Cash's Baptism

This past weekend, Cash received his first sacrament, Baptism. Brice and Roxanne are his the proud godparents. It was a very nice celebration at St. Martin Church. Many of our family members were able to join us for this joyous occasion. Grandma Curran and Carey even made it down from Washington, MO. Dad was not in attendance though. Unfortunately, he left early Sunday morning for Texas for a work conference. If only he'd get over his fear of flying! Cash was baptized after 10 o'clock mass. It is amazing to me, and I don't know why, how many family members Cash actually has! In attendance, Cash had 4 great grandma's, 3 great grandpa's, 3 grandma's, 4 grandpa's, 6 great uncles, 5 great aunts, 3 second (?) cousins, 2 aunts, and 1 uncle! He is one lucky little boy to have so much love in his life.
After the baptism, everyone came to our home for lunch. You would actually think that feeding that many people would be chaos, but in all actuality, it went very smoothly. Mom and Randy came over Saturday night and helped get everything ready. We had 2 soups, sandwiches, veggies, cheese and sausage with crackers, and a few desserts. The only thing that went wrong was me forgetting to make the tea!!!! Oh well, everyone had something to drink!
Enjoy the pictures!

To be fair, Taylor didn't know she was going to be holding the holy water. Excuse her jeans. :)

I love this picture of Ryan!

The Godparents

Grandpa Carey and Great Grandma Curran

Grandma Jeanette and Grandpa Doug

Grandma Shelly, Grandpa Randy, with Randy's parents

A Visit With Santa

Yesterday, Cash had is first visit with Santa! Mom, Cash, and I ran some errands yesterday and were at the mall. I went ahead and got his picture taken since we were there and I didn't know when the next time I would have Cash at the mall since I am not a shopper. I must say, the picture turned out perfect! Happy Holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Today Cash celebrated his first family holiday, Thanksgiving! We spent a wonderful day with family. Thanksgiving is always a rush, rush day for the Luebbert's. First, we went to Randy's brother's house in Centertown and visited with all the Crawford's. Cash finally met his Uncle Trent and Aunt Cassandra. Trent even held Cash, for a brief minute or two, then he was done. Maybe we will see them again soon! We were only there for an hour, then back into the car to head to Columbia to go to Uncle Jerry's. Of course, all of the Jones' were there. They always are! It is definately a house full of little ones! There are now 4 great grandchildren all under the age of 3 (I think) with another on the way! When we arrived, everyone had just started eating. Lunch was delicious! The Jones' never seem to have very long visits, so everyone was heading out the door about 2 hours later. Now granted, everyone was there before us, but maybe an hour. I did get to visit a little bit with my cousin Melissa. I haven't seen her in forever! She looks great and I will hopefully get to catch up with her more next month.
When we got home, Ryan and Brice headed back to Brice's room so Ryan could play some game on the XBox. They spent hours in there with Howie. Cash and I hung out in the living room. I took Cash in to lay on Howie to take some pics of all the guys just chillin.
Now it is dark and we are all relaxing and enjoying the last few hours we have left of our Thanksgiving, because next year, I doubt there will be any relaxing going on in the Luebbert household!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chillin with Howie
Hanging with the boys!

12 Weeks

I am terrible! I wrote this post on the 13th, which was Cash's 12 Week Birthday, but never posted because I hadn't uploaded pics yet and here we are on the 26th and it still isn't posted! I am attaching pictures and uploading now!!!!!

Cash turned 12 weeks old yesterday. This has been the fastest 12 weeks of my life. Monday I go back to work and I wonder what that is going to do to his daily routine. I think we both look forward to his 8 am feeding. This is when he gets to get out of his bed and sleep with mom in her big bed. We sleep wonderfully for our last 2 hours of sleep. I am definately going to look forward to those moments on weekends and days off.
With Cash's 12 week birthday, he officially found his thumb. He had found it once before, but he quickly lost it. We aren't so lucky this time. He's found it and making sure he doesn't lose it again. Last night I even put gloves on his hands to keep it out of his mouth. Of course, that didn't work. He got his thumb out! He had is thumb out of the glove this morning and in his mouth. He also pushes his pacifier out of his mouth and sticks that thumb right in. He's too cute when he does suck on his thumb because he puts his whole hand in his face, but I don't think it's too cute to leave it in there. I take that thumb right out everytime I see it. Tonight I am going to put different gloves on him and see if that does the trick (and it did)!
He has become MUCH more vocal! He just talks up a storm in the morning time. Yesterday morning, Uncle Brice called and Cash was talking in the backround, very loudly, and I had to ask Brice 3 times what he said. He finally asked me what Cash's problem was and I told him that he was fine. He was just talking and squealing. He can get very high pitched.
Cash absolutely loves his activity mat. His arms and legs just go like crazy. He has a star on top that when it shakes, it plays music and lights up. Cash LOVES that star.
I can't believe how big he is getting. He is just growing like a weed. I think that he's just about ready for the next size in diapers and some of his 0-3 month onsies are starting to get tight in length. I think he has a few more weeks in them though. They aren't too small yet.
I am looking forward to all the fun firsts that are coming our way, but I hope they don't come too fast either. I want to cherish each day I have with him and not wish them away by looking forward to the things yet to come. Enjoy the pictures!

I just woke up and I found my thumb!

If you will notice in this picture, he has become quiet the wiggle worm in bed also! He is laid in bed parallel to the bumper pad, but you will notice, he isn't parallel anymore!

Fingers in my face!

Chillin with Aunt Taylor

Happy Halloween-a few weeks late!

I know I am a few weeks late getting these pictures up. It would definately help if I had a computer upstairs and not in the basement, but what can you do?
Cash celebrated his first holiday, Halloween! He's too little to go trick-or-treating, but his Grandpa Jones has had this weird fasination with Halloween, so he called me one day, way before Halloween and asked if he could by Cash's first Halloween costume. He had found the perfect one! Of course, I said yes. Cash was going to be a Scary Carnivorous Lobster! He wasn't so scary though! He was quite adorable if you ask me!
Cousin Kelly had come to visit the night before, so we spent the day with her. Cash wore is My 1st Halloween outfit. It was too cute. I am so sad he only gets to wear it once! Then, later that afternoon, we dressed Cash up in his costume and headed to Grandma and Grandpa Jones' so they could see their Scary Carnivorous Lobster! We wanted to make it back home to pass out candy, but didn't make it back in time.
We already know what Cash is going to be next year! Hopefully we can find the costume! But, next Halloween can take its sweet precious time to get here! Time is already going by way too fast! Enjoy the pics!

Cash's Christmas List

So, a couple weekends ago, Ryan and I wanted to get out of the house, so we went to Target, Wal-Mart, and K-Mart to see all the cool things they have for little ones these days. We thought we needed to get some ideas for Cash's First Christmas. We found some cool things. We thought we would share Cash's Christmas Wish List with his grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

3-6 month clothes

6-9 month clothes for later

Books-board books and regular

Learning Baby Tad $19.97

Spin and Sing $19.97

Roll Along Snail $11.99

My First Signs $14.99


Baby's First Sounds $14.99

and other Baby Einstein videos-He already has Baby Mozart and loves it!

Baby Learning Laptop $14.99

Spiral Spin Top $10.99

Cookie Shape Surprise $17.99

3 in 1 Smartwheels $41.99

Baby's First Blocks $9.99

Rock a Stack $5.99

My Pal Scout $18.99 (Santa will be bringing him this one!)

Johnny and Chelsay's Wedding

Saturday, Cash attended his second wedding. This time it was a McDowell wedding. Janice's niece Chelsay was married at noon at St. Stanislaus in Wardsville with the reception to follow at the Wardsville Lion Club. The wedding was beautiful and Chelsay and Johnny are both country, so it was pretty much a country reception. There were lots of cowboy boots and stomping going on. I did notice the Maid of Honor put cowboy boots on for the reception as well. At one point, the best man, Johnny's brother, got out a trough and started rocking on it back and forth to a certain song. It's one thing I can honestly say, I have NEVER seen at a wedding. Apparently, this is a family thing. His two daughters got into the trough as well. I tried to video it, but it was too dark and you can't see anything.

Cash had a good time as well. He was able to take a nap, even with all the noise. He was passed around and visited with family. He even gave Janice a nice gift! Cash spits up, sometimes its more than you can imagine, but this was ridiculous! He might as well have filled up a cup and then tossed it on her. There was so much, it was hilarious! As Janice says, he didn't spit up, he puked.

Later in the night, Cash and I got out on the dance floor and danced to the end of the Cupid Shuffle. He had a good time and enjoyed dancing. :) Too bad we don't have any weddings on the calendar for the future.

Grandma Janice and Cash (pre-spit up)

Grandpa Casey and Cash

Hard to see, but the best man is standing on both sides of the trough, rocking back and forth

Flower girl and miniture bride in the trough

The McDowell girls doing the electric slide, oh and Jason too (Chelsay's brother).

2 Months

On Wednesday, Cash turned 2 months old! I can't believe how fast the time is going by and how big he is getting in such a short amount of time. On Thursday, he had is 2 month wellness checkup. He weighed 11 lbs 13 oz, 23 1/2 in long, and circumfernce of his head was 39 1/2 cm. He gained 2 pounds in 4 weeks, so he slowed down, which I am thankful for. Dr. Rogers said his weight is in the 50th percentile and his height is in the 70th percentile. He looked at Cash's belly button again and decided not to put silver nitrate on it this time because his granule is starting to harden and hopefully will receed on its own. It may need to be surgically removed if doesn't do anything and continues to ooze. Let's hope we don't need to go that route. Overall, Cash looked great and goes back in 2 months. Then it was time for the dreaded shots. Cash was so happy in the doctors office. He was smiling and talking, but he didn't leave the doctors office in the mood he came in. The two nurses came in and double teamed him. Oh, he screamed and turned so red. I felt so bad for the poor little thing. I started to tear up, but about that time they told me I could pick him up now. So I comforted him for just a minute or so and he was all better.

Here are some pictures of 8 Weeks and a few from his 2 Month birthday! Enjoy!

I'm 2 months old today!!!

Playing on the activity mat

Dad and Cash sleeping.

Chillin with Uncle Brice

Cash, Uncle Brice, and Howie all watchin some tv

MU plays today!

I love the sneakers!

Uncle Brice and Cash