feeling better

well, i am starting to feel better. my rash has pretty much started to disappear and its much less itchy and my cold seems to be disappearing too. I had a good nights sleep last night for the first time in quite a while.

don't tell daddy, but i think i gave him my cold. he seemed pretty miserable yesterday and sunday with a sore throat. what a wuss! gotta toughen that man up a little!

wow, its been getting cold out right? reminds me of my first days here. so cold out, and even in the house. we have been lighting a lot of fires over the weekend and finally mommy convinced daddy to turn on the heat yesterday. that helped out. they have me bundled up pretty tightly at night for bed, like a little glo worm (whatever that is).

more scoop on the job...not sure if mommy and daddy know that i can hear them or not, but it looks like i will be going to day care for 5 days a week when mommy starts working. not yet sure how i feel about that, initially, i don't like it. But...i will check it out over the next few weeks. Maybe ask some of the other full timers there and see how they like it. Poor lucy is going to be lonely at home too, and mommy said nikki is going to be coming full time again. I hope lucy is ok with that.

Eagles won on sunday (and I didn't wear my jersey...hmm). It wasn't a convincing win though, and it was pretty lucky. Daddy scared me a few times by yelling at the TV and mommy yelled at him. Lets see how the Denver game goes this weekend.

Have a good week everyone!

can someone get me a tissue!?

as you can probably tell by the title, i have a bit of a cold. not sure where this cold came from, could be a number of things. Maybe a tooth coming in, could be effects from my flu shot last week, or maybe its just a darn cold. Temperatures are dropping around here, and its been raining for ever (well, not this week).

nights this week have been awful, i just can't sleep well. it would help if i didn't have 15 pounds of mucus clogging me up, but mommy and daddy say there isn't much they can do. they keep coming at me with that blue ball syringe thing that sucks mucus out, but man, i hate that! And enough with the tissues! My nose is running constantly, wiping this little bit away is not going to save the world.

to top that off, i have this aweful diaper rash. me and mommy went to ask teh doctor about it and she gave us some more powerful medicine. hopefully it will work, because the itching is getting a little crazy.

as you can tell...its been a rough week. also found out that mommy got a job. not sure yet what that means, but it sounds as though mommy might not be around as much. i will let you all know.

Aunt Louise had her surgery and all went well, even better than expected. She came home and mom-mom and poppop bill are there helping her.

Lucy is also better, her tail is back to normal, and she is her crazy self again.

Not much else folks, hope you guys are doing well!

sometimes i'm a little devil

just wanted to say quickly, good luck to aunt louise who will be having surgery on monday. mom mom and pop pop bill are going to pittsburgh to spend some time with her. me and daddy have been saying prayers for her, so we know she will be ok.

so...hows it going out there? raining you say? its been raining for about 39 days and I am wondering if Noah is going to show up with a big wooden boat soon!

Apparently I have been quite the little devil at night recently. The fact is, sometimes I just don't want to go to sleep, so come and get me mommy! what is the big deal? Sometimes I think they can't hear me so I take it up a notch with the crying, but then I will hear them talking in there. Kids at daycare were telling me about this cry it out theory, where the parents try to get their babies to learn to sooth themselves. My goodness...who knows what those rookie parents are trying out. One day at a time...thats what I tell myself!

In other news...we think Lucy has "Limber Tail". She has been out of commission for the past day or so, and daddy stayed home and is working from home today in case she needs to go to the vet. I hope she gets better. We played a little this morning on the carpet.

Speaking of playing on the carpet, I have been thinking and strategizing. Since my daddy alway is enticing me with great toys, and then putting them just out of reach (not sure what this torture technique is called), I may have the answer. I noticed that crawling or scooting to the object on my back is effective, but its hard to see the toy. I think if I move my legs and lift my butt, I may be able to get to the toy on my stomach...

see how they react to that! More to come, I will let you guys know!

Hopefully it will dry up around here, the rain is just depressing...

and we're back...

back on track after a nice weekend away in DE. Oh and guess what, much to mommy's delight, i am a rolling fool. i have done the whole role form back to tummy and from tummy to back. she was delighted!

not much else going on. no daycare yesterday cause of columbus day, so i stayed home with mommy and we went to her work for a little while.

in DE we had a birthday party for a bunch of my cousins. that was ok, but all of them always want to hold me. i just want to play on the floor.

daddy got me a great gift on sat, a new eagles mcnabb jersey. its awesome, and i look good in it! Pictures to come soon! Unfortunately the Eagles suffered a pretty bad defeat at the hands of the dallas cowgirls. they stink adn i can't wait till we get to face em again on monday night in november. spoiled the premier of my jersey will you?! grrr...

a nice weekend of pumpkins and parties

what a night last night...after a great weekend the unknown bothersome pain/annoyance was back last night. i just couldn't sleep well. i think i cried most of the night and accidentally scratched my face a couple times. time to cut the nails mommy and daddy! it was a bad ending to a good weekend though.

saturday mommy and daddy took me to the farm and we went looking for some pumpkins and mums. there were some gigantic pumpkins there, so we ended up getting a pretty big pumpkin. I think daddy said it was 43 lbs! Thats almost twice as heavy as me! Since we got such a big one, we only got one. Mommy picked out some mums and planted them in the planters out front. They were actually pretty big too. I guess we are all ready for fall! Then it was off to Church, and then we went out to Leo's in Hoboken for dinner.

sunday was football sunday and block party day. it was nice, all the neighbors came out and all the kids got to play. it was a good time. it was during the Eagles game so daddy kept running back to the house to get me score updates. I was pretty down when the Eagles were losing 17-0 on the road in a hostile stadium. But how happy was I when they came back to win the game 37-31? Wow! Donovan played great, I hope i can see him play in person soon.

news on the milestone/development front...i have been hearing mommy and daddy still talking about me moving around and rolling over. its becoming quite humorous to hear them discuss this. Anyway...i think i may have quelled mommy's anxiety by rolling over a lot. In fact, whenever she puts me on my tummy, I roll to my back now. I will keep you guys updated.

hope you had all had a good weekend!

off to the doctor today

so today its another trip to the doctors office. mommy said they have to check my ears because a couple weeks ago i had an infection in my ear. they have to make sure that the infection has cleared up. keep me in your thoughts, who knows what those buggers are going to poke me with this time. geesh...like i am some lab rat or something.

daddy said i have been making some funny faces lately. said i looked like hacksaw jim duggin? i don't know who that is, apparently neither did mommy. i guess it has something to do with me sticking my tongue out. sorry for exploring my mouth! i have these hard objects poking through my gums, gimme a break! it seems to get a laugh out of both of them though.

all else is well. i have completed my food cycle, good news, no allergies. i just wish i was getting some more of it! mommy and daddy are still on this moving around kick. i mean, if they put one more toy just out of reach i am gonna snap! I just want to play man...gimme a break, this growing up is hard work!

ok...rant over. daycare providers coming...gotta go!

no city...just a relaxing weekend

hi guys, hope you all had a nice weekend. we sure did. i got to spend a lot of time with daddy cause mommy had some volunteer events and teh race on sunday. we were all going to go, but at the last minute mommy said we could stay home and relax. I think daddy was fighting for that and he seemed happy. he was busy working on our new deck that is coming along slowly. I got to see how to mix concrete and pour footers this weekend!

Eagles won...it was close according to daddy who disappeared at game time. I didn't get to see the game because it wasn't on tv, but he said it was a close game. I think he met Gabriel's daddy at the bar and they watched the game together cause Gabriel's mom and me and Gabriel and mommy all went for a walk.

Not too much else going on for now, hope to hear from you all soon!

bored at daycare...

they think i am napping right now, but i have slipped away to the terminal. hee hee hee...

slow day at daycare today. daddy dropped me off early cause mommy had an interview early. i hope she did well, i haven't talked to her about it yet. soon i guess she is going to be going to work all the time, so i get to spend even more time with the crew here at knowledge beginnings. i have mixed feelings about that, but lets not get into it.

its been a tough couple days, i am coming down with a cold, and this teething thing is not helping. nose is running, tough to breathe with my nook in, coughing. i figured out though how to manuever around in my crib. problem is, i can only go in one direction. i usually end up snug in the top corner of the crib.

i think we are giong into the city on sunday for mommy's race. daddy wants to stay home, but i think mommy is going to make him bring me. i can't remember being in teh city, but it sounds really big and fun. i'll check it out and let all of you know.

btw...do you guys watch that show "The Family Guy"?

mark it down...

ok mommy and daddy, hope you marked it down. I rolled over this weekend! I finally gave into the tummy time pressure and rolled myself onto my back. it was rather entertaining. When I finally got onto my back the room errupted in cheers (from mommy and daddy). that was fun. fun enough that I did it a few more times that day!

had a nice weekend, didn't do too much. sat was pretty low key, me and daddy hung out most of the day, and mommy had to do some volunteer work. then mommy and I talked to our neighbor Katie, who is going to be a mommy soon. she is going to have a little boy just like me. then our other nieghbors came over, Erika and her son Jackson. jackson is walking, he is older than me, but i think i have a few pounds on him! :)

sunday was football day. how bout them eagles huh? just like daddy said, they got walloped in Philadelphia. then we went to a barbeque in summit. summit is where the rich folks live (that what mommy says). None of us have ever been to a barbeque for 350 people! It was pretty interesting and fun.

hope you all had a nice weekend. congestion is back and i think a new tooth is coming in to give my first two company.

whats up dudes?

the tummy time saga continues...i have noticed a sharp increase in it! Its actually not been all that bad. i think mommy and daddy are trying to get me to roll over. little do they know, i don't NEED to roll over. i get a kick out of getting their hopes up by throwing my leg up and going partially! They get so excited. Truthfully, I don't have patience for rolling around. Lets not even talk about the dog hair involved!

I have already graduated sitting up, and the other night I went from a sit up to a tummy position. Daddy was impressed with that!! Not to mention that I can fully rotate on my back and tummy, and I have found that when I am on my back, moving by thrusting my legs works quite effectively. I must say though that I have enjoyed standing up.

Earlier this week daddy busted out the pack and play, and I have playing a lot in there. Not sure if its a safety thing, or a "daddy want to watch that show about football" thing. I am still contemplating this contraption. Atleast Lucy isn't able to step on me when she walks by, or wack me in the face with that crazy tale!

tooph update...second one seems to be breaking through and sleep has been better. Not sure why my tooph hasn't made my daddy's website news. he needs to get on the ball!

Not much planned for this weekend. 49ers come to philly for a beat down (according to you know who). Have yourselves a good one! :)

gosh we been busy

its been quite a few weeks with little time to post. mostly because daddy has been so busy at work. hopefully he gets his stuff in order and can get my posts up in time.

so its been a while. in that time i got 2 teeth. can you believe it? the first one is really coming in fast, and the other is just breaking through (yes, it hurts!). i keep forgetting those little things are in there and accidentally bite my fingers. probably will take some time to get used to.

mommy and daddy have cycled me thorugh almost all of my foods, 3 days each man. i am struggling with the last day of squash. last night daddy tried to feed me the squash, but i think i screamed loud enough to convince him to stop. i think he was flustered already, so i took good advantage of him, sorry daddy!

otherwise not too much else going on. i haven't talked to daddy today, but i just heard that the dumb falcons beat the eagles last night. i bet he is having a hard time with that. hopefully it was just a bad game one, and they turn things around. next week i will get to actually watch the game, which should be great!

Thats all for now folks. Hope you all are doing well! :)

Finally getting better! :)

well, i think my ear infection has broken. man that hurt. i just couldn't sleep and was just so achey. now i have these teeth coming into my mouth and they are hurting me too. jeesh...gimme a break people! I am a tired bugger. The congestion is not helping either. I did atleast get to skip daycare on monday and stay home with mommy!

So, as you can imagine its been a tough week or so, i think for all of us.

Anway, the week before i got to go on vacatino to pop pop john and debbie's house. it was fun, they were so nice to me and catered to my every need. i think daddy is going to put some pictures up from my vacation. while i was on vacation, mommy and daddy went to las vegas from mom mom's birthday. they said they had a good time, but really missed me. i got to talk to them on the phone, but they were in a different time zone whatever that means. check my daddy's website for pictures soon.

not too much else going on. we are going to DE this weekend because mommy and daddy have to go to a wedding. me and lucy are going to stay with mom mom, so that should be fun. hopefully my congestion and teeth will stop bothering me by then!

Hope you all are doing well. Wanted to say congratulations to aunt beth and PJ on there recent engagement. i think that means they are going to be married like mommy and daddy. i hope i get to go to this wedding! i had to miss pop pop and debbie's, but i saw some great pictures of it.

ok, well, just getting back into the swing of things, so i better get back to work. apparently i need to be doing more tummy time! Jake, 3 months my junior, is already rolling over! what a kiss up! i know i can do it, ijust don't want to! yeah...thats it...

a little under the weather

well, its been so long since i updated! i have a whole vacation to tell you all about.

unfortunately i have come down with a nasty ear infection, a fever, and the case of the "can't keep it downs". I will write more later when I am feeling better.

I made it

I made it past the 6 month mark! Whoo hoo! Saturday was the big day, and honestly, it was rather uneventful. Daddy did get some good pictures of me though, i guess to mark the occassion.

getting pretty excited for tonight's eagles/steelers preseason football game. it will be great fun to finally see the eagles in action. daddy talks about tehm so much, and granted, he did show me the superbowl and most of playoffs from last year. i think it will take me a while to have the appreciation, but i think i have already passed mommy in that area! she doesnt' seem as excited about the whole game.

speaking of mommy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY! I can't believe you are 28 years old! i am not even one yet! hope you have a good day though. daddy made all sorts of notes for her this morning, he got a bit earlier. i saw him put one on my crib too!

even more news...congratulation to aunt beth! she called last night and told us that her and PJ are getting married! can you believe it!? no doubt another little one will be on the way! Well, atleast that what daddy says!

not too much else going on. dadddy gave me and mommy a nice surprise on thursday when he decided to share his bonus with us. we went to babies r us and got 2 brand new car seats. i am ridin in style now baby. i haven't gotten to try out the one in daddy's car yet, but will later this afternoon when he picks me up from daycare. Should be good fun though.

grandpa took us out to dinner last night for mommy's birthday, and man, i was a good boy. i sat, fairly quietly, for over 2 hours at dinner! daddy even joked about me being so good that maybe they will take me to vegas with them later this week! (no offense, but i think i'd rather go to pop-pop and debbie's!) I sure will miss lucy though....

more to come later!

approaching 6 months!

as mommy might say..."only 4 days till my half birthday!" :)

Six months is coming fast, i think that it is some sort of milestone for kids my age. mommy keeps talking about eating solid foods, and how she can't wait till i can eat it. not sure what this phenomenon is all about, but it sounds a bit scary. i mean, i like my similac advanced. its good stuff. plus, its making me big and strong. i hope this food stuff can keep my energy levels up!

had a pretty quiet weekend. we went to short hills mall to get mommy a new suit for her interview on thursday. still not clear on what an interview is, or what it means, but apparently she has to dress up real nice for it. daddy and i saw her keep taking on and off different suits until she found one she liked. then on sunday we took a trip to Lambertville, near pennsylvania. they have a nice town there, and we went to this gigantic flea market. mommy seemed pretty excited, but daddy told me a secret, its just everyone selling the junk in their basement!

yesterday there was a new girl at daycare. she was pretty good, and she slept a lot. maybe some competition in the area of "good baby". i still think mommy and daddy should get a refund though since i am so good. everytime daddy comes in, miss pat tells him how good i am. i am glad i am finally getting credit! those other kids are so needy, its rather annoying. i mean, i can't even crawl or walk, but i'm not complaining!

daddy is all excited for next monday...besides it being MOMMY's birthday, its the EAGLES vs. STEELERS on monday night! My first eagles game! E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles! Daddy said i get to stay up late and wear my Eagles gear. Its gonna be great watching the game together. hopefully i won't be too tired since it is on so late, but i'll do my best.

sorry so long...been very busy!

sorry its been so long, but things have been hectic around here. daddy had to work a lot this week, so me and mommy have been picking up the slack! He didn't even mow the lawn last weekend. He is gonna have it tough this coming weekend, a long lawn and, its cleaning weekend!

to catch you up:
The wedding weekend was great! We had a good time in DE. Got to meet my great grand parents and a lot of other relatives. We went to the rehearsal dinner together, then i stayed with mom-mom and lucy saturday night while mommy and daddy went to the wedding. they had a really nice time! it was a tiring weekend though! a lot of people held me, including those crazy girl cousins of mine! ;)

got to the pool with mommy on wednesay (whom, by the way, passed her real estate exam last thursday! Congratulations MOMMY! We knew you could do it!). Granpa came over for dinner on wednesday too. he just moved himself back up closer to us, so it will be nice to have him close by and see him more often. i haven't been feeling all that well this week since wednesday. last night we went to the doctor who checked me out. (really i was checking her out...hehe). she said everything is fine, maybe since i am congested i am having a hard time digesting any extra "stuff" that i might be swallowing.

So, wish me feeling well! hope you are all doing well!

some progress being made...

so i forgot to mention this past weekend that i am sitting up now! i have been toying with the idea for quite some time, i really just prefer the upright position over laying down. apparently a natural progression would have been rolling over, then sitting up, but eh...whatever.

anyway, mommy and daddy are so proud of me that i am sitting up. they do talk alot though about rolling over and i can see as a result my tummy time each day has really increased. don't they realize that is hard to move dead weight! its quite a struggle trying to move on my belly, especially in this heat around here. soon enough though...crawling comes next, and i can't wait to get over by the coffee table and see whats under there!

this weekend is poppop and debbie's wedding, so we are heading to DE for a visit. i don't think i am going to the wedding, maybe to the rehearsal dinner, but not the wedding. daddy says i will get to meet a lot of family members that didn't get to meet me yet. i guess i better be good, as usual! haha.

oh...the pool was great on sunday. we swam a lot more and i was pooped! i think i am really starting to like the pool. me and mommy might go back this afternoon since it is sooo hot out!

talk to you guys soon!

what a week!

a bit of a crazy week here...when mommy dropped me off at daycare on thursday, there was a note on the door. i guess one of the kids (they won't tell us who), had some sort of strange virus. they said they took action to rid the place of it, but it won't be until 5-15 days until you know if you have it. i think mommy has been worried though. she keeps feeling my head and asking daddy if i feel warm?

yesterday was my second trip to the pool, first with mommy and daddy together, but we had a great time. in fact, i think we are going back today. it started off kind of rocky because some sweat (laced with sunscreen, the powerful stuff) dripped into my eye. This caused my eye to get red and irritated, then because of that, my skin around my eye got a little red. So, i think mommy and daddy thought i had "the virus", but it was just sunscreen dudes!

The pool was great though, i got to swim around a lot, and daddy took me into the big pool, until he got yelled at! Geesh...no diaper wearers in the big pool! Mommy and Daddy shoudl really familiarize themselves with the rules...its kind of embarrassing. Saw some other kids there too with their own mommy's and daddys. speaking of which, can someone remind me, that when I am about 1 and a 1/2, not to act like a bumbling fool! if one more kid points out that I am a baby, i am goign to scream. look buddy, i am just trying to enjoy the pool, oh, and ... Stop splashing me!

ok...rant over.

we capped off the day with a trip to our church's festival in hoboken. The st. ann's festival was pretty nice. it was a beautiful night. we also walked around hoboken, and i saw where mommy and daddy lived before they got married. glad i didn't live there, it was a walk up! Plus the idea of an occassional roach sort of turns my stomach!

ok, going down for my morning nap, then off to the pool, hope you all had a nice weekend!

happy anniversary!

happy anniversary to mommy and daddy today! two years ago they got married. they claim it feels like 10 years ago, whatever that means! i love you guys! oh, and lucy said happy anniversary too!

friday night mommy and daddy went out to celebrate their anniversary and left me with my babysitter suzanne. lucy really likes her, i am sort of indifferent. usually don't spend much time with her because its usually almost my bed time when she comes over...

i wasn't feelign all that well yesterday. i had a small fever according to miss pat at knowledge beginnings. she stuck her finger in my mouth to see if i had anything sharp in there, but she said she didn't feel anything. apparently in the coming weeks and months these razor sharp bones are going to be piercing through my gums. can't wait for that...ugh.

daddy heard that some people are actually reading my blog, which is great, but we are not sure if its true. no one has left a comment, or even a note to just say hi ry-man! you can comment on each post, just click the 'add comment' portion below my post.

hope to hear from you all real soon!

where you been ry-man?

well, its been over a week...sorry bout that

had a pretty exciting week. aunt kelly and jake came to visit us from pittsburgh. it was a nice visit . they came in on monday and headed out thu morning. we got to go to our weekly new babies group meeting, then the next day we went to the beach. it was cool and cloudy though, and jake was not liking it that much, so upon everyone else clearing the beach, we took the hint and headed out. we beat daddy home from work, which that day was at the golf course. its still not clear to me what he actually does...but he seemed pretty happy about his score!

jake seemed pretty easy going. i noticed he is pretty quiet, even when he cries. i told him he just belt it out if he wants some attention, but his mom seemed more attentive than mommy and daddy. daddy always wants me to cry it out...mommy disagrees though (thanks mommy!)

daddy had friday off so we hung out quite a bit yesterday and today. he is getting pretty excited about eagles training camp starting. mommy just keeps telling him how sundays in the fall are going to be "different" this year. this seems to be an area of conflict...stay tuned!

In a couple weeks my pop-pop is getting married, so we will be heading down to Delaware for that. I think I am giong to be spending lots of time with mom-mom that day. i guess too i will get to meet a lot of our extended family.

hope you are all doing well, and sorry for the lag between updates!