Sunday, July 29, 2012

Graham is 8 Months Old!

This cutie pie is 8 months old and getting so big!  He is keeping us on our toes for sure! 
As you can see from these pictures Graham is not still for more than a minute!  He has been crawling good for about 3 weeks and gets faster every day.  He loves everything he can't have from Gracie's bed to her water bowl. The other day I even went to check on him and he had crawled into Reed's room and was getting into his toys!  It's a new world for sure! :) 
I thought for sure we would have a tooth by now, but still no teeth!  We have had lots of crying out in the middle of the night, to the point we weren't sure if it was teething or an ear infection, so I finally took him to the doctor last Monday and he checked out perfect and weighed 18 lbs and 12 ounces.  The middle of the night crying has been tough because he now pulls up in his crib and doesn't easily just roll over to find a paci and go back to sleep.  We are working to stop the middle of the night rocking and early morning snuggles before it is time to eat.

Graham is still normally going to bed around 7:30 to 8 and lately has been waking between 6 and 6:30.  I think he will always be an early riser.  He nurses in the morning when he wakes up and then has breast milk bottles around 11, 2, 5 and bedtime.  Graham is still taking 3 naps a day, usually around 8:30 in the morning for an hour or so and then again usualy around noon and 3, but every day with naps can be different.

Still has either yogurt or cereal and fruit for breakfast and a few mornings he has had toast or small bites of pancakes as well.  For lunch and dinner I moved up to 5 cubes of homemade baby food or 5 ounces.  He usually has avocado and fruit for lunch and vegetables for dinner.  Graham still loves everything and has yet to not eat anything we have given him.  He also LOVES puffs and mum-mums, I feel like we go through a ton of them because big brother loves them too.  He has gotten so good at getting most of them in his mouth, but still gets so messy eating them.

Babbling more and more every day, saying ma-ma and da-da a lot.  He says ma-ma-ma when he is tired and da-da-da when he is happy and playing.  He loves to squeal and scream especially in public to get every one's attention.

I am back in the office pretty much full time now and we have a baby-sitter staying with Graham two days and week and the other days he is still with Gigi or Gran.  I even spent my first 2 1/2 days away for a business trip.  It was very hard, but Daddy held down the house and Graham was so happy to see me he burst into tears and his bottom lip just quivered for about 5 minutes.  It was the saddest thing ever, it was like he thought I was never coming back. 
Graham is also starting to pull up on anything he can.  The easiest for him right now is in his crib, but he also pulls up on the ottoman and the learning table I just got out of the attic last week.  Yesterday he had one hand on the couch and one on the ottoman and pulled right up.  It just amazes me, he just seems to little to be so mobile. 

We finally got the highchair down this month, up until now we have just been using the bumbo chair for everything.  Graham is sitting up like a big boy every where now in restaurants and shopping carts.

Graham has loved being at the pool this summer!  He is so laid back and will just relax and hang out while we swim around.  Overall Graham is very laid back and just goes with the flow.  If we are out late he will always stay awake to make sure he doesn't miss anything and then he crashes and will normally sleep in the next morning.
Graham has also started waving!  It is so cute, he holds his little hands up and folds his fingers down facing towards him.  He has only done it a couple of times when we do it to him, but you can always tell he is thinking about it when we wave.
Daddy and Reed have given Graham the nickname "Grammy" and all of us call him Gram-o a lot.  He definitely knows his name.   
And this photo shoot is over....lately this has been our view of Graham!  

Reed at 8 months!  Still so different to me!

The Big 3-0!

Josh and I both turned 30 in June and our families threw us a great party at So Restaurant!

This was our cake!  Half white and half strawberry our favorites!

Amy did an amazing job with the decorations.

No detail was missed!  We even had party favors with our favorite candies Jelly Bellies and Reese Cups.

Not even the chairs were missed!  Beautiful!

Awesome arrangement!

Sisters!
I love getting to celebrate my birthday every year with my best friend!  This was our 15th birthday to celebrate together!

Our little family!

Me and my baby boy!

Graham, so happy to be sitting up in the highchair.

Graham got lots of attention from his Gran & Gigi!

Bedtime for Graham!  The highchair cover made a great pillow for the car seat.

Candle lighting time.  How many people does it take to light 30 candles?

Happy Birthday to us!

Make a wish!

We were so blessed with an amazing party and gifts!  We can never thank our family enough for everything they do for us and all they do to make us feel special.

I will end with Reed at 9 pm on a school night!  He LOVES cake just like is Mommy! :)

We had such a great birthday and loved getting to celebrate with both our families!

New Swing Set!

Reed's big birthday gift this year was a new swing set! Although it came 2 months late!  We had quite a bit of dirt work that needed to be done in the back yard before we could set it up because we wanted to make sure we had a good level spot.  So the first weekend of June Josh rented a backhoe and leveled out the dirt and then we laid sod.  Finally the time came to start constructing the swing set!  I didn't do a good job of documenting the process, but I capture a few shots along the way.

This was only 1/2 of the wood! 


Josh's Mom was a lifesaver and she organized all of the hardware into individual bags by step!


Uncle Branden and Papa came over to help!



First time down the slide!


I think they like it! 




The finishd product, grass and all!  Now we just need to landscape behind it, always a work in progress, right?


It was a lot of hard work, but we have loved having swings and slide right in our backyard!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was very laid back this year.  Both our Mom's were out of town so we were able to go to church Saturday night and then spent all day Sunday hanging out just the four of us. 

I had such a great weekend, that I documented the highlights and had to share:
  • Homemade breakfast of pancake and eggs with my boys
  • Yard work with Josh while the boys napped
  • Grocery shopping as a family, all 4 of us
  • Watching Reed make Graham laugh harder than he ever had
  • Rocking Graham to sleep for two naps
  • Sleeping in as a family until 8 am
  • Home cooked lunch by Josh and pizza for dinner with my boys
The best present of all was getting some priceless pictures with my boys!







Haircuts!

I know this is way old, but I had to document the first and second haircut! 

This is Graham on May 9th getting his first haircut!  I have to be honest I was pretty sad, I was attached to the crazy hair.
However, looking back, he needed it SO bad!  It was out of control! :)
He looks so grown up!


The second haircut was total spur of the moment.  We had been talking about how he needed another haircut and then one night we just decided to do it.

So this is Josh on July 6th (with the giant scissors) cutting the curls off.


On the curls were gone!