A Festivus for the rest of us - Week 18

Henry and Emily - a.k.a. Girlfriend #2

Week 18 for our guy was the official start of the holiday season. On Wednesday, Laura took Henry back to Nordie's Cafe to meet up with the other Hallmark mom's that are currently out on maternity leave. As you can see, Henry was much more well behaved than the last time. However, those rings that he is holding below were stolen from Katelyn, who is sitting next to him. That must be why Henry looks as if he is bracing to get hit, and Katelyn looks like she is winding up for a right-cross!

Lawson, Katelyn, Henry, Audrey

On Friday, Laura had her annual ugly sweater party at Jenni's house. Thanks to some very appropriate gifts from Reggie's mom last Christmas, she was more than prepared this year, including her own Santa belt complete with cupholders! While she went to the party, Henry and Reggie headed over to Ryan Lorei's house for a 'guy's night'. His son Reece was already asleep, so Reggie and Ryan watched 'The Town' and took turns giving Henry life advice for a guy. For instance, if a woman tells you she will be ready in 5 minutes, go ahead and turn on the tv. It will be 30. Also, as a guy you always need to HYB (Handle Your Business)! Anyways, Laura and Ryan's wife Ashley came back from the party and we headed home around 12:30.

Getting home late didn't bode too well for the next morning, when we needed to be at Reggie's extended family Christmas 2hrs. away. In addition to the general slowdown that comes with having a baby, Laura didn't feel too well (I will let you determine why that was - hint: see above :) ). Anyways, we got to the Christmas an hour and a half late, but were in time for lunch at least! Henry got there and had a nice pile of presents from the aunts. As always, there were no shortage of people wanting to hold him! Following the extended Bogart xmas, we went to Reggie's dad's house for Christmas with that side of his family. Henry really enjoyed playing with his grandparents, and he got some great gifts!

Three generations of Bogart men!

Monday was a big day. For starters, we had Henry's orientation at his daycare facility. As I think has been written previously, he is headed to daycare in mid-January and in a room with a number of kids of friends of ours. As expected, this was an extremely difficult thing for Laura, as it symbolizes her having to go back to work and leave our guy. Other than a few tears in the parking lot and within the first couple of minutes of walking into the center, she did great and feels better about the whole thing afterward.



I love presents!!!



We did our family Christmas on Monday night. As you may have guessed, Reggie waited until Sunday to buy anything! It really is an odd Christmas for us (and I guess a number of parents) when it came to buying for Henry. Obviously, he can't open his gifts, or understand anything he is getting. All he wants to do is put whatever he gets into his mouth! So, we decided to each buy a couple independently so that at least the other parent would be surprised when the gift was opened. Thanks to good ol' dad, Henry now is a proud owner of a 6-9 month KC Royals onesie for April!!!!



Best. Gift. Ever.



On Tuesday night, our friends Chalice and Matt Lafferty (and Lola and Annie) came in from Chicago to visit. Chalice is one of Laura's good college friends from her sorority. She is an elementary teacher in Chicago, so it was no surprise when she showed up that she had a big bag for crafts for us to make our own rubber ducks for Henry! We took them to Kona for dinner, where there was a bit of scene caused. One of Henry's girlfriends, Sara (SEE I SPELLED IT RIGHT), was there and was none too happy that another woman was there with him. There was a bit of a catfight, but Henry was able to settle her down before Chalice lost too much hair!

"Don't mess with my guy!"

We took the Laffertys to Oklahoma Joe's for lunch on Wednesday. Luckily Henry was much better behaved than a few weeks ago. We were starting to think that he didn't like OK Joe's, which I would consider a parenting failure on our part!

Z-man/fry please!!!!

Developmentally, Henry had his 4-month checkup on Friday. His stats are 12lbs, 12oz, which is in the 20-25th percentile. He is 24.25 inches long, which is in the 50th percentile, and has a 17" noggin, which is the 75th percentile. What I deduce from this is that he is average height, but really smart. But then again, he is a Bogart, so was there any question he would be smart! :) Also, we found out that our little guy has a bit of a nubbin (i.e. 3rd nipple)! Essentially, it is just some extra tissue. It is barely noticeable, and will go away as he grows, but it was really funny! She said he is doing great, and it "following his growth path beautifully!"

The Laffertys

Keeping watch - Annie, Lola, and Bella



Chalice and Henry