who says you need teeth to enjoy corn on the cob!

Last night we went over to our friends Dustin and Hilary's house for supper. Hil's parents were in town and we haven't gotten to see them since Dustin and Hil's wedding. Hilary made a great dinner complete with corn on the cob. Roman's been loving anything funny feeling on his gums. So we gave him my corn on the cob and he just LOVED it! he sucked on that thing gettin all the yummy juice out of it! How perfect for this wanna-be-farm-boy!! :) he proved that you don't need teeth to enjoy this delicacy!

standing and hair...

Roman has strong legs. I'm pretty sure that he could jump all day long if he wanted! Lately I've been seeing if he can sit up and stand by himself. The other thing that he's still loving is looking at himself in the mirror. He lights up when he sees that other baby! So I set him in front of my standing mirror and he grabbed the sides and stood by himself. He stood there for almost 5 minutes by himself. He's sitting up by himself too. I'll get some pics and put them on soon! here's standing!

Also, Roman's hair is finally growing a bit longer. I've been trying to spike it up a little bit but that's just not working. It's not thick enough yet. SO i tried the cute little mohawk that's super popular right now. HE's a DOLL! I love it. Here's a couple pics (he just woke up and is not a fan of his mommy in his face taking pics!! ha!

FCA

While Tyler and I were preparing and praying about buying a house we made a pro/con list. One of our pro's was how we could use a house. Because of it being so much bigger and providing so much more space, we felt that it could provide a way for us to use it for ministry. We didn't have a name quite figured out for that ministry at the time of planning but we've always known that we both LOVE kids/high schoolers and wanted to be involved in some way. Now fast forward to a month after we had bought the house. Tyler had a meeting at his job with a friend from our church about some business stuff and while they were talking this friend brought up FCA. Ty told him that know that we had a house we'd LOVE to get involved. A few days later our friend Gary called and asked TY if we'd host an FCA leadership camp meeting. OH YEAH!!! we were so psyched!! So the event came and went. We met some great kids and some neat adults. It was great to have them over and we felt like we were obeying the Lord by doing the things he wanted for us to do.

Then a few weeks ago, we were contacted again to see if we could help with an FCA fundraiser dinner. Ty was able to get Sara Lee to donate some food for the event. So Last Saturday night we went to the fundraiser. It was so much fun. Gary and karen Comisky and others did such a fantastic job of getting everything set up. There was about 200+people that came. It was so much fun for Tyler and I to see some many people that we know we just never get to see! Roman was amazing too. I was worried because of it being outside that it was going to be too hot, but Rome is JUST like his daddy- mr social :) Within the first 5 minutes Roman had been scooped up by one of our friends. He hung with her for about an hour before being passed on to the next person. Ty and I joked that we needed to just take off and go on a date since he was being so good! ha! We enjoyed the night so much and we're so excited to see what the next school year brings us for FCA events and we're really excited to get to know these awesome kids!

Sara Lee Rolls :)

Me and Rome

Hanging with Grandpa!

Beautiful place!!

Looking at the yummy food in the kitchen :)

Sara Lee Cheesecake!

Nosie nosie :)

Last Sunday night Tyler, Roman, and I went on a late evening walk. We walked for about 30-45 min and enjoyed the beautiful evening!! Roman has been sucking on anything and everything. During our walk, Roman sucked on his stroller the whole time. We tried to tip the stroller back so he'd lean back but he just hung on tighter! It was so funny! here are a few pics...

Lately, I've been trying to teach roman how to give eskimo kisses. He's got those wonderful open mouth baby kisses down so something more challenging is our new goal :) haha! So i've been in his face rubbin his nose with mine (nose-ie nose-ie :) Finally, he started picking up on it when yesterday he put his hands on my cheeks and initiated an eskimo kiss!! I was so excited! I grabbed my phone and tried to video it. Here's what we got!

5 months!

Roman is 5 months old!

I was reminiscing about how last year I was at the beginning stages of being pregnant. I was dreaming about life with a baby :) I was thinking about how sweet and cuddly he'd be. Sure he'd cry, but that wouldn't be that bad. Sure i'd lose sleep but that would be temporary. I imagined such sweet times :) Now that reality is here and I've had 5 months to get used to this baby I can say it has surpassed all my expectations. Yes, there has been hard times- 3 that have been to the point where tears couldn't express my exhaustion and my frustration in myself as to why I couldn't get this little human being to be content. But minus those 3 moments its been phenomenal.

Roman is now...

1. rolling over while trying to reach his toys!

2. rolling over while sleeping! (he sleeps with us and I wake up to find him on his belly!)

3. LAUGHING! I can tickle him and he laughs! I LOVE it!

4. getting excited when I come into the room- he sees me and just starts kicking!

5. humming/talking while he nurses. Ty and I just laugh. It's as if he's been starving and finally gets his meal and so he just can't stop saying yummmmmmmm!!

6. he tries to sit up constantly. He just wants to see the world.

7. Finally getting used to the car seat.

8. content to go on a long walk. It used to end up me carrying him an pushing an empty stroller

9. pulls up his feet to his face.

10. getting more into a predictable schedule for his naps.

11. reaching for everything. Ty and I were in a store and he was holding Rome, anytime Ty would get close to something Romans hand reached for it so quickly! It was funny to watch!

12. When i'm holding him, I can say, "give mommy kisses" and I get this HUGE open mouth kiss full of slobber (I LOVE 'EM!)

13. He started "fake coughing" whenever he coughs I say, "oh goodness" So when he real coughs and I say that he smiles and then fake coughs to get my reaction- A-DOR-A-

BLE.

14. His fingers are constantly in his mouth!

I decided to take a break from cereal- Rome started sleeping at night horrible (waking up 10+ times a night) about the same time we started doing cereal. So, i thought maybe it was tummy aches. The night of the day we stopped he woke up 1 time and last night he woke up only because I had gotten up. He would have slept straight through- even without eating had I not gotten up. WOW. It won't hurt to try cereal again in a few weeks :)

Here's some pics!

He'll drink water out of a bottle :)

cool dude ;)

we grew a small batch of NE corn in out back yard! here's how it's looking (a little small!)

trying to sit up!

Here's a short video of Rome doing his little laughs:

our date

While my family was visiting I asked my mom if she and dad would be willing to babysit Roman so Tyler and I could go out on a date JUST me and him. She was MORE then willing!!

So Sunday night Ty and I decided to got to Emilia's here in Siloam. We arrived at the restaurant only to find out that they close at 2 on Sunday's. UGH! We thought about the other restaurants that Siloam has to offer and for a nice restaurant there isn't much :( We thought about going to Fayetteville but wanted to be close JUST in case Roman had a melt down. We decided that the Flint Creek Steak house would be our choice :) (at the casino)

When we got there we went to the steak house and on our way, we got stopped my one of Tyler's friends that just so happened to be working there. After catching up a bit he asked us what we were up to, we told him we were on our first date alone as parents and he told us to hang on and he'd be right back. When he came back he had a white piece of paper in his hand, he explained that he wanted to comp our whole meal for us but all he could do was $60.00 (Now, when Tyler and I go out, I just add a side salad to Ty's meal and we typically get water so our bill is usually around 15-20 with tip, so 60 is like 3 meals for us!! ha! so when he said just $60.00, in our minds we just laughed!!)

We were SO grateful! WOW!

It was such a fun evening and Roman did well! He started to cry after about 2 hours so our Walmart trip after dinner was cut a little short (yes, we went to walmart, it was FUN going through the aisles with only having to hold Ty's hand and not a baby too for a change!!)

YUMMY!!

Yesterday, Roman had his 4 month check. He did great while he got his 3 shots, but afterwards he was not a happy camper!

He weighed 15.96 lbs (Weight = between percentile 50 and 75 )

His length was 26.25 (Length = between percentile 75 and 90)

His head was 16.25 (Head Circumference = between percentile 10 and 25)

We also got the go ahead from our Dr. to try cereal!! I was so happy because I had a feeling that he was gettin close to being ready for it. I had read that around 6 months is the normal time, but Roman eats ALL the time, and since i'm still 100% breastfeeding it seems like that was all we did. So last night after his 5 hour nap, we tried it. AND he LOVVVVVVED it!!