5 Months (and a few days!)

Once again, I am late on writing about Colby turning 5 months. Just too busy lately!

*He is SUPER long! No idea how much he weighs or how tall he is. We’ll find out next month!

*Wearing 6-9 month clothes. His feet are long and skinny and I’m having a hard time finding socks that will stay on him!

*Happy, happy baby! Great napper and will nap in car seat, swing, or crib. I love it!

*He is hit or miss with sleeping through the night. Last night he woke at 4 am, so it wasn’t horrible. But the two nights before that he woke up at 5:30. Not sure what his deal is, but I’m not quite willing to let him cry it out. I can function on little sleep! :)

*He has been having troubles with going #2, so his doctor suggested giving him prune juice. I really didn’t want to do this as Colby has only had breast milk, but I knew we needed to do it. I only gave him 2 oz. of juice (equal parts juice and water) and he guzzled it down! He did make a funny face when he first tasted it! Anyway, I’m happy to say, without going into too many details, that it worked! Think I’ll do juice every other day and see if that helps this problem. Never thought I’d be blogging about my child’s poo, but I’m a mom so there ya go!

*He adores his big brother and sister and they are always trying new tricks to make Colby smile. Works every time!

*He still hates tummy time, but tolerates it for a bit. He has yet to roll over, but I don’t mind. He will when he’s ready! The only issue is the right backside of his head is super flat! He definitely favors that side because that’s what he sleeps on. Hoping when he does roll over that his head will get normal looking :)

*Even though he doesn’t roll over, he has really good head control and support. He always lunges himself forward if he’s sitting in our lap or on the couch-like he’s trying to sit up more. He’s got a strong neck!

He is seriously the happiest baby!!!! I love this stage because he will pretty much smile at anyone very easily-as long as he’s been fed and changed!

He gets excited and flails his arms and legs!

Colby also LOVES bath time. I stopped using the baby bathtub mainly because he is so stinking tall and he looked uncomfortable in it! So, now I just put a teeny bit of water in the tub and lay him on a towel in it. He’s much happier and loves kicking his legs and arms all over.

  Such a happy boy. Man, he sure is pale looking! His hair is turning lighter, thinking he may look more like Lily as he gets older!

I didn’t use my Moby wrap much with Jameson because he was so big and I was just unsure of it holding him! But, after watching some “how to” videos online, I figured it out with Colby! This has come in handy many nights when Colby just wants to be held, which of course is always when I need to make dinner! He loves it though. He’s totally content to hang with me and watch what I’m doing.

The boys and their matching shirts on Super bowl Sunday! I was taking a picture with my ipad and Lily took this picture. Not bad!

He looked so old to me in his 2 piece jammies! Check out his awesome hair too. Kinda reminds me of Kramer from Seinfeld :)

We love our growing boy! Hate that he’s almost a half of a year old-only because it’s going so fast!! I love this stage though. He’s so fun!

Lily’s First Day of School (4 months late!)

 

I still can’t believe I’m just now posting these pictures! I finally got the camera card from my mom so I can blog about my sweet Lily Mae’s first day of Kindergarten! Well, as you know, I was in the hospital having Colby when Lily had her first day of school. Once I realized this would be the case, I was crushed! How could I miss my baby girl’s very first day of school?!! But, there was nothing we could do. My parents watched the kids and were Lily’s “parents” for the week! They took her to school and picked her up. We were so thankful to not have to worry about those details-my parents handled it all. Thankfully, since Colby was born the day before Lily’s first day, AJ was able to meet Lily and my mom at her school so he could be with her on her first day. I had strict instructions for my mom to come to my house (even though Lily and Jameson were staying at their house!) and take pictures with this chalkboard. I had visions people! I’m very thankful my mom went along with my crazy plans :)

How cute is this girl?!!!! She’s so grown up.

 

In front of her classroom.

Proof that she really is a student there!

Putting her back pack in her cubby.

Oh this picture just melts my heart. When my mom showed it to me (she printed off these pictures to show me in the hospital-how sweet is that?!) I got teary eyed. I so wanted to be there, but was thankful AJ was there!! She sure loves her daddy!

Showing her teacher pictures of her new baby brother. My mom had also printed off 2 pictures of Colby for Lily to show on her first day of school. Love it!

And finally, at home together at last! I love this picture. It truly shows how much Lily LOVES being a big sister! (and how tiny Colby was!) She’s so helpful with Colby and always wants to hold him, play with him, pick out his clothes, and kiss his face.

Now, 4 months later, Lily loves school and is learning a TON! It’s SO fun to hear her actually reading books. She is very smart, which I kind of already knew, but it definitely shows with her school work! She is super quick in learning new things and loves to show me pictures she has drawn in school. We love our Lily Mae!

Colby is 4 months!!

Well, he’s 4 months and a week :) Wanted to wait to post since he had his 4 month doctor appointment yesterday. He is sure built like his daddy! I was looking at old posts from when Jameson was 4 months and he weighed 17 lbs! Pretty big if you ask me. Colby weighed 14.4 lbs (30%) and was 27 1/4 in. long (Jameson was 27.5 inches!) TALL boy! He is off the charts for his length. Again, he is built like his daddy!

Such a happy boy!

 

Whenever Jameson sees me taking pictures of Colby, he always has to be in them! But, I do love that Jameson loves being around his brother.

See? Happy boy! Thank the Lord!

Again, Jameson getting in on the picture taking action!

Colby HATES tummy time. He will tolerate it for about 5 minutes. He actually was ok on the boppy here, but just rested his head on the pillow.

Just some fun facts so I can remember this age:
*Still in 3-6 month clothes. Although, I’m finding a lot of the clothes he’s wearing that Jameson wore are too short on him! Thankfully, Colby got new clothes for Christmas!

*He is such an easy, laid back baby. God knew I needed one of those with my other 2 kids! He goes with the flow and rarely cries super hard.

*Sleeps great still! We had a few weeks where he would wake up twice a night. Then he got it back on track but was waking at 3 am-a bit early for me. But the past few nights he’s lasted until 5am and then we both go back to bed after I feed him. So much better!

*He loves to nap during the day. I am trying to keep him awake for at least 90 minutes from the start of when I feed him before he takes a nap. This is a little difficult, but I think it’s helping with him being able to sleep so long at night.

*He smiles at Lily and Jameson all the time. He loves watching them! Actually, he smiles at anyone right now! I love this stage :)

A trip down memory lane…Jameson at 4 months:

Such a chubby boy! But, I see so much similarity between he and Colby!

One of my all time favorite pictures! Again, looks like Colby-just a chubbier version :)

Similar to Colby, but way more red hair!!! I love comparing pictures of the boys!

Catching Up!

 

Oh, where do I begin? SO much has happened in the last couple of months! AJ’s birthday, Christmas, New Year’s, etc. Pretty sure this will be a ton of pictures that only family will enjoy looking at!!

Jameson got a new chainsaw for his birthday (amongst other things!) This was a part of the joint birthday party with AJ since their birthdays are only a week apart!

Both boys got light sabers so now they can fight each other!

My attempt at Spiderman cupcakes :)

Christmas tree hunting! It was raining if you can’t tell.

Colby turned 3 months Dec. 10th! I think he weighed around 12.6 lbs.

My idea, I admit! He fit quite nicely in there!

Lily loved pushing around a real baby!! It lasted all of 2 minutes.

Love this boy!!!

All dressed up for the kids’ Pee Wee choir for church! This girl is growing up way too fast!

She’s sassy!

Seems she is the only one doing the hand motions at the moment.

Christmas Eve morning!

Stockings!

She loved her new jeans

He loved his new harmonica (Daddy’s idea! It was a good one!)

He loved being held!

Cousins and their first Christmas Eve together at the Uram household! A fun day to start off the Christmas festivities. Lots of food, folks, and fun!

Yay for MORE presents! These kids are spoiled :)

We told Jameson he could grab a cookie, and he comes back with the entire container of them!! He was very nice in asking all of us if we wanted one!

Lily loves her Uncle Joel and Auntie Katie

I love him.

Christmas day at the Acker’s and I only took 2 pictures?!!! So sad. It was a super fun day though with lots of gifts and fun with family! The kids got this super cute piano with microphone. We’ve got our own little band in our house!

My sweet nephew Colton! He didn’t want his picture taken!

And sweet Colby under the tree!

Phew, that’s all for now!

This is a test

I am trying this out to see if I can post pictures on my blog without having to make a new one.   First of all, I am a terrible mother! I cannot believe I haven’t blogged about Lily and her first year in school!!! The main reason is that my mom took pictures of Lily’s first day, and I have yet to get those pictures onto my computer. This picture of Lily was taken with AJ’s phone so I at least have that. Anyway, this is my baby girl on her first day of Kindergarten!!! If this “test” works I will come back with more pictures and write more about my Lily!

Colby is 3 Months!

Well, sadly, this post will have no pictures. It seems I've used up all my free picture storage through this website, and it won't let me put anymore pictures on here without paying a monthly fee-which I won't be doing! I've even tried deleting old posts I don't care about to free up space, but I still can't post pictures! So frustrating. Not sure what I'm going to do yet....but, I'm super late on Colby turning 3 months that I want to write about him and try to post pictures later!

He turned 3 months a week ago (Dec. 10th) and is still the happiest, layed back baby!

*He sleeps great at night still-with either waking up to feed around 5 and going back to bed, or waking up at 6 and going back to bed after he eats. I don't mind it one bit!

*Is smiling ALL the time! And he loves to smile while sticking his tongue out! Such a silly boy!

*Is now in 3-6 mo. clothes because of his length! He weighs around 12 lbs (that was a couple weeks ago at the dr.) and is in the 90% for both weight and height! That's my boy!

*Loves looking at lights and loves the Christmas tree too!

*He loves to look at his brother and sister and easily smiles at them too.

*His neck strength is improving and he holds his head up well. He still hates tummy time. All my babies did though. I still try to make him do it, but he just cries-which is unusual for him! Thankfully, this boy pretty much only cries when he's hungry or tired and is fighting sleep. I am a blessed mama!

That's all for now! Hopefully I can get pictures on here, or I will be making a new blog with a different address and I'll let ya'll know :)