Biting, Bundling, and Birthday!

What a week! Jay's top 2 teeth poked through, accompanied with much weeping and wailing and drooling and dripping. Jay had his first non-mommymilk dinner: Rice cereal!!! And, I turned 23! Poor Jeff had big plans to give me a surprise birthday breakfast in bed and a surprise dinner date out. Well, Jay got up REALLY early on my birthday, so I had already eaten by the time Jeff got up. Foiled. Jay was taking a MUCH-needed nap when Jeff came home and asked me out to dinner. And, I really really wanted spaghetti. So we ate at home. Being the tricky wifey that I am, I cashed in my postponed birthday dinner date for a movie date. Jeff agreed to take me to see New Moon when it comes out! I'm not a Twilight fanatic or anything, but I do enjoy them...

This is the best I could do to get a picture of Jay's 2 new teeth-- he's still in pain, so he hates it when I touch his mouth!

When all else fails, a walk in the brisk fall air calms our little teether down. It cracks me up every time Jeff zips Jay in the baby carrier in his coat. It looks like Jeff has 2 heads and a pregnant belly! Why get a baby coat when Daddy has room for two?

I am officially 23 years old! I made my favorite chocolate cheesecake, and since we didn't want to mangle the top with candles, Jeff put 2 candles in one row, and 3 in the other (2+3 now=23). The cheesecake turned out rather well-- it was slightly pudding-esque, but still smooth, cool, and chocolatey. Jay really really seemed to want some cheesecake, but all he got was bland ole rice goop:

We first gave Jay a little rice cereal on Monday night, but that video was far too long to post, so I took a little quickie for your viewing pleasure. As you can see, Jay doesn't exactly spit OUT the rice goop, but he doesn't seem to enjoy it too much either! He dutifully eats his little teaspoon sized serving, and then gets down to business with the real stuff: MILK!