottom two teeth popped out yesterday! Little man is growing up so fast!! So far he has been taking it pretty good. The day before they broke through he was a bear and was spitting up a lot, but since he has been in relative good spirits.

Check out our new pool!

Are you loving our new pool? It is the latest out there in luxury pools!! :) Maybe not, but definitely just right for little man. He was loving the water. I would put him on his belly and he would just kick his legs and splash with his hand. He really had a good time. I think he is going to be a water babie for sure.

Happy 4th

Chase and Great Grandma Stokes
Being this cute is exhausting!!

So not too many pictures from the 4th, but a few. We spent the day early on just hanging around the house, being lazy. In the evening, we went out to Neil and Debbies for their annual 4th BBQ. As always, plenty of good food! We were stuffed. Chase was pooped and slept through all the fireworks....he was inside but they entire neighborhood was shooting them off and they were loud! The big kids had fun shooting off the fireworks though. Very nice day too!

Bath time fun

Look at that belly.....can you believe how much he has filled out....and the rolls this boy has are unbelieveable. I can't believe what I find hiding in them sometimes :)

Pictures of Branson

Some pictures and views from our hotel balcony, including the Branson hills and Table Rock Lake. Very pretty area!

What a week

Pictures of Chase poolside

Mommy and Chase in the pool
Getting tired and ready to go inside

So I know I am late to post, but I am so behind with everything this week. Last week, Chase, my mom and I ventured to Branson for a Missouri Dental Association convention that our entire staff attended and worked at. I just couldn't leave my little man for that long (Wed-Sun), so grandma S came along to nanny!! Boy, was she wiped out! For that matter, so were Chase and I! It was a lot of fun but exhausting all at the same time. Chase got his schedule all out of whack so he didn't sleep much at all during the day, but he had two all-nighters while we were there. But I think I would rather have him up once at night than to deprive him of sleep on purpose!!

Mom and I got to go to two awesome scrapbook/stamp stores....boy I wish we had something like that close to home. Nothing in JC or Columbia even compares.

In other news, Chase continues to gnaw his hand and fingers, likes to eat his blankets and bibs and still loves to shriek and laugh. He is focusing and studying things a lot more, like the TV, remote, faces, etc. He found his toes this week with a little help from me, since he can't quite get to them on his own! He also got to swim for the first time in Branson. The water was a little cool, but he didn't fuss, he was pretty calm and laid back during the whole thing. Baths have gotten a lot easier lately...we are back to bathing in the baby tub in the kitchen, no more warming up the bathroom and towels first, so that is better for my back and now it is not a 30 minute ordeal!!