7 month old big boy.

6 Month Baby.

My handsome boy is 6 months old now! He is growing wonderfully, super fun, very mellow, and such a blessing. I heart him.

His Stats:

18 lbs 2 oz (50-75%)

26 1/2 inches (50%)

His Skills:

Sitting up like a champ

Putting things in his mouth

Giggling real loud

Standing with support for 10 seconds

Hanging out with the ladies (Scarlett and Ellie)

His Foods:

Favs:

Sweet Potatoes

Squash

Peas

Pears

Doesn't like:

avocado

Family Update:

Jason has been sick for like two weeks. Luckily he was able to take a few days off work and is now starting to feel better. James has been sick for about a week and had one trip to the doctor on Christmas Eve to get his nose cleaned with a scary machine and get his chest checked due to sounding like Darth Vader. I fear I am starting to get sick.

I chopped my hair off. I cut off somewhere around 11 inches to donate. I haven't taken a picture yet.

pictures to go with the last post.

Some Updates:

Jason and I got wills today. Mostly so that we ensure Pat, then Amy, then Mike get James if anything happens to us. Good work us being grown ups.

I start my Masters next month.

James is eating a lot of foods these days. He likes butternut squash and sweet potato, hates avocado, LOVES peas. So far I am still enjoying making all of his foods and am pleased with how simple it is. I have a routine going, I make a big batch every Sunday and Wednesday and stick a bunch in the freezer so we have a few options at all times. Next week we are going to introduce green beans and on Christmas he gets his very first fruit, some pears.

He discovered he has a tongue. See pictures below.

He can sit up VERY well for very long periods of time (ten+ minutes.) But still can't roll from front to back. He can reach for things. He likes to demand for food in his high chair. He LOVES LOVES LOVES banging on the laptop.

We went to see Santa today and pick out his first ornament. He was uninterested in Santa and just mostly sat there. He got a little fussy when Santa took James' hand out of his mouth and held it down for the picture. The Santa was LAME for being the "fancy Nordstroms Santa." He just sat there unengaged with James. It was a little sad.

I think that is all for now.


Oh! Jason is sweet... We drove past a cupcake store today that I didn't know about and I a little too excitedly yelled "CUPCAKES!" so Jason did a quick u-turn and bought me one. Aww.

yay foood!

Five Months

Today James turned five months! Good work kid.

He is still super cute. (of course!)

Current things awesome about him:

-He smiles real big at me when I wake him up in the morning, thus melting my heart.
-He can sit up all by himself now for long periods of time

-He is eating rice cereal and enjoys helping me feed him

-Chew on Jason's arm like a cob of corn while making snort sounds.

-Snack on his lower lip.

Sunday we will be starting him on a non rice cereal solid food. Great Grandpa gave him some butternut squash so we will be cooking that up for him. Pictures to come of that!!

I think those are the main things. And now for some pictures (which is the only reason anyone actually looks at this page.)

"You mean I get to eat this?"

"Wait which one do I eat?"

*Also - As of Thanksgiving morning James showed us he can sleep for ten straight hours which means for the first time in two months I got seven straight hours of sleep! Now that is something to be thankful for.

James is cute

We have been trying rice cereal in James' milk to see if that will decrease the throwing up. It hasn't. So now we are on medicine for reflux to see if it helps. As of day one, no. However, I'm sure it takes a while to get in his system. He is a funny kid. He HATES rice cereal but loves the concept of if. Every time the spoon gets near him he gets an excited face and then as soon a the spoon goes in his mouth he gets the saddest face. He does however, love medicine. The doctor said the reflux stuff kids don't normally like and was teaching us tricks to get him to eat it. We put it near him and he was already trying to suck it down. Funny kid.

Today James did some painting. He worked on painting turkeys to take to early thanksgiving tomorrow.

Today I also turned his pumpkin from the earlier post into six mini pumpkin pies. I felt all domestic-y making a homemade pie and not from the can. Go me.