Cute kid post, and no more SONIC

So many people say I don't post about the two cutest kids in the world enough (ok, so I'm a little biased), so I figured I'd post a couple recent pics. This was Cara kissing Micah, he looks a little scared in the picture, but he was smiling and cooing at her.

Micah is really holding his head up well. I weighed him (both of us, and then just me) last week, and he was around 14.5 pounds! He's almost too long for his 3-6 month clothes!! It's crazy how fast he's growing.

This is a picture of Cara and Eric playing in the front yard. He had been chasing her around playing with a ball, and then she wanted to sit down and rip leaves into little pieces :), so as any good Daddy would, he helped!

I was very excited today because Micah took a bottle. Read here about our last attempt (well, he had one on 12/12 when my mom watched him for our Christmas party, and it was pretty much a train wreck as well). Lately, he's been spitting up a LOT in the mornings, and I chalk it up to me being so full (since he goes for about 10-11 hours usually, like last night 7:30-5:45). So today after we got home from bible study, he was due to eat at 11:45, and held off until about 12:20. So I fed him about 7 minutes on one side, and we (he) burped. Then we (he) spit up a little. And I thought, ok, then I'm not going to feed him on the other side. I laid him down and went to pump, and originally I was just going to freeze it. However, he got a little fussy, so I thought, I'd just give him the bottle and see how he handles it. Instead of the evenflo angled bottle I tried the first time, I just stuck a medela nipple on the bottle I pumped (all of .75 ounces into, what's up with that?) into, and he took it like a champ! WOO HOO. I was getting worried because my mom is going to watch him on 3/21 when I have an adult only wedding at 3 pm....plus reception. I'm assuming we won't be home until 10 or so and he'll need 2-3 bottles! And, I have tons of frozen breastmilk and I don't want it to go to waste! :)

On another note, Eric and I have really buckled down and are setting much stricter goals for our budgets. We lowered our blow money to $60/month ($30 each)--CASH, and I was going to be an awesome wife and use some of mine on Sonic drinks today. We had a bit of an obsession in the months after Micah was born, fueled by 3 $10 gift cards Eric got for Christmas from kiddos at school. I went after bible study, ordered a small lemonade (for C), a medium vanilla coke, easy ice for me, and a medium watermelon vanilla coke for E. It was $4.58 (it was my fault for not going during happy hour). And then, on top of that, they got our order wrong! She handed me a coke and said "regular coke, easy ice" I said, it's supposed to be vanilla coke, she said, oh yeah, it is. Then she handed me a vanilla coke, and says she put a cherry in it, is that ok (weird), I said fine, but it's supposed to be watermelon vanilla coke. So she reached over to put in watermelon in it (because I go through the drive through because I don't like to tip there). So I drive off, take a sip, and there's no vanilla in mine. I'm totally bummed, that's the whole reason I go. And this isn't the first time it has happened. So, I told Eric when I took him his drink, that I'm done with paying for Sonic. IF we get gift cards, we'll go, but until that day, we are going cold turkey :) Ok, enough of this random post, I gotta go clean my kitchen!