Our Baby is Growing Up

Tuesday was Billy’s 1/2 Birthday–he’s 6 months old! He weighed in at 18 pounds, 7 ounces and was 26 1/2 inches long. Billy is getting pretty good at sitting up without support (but it is best not to move too far from catching range)

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. . . and Tuesday his first tooth popped through! I left this picture big so you can actually see his tooth–just click on it to see it full size.

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Billy is very aware of his feet–he’s very ticklish and almost seems tormented by socks and these little sandals I made him. If he doesn’t pull them off, he plays with them constantly.

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His second bottom tooth is ready to pop through and his top ones aren’t far behind, so the drool continues and so does the hand chewing.

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Billy took his first trip to BYU this week. On Monday we went shopping and saw his Uncle Dan, Aunt Cathy, and cousin Danny. We like to shop the Education Week Bookstore and get new BYU shirts for the year. Here’s Billy’s:

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Ricky enjoyed riding around campus and getting a chocolate drink in the Wilk.

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Ricky loves his baby brother and Billy loves him. I can’t put Billy down in the playpen at Grandmama’s and turn around without finding this . . .

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Ricky’s sleeping habits have been odd the last few weeks. At Grandmama’s, he climbs into the playpen with his pillow, even though he clearly doesn’t fit anymore. At home, he insists on the floor. Each evening when we go up to bed, we wonder where he will have settled down. One night it was in the hallway under the swamp cooler with his pillow, blanket, and Max.

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Ricky still regularly insists on being a kitty. Just this morning he was sitting in the line of cats, waiting to be fed a kitty treat, meowing at me. Here he is playing with what he thinks is a cat ball (although the cat would have to be as big as him to get the thing in their mouth).

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And, as a final note, for anyone familiar with the song “Life is a Highway” originally sung by Tom Cochrane, then by Chris LeDoux, and most recently by Rascal Flatts for the movie Cars, Ricky sings this song. Correction, he sings a line from the song over and over. Actually, he sings what he THINKS is a line from the song over and over. The original lyrics for this line go “Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long. If you’re goin’ my way, I wanna drive it all night long.” What I hear all day is “I am a driveway, I am a driveway, I wanna drive it all night long. I am a driveway, I am a driveway, I’m gonna ride it all night long.”