Near Heart Attack game

EEKKuh! The KU game was far too close today!! I screamed so loud a couple of times that Solomon started to cry. I know that makes me a bad mom, but come on.. he has to learn how to hang during intense KU games. It's what we do. "All is well that ends well..." right?? Sigh... (exhale). I was teaching Solomon how to do high fives.. About the ONLY time I can stand to do a high five is during a KU game. I feel stupid and annoying doing them at any other time unless I'm trying to be overly dramatic and funny about something. I think our little guy is catching on, but that could be wishful thinking.



I made my first trip to Chuck E. Cheese today for my cousin's kid, Braden's 3rd birthday party. Alex and I had fun playing "pop a shot" and "skee ball". I love those games. I also had a yummy mint chocolate dilly bar.

Two random "Good Housekeeping" types of thoughts I was just thinking about: 1 - Now that I am always dishwashing bottles and other small plastic items, it is essential that I have JetDry in my dishwasher. It makes them dry when the load is finished instead of speckled with drops of water. 2 - My mom turned me onto Shout Color Catchers for the laundry. You just throw one sheet in the washing machine, much like you would throw a fabric softener sheet in the dryer and you don't have to worry about bright and dark colors running onto your lights. It's like magic. I use it almost everytime I do Solomon's laundry b/c his clothes are so small that I don't want to run two loads for lights and darks. The CC's work great.



The video below is fun. Alex and Solomon hungout alone on Friday night while I went out with some of my girlfriends and watched the KU game. I think the two of them had a pretty good time as you can see in the video below!

New Solomon Pictures

What a long day. Alex and I went on a super long walk with Solomon tonight. It was really nice, but my allergies are killing me.

I am sooo tired. I've posted some new pictures of the little guy at: http://www.haverhillstudios.com/gallery/albun06.

Big baby

My good friend that I've almost known for my entire life had baby #2 today. For such a small person, Cherie produces large babies. Her new little guy weighed in at 10 lbs. 1 oz. and 21.25". His name is Keenan Isaac Rourke! I love that name. It's so cute and it makes us think of one of the members of one of America's funniest families, Keenan (sp?) Ivory Wayans. I hope Cherie is doing well. She texted me the information, so I don't know what the whole experience was like for her yet. She's a trooper though so I'm sure it went well. BTW, Cherie's first baby was a 10 pounder as well. Her husband was a big baby apparently. Just think how big the kiddos would have been if Cherie weren't such a "little" gal!

Speaking of babies, Solomon is a big cutie these days. He giggles a lot and is almost always in a pretty good mood except for when his teeth hurt. He is eating a few different kinds of cereals now and will soon branch out to some veggies such as carrots, squash and sweet potatoes.. yum yum. He's still very close to crawling, but not quite there. My mom is now in the habit of saying, "Kelly, make him laugh!" I can't do everything on demand people! :)

Easter was fun. We went to church with my parents and then went to eat dinner with my sister, Zoe, Jimmy and my Aunt and Uncle in the evening. Solomon received some fun toys as well as some baby food from my parents... I mean the Easter Bunny.

I'm easing away from nursing and towards formula gradually. It's been nice already to not have to deal with as much as full time nursing entails. Solomon seems fine with it, but does seem to spit up just a bit more.

TV for the week: Dancing With the Stars began again last week. So far most of the guys are really bad. We are watching a few seconds of "Rock of Love" right now. The women are horrific tramps. It's a trainwreck... Maybe I will DVR it! :) We watched the finale of The Gauntlet III last week. It was horrific b/c the fat guy,Eric, passed out in the final challenge and was seriously almost dying. The whole time, his teammates were just concerned they were losing out on money and considered dragging his nearly lifeless and dehydrated body across the finish line. Only one of the teammates was reasonable about it. Pretty pathetic.

I'm tired and ready for bed.

Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day!!

Grandma buys Solomon an outfit for almost every holiday, so St. Patrick's Day was no different. It says, something about being Irish on it. Solomon is such a mixture of cultures. Irish, German, Indian.. other ones as well I'm sure.

I saw Cherie over the weekend. She's about ready to pop. She looks great though and her little guy Eli is so cute and so big! He's definitely on the larger end for his age.

KU won the Big 12 tournament in a great game, so that was fun. We went to Alex's theatre reunion which was actually pretty fun. On Sunday, Alex had to have his Mac laptop fixed at the Mac store in KC b/c he had spilled a drink on it. Alex LOVES that computer and he uses it for work, so he was stressing, but the Mac people were very friendly and helped us out on short notice after some negotiating! Whew....

It's only Tuesday and has already been a busy week. Dancing With the Stars also started again last night. So far it was only the men. Adam Corolla is one of the dancers. He's so funny but of course not so great. I'm anxious to see the women perform.

I better go. I hope everyone has a great week. KU plays on Thursday during the day, so I just might have to take a break from work for a couple of hours!!

Solomon's 6 mo. check-up

Solomon had his 6 month check-up today. Tomorrow is actually his 6 month birthday. He's still very proportionate, average in size and most importantly, HEALTHY.
Stats:
Weight - 17 lbs. 6 oz. - 50th percentile
Height - 26 1/2" - 50th percentile
Head Circumference - 17.1" - 48th percentile

I learned something new at the doctor's office today. Dr. Chavez told me that tylenol is fairly ineffective for teething and Oragel (sp?) doesn't last too long. He suggested using Chlorasceptic spray because it lasts longer. So, we bought some of that. Also, Solomon can start branching out to other solid foods besides rice cereal now. We already gave him some oatmeal and he was a big fan! He had four vaccine shots today, including the flu shot. As usual, he cried big time for a few minutes, but seems fine now. :) It was sad as usual.. :(

We are going to watch the KU game tonight so of course Solomon is all decked out in one of his KU outfits.

New trick

Solomon has a new trick. He was doing this before a little bit, but now he does it all the time, like when I'm on the phone with colleagues. They probably think I'm passing gas!

Today was beautiful in Wichita. It was in the 70s, so I took Solomon for a long walk in the stroller. Of course, he took advantage of the time to take a nap.

Also, I posted some new photos at: http://www.haverhillstudios.com/gallery/albun05.

Ready for bed

I'm ready to go to bed. I think even just changing the clocks on hour has totally made me extra sleepy. This morning, I wanted to sleep so badly. Solomon actually woke up for a while last night. He hasn't done that in a little while. He seemed really congested. A lot of people have told me that, that goes with teething and he is DEFINITELY teething. He produces bucket loads of drool every hour and is cranky from time to time.

Friday was Alex's b-day. We didn't do anything big. My aunt and uncle, parents, and Kandi and Jimmy and Zoe came over and had pizza with us. My parents and I went in together for a gift. We bought him guitar hero and Rock Band. My friend Erin simply HAS to come over and enjoy the singing portion of RockBand with me. I think she would love it. It's made for her. Alex and I formed a "band" online so we can play against others. It is called "Coffee with Cream"! :) Unfortunately, there must be another whitey with a brown guy or gal out there b/c the name was already taken... It's our "local band" name, but we can't use it when we play others, so let me know if you have an idea for another band name. Alex is loving the guitar thing. I suck at it but am dedicated to learning.

Saturday we went to see the new Will Ferrell flick, "Semi-Pro". It's not his best ever, but still funny of course. I never tire of laughing at how Ferrell doesn't mind at all when people get a laugh out of him showing of his not so great body. It's just funny stuff. The b-ball players practicing in costume is my other favorite part.

That night, Shane and Alex went to an arena football game and a promotion party that Shane's job had at a local club. Sara came over with their daughter, Claire, and we hung out and had some pizza and wine. It was fun.

Sunday, we took it easy but did go to my parents' house at night to soak in their hot tub and have some dinner. Alex and tried to watch a DVD of "The Kingdom" but could not stay awake, so we went to bed after about 30 min. of the movie.

We are going out of town this weekend for Alex's high school theatre reunion. It should be interesting. So many funny stereotypes come to mind when I think of High School theatre. I can talk since I was also involved in theatre. Ha ha!! :)

Better go to bed. I hope everyone has a great week.

Day 2

Tomorrow is day #2 of me having Solomon at home while I am working. Day #1 was Monday. It was challenging at times, but doable. I still got A LOT done and I anticipate getting more done when I figure out exactly what I'm doing with work. Right now, it just takes me so long to find where documents I need have been saved.
We just watched one of our favorite shows on TV, "Intervention". It's a good one, but very emotional. I'm always amazed at the lengths people will go to get drugs or alcohol and the amount of them they do or drink. It's hard to believe.
I made a real dinner tonight, oven fried chicken with pasta and broccoli... crazy. It was pretty good.
Solomon is so funny. He's going through this stage where I just have to look at him and he'll start to giggle. It usually means he's going to want to eat soon too. I think the correlation is that he knows I'm the source of his food so he's trying to make nice with me. I think he's just days from crawling. It scares me b/c then I'm going to have to watch him constantly.
I'm sleepy and ready for bed. I hope everyone has had a good day.

Sleepy weekend morning

My little monkey, Solomon, is asleep next to me on the couch right now as I catch up on work and Days Of Our Lives. Grandpa Shawn's funeral on Days. I have to admit it's a little sad. I mean, I've grown up watching this guy on TV. I looked it up online and I was about eight years old when he came on Days. Yes, I did watch Days back then... 25 years ago. I love all of the crazy stuff that always surrounds a funeral on Days too.. like the old characters that will come in, Kim Brady. She's had some work done for sure! Bo had to mention that Shawn wasn't his biological father... of course making reference to the affair his mom had with Victor back in the day... My favorite was the old footage of Bo with the full on 80's mullet going on! Fantastic stuff.
They also always make a giant framed photo of whoever is dead and put it at the front of the church. then, to top it off, Chloe is singing a little song for all of them. I just found out online that young Sean is leaving the show along with boring Belle. Thank God! I also find it strange that, but then again, not so strange (b/c it's Days) how so many important family members aren't at the funeral b/c they are no longer on the show of course. They always bring up that they "couldn't find a flight on time" or something else that doesn't really make sense.

I'm going to a baby shower this afternoon for mom's co-worker, Brenda. She's having a little girl in April, due on Zoe's b-day. I think we'll go workout soon if I can get Alex out of bed.

My trip to Dallas was good. I learned a lot, but obviously have a lot left to learn. Everyone seems really nice and I ate way too much between dinner the first night and lunch thenext morning. I'm sure I'll be going down again soon to Dallas.