Lots of Changes..6months

This has been a super busy month, full of change! We finally moved over to the house we have been remodeling (daddy remodeling...mommy decorating and supervising). The house is so beautiful and full of our stuff in every shelf and closet.  The move went real easy..the adjusting took Luke a few weeks.  The first week he LOVED hearing himself echo off the hard wood floors, and I love hearing him jibber jabber :)  He has been keeping me up all hours of the night with about 2 hours of sleep, but I think we have found the fix, finally! :) We set up the humidifier and the noise is lulling Luke to stay asleep, like he did before we moved. I can handle him waking up once a night, but every 2 hours was making me a zombie at work and dreaming of sleep.

Luke started eating cereal and did so good at it. He is a natural and I did so much better then I thought I would do at getting food in his mouth and not so much up his nose, face, ears, and hair. All that you ask? Yes, when one of my nieces was a baby..that was how bad it went. ALL over her and hardly in her mouth. I wasn't ready for this stage yet, I wanted to have my plan all figured out for making homemade baby food....Luke sped me up. When I went to go buy the cereal it went kind of like this..
This is funny stuff! Baby cereal is not in the cereal isle..so i ask, where is baby cereal? In the formula isle..ok, thanks. Walk away...wait, ive never bought formula. Where is the formula isle??? oh, now i need baby bowl...baby bowls are not with the dinnerware. oh, i need baby spoons...spoons are not with flatware. Ma'am, where are the baby spoons? they are with the infant stuff, where the clothes and baby needs are..(don't ask me why i forgot this, could be my 2hrs of sleep?) ..so, what is next to the baby spoons? bibs..teething toys..oh yes, we need more of both of these. what is next to these? oh yes, next to real cute halloween onsie..must get one of these. Target...stay away! haha. 

So the veggies, we started with squash and the verdict was yummmO. Then, we had peas...he ate them, but not so excited about them. I told him, its ok...mommy doesn't like mashed up peas either. My goal is to make some food this next weekend for him and stock up. I bought my ninja machine to puree and a steamer that will steam 2 trays at once :)

Luke is almost ready to sit up on his own. He falls forward and holds himself up over his feet. I don't see how this can be comfy or possible. But, we are working on getting him ready to do it all the way...maybe in another week or two?  He is rolling ALL over the place and loves playing on the floor. He also loves playing in his jumper/saucer I got for him. He usually does this when I'm cooking or cleaning. 
His favorite books are the thingamajigs and the very hungry caterpillar. He would look at the caterpillar and then look back up at me, and do this a few more times. It makes my heart smile :)I enjoyed the thingamajigs and will even more when he gets older.

I had my annual pumpkin carving party with my nieces, family and friends, and it was a great night! I love doing this for them and getting to see everyone carving their pumpkins with such enthusiasm. I was so busy with visiting with Luke's lil buddies and snapping pics that I didn't carve Luke's pumpkin yet, or even decorate it...maybe I will get this done tomorrow, right before Halloween. I did get a cute pic of him with his pumpkin pre-carving.

Oh, I took Luke to his first football game to watch his cousin John, who is quarterback for 9th grade. He had alot of fun visiting with his aunt lisa, grannie, daddy, and of course watching John.

I gave him ice to chew on for soothing his gums and then started giving him apples. He loves this for teething. Mommy does too!

One night before bed, daddy was missing him while he was working so we sent him a sleepy baby pic.

Getting practice at crawling with papa!

Papa loves playing with his buddy Luke.

I took Makayla and Chloe to the park that puts a great display of Christmas lights up and it was a PERFECT night because it was pretty warm. I thought it was chilly and suited Luke up, then got outside and it said 70 degrees! This was the weekend after Thanksgiving!!

Luke was helping me with the Christmas lights, so I had to get a few real cute shots for our Christmas card. Mommy had to move real fast with these :)

Snuggling with mommy..I LOVE his big blue eyes!!!

This was the night I put him in his crib to sleep for the first whole night. I wanted to let him play before getting ready for bed. He was crawling, playing and talking away. I just wasn't fast enough to get the smile part. 

Luke and his buddies at Mrs. Kami's. Parker and Cooper share toys real good with Luke!

I couldn't get his pic fast enough He saw the tie as I put it on and he was fast at pulling it right off to inspect.

Our 1st Thanksgiving! He is the best blessing in my life!! I will treasure him always and forever, learning and sharing life together. 

 A chilly fussy day of being in the house prompted us to sit out back. He hates when I put hats on him..but he's so dang cute!

Drooling and Fingers

I can't call my babe a newborn anymore...I am used to calling him my newborn, but how is he 5 months already? My lil love bug has been growing, growing, growing and doing so good this past month. He had his first cold, and that was an awful feeling when he would cough all night and I couldn't make it better for him. I'm so glad it didn't last too long, even though it felt like forever, or turn into something worse. I learned that I do not like those nose bulbs and how to use saline drops with a nose frieda (sp?).

We had his 4mo check up and he is a healthy baby at 14.9 pounds and 25in long :) I learned that his birthmark is on the back of his head...I kept thinking it was a heat rash and checked with the doc.  His grandpa, Larry Sr., had a birthmark in the same spot and that made me smile thinking about something to tell him when he gets older :)

At 5 months now...Luke is all about drooling and eating his fingers. He doesn't use a pacifier, but when I go to pick him in the mornings, he is smiling at me and sucking on his swaddle.  He pulls his shirt and stretches it out so he can eat and suck on it. He is definitely at the drooling stage too, so I keep a bib handy when the drool starts flowing.  I'm wondering when he will start teething and hoping it holds off for a little longer, because I'm not ready for him to be in pain from it.

Luke still sucks his bottom lip in and it still makes me laugh! He talks like a frog when he is trying not to fall asleep in the car, or when I say rawrrrrr like a lion he will mimmic me back with the frog.  I LOVE these moments!
When he is nursing, he will stop and look up to smile at me and start talking.
He loves playing on the floor and this is when he talks the most or when I lay him on his changing pad for a clean bumm.
He quiets down when he is fussy if I sing "you are my sunshine." He doesn't know how bad of a singer I am yet. haha. (I stop when daddy walks in the door)
He attacks his toys and still loves his giraffe, bear and frog. He eats giraffe's ears, attacks bear, monkey and frog because they have the crinkle noise.
He giggles when you tickle.
He LOVES to stand and HATES when I put him in his car seat. He straightens his legs real tight and screams when I go to buckle him in. He calms down pretty quick though when I show him we are going somewhere. I also started winding up his giraffe and giving it to him right away, this seems to be helping calm him down too.

 All smiles when we go on our weekend jogs.

 This was Luke's 4mo checkup. He is doing great!

Another weekend jog and our first long sleeve outfit for the cooler weather day.

Sometimes its one finger, two fingers, whole hand, but he does prefer his thumb.

He kept wanting to pull the track off. He is so strong!

Watching mommy wash dishes, but I think Harley and daddy just came in when I took this pic.

 This is his favorite sport this month...sucking on his clothes. He doesn't use a pacifier, he will spit it out, so now I have to figure out how to break him of this habit. He does look cute, but not when we have to go somewhere.

i can't decide which finger i want..." 

 He kept wanting to break out of his bumbo. He looks so big!

When he won't nurse, he holds his bottle like a big baby. He has been doing this for awhile, but now he is so strong I have to use two hands to pry it away to slow him down. It makes me laugh.