Henry's second birthday party

This weekend, Henry and I went to his second birthday party. It was for a good friend's son, Tyler. Henry had a great time despite his short 20 minute nap. When we got there, the first thing Tony (Tylers dad) did was put Henry on his four wheeler. Henry was very interested in touching it, as he is everything these days. Here are some pictures from the birthday party. The last shot is a picture of what Sperry (our lab) brought to my mom last night when she and Henry were outside swinging. Of course Beau is out of town and so we had to deal with it. DISGUSTING!

Other than the party, our lives have been busy, but not picture worthy. Henry has decided that sleeping is not for him and wants to wake up after 1 hour naps and all through the night. I think it is either because he is trying to crawl or because he has an ear infection. We will find out tomorrow because we are going to the doctor....thank goodness!!! I need some answers. Be on the lookout for his 6 month photo shoot.

The next few pictures are of Henry trying to crawl. He gets himself up like a baby does when he crawls, but does not know what to do with his arms and legs and just bounces back and forth then falls on his face. I think he is right on the verge of crawling, but I could be wrong. It may take a while to get it.

Oh, and you can see Laura's holding a toy to try and get Henry to move....unsuccessfully.

We call this the superman shot. This is what Henry does when he falls on his face.

And we are up again!

Here is Tyler and Delainey coloring their pumpkins at Tylers birthday party.

Sweet Liam, Landon and Barrett

And, this is what Sperry decided to bring my mom and Henry. Its a little gross, so sorry, but I had to document it!

My little walker....

I am so sorry I have not posted since Henry's ear infection. As of right now, I don't think he still has one, but he is constantly touching his ears and is not sleeping. Who knows??? We go back to the doctor for....get this....HIS SIX MONTH CHECKUP....next Wednesday!!! I can't believe my little man is going to be half of a year old. Time really flies!

Henry has become so entertaining! He loves, loves the dogs (I think more than he loves us) and wants the dogs attention all of the time. When he wakes up from a nap, the first thing he does is look for the dogs in his room. As soon as he spots them, he gets a huge grin on his face. It is pretty sweet....except for the fact that the dogs want nothing to do with him! Molly actually goes the other way when Henry even sticks his hand out to her. It may be because he grabbed a handful of hair and pulled most of it out a while back, but she needs to get over that!

If you have met Henry, you know he is constantly moving...all day long! He loves to be standing anywhere...the floor, your belly, the exersaucer, and now the walker. Henry stayed with my parents...thanks guys....last Friday night so we could get up at 5:45 to go to a football game. While he was there, they put him in a walker they borrowed from their neighbors just to see what he would do. WELL, he loved it. He chased their dogs around their island, checked out all of the knobs on their cabinets and proceeded to scrape all of their pictures off of their fridge and place them in his mouth. He is so happy in this walker and I think he is doing a great job in it. While he is at our house he chases the dogs mostly and they just run full force away from him. He also will come to you when you call him, and he is pulling everything down from the tables and refrigerator. Needless to say my house is not baby proofed yet because he could not get to anything....so that is our next step. I am so glad he loves being in his walker. He wants to be moving and grooving, but has not been able to, so this is a wonderful answer to his little prayers.

On another note, Henry is trying his hardest to crawl. I will post the latest picture of him attempting it. He gets his little feet and knees in the right place and moves back and forth, but then gets nervous and puts his knees back down. Today he started to go backwards and his Ganny said that is usually what they do first, so I will keep you posted.

One more thing....Henry loves a bath! My dear friends Mandy and Laura each let me borrow their little bath seats that babies can sit in in the bathtub and he is so happy not to be in that little tub next to the sink. He splashes with his hands and feet, and loves to lie on his back while we hold up his head. I will have to post some bath pictures next.

Beau has gone on a hunting trip for the next 12 days, so I will be going at this parent thing full force....with the help of my parents and Beau's mom (thanks guys)!!! Be on the lookout for some new pictures soon so I can update Beau, even though he probably can't get to a computer.

Does this look like a baby with an ear infection???

SO, in my last post I told you Henry cut 2 teeth at the same time. Since then he has had a constant (green) runny nose, has been more irritable, has had trouble sleeping, and is not eating as much as he should. A few days ago he started messing with his ears and I thought ...hmmmmm... maybe Henry has an ear infection. That led me to call the nurse as I have done almost every week since Henry was born. She told me to come in so the doctor could check his ears. Well, after being at the doctors office today from 11:55 to 1:45 they came to the quick conclusion that Henry has his first ear infection (it did not take that long to diagnose, I think everyone in Columbia was sick today). That led me to Walgreens to fill his 2 prescriptions while Henry snoozed in the backseat (I had to wake him up from his morning nap an hour early to take him to the doctor and he was up for his second nap of the day). I get the prescriptions and the pharmacist tells me he has to eat with his medicine and that I should try to get it in him soon so he can get 2 doses in today. I drive the 2 minutes home and Henry wakes up, eats some bananas, takes his medicine and feels like it is time to play....naturally! After another hour and a half, Henry finally poops out and goes down for a nap. It has been a long day, and I know what caused all of this......the picture below shows it all: his 2 new bottom teeth.

I have no idea how long Henry has had an ear infection. He has had no fever and has been somewhat fussy, but relatively happy. These are the pictures I took of Henry after he ate his bananas and it was time for nap. He does not look like a baby in much pain here!

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!!!