A quick one...

Well, lately, I haven't had much time on my hands to keep this thing updated! I just thought I'd post this for two reasons....

1. So you could see that David is sitting up now... and I must say, moving all over the place. He is over you holding him... he wants to either flip over or throw his head and body backwards. Anyone else had this insane experience?????? I am sure you have. I'll be holding him and he just, literally, throws himself backwards!

2. Only in Alabama can you, in December, take a blanket outside, dress your 6 month old in a short sleeve bubble and play outside and then the next, bundle them up so that you can't even see their face!

If you have a dog... please read

Well, there are many posts I have been waiting to write, like, showing off how I am decorated for Christmas, dicussing my tonsilectomy, and explaining and showing how David, who will be six months on the 16th, SAT UP on Friday night. Yes, he did! I actually have the video of the second attempt to prove it. I wish you could see him right now. We went to dinner at the Smith's house and he fell asleep on the way home. So, Matthew goes to bed and I wake him up to get him (David) ready for bed and give him his last bottle. Well, he has to stay upright for at least 30 minutes after eating, so I get the boppy out of the closet and prop him up on it on the couch. I grabbed my computer to start writing this, and the little booger pulled himself up to a seated position and is sitting here smiling at me and making noises at me. I can only imagine what he's saying.... "Mama, what are you typing? Play with me??"

Anyway, the reason I am not writing about all of those things above is because I have been debating on writing a blog on this for a few months and tonight I had a reminder of it and decided to go ahead.

In October, I was on my way to Prattville for a Halloween party that David was invited to. I was on the interstate and passed a small, red truck with a huge bloodhound in the back. The dog was going back and forth, from side to side and an older woman was driving the car. I kept thinking to myself that the dog was going to jump out of the back of that truck. He really was bigger than the truck. Well, I got in front of the truck to take the loop from 85 onto 65. As I looked in my rearview mirror, I saw the truck come down the loop and the dog fly out of the back of the truck! I screamed and (I know it scared David half to death), but I couldn't believe what I had just seen. I knew that dog was going to come out of that truck. It rolled in the middle of the interstate, and somehow, every car coming towards it, missed it. It hobbled up and hobbled off to the side of the interstate. I saw the lady pull over and the last thing I could see in my rearview mirror was the lady get out of the car and run to the side where the dog was.

Okay, now, if you know me, you know I am a HUGE dog lover. I have a "baby" of my own. A yellow lab, Shot. I got him when he was 6 weeks old and raised him. He truly is my baby. He is the sweetest dog in the world and all my friends can atest to that. He will be 5 next July and I truly don't know what I'll do when he is gone. Okay, I can't even type that without crying. (side note... Matthew thinks its funny to discuss that and watch me boo hoo for hours, literally.) Mean, I know.
Anyway, after I saw the dog fly out, I was shaking and didn't know what to do. I wanted to help, but as a mother (mother's out there will understand), my first instinct went to my son in the back of my car. I couldn't pull over on the interstate and leave him in the car on the side of the road to a help a dog. It was killing me. I wanted to make sure that dog was okay. The only peace I had was that I didn't see it get hit by a car and it did get up and hobble off the road. The whole way to Prattville I was shaking and crying and on the way back, that was all I could think of. When I got back onto 85, I actually got off the exit to go back towards Prattville so I could drive by and make sure the dog wasn't lying in the grass. He wasn't.
For the next week or so, every time I closed my eyes to go to sleep I saw that dog fly out of the truck. Basically, this event has traumatized me. The whole thing came back to me tonight as Matthew and I were on the interstate on our way home. I saw a truck with the most beautiful, monster, yellow lab in the BACK! Oh, it just burns me up when I see that.
I guess my reasoning for writing this post is to plead with you dog owners out there to please not put or let your husbands put your dogs in the back of the truck. You really have no idea what they are going to do... even if they have ridden in the back millions of times, you might have to swerve or something else. Anyway, I just don't want a dog owner or another driver to have to witness what I did. It was truly awful.

I know my sister and probably everyone who reads this is probably laughing at me, but I just couldn't help it. I had to "shake my finger" for once. I don't think I could bear to see that happen again.

Take it or leave it, but, trust me, you'd be better off taking it.

Not a normal blog...

I need some help... Anyone know where I can find some nice looking, needlepoint, stockings??? I held off getting Matthew and I one last year and now David is here and I don't have any. Well, I take that back... I have some that I bought from Target last year, but not quite what I am looking for. Any help or direction to go is appreciated!

Quick note... I am SLOWLY, and when I say SLOWLY healing from my tonsil surgery. It is the worst thing ever! Truly, for someone who (excuse me) had a 4th degree tear during childbirth, this is worse than giving birth and healing from it! It's awful! It's been 9 days now and I still can't eat anything. It's so sad, I can't even hold my son unless I am sitting on the couch. I can't even swallow a drink or soup without have a dose of Lortab. It's bad... really bad. So, unless you HAVE to have them out... don't fall for it. At least I know I did. The doctor said when he took them out that if he hadn't, I could have been sick for a really long time. He said they were the worst he's seen in a while.

Well, I am off to search for stockings, write thank you notes, address Christmas cards, watch the "nothing" that is on t.v. (Aren't there supposed to be some good Christmas movies on this time of year!)

Tommorrow's the day...

I have so much to blog about, but I am going to keep it short for now. Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. I go in for my surgery to get my tonsils out. I am not really looking forward to it. I guess it will make me feel better, but everyone I have talked with tells me how terrible it is! I am not looking forward to being in the bed and "out of commission" for 5-7 days! I am going to miss my baby and Matthew! My sweet mom is coming to stay with us from tomorrow through Thursday and then Debbie is coming Thursday. Isn't family wonderful!!!???!!!

I will say that I stayed up the past two nights and decorated the entire house, Matthew helped me put the tree up and put the lights and ALL the ornaments on, paid all the upcoming bills, sorted out all the Christmas presents, wrote out David's schedule, washed all the clothes, made some more of David's baby food, dropped off our Angel Tree gifts, and I could go on, but I won't. I got everything done that I needed to get done!! Yeah for me!

Matthew says I am acting like I am either going out of town or dying, but I am just one of those people who likes to be in control...(can you tell?) Nah! I will be right here, but not able to do what I like to be doing... which is doing something! :)

Here is what I will miss the most!!!!

It's already on...

Well, for those of you who love Christmas music like I do it is already playing on Sirius radio. It's on Channel 81!! Enjoy... I sure am!

The attempt at a Christmas card...

***For anyone reading this a second time...Matthew made me delete a picture of David and replace it with another one because it was not "cute." Ha****


I found out on Wednesday that I have to have my tonsils taken out. They are doing the surgery (the only time I could do it until after next May), on the 2nd and the doc said I would be "down" for 15 DAYS!! Not looking forward to it, esp. with a 5 month old scooting around. Mom and Debbie (my sweet mother in law) are going to be here to help me out... thankfully! I did not realize what a "wonderful" time it was to do this! I will be missing out on SO much those two weeks. Two baby showers, Athenians ball, my brothers bday, Christmas bunko, "girls night," and three Christmas parties!!! Boo hoo!

Because of this, I started freaking out about Christmas. I LOVE Christmas!!!! I am "that girl" that clicks on Mix 103.3 (here's a shout out to Aunt Diane), on Thanksgiving Day and listens to "holiday" (i hate that word) music until it ends on the 26th of December. I listen to it all day long. I also LOVE the HOLIDAY music channel on Charter!! Matthew thinks I have issues, but I just love Christmas.




So, off my rant on music... I started thinking... If I am going to be out for about 15 days, that is Dec. 2- Dec. 17!!! That would leave me ONE week to get stuff ready for my favorite holiday of the year! Not gonna happen. So, me, who STILL has a million thank you notes to write, has put herself in Christmas gear. I have already warned Matthew that the day or so after Thanksgiving we, excuse me, I will have our house "Christmas ready!"



I took the opportunity today, to wake up and get started on a Christmas card picture. Not the easy task that it used to be. I, first, had to wet David's, what little he has, hair down to get rid of the mohawk his daddy has taken the pleasure of creating every night after bathtime. Then I went through the closets to ramble up any kind of item I could possibly use for a Christmas picture. Next I got on the phone with the person I call ALL THE TIME for advice, my mom, to see where I should go for the "taking." Finally, I got myself dressed, David fed and dressed and headed out the door to my mom's house.



I got there and the little buddy was ready to eat again. So, at 1:30 I feed him and stuck him in front of Praise Baby while I walked around the inside and outside of the house to find some potential spots. While walking around I realized I had forgotten the MAIN item of the day... the Santa hat!! What was I thinking?!? I hopped in the car, (yes, I left David watching Praise Baby... but the maid was there... that's okay, right??), drove across town, ran in my house and headed back. That "quick" little trip took, no lie, 46 minutes!!!! Insane...well, I got my gear and had mom get David ready and headed out with the camera. It was a LONG afternoon. Taking pictures was SO much easier when he didn't do anything but lay there and suck on his paci. So much for that!! The little boy who will not roll over for the life of me decides that is ALL he wants to do today... in EVERY place I put him! What is up with that?



I have to say... I did get a few good shots that I think I may be able to use. I have some of the pictures throughout this blog, but don't worry, the Christams card potentials are NOT on here. I wouldn't dare give that away! The day was so crazy, that on the way home, David fell asleep in the car. Matthew and I cooked dinner and FINALLY at 7:15 David woke up. He was SO fussy and I couldn't figure out why. I fed him sweet potatoes and english peas, which he scarfed down, but he was still so fussy. I couldn't figure out why. Then, I look at the clock, see that it is 7:30, look at Matthew with this face only he knows. And he says... "What?" Well, I had forgotten to feed him this afternoon!!! The last time he had eaten was at 1:30!! What a terrible mom. Oh, well,... he's fed, asleep and happy now, right?

Wow... we are 5 months today!

I cannot believe how fast time is flying. My little baby is becoming a little boy. I can see the change every single day. As with everything there are a bunch of different emotions to go along with this. I love the baby David and all his cuddling, I love the little boy David with his talking, interaction, laughter,etc. It is so fun, but so scary at the same time. Every day flies by too fast. Within the last month he has already accomplished many milestones in a "a baby's life." He discovered his fingers, his toes, started rolling on both sides, he slams his feet into the ground (you'd think he would have bruised heels), he picks things up and holds them and puts them back down, he started cereal, moved to oatmeal and know is loving squash and sweet potatoes... and truly the list goes on. One thing that he does is hilarious to me. I have always, since he was born, made this noise with my mouth...about two weeks ago he started copying me. It is so funny. I think on one of my videos he is doing it. If not, I will try to post one. He does it ALL the time now. He even wakes up doing it! I started thinking, if he can already figure out what I am doing and copy it, I wonder what else he can catch on to? I bet alot!

Can I just tell you what a wonderful sleeper I have? I know I have mentioned this before, but I feel like I must brag on him. He is still sleeping until 7:45 or 8!! He goes to bed around 8:30 or 9... it is so nice to be able to get things done, or (don't tell Matthew), sleep in until 8! Here are a few pictures and video of dear ole David!


This is a video of David eating squash for the second time... he loves it! We started with squash and then moved to sweet potatoes. He likes and eats both, but loves the squash the most! Surprising!


We also had Halloween... we had the cutest Tigger on the block. The poor kid was in his costume from 1 p.m. until 8!!! But he was a trooper... we went to both grandmother's houses, his aunt Meredith and Uncle Travis', his aunt Alexia and uncle Michael's, his aunt Alex and uncle Colin's, and Big and Gainie's house. Whew! Long day... here a few pictures.















This is a picture of David after the LONG day!






Well, the Coblentz's do things a little out of order. We finished Halloween and haven't even had Thanksgiving yet, but dear ole Santa came a little early this year. An elf told Santa that David was into grabbing things and needed a little more excitement than Praise Baby tapes. On a Tuesday afternoon, Santa dropped off a rather exciting exersaucer (or spaceship as Colin calls it) for David!! Yeah... who could not like Christmas to come a little early?? He wasn't quite sure what was going on...









Here is a last video of David laughing at his Aunt Alex...

What David has been doing...

Make sure you read to the end for a "major" event! :)
He has learned to grab and hold things...It is so funny, he started about three weeks ago grabbing at this paci. He will pull it out and then put it back in, but he can't figure out how to let go of it. So, when he pulls his hand away, his paci comes back out and he gets so frustrated with himself. It's pretty funny. When I noticed him doing that I decided to test him and see if he could reach out and grab something and hold it in his hand... well he did! I did have a picture of it, but it deleted off my camera :( He has also started laughing ALL the time. I know I posted before videos of him laughing, but he seriously laughs non-stop. It is so funny.


He also learned to pose for mommy. I decided to take a lame attempt at taking pictures of David that were "posed." Well, here are a few shots of how it went.



He actually went to his first Auburn game! Those pictures are on Matthew's camera and I can't find his USB plug, but as soon as I do, I will post them. He learned to love watching Auburn football (good or TERRIBLE!)...



He celebrated my 27th birthday on October 4...



Wore a 6 month outfit, even though it was way too big for him...



"Worked" with Big...



Hung out with Shot...



Took some GREAT fall pictures...



Went to his first Halloween party...



Took some Halloween pictures with Harlie Barrett...



Ate (or tried) cereal for the first time...and sat in the high chair for the 1st time...



and.....DRUMROLL please.... David rolled over!



and now he is very, very tired...

The Highlands

Last week Matthew, David and I set out on an adventure that only God knew how it would go. We decided to take our almost 4 month old on a five hour drive to the Highlands. With a 4 month old, you never know how things will turn out. Will the five hour drive take ten hours, will he scream the whole way, will he sleep, will he stay on schedule, will we be able to relax, etc.?


Well.... guess what!?!? He did WONDERFUL!!! I was so proud of my little man. We decided to leave at 6:30 on Wednesday night to make the drive. At 8:30 we stopped right outside of Atlanta to feed David and change his diaper. He then...SLEPT THE WHOLE WAY THERE!!! We arrived at 11! I was so happy.

We went with John and Kellie Clements and their two boys, Persson and Tilman and Michael and Claire Johnson and their little girl, Sidney. We stayed from Wednesday to Sunday and had an amazing time. During the trip we drove into town to walk the shops. The weather was amazing. We were able to watch the leaves on the trees literally change while we were there.

I was really so proud of David. He enjoyed watching the "big" kids play and he slept every morning until 7:30 or 8. On the ride back we stopped once and changed the diaper and fed him and then made it all the way home without a peep!

What a wonderful trip we had! Here are some pictures...ENJOY!