5 Months!

Yup. Another month older already! When will life slow down? Little boss man is getting too big! Just tonight he would sit up (with my help) and he would lean forward and then a miracle happened and he sat up right on his own, balanced himself out, and held it for quite a while! I counld not believe it! Amazing! He is such a wiggle worm. 

At 5 months Blake weighs 14 lbs 8 oz and is 25 inches long! He is (as of yesterday) now fitting into 6 month clothes. He is blowing too. It's the cutest little thing ever. I'm thinking he learne this from us seeing as how we ALWAYS blow in his face. He sticks out his tounge and puckers his little lip right up and blows. And because he drools up a swimming pool, you might get sprayed too. He is not so much into my hair lately as much as he is into grabbing at my mouth, or face for that matter. He seriously is into scratching at EVERYTHING! It drives me a little crazy. Especially at night when he is doing it to fight sleep. 

Speaking of sleep. He has become a horrible sleeper. The other night, I think we experience our first night ever of him wanting to be awake. He would just lay in bed with us an look around and make pleasent little noises. And luckily he didn't make us turn on the light. So I was able to sleep through a lot of it. Yup. He ends up in bed with us for the majority of the night. And has since day one. I know. It's dangerous. But I am conviced this little boy is such a snuggle bug that he needs to sleep with us to sleep better at night. Lately he will snuggle right up next to my tummy. ( I've become a side sleeper since being pregnant). It's too cute and I have also become quite the light sleeper and can't sleep well with him there. But it's better then him beig awake every half hour or so. (At least it feels that way). We tried to feed him rice cereal the minute we got the okay. He wouldn't have anything to do with it. And now he can't get enough. Especially with the oatmeal. We started to mix it with some applesauce and man, that made all the difference. He now can't get enough. With how much he eats of rice cereal, I'm a little concerned how much he will need to eat of solids to get full. 

He also started to roll ALL OVER THE PLACE! We place him on the middle of a

Blanket and not too long after he will be off of it. It's so fun to see him develop and grow, but it's also a little depressing. My baby is growing up! 

He also is quit the mom as boy that kid! It's cute and frustrating at the same time. Just today I handed him to Micah so I could go to the bathroom. Well as soon as I started to leave he started to scream.  Like I said a little frustrating. Especially when dinner needs to be made.

 He finally started really laughing. But they are still few and far between. And he won't laugh at the same thing twice. Unless you haven't tried it for a few days. Then if your lucky, he will laugh at it again.

Also if he is fussy, all you have to do is sing a song he likes and BAM! He will stop fussing and just stare and smile at you! It's funny to see. 

I know I talk about how fussy he is a lot but really he is happy a lot of the time as well. And when he is, he lights up the room. Especially first thing in the mornings. 

We love him and he is so fun to have in our little family. 

Better late the never

I know, I know. It's almost December and I'm just getting around to posting Halloween pictures. 

I have a good excuse. Life as a somewhat new mom is busy. Especially with a clingy babe. Holy moly. I was a Velcro baby myself. It's not wonder who he learned it from. And man. Can I just say sorry mom. I had NO clue how tuff it was to get things done. Had I known, I would have kept myself entertained. 

Anyways. I know I always seem to have the best excuses to keep putting off the dusty ol' blog. 

Halloween was great. Blake dressed up as what I thought was a genius idea...(enter fanfare)....A MINION!!!!! 

I know. I can hardly stand the cuteness myself. I was back and forth deciding if I was truly going to dress him up. All the time being a minion is what I has my heart set on. I had the overalls and so all I had to do was find a yellow shirt and make goggles. No biggie right? Well that's what I thought too. Until it was a week before and I still hadn't looked for that dang yellow shirt at all! Living in Midway serves its own challenges. Heber has a few thrift stores. But no DI! I know a thrift store is a thrift store. But not in my mind. I know that DI washes clothes before being put out. So I felt more comfortable going to DI. My sister in law told me that I had to dress Blake up especially since it is his fisrt Halloween. So I decided to after all. My visiting teachers came over before Halloween and one had too me he might have a doctor outfit for him. Well I just decided to stick with the minion. Talked to Micah about it and we out or heads together and came up with using toilet paper rolls for the goggles and then I wanted to out eye balls in them so I came up with the felt idea for the whites of the eyes and was just going to do Blake felt circles for the iris. We were trying to did a shirt at Walmart and couldn't find one...of course. So we came up with the idea to dye one. So we found the dye. Low and behold, what's in the craft area? Googly eyes! So that became the iris. Micah's dad had some aluminum tape stuff which we taped to the outside of the toilet paper rolls and then the black headband is just elastic from left over scraps from my wedding. 

I originally wasn't going to do a hat. But then my sister said I should. And quite frankly I'm really glad I did! We just went to Joann's and found some yellow jersey knit fabric and she whipped one up in five minutes. Super simple. And that is his costume. Can I just say I thought i was being creative and unique? Every baby I swear ended up being a minion. Which is okay because obviously no baby was as cute as him as a minion. I took him to my moms work and we walked him around her department and he was a hit! Everyone LOVED his costume! And I mean EVERYONE! He even got his pictures taken by a few people. It seriously turned out awesome. I then took him to the bookstore because Pete wanted me too. And it was fun since everyone I used to work with was there and loved it as well! How could people not! It turned out perfect! We then went home and took his costume off. It was a success though! It's ones costume I will keep and probably reuse! Love it to death!