Sunday, August 31, 2008

Baby Dedication

Today our church Bridgeway Community Church conducted its Baby Dedication Ceremony. So on that day we dedicated Christian. For those who may not know what a Baby Dedication is let me tell you all about it. 

A Baby Dedication is a ceremony in which believing parents (Harlan and I) make a commitment before God to submit a child (Christian) to God's will and to raise that child according to God's Word and God's ways. 

So Harlan and I made a promise to God to do everything with our power to raise Christian in a godly way, prayerfully until Christian can make a decision on his own to follow God. Therefore we vow to teach and train Christian in God's Word and demonstrate an example of godliness.

So during the ceremony there was a video playing of Harlan and I stating why we wanted to dedicate Christian. During this time my brother Jacques was trying to take pictures while we were on stage. Since he couldn't get a good shot of us on stage with my phone (because everyone left their cameras) he decided to take a picture of the screen with us projected on it. They didn't turn out to bad. Thanks Jacques! BTW...Christian slept through the entire ceremony.





So here is some of the family. Starting from left to right we have my brother Jacques, his girlfriend Jeanette, her daughter Jasmine and her son Isaiah. My niece Alia (my sister's daughter). Jacques two sons Keyshawn and Jacques. 

We didn't get a photo of all the other family members who joined us on this special day so I will give them all a shout out. My mom Nettora, my mother-in-law Alethea, my father-in-law Vincent, my sister-in-law Renicia and her boyfriend Brian. My two grandmothers-in-law Jeanne and June. It was a wonderful day and I'm so glad we got to spend it with family.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Throwback Thursday

Here is Mr. C and Daddy when he was only 2 weeks old!

Saturday, August 23, 2008

The Meadowlands

As you know it is FOOTBALL season. All the men will be leaving their wives to go to their man caves or someone else's man cave to hibernate for the rest of the season. Well the Roberts men and woman decided to mosey ourselves to New Jersey to catch the NY Giants vs. the NY Jets pre-season game. That's right another game. We just love Harlan's job! They are so generous to bless us with tickets to different games. Just so you know I am so not a NY Giants nor a NY Jets fan!! Harlan is a Giants fan and I am a Indianapolis Colts fan. So of course Mr. C is going to follow in his mother's footsteps and be a Colts fan too! Daddy was trying to convert him over at the game tonight. Mommy is so not having that!


Mr. C wasn't to impressed with the game. I think he realized that he'd rather be at a Colts game. Besides, the Giants ended up losing so daddy wasn't to happy. We enjoyed ourselves though. It wasn't a good game but it was good to be able to make it to the game. Go Colts!!


Friday, August 22, 2008

My iPhone

The other night Mr. C and Daddy spent some father son time together. Harlan was showing Mr. C a cartoon on his iPhone which he just loves. Mr. C was really into it as you can see in the picture below.

Daddy even let Mr. C pick his own cartoon. Mr. C was really thrilled that he was able to handle the iPhone on his own.
Well as soon as Daddy took the iPhone away, Mr. C went wild. He started attacking Harlan. 
He grabbed his nose and demanded Daddy to give him back the iPhone. After Daddy was beaten up by Mr. C he gave in. He couldn't keep Mr. C off him so he gave him the iPhone. 
That's why mommy doesn't let Mr. C play with her iPhone because she already knows she is no match up against Mr. C aka Quick Hands C.

My Big Boy

My little baby boy that I use to know is gone. He grew up to be a big boy! Yes indeed, Mr. C has grown so much these past few months. He is now mobile and it's hard to keep up with him. He is officially crawling. He's not to fast yet but if you turn away he'll be gone. He is in everything around the house. He loves pulling all the DVD's out from the TV. It's funny to see how adventurous he is and curious to know about everything around him. If he notices something he will make a dash for it to see what it is and of course to see how it tastes. That's one of my concerns now that he mobile. Mr. C sticks any and everything in his mouth. Just last weekend he ate a piece of a paper towel and I didn't realize it until he had already swallowed it. I hurried to put my finger down his throat so he could barf it up but no paper towel. About five minutes later he spit up with the paper towel in his vomit. I cannot take my eyes off this little guy for a second. 

Now that Mr. C is officially crawling and able to pull up on things, this is how he wakes up in the morning and after a nap. He pulls up on his knees looking over his crib as if to say "Where is everybody?" And of course he does it with a big smile on his face. He's such a happy baby. 


Soon we will have to lower his crib or the little thing will tumble over the side. He has not pulled up onto his feet yet so we can probably hold off a little while on lowering the crib. It takes me to wait until the child is actually pulling up on his feet to lower it. I think I'll lower it this weekend. I don't want my little baby falling over the side of his crib. 

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Throwback Thursday

Here is Mr. C at 1 week old. I loved when he was this age. All he did was sleep and this was one of his favorite positions. 


Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Monday, August 11, 2008

Infant Massage

Mr. C had a wonderful time on Saturday (as did mommy and daddy). He was a baby volunteer at the Potomac Massage Training Institute in Washington D.C. They had about 5 baby volunteers that day. Mr. C did exceptionally well. The way it worked was the students used a doll as their baby while the parents used their own baby to massage. The students taught us different massage techniques which Mr. C loved. We worked with two of the students Jessica and Tracy. We attempted different techniques for about an hour. Jessica and Tracy were great. The massage was so great that later that night Mr. C slept for 8 hours. This is the longest he has ever slept in his life. I was very impressed. The next night (Sunday night) he slept 10 hours. We will definitely continue with the infant massage if they get Mr. C some extra Z's at night. Mommy is very happy that the little one is sleeping through the night (at least the past two nights anyway). 

Well we've decided to share what we went over with our readers. Below is everything we covered just in case you would like to try it on your baby.

Legs
  • begin working on the legs
  • touch and hold the leg
  • use slow meaningful strokes from babies ankle to the top of the thigh
  • use nice even pressure all the way up pressing of the leg from the ankle up
Feet
  • bottom feet slow pressure points (you can also stroke bottom of feet. this tickled Mr. C so we use the pressure point technique)
  • pressure on the top of the foot, small pressure points on each toe to the top of the foot
  • touch hold on the foot
Back
  • small circles on the shoulder blades
  • when baby is sitting, support him/her in the front with your hands and continue with thumb spreading going from either side of the spine out (do this very slow)
Buttocks
  • small circles on each cheek (one side at a time)
  • fan fingers from the crack out (helps with constipation)
  • hip circles with three fingers (more fingers better, it gives baby a little less stimulation which helps to organize the baby's mind. you don't want to overstimulate)
Arms
  • press on the arms starting from the shoulder and going down to the wrist
  • you can follow the same movements completed on the legs.
You can use grapeseed oil to do the massage 


Friday, August 8, 2008

Mr. Giggles

I just took a workshop on how to use my iMovie software, so here is my first project. It's very basic as I'm still trying to master it. I have a long way to go so work with me.


Thursday, August 7, 2008

Throwback Thursday

Ok...since there is a Wordless Wednesday I decided to come up with Throwback Thursday (I'm not sure if this is being done or not). How it works is you post a throw back picture (a picture from the past). Here is one of Christian when he was 2 days old.


Monday, August 4, 2008

Favorite Sleep Position










The picture on top was when he was 6 weeks old. Now at 6 months old nothing has changed as far has his sleep position goes. He sleeps just like a grown man. Even when he wakes up in the morning, he has to stretch, fart and make other weird noises just like a grown man does. My little man has grown up so fast. He's just like his daddy.



Friday, August 1, 2008

Play Time

Today we went to Columbia Mall for lunch and decided to head over to the children's play area. Every time I'm in the mall there's always a bunch of children over there having a blast. Well guess who had the opportunity to have a blast today....Mr. C. Now of course he thought he was a big boy and decided to hangout by the big crayon. He was so amazed by all the children running around. I think he wanted to get up and join them. He will be soon. Give him a few more months and he will be good to go. 

Raven and Rayne really had a good time too. The little girl in the green was so amazed by Raven's smile she couldn't take her eyes off her. (A new found friend???)
Mr. C managed to make it over to the veggie area (a tomato and peas behind him). He knows how to find the food. 
He wore his muscle shirt today so he could show off his big GUNS!