The Meyers Boys and Me: Much Needed Update!

Well, I have been a bad mom again. It's been ages since I've posted an update on our family. So, this one will be packed with fun pics and cute stories.

Let's start with Austin. I've always had a hard time letting Austin feed himself the messy foods, like spaghettios, yogurt and applesauce. He's great using a fork, but when it comes to a spoon he just makes a mess. Well, like most things you never learn unless you practice. Here's what happened when I let Austin "practice" feeding himself spaghettios. Notice, I took his shirt off before I gave him the spoon.

Notice NONE of it is going in his mouth.

Another cute story about Austin. Earlier this week I was sitting on the couch going through images on my camera. Austin came up to me and started what I thought was humming. I thought nothing of it, but he kept doing and was starting right at me.

I then realized he was trying to say CHEESE. A while back I was trying to take his picture and I kept saying cheese to try and get him to smile. Well apparently he's figure out if the camera is in mommy's hands and he wants his picture taken that's what to say! I pointed the camera at him and started saying CHEESE too and he got a big grin on his face! He really does know a lot more than I give him credit for!

Next, is our giant baby, Mr. Dillin Pierce. Our not so little Dillin is now 5 1/2 months and in 9 month clothes. He's long and strong! The only rolls on this kid are on his thighs and as you know we've been working on feeding him solids. I figure he's getting hungry because his sleeping through the night has come to a screeching hault and he is now waking up at 2am hungry.

We've already established he likes rice cereal. Next I wanted to introduce veggies. With Austin I started off with fruits and when it was time for veggies he protested. I thought if I started Dillin off with veggies he wouldn't have anything yummier to compare it to and wouldn't protest quite so much. I was wrong.

We started with peas and mixed in a little rice cereal to help with the taste. He ate the whole jar, but has some choice expressions for us.

Here he is gagging, trying to figure out what to do with the green mush in his mouth.

He is clearly not impressed.

Thinking, "What are you doing to me, this stuff is nasty!"

I will end this post with a few pics from our dinner/baby party this weekend. We had some of my old friends and their babes over. We've been through grade school, junior high, high school and college together. So, it was a blast seeing them and their babes. Abby, Marian's daughter is 7 months old. Dylan, Katie's son, was born on December 12th.

It was very difficult to get Austin to sit still for any photos with the babes, so you won't see him here. We wanted a few pics of the little ones together. Everyone started with smiles...