Been a busy month! Matthew's growing by leaps and bounds and work had been crazy (for both Anna & I). I'll try to get all of it down in the breakdowns below:
Update for Matthew:
Matthew turned 6 months old and is doing really well. On Halloween, he had his 6 month doctor's appointment and he weighed 18lbs 12oz and was 2 feet 2.75 inches long. He can pretty much sit up unassisted and does it all the time now. He can even reach for toys without tipping over. He's not showing a ton of interest in crawling just yet, but he is doing some wiggling and pre-crawling movements when he's on his tummy, so it's only a matter of time.
The biggest thing is that we've started him on baby food! He's been eating rice cereal for the past month and we just switched him to oatmeal twice a day. After his doctor's appointment on Thursday, we started him on veggies. First to go was green beans. The first two days he wouldn't have any of it. Made all sorts of yucky faces. But by the third day, I think the newness of the flavor wore off and he gave it a chance and ate it and I think he liked it. Then we tried peas, which he loved. No wonder he's almost 19 pounds already!
Update for Anna:
Work is starting to ramp up in preparation for tax season and, from what I can tell, class is starting to become a little easier (with the semester starting to draw to a close). Other than that, and starting to mentally get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday (which we're having our family come up to visit us instead of driving down there, due to Matthew's probably not being ready for that long of a car trip), she's got tons of "free time" (yes, that was sarcasm).
Update for Jay:
As is usual for my updates - work is predominately what is going on in my world at the moment. We went out to our Colorado locations a few weeks back for some follow-up training - which was actually a rather nice change of pace. Granted, being gone for nearly a full week wasn't the ideal thing for Anna & myself, but she did an amazing job of holding the fort while I was gone and the chance to spend a three day weekend with her and Matthew was well worth the hassle of having to figure all the logistics out for the traveling. With the holiday season coming up, we're expecting a rather full work-load at the office, though the days off that we have are going to be welcome; the days that we are going to be there are sure to be filled to the brim.
Other Updates:
Thankfully, after the small fiasco with the bathrooms needing to be resealed, there hasn't been really anything big needing to be redone around the house. Leaves are coming off the trees like nobody's business, so my weekends have definitely been filled with the more mundane yard work (which Anna has taken the opportunity to take some adorable shots of Matthew in - though he's still somewhat nervous about being put in a pile of organic matter that goes over his head). As I mentioned above, we're having my family in for Thanksgiving - which should prove to be an interesting change of pace for the three of us. Still, looking forward to getting to catch up with everyone and see what all has happened in the last few months since we last saw them!
As usual - if you’re ever in the area, please let us know so that we can try to get out to see you or have you over for a cup of coffee/tea to catch up!
Update for Matthew:
Matthew turned 6 months old and is doing really well. On Halloween, he had his 6 month doctor's appointment and he weighed 18lbs 12oz and was 2 feet 2.75 inches long. He can pretty much sit up unassisted and does it all the time now. He can even reach for toys without tipping over. He's not showing a ton of interest in crawling just yet, but he is doing some wiggling and pre-crawling movements when he's on his tummy, so it's only a matter of time.
The biggest thing is that we've started him on baby food! He's been eating rice cereal for the past month and we just switched him to oatmeal twice a day. After his doctor's appointment on Thursday, we started him on veggies. First to go was green beans. The first two days he wouldn't have any of it. Made all sorts of yucky faces. But by the third day, I think the newness of the flavor wore off and he gave it a chance and ate it and I think he liked it. Then we tried peas, which he loved. No wonder he's almost 19 pounds already!
Update for Anna:
Work is starting to ramp up in preparation for tax season and, from what I can tell, class is starting to become a little easier (with the semester starting to draw to a close). Other than that, and starting to mentally get ready for the Thanksgiving holiday (which we're having our family come up to visit us instead of driving down there, due to Matthew's probably not being ready for that long of a car trip), she's got tons of "free time" (yes, that was sarcasm).
Update for Jay:
As is usual for my updates - work is predominately what is going on in my world at the moment. We went out to our Colorado locations a few weeks back for some follow-up training - which was actually a rather nice change of pace. Granted, being gone for nearly a full week wasn't the ideal thing for Anna & myself, but she did an amazing job of holding the fort while I was gone and the chance to spend a three day weekend with her and Matthew was well worth the hassle of having to figure all the logistics out for the traveling. With the holiday season coming up, we're expecting a rather full work-load at the office, though the days off that we have are going to be welcome; the days that we are going to be there are sure to be filled to the brim.
Other Updates:
Thankfully, after the small fiasco with the bathrooms needing to be resealed, there hasn't been really anything big needing to be redone around the house. Leaves are coming off the trees like nobody's business, so my weekends have definitely been filled with the more mundane yard work (which Anna has taken the opportunity to take some adorable shots of Matthew in - though he's still somewhat nervous about being put in a pile of organic matter that goes over his head). As I mentioned above, we're having my family in for Thanksgiving - which should prove to be an interesting change of pace for the three of us. Still, looking forward to getting to catch up with everyone and see what all has happened in the last few months since we last saw them!
As usual - if you’re ever in the area, please let us know so that we can try to get out to see you or have you over for a cup of coffee/tea to catch up!
