01/19/2000
Well here I am in the new year. I just got my 6 Month pictures back, well maybe I was 7, but mom and dad were slow. I have 7 teeth now and I like to eat what the family is eating, they still won't give me those rolled up chocolate things, but I have been eating bread and potatoes. They gave me some of the stuff cabbage that they had last week, but I think is was just the rice. I'm getting stronger at sitting up, Garrett doesn't push me down as easily, but he still gets his licks in. I know that he is just loving me, but I wish not so much. I was weighed at the doctors the other day and I'm up to 18 pounds now. A far cry from my brother at this age, but he was a chunk'o. I'm battling a bad fever at this point, Dad and I were up all night the other night, he would rock me and I would sleep for about 20 minutes and then I would call him and he would rock me again. He is so good to me.
03/05/2000
I'm currently having my 5th double ear infection in 5 months. The doctor says I have go to the ENT now. I have gotten my 8th tooth and I'm working on my eye teeth now, but they haven't come through yet. I'm now able to crawl, which has been hard. Garrett always wants to jump on me. I'm eating just about everything that mom and dad eat now. Dad still won't give me the rolled up chocolate things, but he has been good and given me a little bit of pudding. I'm now up to about 19 pounds. I know that dad would like be to hit 20, so that he can turn my car seat around. I keeping telling him not to rush my growth. I'm eating as much as I can.
03/31/2000
Well its been a hard week for me. Garrett slammed my finger in the door, Ouch that hurts. I'm working on another ear infection and keeping mom and dad up at night. I have been working on my walking now. I walk along the furniture and I have a Winne the Pooh walker that I walk behind also, I can't turn it yet but that will come in due time. I'm able to take about 1 step. Its more like a turn and a grab, then a step. I still haven't hit the 20 pound mark for my father, but I think he is OK with it now. Other than that, nothing much going on.
05/19/2000
I guess that you can say I'm walking now. I do it when I want and other times I just crawl. I have been sleeping much better and my ears haven't hurt me in over a month now. (knock on wood) So the doctor says that I don't have to get tubes at this time. I went on my first easter egg hunt, I did pretty good. I was able to get 6 eggs, but my brother ate all the candy that was in them. I have finally attained the weight needed to face forward in my car seat. It is so much nicer looking out the window then having to look at the seat. I didn't realize that there was so much stuff going by. I only have 2 weeks till my first birthday, I can't wait. I do so love cake and ice cream. Gotta run, Garrett is coming to get me and if he does, he will probably sit on me.
06/26/2000
Well I had my birthday at the beginning of the month and just haven't found the time to write about it. Dad got a digital camera just before my birthday, so he could take all these photos of my day, but he hasn't had the time to put them up yet. We have one of the family on the front page, but that is about it. I had a blast at my party. I know they wanted me to tear into my cake, but I just wanted to eat it neatly. Garrett liked my birthday too. It seems that he is teaching me how to share, by taking all my toys and playing with them. That's OK, he had his birthday party this past weekend and I'm teaching him how to share, but he is not as nice about it as me. I have come to love the outside and I try to get out there every chance I can. Mom and Dad don't always understand that and they try to keep me in the house behind a fence, but I'm learning how to get around that one, I think I will enlist the help of Garrett and maybe the two of us can figure it out. I went to the zoo for my first time 2 weeks ago, it was fun. I don't understand why they have to cage all those animals up. I just want to play with them. One of my presents for my birthday was a bike seat for mom's bike. Dad put it on last week and we went for a ride, mom and dad were sore for about 3 days, Garrett and I had fun, we can't wait till we can go again. We are going to be taking the bikes with us when we go up north later this summer so we can do some more scenic riding. We got my pictures taken last week and they should be in later this week, so I'm excited to see how they turned out. I know that mom and dad weren't that happy with me. I wouldn't sit still for them. Gotta run here comes Garrett....
10/02/2000
Nothing much has gone on in my life. I had surgery to find out if I have one of the testicles that they couldn't find and sure enough it was there, but they couldn't bring it down, so I have to go back again and have them see if they can pull it down next time. Garrett and I are starting to play well together and sometimes we are not. I like to follow him around and do the things that he does. For instances, last week Dad was getting us ready for our bath. Garrett went potty in the toilet and dad had me down to my diaper. He had to leave the room to get towels, so Garrett got my diaper off for me. I tried to go potty in the toilet also, but I found out that I was too short, dad wasn't too happy, but he put us in the tube and cleaned the floor and then us. Halloween is coming up at the end of this month and I have no idea what I'm going to go as. Any suggestions would be great. I'm going to go now, I see that Garrett is getting a Popsicle and I going to try and get one also.
