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I do believe this is my favorite picture of Gage so far. Look at that baby, isn’t he gorgeous or am I looking through the my child is the cutest glasses?


OH you agree, GREAT!

Moving on….

Gage’s sleeping habits were painfully (on me) interrupted for the last month or more. First was his nasty two week long stomach virus, then we had 3 glorious days until he caught another little stomach bug complete with fever and 7 more days of yuck. After that a couple days of mostly uninterrupted brain rest and SMACK, complete disruption, which has been going on for about 6 days now. By disruption I mean waking up 15-20 times (not joking) during my 5-6 hours of allotted sleep a night, fitful sleeping, and crying awake, I will admit I have been perplexed as to its cause. Well I should say was perplexed because the mystery was solved last night when Gage gave my finger a bite and it hurt.

Poor baby has been in pain from a pearly white jagged object erupting through his innocent previously unscathed gums. His very first tooth, we can say he is now on the fairy's rooster for future payment.

This tooth to be exact.

(bottom front left)

Gage would not let me touch it again, he is and has been sucking his lips, tongue, and fingers for the last week, and my finger is not on his suck list so he waves his hands furiously when I try to touch it.

Last night I gave him Motrin and Oragel before bed and he did sleep better, not great but better.

In other news Gage is a water baby, this past Sunday he had his first real pool time and he loved it. He splashed manically and so wiggly it was like trying to keep a greased baby piggy above water. Since the pool adventure his bath time has gotten more interesting, there is as much water on the floor, walls, and myself than in the tub when he is through (ok a bit over represented but you get it). He does not care how much water hits his face or goes down his throat and sometimes lets out a giggle after the initial face splash.

After bath time is a very cute burrito baby


In other other news….KOLLEN is here and we are excited (even though his visit began with a bunch of selfish baby momma drama, missed flights, ignorance, wasted vacation day, did I say inconsiderate baby momma drama yet, and Pappy, Sarah, and Andy picking him up 12 hours later than planned, did I say ignorant or inconsiderate drama yet). He is an amazing child and we are so happy he is here for 6 weeks.

In other other other (but no less important) news, Sarah (youngest sister in-law) and Andy are to be marriaged Saturday and we will be heading to M&Ps tomorrow for rehearsal, dinner, bachelor and ette parties, a bit of sleep and the blessed day of marriage festivities. This is the first time I will be in a wedding not as the bride that is. We are very excited and happy for SANDY (yanno Sarah and Andy)!

Happy B-day times 2

This weekend we celebrated three Birthdays: Mu's, Jer's, and my sister in-law's, we will call her L. Happy Birthday Guys!! We went to M&P's house and had a little get together. Pappy put on a video, well more of a slide show of Jer, myself, and the family going to Crystal's in Dallas shortly after he proposed to me, the music was "going to the chapel and we're gonna get married" (which I could not get out of my head for two whole days). Anyway, it was amazing to see Daimen 5yrs ago, he was so little. He was 5 then but his little face has not changed to much but he was a tiny little boy. I almost forgot he was ever that little. We love you Daimen, you are becoming a little man so quickly, Slow Down. We had to leave M&P's early because Gage ran out of formula. It was a good thing we left when we did because he realized he was starving as soon as we got in the house. The ride home took about 70mins and he slept the whole way *yay*.

For those of you keeping track Gage is doing sooooooooooo much better on the new formula, from now on I will be calling it Gold because it costs just as much, I think. However, he is doing great on it, we do have to add cereal to it because it is so thin and also brown sugar for constipation from the cereal and to help with the taste. He is napping and sleeping wonderfully, last night he ate at 9pm and slept until almost 5am this morning, only waking to have his pacifier about twice. Ahhhh sleep was and is nice. He is also developing a witching hour, between 630pm and 730 he is a mess, even if he ate at 530, we need to feed him again during his witching hour or he is inconsolable. The rest of the day he is all smiles and coo's. He is using his thunder thighs much more these days, when you burp him over you shoulder he is jumping with those little big legs, it is almost time to bring out the Johnny Jumper.

Ok if you are wondering what the other Bday in the title stands for it means.....Bath Day. Last night Gage needed a bath and I had mine in the am. He usually baths or showers with me as he is too big for the plastic tub. Gage loves his baths, he smiles and kicks around. Well last night Jer and I tried something new, we put him in the big tub without the baby tub. I added about 2 inches of water and put a burp rage under his head just to put his head a bit higher. Well he loved it, he kicked and splashed forever it seemed (about 30mins) and would have stayed longer if we let him. Here is a pic showing all the water moving as Gage was pretending he was Michael Phelps before I snapped the photo. ****A Blogger Lesson**** the pictures are pixelated because they are bigger than shown, you can click on them to see the big picture. That concludes today's blogger lesson, until next time click away!!

In this picture you can not see, but Daddy was recording some video and when he leaned over the tub and was making noises to get Gage's attention, his teeth fell out and landed to the left of the baby's head as seen in the picture below. Jer snatched them out of the tub and put them right back in his mouth (you can see his hands going to get them hahahaha). I just happened to have the camera in my hand.

Hey can you keep a secret? Just between you, Gage, myself and well I guess the world wide web, don't tell daddy but Gage pee peed in the water at the start of his bath and Daddy just put his teeth right back in his mouth!!!!! ewwww

And when splash time is over, the burrito man is born. He likes his towels warmed before he is wrapped in them, can we say spoiled!