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!