8 months!!

Wyatt turned eight months old on April 2nd and the month leading up to that wasn't nearly as busy for him as far as milestones but the ones he reached were some biggies, but first some laughs!!

Clay took this video which is forever long but scroll through until about the last minute, poor baby Wyatt or AKA Doug's lollipop

Watch this one carefully, I almost wet my pants when it happened.  Can't say I didn't warn him though!!

Poor little guy has been chewing on EVERYTHING and drooling like a mad man but so far hasn't sprouted any new teeth, I guess six in one month means he gets a little rest period.  

I truly can't believe I don't have a picture or a video to commemorate this next double milestone, all I can say is that my brain was/is truly addled during tax season so I really can't be held responsible, but it still makes me sad.  On March 6th just 4 short days after he turned 7 month old, he started both crawling, belly off the floor, and pulling up!!  And man has he gotten FAST which can be noticed due to his blurriness in the picture below.  

Just a few weeks after that on the 20th he started cruising around on the furniture, I know it won't be long before he is walking as quickly and early as he seems to hitting these milestones.  He hasn't really progressed much on the talking front, just babbles a lot but I think that is just because he is much more concerned with keeping up with Gavin whom he adores more than life itself!

In order to give him the extra calories he needs to continue all of the moving he is doing, we started him on table food and on the 22nd he had his first full meal of two of the staples in our house, chicken nuggets and green peas, he will have to wait a few months for the main staple of peanut butter :-)  

Since then when we (Clay) cooks something not spicy we will dice some up for Wyatt but he is still mainly getting the jar food.

He still loves baths and now that he is crawling/cruising he has resorted to carrying things around in his mouth in order to take them with him.   

He looks just like a little puppy when you see him crawling around with a toy or a pilfered napkin left on the coffee table in his mouth, it is hysterical.  

March

March was a crazy month, not only was it tax season but also wedding season apparently.  But I'll start at the beginning.

On another random day we happened to have some both warm and sunshiny weather, which there hasn't been a lot of this spring which is very abnormal.  Anyway, we decided to get out the 1400+ ride on toys that Gavin has acquired in his 3+ years of life and see if he was big enough for a couple of them now.  Clay's parents got him this incredibly cool airplane for his 1st birthday that you pedal but of course he was WAY too small not to mention not coordinated enough to use it at that point.  They also had one of Clay's toys restored that following Christmas, a John Deere tractor which he again has been to small for and still kinda is.

Wyatt testing out the super sweet find I came across at the Kidz Clothing Sale.  I have been wanting one of these for the past 3.75 years :-)

Clay couldn't be left out of the fun so he decided to see if he could still ride his old tractor, hahahahahaha

This is also one of Gavin's ride on toys but so far Wyatt has gotten 1000% more use out of it than Gavin ever did.  I love how he puts one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the door just like he is actually driving.  

Thought that was a super cute of all three of them and Wyatt looking out the back at his most favorite person in the world, and I'm not talking about his Mama either!

That following weekend was the first wedding which happened to be my one of my most favorite friends Anne-Marie.  Clay ended up having to stay at home to keep the boys due to a family babysitter issue that I won't bother mentioning... oh wait, I just did, Ha!  It was a reunion of sorts since all but one of my friends from that group have moved away.  Had a fantastic time and cried like a baby at the wedding, it was SO sweet!!

The following weekend my baby brother got married to the sweetest girl in the world, except for me of course!

Everyone except poor little Wyatt was in the wedding so he got to hang out with Papa Browning for the weekend, I'm sure he had way more fun than he would have otherwise.  Plus it allowed us to share something special with just Gavin and I know he needed that time with us pretty badly.

Here is Gavin trying on his wedding attire the week before

 And here is my brother and his beautiful bride!

I'm pretty sure we laid low the remainder of the month and tried to catch up on some much needed sleep and I had to catch up on some tax preparation!!

Below are a few cute pictures from the rest of the month

Nothing moves a baby brother better than a dump truck!

Just look at that mischievous face!!

February, short month, really short post...

Trying to remember what you did two months ago is kinda hard, at least for me so I'm sure there are some missed opportunities for laughter at my expense due to my forgetfulness. Apparently my forgetfulness also extended to taking pictures because half of the pictures below came from someone else...

Gavin wrote his first Valentines Card to his Daddy!! I was so proud of him!

Look at these sweet little boys snuggling on the couch while Clay and I went out on a date.

Besides the fact that Gavin is the most handsome little boy ever, that is actually Clay's jacket from when he was that age!! 

Animated picture of all the boys swinging.  Its a new thing that Picasa does but looking at it makes me a little motion sick....scroll down quickly!! 

Gavin with his favorite teacher, Ms. Teresa who is well on her way to sainthood!  And no, I don't regularly take him to school in his jammies, they had a special pajama day thank you very much!!

Seven Months!

Wyatt turned seven months old on March 2nd, and I know you are incredibly shocked at my tardiness in posting about it :-).


February was a big month for Wyatt, he met many milestones at lightning speed and hasn't given us a second to catch up ever since.

The milestone I am probably most proud of, even though the only thing I had to do with it was be jealous because I saw one of his classmates doing it and mention it to his teacher, is him drinking from a sippy cup!! He had just turned 6 months old when he started and hasn't looked back since.

On the 5th he also started his first non-baby foods with a little shredded cheese, which he absolutely loved!

Towards the middle of the month he went from eating the baby food from a jar at school to eating from the kitchen, although it is still blended, just not as much.  To help him with all of these new lumpier foods he acquired FIVE new teeth from 2/1 - 2/15!! Those were a rough couple of weeks.... All total he has 8 teeth, "All the better to eat you with my dear" And oh how he loves to give these gaping mouth kisses where you aren't really sure if he has been cannibalized and plans to chew off your nose or just give you sweet but slobbery kisses.  

He is also really working on his crawling muscles, he is getting so super close.  He gets up on all fours and then rocks and rocks.  Sometimes he will get one leg going forward but then never brings the other.  He has mastered the sitting up from belly position which really surprised me and boy is he quick! One second he is on his belly and the next sitting straight up and you really don't even see the transition, Ha!

Speaking of solids, we finally had a decent day outside and Wyatt tried some super tasty grass while I was taking his picture.  Oh and just look at that belly!!

He also got to swing for the first time that day and he seemed to really enjoy it.

Below are some cute pictures from school, I couldn't decide which one was cuter so I just posted all three :)

No doctor appointments for stats although he did have a few sick visits but my sweet, wonderful husband took him to those and I didn't write down his weight.  His consumption didn't change that much over the month but here are the regular foods he is currently chomping on:

Cheese, Gerber puffs, yogurt melts, Vegetable cheese puffs (actually really tasty), cheerios, bits of french fries, and frozen bagels.  You have to watch him with those bagels though, the tiny ones defrost fast and he can break off big pieces to stuff in his mouth.  

Completely forgot to post his 7 month calendar picture, probably because I took it way after he turned 7 months.  He has flat out stopped cooperating for these pictures...

Silly words by a super sweet and silly boy

Gavin has an exceptional vocabulary for a child his age, his understanding of words and their meaning and his conversational skills often make me forget that he is just three, which makes the pronunciations of certain words that much cuter.

-Lellow (yellow) What makes this so strange/funny is that he can pronounce the Y sound, they study a different letter each week at school and so on the Y week I was anxious to see how he pronounced all the words that they learned starting with Y.  So we were going over them and he would say Yak, Yarn, lellow.  And I said,  "no listen to the Y sound, yuh, yuh, yuk, say yak, yak, yellow" and he would repeat back to me, "Yak, Yak, Lellow"...  I couldn't help but laugh it was so cute.

-Teaf as in "Daddy is that your sweet teaf?"

- Yogrit, one of his top three most favorite foods, yogurt

- Jake a land pirate, one of the more tolerable Disney cartoons Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

- Stank you, but he only uses this one sporadically. It never fails to make me smile when he says "Stank you Mama"

- Printzels and Chippies

- Nola bar for granola bar, although we have probably just reinforced that pronunciation because now we call them nola bars as well, ha!

- Votional, We have the The One-Year Devotions for Preschoolers that we read every night before bed

 - And last but not least, Mrs. Sara, the wonderful lady who picks Gavin up and takes him to choir on Wednesdays told me a few weeks ago that one Wednesday after they got to church, Gavin told her that he had gotten "rain drops" on himself while in her car.  It was sweat, isn't that the cutest!!!

6 months old!!

Wyatt turned 6 months on 2/2/14.  6 months has flown by and Wyatt definitely has a personality all his own.  He loves his brother and looks adoringly at him anytime Gavin is in the room.  Gavin can also make him laugh like no one else.  It is so sweet but it also makes me sad when Gavin doesn't act the same in return.  Gavin loves him and is always sweet but just isn't on the same level, and I know it's completely normal, in fact I'm really surprised at how much Gavin interacts and loves on Wyatt because it sure wasn't like that with me and my little brother according to my parents :-).  

Some of the things Wyatt is doing now, honestly I have waited so long to post this I really can't remember when he started most of it.  I am so not on top of things like I was with Gavin.

 - Rocking on all fours, he is super close to crawling.  His main way of moving is by rolling though and man is he fast!

 - Sitting without support

 - He makes all kinds of noises with his mouth

 - He has gone through and thoroughly enjoyed every fruit, vegetable, mixed meal stage 2 baby food they make.  He looks very longingly at our food and tries to grab it every chance he gets.

 - He has super human strength. He can grab nearly anything and it takes a lot to get it back out of his hands.  He is also super quiet and sneaky so you have to watch him or you never know what he will end up with.  I am not excited about what this will entail when he starts crawling...

- His legs are really strong as well, he can stand up when holding onto something so for all I know he is going to start cruising before he crawls.  I keep waiting to walk into his room and see him standing up in his crib...

 - His favorite song is Old MacDonald, I can be sure of this because this is what Gavin and I have to sing in the car on the way home to get him to stop crying, Ha!  He has stopped napping on the way home from daycare so he is a bit more grouchy at night than he used to be.  

 - He takes 2 naps a day still one at 9 for about an hour and then a good 2 hr one at 1 and is in bed for good at 7.  

 - He is still on the same amount of formula - 7.5 ounces 5 times a day.  His solid food has increased though at breakfast he has 2 Tbl of cereal with a jar of fruit and then at lunch he eats 1.5 jars of veggies/fruit and dinner consists of more cereal and a jar of veggies or fruit.  

 - He LOVES baths!! Clay has started putting just a couple of inches of water in the tub and laying him down.  As soon as he hits the water he gets this HUGE grin on his face and starts splashing around like a maniac.  I would post the video of him which is super cute but since he is naked I get kinda worried about sickos seeing it.  

A couple of pictures from his teachers of my little ham.

We had a couple of days of really cold weather in January.  I never thought I would have a use for this but I sure was glad we had it when we had those record cold days.  Thanks Anna!!  And isn't he just the cutest thing!

Hanging out at the bowling alley watching his Mama actually break 50, which has to be a record!

He is already like Gavin in the fact that now he refuses to be still for his monthly pictures, I tried to enlist the help of big brother this month without much more success.  I did get some cute ones though.

They must be teaching yoga at school because this is definitely a downward dog...

Wyatt's 6 month checkup and shots were about 2 weeks late but since I was so late in posting this it gets to be included :-)

Weight - 19.12 lbs - 75th percentile
Height - 27 inches - 75 percentile
Head - 17 inches....25 percentile   - He definitely go this from his Daddy because Gavin and I have monster size noggins!