Traumatic Car Experience

So we had our first very traumatic experience last Wednesday when Christopher got locked in my car in 90 degree heat. He was playing with my keys while I was strapping him in his car seat and then he threw them up into my front seat. Not realizing he had locked the doors, I shut the door walked over to my door and realized all the doors were locked. This was quite the panic inducing experience for this prego mama.

Thankfully, we all are okay. He spent about 25 long minutes in the car and stayed calm the whole time. This happened outside our daycare so there were plenty of familiar faces to help us out which I am very thankful for. Needless to say, I will never let him touch the keys again or shut the door with out checking to see if the doors are unlocked.

On to more fun things this is Christopher eating his first ice cream cone which he took from his Mama.

Cousins

As I am preparing for our trip down to Georgia to visit my parents and brother's family, I remembered that I had this great picture from the fourth of July with Christopher and his Redding cousins. He had such a great time with the older boys, following them around and trying to be just like them. It will be interesting if he has that same fascination with all his girl cousins down in Georgia.

So tomorrow morning Christopher and I are flying solo down to Georgia. I have the diaper bag packed with books, food and of course the portable DVD player with Diego and Cars ready to go. I'm hoping for no tantrums or poopy diapers.

Wish me luck!

What are the odds ...

Recently, we learned that our pediatrician has decided to become a priest, then on Monday we learned our OB is moving to Fargo. What are the odds we would lose two of our doctors, that we see regularly, in the span of a few months. Fortunately, both practices have multiple doctors and we will be meeting my new OB doctor at my 6 month check up.

This is a picture of Christopher and I at 21 weeks. I can't believe I'm halfway to the end. We had our 20 week ultrasound and baby is healthy. This baby is also very active, lots of stretching and grabbing toes, which I feel quite often.

I think Christopher is starting to get it. He wants to kiss the baby in my belly all the time. He likes to make his rounds, kiss mommy, kiss daddy, and then kiss baby. Which is cute, until he tries to do it in public and lifts my shirt up to kiss my belly :).

What we've been up to ...

It's been a while since I have posted, but this is what we've been up to. Our first trip to the basement for a tornado warning. Christopher didn't even wake up. Luckily, the tornado did not come close to us but did do some damage about 6 miles away from us.

I've been trying to walk a couple times a week after I pick up Christopher - if it isn't too hot. And this is a shot of him going to time out after the walk. He wasn't listening very well and wanted to go into the street. I don't know why he thought time out was in the bottom of the stroller. I promise I have never put him in time out under there. It is very difficult at times not to laugh when I am trying to get on him. He can be so darn funny some times.

A week of firsts ...

We had our first trip to the dentist this week. That is Christopher playing with the blocks under the table. Already trying to hide. He was actually very well behaved for the dentist. Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of him in the chair because he sat in my lap.

He lost a little patience at the end, but all in all a good report, besides three chipped teeth.

We also had our first Tiny Tots class this past weekend, we weren't able to get any pictures, because I forgot the camera. But, I don't know that any would have turned out because he didn't stop moving the entire time.

It was just our luck that the other three little girls in his class were shy and stayed stuck to their mom's legs almost the entire time and our little social butterfly was running around the entire place like he owned it. Hopefully, the excitement will come down a little bit next week or I'm going to need a nap after each class.

We also went bowling for the first time. He pushed the ball twice down the ally, but neither one made it to the end. He ended spending most his time in the arcade with Granddad pretending to play the games.

First trip to the Milwaukee Zoo 2010

We took our first trip to the Zoo over Memorial Day Weekend and Christopher really got into it. He loved riding the ponies and every animal we saw when we left he would say "Bye, giraffe" or "Bye, hippo" It was super cute. We were even able to let him out of the stroller and he held our hands and walked along with us. It was a great time, except the 90 degree heat.

Hopefully, this will be the first of many trips this summer.

New room, new bed

It's official we no longer have a guest bedroom. We have Christopher's room and the baby's room. We moved Christopher into his new room and his big boy bed over Memorial Day weekend.

It was a pretty easy transition. I thought we would be in for a big fight, but it took him about 30 minutes to go to sleep for his first nap and then about 15 at night.

We are all still adjusting as he does get up at night a few times and call for us to come to his room before he falls asleep, but he gets back in his bed by himself and just wants us to tuck him in again.

The mornings have been rough because he gets up at 5:30 a.m. now every morning. Hopefully, this is only a phase that doesn't last much longer.

I think he has only fallen out twice, which seems a little impossible as there is only about a 12 inch opening, but somehow my clumsy son has managed to do it.