Cole's Room

Is it bad that we JUST got stuff up on the walls of Cole's room?? Sheesh....slackers!!! I thought I would finally take some pictures of Cole's room, nothing fancy, but for us it's pretty cute.

I don't like this crabbiness!!!!

I don't know if it's just coincidence or what but ever since I've been back at work and taking Cole to the sitter, he comes home SO crabby!!! He hardly lets me put him down and just wants to be held all night. He does not act like this on the weekends when we are with him all day, it's just during the week. Teresa, our babysitter, says that he's totally happy during the day and just plays and plays. I think our son is telling me that he wants me home with him!!!!! ha!

Does anyone else have this problem??

It could also be that he's got some major teething going on too...he FINALLY cut his first tooth last weekend and has been pretty bothered by it. The other night when I put him to bed, he just cried and cried and he hasn't cried while putting him to bed in months so I knew something was wrong. We gave him some tylenol, baby oragel and then Nick rocked with him till he fell asleep. He just needed a little lovin....:-)
He has still been sleeping fine, he's woken up a couple times in the middle of the night, but has mostly been sleeping through the night. However, last night I woke up around 2:30 to him just playing in his crib and talking to himself, it was quite funny. I think he played for almost an hour, didn't keep me from sleeping though!!! Unless he's crying, I can pretty much sleep through whatever.
Let's just hope this crabby spell goes away quickly, I hate it and it makes me sad that he typically is the happiest baby and with me being gone during the days is making him Mr. Poopy pants.

My Man

1. Who is your man? Nick

2. How long have you been together? A little over 8 years

3. How long did you date? We dated for over 4 years

4. How old is your man? 28

5. Who eats more? Hmmm, tough questions. Normally Nick does, but since I've been breast feeding, definitely me!!!

6. Who said "I love you" first? Geez....me

7. Who is taller? Nick by 5 inches

8. Who sings better?? haha, bless his heart...I do!

9. Who is smarter?? I'd have to say Nick

10. Whose temper is worse? Definitely me

11. Who does the laundry? ME!!! Is that weird that I LOVE doing laundry??

12. Who takes out the garbage? Mostly Nick

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Nick and Benson. However, Nick complains because he's directly under the AC vent and he get's cold...boohoo!!!

14. Who pays the bills? We both pay some

15. Who is better with the computer? Duh...Nick....GEEK!!!

16. Who mows the lawn? Definitely Nick

17. Who cooks dinner? Mostly me

18. Who drives when you are together? We both do, depends on how much traffic we may run into. If there is heavy traffic, you better not stick me behind the wheel!!! ROAD RAGE!!!

19. Who pays when you go out? Does it matter, same account, same money

20. Who is most stubborn? ha! Me by a long shot

21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Nick...because again, I'm stubborn and hate admitting when I'm wrong.

22. Whose parents do you see the most? Usually Nick's because they live in Texas, but this summer we have seen my family more.

23. Who kissed who first? Nick doesn't remember, but I tried kissing him and he denied me...ha! So now I'm not sure who initiated it after that.

24. Who proposed? Duh...Nick

25. Who is more sensitive? Actually, usually Nick...however when I was pregnant I was way sensitive!

26. Who has more friends? Tough call.....probably about the same

27. Who has more siblings? Me - 2 brothers.....Nick - 1 sister

28. Who wears the pants in the family? Nick, I'm trying to be the submissive wife I should be :)

Crazy Sleeper

Cole cracks me up....first off, he is so easy to put down to bed. All we have to do is feed him then lay him down and he'll roll around for awhile, do a few 360's, then finally crash and he never cries. We have a video monitor and it's entertaining sometimes to just watch him. A couple nights ago I looked on the monitor and I see his giant head right in front of the camera and I just laughed, and I wondered to myself how he was even in that position. Nick and I went into his room to see what was going on and poor thing fell asleep in this position....hahaha!!!
You can't really tell from this picture, but when you look on the video monitor, literally all you could see was his face. Sweet boy!!
He's still doing pretty good with the sleeping through the night thing, he hasn't quite been making it to 7:00 every morning, 4:30 one morning, 5:30 the other...but he will go right back to sleep after I feed him a bit and usually I can do that half-asleep! :)

This weekend I have a 3-day weekend and Nick has a 4-day weekend. I'm so excited!!! We have 2 birthday parties, one swim get-together and also having friends to our house...whewww, so much to pile into one weekend.

Never thought this day would come!!!!

It only took 7 months, but Cole has officially slept COMPLETELY through the night for 2 nights straight. Up until this past month, I would normally go in a give him a quick feed right before I would go to bed to just "top him off", and we finally took that feeding out. He did great without it and would wake up at the same time with or without that feeding. He has consistently been waking up at 4:00am for the past month or so and I would go feed him for a few minutes and then he'd go back to bed till about 7:00am. Not a bad sleep schedule, but I wondered when he would sleep completely through the night.
So this weekend Nick's parents were in town and they completely wore him out because he slept from 7:30pm-7:30am and hardly moved. I thought the first night it happend that maybe it was just a fluke thing, that knowing my luck it wouldn't happen again, but sure enough it did!!! It's pretty exciting....it's funny because I remember thinking back to when he was about 3-4 months old and hearing ALL my friends talk about how their babies were sleeping through the night and I was so distraught because I thought Cole was the only one not doing the same. I remember thinking that "I will never get a good nights sleep, ever again!!" Haha!!! When everyone kept telling me that, "things will get better", I seriously never believed them. Well, my time has come and I am SO excited. Hopefully it lasts though, but if not, oh well....he's still the cutest thing ever!

Happy 7 Months Cole!!

Happy 7 Months Cole!!!
In Honor of football season starting and Cole being so excited about his favorite team, we thought we'd dress him in his Vikings jersey.

So Cole, what have you been up to this month?

• You have almost graduated to size 4 diapers - you do wear a size 4 "night-time" diaper at night....thank God for those!!
  
• You weigh about 23lbs
• You still wear 18 month clothes, I think you are starting to finally plateau now that you are more mobile
• You sit completely by yourself and even if you fall you can pretty much catch yourself.
  
• You get in the push-up position and are almost up on all fours, you will be crawling in no time.
• We have now stopped giving you that last feeding before we go to bed and it has worked great. You now sleep from 7:30-4:00am, feed you a little bit, then back to sleep till about 6:45. We are so glad you are now sleeping longer. Probably because you eat so much food!
• In the last couple weeks, you have really started to enjoy your food. We are now eating: Peaches, pears, apples in the morning, along with cereal and sweet potatoes, zucchini, squash, carrots, peas for dinner.
  
• You have been talking a lot and also squealing. You say "baa baa" all the time.
  
• You still love your baths and splash like crazy. However, the only time you get upset when we do bath time is when we have to put your clothes on. You way prefer to be naked!
• You still don't have any separation anxiety, but when people try to take you out of my arms, you just bury your head in my neck and nuzzle in there. It's so cute!
  
• You are still such a happy and smiley baby, you are such a joy to be with and are kind of sad that it has gone so fast! Soon we will be planning your 1st birthday party!
  

What's with this Seeman Family??

Are we bad parents or what?? Letting our child experience his first beer....no no, he didn't actually have any, but the pictures sure are funny!

Grandad, what are you giving to Cole!?!

Emily and Blake.....you guys too!?!!

Grandad and Grandma Tracy are here visiting from Minnesota and Cole sure has had a lot of fun with them. We've been swimming and playing nonstop. As you can see in the video he's just being so silly.

New Family Portraits

Nick and I decided to get some professional family portraits done this weekend because we haven't had any taken since Cole was 6 weeks old. We paid a lot of money for someone to come in and take photos of us, but I think it was definitely worth it. We will cherish these pictures forever!!!

What do you all think??
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Cousin of the Year

Yes, you read correctly....Cole is going to be a cousin, and that means....I'M FINALLY GOING TO FINALLY BE AN AUNTIE!!!! When we arrived at the airport in Milwaukee a few weeks ago, Cole had a present waiting for him from Uncle Ryan and Aunt Rachel. We opened it in the car and this t-shirt was inside. Yay!!!!!!
Ryan and Rachel are expecting their little one February 14th. In about a month they will find out if it's a boy or a girl...but I know what it is already, well not technically, but I have a VERY strong intuition. ha!
Congratulations Ryan and Rachel!!! Can't wait to meet the little one!

Just Plain Cute

Nothing better than a giggling baby!!!!!