on our way

first road trip in the 5. we're all headed to uncle tim and aunt andrea's for the weekend.

can't wait to see everyone and to have mojo and jerry meet for the very first time!

friends

under the sea

this little lady LOVES to stand in her exersaucer!

sleepy girl

someone is getting some quality cuddle time in with dad!

go redskins!!!

we may live in dallas..but we're still raising redskins fans!

first foods

such a big girl!

cereal day 1....seems to be a success!

rock-a-bye baby

she does this at school in her little bouncy/rocking chair too!

4 months

weight: 13 lbs. 8 oz. (33%)

height: 24" (27%)

head: 16.8" (94%)

still wearing size one diapers

still wearing size 3-6 clothes

still eating about every 3 hours or so...and mommy is still nursing strong!

you can now hold your head up high when doing tummy time

took your first trip to the beach club and thoroughly enjoyed it

you LOVE to sleep with your hands behind your head. you'll even put them there when you're still awake and we know it's time for a nap.

celebrated your first fathers day!

only getting up once at the most....thank you!

you're a morning person

you watch me eat my breakfast every morning...so cereal for you is not too far away!

you love to cross your feet all the time...just like your brother did

just bjorning around

part two of this perfect day included taking the other 'babies' out to play. luckily behind our house is just trees and rudy and mojo have the freedom of running around. rudy LOVES scratching his claws on all the fallen trees and mojo LOVES keeping rudy in line. she doesn't let him go too far and if you tell her to go get him, she rounds him up.

we've also found that the dude LOVES watching all of their silliness outside.



hmmm, i also think this little dude needs some sunglasses!

sunny days

we had to take advantage of the beautiful weather we had this weekend, so graham and i decided to have a front yard picnic! (thank you aunt sue for the picnic blanket....it worked great!!)

we looked at the trees, listened to the birds, and most importantly, looked at ourselves in the mirror! we did some practicing sitting up on our own, which i have to say, the dude is quite good at now. i barely have to support him anymore. and we also did some tummy time and worked out our arms by lifting our chests off the ground. just recently the dude has been lifting himself up more, which makes mommy very happy. he doesn't just lay there like a blob anymore. :)



and side note...after we went inside we did a little more tummy time later on and the dude rolled from tummy to back THREE, yes count them, THREE times in a row! of course we didn't capture any of them on camera, but we'll try soon.

pinch me!

well...i WAS wearing green when i went to school, but i leaked and had to be changed. i get my cheeks pinched all the time though, so it's nothing new for me!

squeak squeak

case in point how much we LOVE sophie!!! (turn your speakers up!)

heart

the little dude is very lucky to have such a beautiful girlfriend!
we love bethany!

sneak attack

so remember how i said whenever graham has his hands out mojo is right there. yeah...well same goes for the face. she loooooooooooooves giving puppy kisses! the little dude doesn't seem to mind (although mommy thinks it's kind of gross)!

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

no words necessay for this one!
<3

follow-up on exer-size

wow!



my feet touch the ground now!!

so big!

our little dude is turning into a little man! when did this happen?!



this collage is in honor of mojo being such a good girl (ever since day 1 actually). graham is VERY interested in her these days and loves to pet (okay, grab actually) her face. she loves him so much, because normally around adults she's head shy, but the moment graham puts his hands out she's right there. she loves all the attention he gives her. i can't wait until he's old enough to really play with her.

side note...socks on clean hardwood floors = very slippery for little dude feet!

recent developments

over the past week the little dude has definitely made some major developments:

crib circles (no, not crop circles!)

we have been leaving the little dude either swaddled from the armpits down, or in a sleep sack and he loves the freedom to move his arms. when it's bedtime, we'll place him in the crib so that his head is under his mobile. normally when i would go into his room when he woke up, he would be in pretty much the same position that i left him in. not anymore!!! more often than not he has made a full 180 degree circle and his feet are where his head was when i left him! it cracks me up. i'll also wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and look over at the monitor and he's done a 90 degree move. little dude is a mover!!

steady neck

(disclaimer...we're still very safe about this) before we had to always be careful to have a hand under the dudes neck when lifting him up or laying him down somewhere, but now he has it all on his own! now, even if he's laying propped on our legs, he'll start to lean his head forward and act like he's trying to sit himself up using his neck muscles.

elbow resting

the dude has finally figured out that when he's on his tummy that resting propped up on his elbows is pretty nice! you can see a lot more that way, compared to when he would be lazy and just rest his head on the mat. hmmm, he does have a pretty big head though...so maybe it was just too heavy up until now! :) those neck muscles are stronger and able to hold his head up i guess.

half roll

grady said he witnessed a full roll, but i haven't yet. we have a little overachiever on our hands though, because he's been almost rolling over from his back to his stomach more than from his stomach to his back. usually that one pesky arm gets in the way and he can't quite figure out how to move it to roll over all the way. i wouldn't doubt in the next week or so he figures it out! to go along with the 'being unswaddled' development, the dude also likes to sleep on his left side. he contorts the rest of his body to make a backwards 'c' too. it's very funny to see. doesn't look too comfortable to me, but hey, if he sleeps 9 hours that way i'm completely fine with it!

SLEEP!

i'm probably jinxing myself right now, but for the past week the little dude has been sleeping between 8 and 9.5 hours a night!! he's usually in bed by 830pm and gets up between 5 and 6am. not too shabby! and i'm hoping when he starts back up at daycare again, he'll be tuckered out even more from playing with all of his teachers and friends. we'll see though!

cereal!

maybe the dude likes oatmeal cereal better than rice cereal (we had done rice for 2 weeks and have been doing oatmeal for a week now), or maybe he's just got the hang of eating by a spoon down...but man 'o man...3 tablespoons of cereal goes down with a quickness now! i get the whiney cry if i don't give it to him fast enough. well and maybe because the cereal is thicker now (unlike when we first started with the rice cereal which was basically milk with a little but of cereal!) it's easier to take off the spoon and actually swallow. he likes to put his fingers in his mouth after he has a bite in his mouth, which i'm trying to discourage since it makes things VERY messy. i'll get the spoon ready and almost to his mouth and his hands come up. i pause and repeat "hands down please" and 9 times out of 10, he actually puts his hands down. he probably doesn't know he's 'listening' to me...but i like to think so! grady and i also think he's hit the 15 pound mark! growing boy!!

it's amazing what can happen in just one week. i'm sure next week i'll have a whole new list of things the dude can do!

the man in the mirror...

...wears plaid!



there hasn't been any rain yet, but it's been one of those gray and overcast days. so we decided to brighten it up a little with some spring plaid! oh, and with some mirror time as well!

exer-size

just a couple weeks ago graham wasn't tall enough to reach the floor in his exer-saucer. to our surprise, when we put him in it last weekend he fit!!! little dude must have had a growth spurt without us knowing! it really is like he grows overnight...not just in size, but in personality too. he's turning into a little man!! and it's also cute to see miss mojo turn into a little mom. she's always by graham's side. she even lets him grab at her ears, nose and skin. they're buds already!!

(note...this video is kind of long, but we think its cute.)

disclaimer...no baby was harmed in the making of this video (thanks for padded toy arms!!)