A few more wedding pictures

Don't you love Lianna's shoes?
Matt's family: Dick, Shirley, Lianna, Matt, and Chris
Matt and Lianna with my mom and dad
The four blond sisters. I love how Lianna's colors photographed.
Seriously, the most precious thing ever.
Um, still precious
Good lord, more preciousness.
The Jones family photo. I wonder how old your kids are before you get a picture with everyone smiling.
They are a beautiful couple.
Aubrey dragging Nathan down the aisle.
Look how huge my whole family is these days! Twelve of us with number 13 due in 4 weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Sackmann

The classy couple, shot gunning a beer at the reception.

Do a little blog spying

I am directing all my faithful readers to my new blog link, Julie and Jason. Julie is Greg's sister and they just posted a bunch of pictures of their new baby Jonny. Since they can't be on my blog this is the next best thing. We can't wait to squeeze him!

Oh, and in case you were curious, yes, he is our kid's cousin. And yes, our children do look albino in comparison. And no, Aubrey still doesn't have that much hair.

One last thing to leave you with. A little riddle for your weekend pondering. Ahem:

What is yellow and liquid and managed to find it's way not only onto the wall of the bathroom but the floor, the potty stool, the side of the bathtub, and yes, wait for it, the hand towel hanging above the toilet? Two clues: one, it rhymes with "me" and two, the potty training acrobat of the family is responsible. So please, come on over and use our bathroom anytime!

Project Fatten Dane

Dane had his 6 month check up on Tuesday. He passed length (almost 27 inches), development (yeah for the sitting, rolling, grabbing machine) but flunked his weight. At 4 months he was 15 lbs. 7 oz. and he was only 16 pounds 2 oz. on Friday. I knew he wasn't a chunky baby but I really wasn't expecting that. He is happy, eats well, is enjoying the solids that I'm introducing, and seems perfectly healthy. Yet....

His weight percentile has dropped since his 2 month appointment. This happened with Aubrey and Nathan (they were chubby babies but not chubby kids) but evened out around the 40th percentile. Dane dropped to that at his 4 month appointment but was barely at the 10th percentile yesterday.

So, I feet like a lame-o mom. As though I haven't been feeding the kid or I've been putting him on a strict vegan/water diet at 6 months of age. Or I'm making non fat milk instead of good healthy cream. The doc asked if he spits up a lot (YES) and sent us in for an ultrasound to look for pyloric stenosis (problem with the valve separating the stomach from the small intestines.) We did that today and he looks fine. Why is he not gaining weight then? We are attributing some of it to the constant spitting up and the doc put him on a reflux med. I'm also supposed to be feeding him at a near frantic pace it seems, alternating nursing and solids all day until he is pleasingly plump, or at least pleasing. Yet, don't get his stomach too full because this exacerbates reflux. But keep him full. But not too full. Like I don't have enough to do without worrying about the delicate full but not too full balance to strike with my poor starving baby.

Why is this so hard not to take personally? I suppose because as a mother of a baby I have one specific job: to attend to his physical needs. You know, eating, sleeping, changing poop, snuggling, etc. How hard can that be? Apparently harder than I expected because right now he's cruising towards being a jockey someday, or a featherweight boxer, or a poker for the fire. The plus side is that he looks healthy. He is a moving, grabbing, squealing, smiling, snuggling, EATING delight and that is a comfort. Wouldn't he be crabby and screaming if he was always hungry? In the meantime I will spend all my spare minutes (you know, those 2 minutes from 9:00-9:02 p.m.) researching high calorie food sources that will keep him just right full. Can you say avocados anyone?

He has a weight check in 6 weeks. Wish us happy fattening!

What a weekend! Not only did my sister Lianna get married to my good friend Matt Sackmann in a beautiful wedding, but we also welcomed our first nephew (see post below). Here are a few pictures from the wonderful weekend. Welcome to the family Matt!


Lianna and Matt before the ceremony.
Aubrey, the twirling angel.
KayLynn, eight months pregnant
The bride and the flower girl
My dad with Nathan, both looking dashing
Our spiffy family. Don't you love Greg's tie?
Reghan, Sheena, Tiana, Sara, KayLynn, and Hannah
Aubrey and Nathan. They did an EXCELLENT job by the way.
The parents: Richard and Shirley Sackmann and Julie and Wayne Montgomery
My mom and dad's "sons": Greg, Matt, and David
Presenting Lianna and Matt Sackmann!!
You may kiss the bride
Hannah, KayLynn, and David
My beautiful grandparents
First dance
Matt and his Mommy
Lianna and her Daddy
Shake that booty!
Go Mom and Dad!

As you can see, it was a beautiful wedding and a rocking reception. Perfect.

Welcome Baby Reynolds!

We want to announce that our sweet nephew, Jonathan Harold Reynolds, was born on Friday, July 11th. He is Greg's sister Julie and her husband Jason's first baby. He weighed 8 lbs. 4 0z. and was 22 inches long. He has a head full of dark hair, perfect looking lips, and kissably chubby cheeks. I tried in vain to figure out how to post the pictures of him that were forwarded to us but was unsuccessful so that will have to wait until my computer savvy husband gets home. Julie sounded amazingly well when I talked to her and I think both her and Jason love their new little man. We are going to visit in three weeks and can't wait to meet him. Congratulations Reynolds family!

Camping pictures

These are long over due but finally arriving. These are all from Greg's family camp out a couple of weeks ago. You may recall my post on the surprisingly happy time we had. Here's the proof!