21 Weeks 2 Days (almost 5 mos)

Christopher will be 5 months old on Monday. Wow! Time is flying by so fast!

I had some gift cards to use, so Christopher and I went shopping on Thursdsay. First, we went to Bath and Body Works where I bought a couple of body sprays. I LOVE shopping there, but haven't been in forever! Then, we went on to Target where I bought Christopher a Bumbo seat, a 3-pack of Avent bottles and a couple of extra nipples. I almost bought an Exersaucer, but decided against it. Here's a picture taken of him yesterday in his new Bumbo seat:















His teeth are still at about the same position as they were a week ago. Boy, are they slow coming in! He's drooling so bad that he easily soaks 3 or more bibs in a day!

Tomorrow is my first official Mother's Day! Last year I was pregnant at this time. The only plans that we really have are to have Christopher dedicated in church then possibly go to La Siesta for lunch. The only time we've been able to go out to eat in quite a while is when someone else has paid. Since (1) it's Mother's Day and (2) we haven't been in a couple of months, we decided that we're going to go there on Sunday. Richard's going to come down for Christopher's dedication, so he'll be celebrating with us.

This past Wednesday (May 10), we took Christopher up to Richard's church in Nashville. He's in the choir there and wanted to show Christopher off to everyone. He's been asking us to come for quite some time now, so we were finally able to get away from our church for one Wednesday. Boy, is Christopher famous around there! Richard also works there, so has his own office. On his door are two 8x10 pictures of Christopher and a cut-out that says #1 Grandpa! He isn't proud at all!

I still haven't heard back about the Bank of America job. I called to check on the staus and was told that the lady who did the interviewing was out on vacation this week. The guy who answered the phone took my name and number and said that he'd give my message to the lady when she returned. So I wait some more!

Here's a video of Christopher "talking:"

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v644/tholloman/Christopher/?action=view&current=VideoofChristopherTalking5-12-06001.flv

20 Weeks 4 Days

Christopher's now about 4 1/2 months old and he's TEETHING! We started noticing his two bottom teeth poking through about a week ago. Of course, he's been drooling like crazy since he was about 2 months old, so I figured it was coming soon. He hasn't really seemed like he was in much pain...except for possibly overnight. His sleeping pattern has been messed up the last several nights. Last night (Sunday night) was a little better, but still not the best. He woke up at about 3:15 am, so I fed him and put him back into his bassinet. He then woke up again at about 5:15 am, so I just stuck the pacifier in his mouth. He still hadn't really settled down when Shad's alarm went off at 5:30, though, so I brought him to bed with me where he had NO problem falling back to sleep. Go figure! We've got a teething "hand" that he doesn't seem to like, so I bought a softer teething ring at Wal-Mart. So far, he's mouthed it for a little bit, but not long. He prefers his or our fingers instead.

He's now perfected his rolling skills from back to stomach. However, since he started that, he's not been rolling from stomach to back. When he rolls from back to stomach, he gets mad and waits for me to come get him. I don't know if he's forgotten or just doesn't like doing it himself.

Christopher's now also "talking" and squealing a lot. And boy does he like the sound of his voice! Shad's been saying "Dada" to him a lot trying to get him to say that first when the time comes. I keep telling him that he doesn't have to help Christopher on that one since he'll probably say it first anyway! Of course, I'm hoping he'll say "Mama" first instead.

This past Wednesday while at dinner at church, he started grabbing at things within reaching distance. That meant my food tray and anything I had in my hands! Yikes!

Something else he's started doing the other day was arching his back to look at everything upside down! We couldn't understand at first what he was trying to do, but then, when he got to where his head was upside down, he stopped squirming and just looked around. It was too funny!

On to other news...I had a phone interview with Bank of America last Tuesday and an in-person interview on Thursday. I have mixed feelings about the job. I'm sure I would get used to it and probably enjoy being a Teller eventually, but if I didn't need this job so bad, I would probably turn it down if accepted. I found out that I would have to work EVERY Saturday. I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 Saturdays a month, but NOT every Saturday! The weekends are our family time since Shad works during the week. Plus, I've been looking forward to getting to go to UT football games this season since I missed all but one last season. If I don't get this job, though, I don't know what I'm going to do end up doing. We've gotten to the point where we don't even know if we're going to be able to pay the rent in June! We've given up our satellite tv and gone to basic cable, we've cut down our phone line to the basics plus caller ID, and we've cut down our DSL internet from Ultra to Lite. We may end up having to cut that out completely too. It's pretty much to the point of, "What's the point of being a stay-at-home mom if we can't get out of the house and enjoy life!" Ugh!