it's your {half} birthday, shout HOORAY!

june 26th was brogie's 6 month birthday. i have known since i was pregnant with him that i wanted to celebrate him being half a year with a little half birthday party. it really snuck up on me! in honor of the day, we barbecued little slider hamburgers & i made mini cupcakes, then our awesome family filled in the rest with salads and appetizers. i also made brog a cupcake of his own and stuck a #1 candle in and pushed it in so only half of the 1 was showing,he was not impressed that he couldn't eat the cupcake! it was a fun, low key evening with grandparents & great-grandparents just celebrating and having fun with the man of the hour! originally, this was supposed to be a gift-free party but who am i kidding? they are grandparents!! so he was thoroughly spoiled. he got everything from new swim suits to a toy car to a john deere cell phone and my personal favorite, a walker ( i guess that's what they are called?) i now have no excuses for a dirty house. he loves that thing. it took him a whole 10 seconds to realize he could walk in it & was so cute. brought a tear to my eye seeing him so grown. before i know it, he will be walking on his own...to kindergarten.
a few things he is up to lately:
he finally lets me sneak a little snuggle without him grunting at me and pushing away
he growls while chewing toys
he has his 2 bottom teeth, they both came without me knowing it, way to go mom of the year!
he is THE biggest cheese ball.
he likes to be upside down
sunglasses, paper & tags seem to be his favorite chew toys
still hates his car seat
feeds himself with a bottle but likes to twist the bottle in circles while he eats
LOVES squash (just like daddy), sweet potatoes, & white gravy, hates bananas
he is a pretty good sleeper...for now
is in the BEST mood of the day first thing in the morning
i usually wake up to him humming/singing at 6am versus crying
tries to get away from us when we are trying to change his diaper by rolling to his tummy
hates getting dressed & undressed
still has daddy & i wrapped around his finger

he had his 6 month check up wednesday, he is 15lb 15oz & 27.5" long! he is 95% in weight & 25% in weight...still long & skinny! we love him so much & are looking forward to the next 6 months!

the aforementioned cheeseball, you can barely see his little teeth 

5 months...already?

my oh my. my little stink bug is just growing & won't stop!! he turned 5 months may 26th. he weighs 15 lbs give or take, i don't know his exact height, we just know he's long & skinny! he cut his first tooth a few days ago and is working on #2. he is absolutely hilarious with the cutest little personality. he is quite the spitfire and is rambunctious and very curious. we have discovered that he has great hand eye coordination, which he did not get from me, and is very determined. when he sees something he wants, he will get to it, no matter what. he is rolling over two times in a row now and has the general idea for crawling. he can support himself with just his arms straightened & will go on his knees with his bum in the air just gotta put those two together!! but i can wait a little longer for the crawling thing...he is already all over the place! he is so giggly & smiley & has quite the talk box. he's a little show off. he loves sleeping on his side with his head cocked back..weird! speaking of sleep, he is sadly off his nightly routine of sleeping 8:30-5, 5-7-he is now 9-1, 1:30-5, 5-7!! makes for one tired mama! i'm hoping he gets back to normal soon! can't believe he is on his way to being half a year! we love this little man more than anything, can't wait to see what he's gonna do next!

just a few weeks old

5 months

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam

i am so excited! i have been called to be a Sunbeam teacher! what a wonderful opportunity & definitely what i needed-wise bishopric we have. i've always had a passion for teaching & i love little kids so this will be such great 'practice' for when i get my degree. i think i have decided to switch from teaching 2nd grade to Kindergarten, there are a couple years difference in age but it will give me an idea if i'm making the right decision! i start this week but don't actually teach til next week since the other teacher is going to show me the ropes this week then we will alternate...wish me luck!!

memorial weekend

what a crazy, long weekend! i had been looking forward to this weekend for a while & had big plans for brogie & i-but plans rarely work out with a little babe! we were planning on going to oakley on saturday where my family camps every year for memorial day. i knew jake would be working so it would be a nice outing for us..,WRONG! brogie had other plans. i went to pick him up from brenda's friday after work and jake's pickup was there...weird since it was like 3:00 in the afternoon during hay. i walk in & brenda tells me, brog was great but it looks like he's got a little runny nose oh & jake is downstairs really sick. i go down & he is not looking so good. so i left him there to sleep & went to get some sick supplies from the store w brog. jake made it home & wasn't doing any better, brog still doing fine though. well as the night went on, brog was getting worse. terribly runny nose, coughing & being really fussy. by the time his bedtime rolled around, he was not doing well so i started out sleeping on the floor next to him in his room. that didn't last long. he soon ended up in my arms just moaning and crying, trying to sleep but would wake himself up by coughing. it was heart wrenching. so helpless. i gave him some medicine & checked his temp. my thermometer just kept climbing after 100.1 so i decided to wake my poor sick hubby up to tell him i'm taking bubba to the ER. turns out, he had an upper respiratory infection & beginning stages of bronchitis. the most horrifying part of the night was when they called the respiratory therapist down to suck out his nose! jake was balled up trying not to throw up so i had to literally hold brog down so he could suck his nose! i cried the entire time. then he said he didn't get as much as he would have liked so he stuck a teeny, tiny tube up his nose to get deeper...saddest thing i've seen & i'm not done yet! after all that was done, TWICE, he started coughing it up. the saline had broken up all the mucus and it was so deep in his chest he was choking on it--terrifying! but he did survive. it was the longest 2 days but we made it through! he is still fighting a runny nose but i'm pretty sure that's due to his little teeth coming in! we did end up going to oakley sunday after church for a bit, which was freezing but fun. glad brog's first time being sick is over...now on to the next.

in oakley, he was not impressed i put his bear suit on him!