My lil sis

Well people, as of yesterday my lil sis is 6 months old.  I think she has learned a lot from me in the last 6 months, so I am doing a pretty good job as a big brother.  In fact, she is doing things that I can't even do - so I guess that means I get brother of the year award or something.  She is sitting up all by herself and playing.  She is rolling all over the place and at times looks like she wants to crawl - thank goodness she isn't doing that yet (My mom hasn't baby proofed the house yet).  At 6 months old she is already eating healthier that my ol' man - she likes carrots, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, and sweet peas.  We get to work on eating together, so I get to try all these things too.  I have to admit, she has me beat big time on eating.  But my mom is working with a new OT who really knows what she is talking about when it comes to eating.  We took a few steps back and are starting from scratch.  This was tough for my parents at first cause it feels like we failed, but in the big scheme of things I think we are doing what's right.  I get to try to feed myself, so I like it.  I make such a big mess that my mom has resorted to just takin my shirt off during this time.  The bib didn't cut it any longer.  Anywho, now that I am 2 1/2 (as of 2 days ago) I have to admit..... time does fly.

Weekend Get Away

My mom had to work a lot over the holidays at the hospital, so me and Maggie spent a lot of time with dad.  He did a pretty good job.  So, after the hustle and bustle of the holidays wore off, me and the fam decided to pack up and head to the cities for a mini-vacation.  My dad says vacation is when you don't have to work, you get to sleep in, and you get to eat out.  Seeing I don't eat food, I sleep in whenever I want (which isn't too often cause I like to wake my folks up when I can), and I haven't had to work a day in my life... I guess I am on vacation all the time.  Anywho, I had an appointment with a new doctor to get a second opinion on my eyes early Friday morning at Children's Hospital in St. Paul - this is the main reason we went on vacation.  Good news, the new doc said she wouldn't do surgery right now, so my parents cancelled my appointment for eye surgery later this month for now.  That appointment took a good portion of the day on Friday.  Saturday we went swimming at the hotel and walked around the whole Mall of America.  I was a little nervous about this Mall trip - so nervous I decided to puke all over myself and my stroller the second we got there.  Turns out that didn't get me outta shopping, instead it got me 30 mins of strolling the mall looking for new pants (pantless while doing so).  Saturday night my folks got to watch the Packer game cause me and Maggie actually went to sleep easily.  The hotel room my dad booked us had 2 separate rooms and a living room - which was pretty sweet cause I got my own king size bed to sleep in.  It was awesome!  Maggie slept in a pack-n-play in the living room.  So we all had our own room and it worked pretty good.  However, me and Mags talked it over on the car ride home and decided we would not carry over the whole sleeping in our own room business when we got home.  Back to our vacation, on Sunday we went swimming again (I LOVE THE WATER)  and then hit up the iHop on our way outta town.  All in all we had a pretty good time.  In fact, Maggie had such a swell time she decided that she would get a couple new teeth - yup, the 2 bottom front teeth have made an appearance.