Grow.Make.Brew.Eat

Today was our third adventure to the Discovery Center Museum, since Augie was born. We went just after his 1st Birthday, then again a few weeks ago (and purchased a year membership) and decided a cold, Sunday morning would be a great opportunity to get out of the house.  Augie's 1st Discovery Center Trip-1/21/13 Augie's 1st Discovery Center Trip-1/21/13 At our first visit, Augie was a relatively new walker. It was the first time he had walked anywhere, besides home and school, in his little leather shoes. Now, I can barely keep up with him AND he's almost worn out his favorite tennies.  Where should we start? The shapes & lights are fun... The puzzles are great too. Peg stacking is exciting. Driving a car is even more fun.  And playing house is fantastic!  Andy had as much fun as Augie today... So did I...

Well, at 15 months old, this dude is a sponge. Each day he is surprising me with the new actions, gestures, noises, word attempts, and some of the more "grown up" things he is doing. Here's the rundown of the good stuff: Night-weaned -Finally!! About 5 weeks ago. Sleep had been a major issue in our household...frequent night wakings, long night wakings, difficulty going to sleep, not being able to go to sleep or settle himself, etc. We tried a few different methods and went with what worked for us...and yes, it did work, obviously. Most nights we get a full nights sleep and Andy & I are able to have some down time-just the two of us. It's nice. Augie Stats: Height-8th percentile Weight-20lbs 12 oz-6th percentile Head circumference -still large-60th percentile Augie's Dr. is happy with his growth, as it has been consistent and steady. He's still just a small guy. Nothing wrong with that. Likes Fave foods: tomatoes, avo...

This last week was National Week of the Young Child . To celebrate, the Ryan Jury Center (Augie's school) scheduled fun dress up days, hosted different events for the kids (including a talent show and a parade) and collected items needed for an area shelter. Last year's celebration was great. Augie was the new kid at school, having just started daycare a few weeks earlier at the ripe old age of 3 months. Now, at 15 months old, we dressed him up and turned him loose to express himself in his own Augie way. Monday-Crazy Hair and Sock Day Augie ended up being my little punk kiddo this day-faux hawk, skinny tie and funky socks. Man he's cute. Tuesday-Cowboy Day   Augie sort of looked more like a farmer than a cowboy. Cowboy is hard to do for a wee man like Augie. At the end of the day Augie brought home a picture of himself in on a horse (horse jumparoo), wearing a neck bandanna and a cowboy hat. We even practiced saying "Yee Haw". He had the yee and t...

This was supposed to be a 6 month post, which turned into a 6 and a half month post and well..here we are. Augie was officially 7 months old on August 16th! The past 7+ months have completely flown by. It's obvious by my lack of posting that we have been keeping busy with other things....mainly this guy- We've had some long, sleepless nights, but overall everything is running very smoothly in the Eikstadt household. Augie is growing by leaps and bounds and is healthy as can be. We had his 6 month well child visit with his pediatrician, and he weighed in at 16lbs 4 oz. He's definitely growing! Here is what the little man is up to these days: Sitting up for long periods of time without support Rolling from front to back and back to front and then again and again and again... Army crawling and recently doing "push ups", planks and getting ready to crawl (I'm estimating within the next 2 weeks) Sleeping on his belly! (Ok not all the time, but ...

Last week Augie turned 12 weeks. Just this week, on Monday, was his 3 month birthday. He has changed sooooo much since he was born and we continue to notice new characteristics and personality traits on a daily basis.  Easter 2012 Last Monday, after a full weekend of Easter activities, I went back to work. Augie went to daycare, or as my Dad calls it, Baby College.  Andy was nice enough to take the week off work prior to my return. We had some things we wanted to do around the house...including doubling the size of our garden (post to come on that soon).  And we eve made a trip to Madison to visit friends.  It was nice to be able to prepare mentally and physically and spend some quality time with my favorite boys.  Augie is the newest member of Room 3 at the Ryan Jury Center, Swedish American's Daycare. He's the youngest infant in his room and he is definitely the "Ladies Man" (thanks Greg, Angel, Alexys & Morgan for the cute...