Happy Valentine's Day!

For more of my thoughts on Valentine's Day, check out this post from last year! 

And, without further ado, I present you....

Christian James Foote. 

Most Eligible Bachelor. 

I like ...

Big, wet kisses. 

Long walks in my stroller. 

Sharing my blankie. 

Dancing and Singing...I even write my own lyrics!

A good book...mainly for chewing on. 

A tall glass of boobie milk. 

I also like to "get around" but don't worry, I know where to come home too. I'm a one lady man. Right now my mama has my heart, but someday I think I'll be willing to share it with another... 

Will you be my lucky lady? 

All interested ladies can apply by contacting my mommy. 

She will do the pre-screening and schedules all my play dates :) 

For the record, doing a photo shoot with a mobile baby, a flower, and a shirt with words that you want to be read is near impossible and really tested my photographer skills...I almost gave up. 

There was crying.

"Please let me eat that rose, mom! I know it's going to be delicious!!" 

Don't give a baby a rose, expect him to not shake it to smithereens and NOT eat it and then take it away and expect him to be happy...

There was also lots of "tasting"...

And distracting in attempts to get him to just hold the rose nicely without covering the words on his shirt...

There was very little smiling and looking at the camera....until he took a selfie! 

We made due and were still able to print off some pretty cute Valentine's for our little guy to send out to his loved ones! 

Actually, we were really lucky this even got done! I randomly got the idea about a week ago and we quick through a set up together and snapped some pictures so we could get Valentine's ordered! They just got here a few days ago so I got them addressed and sent out right away...hopefully everyone gets them close to on time! 

So...have you been watching The Bachelor this season with Juan Pablo!??! I tell myself after every season that I'm not going to watch it again next season because, well, its just so not real life, rarely works out, and usually makes me disappointed in the awesome husband I have because we ARE living real life...which doesn't involve my hubs flying me to exotic romantic locations and spending lots of time just making out and relishing in one another...on a beach...in a hot tub...you get the idea ;) Oh...and in my real life, my husband doesn't own his own private jet...oh...is that only my life? Ya, pretty sure I'm not alone on that one. 

All of that to say, my hubby is awesome. He treats me the best and I love doing real life with him! But I also love indulging in some bad tv every week...and watching my hubby try to do Juan Pablo impressions...yep...he does that. Love my life! 

Oh...and since I went there...I'm totally rooting for Renee or Clare to get the "FINAL rose"! Yep. Clare...the go getter. I started out really liking Nikki, but now I'm just not a fan. 

So, back in our real life world, we will be having a yummy dinner of steaks and sweet potatoes at home, playing a fun game which we take turns making up every year, and snuggling our little love bug baby boy! Doesn't get much better than that! 

How do you love on your honey for Valentine's Day? 

Christian James - 6 Months Old

6 Months!! 

You now weigh 19 pounds 6 ounces. (85th percentile)

 That's just over a 2 pound gain from last month. 

You are also now about an inch longer this month at about  27.3 inches long. (85th percentile)

You have started to outgrow your 3-6 month clothes now and are mainly wearing

  9 month sizes and 12 month sizes as well! Such a BIG boy! 

You are still in size 3 diapers, but wear size 4 diapers for bedtime. 

Now that you are eating solids, you only poop about once a day (I know, TMI...sorry!) and you 

eat about every 3-4 hours. This means you are also using less diapers per day, going through about only 8-10 diapers per day. 

Despite our returned sleep with the Magic Sleepsuit last month, what mommy thinks was a growth spurt coupled with a cold and Day Light Savings again disturbed your sleep. Combine all that with a trip to New York and no routine and your sleep has been very erratic the past few weeks! I'm hoping to get things back on track soon! 

Our attempts at moving your bedtime back later so that it would stay at 9pm after Day Light Savings Time was a worthless effort because you just were no longer able to make it awake that late. I think our Day Light Savings plan of moving your bedtime back would have worked if we hadn't been in denial about you needing an earlier bedtime. 

So now bedtime is at 7:30pm. We start your bedtime routine between 6:30pm and 7pm.  

You have your last feeding and usually some solids for dinner around 6pm and then we do a dream feed around 10/10:30pm. Then you will usually sleep until 4 or 5am, wake to eat and then go back to sleep until 7:30am {about 12 hours total}.

The rest of your day usually is on about a 3 hour schedule. You will be awake for about 1-1.5 hours and then nap for 1.5-2 hours. We still follow the Babywise method of eat, play, sleep. I'm not sure it's the answer to sleeping through the night, but it is the answer to a happy baby boy! 

For Thanksgiving we were in New York visiting Daddy's family and you cried almost every day {or at least fussed} which you RARELY do at home. I don't even think I can say I know your cries...I feed you before you get too hungry and change you before you get too upset about being dirty or wet and put you to sleep before you get too tired....at least that's what I aim for and it seems to keep you quite smiley! 

Generally you take a morning nap for about an hour and a half {around 9am} and then pretty consistently you take an afternoon nap from about 12:30pm - 2:30/3pm and then an

  early evening nap {usually from about 4pm-5pm or so}.

Likes:

-Apples, Bananas, and Pumpkin

-Oatmeal and Rice Cereal

-Watching people sneeze

-Big cheek kisses

-Baxter

-Bath time

-Baby Story Time

-Rattles 

-Sitting up

-Standing up

-Your jumperoo

-Bouncing

-Hobbly Horse

-The Itsy Bitsy Spider

-"Patting" books

-Sleeping on mommy and daddy's chest

-Your Cousin Sarah 

-The ABC song

-Pulling hair, grabbing earrings, pinching cheeks
-Playing piano
-Music!

Dislikes:

-Being tired 

-Taking naps when there is so much going on

-Sitting still on the air plane

-Getting strapped in your car seat when you're tired

-Poopy diapers

Milestones:

-Started eating more solid foods 

{you made the craziest faces and really didn't like apples at first but now you LOVE them!}

{You also love bananas and pumpkin} 

-Rolled from back to belly! 

{mommy and daddy missed it the first time you did it!}

{Mommy went in the kitchen to clean up your dinner and came back to find you on your tummy} 

{Mommy asked daddy if he moved you...he didn't! You rolled!}

-First Halloween
-First Snowfall
-First Thanksgiving 

{Spent in New York}
-First Carousel Ride
{in New York}
-Trying to crawl/get up on your knees

:::Pictures and Videos from the Past Month:::

Trying so hard to get up on your knees!

First time riding in the shopping cart! You are still a little too squirmy, though...

First taste of apples! 

Playing with your friend, Coop! 

And playing with your girlfriend, Nora :) 

Cheering for the Timberwolves!

First time sitting in the high chair at a restaurant

Your First Thanksgiving

You rolled over!!! Back to belly and mommy wasn't even in the room! :( 

It's okay...you showed me how you did it :) 

Wow. 6 months already. You are growing and changing so fast but with each month I find a new favorite stage! Love you baby boy!!