Daddy and Declan, sitting in a tree :)

They love each other and they are just two little peas in a pod. Very cute. Never gets old. Never.

Daddy teaching his son some awesome tricks that mommy loooooooves 

Two cute for words

Crazy man!

No wine for you!

Like father like son...

We had Declan's 6 month appt this past Wednesday and the following are his stats:

Length: 26 inches - 25%ile
Weight: 18lbs 8oz - 50%ile
Head: 44.45cm - 50-75%ile

The following are Paul's stats at 6 months:
Length: 26 inches
Weight: 18lbs 9oz

WHAT?!?!?!?! Hilarious - little buddy is tracking right with his daddy! Very cute and I know Paul loves that for the time being, he has a little "mini me" - I'm sure next visit will be completely off but very cool to think that Declan and his daddy, at 6 months of age, were the exact same size. Genetics, I tell ya.

Side note - we got more vaccinations this go round and while I was expecting the worst, Declan surprised me again. He has always done well with them but we've had to in the past give him some Tylenol at night because he was a fuss-pot and hurting a little bit. This time, I brought the Tylenol with because the dr said on the third round they usually are a little fussier and it bothers them more than previous go-rounds. Not this kid! He cried for about 5 seconds then got back to his flirt session with this nurse. Came home, took a 3 hour nap, ate a good dinner then slept all night and woke up the next day peachy! PHEW! We have one tough cookie! Atta baby :)

PHOTO SESH!!!!!

Declan's learning to smile better for the camera - take the next 89302 photos for example. After he finished his bottle we were cuddling and I took out the camera to take some self photos - he was a smilin' fool and didn't even need prompting! That's my boy!!!

MMMM I LOVE MY BOTTLE

Look at that chunky kid - I just want to eat him up!!!!

Excuse me in this picture - he is just so damn cute so had to post

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST HUSBAND AND DADDY IN THE WORLD!!!!

While we weren't able to spend the day lounging as a family (sounds heavenly....maybe in December ;)  ), it was pretty much par for the course for what our life is like these days :). Declan woke up happy as a clam, we played for about an hour and a half, Declan went down for his nap, I did work around the house and Paul went off to CU for his pregame breakfast and first regular season game vs Wyoming (which they won thank HEAVENS!!!) A couple of our good friends came over after the game and we just hung out on the deck, took lots of pictures, laughed at Declan and just all in all enjoyed a beautiful Colorado night together. Baby, I hope you had a wonderful first birthday as a father! You are the absolute greatest.........
      Here are a couple pics we snapped along the way :) Declan's latest and greatest trick is to stick his tongue out straight down and wag it like a puppy.........all.the.time. No clue where this is coming from but its hysterical so here ya go.

Josh and baby Deco! hung out like this most of the game

Declan loooooves him some puppy!

Aunt Trace Face and that dang tongue!

One of my favorite faces

Tired of the pics, mom seriously, enough......

Chowing on some pizza - yes, chowing. He loved......what's new, Declan likes food.....

The tongue in action:

    

TOP CHEF RULES!

As anyone who knows Paul and I knows we looooove food and cooking and eating and watching cooking shows etc etc etc - anything that has to do with the culinary world, we love :) Last year Paul had an awesome idea to do a Top Chef competition with his CU girls and it went so well they upped the ante this year and went for it again! Here are some pics from a couple nights ago....

    Team Mexico came out on top but let me tell you, we had Team Italy cooking for 4 hours at our house and not only did the house still smell good the next day but I had the leftovers for lunch the next two days and it was deeeeelightful. These little hot chicas can cook! Continues to amaze me how talented these young women are, and Paul is SO lucky to be able to work with them on a daily basis. Being a college athlete, you are asked to do much more than the normal college student and they excel and really seem to thrive in this setting. These girls are pretty special and we always talk about how awesome it is to be able to bring Declan up around such a phenomenal group of people. Our family away from family :)

    Side note, little Deco loved him some guacamole from Team Mexico - not sure but his vote might have put them over the edge.......................... ;)

Big Winnas!

Bonjour Shayelyn ;) Team France!

Team Greece - Baklava was ridiculous!

GO AMERICA - I might have eaten every deviled egg they made.......good work ladies

GO ITALY!!! Minor chaotic beginning but I still love ya ;)

Declan and Aunt Twacy!!!!

happy boy with miss maggi steury!

hanging with daddy

Sliding with Kate :)

A little Saturday afternoon petting zoo

Why not? Right up the street from our house today there was a little festival shakin' down and there was a petting zoo that Paul and I thought might be fun to take Declan to. He LOOOOVES dogs and always gets a kick out of playing with them so we figured this would be right up his alley. Turns out he was way more into the other kids that were there and not so much the animals. Go figure. Our little social butterfly......

Smiling at the girl who was telling us about the donkey rather than actually checking out the donkey....

mmmm not sure about this

yea, dad, seriously........let's get on with it already, I wanna check out the girls here

Petting the cow that makes the milk that he's allergic to. awesome!

....aaaaaaaaaand we're crawling

CRAWL CENTRAL!

I can't hardly believe it. This was not supposed to happen so soon!!!! He's been getting up on all fours since my parents were out here and slowly but surely he's been trying to figure out how this crawling business works and finaalllllly yesterday he really started moving and he hasn't stopped since! He's got the tummy shuffle down! Currently we're rocking the army crawl, just waiting for when he REALLY gets moving. We're already in massive trouble as he's a little wild man, super determined and extremely focused............as you can see. He wants nothing to do with me, just wants to get to his toys and he wants to get there NOW. 

A little bit of the build up:

hi mommy.........I'm too cute to get in trouble.................right?!?!?!?!