Schoooooooooools....Ouuut...Foor....Ever!

I was sitting at home last night watching TV when this feeling of procrastination set over me. I felt like there was something I should be doing; something that I was putting off. I wracked my brain and finally realized I had trained myself to feel this way; it was a habit. The last 3 years of my life, I have been working full-time while going to school. Whenever I would come home from work, if I didn't have homework to do, I would sit there and think about how I should be doing homework. I even notice this feeling on the weekends when I would usually be home-ridden doing research papers or projects. I have to say it's pretty nice not having any homework to do or classes to go to. I can finally just come home from work and not have to worry about any of that. It's been such a long time since I've had this feeling. After undergrad, I only took 1 year off and then immediately started my master's. Assuming I started school at the age of 6, I have been in school 73% of my life. No wonder why I still feel this way even when I'm not in school. And all if have to say about that is 'it feels good!'

Time Flies WhenYou're Having Fun

Why does time go by so fast during happy times, yet that last hour of your work day seems to drag on forever??? Ahhh...anyways...Trey is Four months old! He went to the doctor's yesterday and despite his deceptively chunky thighs and cheeks, he measures in at about 16.5 lbs which is in the 50th percentile. He's managed to stretch out quite a bit and is in the 95th percentile for height measuring just a smidge under 27 inches. He got two shots at the doc which made him a pretty crabby camper yesterday!

My baby looking like a little boy!

So Trey is now a confidant roller, rolling over to his tummy pretty much anytime we lie him down. To add to the checklist, Trey is getting his first teeth and is eating rice cereal. It's kind of funny because the most progressed tooth (he's got a few coming) is his incisor or fang! I joke about it because for some reason I have this very real phobia of vampires and I joke that of course Trey is getting his vampire teeth in first! Too bad that's where the funny part ends seeing as how now Trey is running a pretty consistent fever, drooly mouth, cranky attitude and not sleeping as soundly through the night. I knew my luck of having a baby that sleeps through the night would run out.

Trey with his first taste of rice cereal

Another update; my nephew, Cole, turned one last Thursday. I cannot believe that he is already one and taking more and more steps on his own as the days go by. Adam and Julie threw a nice little family party for him and it was fun to have all the cousins there. And for those of you that do not know, my sister-in-law is preggo again. For all of you keeping track, this will be number 3 for them which means when he/she is born, they will have three kiddos under the age of 4. I'm starting my prayers for them now!

How old is Coley? One!

Last little update, next week the hubby, the baby, and I will be heading to Florida. Deo has to go there for work so Trey and I are tagging along for the ride. What can be bad about staying in a resort on the beach for 7 days? Since Deo's time will mostly be usurped by work, the baby and I will just be hanging out. I'm mostly looking forward to hanging out at the resort pool (Trey's still a little too young for major beach time), eating at Morimoto's restaurant, and letting someone else clean up after me.

Rollin...Rollin...Rollin...on the River

Record-Keeping

July 1, 2009: TREY ROLLED OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME. We were leaving for vacation the next day and I had to exchange some clothes I purchased before we left. So I ran to do this, and some last minute errands, during my lunch hour. I was in the dressing room of New York and Company making sure my new shorts would fit when I got a call from Deo. "He finally did it!" We had been waiting for him to do it for quite a while since he was so, so, so close to rolling over. Deo said he laid him down on his play mat to do the dishes. Half-way through the dishes he heard his cooing get a little muffled, looked over and he was laying on his belly. As he was walking over to him, he then rolled back over on his back. Then called me of course!

July 11, 2009: TREY SAID HIS FIRST WORD, "MA MA." I was up in Phoenix at my Aunt Lauri's house for the day. I was up in her room nursing Trey while she was putting clothes away. He was being a little fussy and in the midst of his gurgles and coos he distinctly cried, "MA MA." My and aunt and I looked at each other in disbelief wondering if the other one had heard it too. Even though he may not exactly know what he was saying, it was definitively "Ma Ma." I called Deo and of course he didn't believe me. The next day, some of Deo's family was over and I was telling them the story and they are all looking at me like I'm crazy. I left to drop some things off at my brother's house and when I returned they all were excited as they said Trey said "Ma Ma" again. They said he was fussing around and cried it out, similarly to how he did it with me. Even though Deo doesn't think he knows what he is saying (I think he totally knows), he did say it was clearly "Ma Ma" coming from his mouth!!!!

July 11, 2009: THE FIRST TIME I SAW TREY ROLL OVER. Even though Deo said Trey's been rolling over since the beginning of the month, I had yet to actually see him do it. It was while I was up in Phoenix as my aunt's and Trey was laying on the floor. We were all prepping dinner and all of a sudden, my aunt looked over and saw Trey on his belly. We rushed over there and he totally was hanging out, peering around on his little belly. A couple minutes later he rolled right back over to his back. I was glad I finally got to see him do it!