JC is 5 months old!

It is hard to believe that 5 months ago today I was holding my second son that was only a little over 24 hours old. Time is passing so much more quickly than I want it to. As a mom I find myself wanting to cling to all the moments and savoring the sweet "baby time" of his life and yet you long for the advancements too. I am anxious to see him sit up on his own and to crawl, get his first tooth, speak his first word. Well maybe not that first word part since both of my children seem to have been abundantly blessed with the gift of gab! He is so much more advanced at this age than I remember Drew being, although that has been 5 years ago and I have a hard time remembering it all. Here is a run down of some of the things he is now doing:

1. You eat 3 meals a day,
breakfast - baby oatmeal and formula
lunch - vegi, fruit, 4oz juice
dinner - vegi, fruit, 4 oz juice
You still have a bottle in the morning and at night which are 7oz each. Your favorite foods seem to be squash, pears, and applesauce. You still love the food I make for you but we do buy the baby fruits as well as some vegis.

2. You typically sleep at night from 9pm-5am for a total of 8 hours. You take a morning nap and an afternoon nap which are both about 2-3hours long. You nap at daycare even in the midst of all the chaos of the baby room and yet at home you want it to be totally silent. You have started sleeping mostly on your side but have also done some sleeping on your tummy now that you can turn over to it.

3. You like to play on the floor and are able to turn yourself from your tummy to your back and from you back to your tummy. You have not managed to make a full rotation yet but you are close. You can even get your legs up under neath you sometimes, so crawling may not be too far off!!

4. You like to hold toys and beat them against the floor or your car seat, kinda makes me think you may be a little drummer! What ever you have in your hands you are waving it back and forth.

5. Another favorite thing you like to do is to sit in my lap and rock your body back and forth, not really sure why you like this, maybe it is just that you are learning to control your body motions.

6. Teeth are hopefully on the way. You still drool a LOT! You have had some really bad diapers lately too which make me think it is coming. I sure hope so! Occasionally you are in an ill temper and I think that it must be due to the teeth.

7. You LOVE bath time. You will just sit and kick your legs and splash that water! You truly seem to love being in the water. I am looking forward to swimming with you next year!

8. Right now you are wearing size 6-9mon clothing and even have a couple of blanket sleepers that are 12 mon, but they run small. You are definitely a big boy by comparison to your brother.

9. You like to "talk". Well, your version of talking anyway. You do say mama quite a bit, although I do not think you use the word because you want me,just that you want something. Like to be held, eat, bottle, everything seems to get mama right now.

10. You have a few favorite people! Ms. Deb from church, you know her pretty well now. She keeps you in the nursery on Sunday mornings. Lauren at the daycare. I can ask you if you are ready to see Lauren when we arrive in the mornings and you get all excited! I am so grateful for all the wonderful people who take care of you at daycare and at church!

So that is pretty much where JC is at these days! I have put together a photo album of his first 5 mon, I will probably do another one for 6 mon. Enjoy!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Band Performance from Saturday

Tupelo Performance

Click the link above and you will be able to see the band performance from Saturday on YouTube.

They did great! Won everything in the competition that night and got all 1's for their festival rating. It has been a great Marching Season for the OB Band! This Saturday is our final competition. We will be traveling to Clinton, MS for the MS State Championship!

Soon to be banned from bathing in the kitchen!

As you will see from the video JC loves bath time! He is not going to be able to bath in the kitchen anymore because he makes a HUGE mess. I could hardly even hold the camera steady due to him splashing me and the floor and the counter and the wall and everything in range of his tub! I wish I had gotten video of him when he saw the tub set up, he got so excited and just kicked and threw his arms around. He really does like baths. I think for Christmas he is going to get some bath toys, he doesn't really need anything else so that will be a good item! Enjoy!

JC is getting pretty active!

JC is beginning to be really active, I am starting to dread him actually figuring out how to roll around and even crawl! This child is not going to be a late bloomer people! He has learned how to kick, really hard! He likes to kick us while we are changing his diapers and he will kick in the bed and move his entire body up the length of the bed. Last night he was not quite ready for bed at bed time so he ended up in the room with us for a while watching tv. I set him up in the boppy and gave him these two toys and he played like this for over 30 minutes. The video is kinda long but will really show you how much more control he is learning to have over his arms and hands.

Fall Break 2009

Well Fall Break has come and gone and I am just now blogging about it! We had a wonderful time together and did many fun things. We did get rained out of the zoo, which was very disappointing because we really wanted to see the new exhibit. But we will do it again next month when band is over.

I will let the pics speak for themselves, so enjoy!

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The Beginning of a Long Weekend

Well we have had a good and unexpected weekend so far! Yesterday we had another round of thoroughly soaking rain. We have had quite a bit of rain the last month. Due to the very wet conditions our football game last night was canceled and rescheduled to tonight. Also the band festival and competition that was to be today was canceled and rescheduled to next Saturday. Since we did not have a ball game we decided to plan some fun family activities last night! We went out to dinner together and then went bowling. It was so much fun. We have taken Drew one other time and he was not that into it but we were with a large group of people. I think going with just us made a difference. JC slept through most of the bowling night. It really was a fun time. We all ended up going to the ball game tonight. It was VERY cold. Actually the temps are not that low but it really seemed to be cold out. I think that the breeze made it feel so much colder. The boys did great though. JC stayed bundled up in his stroller the entire time and Drew ran around as usual. Getting to be home this morning was great because we were able to get the house cleaned up and laundry done.

So we have had a great Friday and Saturday! Tomorrow we have our annual church picnic in the park. Monday and Tuesday are fall break. We have many fun activities planned so we will have many more pics to post!

Here is a slide show of what we have done this weekend so far!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Videos & a Pic

Drew getting his first awards in Sparks.