Theodore 8 months and Counting!

8 months!!! I can't believe this little boy is that old!
Theodore's updates: Got 2 teeth this past month. Does the SUPER FAST army crawl, weighs in at 16 pounds exactly, still doesn't like baby food and only eats "big boy" food. He loves to laugh at Charlene, is afraid of Shelby doing "rocket dog", Sleeps through the night with out waking up (thank goodness!), LOVES to get into the doggie water, and today He has his first taste of dog food and surprisingly liked it! GROSS!!! He loves books, and He is defiantly a Mama's boy. ;)

Here is his progress photos month by month

Who's going to get ran over today??

Yesterday morning while on the phone with Joshua as he walked downtown Nashville on the way to his convention, I hear somebody yell "what the hell" It kinda sounded like Joshua, but I wasn't sure so I asked him what was that. He began to say some idiot oh most hit him full speed while he was crossing the street. So then I had to ask him (I have never heard him EVER cuss) "was that you that just cussed?" His response "well wouldn't you?" LOL I was laughing so hard because I was so shocked! I was just imagining it in my head how ti all played out. LOL Don't worry...he was safe. :)

Later in the day while I was laminating Charlene's school stuff, I just happened to glance down and I see Theodore under the front part of Charlene's car with her SMILING!!!! I took a picture on my phone before saying anything. Here it is.

"Charlene, don't you DARE run over Theodore!" This is the look she gave me. PRICELESS! :)

"who me?" LOL

A litlte boy in PJ's

How come little boys are so darn cute in their pajamas? Anyways - Here is a tribute to my little Theo-adorable in his pj's and why he gets lots of kisses every morning. :)

Mommy's little helper

Now that Theodore is the baby in our family, Charlene feels the need to help him out. The instant She hears him on the baby monitor, she is running to his room and up on her step stool.

Of course He LOVES it. I always peek over, and He is smiling at Her.

Theodore every night gets a shower with his Mama. When I yell for Joshua to come and get him, Charlene usually runs to get his towel and is holding it up for him.

Last week She helped me pack Joshua bag. She put all 10 of his socks in. She was so excited to help him pack.

She has always helped me with the laundry. But this week was hilarious. She was trying to load the towels into the washer and was having a hard time. I told her to use all her body strength, next thing I know she is using her belly trying to get it in. LOL Silly little girl.

Oh....and when she was doing her laundry. She reached into her basket, pulled out a pair of her dirty underwear holding it by 2 fingers yelling "SICK....MOMMY!" lol

The Weikel Family Band??

Remember this little red piano we got for Charlene? Little Theodore has now inherited it from Her, and He LOVES playing at it.

Sometimes if He plays for so long I will catch him like this. Just chillin at the piano. :)

Here is him in action.

Charlene wanted to play her little baby grand piano, so I put Theodore by Charlene, and they played away!

Now....this was Theodore's first time in the Weikel Family Band. So he was a little stage fright when Shelby started to sing.

Here is a pre-Theodore Weikel Family Band video also. LOL

An evening spent at the hospital

Well...sometimes its just hard being a baby. So much to learn, taste and feel. Theodore is 7 months old, and only likes certain foods such as avocado, bananas, peas, and green beans. The Dr. tells you to introduce food one at a time in case they have a food allergy.

Well...it was time to introduce something new for him. You really aren't suppose to prepare carrots for babies because of the nitrates in them can lower their blood count. But who knew??? anyways - So earlier in the evening I spent a half hour preparing his first serving of carrots. I gave him his first nibble, and he just ate it. the next couple bites he didn't like it too well. So an hour later, its time to try it again. The instant the first carrot hit his belly this time triggered MASSIVE throwing up!!! He couldn't stop throwing up. 10 times within a half hour! During the first couple incidents, I had Joshua look up online to see if that was a type of side effect of a food allergy since I have never heard of throwing up from an allergy. Sure enough it was! Very rare, but it was. After he was done, all of a sudden he turned PURE white....then passed out in my arms. He was extremely hard to wake. We weren't sure if he was exhausted from throwing up, or if this food allergy could be life threatening to him. Talk about a freaky moment. We threw everybody into the car, left dinner on the table and sped to the ER. They got us right in since he wasn't waking.

They got him hooked up to an IV, drew some blood and did some minor testing. Sure enough....food allergy. :( Carrots...of all things?? never even heard of anybody being allergic to carrots. He is a tough little guy. They had to poke 3 times for the IV needle. He didn't even flinch he was so out of it. :(

Joshua got a hold of his good friend Mike to come over to give him a blessing with him. The instant they were done with the blessing, his little eyes opened up. He was extremely out of it, but he was awake. We couldn't even get him to smile at us. He just gave us this blank look. We got him to drink some pedi-light, and that seemed to stay down. After about an hour in a half and the IV and blood work was done, we got to go home. Theodore had a high blood count which they told us is usually caused by trauma, which to a baby, that much throwing up could be considered trauma. So we have to go get him tested again the next day.

Little Charlene was getting extremely tired and wanting to go home.

It was 10:45pm by the time we got home. We had two little sleeping babies in the back seat.

Since we were still concerned, He got to sleep in our bed. And how is he feeling today??? Well look for yourself!

He woke up to see his Mommy and looked as normal as ever! The best part about sleeping with a baby in your bed...is to wake up to them smiling at you. :)

What a terrifying experience. I think we might just stick with his normal usual foods for a bit. :)

We live 2 miles away from the hospital...and as I write this...I can hear them ringing up our bill in the thousands. I can dream that it can be in the hundreds right??? but knowing our luck, my dream will come true, but will be something like this. $999. LOL I have to joke about this with how much medical debt we are in. But I can still dream of it being under a thousand right??? I hope my dream comes true but doesn't come close to the amount above. :)

Theodore 7 Months!

Theodore 7 months old!

Look at this little boy. He is my little "Man" in my life.

Theodore with in the last month has made some progress. He is about to crawl, He refuses to eat anything pureed. He loves frozen peas, caned string beans, fresh bananas and fresh peaches. He also doesn't like to sit up in high chairs or his bumbo and prefers to sit on our lap to eat.
He likes to stand now, rolls from 1 side of the room to the other in less than 15 seconds (he is fast). He HAS to be in the same room as his Mama or Daddy otherwise he starts to cry. He doesn't like to go to anybody else including our Nanny, unless he has no choice when we are out running errands. He has a couple little girls from church chasing him and adoring him. :) And lets see...this past week he has been sleeping for naps in his own room and as of last night, was his first night in there and only woke up once and only screamed for a half hour (both Joshua and I were surprised since Charlene during her transition screamed for 2 hours straight for the first 2 weeks) So we were pretty happy and surprised. And lets see. Shelby is protective of Theodore from anybody picking him up off the floor besides us parents (She bit the Nanny)

I think that is about it for this little Man's update for the month. :)