Sloane Update

I need to post a Sloane update.  She is almost 6 months old and I feel like the time is just flying by!  Here are some pictures and an update on her progress.

In early May she got some crazy weird tummy bug.  She threw up once at her babysitter's house and then again several hours later at home.  After that she just didn't want to eat anything.  (I don't blame her!)  But it really started to worry us when she wasn't having any wet diapers.  And then her cute little soft spots started to look a little sunken and I knew she was getting dehydrated.  We were going to take her to the hospital but out of the blue a few days later she started eating again as if nothing had happened.  The best part about it is that she stayed as pleasant as could be throughout the whole ordeal.  She has been such a good baby! 


Even during her sickness, she was super happy.  But I did capture this moment when she was giving me a dirty look.  She wouldn't even crack a smile for me.  I think I was just bugging her when she was trying to sleep.



Happy Mother's Day to me!  Sloane was finally feeling better! 
Love these two kids!

I love this picture because she's missing a sock. My mom has a few pictures of me like this as a kid.

Waiting at the doctor office for her 4 month immunizations.  She was happy as a clam and had no idea what was coming. 
But even after she got her shots, she didn't cry too much. 

I had to take a picture of her crying.  Because she just didn't do it very often as an infant.

Sloane at 5 months. 
She is starting to lift herself up so high when she lays on her tummy. 
I love those big blue eyes!

First time eating solids around 5 1/2 months:  Rice Cereal. 
She seemed neutral about it.  Didn't hate it.  Didn't love it.

 Around 5 months old Sloane really started to move a lot.  She constantly wanted to sleep on her stomach but she wasn't very good about turning her face to the side so she could breathe well.  I had many sleepless nights at that point because I was so worried about her.  I would wake up at 2 am, go in her room to turn her face, check again at 3 am...then 4 am...it was a pretty rough stretch for me.  So Clint's boss offered him some great night vision cameras that she no longer needed.  I was able to just turn on the monitor right in bed and make sure she was ok.  These cameras saved the day.  (They were also pretty fun to have because we put a camera in Seth's room and would watch what he would do after we had put him to bed for the night.)



Sloane...face down in bed.  How she has survived...I don't know.



Sloane's hair is getting so long.  I am not good at doing hair.  I can barely manage my own.  So she will be wearing random weird pony tails for awhile.  After this pony tail day, Sloane's babysitter officially dubbed her "Pebbles" from the Flintstones.

Clint's favorite time as a daddy is when they are asleep in his arms. 
Sloane loves to fall asleep on him.

She's just taking a little cat nap.  What a life!

Grandma asked if we got any reception off these little pony tail antennaes. 

I just love those eyes and chubby little cheeks!

Seth 3rd Birthday

3 years down, only 15 to go! Seth turned the big 0-3 and had a great time. Besides the normally small family gathering we also ventured to the dinosaur museuem at Thanksgiving Point...not sure why we thought he would like a museum at 3 years old but it was still a good experience.

Museum

 

This trip started out rough when I made the idiotic mistake of saying it was Seth's Birthday to the worker. So instead of Seth being free (2 and under) I had to pay $10 for him. Seriously, $10 for a 3 year old? What crap.





Once Seth noticed the dinosaur, he insisted I protect him. I appreciated his faith but didn't have the heart to explain to him that I would do nothing to bother the T-Rex except perhaps get stuck in his teeth on the way in or in his bowels on the way out. 

This room was pretty fun. I think the point was to demonstrate floodplains or something...we just made a dinosaur fort. Seth made it a goal to gather all the dinosaurs from all the other stations. What can you do?

This was a convenient sign for the photo but caused an issue when Seth didn't realize it wasn't really for him. He made a beeline for all the fake presents on the display next to it.


 Dinner

We hit up Seth's favorite food joint for dinner (Chick-fil-A). I didn't take many pictures because it is very difficult to do without looking very creepy. For some reason parents don't like strangers taking pictures around their children.

 

  



Not much exciting to add to this shot.

 

Gifts and Guests

 

To cap off the day we had some family over for a small gathering to accumulate more toys for Seth. I admit to being a little jealous.

 

A cute little motion montage made by Em. She is much more artsy than I am.

One of the few days of the year where Seth is allowed to eat all the sugar he wants. I welcome the sugar coma that naturally follows.

Sweet and simple decorations...that was my contribution.

Listen, we know Sloane is adorable but it is Seth's birthday. Pay attention....grandparents are always distracted.

Emily's cute gift table. To my, I mean his disapointment, nobody brought the 80 inch TV he asked for.

Seth's Flag Day cupcakes, apparently only good for the frosting. We threw at least 5 away with the frosting licked off but the actual cupcake left untouched.

We dove deep into my past to order a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream cake. Seth wanted dinosaurs (notice a theme) so we ordered a cake and put our own toys on it. Yeah, we rock.

Papa, Janet and Sloane. Both my dad and Janet were good sports and wore the birthday hats while Sloane simply had no choice.

 



Another Picture. Boom!