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Eventful Fathers Day Weekend

This weekend was SUPER busy. Friday night, we went to eat Bar-b-Que and sat outside listening to the live music. Coy really enjoyed it. Later, we dropped him off at mom's so we could get a good nights worth of sleep. Saturday morning I had some time to put together Michael's Fathers Day gift. Coy and I were so excited that we gave it to him Saturday night. He loved it! It is a shadow box that has his scrubs that he wore when Coy was born, 5 pictures of the two of them, Coy's hospital arm band, Coy's cord, and Michael's name tag from our shower. Later Michael said we could add other things, like his first hair cut, etc. After I finished that, I got dressed and met mom to pick up the girls. We went to get their haircuts. Here they are getting all prettied up!!

After the haircuts, we went to the park for a birthday party. The girls played hard and Coy was the ladies man. He got passed around so everyone got their chance to hold him.

After the birthday party, we went to a graduation party. There the girls got to swim and watch the teenagers act silly. Coy and Daddy worked on walking...

Sunday we took the girls to Sunday School, Church, then out to eat afterwards. When we got home we all took naps and waited for Michael to get home so we could cook him his first fathers day dinner. Whew...busy weekend!

A baby makes...8!

Well, usually on the weekends it is me, Michael, Hank & Maggie and Mom. Then came along Coy, so we added him to the mix. Now we have Aide & Zoey and eight is great! Mom is now a new mom to and 8 year old and a 2 year old, so now when we stay over on the weekends, its a FULL HOUSE! Here are some pics.

Coy after his bath:

Aida & Zoey sleeping their first night with mom:

Adventures in Boating with Stacey & Michael

So here is all the craziness that happened to us on the boat Saturday when we took it to the river for the first time:

1. Pull up to the boat launch and realize there are TOO many people out there for our comfort zone

2. Decide to go anyway

3. Smell weed

4. Get stuck in a sand-bar

5. Get 'pulled over' by the sheriff

6. Get a ticket

7. Run out of gas

8. Michael and gas tank full of gas almost fall over board

9. Truck battery is dead when we go to leave

10. Boat dies on Stacey as she is circling the cove waiting for her turn at the boat ramp to load the boat.

4 month check up

So Coy went to the Dr. yesterday for his 4 month check up and vaccines. Everything looked good. She asked if he could roll over and if he could clasp his hands in front of him, both of which he can do...so all was good there. His heart and lungs sounded good. She wasn't concerned about his congestion or the change in his b.m's (harder now that eats food.) She said he really didn't need food until he was 6 months old (I knew she would say this, but if the baby is hungry I'm going to feed him!) Here are his stats:

Weight: 16.6 (75-90 percentile)

Length: 25 3/4 (75 - 90 percentile)

Head: 16 1/2 (25 -50 percentile)

He got 3 vaccines, 2 of which were shots and the other was oral. He got a shot in each thigh and then got 2 really cool band-aids to cover them. He wasn't so amused with the band-aids right now, but give him a couple of years and he will think they are cool too. He only cried for about 2 minutes after they gave him his shots, then he went right to sleep. Here are his pictures I took after his shots. (I'm not mean and crazy and just like to take pictures of my child while he is in pain, but I sent these to Michael so he could see)

Bail Out....Bail Out...

This is what I heard after we backed the boat in to the water Sunday afternoon. Michael hastily informed me that he forgot to put the plugs back into the boat!!! What...we could have sunk! I gripped hold of the rope even tighter while he backed the truck and trailer up. Then I PULLED until we got it back on the trailer and let it drain for a while. Oh...and this was to be Coy's first boating trip!

Here he is in his little life vest. We did a lot of research to pick out the most safe one out there, but forgot to think of comfort for him. So, need less to say, he didn't really like it too much. But the rocking of the boat rocked him right to sleep. In the picture I am holding the life vest open with my hand so it doesn't rub his cheeks.

He is still not sleeping through the night, but he is eating A LOT! He certainly has his dad's appetite. I thought that if I started him on cereal at night, he would sleep more, but I couldn't be more wrong. So then I started cereal in the morning too, and now we are having some vegetables in the evenings. Still, he will only sleep 4-5 hours max but only 3-4 times a week. A lot of the time he is still up every 3 hours. But he LOVES to eat. Here he is after some cereal that I spoon fed to him:

Although he doesn't sleep longer, he does sleep more sound after eating food/cereal. Here are a few of his sleepy pictures. Isn't he just an angel!