Scooter!

I'm not sure how William has managed this, but he is starting to scoot around in his crib! He was VERY tightly swaddled last night when I put him down and withh his head touching the top of the crib. This morning, I came in to this:

So without being able to move his arms or legs very much, he has managed to scoot around! This morning, William let us sleep in a little. He was up at 5:30 (6.5 hours) and then slept again until 9am. Nice! On top of getting enough sleep, the timing also allowed us to try out a new church. Why haven't we gone before? It is a long and not very interesting story, but the point is we made it there today. William was great through the whole service! He slept most of the time until the pastor blessed him during communion. At this point, he woke up and smiled his way through the service - which the people around us enjoyed VERY much (lots of giggling in response). John and I both enjoyed the service and found there were a few people I know who are members of the church.


After church, we went to Chillis (mmm...fajitas) and then to Once Upon a Child to look for some cute clothes for Easter. William did a great (GREAT) job for us. This afternoon, we finished up our taxes, went for a walk outside and John got some time in working on the basement. Overall, we had a great weekend!

P.S. Oh NO! Happy belated birthday to aunt Cathy!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy St Patrick's Day! We all celebrated this morning with a HUGE green poo! It was EVERYWHERE! All over the bouncy chair, up William's back, on his pajamas, on his socks, on my arm and best of all - dripping on the floor! Warning: Too much information (TMI) ahead... It appears that the vitamins William's pediatrician recommended giving to him every day have turned his poops from a yellow color to a dark green when given every day. Lovely!

Once we were cleaned up and changed into our "green" outfit with turtles on it, we decided to venture out into the snow (yes, snow! It was 80 degrees on Thursday and Saturday it snows!) to do some shopping. We went to the outlet mall in Warrenton, Missouri to look for a cute Easter outfit/3 month picture outfit for William to wear and to get John some new shoes. We didn't have any luck on the Easter outfit, but did score some shoes for John and some summery clothes for William. We also got him his first pair of sunglasses!

Then, we went out for pizza at a new place.. it is always a little dangerous to do that in St Louis. Sometimes you end up with saltines and cheez whiz. This place was pretty good - we would go back. So, for anyone who wants pizza the next time you are here - we have the place.

The rest of the day we are planning on laying low and hanging out together. Oh yes, the Sanford boys are coming over to play when we are in Rochester on Thursday, April 5th! Fun times!

Our green turtle outfit from Robyn! We were going to put him back in his shamrock shirt, but he pretty well hosed it down yesterday with spit up...


New sunglasses- so cool!


Sucking on his fingers! William has been doing this a LOT lately! Today, I heard a funny noise coming from the mat during tummy time - William is trying to eat his whole hand!



This time he has his thumb!

7 Weeks!

NEW FEATURE: Listen to William "talking" by clicking on the "Audio Sounds" tabs of the left side of the page! (go down grandma, you can't see 'em yet...)

Today William is 7 weeks old! Just to prove it, he slept for 7 1/2 hours! He went down at 10:30 and slept until 6! I am SO proud of our boy! He then went right back down and slept until John woke him at 9am! I was starting to get discouraged because he had been sleeping for shorter periods of time the last 3 days...hopefully tonight will be another long sleep night!

I went back to work today (just for the day) and enjoyed seeing everyone at work and getting a few things done. John and William stayed home together and had the basement inspected - WE PASSED! (who wants to sheetrock?) Then they came up to school and we had lunch together. The boys did very well on their own and had a great day.

Bulbs I planted last year are starting to come up!


Rub my tummy for good luck says the 7 week old boy!

We call him the wiz kid (and it's not cause he's smart...)

Well, all the parts definitely work...William keeps proving it over and over. Not once, twice, but three times so far today. Today we have been busy cleaning the house a little bit, doing laundry and running errands. Our big first for the day is that I took William to the mall and walk after yesterday's walk in the rain. There were two stores I needed to hit and we got that done and then walked around for another 40 minutes or so. William had a great time watching the lights and filling his pants in his car seat/stroller combination.

Next to the kangaroo in the kids area of the mall.


Just waking up in his pack n play.


Smiling...and the beginning of new hair coming in on top...

The big news is that I will be working tomorrow! Tomorrow is a professional development day and if I work, then my maternity leave is extended 1 day. The boys will be home together tomorrow hanging out - fun times!

I want THAT baby back!

William only slept until 3:30am again this morning...what happened to the baby that slept until 5:30am? I want THAT baby back. My hope is that this might be the 6-7 week growth spurt I have been reading about and in another day or so we will be back to where we were. Otherwise...it could be a long week!

In other news, we have picked some tentative dates for traveling. We think we are going to try and leave St Louis either March 28 or 29th depending on John's work schedule. We will all stay through the weekend and have William's baptism on Sunday, April 1st. John will leave on Sunday afternoon sometime and I will stay with William in town. John will come back the following Thursday or Friday and stay through the weekend. We will all leave for St Louis on April 8 (Sunday). There are LOTS of people we want to see! So, if you will be in town, let us know so we can start making plans! We are pretty excited! As we move forward with planning, I'll try to post details. Right now, we will be at the McGarry's house. We plan on baptizing William at noon on April 1st at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Rochester. That is all of our plans!

William has been doing a lot of "talking" - we're still working on getting some of it uploaded somehow! He also has been doing a lot of watching his hands and this weekend started blowing bubbles!

The big job today was to get out and buy William some bigger diapers! He is stretching the limits of his size 1/2 diapers and needed to bump up to the size 2's. Our baby is growing so fast! We got out to walk tonight as a family to enjoy the beautiful weather (75 degrees) and get some exercise. William also enjoyed (honest, enjoyed!) a bath tonight!

Blowing bubbles!

goodnight,

the heidts

Photo Studio Pictures (Kelly's)

William's Blankets

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William has received many MANY blankets from a lot of special people! Today, I thought we should start getting pictures while he is still sort of small with these special blankets...here are the pictures!

William with the blanket knitted by Great Great Grandma Myrtle (made for me when I was a baby)

Super soft blanket from Great Grandma Nona (look at those blue eyes!)

The quilt made by Mommy (me!)

Last night wasn't a great night, William only slept until 4 am...still not bad for his age, but I've been spoiled the last couple of nights. Unfortunately, then I couldn't go back to sleep - here I thought sleep deprivation was due to the BABY being awake, not just me not being able to fall asleep. Although we were tired, we did get some things done around the house and get out for a walk on a beautiful day - it was 75 degrees! Later in the day, we played photo studio with a sheet in the living room. I'll post the photo studio pictures in a separate post...

The first outfit I put William in today seemed a little small. I thought maybe I shrunk it the last time I washed and dried it. Then, the next two outfits also were too small...I am starting to think we maybe have outgrown the 3-6 month outfits. Is that possible? We have only been wearing the 3-6 stuff for about 2 1/2 weeks. In addition, I am also crabby because we have 2 more bags of diapers that I think are just about too small....