whoa...half a year!?!

Now that we are about 6 days till Keeton turns Seven months, I thought I would fill you in on how he's doing...


This isn't a very good chair picture and for that I'm sorry....but his sign says

*  He loves his "brother" Kona.  When I say this I am completely serious!  He laughs at Kona when Kona is being bad, he watches every move Kona makes and smiles his biggest smile when Kona licks his toes (disgusting).  It's soo funny to watch Keeton watch Kona.
*  Has his daddy's temper.  This is not even a joke!  He is trying to crawl and I must admit, he almost has it figured out but while trying he gets soooooo mad!  He starts crying, not fussy crying but yelling crying.  It's kind of funny...
*  He is loud like his momma.  He has really discovered his voice and loves to use it.  He basically screams.  Lately he's even discovered growling.
*  Still teething but no sign of a tooth.  So when I said this we were still having all the fussing and drooling that comes with teething but still no tooth has broken through.  Well in the last two weeks the front two bottom tooth have decided they are almost ready to appear...almost.
*  Loves to laugh.  This boy is a laugher but again his laugh isn't a chuckle but more of a happy growl.
*  Survived his first cold.  THANK THE LORD!  I didn't think I would make it.  I was super sick and I tried not to let Keeton catch my cold but of course he did.  Taking care of a baby while being sick is anything but fun.  

This month has been soo fun!  At his well visit, Keeton weighed in at 17 pounds and 12 ounces (55%) and he measured up to 27 1/2 inches (85%)  so he's still a long skinny baby (which still blows my mind).   He's trying soo hard to crawl as well as starting to sit up, well sort of.  I expect by month 8 he'll have both down pretty good.  He's such a great baby!   He travels well, sleeps all night long, isn't super fussy, and you can take the boy almost any where.  I am definitely one proud momma!

We went to Texas this past month and Keeton was able to meet soo many of mine and Matt's favorite people!  He also got a visit from Matt's parents and sister while we were in Texas.  My parents flew into Denver the weekend after we got back and were able to stay with us for a week.  It's been a crazy month but definitely a good one.  I felt very blessed this month, overwhelmingly even.  It was great to surround Keeton with people that love him.

I'm sure there are a million other things Keeton has begun doing, or we find entertaining but for now I'll just leave you with some pictures.

BABY TOMS!!!

Breakfast with some of my favorite FRESHMEN!

Lillie (born the day before Keeton), Ryder, and Keeton...BFFS even if they don't know it

Keeton and I with Claire and the Senior girls!  Yes I realize Keeton looks frightened, but what guy wouldn't be around all that beauty!?

Baby sweaters and yellow cords....

I love that little boy!

More baby sweaters and that sweet smile!  I seriously love this little boy!

My parents and Keeton in the mountains during their visit.

Well it's been a great month!

Now onto month seven....

5 months

Well we are officially 5 months and two days now!  I figured I would go ahead and fill you in on how awesome my child is...

     Well Keeton is definitely a growing little dude.  I put his weight at 16 pounds and his height at 26 inches, well this could be slightly more but it's hard to do these things by myself.  When we were at the doctor for his 4 months visit he was 15 lbs and 4 oz.  So yes he probably weighs slightly less than 16 but my scale doesn't show ounces.  He was also 25 3/4 inches when we were at the doctor but in the past week he out grew some more pjs that fit when we went to the doctor so I'm assuming again.  Anyways, he is in the 45 percentile in weight and 75 percentile in height, which seems about right since both of his parents are tall and skinny HA! 
      He is also one heck of a sleeper!  Sleeping about 12 hours every night!!!  YES, i said 12 hours!  Who said parents never get to sleep...now having time to do things during the day is a little different story. 
     WE ARE OFFICIALLY EATING VEGGIES!  He ate his first sweet potato last night.  He absolutely loved the brown sugar and cinnamon...ok that was joke.  I was pretty nervous about starting solids too early but he has been eating them like a champ.  I should have known since being pregnant was the only time I've ever truly LOVED steak!  I guess I need to remember that he is a boy and boys like to eat.
      We are also rolling over but for the most part only in his bed.  He's pretty funny how he does it since he only uses his butt to control the roll, no arms and very little leg movement.  
     We are teething but who knows when this tooth will come in.  I can feel it some days but other days its like it slides back down or something.  He's doing really well with it though, not too fussy.  It does cause him to drool like crazy.  He is literally always drooling.
     Anyways, this past month has definitely been the best so far.  He's soo fun to be with!  He's become a little flirt with his sideways glances and shy head turns.  He loves when you throw him around or blow raspberries on his belly.  He absolutely adores Kona, laughing every time kona licks him (which is something i hate, dogs mouths are gross).  He likes listening to stories, going on walks, watching baby einsteins and little einsteins (i know i'm a terrible mother for letting him watch it), and he loves being outside.  I still have my moments where i think "how on earth will I ever make it through the day" but he's definitely the greatest little blessing God could have given Matt and I. 

They love each other.

Does it get any cuter than this??

And his mouth found his foot

I don't know about you, but this definitely makes me want to eat sweet potatoes..YUM!

I might have already added this picture but he loves this thing so we'll just add it again...

Well if you find that you just love that baby and want to come babysit, you just let us know!  We are dying to see batman but I will not be taking a 5 month old to a movie.  That's the disadvantage to moving I guess, it takes forever to find babysitters...  Oh well, thats my one complaint for the day.

I hope to have more to share with you soon but for now I have a very talkative baby that is just waking up from his nap...

Life

How crazy is it that my son is almost 5 months old!?!  "I ... can ... not ... be ...LIEVE ...it!" (said in the voice from Quincy on little einsteins) 

 Here are a few pictures to cover some things that have happened in the past two months...


Since Matt was in Europe for Father's day we celebrated a few weeks later.  It was a great relaxing day!  We went to brunch as well as an art festival.  At home, I made a banner and a few tie decorations to put on cupcakes and presents and of course I made the boys have a little photo shoot.  I loved a lot of them but I believe these are my two favorites. 

 

A weekend or so later we headed up to Trail Ridge Road.   It was a fun day and we saw some incredible fews as well as MOOSE!!  I was pretty excited about the moose especially since I thought there were no moose in Colorado.  I have pictures of the views and what not but have decided to add those to a blog post on its on incase you are just here to see my stickin cute baby!

and this is how we eat on the road...

If only he still had a beard...

My happy little man! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another weekend we drove to the top of Mt. Evans.  That was an amazing drive as well but there was a crazy thunderstorm going on so we had to move pretty quickly.  I can't wait till Keeton is a little bit older because we are absolutely dying to hike!  Anyone have any recommendations on a good kid carrying pack (i have no idea what they are called)???  

Not very often we get a picture of the three of us...

Oh how I LOVE the moby wrap!

This weekend we took Keeton to the zoo!!  Denver has a pretty nice zoo and now we are officially members so I believe they will be seeing a lot of us.  I'm not sure how many animals Keeton actually looked at but I'm pretty sure there was a bear, gorilla, and maybe a couple of monkeys.  He did really well and even without taking any naps, he stayed in a great mood! 

Again, I LOVE my moby wrap!

Too busy staring at animals to smile for the camera!

OH MY!  Yes that bear is eating something that looks entirely too much like a baby in my opinion.

Still thinking about that bear...

Well, I do have more things I want to share but that will have to come at a later time.  We are loving our new life in Colorado as well as being parents!  God has blessed us in ways I never expected. 

By the way, please be praying for me as I find my new role in Douglas County Young Life.  I am looking forward to sharing Christ's love with high schoolers again but I am super nervous about how this will look now that I have a whole new job of raising a little boy.  In the past, it was easy for me to just go where ever they were or needed me to be but now it won't be as easy.  Also, since we have no babysitters things are a little tricky.  I'm really hopeful though and after meeting the teams from the area last night, I feel really up to whatever challenges God lays our way. 

 Well, let's hope my next blog will come sooner rather than later...

A little Keeton update

We are finally in our house and starting to feel a little settled in.  We have a ton of things we want to do, which also means buy, so it will be a while before it feels complete.  BUT oh my, it is nice to be in a house and being able to let kona out the back door!  Not having to load up Keeton everytime kona needs to go out is awesome!  It's also great having enough space for all our things.  Keeton gets his own room now, it's no longer the guest room/storage room/keeton's room (yea, I know, sad right).  He also has his own tv room/play room!  I act like the whole house won't be his playroom but I'm sure eventually it will turn into a pirate ship, fort, baseball field, battle ground, or whatever else his little imagination can come up with.  Anyways, enough about the house.  Here's a much needed update on our growing little man!

When we left for our extremely long trip he was a little two month old.  Which honestly now that he's almost four months feels like he must have been pretty boring!  I know that sounds bad but he's changed so much that I hardly remember what two months was like.

 

Well as you can see Keeton is definitely a growing boy!  He's also not too crazy about smiling for the camera.

Here's a few quick facts about this super cute little boy.

He's eating like a champ but I'm sure you could already tell that.  

He's not a huge fan of napping every day.

Until this past week, he was going to sleep around 9, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to eat, then back to sleep and up for the day around 7.  This week we've seen a different schedule.  Asleep between 7:30 and 8:30, wakes up about 8 times (no lie) looking for his pacifier, up at 5:30 to eat, back to sleep till about 7.  I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of this whole pacifier thing.  I'm hoping its just a phase. 

 

He has discovered his feet and toes!   It's soo cute.  If you kiss his little foot he gives you the best chuckle!  He also loves to use his feet while playing.  

This boy LOVES tv.  It's crazy!  He searches for the screen.  He laughs at it and talks to it.  I know its not a surprise being that his momma loves tv a lot too but really!?!  He's three months old!  This is crazy.  By the way, Jake and the Neverland Pirates is probably my new favorite show...I mean Keeton's new favorite show. 

Keeton has almost lost all his new born hair but his new hair is coming in pretty quickly only its a lot lighter so he still tends to look bald.  

I tried to weigh him myself while I was in Tennessee and according to the scale he weighs 14 pounds!  We go to the doctor next week so I can't wait to find out how much he really weighs but goodness I know it's got to be close to that. 

Keeton is officially in 6 month size clothes!  (9 month pjs due to being so long)

He FINALLY notices Kona.  There for awhile I thought he just might ignore Kona but lately he's been looking at Kona and has even laughed when Kona gives him kisses.

He can roll over!  Well sort of.  He does it in his sleep but I've only seen him do it a few times while awake.  The only problem is that his arm gets stuck under him and he hasn't figured out how to move it.  We'll get there though. 

He's great at holding his head up, which has allowed for life to be a little easier.  Now we can throw him around (not really), he can play in his jumper, and ride in his awesome jogging stroller (in need of jogging/all terrain stroller, get a BOB, seriously do it).  

These past few weeks have turned out to be soo fun.  He's so interested in EVERYTHING and watching him learn has been awesome.  The laughs and smiles melt my heart every time!  I can't say that I'm sad he's growing because its just soo fun watching him grow.  I think we will have a little explorer on our hands which means many adventures to come for this momma and daddy!

Well I have to show my boy off just a little...

Cute right!?!  Well stay tuned because soon (hopefully) I'll post pictures from "Father's Day" as well as our mountain adventures. 

2 months

Today is May 21st, Keeton has officially been with us (outside of my belly) for 2 MONTHS!  This is insane!  It's been a super fast two months.  And I'm afraid month three will go by just as fast.  We are headed south this coming thursday.  He and i will be flying to Mississippi on Thursday and then the following Wednesday we'll be headed to Tennessee.  Keeton will finally get to meet the rest of his family, with the exception of a few that just HAVE to live in Florida or the Cayman Islands.  He will also get to go to Starkville so that his daddy can show him the Mississippi State University campus, hopefully he'll get to take his first trip to the beach, and he will make a trip to Dollywood, Cades Cove, Max Patch, and probably a few more Smoky Mountain tourist attractions.  Matt will be with us till June 2nd, when he heads to the Netherlands for some work stuff.  He will be gone for entirely too long.  We will make our way back to Colorado (by car) on June 21 and 22 and Keeton will get to see his Daddy on the 23rd (I'm already looking forward to this day).  This is going to be a very interesting month!

Another insane thing that is happening is we are finally buying a house!  It cleared the inspection on Wednesday and we close June 25th.  I will post pictures of that as soon as I can but till then just know, we do have extra room so come see us!!

Just a little side note, in case you didn't know, Keeton does not have to wear the pavlik harness!  Before we brought Keeton home from the hospital we were told that his hips were loose and he would maybe need a brace.  We went through two ultrasounds to check them out and both times his hips weren't normal.  They said he had developmental hip dysplasia.  Basically the socket didn't cover enough of the ball (i'm not sure how else to describe this ha).  This could lead to him having problems with it dislocating and even leading to him having surgery later in life.  Well we were called in for him to be fitted for the harness.  I was completely heart broken because that thing looks terribly uncomfortable and who wants to see there child in something like that for 3 months.  But of course my God is amazing and Keeton went in that day and somehow his hips were completely normal!  It was amazing.  So thank you for the prayers my friends because God worked His magic in our lives that day.

Anyways,  so I thought I would share a few pictures of Keeton's first incredible two months.  I apologize if this is just too much cuteness for one post but here we go...

Keeton meeting Matt's mom for the first time.

Of course when you have that much hair, you need a personal stylist.

Keeton with his momma and my mom

And Kona...

Matt's dad teaching Keeton about the only college team that really matters...

My dad, who is probably telling Keeton about cars or guns...

Drinking Coke at the best Texas BBQ place EVER!  Thank goodness they have Rudy's in Colorado. 

Aunt Chelsea!  Keeton is very upset that she lives a BILLION crawls away.

Amanda, Keeton's bestest friend, with us at FRONTIER RANCH!! (Frontier Ranch is one of the most amazing places ever, it's also a Young Life camp)

I know I should be posting the 2 months picture today but here's the six weeks picture instead.  Sorry for the delay.

And here is Keeton and Matt doing their very favorite things, also you might see that Kona was enjoying this as well.

 

 

Here's Keeton, just lounging...what he does best!  And why aren't fat rolls cute on adults??  It's just not fair!

I just realized there aren't many pictures where you can see Keeton's face...sorry!  As soon as I get back from this crazy long trip, I'll put up an album on facebook so you can enjoy way to many pictures but for now I must go cuddle with my little man!