Bean's First Meal

Lane conducting the FWSO

Bean's first symphony concert!

At the end of June we went to the Fort Worth Symphony's Concert in the Garden Series. They played popular movie music, like the themes from Star Wars and Indiana Jones, along with a really neat laser show and fireworks in the second half. It was at the Ft. Worth Botanic Gardens. We had a great time. I packed a picnic dinner and a blanket and we were on our way! Here are some pictures. I will post a short movie too!

Yes, I cut my hair even shorter!! I know Lane looks a little overdressed but I was worried about mosquitoes. It turned out that we didn't see any the whole night!

Here's The Daddy carrying all of the gear.

Making our way into the gardens.

Daddy and Baby


He was enthralled with everything around him, the trees, music, people, birds.

All dressed up at the symphony.

"Daddy told me to get dressed up so I wore my monkey suit. Later on Daddy told me that a monkey suit is actually a tuxedo. Who knew?" -quoted from Bean

LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture!!! This will be on my desk at work.

I have started running again and I joined the Luke's Locker half marathon training program, which concludes with the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon in December. This is my attempt at losing my baby weight. So I had to get a running stroller to take the Bean with me. He enjoys his early morning rides and Daddy enjoys getting uninterrupted sleep before work in the morning.

We've also been busy working on our landscaping. Here is our planter filled with flowers. I hate to report that it doesn't look this great anymore. Flowers don't do so well in our horrible Texas heat. Hopefully they'll come back though with some extra watering. Jason put in new stone edgers in the backyard as well. Grandpa Roger came over a few weeks ago and helped out a lot with cleaning up our existing bushes, pruning trees and mowing. It looks so much better! I will take pictures when the project is complete, we still need to mulch.

Daddy and Baby taking a break.

I got a new baby carrier last week which I absolutely LOVE! It's called an Ergo and it's like a baby backpack, with big thick padded straps and waist band. It makes carrying Lane a lot more comfortable. You can wear it forward facing or on your back (once Lane gets a little bigger). Unfortunately we've outgrown our Moby wrap, it starts to hurt my back and shoulders so we had to upgrade. Here is daddy modeling it. He was actually able to "wear" Lane to sleep with a few walks around the block while I was at the store.

Yes, Lane is actually in there. Jason put the sleeping hood up for him to block out the light and hold up his head.

Lane is now 19 pounds. Yes, he is a CHUNK, but we are of the opinion that fat babies are extra cute. He is five months old and in 9 month clothes. He's been very active lately, lots of new noises and raspberries. He gets on his tummy and "swims" because he wants to crawl. He reaches for everything and anything and puts it in his mouth. He is teething now too, which has not been fun for anyone but hopefully we'll see a tooth soon!