6th Month Check-up

Here are the result of Scotty's 6th Month Check-up:

Height - 25.75 inches 25th percentile
Weight - 14 lbs 4th percentile

Poor thing is quite petite. And the sad thing is that usually babies growth slows down during the 6 to 9 month period. He is quite low on his growth chart but hopefully he follows behind at a steady pace. I guess we all can't have nice plump babies. There has to be a few lean ones in the bunch. =)

MATT GIRAUD FOR NEXT AMERICAN IDOL!

Everyone should watch American Idol tonight and vote for Matt Giraud. Not only is Matt from Kalamazoo but he used to play in the lounge at the restaurant I used to work at, Zazios. The other day he made a comment when our Mayor, Bobby Hopewell, was on the show about Bobby being there when he couldn't get 10 people to watch him. I was like "Hm, I remember that...I was there!!!" Anyways, he is absolutely amazing and everyone should vote for him. Ontop of being extremely talented, he's super nice and down to earth. Just an all around good guy.

Settling In

My dad's first full week of work started yesterday. We are doing good settling in. My dad is completely unpacked. He drove my mom just north of Lansing on Sunday to meet up with her friend, Sara, to drive back to the UP. We will see her Mother's Day weekend at my sister's in Sault Ste Marie. My hubby left for Houston lastnight. He is there for some "sales force" training or something. Hopefully he will have a good time, learn a lot and meet up with his friend Rob Brown who lives in Houston. I'm lonely but at least I have my dad here to keep me company.

Other than that, things here are pretty quiet. Scotty has his 6 month check up tomorrow. Hopefully he will have gained some weight. At his last couple appointments he has been below the 5th percentile for his weight. He seems to be more plump so hopefully he has grown a bit. Anyways, that is it for now. Hopefully this rain will stop and we will get some more spring-time weather.

Traveling

Just spoke with my parents. They are having a little lunch right now at Wendy's in Marquette....which means they have another 8 hours of driving left. Yuck! So it should be a late night for everyone.

Tomorrow I have my business school graduation reception. I officially don't graduate until June 27 but they only have 2 business school receptions per year so I get grouped with everyone who's graduating in April, June and August. Hopefully it wont be too, too boring. I do need to figure out something to wear....aka. I need to see if anything fits me. In the invitation they recommended that men wear jackets so I need to dress up. However, I haven't worn any of my "dress-up" clothes since before I was pregnant so we'll see how that goes. I may be running to the store tomorrow to throw something together last minute. =(

Also, tomorrow is my dad's first day at the new job. I'm super excited for him. It will be a nice change of pace and a new challenge. Its unforunate that the next two days are supposed to get into the 80's and my dad will be stuck inside. Oh well. Scotty, Grandma Gerry and myself will be enjoying the sunshine.

We love prunes!!!

....enough said. =)

Nothing New...

Things here are pretty un-eventful. We had a couple of AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL days but it is now pouring rain....which means I have time to write on my bloggy-poo.

Saturday we had a garage sale; trying to rid ourselves of some of our junk. We did absolutely no advertising except 4 signs that Scott put out 6:00 a.m. the morning of the sale. We do however live in a pretty busy neighborhood so we figured we would get some traffic that way. Anyways, it turned out amazing. We had a steady flow of traffic the entire day and made $400. I dont know how much people usually make at garage sales but I thought that was pretty darn good. And more importantly, we have less "stuff" sitting in boxes. Overall, it was a success and hope to do another one this summer. Scotty also had fun getting to play outside all day!

Now onto my next project, converting our office into a bedroom for my pops. I've relocated all of my computer things so I have yet to tackle our closet of misc. items. So that is on my to-do list for the next couple of days.

WOOHOO!!!

If you haven't already....congratulate my pops! =)

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter weekend. My parents and my sister and her two kids, Amber and Kyle, came down to my house to celebrate Easter. Our first order of business was to go over to Detroit on Friday to watch the pistons game. I was a bit nervous about bringing little Scotty to the pistons game but it all worked out. He really enjoyed watching all the different people and there was just so much action going on he was entertained all night. Here he is sitting with his Grandpa John watching the pistons beat New Jersey.

We spent the night in Detroit and on Saturday we went to visit my cousin Josette and her family. Everyone got to meet baby Scott for the first time so that was fun. Our visit was quite short because we had to get back to Kalamazoo to cook for our Easter dinner. My mom, sister and I stayed up until 2 a.m.! Easter was good. Baby Scott received 3 easter baskets; one from mom/dad and one from each set of grandparents (lucky kid!) Here are a few pictures from his first easter:

.....I ate way too much this weekend so my "weight loss" isn't quite going the way I would've like it to. (Damn holidays!!!)

Update....

Nothing too exciting going on here. Scott is super sick however. He got this really bad cold/flu and had to go to the doctor on Monday. With his recent promotion, he switched departments so we had to switch our insurance. They said there would be no overlap but we still haven't gotten our new insurance card/information yet (he got the promotion 2 months ago). So after I took Scott to the doctor, I dropped him off at home to go get his prescriptions filled. When I went to pick them up, the pharmacist told me my bill was over $200!!!!! I about fell over. He said that our insurance was "invalid" or something crazy. I didn't buy them because I knew we had some insurance that would cover them. Anyways, for two days Scott has been on the phone yelling at people from Blue Cross. Poor thing is sick as a dog and the pharmacy and the insurance company are giving him 10 different answers about what is going on. Anyways, this afternoon he finally got everything straightened out and got his prescriptions filled. He took what he was supposed to and......the prescriptions have made him very nauseated so he is back in bed. Poor thing!

Here is a funny picture of the baby:

My dad was in Minneapolis visiting my grandma and on a shopping expedition with my Aunt Mavis, he found these socks. They are "smart wool" so they are supposed to keep his feet nice and toasty. They are quite big so they will also be keeping his knee-caps toasty! =) These are pretty fancy I thought.

Well that is it for now.

Goals...

So I didn't make any new years resolutions; I rarely do. But I'm in the mood for some change so I decided to set a few goals for myself. More like a check-list I suppose. Anyways, here it goes.

1. Lose some poundage. I have officially lost all my pregnancy weight. YIPEE!!!! But things aren't quite where they used to be. Plus I could afford to lose more weight. My pre-pregnancy weight wasn't necessarily ideal. So....my goal is 10 lbs. by my birthday (July 21).

2. Organize my office. This is my line for when people visit, "You know how people have a junk drawer? Well I have a junk room!" But no more! I want to get all this crap out of here that gets absolutely no use. I also need to find a better system of organizing the stuff I do use. This one may take a while.

3. Catch up on my scrapbooking. I'm currently....5 years behind. I have a few things put together here and there but I really need to get working on that. I've invested sooooooo much money in all of my scrapbooking things. Also, I don't have a baby book or that sort of thing from when I was born so I want Baby Scotty to have all of his baby stuff together in one place. Plus its just fun and relieves some stress.

Anyways, those are just some things that I'm working on or hope to be working on. Wish me luck!