5 months!

Today is Henry's 5 month old birthday! We have been going nonstop this month and Henry has had lots of changes. First of all, he is finally cutting teeth! I am not sure I am very excited about him being in pain, but we have to start somewhere. His bottom right tooth started poking out last Thursday, August 27th and the bottom left one appeared yesterday, August 30th. He has a terrible runny nose, is extremely fussy and is not wanting to sleep or eat. I feel so sorry for the little guy!

Henry is also growing like a weed. He is laughing, grabbing, interacting, trying very hard to sit up and rolling all around. He wants to hold his own bottle and spoon at meal time, he is grabbing our faces when we feed him and sitting up with a boppy around him in case he tumbles down. I feel like it will be no time before he is crawling!

Oh, and we have started him on more baby food. As of right now, his favorite is the bananas. He does not really like the peas and we did not try green beans yet. Hopefully over time he will begin to like the veggies.

Here is his 5 month picture. I can't believe I actually got one of him smiling. He has been so fussy all day! I hope these teeth come in fast!

Henry and I went to the beach with There's No Place Like Home, Stand By Me, and The Harper's Haven . Henry was in the process of getting some teeth, so was a little fussy, and overwhelmed with 6 other children besides him all under the age of 4. However, it was good to be with everyone and their kids!

Griff, Tucker, Henry, Annah, Mattox

Not shown: Liam and Ty....they were napping!

Liam makes a sandy appearance!

We went to the beach to try and get some pictures on the dunes, but there were ants everywhere. Needless to say Henry did not want me to take any pictures. He only wanted to play in the sand!

Ok, the next group of pictures are from when we took Henry to the park for the first time.....he liked it, but he is still a little young to understand.

Here is his first sliding experience...

On the firetruck with dad!

Not so sure about the swings!

And here is Henry in his favorite spot...the exersaucer!!!

20 Weeks Already!

As of last Monday, when Henry was 18 weeks and 6 days old, he started flipping to his belly. This is how he likes to sleep now, but sometimes gets stuck and forgets how to turn back over and cries. However, this is how I find him in bed every morning. Needless to say, it is not helping his sleeping! We are doing rice cereal and a vegetable or fruit at night and a bottle, then one feeding at 11, and another one around 4 AM....so if your awake, give me a call!

The next few pictures are from our 20 week photo shoot. Actually, I am trying to learn how to be a better photographer along with trying to take Henry's birth announcement picture. These are the few that turned out.....yes, I said birth announcement at 20 weeks!

I wish his hand was not in his mouth! I can't keep it out!

I had just given Henry a bath and he had chill bumps all over, so Beau thought he needed to be in a robe to warm up. I think he looks hilarious in this picture! My little man is grown up enough to wear a robe....what????

Henry is really trying to sit up. He will strain from lying down on his back to try and pull himself up, but has little success. However, his cousin, JT, told us to hold his feet down like he was doing a sit up and so we did and he almost pulled himself all the way up! Wow!!!

How precious!!

When we went to Lake Lure for one of our family vacations, we hired a photographer to take some family pictures as well as some of just Henry. The photographer is Sonya Stone and she did an amazing job on Henry's pictures. Here are a few of them. If you need a photographer near Asheville, I todally recommend her!

How cute is Henry in this cup???

I love this one!!

Check out my feet!

Henry is growing and changing and these days he does something new everyday. For a few days he had been obsessed with his feet and now he is bringing them up to his mouth...pretty gross, but they don't touch much. Needless to say, this is what we have been seeing all day...

In this picture I dressed him in one of the many Clemson outfits to get him pumped up for the big game on September 5th. Go TIGERS!!!

What is so funny?

Ok, I am an idea stealer! I took the above picture of Henry and will try to remember to take the same picture each month in the same place to help see how Henry is growing. The reason I admit to being an idea stealer is because my friend Micah has done the same thing with her little boy Mattox who is 7 months older than Henry. It is amazing to compare the pictures and I wish I would have taken her idea earlier. Anyhow, thanks for the idea Micah! I hope you don't mind.

Henry has just started laughing more and more, not just smiling. Here is a short video of him laughing. It is pretty sweet.

The next video is a little longer and it is another one of the newest things Henry is doing...squealing. It is like he is talking to the exersaucer. He does this all day now...to me, the dogs, his toys. It is also pretty funny.

Lets Go Out To The Ball Game!

Sunday night we took Henry to his first baseball game. He was so excited and we knew he would love it because he loves being outside anywhere. I put on his little baseball outfit and we were off to the game. He did great except for a few tears at the beginning, but as the night went on, Henry was happy and loved watching everything. Here are a few pictures of the night.

The happy family shot.

Me and my sweet boy.

This is Emily and Joe waving from the line. They are getting ready to run the bases with Delainey. She started running with them, and then decided to drop their hands and took off. She was hilarious!!

Here is Delainey at one point in the night. Can you tell it was muggy???

The crowd...Beau, Liz, Emily, Joe, Steve, Laura, Jac, and Delainey

Henry and dad are having a little pep talk.

Jac really like the cotton candy ice cream. Can you tell?

Jac is exactly 1 year and 6 days older than Henry. So, this time next year, Henry will be walking like her...and hopefully sleeping!

We had to take a picture in front of the field!

Henry looking a little confused..."where are we?"

4 month update and some videos

Henry had his 4 month check up today with the pediatrician and is growing like a weed! He measures in at 14 pounds 10 ounces, 26 1/2 inches long, and his head is 16 1/2 inches around. The doctor told us he looked wonderful!
As far as his personality goes, he is into everything right now. He is reaching for anything that is in front of him, he is cooing, laughing, and really interacting with the world. He can sit in his exersaucer (my new babysitter) for a solid 20 mintues and entertain himself which is wonderful for me. He also likes to watch cartoons which is scary, but they catch his attention immediatley. He was actually watching Sports Center this morning in bed with his dad under the covers and it was pretty cute!
Sleeping is another whole issue. We were doing really good for a while there and Henry was sleeping from 11:00-5:00....well we got too excited and then things started going downhill. For about 3-4 weeks he was waking up every 1-3 hours after being fed. Now, we were out of town a lot and that could have been one of the reasons, but he did it at home too, so it may have been a really long growth spurt! Since he was not sleeping, I, of course, called the doctor and she put him on rice cereal. We were so excited because we thought Henry would start sleeping through the night immediately. Well, because we are new parents, we did not know that it takes a baby a while to learn how to eat from a spoon. We started the rice cereal 2 weeks ago, and he is still having a little trouble getting it down and not all over his face. I will try to video a feeding so you can see how funny it is. He has done a little better with sleeping....5-6 hours at a time, but has not been taking good naps during the day.
Needless to say, the doctor told us to continue rice cereal and when he figures out what to do we can start doing rice cereal in the morning then stage 1 baby food....starting with the yellow foods first such as bananas, squash and anything else that is yellow. Then we go to orange, then green. I have no idea why, but that is the order. We will work on this for the next 2 months and report back to the doctor at 6 months. He also told us we could give Henry up to 4 ounces of water now and I have already given him some to get rid of the hiccups and it worked like a charm!
Other than that, there is no other news to report. We love how Henry has started communicating more and laughing at us. He is growing so fast and before we know it he will be one! I am going to try and post some videos of him at the beach and also one of him putting his passy in his mouth. I will update later with more pictures.

Here is Henry "playing" in the waves!

Henry's latest accomplishment. He can put the passy in, but does not know to let it go yet. That is the next step!