It's my party & I'll cry if I want to!

Our lil' Baby Boris isn't so little anymore:(... He turned 6 months, 183 days, one half of a year old this week.

We had his 6-month check up Thursday and our little man is 19lb 8.2oz & 27 1/4inches long. The doctor answered all the crazy questions that JB & I came up with the night before while watching "16 and Pregnant," so don't worry, Zaney's allowed to keep eating watermelon & we can use butt cream for everything that ails him.

Unfortunately, the littlest Russian didn't handle his shots so well; he passed out almost immediately, and woke up with a killer hangover & a fever. Poor guy, his 6-month birthday party was almost ruined!

He couldn't even get excited about his delicious watermelon...

However, he did perk up when he saw his delicious peanut butter iced marble cake. But then again, we all got excited (especially the neighbors...All brad wanted for his birthday was some peanut butter icing. I guess JB will have to start giving peanut butter classes!)

Zander still isn't feeling 100%, but he managed to muster enough energy to show Seester Dana & Dear Diana around Wheeling Friday. They just came into town for the day to eat cake with us; but as soon as Dana got out of the car, she decided she wanted to move here. Good job Alexander!

On our Wheeling tour, Alexander made his second visit to the downtown Center Market. He was almost as excited as Denis about the fish sandwiches.

After lunch at the Market we headed up the mountain to stroll around Oglebay & look at the flowers. It's so easy to stroll downhill... now, the walk back up to the cars, that was gruelling. Grrr.

Then, like all friendly visits, Denis grilled veggie burgers (yum), burgers & dogs (not the neighbor dogs, unfortunately), and our signature grilled veggies. We spiced up my mama's oven taters & added those the mix too. Even Seester Dana enjoyed it!

Although it was way too hot for a fire, the smell wafting from the new neighborhood dog pound next door made drove us too it! It was funny, DD also brought out a fan to blow the smoke toward the fence, to try to keep the poo smell out. I'm surprised he didn't pull the respirator out!