1/2 a year

going on a walk

brushing gums

6 month brownies

Remy is 6 months old!! I can't believe I have a 6 month old baby. He's OLD! Time has seriously flown by. He is the cutest baby. seriously. We went to the doctor today and Here are the stats of the kid: height: 68% Weight: 13% head: 54% He eats all the time, I guess he is just a skinny minny.

He is a full time sitter (with a few fall overs)

he as tried rice cereal, doesn't love it or hate it. he seems indifferent

He still doesnt sleep much, but we're working on nap time.

i think he likes sporting events, or just likes something to watch. I took him to watch cade in church ball and he was interested the whole time

he has the most darling smile.

still no teeth :)

he loves his mama

likes to walk around in his little walker

we can not get enough of this little guy (except maybe at night. jk)

He is the BOMB.com

2012?

2011 was, in a word, weird. It was the weirdest year of my life so far. (i'm sure things will get weirder) The main things that happened are: Cade graduated Law school. Got a job. I got fatter than i ever wanted to be (but come next baby will accept the weight again). had a baby. that pretty much sums up my year. We are so thankful for 2011. We were blessed with more than we imagined possible.

as for 2012...

this is the year of KRISTI - as apposed to last year, the year of Remy- . I am going to improve myself. bigtime. but unlike years past, this year i'm going to succeed. :) I would like to exercise more often and possible lose some of the remaining evidence of the kid. I want to be able to run a 10K . also I have the goals of scripture study, and listening in church. and also I want to start cooking. boo yeah.

Remy's goals: grow a tooth, eat people food, crawl, walk, maybe say a few words.

MRY CHRSTMS

as suspected, Christmas was awesome. Remy was so cute and he LOVED all of his wrapping paper. It was weird that cade only had one day of Christmas break. I wish it could have been more of a Break for Cade, but Remy and I still partied hard while everyone else was out of school. We had a fun Christmas Eve celebration at the Warburtons and then had a fab christmas morning With Grandma Buck. :) Remy was so thoughtful and slept until5:30. (i made him wait and go back to bed before we went and saw what santa brought) We had a wonderful breakfast and then headed to church at 11. after church we headed to the Olsens for of course more presents and Christmas dinner. It was so fun hanging out with everyone for the past few weeks. I'm always sad for christmas to be over and I was really sad when school started so everyone had to leave. The good news is that time goes by so fast for me now I know it will be back in a flash.

i'm sure you'll see.....

more pics and a post about this coolio soon.

5 months

On Sunday Remy became a man. He is 5 months old. I can't believe how old he is. It seriously feels like yesterday I went in and birthed him out. Crazy. he is the cutest baby I have ever seen. He is always smiling and laughing (when he isn't screaming). A few things to remember about Remy right now

-SUper ticklish
-still won't take a bottle
-has the cutest laugh
- has a huge smile
- I think he looks like Cade, word on the street is that he looks like me
- He is tall and skinny
- only occasionally falls asleep not in someones arms
- He can sit for quite a while now
- splashes in the tub
- even if he's crying when cade comes home, right when Remy sees him he immediately smiles and laughs
- His Hair is growing
- He Loves paper
- DROOL
- Loves the Christmas tree
-Loves his little books
-Likes his head scratched
-I moved him to the pac'n'play from his bassinet :(
- loves it in the front pack
-Giggles when I sing to him in my opera voice
-still has only rolled over once on his own
- does not like tummy time and of course i give in and roll him over
-LOVES to nurse (i'm trying to make a bottle at least acceptable)

operation force-feed

I have been trying to make Remy take a bottle. he took it when i first got it for him but since then no such luck. for this past week i have implemented a new strategy. operation force feed. this is how it goes: i pump out one ounce of milk. then i try and feed it to Remy. once remy feels the imposter nipple in his mouth he starts screaming. It is seriously like I am torturing him. maybe to him, this is torture, i don't know. it usually takes quite a while to get that ounce accidentally ingested, but he always has accidentally taken it all in. during accidental ingestion he is screaming and coughing and gagging. as soon as he completes his task i give him the real deal and he is happy again. I do not know what to do to make him take a bottle. I seriously feel like i'm going insane because I know I can't go anywhere for more than a few hours. Not that I have anywhere to go, but just knowing I could if I wanted would be very nice. if Anyone had suggestions of an easier way to get him to take a bottle, now would be the time to share. Am I crazy?? maybe, but until then, operation force-feed will prevail!!!

sleep

Remy has not been the best sleeper. On Sunday I guess all the not sleeping caught up to him. He slept from 8:30 until almost 6. The tragedy is that I didn't sleep well the one night he did. I guess thats how things are. Im destined to never sleep again.

Remy loves to feel textures. He will find something to touch and just start scratching it.His favorites are jeans and the couch. it is so funny. He is a very silly boy. He laughs at pretty much everything we do. Recently when he eats he has to look around every few minutes (sometimes seconds) and make sure everything is happening around him. He eats, looks up looks around and then gets back to eating. He does that quite often during a feeding. Usually after so long I just tell him he's done. What a curious little kitten

On Mondays we play in a soccer league in West Haven. Our team is Olsen's Rule. There are plenty of olsens on the team. It is super fun. as it turns out we are not as good as we thought but it is still FUN.