Caedon is 6 months old!

Well, he's been 6 months old for almost 2 weeks so this post is a bit late.  :)  At his 6 month check-up he weighed 17 1/2 lbs and was 27 inches long!  He's growing up way too fast!  When I took him in for his check-up, he'd had a fever the week before and still had some runny nose and congestion.  The doctor said it looked like he had an ear infection that was clearing up on its own AND that his lungs sounded like he'd had RSV!  So scary!  But I'm glad my little man was strong and healthy enough to get better on his own.  Although, that ear infection decided to get bad again this week and he's on antibiotics.  :(

He's eating...well...ALOT.  He's quite the little piggy!  He still drinks bottles 4 times a day and he's eating rice and oatmeal cereal, and has tried all of the basic baby foods.  He has also started eating Gerber Puffs.  He loves them but he can't pick them up on his own yet so I have to sit and put them in his mouth one at a time...and listen to him yell at me if I don't do it fast enough!

He's working on sitting up on his own.  He can do it for 3 or 4 minutes but if he gets too excited, he'll kick his feet and knock himself right over.  He also really wants to crawl.  He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth.  He's started inchworming his way to what he wants.  He'll get on his hands and knees and push himself forward onto his tummy and then get back up on his knees and do it over again, until he gets within arms reach of what he wants. 

He's quite a little flirt.  When we're out and about, he'll sit and stare at a little girl or a women until she looks at him.  And then he'll grin really big and start bouncing up and down.  What a ham!

Now time for pictures!

This hand is Caedon's favorite toy at at the moment.  He got it for Christmas and he LOVES to chew on it.  It shouldn't come as a surprise since he loves his own fingers, too....

He's started giving lovely slobbery kisses.  My favorite is when he grabs my face with both hands and leans towards me with his mouth wide open ready for a kiss.  It's adorable!  And wet.

Aunt Kate gets kisses, too!

Now that he can roll over both directions, you never know how you'll find him sleeping!

See?  Goofy boy.

Daddy and his three little munchkins

Daddy with his littlest munchkin

We got the jumperoo back from Aunt Kate this month and Caedon LOVES it!

Caedon has taken to holding onto his feet.  All the time.  During diaper changes, while getting dressed, during playtime.  And while he's eating.  What a silly baby!

He's a happy boy!

Practicing sitting up for his 6 month pictures

There he goes with those feet again!

2012

I haven't blogged since last year!  :)  Been too busy dealing with sick kiddos, one right after the other seems like.  I haven't even been to a church service since Christmas day cause the kids have been sick and the two weeks they weren't, I had children's church.  Thankfully, we've been able to go on Wednesday nights for Bible study and AWANA.

Random things that I've considered blogging about recently:

- Kyler made a deal with me that if he gets two calendars full of black and green (they start on green and can move up to black if they get a Bulldog Brag) at school then I'll take him to Chuck E. Cheese.  That's 12 full weeks so we'll see if he can manage it.  He said it was a challenge!  :) Oh, and if he gets ONE calendar full of black and green I'm supposed to give him $2.....

Kyler's 1st grade picture

 

 

- Melissa got a haircut.  She looks adorable with short hair.  I think she looks adorable with long hair, too, but I just think she's super cute when it's short.  Plus I don't have to make her scream every day when I brush it.

- Melissa, also, is going through a phase that I don't think Kyler ever went through.  It's hilarious and I love it.  She's very into familial relationships and when she talks to us about people instead of calling them what they are to HER she relates them to us.  When she's talking to me, instead of aunt Kate, it's "your sister."  Chris and Zach are no longer uncles, they are "your brothers."  Grammy and Pawpaw are "your mom and dad."  Grandma and Grandpa are "Dad's mom and dad."  And sometimes daddy is "your husband" and Kyler and Caedon are "your sons."  "Mom, your brother Zach has one pet, named Rufus.  And your mom and dad have 2 pets and they are cats named Phantom and Ringo.  But Dad's parents only have one pet named Mitzi."  (This is seriously what she said to me tonight.)

My sassy little Melissa with her haircut

 - Caedon is now 5 months old and he's so precious.  He's not doing anything new although he REALLY wants to be able to sit up on his own and would love to learn to roll from his back to his tummy.  OH!  I lied.  He is getting up on his hands and knees and rocking alot.  First step on the road to crawling!  Oh boy....  We've moved backwards a bit in the feeding department, because I've taken him off solids for the moment.  He's had a runny nose and congestion since we started it and I wanted to make sure it wasn't related.  It's probably just weather related but I want to be sure.  So we'll start that back up in a week or so and see what happens.

Caedon practicing his newest trick during his 5 month photo shoot

Okay, that's about all I've got the time or concentration for tonight.  :)

4 whole months??

How is it possible that this little man has been with us for four months already?  How is it possible that it's been ONLY four months?  It truly feels as though he's been here with us all along, but it's so hard to see him growing up so fast already. 

 

At his check-up yesterday he weighed 14 lbs, 13 oz.  He is now my smallest baby.  All along, since his birth, he's been between the other two.  Bigger than Meli but smaller than my chunky-monkey baby Kyler.  He's still between them in height, but he weighs less now than Melissa did at 4 months.  He's 24 3/4 inches long, too, btw. He got his second round of immunizations yesterday, too.  He cried for about 30 seconds after but then he was fine.  Until after his morning nap - then he was cranky, cranky, cranky.  Thankfully, a bottle and some tylenol helped alot and he cheered up again in the afternoon.  Back to my sweet, happy boy.

He has his first little cold right now.  Runny nose, stuffy nose.  He gets so mad at me for cleaning it out, too.  :( Doctor said he looks fine, though, just to keep him comfortable and bring him in if he gets a fever. 

Let's see, what has he learned this month?  He's grabbing toys now and, of course, pulling them right up to his mouth.  He's recognizing his bottle and after you finish feeding him he'll stare at the empty bottle, probably wondering why it's not still in his mouth.  :)  Also, if you pull it out of his mouth while he's drinking, he'll grab your sleeve or finger and pull it back toward him.  He rolled from his tummy to his back this month, too.  He's done it 4 or 5 times but I never get to see him do it because he never does it during tummy time, only while he's in bed.  Rotten boy.  He also had decided that a pacifier is not necessary.  His fingers work quite well, thank you very much.  Not my favorite habit, but what's a mom to do?  He also is chattering more and more.  He tells us all kinds of things.  Just wish I knew what they were.  :)  He actually enjoys getting his diaper changed.  He'll laugh and talk to me.  Unless he thinks he's starving to death and then he'll just scream through the whole experience.

We had a fun Christmas but of course Caedon didn't care much about the toys.  He had a rough time at our first celebration, with my dad's side of the family.  It was in the evening, he was sleepy and there were so many people that he just got overwhelmed and cried for alot of the time that we were there.  Poor baby. :( 

Kyler and Melissa, on the other hand, thoroughly enjoyed Christmas this year.  They got everything they wanted, I think, plus some and they loved all of the extra family time.  Now they're excited about New Year's Eve.  I told them they can stay up til midnight with us this year so we'll see how that goes.  Melissa says she wants to stay up until it's light outside, though.  Uh....no.

And now, your favorite part of my blog posts, I am sure - PICTURES!

Me and my sweet nephew, Waylon

Aunt Kate and Caedon

Our Christmas picture from Aunt Doris'

My big, huge family.  :)  My parents, me, Brian and the kids, Chris, Nikki and their daughter Hannah, Kate, Travis and their Mr. Waylon, and Zach and Sarah.  Wow.

Hannah holding Caedon

The two cutest little Santas

Caedon snuggling with Granny Jackie and "talking" to Pawpaw Ed.

While Daddy was outside putting together Kyler and Melissa's BIG surprise for Christmas morning, Caedon and I took some pictures.  :)

Melissa got her very own Dr Pepper in her stocking!  And not just ANY Dr Pepper - a Dublin!

Love that adorable boy!  We were looking through his stocking.  He didn't care.  :)

What I believe to be Kyler's favorite gift of the year.....

The BIG surprise!  A trampoline!

Grandma and Grandpa came to have Christmas with us on Monday.

Grandma, Grandpa and Caedon

Babies - the ultimate teachers of flexibility

 I have control issues.  I admit it.  I like things to go my way (aka the RIGHT way) all the time.  I am much better about it now than I used to be, though.  Seriously, I am,  Stop laughing.

You would think (you know, before you actually have any of your own) that babies are easy to deal with in this respect.  I mean, they're BABIES.  They can't walk or talk or anything. They have to do whatever you want them to do, right?  Um, no.  Babies eat and sleep and poop.  That's pretty much all for the first few months.  And a little bit of playing.  But guess what?  They do it all when THEY want to!  They do typically get into a routine but just when you get used to them being on one schedule something changes.  They grow a little, they learn something new, they just decide they're annoyed with you ;).  And all of a sudden they're not eating when you think they will, they're definitely not sleeping when or as long as you think they should.  It's just chaos. 

But it's a chaos that I wouldn't trade for anything.  When I went and got my crying boy out of his bed at 6:45 this morning, after he didn't go to bed until 11:30 last night, he grinned at me and his tears dried right up.  I love that little man.

My favorite of his 3 month pictures.  His little expression is so mischievous!

He's precious, yes?  :)

Recap of the past month

Didn't mean to let a whole month pass before blogging again but these kiddos keep me busy and life just speeds ahead!  We had a fun Halloween.....

My kids - a ballerina, The Flash, and a cute, cute cow!

Love these two!

The babies of the family - my nephew Waylon (aka Superman :D) and my sweet Caedon

Kyler (and the rest of us) decorated a pumpkin for his contest at school.  Isn't Pikachu cute?  And Kyler won 3rd place!

Caedon has been smiling more and giggling some, too.  He's so adorable and the kids get so excited to make him smile.  They count up the number of times he smiles at them every day!  :)

How adorable are these three little munchkins?

Melissa is so funny!

We had a great Thanksgiving, too!  It's always so much fun to spend time with our whole big family and watch the kiddos play together!  We now have 9 great-granchildren at our family gatherings so it gets quite crazy!  :)

Caedon snuggling with Gran

Caedon is now enchanting Aunt Doris and Amy with his adorable smiles.  :)

Kids - Kyler, Heath, Kyleigh, Christopher, Stormy, Hannah, Caleb, Melissa, Waylon and Caedon.  Whew.  This year we actually had 10 since Stormy, my brother's niece, was with us.

My dad's grandkids - Kyler, Melissa, Caedon, Hannah and Waylon

Caedon hanging out with his Grammy.

My little finger-sucker says Happy Thanksgiving!

This month Kyler also lost his first two teeth!  My baby is way too grown up!

We also have decorated for Christmas and we've already gone to visit Santa!  The kids are SO excited about Christmas!  (Well, 2 of them.  Caedon doesn't care one little bit.  :D)

Caedon checking out the cool lights!

Kyler putting on an ornament

Melissa decorating the tree

Showing us some of the ornaments

Kyler thought he was supposed to decorate himself!

Look how excited they are!

Melissa putting the star on the tree.

Our pretty Christmasy house!

Visiting Santa at Bass Pro

Caedon is now 3 months old!  No doctor appt this month but according to my scale he's about 14 lbs.  (He was only 12.5 at his 2 month check-up)  It's so hard to believe we've already had him here with us for 3 whole months!  He's still such a calm baby and we just love him to pieces.  It's really hard to imagine life without him now - he adds so much to our lives.