Quiet Weekend

This weekend was quite quiet. Dad had a bad cold and a dual bacterial eye infection. No contact lens wearing for several days and no Sean contact - awful! Sunday dad could finally play with Sean again.

Sean's strength and hand coordination continue to increase. He has at least one gas attack daily now - Mylicon is liquid gold around here. It is amazing how quick it works - what did parents do before?

Friday we did take Sean to ISP's booth at the Galveston County Fair BBQ cook-off. Sean (and Barbara and Joanne) met several of Dave's co-workers for the first time. Apparently Dave actually appears human now that he has a child.

Saturday was slow. Sean slept all day, except at church! After church we went to The Spaghetti Warehouse - for the first time in a long time. They are owned by Consolidated Restaurant Operations - a holding company for Texas based chains.

Sean is 50% of the way to holding his own bottle!

Tummy time

Sitting in daddy's chair

A Picture by Dziadziu

4/24/07 Visit

On Tuesday the Pasta Grandparents helped babysit while Joanne and Barb exercised. Afterwards, it was extended family time. Joanne helped Sean search on Google and then Sean repaid her by wearing his "I love my aunt" bib.

Sean David Weight Update

iFest Weekend

Sunday night, Sean rests. Sean has had a few severe crying fits in the last 4 days or so. Current root cause analysis indicates a possible relationship to gas pain caused by Mom's brie consumption.

Saturday the Pasta clan went to the Houston International Festival with Darlene and Kerry. This year's focus was on China.

The group stops to listen to Jimmy LaFave. Darlene plays with the new baby and Kerry plays with his new Blackberry.

After iFest we all had dinner at Goode Company BBQ. Not bad, but just no comparison to Grand Prize in Texas City!

Sunday was a work day. Mom mowed and grocery shopped and dad worked on 52 year old home repair.

Here Sean , in the bouncer at left, supervises Dad patching old holes in the garage walls. It is now irrefutable that the house walls were painted maroon and the eaves pistachio before the current beige color. Wow! Eeeewww!

Sean starting a crunch. He did his first (witnessed) sit-up last week reaching for his "Quarter Horse", below. Today at Mass he spent most of the time trying to sit-up. We sat with the Johnson's - Abagail was very helpful in keeping Sean's pacifier in place.

Dziadziu Pasta won the Quarter Horse in an online horse betting (handicapping) contest with Delta Downs. It is a bank, and when money is inserted it moves and makes horse sounds.

Woodlands Weekend

Barley finally accepted her new shared life with Sean. Sean, at this point, oblivious. What cat?

Sean has had a busy developmental week. He made peace with the fact that he has "hands" attached to "arms" that are under his control! In fact, he can use the hands and arms to push his pacifier back into his mouth! Sean also started doing sit-ups in his child seat, trying to reach objects in his lap. He also tries to grab things, with limited success. Glasses and hair watch out!

Aunt Heather snuggles with Sean

Elissa finally winds down Saturday night

Sunday the Pasta family went to the Woodlands Waterway Art Festival. Over 200 booths on the relatively new waterway. Beautiful! Except for visible construction the photos look to me like artist's renderings. We spent several hours at the festival and then walked through Market Street. The area as a whole is an impressive venue.

The Woodlands was started by a Federal program to create urban centers outside of large cities. It was the only successful project in the program and only took off after George Mitchell bought it in 1974. Mitchell is a very successful oil and gas explorer who went on to conduct major revitalization projects in his native Galveston.

Easter in Kerrville

We spent Easter in Kerrville. Friday was great. The weather was awesome. David biked ahead of the group to Fredericksburg to get 20 miles in - the first of the year.

We picnicked outside of Fredericksburg and then drove to Llano to see the wildflowers.

Saturday was completely different. High of 36F and rain and sleet. In Kerrville that means (for Dave) read the Kerrville, Austin and San Antonio papers and THEN go to the sMall - what locals call the very small mall. Sean took his picture with the Easter Bunny at the sMall.

Sunday we went to Easter service at 1st Pres. - great as always.

Sean, over the weekend, really started to grab at objects and bat them around. See video and other pics HERE.

First off, some wildflowers - above a prickly poppy

A field of Bluebonnets outside Llano

Sean getting gussied up

Is this really my style???

Sean on TV!

Sean's bluebonnet picture (see below) was featured on the weather broadcast on Fox's local newscast this evening, thanks to Uncle Greg's meddling! Click HERE

In other breaking Sean news: he now realizes he has a right arm and can use it to bang on the baby swing tray.

Bluebonnet Outing

First, some Sean updates. His weight steadily progresses - he is up to 12.1 lbs. He smiles all the time. He is now somewhat aware that his hands actually belong to him. He is making jittery attempts, sometimes successful, to target and grab things. He is probably going through a growth spurt right now - he has been awake for a total of 45 minutes today, not including eating!

Saturday night the Carters came over to visit. Their oldest tried to encourage Sean to dance while we all watched Florida advance to play Ohio State for the NCAA Basketball title.

The junior Pastas and Boyces, along with uncle Greg, picnicked at Washington on the Brazos on Sunday. This was once the site of the national capitol of the Republic of Texas.

We were out-and-about taking part in an annual Texas tradition - taking pictures of children buried in wildflowers. The initial picnic went fine, however the kids were tired by picture time.

Greg and Elissa play "Elissa tosses the football in any direction and watches Greg try to catch it."

Sean has little interest in his first bluebonnet picture - see all the pictures HERE.

The last straw - cute sibling picture is derailed by cranky, hot, children