Cruising

(Compliments of Sister!)

(Hanging out at lakes park...he was just laughing at all the kids around him)

(Ford at Annabell's 2nd b-day party)

Ford is on the move. He goes goes goes until he is ready for bed. He is still taking 2 naps a day, thank you Jesus ;)! He is now pulling up on everything and trying to cruise along side of whatever he has grabbed onto. He especially enjoys holding onto peoples legs and pulling up.

Ford'S top "eye" tooth just broke skin 2 days ago. He has been chewing and biting on everything. It looks as though his top two front teeth are coming through as well...but they haven't broke skin yet.
I'm not sure if it's teething, a growth spurt or what but Ford has really been eating a TON! He still takes 5-6 feedings a day from me (milk), and also eats 3 full meals a day, with snacks! And when I say 'full' meals I mean it. For example at dinner last night he ate 1/2 a large tortilla, 4 cubes of zucchini, oatmeal, puff cereal snacks, and 1 1/2 egg yolks!!! The night before he at 1/2 of a chicken breast and everything I mentioned before with the exception of the tortilla, and he ate 2 whole egg yolks as well! So I'm thinking it might be a boy thing...because I keep hearing all the moms talk about how their boys have eaten them out of their house! Granted they are teenage boys, Ford is just starting on it WAY early!

We went to Great Grandma Zachritz house the other day to visit. It was so much fun because Ford got to meet his Great Uncles, Rob and Charlie and his Great Aunt Ann. Plus he saw Chris, Sue, Clair, and Great Grandma of coarse! Lots of visiting and Ford ate up the attention. He was teething and they really must of been bothering him that day because he was chewing on everything. I turned the corner to look at him and to my amazement he had an ENTIRE rubber duck head in his mouth...must of felt good! Here is some video.
Some of Fords latest sounds are:

• Baabaa
• Daadaa
• MaaMaa
• *Muah*-the kissing sound
• Yay!
• and he can kind of mimic the sounds Annabell is making.
• He also said "bad" yesterday after I told him that spitting food on mommy is "bad". He said it with smiles though ;)

I am not allowing Ford to watch TV until he is older, like his sister did as well. But it is much harder now that Annabell likes to watch her shows. I usually tell her she can watch them when Ford is asleep, which she is pretty good about. OR sometimes I will allow it to be on but I make sure he can't see it, by putting something in his way, but now that he is mobile that doesn't work so well.
And last but not least here is some video of Ford eating a Nectarine, he loves them!!! Great to teeth on too! Love y'all!

Little boy

Ford is looking more and more like a little boy and less like my little baby. For moms this brings mixed emotions. TIME GOES BY SO FAST! I am so thankful for Ford and Annabell. They bring such JOY to me! God is so GREAT!
Well Ford is now sitting up on his own. I still usually put a boppie behind him just in case but he is doing really well. He started about 4-5 days ago. I read my friends blog and saw her son sitting up and thought, "why haven't I been doing that with Ford?" and he took to it like a duck in water. He is getting really close to crawling now! When I go into his bedroom he is on the total opposite side in his crib and flipped the other way. I love this stage with Ford, he is so snuggly with me, I hope that never changes.
We will be trying avocado, sweet potatoes, and bananas soon. I plan on making his food on Sunday. He is doing great with cereal but wants more! Well this is all for now. Love y'all!


The pictures are old, but I thought you would want to see something. Love y'all.

Growing so fast

Ford has grown leaps and bounds in the last few weeks. On Tuesday her rolled from his back to his belly twice, and by the next day he was doing it non stop. I heard him crying tonight after I laid him down and when I went in he had rolled himself over and was crying because he wanted up.

Ford has also had cereal finally, yesterday was the first day. He LOVES it. He couldn't get enough. He had no problem chewing and swallowing his food. He was so excited and I couldn't feed him fast enough. So now he has cereal after his second late morning feeding. I'm not sure if it's the food, but he slept great last night, but he has been doing that for a while.

Ford also got to go to his first Pro Baseball game. He was more interested in his hands most of the time, but we did catch him watching a bit. But after a while the heat was too much and he past out. Brad said Ford looks like he looked in the dug out! ha! We had great seats, 3rd row back, but went up the the cheap seats so not to bother everyone around us when the kids started to get fussy. Plus the sun was very hot for the kids!

Annabell tripped and fell landing her head against Ford's head. I was so worried about them and they both got huge knots on their heads and bruises. Praise God for healing them quickly though. Ford stopped crying within a minute. Which actually made me nervous. But he was great.