8 months and goin strong!

The past couple of weeks have been far from uneventful. My little buddy is growing like a weed and seems to be hitting milestones left and right!!! I really wish he would just slow down!!! Right before we left for our trip to West Virgina Bruin was like a wounded duck moving in circles and unable to crawl. Now, WATCH OUT. He went from nothing to army crawling to STANDING and now he is side steppin' on everything and anything he can use to hoist himself up (including but not limited to the dinosaur ball tosser, his crib, the wall, and of course, poor ozzy!)

Our trip to Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania was a much needed week of family and babies. I truly couldn't get enough of the cute factor going on!!!

 

So last week I ended my first semester of nursing school. Unfortunately after being told i had passed it turns out my professor made a mistake and had failed. That means (according to the college) i was no longer in the nursing program and had the choice of either reapplying to the schools program or be on my way to a different college and/or career. So, it looks like i'm back at square one and trying to decide what i'm going to do with my life. I'm so happy I still have a job, loving family, and a bit of sanity left but I'll tell you what, it's been a hard couple of weeks. I don't think i've ever been so embarrassed and disappointed in myself in my entire life. 

On a lighter note, my first mothers day was perfect. Randy and Bru took me to Blackwater bistro on Saturday for a nice relaxing dinner on the river. We then had lunch on the river on Sunday and had our very own Arbogast Family photoshoot. Here are some of the pictures!!! Hope you guys enjoy as much as I did!

 

Who you callin a baby?!

NOOOOOO!!!!

 

starring contest dad...GO!

check out my teeth!!

 

4 month check up

Well, it's official. My son is 4 months old. With this four month check up came more shots, a brief from the Doc on how to feed him solids (YAY!!!), and of course, the dreaded growth chart. Now Randy and I are not what you would call...Tall, under any circumstances. However, we seemed to be holding out some type of hope for our little roo thinking "MAYBE He will be the big guy" Why we thought this i have no idea. We were being told by random women almost every time we left the house that "OMG HE's SO TINY!!!". Yes lady, I know. 

Anyway. Randy had to take Bruin for his checkup and the nurse measured him at a crazy 25 in. which would have placed him in the 70 %. WHAT?!?! Of course the doctor came in and dashed all excitment when she decided to remeasure because the number seemed wrong...(NO WAY!) 

That 70% quickly plummeted to 35.1 when he was actually only 24 in. Oh well. That was short lived. As for the rest of the charts our little man is, well, little. In weight (13.56lbs) he's in the 11.98%. I PROMISE WE FEED HIM!!!! As for head circumference (16.5in.) he's at 56.7 %, yay his brain's gettin big!!! 

At the end of the day I decided to make Bruin his first solid. Homemade baby sweet potato...YUM! Below are some fun pics of Bruin and our first try at real food! 

(to watch a video go to my facebook page!)