Forgot

I forgot to mention a few things:

• Ford claps when he gets excited or when we say "YAY!", it's so cute. He also claps when we play patty cake. He's been doing this for about 3 weeks.
• Ford can pull himself to standing now! Man that happened quick!
• He blows raspberries on me and actually tries to do so (I think I might of mentioned this before).
• He now will "chase" Annabell and I which he thinks is hilarious since he is crawling.
• He has another tooth coming in on the top...I think it's the one beside the front center teeth.
• He will say "YAAAAAAAY!" when we do sometimes. He likes to "sing" if Annabell is singing too.
  

Happy Father's Day Daddy!

Visiting

We have had an eventful few weeks. It started out with our visit from Jana Soviar. We finally got to meet her little girl, Elise. Ford and Elise are about 1 month apart. He enjoyed having someone around his size. He's use to being pushed around by his sister, so I think he was surprised to see someone his size. He grabbed her pretty rough a few times, but that's what happens when you are use to being the smallest, you learn to be tough. Elise was a good sport with all the affection from Ford and Annabell. Ford looks like a Zachritz as you can see in any picture, and Elise looks like an Evans to me. Maybe they'll be as good as friends as Brad and Blake were!

Soon after Jana's visit came our visit with my TN family! Papa, Aunt Kari, Mikayla and Sharon all came down. Kari got about 12 days with me and dad and Sharon had about 5 days once they got her from Orlando. Ford was able to experience his first boat ride while they came down. We all really enjoyed it. I don't think, however, that Ford enjoyed his life jacket at ALL. It was a bit too big for him, but the smallest one we had. So it was raised around his chin and face, which caused him to get a little frustrated. He did enjoy the wind though.

Ford has been spoiled from all the attention everyone gave him. Especially from his Papa. He played with Ford quite a bit and Ford ate up every moment of it.

Ford had started to belly crawl a few weeks ago and scoot to where ever he needed but last week he actually started to crawl on all four! He had been rocking back in forth but hadn't taken more than one leap forward, but about a week ago he started to crawl, and I was so happy that my family got to see it! He really must of had a switch go off in his head because he was and is all over the place. His little chubby knees get so red from crawling all day! He gets excited that he can get to whatever he wants now, which has made me keenly aware of how messy my house is! Spring cleaning in the summer is about to happen.

Ford has also been saying "Maamaa" for about 3 weeks now. He directs it to me which is amazing to me. If he wants me and I'm not around he will begin to yell "mmmmmmmmmaaammmmmmmmmmaaaa" until I come pick him up. I really enjoy hearing my name being called!
Ford has eaten quite a bit of solid food lately! He has had bread, tortilla, watermelon, & mango. He really enjoys all of it. I did give him egg yolks this morning which he was excited about at first, but after the first one wasn't as enthusiastic about. He also loves drinking his water from his cup and does a pretty good job with it. His clothes are always soaking wet afterward, but that's okay.
I think one of Ford's "Eye" teething are coming in. he at least has a white spot there...so we'll see.
In the video below Ford is having his first taste of watermelon from his aunt Kari. He looked like a little bird waiting to get fed, so I caught a few moments. If you notice he is in a walker. He no longer plays in a walker, exersaucer, swing, bouncer, bumbo, or anything else confining. Which makes my day a little more chaotic, but still wonderful. I can't believe how old he is, I feel like I just had him!
The other video is of Brad "wrestling" with KK, Annabell, and Ford. I love how Ford was all about jumping in and trying to climb on daddy!

and last but not least is a tiny snid bit of Ford crawling. I will get some better footage soon. You have to watch for a minute to see it. Ford and Annabell are playing. They have really started to interact which is wonderful, he even makes her laugh now! Love y'all!
p.s. Ford likes to blow raspberries on me, it cracks me up because he is actually trying to blow raspberries! ! !

It's a small world after all....

Well we finally ventured out and decided to take the kids to Disney. My TN family came in and we met in Orlando. Papa got us 5 day passes so we went as long as we could, 3 different parks, 3 days in a row. Talk about a roller coaster, we had a blast, but we were exhausted when all was said and done. Ford enjoyed looking around. He really liked "it's a small world after all" at Magic Kingdom and "Nemo" at Epcot. Thankfully we had a double stroller and the kids were covered from the sun. Ford enjoyed the rides he rode. He couldn't ride too much though except for at Magic Kingdom. But the heat and teething kept him a little irritable, but considering all things he behaved extremely well. He would even nurse while waiting in line so not to take out too much time during the day. He was especially interested the characters.

Animal Kingdom was also pretty interesting to him because he was able to see all kinds of Animals, and hear live music from the different "cultures".
So thank you papa for the great time!



Oh yes, that's right, I did mention teething. Well on the first day at Magic Kingdom we discovered that Ford's first tooth pooped through! By the end of the week his second tooth (both bottom middle) had come through as well. He was drooling a ton, but has been since 2 months so I didn't suspect until he BIT me while nursing! I thought it hurt more than normal and sure enough he had a tooth! He has been a happy baby though, no fever, or extra fussing, he's just been great!

You can see in the above pictures that he is gnawing on his binki.

While in Orlando he had his first taste of bread...he did quite well with it. He has also had watermelon, puffs, yogurt puffs, & cheerios. He had some meat but seemed to spit up most of it...
He also had his first experience with us all sleeping (kari, brad, kk, annabell and I) in the same room. He did pretty good by the third night, the first two not so much. He was use to sleeping in more quite and dark rooms. I was happy to see him adjust ok though, especially since he'll be sleeping in TN soon with us in his room.

Love y'all!