My Doobies

So, I love nicknames as much as I love hmm... Chocolate. Which, is to say life is like a box of chocolates - eat em' while you have them. Lame, I know. Whatever. Well, if you didn't have a nick name growing up - you suck. Ok, I am only kidding, slightly. Our newest arrival Erik, more commenly known around the house as Doobies, is going to be 6 months old on the 8th. WOW, how time has flown. He has been sleeping through the night since about 6 weeks old. Ok, I know I am gloating, but when you think your child is never going to sleep through the night after spending the first three weeks of life sleeping on your chest (I jokingly called it the fourth trimester), because that is the only place he will sleep - I think I have earned it. He loves to put himself to sleep to, he doesn't like to be rocked, doesn't like a pacifier (He took it for all of maybe two months - then saw we were pulling the wool over his eyes and dropped it like a hot potato. What can I say, thats two for two - both kids gave up their pacifiers really early - Elliott gave his up at about 7 1/2 months.) His night time routine generally consists of a final nursing between 7 and 7:30pm and then laying him down in his crib with his two snugglies - a horse and a monkey, one final kiss good night and I am out the door. WOHOO! Then he is out until at least 6 or 7am, nurses when he gets up falls asleep in another milk induced coma and is out until at least 9 or 9:30am. I am so lucky in that area.



Erik's personality is so complex. He is multi-faceted. He loves to tell you how he is doing, or more importantly what you need to be doing. He is a very determined child. He loves to growl - or do this low humming - nahhhhhh, when he wants you to stand up with him or even give him a kiss. He loves to be cuddled and kissed - he will kiss you right back until the cows come home. One of my favorite things he does is shake his head No-No. It's even funnier when you have both Elliott and Erik doing it to one another in the car seats. Those two are so silly when they are together - Elliott will call him Doobies and say it's ok baby, it's ok baby. They have the best time with one another and I swear Erik is trying to play catch up with his big brother. They have laughing contests in the back of the car - one will start laughing and the other will start laughing, one will stop and the other will start back up again. Car trips are very entertaining. Erik is already up on his hands and knees, he has started crawling backwards and has moved fowards doing the army crawl deal Elliott used to do. Most of the time if he wants to get going some where quicker he will just roll, he has roll mastered. It is scary how fast he moves. He is even more determined if there is something in his line of sight he wants. I can't believe my little baby is going to be six months tomorrow.

Oh, and sorry for not knowing what doobies are - apparently I wansn't some crazed flower child from the 70's... so maybe his new nick name will be Moose and Bubba (Elliott). Then it doesn't sound like some stoner convention.