Tarren's 4 month check-up

We went to the doctor today for Tarren's 4 month check-up. It is a little early because I start work on wednesday and I wouldn't be able to take him later on this month. Anyways, he weighed in at 16 lbs 5 oz. I know...he is a chunk! I can't believe how much he weighs. He is in the 80th percentile for his weight and the 75 percentile for head and height. He is 25 inches long...not too shabby. He had another round of vaccination shots. He was not too happy about those. He cried for a good 5 minutes and didn't want me to put him in the carseat. So, I held him till he calmed down and then we went our way. At least it will be another two months before we have to go through that again.

I start work tomorrow and Tarren will start going to Grandma's house full time. The first couple of weeks we have inservice so I will get to leave for lunch. We get a little over an hour. I plan to go visit my baby boy. This should ease me into getting use to leaving him all day. I still can't believe how fast the summer went. It feels like yesterday I was coming home from the hospital. I know the school year will go just as fast. For now, I must get ready for tomorrow.

Graduation...

We got up early yesterday and went to College Station for my brother's graduation. My dad came down from Kansas. I didn't know he was going to be there...it was exciting. Spencer went to the bathroom and passed the concession stand. He came back and got me to show me what it said. It had on the stand NACHOS with cheese....3.00. Well, we thought that was odd because we thought the definition of nachos was chips with cheese so it seemed a little redundant. I looked up the definition of nachos and it said: a snack or appetizer consisting of a small piece of tortilla topped with cheese, hot peppers, etc., and broiled...

We asked the concession stand workers and they ended up getting really confused. Here are their nachos...

And here is their cheese...

So, technically their sign should say... CHIPS with cheese...3.00. It was quite entertaining. Let's here it for the Aggies!!! :) I have nothing against them...I just thought it was funny.

We stayed down there and had lots of fun. Here are some pics of the fun times.

My dad, step-mom, Daniel and the kids.

Tarren's new thing...sucking in his bottom lip.

Cool Tarren!!

Cousin love!!!

My brother and his family, sister and her family and our family.

We went to Lubbock a couple of weekends ago to be there for our nephew's baptism and his brother's baby blessing. It was a nine hour drive and wasn't too bad on the way up. However, I got sick for the weekend and the trip home was miserable. I went to the doctor the following Monday and got medicine. So, these last few weeks I have not been as good about blogging or taking pictures. I do have a few though. We decided on the trip that we needed to start Tarren on cereal when we got home because he was just drinking way to much milk. My mom was kind enough to get us a few infafeeder bottles. I love them! It is so easy to feed him. I just make the cereal, dump it in the bottle and he sucks it down. I will try feeding him with a spoon maybe once a week.

He has also picked up a bad habit since we have gotten back. He is sucking his thumb. It does not matter what you do, he will put it right back in his mouth. We finally gave up on the idea of stopping him right now. We will wait until he is older and can understand a little better. I tried putting socks on his hands, but that didn't stop him either. He sucks those socks just as hard.

Another fantastic item given to us as a present is the baby hawk. I love it! We were trying to get the house cleaned up and Tarren was being fussy...so I put him in it and he actually fell asleep.