Glad to be home!

Momma's home! Boy, did I miss my Matt and my Reese. I was only gone for 4 days and 3 nights, but it seemed like a long time and Reese changed so much. When I got home, she was even more bright eyed and active than before I left. It also seemed like she didn't miss me as much as I missed her. It took her a day to start smiling at me again.

I did enjoy my time in Las Vegas! On Sunday night, I went to see The Beatles Love. It was really good and really expensive. Vegas is not cheap!

The conference was good. I saw a lot of my Oracle friends and made some new contacts. And the classes were pretty good too.

I was treated to two delicious dinners at Tao in the Venetian and Table 10 in Palazzo. I also played craps one night. It bet $20 and was entertained for at least an hour before I lost it all.

After the Beatles show, we walked to the light fountain at the Bellagio. I always enjoy watching it! I must say, two things I do not like about Vegas are the dry heat and the smoke. My skin was dry and I was always thirsty. You can smoke anywhere, so the second hand smoke gets old fast.

Me, posing like a tourist, in the Mirage hotel where the conference was held and where we stayed.
I arrived back home Wednesday night. Matt and Grandma kept Reese up so I could feed her and put her down.

This is Reese on Thursday morning; now she sleeps on her side sometimes. I'm telling you she is always changing! As of last night (Saturday) she is sleeping without here swaddle. We gradually weaned her from it. We were wrapping her legs and she would usually get out of it before morning. Speaking of weaning; Reese is no longer breastfeeding. She is all formula, cereal and baby food now. I would have breastfed longer, but I was not able to pump at work anymore; the days are too busy. So I had dropped to 2 times a day and then once a day until there was no more milk. The Vegas trip helped us both to finalize the weaning process since I was gone for an extended period.

On Thursday night, we took Dad and Grandma to the Astros - Rangers game. It was Grandma's first major league ball game and Dad's first time at Minute Maid park. Mom kept Reese as we figured she wouldn't like to crowd or the noise. The Astros won! Grandma said that the Rangers had more runs over the past 6 games (they were tied 3 to 3 in the two series) so they won the Silver Boot. We had great seats on the 1st base line close to right field. We enjoyed chili cheese dogs and cotton candy.

I only managed to get one shot of Dad and Reese after the game. She was still up when we got home, so Dad got to hold her a little while. Dad left early on Friday morning at 5:30 a.m.

Reese is still enjoying her exersaucer. It's neat to watch her figure out how to spin the toys. She trys to chew everything too.

Saturday, we got up early and headed to Khol's and Target with Mom. Then we hung out at Mom's house and assembled Reese's other exersaucer which stays at Mom's house.

Sam is doing well, but is very very tired. He is anemic which doesn't help. He got an iron shot on Friday, so we are hoping that will help. He has two more weeks of summer school and then he'll have a break before the school year begins.

Saturday night, Robert and Victoria came over for dessert. They are expecting their first child in November. We are so excited for them! Right now, we have lots of friends expecting: Todd and Leslie are due in January and Amanda and Pete are due in October.

Reese is growing so much that we had to break out her big girl "ducky" bath towel.

Reese, you are the absolute cutest baby!

We think baby girl is teething (well she's been on the verge for a while now) because she's been more fussy lately and chews big time on her toys and blankets. I gave her Orajel the other night as she was so fussy and her blanket was sopping wet from her chewing on it. Today she was running a low grade fever at 100.2. We gave her some Tylenol and she seems better. Last time I checked her temperature it was down to 99.7. Poor baby!

Matt and I went to church this morning. It was the first time we have been since Christmas Mass! We found the crying room and plan to start taking Reese. We have our baptism class on Tuesday and will be scheduling her Christening soon.

Tonight, we met Todd and Leslie for dinner at Collina's. We had planned to take Reese, but decided to leave her with Grandma since she was still not feeling well. You wouldn't know she felt bad from the pictures.