B is 6 months old

OK I might cry. My baby is growing way way way to fast, he's so big, he's not really a baby anymore, AND to top it all of his favorite person is...... Daddy. ugh! ok don't get me wrong- we all love Daddy, but he's supposed to be my baby, my little baby for just a little bit longer. And I think he said "Da Da" in his crib the other day- I heard it one morning and Justin heard it another day- but I'm not counting it as his first word quite yet :) i know i know I just can't let go :( Well he had his 6 month check up and I totally thought that he would be OFF the charts for weight, but he's not. He weighs 18.7 pounds (70%) and is 27 inches long (75%)- so big , but I guess not to big. He needs to start eating some food (baby food) but he seems to be having troubles swallowing.... we have been trying now for 2 weeks and we have tried rice cereal (mixed with breast milk) thin, a little thicker, warm, cold, morning, evening, sitting upright, and having his highchair tipped all the way back- nothing seems to help. ( any thoughts from anyone....email me :) )oh and we even switched to oatmeal too. He loves to sit in his highchair and open his mouth, just doesn't want to swallow- all the food will just sit there until it falls out the front of his mouth down his chin....hummmm. He's at the age where he needs the food and the extra iron, so I hope he turns the corner soon. I'm going to try sweet potatoes this weekend just to see if maybe he doesn't like the flavor of the others, but the doctor also recommended a certain cereal bottle feeder thing- so we are going to try that too(short term). So let's see what I can tell ya about Beckett's world:: he does loves to eat- breast feed or breast milk out of a bottle, so much that I had to cut out a bottle a day b/c he was taking so much.  We are now down to eating 5 times a day- He goes to bed at 8:30 sleeps all night and wakes between 6 and 7am- pretty great (we like the 7 b/c Cam gets up at 7 too- just works out :) Like I said before he love him some Daddy- he will break his neck looking for him if he hears him talking (it's actually pretty cute) Beckett loves to be outside, loves to go on walks/runs- thank goodness for double strollers! I do think we own about 5 strollers total now (insane!) Right when he turned 6 months old he started to sit up on his own really well. He was sitting- leaning over on his arms a couple weeks before that, but now he's really good at it. Also right at 6 months old I left him for the first time :( It was for a wedding of wonderful friends and we had so much fun, but I missed him tons. Justin had left him before and it's just different for Mom's. Plus when you're breast feeding and you still have to pump when you're away from....well that's just no fun. But we made it thru thanks to the amazing Nene (my Mom)- she cam down and stayed with both the boys (and the dogs) God love her. Again we are so blessed to have family around to help us out and want to spend a few solid days with our young children :) it can kind of be chaos.

love him!!

Outside fun!

Love love love the weather! And love it more when all 4 of us can be together and spend time outside playing. Camden loves the water- we can't wait to take him swimming. And beckett just loves to be outside, he wasn't the biggest fan of the water (it was too cold) but we had so much fun!

Beckett hanging out under a tree- loves to watch Camden....doing anything

Just eat him up cute!

He loves that water table                                        

                            sneaking up on his slide to try to spray us ...

                                instead he end up spraying his swing :)

                        Daddy turned his slide into a waterslide....amazing!

                        And Daddy was the BEST sprinkler there is!

                           Chased him around the yard forever!
                            We can't wait for all the Summer festivities to start
                                                               What a great afternoon! I loved it! Feel so blessed

I had to do it.....

So sorry Beckett Jay I guess We/I needed proof that I do NOT need a daughter I would not know how to do hair :) and before we decide to cut his off, I had to put it up.

Here's how he looked by the end of it and he was pulling at the piggy tails- I have to admit, it was pretty cute, but also that I suck at doing little people hair. Props to all you mommies of girls out there!

Family Pics

Thank you Shalaine for helping us make "memories" I have found that you can only plan so much for picture time, and things are just going to go how they want to no matter how hard you worked. As soon as we got to the bard to take pictures, Camden saw a bug (you wouldn't know that he's a 3 year old boy) and he freaked out. Said we were all done taking pics and we hadn't even started. Good start...right. Then Beckett has a little bit of stranger danger going on and he doesn't really know Shalaine, so he didn't want to smile, and smiling is all that boy does...ugh! So again this is why it was called making memories. But Shalaine was able to get some great pics out of it! Thanks!

Photo shoot with Beckett

I just can't get enough of my Chubs- so here ya go
I could and do just eat him up all the time-
you would too if you had all these rolls around you all the time.

I was looking back at Camden's baby book (just to compare the boys)
and at 6 months old Cam weighed 15lbs 2oz
Beckett is 5 1/2 months old and already weighs 18lbs 1oz !!!!
Hello...who are you..
He is half the size of his 3 year old brother now....wowzers!
I guess I make them big :)

Cereal!!

Today was the day we finally decided to let the little chunck try some cereal! He did love it! He just wasn't vey good at swallowing it. So I would give him bites, then after a few, it would all come back out of him mouth- I guess we will just have to work on it! :)

                           He was so excited to be in his chair :)

                                           first bite

                               He likes it so much, he thought he would just take over

                                            it was too cute!

                                            He just loved it!

                          Then at the end, here's the cereal coming back out of his mouth