5 months old and Counting.......

To Braxton: Wow! 5 months already! This mommy really wishes time would slow down so that I could cuddle with you forever! The month of January was an exciting one for you....real food....real giggles.....real interest in everything going on around you. We love you so very much and love watching you grow and start to explore your environment more everyday!

 

Cool guy

The facts: Guess what!?!? You weigh 12 lbs 3 oz now which is still less than 5% but you look huge to us. You are a great eater and are steadily growing even if its not quite as fast as the other 95% of kiddos your age. 

You start your day consistently at 5:30AM with nursing and playtime with mommy. During the day at daycare you eat 4-5 5oz bottles and then you nurse 1-2x at home in the evenings before bed. You go to sleep around 8PM every night.

On January 6, we started rice cereal everyday and you love it. You now eat 4tsp every evening after I pick you up from school (daycare)

You have finally grown out of all of your newborn clothes and are wearing 0-3 months in everything!

What you are doing: Laughing out loud, grabbing your toes and putting them in your mouth, eating rice cereal every night, and on one occasion you rolled back to belly
You moved out of mommy and daddy's room this month and transitioned away from swaddling. You are now sleeping in your crib like a big boy! You sleep flat on your back, with a noise machine wearing fleece pajamas with a fleece sleep sack over them because you get cold at night. It took us lots of experimenting to discover the perfect combination for you to sleep really well in your crib. You are now sleeping inconsistently through the night but we will take it!!!!

You sure love those toes

Big boy in your high chair

Things you like: Your toes (you love looking at them, grabbing them, tasting them), getting "gobbled" especially under your arm pits, smiling big toothless smiles, riding in your backpack with daddy
Things you dislike: Being cold, sun in your eyes, wind in your face (you are basically a diva outside..Ha), and being tired 

Big Events: eating rice cereal, first Razorback basketball game, and of course Aunt Maegen's wedding 

Aunt Maegen's wedding

CEREAL!!

Luke and I were so excited for Braxton's 4-month birthday to arrive because we knew that we would be able to give him rice cereal for the first time. Of course we know that rice cereal is bland and doesn't carry much nutritional value but we knew that feeding him would be fun!!!!! So on January 6, Braxton got in his highchair for the first time and ate solid food. He looked like such a big boy but he wasn't sure about the food. Don't get me wrong, he ate every last bite but he didn't seem very excited about it. Ha

First time in his highchair

First bite of solid food!

Mom....this isn't milk!!!

Hmmmm....not so sure!

Woooo Pig Sooie!!!

Luke loves basketball and so he has decided that Braxton will also LOVE basketball!! We decided to start him out young so on a cold January afternoon we set off to Bud Walton Arena to cheer on the Hogs as they beat Vanderbilt. This momma was nervous.....about the cold....about parking.....about the crowd......about the noise! Braxton did excellent though, he quietly watched everything going on, then he took a nap, then he watched some more! 

Braxton wanted to share his love of basketball with his best friend so we invited Miss Ansley Shae to come along and she was a big fan of the game also! Overall our outing was very successful. YAY!

4 month photo shoot!

We have to celebrate Braxton's birthday in style each month. I must say that he definitely knows what the camera is and he likes to cheese when we get it out. No complaints from this mommy because I love it!!!!!

Happy New Year!!

Luke and I had high expectations for New Year's Eve. We wanted to get a babysitter, go out to dinner, and ring the new year in somewhere with live music, drinks, and friends. Braxton had other plans.....on New Year's Eve we encountered our first fever and mommy and daddy's "plans" went out the window. 

We settled for takeout, pjs, wine, a movie, and snuggles with our poor sick boy.

On the first day of 2013 we continued our snuggle marathon with Brax and on January 2 I took him to the doctor for antibiotics. Even though our lil guy was feeling crummy, he gave us the best gift on New Year's Day......he giggled and we caught it on video. Yay!