One Day at a Time...

Oh my goodness! Graham is SIX months old today! He is doing wonderfully and growing, growing every day. He is way bigger then Logan was at this age and can already fit into the spring/summer clothes that Logan wore when he was around a year old. His check up is next week, so I'll be sure to post his stats afterwards. Here are a few pictures from today. Look at this sweet smile :) Well, we successfully made it to six months old without Graham ever having anything but breastmilk (no formula, cereal or solids at all.) We decided that he was probably ready to try out a little cereal, so here is trying to decide what he thinks about it.He decided really quickly that he LOVED it! Look at him already opening his mouth up wide!Of course, big brother had to get in on the action. I had been telling him all day that Graham was going to eat food off a spoon and that he could help. He was so excited!Big blue eyes....(Do you see some red coming in that hair?!?!)

Posted in: on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at at 9:30 PM 1 comments  

Here's Graham and I with the beautiful sunset

One morning we stopped on a dirt road and let Logan see the crops. This is a cotton field (the cotton hasn't been planted yet for this year.) We found some cotton with the seeds still in it. He was really fascinated by this and asked Granddad for advice on how to grow them. Here we are next to the wheat field. Look how beautiful this land is! My sweet Granddad with Graham. He couldn't get over how happy and smiley Graham was. It was really cute to see Graham "talk" to him

Posted in: on Monday, April 4, 2011 at at 11:35 AM 2 comments  

The boys playing in the activity mat Just hanging out in our (messy!) playroom

First time in the jumperoo!!

It's hard to believe that Graham is already 5 months old. I know that I say this all the time, but it's going by way too fast. Way too fast! Yesterday, he rolled over from his back to his tummy. He had started rolling onto his side, so I suspected that it would be soon. I stayed close, cheered him on, and away he went! Now, I'm thinking that he is going to start rolling to get where he wants to get....let the baby proofing begin! It's just amazing to watch him learn, grow and change. Last night, I just had to sneak into both boys rooms to check on them and to steal one more kiss before I went to bed. I accidentally woke Graham up, but it was worth it to have one more snuggle before bed.

In the last month, Graham has started grabbing his feet and trying hard to put them into his mouth. He's holding toys and reaching for the ones he wants to hold. He can now take his paci out of his mouth and put it back in. We're still swaddling him at night, but hoping to move away from it sometime in the upcoming weeks/months. (I know with Logan, I began to worry I'd be swaddling him when he started high school!) I tried to leave his arms free the other night and he woke up as soon as I put him down in the crib....sigh. He's sleeping better at night, but still wakes up to eat about 2 times. But, he can sleep up to 6-7 hours in the first stretch. His naps are becoming regular and usually happen from 9-10, 12-2 and 4-5 (ish.) This is wonderful to know about when he'll want to sleep, but I do feel like we're tied to the house a bit right now. He sleeps the best at home, in his crib, so it's getting harder for him to nap when we're out and about. By the time he wakes up, I feed him and change him, we usually only have an hour and a half before he wants to sleep again. This makes running errands or meeting friends kind of challenging right now. But, I know he'll probably drop that 3rd nap soon enough and things will spread out a bit. Right now, I'm just going to enjoy the quiet time while he sleeps :)

Posted in: on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at at 9:46 AM 0 comments  

Today is such a beautiful day! I put Graham in his Texas Longhorns shirt this morning. Logan saw him and immediately wanted to change and put his on. He even made me put on mine! Too cute!! I couldn't resist taking some pictures of the boys in their matching t-shirts while we were playing outside.

We're thinking the boys are starting to look a LOT alike! Here is a picture of Logan when he was about the same size (he was 6 months here.)
Compared to Graham. See the resemblance?

Posted in: on Monday, February 21, 2011 at at 1:27 PM 0 comments  

The boys had a wonderful Valentine's Day! We started off early celebrating with a Mommy breakfast at Logan's school. They had been off the entire week before due to weather, so we were doing all of their crafts to get ready for the Valentine's Day party. Logan had so much fun showing me everything in his classroom. I really enjoyed getting to see everything that he does when he is there. They had the cutest little activities!! Here are some goofy pictures of Logan that I took while I was there.

Being silly with his friendsOn Valentine's Day, we hosted our playgroups Valentine's Day party. It was so much fun! This was the first thing I've been able to host in about a year with everything going on, so it was great to get back into the swing of things. I (of course) forgot to take pictures, but I got these from our playgroups website. The yummy food! (I didn't do the cupcakes but the sandwiches at the other end of the table, LOL)

Graham's first Valentine's Day!!

I also took Graham for his 4 month check up. I cannot believe that he is 4 months old already!! The doctor said he looked perfect-head and all! Yay! He is 14 lbs 9 oz. It's actually going to work out well this summer because since Logan was so tiny, all of his Spring/Summer stuff is 9-12 months sizs. Graham's already wearing 6 months, so he'll definitely be in those sizes come summer!

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Over the weekend, the temperatures were in the 70's. We spent lots of time outside. Logan is loving riding his bike now and pedaling like a big boy!

He LOVES to run circles in the yard and tackle Daddy

I even brought Graham outside to enjoy the beautiful weather on Saturday. (Please excuse my crazy, first thing in the morning appearance ;) I was even still drinking my coffee!)

Then, Monday rolls around and it starts to get cold. By Tuesday morning we had major ice and sleet covering the streets and ground. It came in around 4am and was so loud that it woke all four of us up. School was cancelled for Logan on Tuesday, but by the time Wednesday and Thursday rolled around, the ice was still there! Today we woke up to this:

This was supposed to be a "light dusting" of snow. I'd say we have a good 6-8 inches out there and it's still snowing. It's 3pm now! I can honestly say that I have never seen this much snow. Ever. It's absolutely insane. Schools were cancelled for the FOURTH day in row today. This is absolutely unheard of in the Dallas area. Needless to say, we're all getting very stir crazy and Mommy is having to get pretty creative to keep everyone occupied today. Here's hoping we can leave the house tomorrow!

I went outside first thing and scooped up enough snow to make 2 batches of snow ice cream. We made our first one this morning and I must say that is was delicious! Logan definitely approved. These two pictures were taken on 1/26/11, but I forgot to put them on the post I did with January pictures. They were too cute not to include!!

Posted in: on Friday, February 4, 2011 at at 2:43 PM 0 comments  

Yesterday, sweet Graham ROLLED OVER from his tummy to his back! Go Graham! I looked at Shane and said, "It's ON now!" because I know this is the first of many milestones towards having a mobile baby on our hands. He was upstairs with me playing on a blanket in the sewing room and I put him on his tummy for "tummy time." Something told me that I shouldn't turn my back to him and start sewing. Thank goodness I listened to that Mommy instinct or I would have missed it! I yelled, and brought him downstairs and grabbed the video camera. Then, he rolled again for Shane on camera. Yay! Since then, every single time I put him on his tummy, he just rolls over onto his back. So cute!! He will be 4 months on Monday the 7th (which is hard to believe!) This was right at a month earlier then Logan rolled over for the first time, however, Graham is a lot larger and stronger then Logan was at this age.

This week he's started sleeping 4ish hour stretches at night, so I'm happy about that. I'm honestly not in a hurry for him to sleep through the night....is that crazy? I would love it if he started sleeping a 4-5 hour stretch when I'm actually asleep though! (Usually, his longest stretch of sleep is when I first put him to bed. Of course, I never go to bed then since it's around 7 or so...) I'm still breastfeeding and that is going great! I'll take him for his 4 month check up next week, so I'm anxious to get a weight on him. I haven't been monitoring him quite as regularly since he has been gaining so well. Based on our home scale he is over 14 lbs now!

Posted in: on at at 2:34 PM 2 comments