As everyone may remember, John and I got married on the same day as his Grandparents Bill and June Noell. On April 26, they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! We drove up to Little Rock to celebrate with the family.
As an anniversary gift for us, Pops and Nana watched Will for us for 3 days so we could have some alone time.....they really just needed an excuse to have Will all to themselves! No one can get enough of little William.
We didn't dye Easter eggs since Will isn't old enough for that. However, Will did get a visit from the Easter Bunny! He got a smart phone and a remote of his very own! He doesn't need to bite and suck on Mommy and Daddy's anymore :) The Easter Bunny is so very smart!
Later we got some fun photos with Will's Bunny Ears, which turned out to be very difficult....
because William learned to crawl forward on Easter!
Now that he knew how to move around to get things, he didn't want to stop. It made for very difficult photos, but we were super excited.
He was also not a huge fan of the ears on his head.
He knocked them off his head every chance he got.
Johntries to show William that wearing bunny ears is cool.
This what the backdrop was supposed to look like.
But Will had other plans.
John got Will laughing and its super cute as you watch through the pictures. Its almost like watching it on video :)
And amazingly, that is only a fraction of the pictures we took :)
Since we've lived in Texas, we haven't experienced a tornado warning near our house until April 3. I was at work in a meeting. John was just about to leave the office. William was at Lola's.
In the Raytheon meeting, everyone is watching the weather on their phones and computers. We're getting texts from family members of status in other areas of the DFW area. Some schools are in lock down mode, where no one is allowed to leave the building...parents aren't allowed to pick up their kids. I text John to pick up Will from Lola's before the tornados get to McKinney. 30 min later, alarms start to go off in our building and outside. We head to a designated tornado shelter room (an office with no windows). I can't get ahold of John. 15 min later, our alarms stop but we are not allowed to leave the building. We head back to our meeting. John calls me, he has just gotten his hair cut and is on his way to get Will.......... yes, if you are thinking like me, I think he's crazy.....thinking like John? no big deal....it was a perfect time to get a haircut, no wait, he just walked right in!
John gets William from Lola's, despite the fact that we're not allowed to leave the building or be in a car per Raytheon's direction.
John and William get home and head to our tornado shelter (the bathroom under the stairs, the only room in the house without windows). Here is a video of Will's first experience in the tornado shelter.
Luckily, the tornados didn't hit McKinney. They stayed just South of us and headed past us to the Northeast. We were very lucky! Friends of ours actually saw a tornado at their office but it didn't hit their building. Their coworkers ran outside to take video though....again, I think that is crazy! Maybe I'm just a little too risk adverse :)
Not a fan of being in an area where natural disasters that take lives occur regularly. We are thankful that all our friends and family in the area came out unscathed.
William hasn't changed in weight much. He weighs 18.8 lbs.
It is amazing how quickly he is growing up. Just last month we were so excited about William sitting up on his own. We thought it was amazing that he finally saw his toys on the floor next to him and would reach for them. He was able to open his hands, grab them and bring them to his mouth.
This month? He began to be so interested in his toys, he couldn't decide which one to choose from. He can finally entertain himself. We sit him in the middle of his toys and he picks up one after the other. This allowed us to be able to get some stuff done around the house.
Next, if Will was put on his stomach, he would push his body backwards moving himself around. Since he prefers to be sitting, it wasn't all the time.
Mar 22, Will learned to move from sitting to crawling and crawling to sitting. He doesn't actually crawl really. From a seated position, he lunges forward for a toy. Then, holding the toy, he pushes himself backwards into a seated position again. This gets him around the room pretty quickly. If we look away, he no longer will be in the exact same spot anymore....he can be across the room and getting into various things.
We caught his first time on video by accident. We were trying to show how he scoots himself backwards, when he pushed himself into a seated position! Now, being on his stomach doesn't matter to him at all. He can easily sit up on his own.
But if he rolls onto his back, he is stuck....like a turtle on his shell :)
We have now had to baby proof our house. Minor stuff at this point....the electrical outlets are blocked and we don't store magazines, etc, at his height anymore. Unfortunately, not much we can do about wires. We have a LOT of electronics in the house.
Will's two teeth have grown in completely now and they are sharp! He still likes to put everything in his mouth. It is his way of exploring.
William is starting to get a personality. He laughs all the time and it makes us so happy. Anything makes him laugh now. John can just start laughing and William will join in. Its adorable!
Such an adorable boy we have!
William has continued trying new foods. At 7 months, he has now tried rice cereal, sweet potatoes, acorn squash, peas, bananas, apples, pears, and avacoda.
He still gets all his nutrition from breast milk and formula though. He is learning to hold his bottle on his own.
William loves his bouncy toys. Even when he is sitting on your lap, he continues to bounce himself up and down.
Here are some random pictures through the month:
Random videos that are super cute:
William got his foot stuck in the Rainforest Chair.
