some wins for michigan (and food!)

Hooray for football, food, and husbands! Joey's in town this weekend, and after two weeks apart everyone seems to be enjoying the together-time a LOT. When Joey and I showed up to pick Oscar up from daycare on Thurs (the afternoon Joey arrived), Oscar smiled at his daddy and immediately started clapping his feet...so adorable.

Daddy in town also means football watching. Oscar experienced his first football game at a sports bar--The Arena, of course--which is documented in a photo below.

We're introducing more food these days, too. Oscar now has banana added to his repertoire in addition to the avocado and sweet potato. We've also been giving him Cheerios to play with. He likes to pick them up with his fist (still working on the thumb/forefinger pincer grasp) and shove them towards his mouth, usually missing. If he does get one or two in, he'll gum them for a while and usually you'll see either a whole or part Cheerio slide out of his mouth and down his chin in a river of drool. Sounds gross, I know, but is actually pretty hilarious. He does get some down, but mostly we're just having fun watching him learn how this food stuff works.

The only real downer that's happened recently has been his six month doc's appt. Everything looked good, except that the doctor didn't like the wheezing that he heard in his chest. I'm almost positive that the wheezing can be attributed to the summer cold that he hasn't shaken since he got it back in July, but since I have asthma the doc wanted to see if a breathing treatment would help relive some of it. Well, after trying to wrestle a screaming and scared 6 month old into allowing us to put a little mask over his face that was full of mist containing saline and albuterol (and having him eventually give up and fall asleep on my shoulder), then waiting about 30 min. for the doc to come back and listen to him, we discovered that the treatment made no difference at all. After all of that we finally got his vaccinations (oh, so fun) and all in all spent a pretty unpleasant two hours in the office. At least it's over now. We're supposed to go back in a couple of weeks before we move for the doc to follow up and listen to his chest again. Good times will be had by all, I'm sure.

Anyhow, not much else to report. Joey heads home to Indy tomorrow and Oscar and I will resume our normal routine at my mom's until we visit next weekend. After that it's only one more week until I move down for good. Yikes :)

photos:
- cheering for michigan at the bar
- hanging with daddy after the first pool experience
- short video of the first pool experience
- showing everyone how much he wanted to eat bananas today before dinner

cheering for michigan at the bar

daddy cheering

yummy bananas