Today was my first day with Mrs. Gayle! We had a great day together, she took such good care of me! We had fun playing pat-a-cake and I loved watching the boys play. Keep mom in your thoughts though, she pretty much cried the whole day…luckily she has good friends to help her through, not to mention a great dad!
Mom heads back to work on Monday so she is soaking up all the me-time she can. We took a trip to Target today and I got a new toy that makes noise when I throw it around. I also got to meet Jonah and went to the park (pictures to come later).
I also got a new mirror for the car that plays lots of music and will teach me my colors.
Mostly I just love when Mom is her silly self, here is a video of us playing together. Send Mom some nice thoughts on Monday, she is going to have it much rougher than I will!
Baby Bumblebee from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.
Today, on my 13th week birthday, I tipped the scales at 13 lbs! I spent the day playing and recording a special message to a special person I miss a bunch! 🙂
Hi Aunt Becky! from Mike Murphy on Vimeo.
Canton has done a lot in the last couple days. Yesterday we had to go ‘back to school’ shopping and he slept THE ENTIRE TIME, definitely a big change!
He has also grown to 24.5 inches…
Gotten even stronger lifting his head and rolling…
and maybe, just maybe…teething??? He has been just not himself for the last couple days. He has also been drooling like crazy and is hard to feed—not the Canton we know. So after some discussion between us and talking to my mom, we thought…it is worth a shot. His gums are a little swollen, but we don’t feel any eruptions yet, so who knows. He loved the teething ring, but he’s not cranky at all this morning…he definitely keeps us on our toes!
Mom had to work yesterday so I stayed home with Dad. We had fun reading and working on my playmat. Mom was relieved to get home, she doesn’t do too well away from me. Luckily for her she has lots of great people at work who can help her through her days without me! I should probably give it up for Dad too, I’m very lucky to have a dad who helps out mom so much and loves me like he does!
**Shout-out to Aunt Becky who is all moved into her new place in CA! I miss you tons!
Canton is doing a great job keeping his head level when pulled to sitting. However, sometimes he bypasses sitting completely and goes right into standing!
Canton also met Mrs. Gayle today for about 30 minutes. He really liked AJ, he sang to him and took good care of him, the real test is the full day tomorrow…poor mom!
My wonderful great aunt Rhonda came to see me over the weekend. I had a lot of fun pulling her hair and hearing stories about my mom as a baby. We went to eat some mexican, but I didn’t like it too much because it was loud. She left for Florida already, I can’t wait to see her in a few months when I’m crawling around!
Mom had to go into work today, she had a rough time, but I stayed with dad and we had a great time together. I go to Mrs. Gayle for the first time tomorrow, hopefully mom will get it together! 🙂
It’s offical–Canton is finally entertained by things! After weeks of us thrusting toys upon him he’s really starting to interact with them within the past week.
Here he is tracking his puppy dog rattle, he can follow objects 180 degrees quite well…
Playing with the stereotypical infant toy, debuting today, keys! He wasn’t sure about them at first…
but he soon changed his mind
After a few minutes he wanted his best friend back
Then Canton decided he wanted to sit, but quickly inched himself from propped sitting into propped standing (his favorite position these days)
(sorry, I haven’t figured out how to rotate in this software yet…obviously “I” is Christy!)
The best part about today was Canton finally reaching his blue ring in his bouncy seat! He’s been grabbing the lower side rings for a few weeks, but out of nowhere he got them today!!!
I wasn’t able to capture a picture of it, but he was pretty proud of himself from pulling the once unreachable ring and thrilled when he saw HE could play the music instead of waiting on mom and dad!!
It is funny how everyday brings new milestones and changes. We are the luckiest parents in the world! 🙂
Canton celebrated the eleventh week of his life by continuing to lift himself up on his chest and practicing sitting. He kills Mike and I with laughter with all his little quirks, like his twenty-minute college style power naps (this boy seriously does not sleep) and how he loves to hold his bottle. Where is time going??
We packed up the car Friday and headed to Mike’s parents for Canton’s first road trip this weekend. On the way up Mr. Nosy stayed awake the whole way, we had to stop about halfway through the trip to feed and change him. It is funny how a three hour trip quickly changes to four hours with a little one.
He had a great time meeting some of our friends and seeing his grandparents again, but Canton most enjoyed meeting his other set of great-grandparents for the first time. He is quite a lucky baby to have two sets of great-grandparents. It was hard being away from home, but worth it to have everyone together to meet our big man.
