I think I've said before that there are times when I'm living my life as a blog. Always thinking about how I can add some event that I'm enjoying or need to vent about to the blog. Now that finding time to blog has become very difficult I still am thinking "in blog" but I'm sitting here and I feel like I've forgotten it all! Now that I'm behind all the time, I try to fit so much in at once so the blog quality is suffering and I apologize. Anyway, I'm working on it. I hope I haven't lost anyone. My mom says she still checks it every day so that's good. Of course, if my mom wasn't reading this, that probably means no one is reading this. Wow, I'm really rambling. Focus, Jordan. Here we go. Back to Cash.
So it was a week ago, Cash reached this awesome milestone. Three months is the golden number, of sorts. "Everyone" says things just kind of click at three months. It all comes together. I'm still waiting to see if this is true because on Feb 3, his official 3-month birthday, he stopped sleeping through the night and became a finicky eater. It's fairly conclusive now that he's officially teething! Poor little guy. Drool? Check. Low-grade fever? Check. Loss of appetite? Check. Chewing on anything and everything (including some very painful areas!)? Check. I didn't believe it for a few days. Three months is early. But my mother says that I cut teeth at three months as well so that helped convince me. So things are going quite as smoothly as they were at 2.75 months but holy cow, is it still fun!
His smile is bigger and comes more often than ever. He almost winks because one side smiles a little bigger than the other. If he's fed and not extremely tired, he'll flash it to anyone. It may be accompanied by some drool and/or spit up but it just adds to the charm. He would rather be standing most of the time so he can be face to face with you when he smiles. Derrek and Ashley can get a pretty good giggle out of him. Blake & I are still working on it. He is finally starting to touch all of those things he's always staring at so intently. The best is when he touches my face. The. Best. He's also found himself in the mirror and, from what I can tell, thinks he's as cute as the rest of us do. His "talking" offers much more variety now. He'll throw in a good squeal or scream among the "aahs" and "oohs". When he's really thinking hard about something (touching something or getting splashed at bathtime) his arms and legs go straight and his eyes get HUGE and he purses his lips. It's so awesome. He loves to watch tv or anything electronic that lights up. I don't like him to do it much but it's great when I need to get some things done in the evening and he chills with Daddy watching tv. He also is ALWAYS trying to sit up. If he's not sleeping in his carseat, he's holding his head up trying to get out. Or when I lay him down and he's tired of that he just lifts his head as long as he can or until I pick him up. When I walk away from him in his play thing that he got for Christmas (so need a new name for that), I never know where he'll be when I come back. He usually makes the best of it no matter where he is. Also, like a real big boy, he arches his back when you put him in his carseat to make it really difficult to get him in. Sometimes he's whining and crying but sometimes he just laughing at me as I struggle. He's hit a point when you're holding him or he's sitting in your lap that you have to be ready for anything. He can be a bit spastic.
That's Natural Bridge Caverns! These Penicks took a spontaneous day trip an hour and a half down the road for some underground adventure! We kind of got a late start, Ashley got carsick and had to puke half way there and we were definitely late to volleyball practice in the afternoon BUT it was such a good day regardless. Cash was a such a champ. It was his first day facing outward in the Baby Bjorn and he LOVED it. He'd just swing his arms and kick his legs and talk. About 30 minutes into the tour, he griped a little so I turned him around and he instantly went to sleep. Then about 30 minutes after that he woke up and wanted to turn back around. It was about 70 degrees down there but with 99% humidity! So we took off the hat and socks and he was much more comfortable. Blake and Ashley were awesome as well. They are really fun to travel with and totally get into it all. I handed over my camera to Blake and he took pictures the whole time. It was beautiful down there and it was so fun that everyone appreciated it and the time together. It's a day I'll never forget.
Here we are standing under the 65' "natural" limestone bridge above the
Here we go!
