New Toy

I bought McKade a bouncer chair and finally got it put together, like our house has room for this contraption but it works great to keep him entertained. He is so funny because he can barely reach the ground if he leans to one side and will bounce up and down and just grin like he is the coolest thing ever. Give him a minute and he is trying to get all the toys in his mouth to chew on. Too fun to see him playing in this.

5 months old already!!

McKade turned 5 months old on the 19th and that night he rolled over for the first time. It was funny because it happened so fast. I was sitting on the ground by him and I looked away and next thing I knew he was on his stomach and had his arm stuck under him for a bit. I think he wasn't quite sure what to think. It's funny because I I had just been talking about him at work to some friends and was telling them that he was doing this new thing of tipping his head back as far as he could and would arch his back and we they were just telling me that it would be any day now. Now we are going to have to keep an eye on him.

He was stuck on his arm here and didn't know what to do for a bit. Our little baby is getting too big.

I spent the last weekend up at my parents, it was a fun and relaxing weekend and it was good to spend time with my family. This picture was funny because when I got out my camera to take this picture of Kiya holding McKade Holden said "I'll take a picture" and he whipped out his cell phone (an old one of his moms) and was taking pictures. He is such a funny child.
McKade just hanging out with daddy today. He loves his daddy (but he is still a mommy's boy).

This was so funny, he has this play gym that has toys hanging over him and I walked into the living room and found him holding this mirror and he had pulled it down and was trying to chew on it. Teething???? I think we are heading this direction soon. He wants to chew on anything he gets his hands on but I have never seen him work so hard to get something into his mouth. Isn't life so fun with little ones around, definately not boring.

The other night I had McKade in his chair and was reading his books to him and he started to hold onto the book like he was reading it himself. I was able to get the funniest pictures because it really looks like he is just chilling out reading to himself. How funny.

McKades first Halloween

McKade's first Halloween has come a went and we had fun. He wasn't too impressed when I was drawing his nose and whiskers on his face but the end result was pretty cute I think. We went and visited some friends but Paul's parents weren't around this year so they missed him, they will just get to see pictures.
One of very few pictures of me and my sweet baby. I need to try to get more of us together because I'm always the one taking the pics.

We visited the coffee shop that Paul always go to and they had this huge candy bowl that we put McKade in to take some pictures, it was pretty funny. The kid is only 4 months old and is going to coffee with dad, what will we ever do????

Here is McKade and his "Aunt Nette" (a.k.a. surrogate grandmother, godmother or whatever she decides she is that day :).) I had to post a pic of them for her benefit and made sure to print pictures for her because she is always giving me a hard time that I don't give her copies of the pictures. He was so funny with her.

I love how blue his eyes are against the orange outfit. Too sweet. We went to dinner after which didn't go great, I spent dinner holding him while Paul ate than we switched while I tried to eat but he wasn't having it so I packed up my dinner and we went home where I finished dinner, how romantic huh. Usually he isn't bad when we go to dinner but it was late and time for bed so he was way too tired. Oh well it was a nice night with my to boys. On to his first Christmas which is just around the corner, time to start shopping.

4 months old????

My baby turned 4 months old yesterday, where did the last 4 months go???? We took him to the doctor today for his immunizations and he weighs 13 pounds 6 ounces now, we didn't measure his length. I can't believe how fast time has gone and how much our lives have changed (for the better of course). McKade is growing and learning everyday. It seems like he is learning/discovering something new each day and we are having a blast being along for the ride. Life is great and we feel so blessed to have this little boy in our lives.

Here are a couple pictures that my sister in law did last week, I just love the expressions on his face. He has the funniest smirk in the first one and I think he looks so much like Paul in the second one, maybe it's just the ears I don't know :). What a little man huh.

What we've been up to

We have been so busy the last little while. I'm back to work so our days don't have enough hours in them. Paul's brother got married this last weekend and Paul's sister was up so she did family pictures for us. Here is the handsome little devil in his picture duds. He was so good during the pictures and I am so excited to see them when Jan finishes.

McKade has turned into quite the thumb sucker lately. I will wake up at night and hear him going to town on his thumb. It's great because he is learning to soothe himself which makes nights great. He is also sleeping through the nights which is wonderful, good timing with me being back to work.

He is grabbing at his toys now and here he is totally enthralled with this one. It's so fun watching him learn and change.

We got the cutest camo outfit for one of our baby showers and it was so dang cute on him. Daisy isn't quite sure about the baby sitting on her. So fun. Mckade will be 4 months on the 19th which I can't even believe, it's going way too fast. I'm trying to take every chance I can to cuddle with him before he doesn't want to. Our life is crazy right now but I wouldn't even change any second of it. More pictures to come when I get them from Janice.

Back to work

I went back to work on the 14th and things have been so busy. I'm working 6-2 and Paul watches McKade while I'm at work so it's much better than having to put him in day care, plus it's so good for Paul and McKade to get to spend this time together. Paul has done great and he hasn't even brought McKade to the hospital when he has a poopy diaper for me to change him :). I keep saying that money and insurance are over-rated right???? Anyways we have been so busy so I haven't had much time to post anything. McKade is getting so big and so much fun we love him so much. He seems to be learning and changing so much everyday. I need to upload new pictures but don't have time to right now so I will post new pictures as soon as I can.