Snow, Santa, and 6th month stats!

Brendan crawled backwards under his playpen!


Another shot of the backwards wonder.

A cute smile.

Touching his toes. The onesie says "Just hand me the cookies and no one gets hurt"

I love this picture! He was watching Windows Media Player while listening to a Baby Einstein CD and actually ended up falling asleep like this.

After a bath wrapped up in his Texas Tech towel.

Cartoons one Saturday morning. He loves Mickey Mouse!

Watching something on Papaw's iPhone.

Playing with the new baby gates Mommy bought. Don't worry, I was right there to catch him when he fell shortly thereafter (and before he bonked his head).

Dressed up for the 5 month pictures. (More like 5.5 month but whatever.)

Peeking at Brendan.

Yum rice cereal!

Fell asleep while watching Daddy play video games.

Sitting in the Bumbo seat.

I finally caught him on all fours for a picture. I'm shocked he hasn't crawled yet.

Snow! In Pearland, TX! I'm glad we saw it this time. In 2004 it snowed and we were on our honeymoon and missed all of it!

Mommy and Brendan in front of our house.

Daddy and Brendan with the Christmas decorations.

Brendan likes our snowman.

These next few I took in the first hour of snow.

Our street.

Neighbor's house across the street... this was for a roof shot... sorry it's so dark.

Brent was at the mall when it all started and picked up a mini-cookie cake from Great American Cookie Company to celebrate. It was very good!

This is the second hour. Our little Texas Tech gnome was covered!

Compare our cars to the previous shot to see how much snow we got!

Our front yard

Trying to get a shot of our Christmas tree inside the house.

Our snowman covered with actual snow!

This had to be taken... a palm tree covered in snow!

Our backyard. Those are our grape vines we've been growing since Spring 2007. This may have killed them... we'll see.

A fire in our fireplace. The stockings, in order from left to right, are Brent's, mine, a Texas Tech one, Brendan's, and our dog Max's. We were sad to not hang one for our kitty Jordan. I hope some family is taking good care of her.

Santa! Brendan was probably one of the happiest babies we saw there. The photographers (and Santa I'm sure) were glad to see a happy baby.

Video 1 is eating carrots, video 2 is showing how far he crawled backwards, and video 3 is enjoying his Baby Einstein CD.

Brendan went for his 6th month shots on the 19th. He is now 14 lbs, 4 oz and 25.5 inches. 10th and 20th percentile. So tall and skinny like his Daddy! On the 18th I noticed Brendan's 2nd tooth has broken through. Now he has two teeth on the bottom. We have tried carrots, green beans, sweet potatoes, white grape juice, and apple rice cereal. So far he only like carrots and sweet potatoes. Apparently he only like orange foods, hehe. I was shocked he didn't like the juice or apple rice cereal. I dunno if the fruit is just too tart for him or what.

The 19th was a busy day. We took Brendan for our family Christmas photos at Sears (by the way they charge waaaaaaaaaay too much) and then waited for 2 hours for a photo with Santa. He did really great for both. We constantly get to hear what a good baby he is for pictures. Photographers love him! He's gotten to the point when he hears our camera turn on he starts smiling. Think we've taken too many photos?!

Speaking of photos... I'm sure you have noticed the lack of professional photos. Due to technical difficulties our printer has not been hooked up for a while. When this gets fixed I can scan the ones we haven't been getting on CD so we can catch you all up on the chronicling of his adorableness!

A tooth! And other screaming...

So sorry for the delay in posting! It hasn't been a boring month but at the same time there hasn't been a lot of new and exciting things happening until recently. But here are some updates on the boy. Pictures will come in another post... hopefully sooner this time!

Brendan had been spitting up frequently for a while and I finally decided to call the doc about 2 or 3 weeks ago. It turns out that I was overfeeding the poor baby! Of course anyone you talk to who's seen him would laugh at that cause he's so skinny. But it also turns out that he didn't show any signs of wanting to stop eating whether it was with a bottle or breastfeeding. So now after cutting back, he's doing much better.

He found his toes! Brendan loves his toes. He will reach down and grab his foot to pull his toe to his mouth and he loves to suck on his big toe. One time when we had been out running errands he fell asleep sucking on his toe. When I was getting him out of the car his leg was up by his head with his hand still holding it there, lol.

He loves to scream! He'll start screaming for no reason at all. Stupidly I've gotten in a few back and forth screaming matches with him cause it's funny. I'm probably gonna stop that though cause I really don't want him to think it's okay to be loud and screamy all the time.

I've been thinking for about a month at least that he was teething. We've had a few incidents where he would just start screaming for some reason and wouldn't stop till I gave him Tylenol. So yesterday he was sucking on my finger and I got excited because I felt a sharp tooth! His first tooth has broken through. And I think the second one is very close behind. We'll see. When it comes all the way in, I'll try to get a picture of it.

Laughing! Brendan has also started laughing at us. So we've been trying all sorts of goofy things to make him laugh. So much fun!

Videos

The first video is of Brendan's first taste of rice cereal. He's doing much better with eating the cereal now. He even opens his mouth every time I show him the spoon. Now I just have to be better about not forgetting to give him cereal!

The second video is Brendan rolling! He does this really well and the past few days he's started getting up on all fours when he's on his tummy. He's even "crawled" backwards a couple of times. Any day now my vacuum will be a full time appliance!

The third video is us talking to Brendan and him being cute and adorable on Halloween.

We went and got his 4 month pics taken the other day... this time at Walmart so we spent much less this time! Get this... you can buy the portrait CD from Walmart (with the 6 poses they take) for $99. Yeah, you read that right. I could could go to Portrait Innovations and buy a huge package of different poses and get the CD for that price. They said it's that expensive cause they give you the copyrights. Dumb! Needless to say, we didn't get the CD. But the Halloween costume pic is absolutely adorable!

Sad news for the Beans... we think our cat ran away. She accidentally got out 2 nights ago and we haven't seen her since. Brent's cell phone number is on her tag so we're hoping somebody will find her and call. It's been really weird not hearing her collar jingle around the house. I didn't realize how used to it I had gotten. We've had her for 5 years now so we really miss her :-(

Oh, but also happy news. As of November 9th, Brent and I have been together for 11 years and next month we'll be celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary!

4 Month Old Stats

We have a healthy 4 month old baby boy!

He is now 24 inches long (20th percentile) and 12 lbs, 11 ozs (10th percentile).

His shots made his little legs knot up more this time so we had a very fussy weekend after his appointment. I could tell he wasn't feeling well Friday night and Saturday cause it was so easy to get him to sleep. Saturday (Oct 18th) Brendan had his first taste of rice cereal and didn't like it at all (yes, there is video of it!). He's gotten better now but I'm not sure if his little tummy likes it cause we've had a few fussy days. But who knows... that could probably be from any number of reasons.

We trick-or-treated to Gringo's with Brent's parents and to my parents' house for Halloween. The pictures of our little bean are too cute!

Saturday November 1st Texas Tech beat the number 1 Longhorns!!!! We discovered during that game (and the next day at the Renaissance Festival) that Brendan does not like loud noises. He got scared and started crying a few times when we were yelling/cheering at the TV, lol. So we don't know if Brendan likes fireworks yet or not. We were going to try to stay for the fireworks at the Ren Fest but the yelling of the crowd beforehand upset him... so I'm guessing he doesn't like fireworks yet. We'll see on his first July 4th in 2009... or at least first one to celebrate.