My first vacation at the beach

THANKS Mama and Papa for a great trip!
Get ready for a long post, we have lots of pics! So mommy and daddy took me on my first vacation last week. We headed to Sea World San Antonio and down to the Corpus Christi area to Mustang Island/Port Aransas to a beach house for a week. Mama and Papa (grandparents) were kind enough to get the house for all of us, including my cousins and aunts/uncles. We had a blast. It was me, my parents, my grandparents, my aunt Wendy/Uncle MIke and their 2 kids, then Nene and Jeff and then my cousin CK (Daddy's brother's son from OK) and then my aunt Wendy's neice Cassidy. So we had a big group and everyone pitched in to help take care of me. We left for Sea World on Saturday at about 8:30am. We arrived and checked into a Marriott Courtyard in San Antonio and headed to lunch and then Seaworld. We spent the day there until they closed at 10pm. I did really well on the drive there- almost 5 hours and hardly fussed at all. Here are some pics of everything we did.

here's mommy and me at seaworld on the first day at the waterpark section chilling in the pool

Daddy and me in the poolmy family all in the pool having fun at seaworld, it was just a little crowded, can't you tell this is me relaxing in my stroller at the pool and playing with my bottle. i did pretty well and didn't even get sunburned! we did see lots of interesting things at seaworld, including kids with no clothes on or swim diapers. we won't even go into the part about people that shouldn't wear speedos or bikinis. I am 9 months old and know better!
At Seaworld, we saw a lot. Daddy fed the dolphins, we saw the sharks, saw the Shamu show at night, rode 2 water rides, did the water park and saw the walruses and penguins. It was really hot though, so all the adults had to stop for lots of samples of the free beer on both days. good thing Anhauser Busch owns the park! We were really tired both days since the park is very spread out and there is a lot of walking. Plus keeping a group of 10 adults and 3 kids together is a challenge in itself, nevermind the 90-100 degree heat.

Here is the cute pirate hat that mama and papa bought for me!

Here is Daddy feeding the dolphins Me and my cousins- Mikey (almost 2) and Ally (almost 5)
After a full day at seaworld, i was wiped out and took a nap with my new Shamu!

So we did Seaworld on Sunday from about 10am-2pm, then we headed on to Port A for the rest of the vacation. We arrived in Port A around 5pm or so and took the cars over on the ferry. The beach house was very nice and had 3 bedrooms, a loft and 3 baths. It had a great porch, but we thought it had ocean views and it didn't except on the second floor. we were a half block from the beach though.

Here's me and daddy at the beachhouse taking a breakMe and daddy at the beach, this is one of the few times I was fussy, i was so tired and fighting a nap. This was before we bought a nice pop up canopy too, so daddy was holding the umbrella to shade me!Me and mommy on the porch. i am really becoming a mommy's boy now. I cry when she leaves the room.Me and my cousin Mikey playing and sharing toys. I know we will be great buddies when we are older. He is just about a year older than me. The family enjoying the porch outside.Me in Mikey's stroller when we visited the USS Lexington aircraft carrier in Corpus.

My new sailor's hat from our visit to the aircraft carrier. man i look cute! Mikey got a matching one too.

Daddy trying to show CK some stuff on the beach one night.

Mikey made a huge mess in the sand. He loved it!Here I am playing in the sand and water. I loved crawling and trying to eat Must eat sand!!!! we also took a nature/dolphin watch cruise one night. it was about 2 hours and we saw dolphins and then they also had live sea creatures in the boat for us to touch and feel, including crabs and fish.

me and papa playing!

Our spot at the beach in the shade! Man, this vacation stuff is hard work, it is wearing me out! My cousin CK built some sand castles on the last day. it was his first time to ever see the ocean. He had a blast boogie boarding the whole trip. Well that was my trip. i had a blast, although i had a 9hour trip back home this weekend. But i travelled so well. My next trip will be to DisneyWorld in December 2009, so a year and a half away. I am sure I will go somewhere on a short vacation before then. But for now, I have great pictures and memories of the beach!

8 months old and crawling!

WEll i turned 8 months old on June 30th! and i have been crawling since 7.5 months. started off as the army crawl, but now i am all over the house! I have discovered the stairs too. don't worry, mommy and daddy are putting up a gate. I really like pulling myself up to my knees, but i am still working on learning how to pull up to my feet on my own.
Mommy bought me a new ball and i love playing catch!
Here's my fourth of JUly outfit- we went out to Lake Tawakoni with some friends and I had a blast and saw my first fireworks!

i am so busy these days playing. I love playing my piano!

I also love this activity table that belonged to my cousin Mikey. I like to stand at it and flip the pages on the book

And here is my cute pirates outfit! I think i am going to have a pirates theme for my first birthday party!

and here is a video of some crawling!

My first time at the pool

Here's a quick pic of mommy and me! I was wearing my really cute Mickey outfit that MawMaw got me!

So Mommy took me the pool for the first time ever. Her and Nene (Aunt mandy) took me to meet my Aunt Wendy and Uncle Mike and my cousins, Ally and Mikey at a mesquite community pool. I had a blast. I really loved splashing in the water. I wasn't afraid at all. Here is Nene and I.

Here is Mommy and I with the Rosenfeld clan- Wendy, Mike, Ally and Mikey.

Mikey shared his orange ball with me- so i had fun playing with it.

I also sat by the little fountains that splashed up and I played with that for a long time. I even would lean over and put my face in it.

Here is Ally trying to give me a kiss.

My busy weekend- 7 months, 3 weeks old

Wow, it's been a long weekend, i am run ragged! On Saturday, mommy and I went to meet some friends for lunch- 5 adults and 5 babies! The other guests in the place were relieved when they saw us head out to the patio. Here are my future girlfriends, Samantha and Mallory- who doesn't love twins!? they were so good at lunch, and slept almost the entire time. They are almost 2 months old.

here's the whole gang at lunch. Carrie with the twins in their carrier (Mommy is holding one), Rhonda with Kodee, Lyn holding me and Sheila with Blayne.

Kodee is my little girlfriend too- we were due at the same time, but she was born early, so she is over a month older than me now. She just stared at me at lunch and then wanted to grab my arm. what a flirt and cutie! watch out Rhonda and KC!

Now that I am moving around like crazy with my army crawl- i love to get over in the entryway and play with the rug. For some reason, i am fascinated with rugs. I like to pull them up and look underneath, i guess i am hoping i'll find a surprise or something.

I also like my juice and water in a sippy cup!

Mommy took me for a walk on Saturday morning since the weather was nice and not too hot yet.

I also really enjoy this pass me down piano toy from Ally and mikey, my cousins. I like to hit the keys and make them play music.

Of course i still love my jumperoo. I can spend an hour in here just jumping up and down and playing.

Adventures in Eating!

Since I am such a big boy now, i am starting to eat a bigger variety of foods. Now that I can lift my belly off the ground and army crawl and almost 'real' crawl, I am eating more solids. I tried a biter biscuit and liked it, talk about messy though! That thing melted all over me and was everywhere. Mommy had to watch me though, so i wouldn't try and eat a big chunk. I did like gnawing it though.

I also had my first real table food- mashed bananas. I love baby food bananas, but these were stronger tasting, so i made a bitter beer face at first, but then I liked them.

I also have tried wagon wheels and these are a mess too. Mommy hates cleaning up after I eat these, but they are good and I can gnaw on them and play. I also hold it pretty well and am working on my coordination of self feeding.

Mommy is also starting to feed me more soft, mushy table foods and stage 3 baby foods like spaghetti! So far, I am doing pretty well and still packing on the pounds!

And lastly- here i am at meal time, just goofing around as always!

7 months old and trying to crawl

Here I am slowly rocking back and forth on my hands and knees and then falling on my face! it takes practice!

Well I am 7 months old now! Well on my way to a year old. And I have finally figured out how to lift my belly off the ground and try to actually crawl. I am not quite there yet, but I think I'll have it figured out really soon. I rock on my hands and knees back and forth and then move a hand forward or just fall on my face. I don't have the coordination all figured out just yet, but I am getting there.

Here's me and mommy playing around one night. Ignore the boo boo on her nose, she had a mole removed - ouch!

So I love to get up near the tv for some reason. Mommy is trying to break me up that, but I always roll that way. I always manage to kick over the DVDs. The other day I actually started grabbing them with my hand too and guess which one I managed to pick out from right in the middle? Do i have good taste or what?

We had a garage sale at my mawmaw's house and they let me play outside in the exer-saucer and I love it! and no, I wasn't for sale, although people did ask!
Here I am just playing on the floor- my favorite thing to do!

I really like my new big boy car seat. I can see out the window at the world around me. I also like to sleep in it on long car rides!

Here's Daddy and I- he let me fall asleep in his arms.

I love sleeping with my butt in the air these days. It's just so comfy to be all cuddled up like that when I sleep. Mommy thought it was pretty funny though.

here's mommy making me giggle.

Here's mommy trying to get me to dance and copy her----i sort of just wiggled.