Seven Months Old!

Sweet Gus is 7 months old today - hard to believe!  He makes me smile all day long (not so much at night...) and we are all crazy about him.  Gus continues to get stronger and stronger by the week it seems, and is so close to crawling.  He loves to get on all fours and rock back and forth - one of these days he'll figure out what to do to get somewhere!  In the meantime, his crazy rolling skills and scootching on the carpet can get him pretty far and usually help him grab something he shouldn't have :)

 The other night I walked into his bedroom in one of my many weak moments of listening to him cry to find him sitting up with his arm over the side of his crib!  He is figuring out his body can do all kinds of things!
His favorite place on earth is in my arms and he will let you know when that's all he wants.  While it can get a little frustrating when I need to put him down, it makes me smile when I pick him up and he immediately calms down and burrows his face into my neck to say, "Oh thank you mama!  I missed you so!"

It's so interesting to see how completely different these two brothers have been so far.  While George could not get enough baby food, Gus is usually indifferent.  He'll take a couple bites here and there, but he doesn't love it yet like George did.
Like his brother, he loves his binky and this month he mastered the art of picking it up himself and putting it in his own mouth.

He loves to squeeze the back of your arm with his hand while you hold him, listen to "You Are My Sunshine" while I put on his lotion after a bath, swing on the baby swing on the front porch, watch George run back and forth all around the house (George loves this too), go on walks, be outside (he squeals when I open the door), lay in our bed,  play with newspaper, grab ANYTHING, greet Sean with a giant smile when he comes home from work, and cuddle with just about anyone.

Thank you for being such a wonderful baby, Gus, we are so lucky to have you!

All About Gus

Since my last post was all about George, I figured it was Gus' turn.  Here's just some pictures to make you smile because, let's face it, this baby is seriously cute!!

He watches everything George does!  He loves his big brother so much already.

This next picture makes me very nervous :)  Gus is starting to get onto his hands and knees and throw himself forward toward what he wants.  He's actually pretty in control when he does it - he goes forward then back to sitting most of the time, just wishing that would have been the time he actually went somewhere!

We're headed up to the mountains tomorrow for a child-free night with some of my cousins.  I'm sure Sean and I will be fine (as long as I have my breast pump), and George will have a blast, I just hope sweet Gus doesn't miss us too much!  He has become even more of a mama's boy lately and hates to be away from me.  Now that I've said that, he'll probably sleep from 8:00-8:00 for my mom!!

Pin It!

My friend Katy has introduced me to the world of Pinterest.  If you haven't heard of it, it's pretty cool.  It's like a virtual cork board where you can "pin" things to a category that you'd like to come back to like craft ideas, recipes, ideas for birthday parties, etc.  What's fun is that you have friends on it and you can see everything they've pinned as well.  Between my four pinterest friends (I'm super-popular), I've gotten lots of ideas for fun stuff to try. 

One simple thing I stumbled on was making binoculars out of toilet paper rolls.  George is not a big craft-lover, so luckily these took about 25 seconds to make.  But he seriously loved running around the neighborhood today using his binoculars to find animals that needed rescuing.  After his surgery, we all watched a lot of "Go, Diego, Go," a cartoon with an animal rescuer :)  Here are some pics of George searching for animals in need of his rescuing skills...

He's spotted something!  I think this time he said he found a prairie dog that needed our help.

The prairie dog was stuck in this tree, so George tried to climb up to rescue it.

That's it for today!  If you haven't tried pinterest, I highly recommend it!

Another Adventurous Weekend

Yesterday we went up to Longmont for their firetruck parade with the Fererro/Nichols family.  It was a fun adventure for George because after the parade, the trucks all went to a park in town and the kids could climb on them and explore.  Here are some pictures of George enjoying the day!

The kids took turns getting to spray a real fire hose!  The water knocked down a window in the house to put out the fire.

Fire Chief Gus

Gus and Mac

A medical helicopter landed to let people check it out.  This picture is George turning around to say, "Here comes a helicopter!"

After the parade, we headed home so I could go to work at Park Hill Golf Course.  I've worked a couple shifts there in the past month in the banquet room for a little extra money (emphasis on the little).  Well, about an hour after I got to work, Sean called and told me that George had hit his head on our new Ikea bookshelf and needed stitches.  So Sean packed up both boys and took them to the after-hours Kaiser clinic where Geroge got three staples in the back of his head.  My parents were able to meet him there and take Gus off his hands, but I'm still so impressed with the fact that Sean got both boys safely to the clinic while one was a screaming toddler with a bleeding head wound!!  He'll get the staples out in a week or so and he was feeling fine today, it's just another adventure for the O'Reillys!