Saying goodbye

This pic is from the morning Seth left for DC. The day I had been dreading for so long. All 3rd year radiology residents have to spend 4 weeks in DC for what's called AIFP conference (or something like that!). Hilton and I have survived week one!! The good news is, Honey and Pops (my mom and dad) are coming tomorrow to keep us company for the week. And Seth will be coming back to visit us next weekend, just for a couple days.

6 months!!

Happy half birthday to my little guy!!! I know this is a little bit late, but I just had to share. Look at him sitting up!!

Easter festivities - He has risen!!

What a lovely Easter weekend it has been for the Means' family! We stayed here in Charleston this year instead of visiting family over in Tennessee. Friday, Hilton and I went to visit the Easter bunny (see previous post). Yesterday, the 3 of us went to our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Hilton enjoyed holding an egg and putting it in his mouth. Although he didn't really understand what was going on, it was a beautiful day and we got lots of cute pics! Today we went to church (Hilton did great...never made a peep!), followed by a nice lunch (we ate in the dining room for maybe the 10th time in 2 and half years), and then watched The Masters. Hilton enjoyed going through his Easter basket and playing with his new musical drum! We did read him a few Easter books, and one day will explain why we celebrate this wonderful holiday. HE HAS RISEN!!!!

 Look what I have!

 Happy it's almost Easter!

 Checking out the goods from the Easter bunny!

 We thought today would be a great day to give Hilton his first taste of baby food!! Yummy squash! He thought it was just okay.

Seth went to The Masters earlier this week and came back with some goodies! Here are my two boys wearing their green!

Easter Bunny

Hilton and I headed on over to Citadel Mall today to get his picture made with the Easter Bunny!! Kind of a lame bunny, and very outdated attire, but it's just something I wanted to do for Hilton's first Easter. Well, I got 2 5x7's of a very poor quality picture and the disc with the photo for a whopping $30. Slightly ridiculous, but again, it's his first Easter, and I want to make sure he gets a picture with a bunny! Sooo, here is the $30 picture....

Tomorrow is the neighborhood egg hunt, and we are pretty excited (especially Hilton)! Pics of that to come.

Publix

Big boy sitting in the grocery cart seat for the first time!!! This probably isn't the safest way for him to ride around, but he enjoyed it!

Rolling over....

At 5 and half months old Hilton has officially rolled over from his back to his tummy....twice while I had my back turned! A couple months ago he rolled over from his belly to his back which we caught in video, very exciting! Not so lucky this time. Hilton has been SO close to rolling over for about a month now (maybe even a little longer). He would get all the way over but his arm would be stuck underneath him (then he would just get mad). I didn't count that as officially rolling over though, I wanted him to be over and able to prop himself up with his arms. Welllllll, yesterday I put him on his BACK on his little floor gym on our bed while I was getting ready in the bathroom (yes, I can see him from there). When I looked at him about 10 seconds later, there he was, on his belly, arms free and wiggling around. WHAT?! When did he do that, and HOW did I miss it?! Okay, I thought to myself, get the phone out to record him doing it again....well, all I got was several minutes of him whining because he didn't want to be laying down anymore. Maybe next time. That next time came several hours later when Hilton woke up at about 4:30am last night. I gave him his paci and turned on his sleep sheep (basically a sound machine inside a stuffed animal), and a he was calm, asleep I thought. When he started screaming 5 minutes later, I went back in and he had done it again....he was laying on his tummy. Missed my opportunity to record this one too, darn! Maybe Hilton is shy about his new talent, but my goal is to get it recorded and then post it on the blog (need to figure out how to do that, lol).


On another note, I have been nervous to post this for fear something might change, but Hilton has been sleeping sooo much better the past week. Most of the time only waking up once, and then just falling back to sleep on his own. One night he didn't wake up at all!! It has been wonderful! I have been waiting for this moment for 5.5 months (honestly never thought it would happen). We have dropped his middle of the night feeding (which has been great for me since I am breastfeeding). Let's hope he keeps up the good sleep.


And, on another note, our sweet neighbor let us borrow her baby scale so we could see what Hilton weighed nowadays. If you will notice from the previous post his thighs are VERY chunky (I just love them though!). On the scale at our house we got 18.4 (weighing ourselves, then weighing ourselves while holding him and subtracting the difference) and 18.6 (just setting him on the scale). On the baby scale he weighed in at 18lbs 1 oz. He is big, very big and heavy! It must be the rice cereal that we started a few weeks ago. It sure is affecting his bowel movements...blowouts, lots of them, which means more laundry and extra baths for Hilton! It's all good though because we just love our sweet little boy!!!

Mail for Hilton!

There was a postcard for Hilton in the mail yesterday! It was from his uncle David and aunt Lindsay that live in Vienna, Austria. It had such a sweet message on it, and as you can see, Hilton is very excited to get mail from them!! We miss uncle David and aunt Lindsay!!