My Life. My Boys.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
James is 6 Months!
It's so hard to believe that James could actually be half of a year old! He has stolen my heart forever! Yesterday at my brother's church, the preacher was talking about how the Holy Spirit gives us pieces of heaven here on earth, kind of like a deposit of what's to come. The first thing I thought of was James. My heart has grown beyond what I could have ever imagined, having him for my son. (Josh feels the same way, but this is my blog.) I could go on and on, but I know I don't need to write this down for fear of forgetting. I do need to write what he's doing right now, though, so bear with me! :)
~~He seems to have a slightly different relationship with Josh and me. When he is with Josh, he's visibly ecstatic, laughs more, smiles huge smiles, etc. When he's with me, he stares at me, tilts his head, and gives me a look like he's so deeply in love with me. It just about kills me!
~~James has become SO active recently. In the past 2-3 weeks, we have realized that he rarely stops moving. When he does stop, it's because he's really into to new scenery or he's sleepy. He's still affectionate, but he's having less of those moments and more active ones.
~~He's very observant. He's always very into what's going on around him.
~~He loves toys. He will grab them and bring them to his mouth most of the time, but if his paci is already there, he'll play with them...sometimes flinging them around and banging his head.
~~He's very, very strong! For a few weeks now, if he's laying on his back and I hold his feet down, he'll sit all the way up. It shocks me that he can do that! He has abs of steel and is constantly trying to do sit-ups. He sits up straight for a long time now, moving his head around, playing with his feet, or playing with toys. Today we took his 6 month pictures, and he sat up for the longest time giving tons of big smiles. He loves to be standing the most, with our hands holding his for support.
~~He's still a big flirt. He is so expressive with his eyes and eyebrows, and squeals with delight.
~~He is making lots of new sound combinations. Josh and I were giving him a bath the other night, and it sounded like he said "How doin'?". We both looked at eachother and said "How you doin!". Michael and Jilinda said that he said several things while they watched him, one of them being something about Baylor. He's not really saying these things, but it's fun to act like he is! I'm working on getting him to say "Mama" and Josh is working on "Dada". I hear that Dada usually wins.
~~He is a Mama's boy right now. Daddy is a VERY close second, but I am definitely his main squeeze right now. He's happy until he sees me, and then he starts whimpering and leaning towards me.
~~He puts his hands out to reach for people now.
~~He's figuring out how to put his paci in and does it right most of the time.
~~One of my and a lot of people's favorite things about him is that when you pick him up, he puts his arms around your neck and hugs you for a while.
~~He is happy most of the time, unless he's tired or in pain. It's not hard to get him to smile!
~~His hair is starting to grow in on top, to where I can semi-comb it over (...err wet-wipe it over)
~~Most people say that he is a perfect combination of Josh and me. He doesn't favor one of us over the other. He has my eyes, Josh's eyebrows, a combo (more my) nose, Josh's mouth, my apple-cheeks, Josh's expressions, our coloring is the same. I look at us and try to piece that together in my mind, but it's too hard!
~~He is really into babies faces, and anytime he sees himself or another baby, he gets SO excited, lights up, and coos. Yesterday was baby dedication at church and he started smiling so big and cooing at the babies on screen. It was so funny!
~~He loves peek-a-boo, being outside (there are no tears outside), riding in the car, his exersaucer (for a little while), being tickled, bathtime, making silly noises (he studies our mouths), being in our arms while we're standing up and facing out so he can look around.
~~He is slightly spoiled, because he doesn't play by himself for more than 5 minutes or so, unless I'm right there with him. Maybe it's a first child thing, but he wants someone there with him most of the time. If he's awake, I'm not doing much else than playing with him. When he's asleep, I have to get everything done and do any relaxing that will be had for that day.
~~He loves attention. He was eating it up while getting his 6 month pictures taken for almost 2 hours.
~~He likes to make raspberries a lot!
~~He weighs 19 1/2 lbs, and is in the 60% for height, 75% for weight, and 100% for head. Those change all of the time for him, but that's what they are this month!
I'm probably going to add to this list as I think of more things! He is so much fun, now that he's so aware of what's going on around him, and he's already making us laugh with his silly faces, excitement he shows over certain things, sounds he makes with lots of passion, etc. I love this picture of Josh and James. He truly loves his daddy, and I forsee a daddy's boy in the near future...
~~He seems to have a slightly different relationship with Josh and me. When he is with Josh, he's visibly ecstatic, laughs more, smiles huge smiles, etc. When he's with me, he stares at me, tilts his head, and gives me a look like he's so deeply in love with me. It just about kills me!
~~James has become SO active recently. In the past 2-3 weeks, we have realized that he rarely stops moving. When he does stop, it's because he's really into to new scenery or he's sleepy. He's still affectionate, but he's having less of those moments and more active ones.
~~He's very observant. He's always very into what's going on around him.
~~He loves toys. He will grab them and bring them to his mouth most of the time, but if his paci is already there, he'll play with them...sometimes flinging them around and banging his head.
~~He's very, very strong! For a few weeks now, if he's laying on his back and I hold his feet down, he'll sit all the way up. It shocks me that he can do that! He has abs of steel and is constantly trying to do sit-ups. He sits up straight for a long time now, moving his head around, playing with his feet, or playing with toys. Today we took his 6 month pictures, and he sat up for the longest time giving tons of big smiles. He loves to be standing the most, with our hands holding his for support.
~~He's still a big flirt. He is so expressive with his eyes and eyebrows, and squeals with delight.
~~He is making lots of new sound combinations. Josh and I were giving him a bath the other night, and it sounded like he said "How doin'?". We both looked at eachother and said "How you doin!". Michael and Jilinda said that he said several things while they watched him, one of them being something about Baylor. He's not really saying these things, but it's fun to act like he is! I'm working on getting him to say "Mama" and Josh is working on "Dada". I hear that Dada usually wins.
~~He is a Mama's boy right now. Daddy is a VERY close second, but I am definitely his main squeeze right now. He's happy until he sees me, and then he starts whimpering and leaning towards me.
~~He puts his hands out to reach for people now.
~~He's figuring out how to put his paci in and does it right most of the time.
~~One of my and a lot of people's favorite things about him is that when you pick him up, he puts his arms around your neck and hugs you for a while.
~~He is happy most of the time, unless he's tired or in pain. It's not hard to get him to smile!
~~His hair is starting to grow in on top, to where I can semi-comb it over (...err wet-wipe it over)
~~Most people say that he is a perfect combination of Josh and me. He doesn't favor one of us over the other. He has my eyes, Josh's eyebrows, a combo (more my) nose, Josh's mouth, my apple-cheeks, Josh's expressions, our coloring is the same. I look at us and try to piece that together in my mind, but it's too hard!
~~He is really into babies faces, and anytime he sees himself or another baby, he gets SO excited, lights up, and coos. Yesterday was baby dedication at church and he started smiling so big and cooing at the babies on screen. It was so funny!
~~He loves peek-a-boo, being outside (there are no tears outside), riding in the car, his exersaucer (for a little while), being tickled, bathtime, making silly noises (he studies our mouths), being in our arms while we're standing up and facing out so he can look around.
~~He is slightly spoiled, because he doesn't play by himself for more than 5 minutes or so, unless I'm right there with him. Maybe it's a first child thing, but he wants someone there with him most of the time. If he's awake, I'm not doing much else than playing with him. When he's asleep, I have to get everything done and do any relaxing that will be had for that day.
~~He loves attention. He was eating it up while getting his 6 month pictures taken for almost 2 hours.
~~He likes to make raspberries a lot!
~~He weighs 19 1/2 lbs, and is in the 60% for height, 75% for weight, and 100% for head. Those change all of the time for him, but that's what they are this month!
I'm probably going to add to this list as I think of more things! He is so much fun, now that he's so aware of what's going on around him, and he's already making us laugh with his silly faces, excitement he shows over certain things, sounds he makes with lots of passion, etc. I love this picture of Josh and James. He truly loves his daddy, and I forsee a daddy's boy in the near future...
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Takin' It Easy
Papa Joe came to visit this past weekend, and we really had a wonderful time. I was glad for Josh and him to have some father/son bonding time as they fixed just about everything that was broken in and around our house. Not much going on this week. James has been sick, so we've stayed in most of the week, just takin' it easy. He seems to be getting out of it, so hopefully he'll be well enough to have his first spend-the-night-with-Uncle Michael-and-Aunt Jilinda trip this weekend! We are going to our family friend's wedding, so M and J agreed to watch him. It will be SO weird being gone from him for so long! We're going to stay with them, too, but it's a night wedding, so they're going to put him to bed. He's taking a bottle FINALLY pretty well, so that will help them out a lot. A few of weeks ago, when I put a bottle in his mouth, all he wanted to do was chew it, and when we fed him cereal, he constantly stuck out his tongue and made a mess. Well, last weekend, it was like he just figured out how to eat! He opened his mouth everytime there was a bite coming, and he swallowed every bite, hardly making a mess at all. A few days later, Josh decided to try the bottle again. He sucked it down like it was nothing! I tried it, too, and he drank it perfectly! Who knows why or how he learned that, but I'm glad it was not more of a stuggle than that. This week he has not done as well with the cereal, but I think it is from being sick. I think he's just not that hungry. Sorry, that was probably very boring to you non-mothers out there! :) Here is a picture of my sweetie pie with my favorite new shirt of his.
If you can't read it, it says "If you think I'm cute, you should see my daddy." Of course, he already has a drool stain running down the front...very typical these days! He's also wearing jeans (his cousins' old jeans) for the first time, so I think he looks extra cute his outfit!
Monday, October 02, 2006
Great Weekend!
This weekend, Josh, James, and I traveled to New Orleans to see some of our best friends from college and, more importantly, were able to meet sweet baby Adalie, Kim and Adam's beautiful baby girl! We had such a wonderful time with them, and I was so glad to get to spend the weekend with Kim and Amanda, although I wish it could have been longer!! I am continually blessed by their friendships and am loving starting this new phase of our friendship together. Here are some pics of our weekend.
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