The Beginning of Wednesday: Toby: A HALF YEAR OLD!

Friday, November 30, 2012

Toby: A HALF YEAR OLD!

On Friday November, 23 Mr. Mister turned 6 months old.

That is completely absurd! I can't believe it.

A lot has happened in the past month (and 6!). Below please find his most recent stats:

He has had 1363 diaper changes. Diapers cost us about $.082 cents per diaper, so, that's roughly $115 that we've spent in diapers. Not too bad! (Formula, however, breaks.the.bank).
At his most recent doctors appointment is was 27.5 inches long (80%) and 16.1 lbs. (31%).
Since his last update he has experienced a hurricane.
He learned to turn the pages on his books.
He stuck out his tongue.
He gave his first kisses.
He had his first Halloween AND Thanksgiving.
He went to his first parade (and he loved the marching bands!)
He went to vote in his first election (he was really upset about the results... or was that me? I can't remember. One of us wasn't happy.)
He ate his first solids: avocado and sweet potato. Pumpkin and Peas are all pureed as well; just waiting to pass over his lips. Nanny and I have made all his food!
He had his first does of "medicine." (I broke down and gave him Ibuprofen for teething.)
He officially rolled over (intentionally).
He sat up without help for an extended period of time!
He (still) sleeps through the night (and has since he was about 2 weeks old.) My kid loves to sleep; 7:30-6:30, baby!
He loves to babble.
He Loves story time, music class and bubbles!
He LOVES the dogs; he is really interested in them.

First time eating Avocado

Loving homemade sweet potatoes

Drinking water like a boss

Finding meal time completely exhausting!

Fed up with the paparazzi

Sitting up like it's his job

Updates on Mama & Daddy:

(Not a whole lot to update on our front.)

Aaron is busy, busy, busy.
We officially decorated for Christmas and we can't wait to celebrate Christmas in a new way this year.
I stopped pumping. It was a huge decision. While I am going to nurse as long as I possibly can (hopefully at least through cold and flu season) pumping was becoming more and more unproductive to my supply. November 4th was the last day I pumped.
My semester is winding down and I'm very much looking forward to a break!
I'm doing much better in the weight loss department. I'm 7lbs away from my pre-baby weight, but I'd like to lose about 20 more pounds.
Aaron has been on night watch with Toby lately. This kid has always slept through the night but he's getting over his first cold and Aaron sleeps with one eye open (even though Toby doesn't wake... Aaron hates that Toby was sick and loses sleep over it.) It's pretty adorable!

I'll leave you with a few precious pictures from Toby's first Christmas tree

Toby and Aaron, I never thought I was capable of so much love. The past 6 months have been the very best months of my life. I don't need anything for Christmas. I have everything I want.

2 comments:

matt said...: 'Fed up with the paparazzi' is my new desktop background image.; November 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Stephani said...: He is growing up so fast! Where is hte time going??!! Your doing a great job with him, he looks like such a happy little man.; December 3, 2012 at 7:18 AM

Quotes that define my life:

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." -- E. Lutzer
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -- Lord Byron
"There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help." -- Mr. Rogers
"If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian Proverb
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mountains we climb

+ Currently: Life
+ Magalloway Mountain: Pittsburg, NH: 3,350 ft. Fire tower @ summit
+ Uncanoonuc Mountains: Goffstown, NH; Elevation: North Peak 1,324 ft. South Peak, 1,321 ft. *Indian Translation: "woman lying down" or "breasts"*
+ Mt. Major: Alton Bay, NH: Approx 4 mi. round trip; 1,100 ft. @ summit.
+ Monument Mt., Berkshire Area, MA: Approx 3 mi. round trip; *Beautiful waterfall* 1,735 ft @ summit.
+ Welch-Dickey- Loop Trail, Waterville Valley Area: 4.4 mi. round trip; 2,605 ft. @ Welch summit, 2,734 ft. @ Dickey summit.
+ Mt. Kearsarge- Barlow Trail, Winslow State Park, Wilmot: 2.8 mi. round trip; 2,937 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Monadnock- White Dot Trail, Jaffrey: 4.2 mi. round trip, 3,165 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Layafette- Old Bridle Path, Franconia Notch State Park: 8 mi. round trip, 5,260 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Cardigan- East Side Loop, Alexandria: 5.3 mi. round trip, 3,121 ft @ summit. * some of the mountain was left bare from a fire in 1855
+ Mt. Morgan & Mt. Percival- Squaw Mountains, Holderness & Center Sandwich: 5.1 mi. round trip; 2,220 & 2,212 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Osceola- White Mountain National Forest: 6.4 mi. round trip, 4,340 ft. @ summit

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