6 months old!

Cal will be turning 6 months old on the 16th, but we will be on a plane, so today we went and got 6 month pictures taken at Portrait Innovations. They have a great deal where you pick one picture and you get a TON of pictures from it, but then they talk you into purchasing a bunch of others too..... I am a total sucker and couldn't pick. AND my mom stopped by the studio and she picked out some of her favorites too. The best part was we were given a CD of every single one of the pictures. Some of them are cheesy, but I think they are pretty fun....

All of the pictures are up on the mobileme gallery, if you are so inclined to view them.... can't believe my little man is already 6 months old! Time is FLYING!

PS-- he is eating like there is no tomorrow..... LOVES sweet peas! Screams at me if I am not feeding him fast enough! haha-- sooooo not like his father!

doing a little shopping

I caught a picture of Cal "shopping" in J. Crew....We leave Monday for Costa Rica.....SOOOOOO much to do before then!!! ACK! (and yet, here I sit blogging..... seriously??)

My little sweet potato....

Cal is now eating sweet potatoes like a champ and just had his first taste of sweet peas and loved them too! Here is a pic of him devouring sweet potatoes....

Sitting up!

My little man is now sitting on his own (for longer stretches that before). He can't get there on his own-- I have to sit up him, but he will stay that way for quite a while now! Sweet thing....

Rice Cereal

eating like a big kid:

what is this stuff???

uhhhh, not so sure about this, Grandma...

yummmmmmmmy! (when do I get to try the good stuff?)

We were going to wait to try rice cereal until after our trip because it would be one less thing to take with us, and we didn't want my milk supply to start dropping.

Cal had a reallllly bad night where he was up 4 different times, and my mom said he was probably not getting enough milk, and needed something else to satisfy him over. I believe everything my mom tells me, so I started rice cereal the next day.

For Cal's first feeding, I did it right after swim class this past Tuesday night. He was hungry from all of the energy used in class and chowed it down! It was too funny to watch him! He would grab my hand and shove it into his mouth with the spoon if I wasn't going fast enough. He had a little bit of a better night Tuesday night, but he was still up several times.

We tried again with the cereal on Wednesday. I couldn't get the consistency quite right and it was too runny, I think. He wanted nothing to do with it! He was spitting it out and shuddering as I was trying to get it in his mouth! Too funny....

Thursday and Friday, he had 2 servings of it and loved it both times, again, grabbing my hand to hurry it up. We are all getting the hang of it now. You know, I think this whole baby learning to eat thing is a difficult thing to figure out. When to introduce foods, how long to try things, etc, etc....

But Cal is loving his cereal and we will be taking it to Costa Rica with us! Guess that means I will have to feed him on the airplane....? sheesh.... hadn't thought of that obstacle yet! Right now, Cal wakes up and nurses, plays and goes down for his morning nap. Wakes up, nurses, plays for a while, and then after about an hour, has some rice cereal and then he gets changed out of his jammies and plays for a little bit then goes back down for another nap (the full tummy does him in!). He has his second serving of rice cereal while we eat dinner, then he has a bath, plays for a while, then nurses and goes to bed! He is still waking up in the night, but hopefully that will stop soon! (someone tell me that will stop soon.....)

Crest White Strips

Okay, this is just too weird not to comment on....

After Eddie and I got married, a stock photography company approached our photographer (and us) about purchasing the rights to some of our wedding pictures. We signed releases and were done with it. We honestly did not think anyone would actually buy our pictures, and we were sure we would never see them pop up. Uhhh.... we were wrong.

A year after we were married, I got a call that someone saw my face in Town and Country magazine in an advertisement for Amatokin Skin Cream. I have never heard of it. My mom and I went out and bought the magazine, and sure enough, there was a FULL page picture of my face--yikes! The as then showed up in O, Vogue, and a few other magazines. I thought it was hilarious, and that we wouldn't see any more pictures pop up.

About a year after that, we had a friend from Atlanta call and say she was just at Phipps Plaza and in the Bloomingdales there was a display for Amatokin and my face was the back drop--!!!!! WHAT?

Two month ago, my mom's friend in Indiana called to tell her that on the back page of the hometown newspaper there was a full page picture of me in my wedding dress advertising a bridal fair they were having the following weekend-- ha!

And now, I got an email on Monday night from a friend that said she saw me on TheKnot.com in a Crest White Strips ad. I didn't really believe her, but in the back of my mind I wondered if there was a chance it was one of my bridal pics. She took a screen shot and sent me the pic... yup, it's me! The next day, my sister-in-law called me and said she saw the ad on people.com! haha

Here is the ad:

caaaaaa-raaaaaazzzzzyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!! Who would have thought?? Makes me wonder where else these pictures are that we don't know about..... hopefully not on an ad for a leaky bladder or anything like that-ha!

New Tricks!

This has been a fun-filled, busy week for Mr. Cal! I have been trying to take lots of videos of all of the new "tricks" that Cal is doing.

He is trying reallllly hard to crawl. He is still a ways off, but he lays on the floor face down and pushes up and starts moving his legs like crazy. You can just see the wheels turning like he is trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B. There's a lot of that on the video! He will reach for something and then lose his balance and roll over to his back (usually cracking up as he goes).

On Monday, I sat him up on a blanket on the floor and then backed away. He stayed sitting up for at least 30 seconds! I was so excited! On Tuesday, I sat him down and then ran to get the camera. When I came back, he was still sitting and playing with a toy! I was very impressed! When he toppled over, he didn't even freak out; just rolled to his belly and started playing with another toy! Guess that's why we have carpeting!

Cal's last trick is in the swimming pool. At swim class on Tuesday, we had the babies go under water. It was SO much fun! Cal loved it! Eddie came to the class with the video camera and got some great footage of Cal swimming.

I pieced the whole week (okay, the past 2 days!) together into this video:

http://gallery.mac.com/cewilliamson#100296

it's only Wednesday and it's already been a busy week :)

PS- Stephanie, if you are reading this, I had the BEST time at lunch with you and sweet Reagan today. Can't wait to do it again.....next month??? xoxo

Cal and Jackson in the bath

My nephew turned 2 in January. He is super sweet, and I just adore him. He is also the epitome of a two year old! While at the beach this past weekend, we tried to bathe the boys together.... this was the result.... yikes!

http://gallery.mac.com/cewilliamson#100291

HILARIOUS! :)

Check up!

We had Cal's 5 month check up last week (still can't believe he is already 5 months!). We got off with our doctor appointments since we had to push up one so he could get shots before we flew to Arizona. It was a great visit and I just LOVE our doctor.

Here are some of the stats:

weight: 17 pounds, 5 ounces (my arm muscles are beginning to show this!) (63rd percentile)

height: 25.5 inches (they had a really hard time with his height since he was jumping all over the place as they were measuring him, so the doctor doesn't think this number is accurate....)

head circumference: a whopping 45.1 cm (93rd percentile)-- he's got a big noggin!

We were given the green light to start with rice cereal, but it was suggested we wait until we get back from Costa Rica as that might slow my milk production (if he is eating less milk and more cereal), and we don't want to have to take rice cereal on our trip. We are keeping it as easy as possible traveling with him-- the last thing we want is a baby with an upset tummy in a foreign country! So, we will hold off on this until we get back!

That's about it for the check up! Little man is growing like crazy and is so curious to his surroundings. He reallllly wants to crawl. I took a video of him trying earlier today and will try to post later on....

Bald Baby

Cal Baby was born with a full head of hair....

Where on earth has it all gone??? I have a bald baby now!

I wonder what it will be like when it all grows back. Actually, I didn't even really notice all of his hair was gone until someone today commented on how cute my bald baby was (!!!). haha!