A tooth!

That's right, Wyatt's tooth finally cut through last night (or the night before, I couldn't tell)! Today was a kind of fun day for Wyatt. Since it is Friday we had Baby and Me. Bert also had the day off so Wyatt got a whole day with both mom and dad. Other than that it was a pretty mundane day. With Bert home I tried to take advantage of that and got a couple things done that I've been trying to do for a little while (which includes the laundry)! Wyatt is learning that he can roll to most places that he wants to get to so I am having to watch him a little closer. I can't remember what I was doing but I was in the living room with Wyatt on the floor. My attention was drawn away from Wyatt for a little bit and when I looked up he was trying to put one of Hawk's toys in his mouth. I did get there quick enough and prevented it but it brought to my attention that I have to watch Wyatt more carefully now and that I should start getting rid of some of Hawk's older toys (he has quite a few).

Laughing is good medicine!

Today I was playing around with Wyatt and found that he really liked me shaking his worm in front of him. Just to warn you at the end of the video Wyatt gets a little too silly and looses his balance and falls over (he's sitting). He totally didn't get hurt; I'm not sure if he even realized that he fell because he just kept laughing.

Also, I'll have to keep you up-to-date on Wyatt's tooth progress. Bert and I noticed that Wyatt has a tooth trying to cut through. We can feel the sharpness of it but it is still under some skin.

Infant Olympics

Smiley fun with Dad!

Yesterday was Wyatt's 7 month birthday. Again his Aunt Peggy was over and did the honor of taking a bunch of pictures for us again. Some of them made me think of Infant Olympics: Flexibility. So here are some pictures for your enjoyment.

Leg to hand kick.

Foot to mouth.

Both foot grab, thumb to mouth.

The videos

Here are the two videos that I thought are pretty cute. The first one Wyatt is rolling over trying to get his phone rattle but not quite getting it. The second one is at the picnic last week. Someone found out that Wyatt really like the sound of ice in a glass. This kept him happy and laughing for about twenty minutes.

A long week

As the title says it has been a long week for us. It started last weekend. Bert, Wyatt and I were already planning on seeing quite a bit of Bert's families in Bruce and Bloomer, WI when we found out that one of his HS classmates had passed away and there was a memorial service for him in Bruce on Sat. This was good for Bert because we were already going to be there so he could go to the service. We were going to Bruce to visit/meet Bert's Uncle Steve and family which expanded by one almost 4 weeks ago now. It was fun visiting with them and meeting Phillip. It is so hard to believe that Wyatt was that small 6 months ago.

Then we were off to Bloomer to have a picnic with a bunch of Bert's mom's family. All of Bert's siblings were there as well as his grandparents, an aunt, and a couple cousins. This was fun because his cousins have young children as well. The ages of these younger kids are 10 months and 3 days younger than Wyatt (as well as some older children). Sunday was then another long day for Wyatt with church, IHOP, and spending most of the afternoon at Aunt Leslie's watching the Twins game and Olympics.

Once Monday came around everyone was pretty tired. At some point during the day I was trying to keep Wyatt happy and picked him up and he felt very hot. He ended up having a temp of 103. The short version is we went to the clinic and they couldn't find anything really wrong so they wanted me to keep him on tylenol and mortin to try and keep him comfortable. He still didn't sleep well at all that night or at all on Tues. Then I started getting worried about dehydration after he hadn't drank anything for almost 14 hours. By Tuesday night he started feeling better, started eating and finally slept again from 7 pm-4:30 am when he was woken up really hungry. Things are now almost totally back to normal.

I have a couple video's I want to post but right now I'm having trouble getting them to load so I will try again tomorrow because it it time to go to bed.

Sitting and rolling

It has been a little while again. Things have been going well for us. Last weekend was the Porter (my dad's family) Reunion. My parents actually hosted it at their house. Because of this we had some cleaning/setting up to do on Saturday but that's okay. Wyatt had his first hay ride while we were there (sorry, no pictures). We had Bert's 4-wheeler hooked to his trailer (with hay bales in it) to act as a shuttle service for the reunion so on Saturday night we took a quick ride over to

great-grandma's house. Then when Sunday came Wyatt did really well at the reunion when he was awake. He was also the youngest in attendance by 3 months so that was fun.

This week has been quite fun for us. Wyatt is getting to the age where he's making leaps and bounds in his development/learning. This week he "remembered" how to roll over from his belly to his back. He is also sitting up all by himself quite a bit better, sometimes up to 5 minutes at a time. Then I was playing around with him yesterday and he rolled from his back to his belly. He was trying to get my cell phone and over he went (and got the phone). I now know that he has a fascination with my phone. I have been able to use my phone as a lure and he has gone a full 360 on his belly trying to get it. It won't be long until he gets the hang of things and is on the move.

I also found that Wyatt likes basically anything he's not supposed to have which includes my book. If I lay him on his back and hold my book over him he will "talk" making it sound like he is reading my book. I have a short little video of him doing that. At the end of the video it also seems like he's trying to tell me that it is time to turn the page.

Oh yeah, in my last post I mentioned that Wyatt hadn't been sleeping very well. It seems as though his 6 month shots got to him a little bit and he even ended up running a low grade fever on that Sunday night. We gave him a little tylenol and that seemed to have done the trick because he slept better that night which allowed him to get over what was bothering him. He is now fully back on his normal routine.

On Thursday, Bert watched Wyatt all day (while I worked) for the first time. Bert was able to get Thursday off of work and so since Wyatt generally goes to a friends house he stayed home with Dad. Bert didn't say that he would never do it again so I guess things went pretty well.