4 Months

Baby Man is growing like a weed! He started out this tiny 5 pound baby and is a now a whopping 16 pounds! Ok, 15.14 pounds! Still, the boy is really growing. All we need now is those legs to get longer!! We went to the doctor earlier this week and she gave us the go ahead to start solid foods. I had already jumped the gun on this one.. but, everything I had been doing is pretty much what she told us to do.. so no harm, no foul. So far he has had, rice cereal, apple sauce, apple sauce mixed with rice cereal, bananas with rice cereal, sweet peas, peaches with oatmeal and... re fried beans! Ha, yes.. we went to Don Dario's the new restaurant at Slaughter and 35. I put and little bit on my finger and put it to his mouth.. he really liked it! He ate quite a bit, after all he is "half a Mexican" as Bailey would say.

Going for a walk at Granny's!

One thing that the doctor told us that I was really shocked about was that she wants him to be completely on solid foods at 6 months! No more formula, no bottles.. just sippy cups and table food. Formula is expensive, so I'm ok with this! We'll see how it goes. I think I might be considered a terrible mother, because I have yet to take a picture of his face covered in food! I'm a quick wiper! I just can't let the food build up on his face.. plus, he puts his hands in his mouth and touches his toes, and everything else.. I'll work on that and get a picture up!

Jenn, Lyla & Cash

We went to my Aunt Mary's ranch the Saturday before the 4th of July. It was extremely humid, and not a good day to be outside. We mostly stayed inside and played games. I had planned on taking a bunch of pictures, but that didn't happen.. I did get these 2 pictures, and I love them!

Someday we will look back and this picture

and say, awww! look how little they were!!

Water Boy

We have a child that loves the outdoors, and the water! Cash absolutely loves to be outside. Even when it's 90 plus degrees and the mosquito's are buzzing around, he is perfectly content. He loves to go on walks, sit in the backyard with his daddy, and glide on the front porch with his Granny & Aunt Clonda. Baby Man also loves his baths... he splashes around, smiles and talks! With all that said, we were thinking, mostly hoping, that he would love the swimming pool as well. His Mimi brought over an inflatable pool, Diego blew it up and put some water in it. Just a little bit of water.. not even enough to cover his leg.. we stuck him in it and he was alright with it. Bathtub water is much warmer than water hose water, so it took a bit of adjusting but he seemed to like it.

Fast forward about week or so.. my friend Brandy, who I hadn't seen in forever wanted to come out with her girls and go swimming at our neighborhood pool. Cash obviously had never been to the big pool, nor had he ever been in the sun that long.. I was a little hesitant, but I thought what the hell.. if he hates, we'll just sit in the shade.. because I know he won't mind being outside.

I was excited to see how he would do.. before Brandy got there we lathered up with sunscreen, got his little hat out, and put his trunks on.

We started off small.. just sitting in the water around the buckets that spill over, and the mushroom.. he seemed ok with this. Brandy's girls were loving the buckets and standing under the mushroom. We started to get hot.. so Brandy and I got in the water. I held Cash and he was just fine with it... I was so happy! He was just checking it out. The neighborhood kids kept jumping in right next to us and he would get splashed in the face.. he didn't even make a whimper. We asked those kids if they could jump in a little further down, did they listen.. no, so they made me go all mean mother on them!! Eventually, I just took him to the deeper end.. he floated on his back, and even started kicking his legs when I held him on his stomach. I accidentally dipped his face in the water.. and still, he didn't seem to mind.

We got out and went back over to the mushroom, I walked under the water fall with him and he was just as happy as could be.. I was really surprised! After about an hour, he started rubbing his eyes and with in seconds he was out. Completely crashed. I had such a good time with my little guy, I can't wait to take him back! Next time with Daddy :)

The Capital

Most of the pictures I take these days are of Cash, but not all of them! One rainy afternoon, I was on my way to drop Cash off with Diego.. there was no way I was going to make it all the way to his work by 4 pm (his quittin' time) so I had him meet me some place closer. I was headed up Congress.. and happened to stop at the light right in front of the capital. I pulled out my phone and got this picture. I love it.. it's a little creepy, but I think that's what makes it fantastic!

Through my windshield, the building seemed so much closer.. and a hell of a lot bigger..

Hipstamatic

One of the first apps I wanted to get when I got my iPhone, was Hipstamatic. I thought I would like it more than I actually do.. maybe because mine seems to always be messed up.. regardless, I've managed to get some pretty cool pictures!

Ten

1. It's been a few weeks since I've done this.. because, I really have not had all that much to say!

2. Soo... I guess, the most major thing that has gone down in our lives is Cash's first "surgery". It wasn't exactly surgery.. but, he did get put under and cut open.. so in my opinion that qualifies as surgery. To read more on that.. visit Diego's blog.

3. The first year we moved in our house, we worked hard on our yard. We planted 3 trees and built a big flower bed in the back yard. We planted 2 pretty good sized Silver Maple trees and a very small Arizona Ash. As the years went on we noticed that one of the Silver Maples had some kind of fungus looking stuff at the base. We knew this was probably not a good thing. The healthy Maple tree out grew the infected one by leaps and bounds. Diego has always said this tree was not going to last very long. Early this morning, I stood with Cash in the door way looking out at the rain in our back yard and thought to myself.. that poor tree is just not going to grow anymore. The day went on and I was getting ready to go to the grocery store, I was sitting on the couch putting my shoes on and happened to look up, out the window and this was the what I saw: So sad..

4. Before Cash was born, I bought him a "big boy" car seat.. it's actually for babies 5 lbs to like 50 or something. It's not the carrying car seat kind.. so, I just planned on using it once he got bigger and I didn't need to carry him around in the car seat anymore. Well, Cash hates his car seat.. he cries every time he gets put in it.. if he doesn't cry right away, give it a minute or two. This makes taking him to the store a real pain in the ass. Sometimes he can be soothed with a bottle or pacifier but, he can't hold his own bottle so you have to push with one hand and hold the bottle with the other or prop the bottle up.. anyway, like I said.. pain in the ass. My first solution to this was to use the sling, but he is way to heavy now and my back can't take it. So, my newest idea... is this: Bust out the new car seat and see if he likes it.. and use the Bumbo since he can't sit up in the cart yet.

Verdict: Still is not a fan of the car seat.. but, the Bumbo works great! Only thing is I have less room for groceries, but who cares.. I need to spend less anyway!

5. When Cash is in his Bumbo, in the cart.. we get a lot of attention! People always look and chuckle, point and say look at him.. or just smile at us. I wonder if they are thinking.. Cute baby or what a clever mother? I'm thinking a little bit of both ;)

6. When mom gets bored.. we have "photo shoots". You never know what your going to get during these sessions!

7. I've been told I should not put bath/naked pictures of my child online.. but, the "naked" pictures are sweet newborn pictures, not child porn for god sake! I don't see a problem with bathtub pictures either.. I'm not exposing him! Cash loves his bath.. and loves to splash in the water! He's getting so big! Here's him splashing around..

Pictures taken in our bathroom always come out with terrible lighting so..

I went with black and white on this one

8. Yesterday, I arrived at work.. and was getting all my stuff together. My hands were full and I had no more room for my drink. I decided it would be a good idea to set my drink inside my purse. (which I have actually done before with no problems) This time.. the S.O.B tipped over. I had no idea until I got to my desk, put my stuff down and realized my purse was now a river of sweet tea. I had stuff in there that should not have gotten wet! I was pissed. I had of course my wallet and make up bag. My iPod, which thankfully was in the side pocket and was not harmed. My camera, which thankfully was in it's case.. it did get wet but not ruined. I had 2 Netflix DVD's in there.. which were soaked. I carefully took the DVD's out of the soggy envelopes which still tore all to hell. I let those dry out and I taped them back together.. needless to say, they looked extremely ghetto! Also, I had some baby magazines, coupons and other paper items, which included Brad's car registration that we received in the mail.. sorry b-rad!!! If you don't read this tonight, you'll find out tomorrow when I hand you a tea soaked envelope. Oh yeah, the point of the story. My phone ended up being the only real casualty. At first it was working, I took it apart and attempted dried it out.. when I put it back together, it came on.. sizzled for a few seconds and turned off.. Whoops! Guess that means I get an iPhone now. Shucks! Trust, I will be so much more aware from now on!

8. Cash is 16 weeks now, which passes as 4 months. 4 months means solid food! I've been reading a lot of baby stuff about introducing solid foods.. and when to know when your baby is ready. Cash started showing signs of this earlier in the week, so I thought what the heck.. let's give this rice cereal a whirl. He wasn't really very into it. He took a few bites and wasted most of it.. but, I've also read that's normal. Here's a picture right before his first "solid" food experience.

9. Sheesh, it's already 5 o'clock! Diego just got home.. time to go!!

10. Everybody have a happy and safe 4th of July!! I'll be spending mine at work :( Missing my child first fireworks.. BOO!