Grandma and Grandpa visit

Happy New Year! We hope that everyone had a great holiday and spent lots of time relaxing and hanging out with family. We sure enjoyed our relaxation time and time with Sallie's parents. They came in after Christmas and spent about a week with us. Above is a picture of Thomas in Grandma Paulette's arms smiling.

Thomas in the last couple of weeks has lost a little of his "I have to be in my Mom's arms every minute and if someone else tries to touch me I will cry" attitude. He almost eagerly goes to other people now, still keeping Mom in his eye sight.

Grandpa Aron holding Thomas.

Thomas is smiling like crazy now and doing an occasional laugh. Here Grandpa Aron was playing with him and had him giggling up and down!

It was so nice to have family in town and to be able to go out to dinner/lunch without worrying that he would cry the whole time. He is also getting on a bit more of a schedule, although it certainly is not concrete. We are still working on naps...mainly trying to get him to take one! The last couple of days he has been getting pooped out around noon and sleeping for an hour or so in his swing...which is great!

Grandma Paulette feeds Thomas his mid-day bottle. We are still breastfeeding almost exclusively, except for one bottle in the middle of the night and one bottle in the middle of the day. Both of which are a breast milk/formula mixture. Sallie needed some sleep at night so Dad graciously took over the middle of the night feeding. The middle of the day feeding is to get him a little more to eat, he is gaining enough weight but was eating every 1.5 hours, the mid-day bottle has helped satisfy his appetite.

After Thomas' bathtime Dad and Grandpa Aron played with Thomas. We thought it would just be a few minutes of talking to him but they spent about 20 minutes making noises back and forth at him. Grandma Paulette came to watch playtime!

We had a great time with Grandma Paulette and Grandpa Aron! We love visitors!

Polar Bears and Monkeys oh my

Thomas seems to be maturing a little more each day. Above he is looking at some of his toys, he is getting very close to reaching for them. Tommy had him on his lap at his desk yesterday and he was staring at a highlighter and actually grabbed for it. AMAZING!

Here I am making some pancakes in my new bowls! Thank you so much Mr. Tom and Miss. Debra! I know they were hard to find and I am so glad you found them! Also used the new food processor today to grate some cheese. It will be so much fun to make Thomas' food when he gets to solids (which I am sure will be here before we know it)!

Really he seemed to like the monkey~banana theme we had going until I got out the camera! This is an outfit Tommy and I have had for almost 3 years...it was so monkeylicious we had to get it. By the way all the outfits you see in this post are 6months...6 MONTHS!!!

I put Thomas down on the couch for a second to grab something and when I got back he was like this. Apparently he already likes to lay on the couch and watch TV there may be a recliner in his future.

Dad showing off Thomas' super cute bear outfit from Aunt Melanie and Aunt Megan (the polar bear outfit is also from them). You have no idea how awesome ZIP-UP outfits are at two in the morning. Thanks!

Crazy Hair

This was taken after a bath and his cradle cap head had been all lotioned up! He has super awesome crazy hair! A big thanks to Janet for the froggy outfit!

The best present Dad could have ever received!

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! We hope that everyone had a wonderful day. We got up and opened presents, ate some dinner and have been playing with gifts all afternoon. Thomas got a wooden train, some super cool books, a couple of new outfits, a new carseat and a high chair for the months to come! Here are a few pictures from our day!

Mable is the second cutest reindeer of the day!

Thomas being the first of course!

Tommy and I celebrated Christmas Eve by watching the Notre Dame game (whoo hoo...finally a bowl win) by the fireplace and eating smores!

A few First Christmas photos of Thomas.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

2 month checkup

Tummy Time! We have some of this on video, where he is lifting his head
(hope to post that soon).

Thomas and his "popped" collar.
We took this one just for TRIPLE A!
Now only if he had a cool blingy belt the look would be complete!

Thomas had his 2 month checkup today with Dr. Garg and everything went really well.

Thomas now has a 16inch head, is 25 inches and weighs 12lbs. 9oz.

He also had his first round of shots and did pretty well, he was so good they gave him Daffy Duck band-aids. Mom only cried a little!

Apparently his new eating schedule, every hour and a half to two hours, is completely normal for a breastfed baby. Dr. Garg even recommends supplementing a night feeding so Mom can get some sleep.

Dr. Garg also guestimated Thomas' future height to be 6ft tall. HAHAHAHA... We will just have to wait and see on that one.

1 more day until Christmas! WHOO HOO!!!

Thomas

Tommy wants Thomas to be a video game champion when he grows up! Thomas is already taking after his Dad!
Looking around at the whole world!

Thinking really hard!

This was an attempt to catch a smile! We got the last bits of it as he turned his head. He is smiling like crazy, usually in the morning after he wakes up. We did succeed in catching a smile on video and hope to have that up sometime in the near future.

Look at those baby blues! Wonder if they will stay that color????

Petoria

Our friend Pete, who when we moved back to Indiana graciously let us stay at his house, finally held Thomas for the first time recently. I basically threw Thomas in Pete's lap and ran out of the room. Unfortunately this startled Thomas a little and we got the cry face you see below. In the picture above Pete and Thomas were having a bubble contest, Thomas has recently started drooling and blowing bubbles with his drool...yeah milestones!!!