Our Mother’s Day weekend

I got to celebrate Mother’s Day all weekend long and I can honestly say it was the best one yet! Friday morning, I had breakfast with Noah at his school.

He gave me the sweetest presents that he made.

The flower pot says “I love my Mommy because she takes me to the old Toys R Us.” When he can’t remember that it’s called Target, he calls it the old Toys R Us for some reason.

Saturday, I got to lounge around and love on my babies all day long. Then Sunday morning, I got even more presents! Noah made this at church.

And Cason made this.

And as if I wasn’t already having the best Mother’s Day, Sunday was also Cason’s baby dedication at church! We had most of our family there to share in our special day. We are so blessed!

Here is my 85 year old Big Mama with the boys! I love her to pieces!

Our little family! I have given up on ever getting a picture where EVERYONE is looking at the camera and smiling!

Did I tell you I love this lady???

Brad’s parents with the boys. Cason was over taking pictures at this point!

These next pictures are super dark because the lighting in the sanctuary is on the darker side.

And finally a group picture!

I’m so glad everyone came to support us on Cason’s big day!

My friend Donna made Cason’s little outfit and smocked it by HAND! Noah actually wore it to his baby dedication as well! So sweet!

Cason at five months…

and Noah at three months!

Was that an awesome Mother’s Day weekend or what?!?

Baseball awards!

Last night was Noah’s team baseball party to celebrate their season and get their trophies!

His new favorite thing to do is to take a picture with food in his mouth….

We ate at a pizza place so of course, we had to stop and get a happy meal beforehand because “I don’t liiiiike pizza!”

And we had to take a pack of crackers. Little brother enjoyed the entertainment of a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds running around, too. He wanted a bite of pizza so bad!

Noah was so excited to get his trophy and his medal! He slept with them last night and he took them both to school this morning to show his friends.

Love! The pizza place also has a little game room area and Noah asked Brad for some money to play some games. Brad said, “I don’t have any money, I’m broke!” to which Noah replied, “No you’re not Daddy. You’re put together!”

Cason–Five months!

-Still in size 2 Pampers Swaddlers, but they are getting a little snug!

-The last time we were at the doctor (about a week ago) he weighed 16 lbs even.

-Baby loves to EAT. So far we’ve tried rice cereal (not a fan), oatmeal cereal (LURVES), green beans (liked until he tried other foods and now he HATES them….like will spit them out all over you if you try to give them to him!) butternut squash (absolute fav!), peaches (likes okay) and apples (likes okay). My Dad is making most of his baby food!

-He doesn’t really care for the paci anymore. Occasionally he will take it to fall asleep, but more often he doesn’t want it.

-I wish those little teeth would pop on through!! It seems like he’s been teething forever! His hands are constantly in his mouth. Anything he can get his hands on goes straight to his mouth. And oh the DROOL! But still no toofies.

-Right now he is taking 5-7 oz of formula about every 2-4 hours during the day (hubba hubba) and eats oatmeal for breakfast, a jar of something at lunch and a jar of something at supper. He usually will not finish an entire jar of baby food, but he probably will if it’s squash!

-He is early to bed and early to rise, just like his Mommy! He is ready for bed by 6:30pm and wakes around 5:30am. He is sleeping through the niiiiiiiiiight! We’ve had another ear infection and a cold so he’s been waking some with that, but when he’s well, he sleeps!

-BUT he only will stay asleep by himself if it’s dark outside. Where we live, it doesn’t get dark until about 7:30pm. You can try to lay him down all you want, but unless it’s dark, he will wake up. And on the weekends, you can forget about daytime naps unless you hold him. But I’m not complaining because I love taking naps with him!

-He has been rolling from his front to back for a while now, but just yesterday morning when I went to his room to get him, he was on his belly! And he woke up several times last night crying because he rolled over to his belly and couldn’t figure out how to roll back!

-We are in 6 month clothing now and they fit perfectly.

-He has also started reaching for and grabbing toys that we hand him!

Likes: His big brother. If Noah even looks at him, he laughs and smiles! Chewing on everything, Mommy signing “The Circle of Life” in my best African voice, splashing water out of the bathtub, watching cartoons with his brother, eating, sleeping, kicking around on the floor, rolling across the floor, Daddy rocking him to sleep

Dislikes: changing clothes (particularly pulling something over his head), not being able to hold onto something or making something work the way he wants, being left alone for more than several minutes

Cason is growing and changing so fast! Brad and I were just talking the other day about how we can’t even remember what having only one child was like. He completes our family so well!

Noah's preschool choir performance

Last night, Noah got to sing on the big stage at church for the first time! I
was SO EXCITED to see what the kids had been working on and SO EXCITED to watch
Noah! I could tell he was a little bit nervous, but he also loves being on stage
so I knew he would do great! (OMG I tried for a whole day to get this picture to stand upright...I give UP!!)

I tried to video the performance with my phone. It’s not the best quality AND
towards the end, my phone said the memory was full and stopped recording! But
for my memory’s sake, here it is!

Noah plays T-ball!

This spring we decided to let Noah try out baseball to see if he liked it. I would LOVE for him to grow up playing baseball, but more importantly, I want him to be involved in something that he really loves. So we are in the process of figuring out exactly what that something is!

This year, he played for the Braves. His t-ball team had nine other 3-4 year old boys. Noah was very stand-offish at first and didn’t even really want to practice with the other players. He liked hitting the ball and running, but when it wasn’t his turn or he had to stand in the outfield and wait for the ball to come his way, he got bored and wanted to do something else. Luckily, his Daddy helped coach and was always close by to guide him.

How cute are they?!?

As the season progressed, Noah started doing better and better. I think his favorite part about playing is running from base to base!

Here he is about to bat for the very first time!

So sweet! Next year, he will be able to play coach pitch. That makes me nervous! Aaaand I’m so behind in blogging that he had his LAST game last week! Our season was really short, but I’m glad he at least learned the basics of the game and had fun playing!

Next, we are thinking about letting him try karate! I was trying to explain to him what karate is and I said, “Well you do your hands like this and say YA! YA! and hit boards with your hands!” and he said, “Umm, that sounds like it’s gonna hurt…” Ha!

Cason-Four Months!

Yes my pictures are dark, no I do not know how to work my camera, yes I will eventually blog about something other than Cason.   Life is just so busy right now with TWO kids! We are still adjusting.

Here is what little C has been up to this month:

-We’ve moved up to size 2 Pampers Swaddlers.

-As of Monday, he weighs 15 lbs 3 oz and is 25 inches long. He’s in the 50%ile for height and weight and 75%ile for his head! It must be because he is so smart!

-We started feeding him rice cereal on Saturday and he loves it! We’ve been giving him probiotics for a while now by spoon so he was already used to that. We are also still putting gripe water in his day-time bottles.

-He still enjoys a paci, but only to fall asleep with. He discovered his thumb this month and tries to suck/chew on it when he can figure out how to get it in his mouth.

-He drinks 4-6 oz of formula at a time, usually about every 2-4 hours during the day. He has slept through the night a few times!! But most of the time, he wakes up once around midnight-2am to have a bottle.

-He is sleeping in his room now. Up until about a week or two ago, we swaddled him at night. But he has started trying to roll over (he can roll onto his side) and I was worried that he would roll to his stomach in the middle of the night and not have his arms free to hold his head up, so we stopped the swaddle.

-With all the pollen that’s been floating around and us being at the ballpark a lot (Noah is playing t-ball!), I’ve had to constantly suck stuff out of his nose with the bulb syringe and saline drops. He LOVES it and thinks it’s hilarious.

-He has grown a lot in the past month and his 3 month clothes are being stretched to the limits! We are transitioning into 6 month clothes now!

-He really is such a happy baby. You can just look at him and he smiles and coo’s!

-He is still going to daycare full time and we love it!

Likes: chewing on burp clothes, his taggie puppy and taggie blanket, his car toy that he can hold, his big brother, screaming for fun, his playmat, getting Mommy soaking wet during bathtime, having his diaper changed, waking up in the mornings, having his Daddy rock him to sleep, nap time with Mommy

Dislikes: being hungry, being left alone for longer periods of time, having his arms messed with

I love that he is getting bigger and showing more personality these days! He is so sweet and loving and we just love him to pieces!

Here are some candids from this month: