7 Months...well almost.

So I am posting a bit early this month because we are leaving in a few hours to fly to Utah till July 5th. I decided to take James in to the doctor's office today to get him weighed and measured so that I can document his growth. (I know, it is weird, but James is my first kid after all. And doesn't everyone do weird things with their first kid?) Anyway, he officially weighs 21 lbs 8 oz. and he is 27 1/2 inches. Looks like he is growing just fine and definitely getting enough to eat.
So what is new at our house? Well, James is "trying" to crawl. He can now get on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. And he has been sleeping really well for the last few nights. Basically I decided that I wouldn't be getting up anymore if he wakes up at night and so we had a "talk" where I explained to him that I would not be getting up to come and feed him at night anymore. Well, the first night he cried for about 15 min at 11 pm and Brian questioned my sanity but I stuck firm and James didn't wake up till 5:30 the next morning. And that was the last time he cried for bed at night. I thought it would take more days of crying but nope. Which means his schedule is basically to bed anytime from 7 to 7:30 pm and then he wakes up around 6:15 or 6:30 the next morning. Now, that is something that I can live with.
I hope it doesn't throw him off too much by traveling for the next few weeks. I am still admittedly a bit of a nap nazi because it keeps my (and James) sanity. He takes two (sometimes 3) good naps every day.
Do any of you remember the "Bitter beer face" commercials? I don't even remember which beer they are for but James has started making the face. It cracks me up.

This is the best picture I could get of it the other day but he has made better ones. He looks like an old man when he does it.
Oh, and we have finally graduated to a bigger car seat. The other one is officially retired for now. We will be using this new one while we are on our trip and so I hope it goes well. Hopefully he likes it better than he likes his old one. At least he only has to be in it when we are actually in the car. That is a bonus for him I'm sure. He just looks like such a big boy in it. And I got such a great deal on it as well....Yes, I will share how I got a great deal.

I looked at Conumer Reports online (I always do.) and narrowed my choices down to 3 top contenders and then I went to Babies R Us cuz they always have all the models I am looking for. I tried them all out in my car while I was there but I forgot the gift cards that I still have so I decided to come back to purchase later that day. Well, when I got home I decided to check online JIC (just in case) I could find it cheaper. Well, I did. I found it for $89.99 with $9.99 shipping and no sales tax through amazon.com. Well, I thought I could do better and so I looked at who the supplier is for amazon and I went to ebates.com to see if they are one of their preferred vendors and they are. Well, ebates had a coupon for $7.50 shipping on any order and then 4% cash back so I ended up getting it for $97.49 including shipping and then I got $2.70 back from ebates. Oh, the price at Babies R Us? Well, it was $179.99 on sale! Not including tax or shipping. For the exact same model and everything. Oh and I didn't have to drive back out there and waste more gas either. Thanks, Princess Reva, for sharing about ebates. Doesn't James look so good in his new "economical and very highly rated" car seat?

World Strongest Baby

The other day, I was trying to get James to "practice" his moving skills and all of a sudden he did this It totally looks like a pushup to me and he does it all the time now. (Check out those arm "muscles".) I thought it was totally funny cuz he was trying to get somewhere but all he got was up off the ground. I guess that is pretty good considering his size. It is way better than I can do. I know the picure is a bit blurry but you get the idea. And here is some video that I took of James on Sunday after church.

He is showing off his strength and new mobility skills. If there is something he wants badly enough then he will work to get it. Those items generally include; shoes, phones, books and any other contraband materials that we happen to leave around. On Sunday Brian accidentally left his sunday school manual about 10 feet away and when we both weren't looking he got to it and mutilated it. We are finally going to have to "baby-proof" the house. It really is so much fun to see him grow. He is already learning how to get onto his hands and knees. Every day it seems he has a new skill. Don't worry, I will try to get these on video as well Also, a couple of days ago I was making veggie eggrolls and I happened to be using the food processor. Well, James was a bit tired and so the noise from the food processor scared him to death. There I was "chopping" the veggies in the processor and James was fine in his jumparoo in the kitchen with me and then all of a sudden I heard this super sad cry. I felt kinda bad and so I stopped the processor and tried to comfort him but I also got this picture of him crying inconsolably. It happens so rarely that I couldn't resist getting at least one picure. (I really got a few pictures but this one is the best.) James was probably wondering why I was flashing lights at him when he was so obviously upsetI felt like a mean mom for getting the picture before getting him calmed down but I couldn't help myself. He really was afraid of the noise. He scares easily when he is tired. So basically I have the worlds strongest scaredycat baby. Go figure.