Happy Valentine's Day! We celebrated on Friday instead. Johnny made us a finger painting at school and he bought Daddy a bouquet of chocolate covered strawberries. Yummy! 
Sorry I mi
ssed Johnny's 7 month old update. The holidays and year end close at work have left no time for this blog! ; ) We had a great first Christmas with Johnny. We spent about a week in Paxton and visited all of the families. Paul's sister and her husband (Kate & Ken) were able to make it home from San Diego so it was great to spend time with them as well. We also got to go out with them on New Year's Eve for dinner and to a bar which was great to get out!
I just wanted to post a little something in remembrance of my Grandma Schofield. She passed quickly and unexpectedly in early January. She was an amazing woman who I adored and a day hasn't passed since then that I haven't thought about her. Most of my childhood memories are with her because Shell & I spent so much of our time with her growing up. We were lucky enough to spend Christmas day with her (the picture of her w/Johnny above) and we have so many memories of her to carry with us. I'm so glad that she got to meet Johnny but wish she could have seen him grow up a little more and he could have gotten to know her. She loved us so much and the feeling was mutual. I received a sympathy card with the following poem on it and I still read it often when I'm thinking of her. (pic below is after my baby shower in March)
Johnny is 6 months old! He weighed in at 19 lbs 3 ozs (75th-90th percentile) and 28 3/4 inches (off the charts again!). The doctor said that his length is the average size of an 11 month old!
November was another great month. Johnny is getting used to the winter weather and usually laughs every morning when we go out to the car because he gets a chill and think's it's so funny. He is still full of smiles and lots of babbling. He has had a couple of pretty bad cases of eczema this month so we're trying to manage that. He is also still battling his cold every now and then but putting up with a constant runny nose even when he's not congested. That's one of the joys of daycare! We couldn't be happier with his daycare. His teachers still adore him and he adores them as well. He gets this huge smile every morning when I drop him off so we can't ask for much more. 
He also got his 1st tooth the day after Thanksgiving! We spent Thanksgiving with the Quinlan's & Schofield's this year and Johnny did pretty well for his 1st holiday for a long day with a lot of people!
Johnny & I went to Bloomington the weekend before Thankgsiving to go to his cousin Grayson's 7th birthday party. It was a lot of fun. Johnny could watch Grayson play for hours. You can tell he just can't wait to be able to get up and run around with Grayson.
Johnny is now 5 months old! October was a busy month. We took Johnny to a Halloween festival in Chicago and made several trips home to visit grandparents (including Gma Rodeen's HUGE pumpkins!) and one for Mommy & Daddy to go tailgating : )
Johnny was a tiger for his first Halloween. They had a party at school and looked like the kids all enjoyed themselves. We aren't sure what Johnny thought of his costume. He kept looking at Paul & I like "What are you staring at? What's so funny?!?" 
Johnny had his 4 month check-up today and he weighs 16 lbs 14 oz and is 27 inches long! That's the 90th percentile for weight and as the doctor put it, "off the charts" for height. We have a big boy on our hands! Paul is already wondering what we're going to have feed this little man once he starts eating real food. He's doing great developmentally and he actually rolled over for the 1st time at his doctor's appointment while we were waiting for her to come in! I kept putting him back on his back to make sure I wasn't seeing things but he repeated it 3 times. He's still chewing on his fists and anything else he can get in his mouth. He loves to grab his toes now, too. He's had a cold for 2 weeks now which has been tough but we're getting through it (with just a little sleep deprivation!). He also started daycare on September 22 and seems to be doing well. We love the people there and feel like he's in good hands. The teachers are in love with him already and can't wait to give him kisses every morning when I drop him off. They say he's an easy baby and only cries when he's hungry or needs changed which is nice to hear. He's still all smiles at night which makes us feel good, too.
