Hurricane's and Earthquakes- Oh my!

We are getting ready for the hurricane here! I went out and got 3 cases of water at Sam's Club yesterday as well as some soup, granola bars and nuts. Hopefully if we were to lose power that should be enough. The store was nuts, you would have thought it was Christmas! Every single line was full and everyone had there carts full of water. My friend went to the grocery store this morning and said they were all ready out of water and batteries. Where we live in Old Bridge is only about 10 miles from the ocean, not that the waves are going to reach us that far, but we are in an area prone to flooding. Allot of people in our neighborhood and this area have problems with there basements flooding when there are bad storms. We don't have a basement, but live in a tri-level so I am not sure if the lower level could be a problem. We are still keeping our options open with the possibility of just heading back to Indiana, but we are going to wait until morning and make a decision. Lower Manhattan has started to evacuate and many of the beach towns surrounding us. I have started packing us bags if we need to leave. Just trusting the Lord right now!

Sushi Roll Bowl!

Here is a fun and easy dinner we had tonight. If you like California rolls you will like this! It is pretty healthy too! I got it out of Parenting magazine and was drawn to it because it sounded like something Isaac would like as well...he ate it up!

4 cups Cooked Brown Rice ( I always use the boil in bag kind)
1 cucumber diced
1 avocado diced
1 package crab meat

Just fill your bowl with rice and top with each of the other ingredients and lightly mix it. Top it off with soy sauce, ginger or wasabi and voila...a light a yummy meal.

6 months old

As of August 8th, Beau is a six month old and weighs 15.4 pounds and is 26 1/2 inches long. He is just a little guy, at least for now! His weight puts him in the tenth percentile compared to other babies his age and he is in the fiftieth for height, so he is average. I was a little worried to hear he was only in the tenth percentile, but my doctor was not concerned at all and said he is growing just fine I am doing everything I need to be. My honest opinion is it is because he is so active he is not gaining allot of weight. We have started him on solids and he is doing pretty good with them, so I am hoping this will help fatten him up a bit!

Here are some of Beau's milestones he has reached so far...I think all that is left is walking and talking...oh my!

11 weeks old- rolling over

4 months old- gets up on hands and knees

5 months old scooting and rocking back and forth on hands and knees

5 1/2 month- starting to crawl
6 months- crawling and pulling himself to stand (on furniture, the tub, me...anything! Usually when he wakes up from his nap he is standing in his bed when we go to get him! That is all Beau wants to do is stand right now. He has not figured out how to get back down once he gets standing though so he will just stand there until someone gets him or else he just falls. )

With all these big feats being conquered in such a small little package makes me a nervous mama! The poor little guy is constantly falling or bumping his head on something because he is still not quite stable. When Isaac was a baby we didn't have this much space or things/places to get into...so it's totally different. We have stairs here and hard floors, we had to move our coffee table into the garage for now because it has so many hard edges and he was getting under it trying to stand up to it to it. I can not leave him for a second cause you never know where he may end up! There is no stopping him now! He is ready to take on the world and I think he is going to be a real go getter and will be able to do anything he sets his mind to! He is going to need lots of prayer! He loves his big brother Isaac and his whole face lights up when he sees him! You can tell he wants to be just like him and is doing a pretty good job trying keep up with him! I didn't envision them interacting this much until Beau was at least a year old, but Beau plays with all Isaac's toys, crawls on him and tries to be a part of whatever Isaac is doing. It is so amazing watch these two! I pray that they remain forever friends!