First Word and Sitting Up

Look at this big boy!  He started sitting up soon after her turned 6 months old.  About the same time he said his first word, "da-da".  Honestly, I've held off on writing this down because I wanted to be SURE his first word was "da-da".  I mean, I take care of this kid and sit up with him all night and he can't even give me a "ma-ma"? :)  Daddy is pretty proud of himself.  Yep, Major loves his "da-da"!

Eli's Project and Super Bowl Sunday

Eli's space project...he did this mostly himself.  I showed him how to get on the computer and look up the planets, their sizes, their colors, and their order from the sun.  Here is his finished product.  Pretty good, if I do say so myself.  He is just learning so much this year!  I don't remember doing space projects when I was in kindergarten!

Super Bowl Sunday...normally I don't take pictures of the boys on this day, but I thought they were so cute dressed up for church!  Sadly, I couldn't get a really good picture.  They are too busy being silly with each other.

 This year the Super Bowl was the Giants (with quarterback ELI Manning) and the Patriots (with quarterback Tom BRADY).  So, of course, we got the boys in their "Manning" and "Brady" jerseys and got ready for the game!  The Patriots are daddy's team, but they just couldn't pull it off...

Giants won 21-17.  It was a great game!  Maybe next year, Patriots! 

Daddy Kisses

Major has been giving "kisseys" for a while now, but I was just recently able to capture them on camera.  I love when he does it...he grabs your face with both hands, brings your face to his, opens his mouth up really wide, and plants a wet, slobbery one right on your mouth.  Precious baby!

100th and 101st Day of School

There are so many reasons I love Eli being at Cornerstone Christian Academy.  One of them is all the cool things they get to do there.  This past Monday and Tuesday (January 30th and 31st) were the 100th and the 101st days of school.  For the 100th day of school, they all dressed up like they were 100 years old.  On the 101st day of school, they all dressed up like the 101 Dalmatians and got to watch the movie in school.  Such great ideas and Eli has a blast!  (Not to mention he is learning so much...he can read so well and just today he was telling me about parallelograms and other geometric designs.  This week we get to make a model of the galaxy...fun!)

Riley Miller, Jazmin Carlone, Kelsey O'Neill, Anthony Oparra, Grant Miller, Jack Gowens, Ben Mize, Pierce Dalton, Eli Moore, Cole Armstrong, Gavin St. Jean, Hugh Rolls, Aiden Scott, Chloe Collins

Anthony, Grant Miller, Jack Gowens, Ben Mize, Pierce Dalton, Eli, Cole Armstrong, Gavin St. Jean, Hugh

Some of the 101 Dalmatians...Gavin, Eli, Hugh, Jack, Cole, Ben, Pierce

Bottom Row: Anthony, Riley, Aiden, Chloe, Jazmin, Kelsey, Grant

There's a New Sheriff in Town

Major is 6 Months Old!

Major at 6 months...he is finally sleeping through the night and will take a nap or two during the day, this makes for a much happier mommy!  He can sit up by himself (somewhat) and gets everywhere he needs to go by either rolling, or "crawling" on his back.  (See picture below.)  He arches his head backwards, aims himself, and uses his legs to scoot himself backwards on his back to where ever he wants to go.  He is doing a lot of cooing and "talking".  He loves the computer cord, TV cord, and basically whatever cord he can get his hands on.  He loves to laugh at his brothers and his daddy and can't get enough of playing with them.  He gives kisses by opening his mouth really wide and planting a big, slobbery one on the mouth of some family member.  As long as he gets to eat and sleep, then he is a very happy baby! :)

Here is his official 6 month photo.  We will be going to have a professional one done tomorrow or this weekend.  At the doctor today, he was 18 pounds (55th percentile) and 28 inches long (92nd percentile).  We've never had a child in the 50th percentile, we're going to have to get this kid eating!  I think that the weight might be a little off because he hadn't eaten in about 12 hours when they weighed him (I woke him up from his nightly slumber to go to the doctor), so I'm sure he weighs a little more than that.  But still, more solid foods, here we come!

How Brady Eats Pizza...

Ever since Brady could first eat pizza, he has always eaten it upside down.  It is so cute to watch.  He inspects his pizza, takes off any toppings that could fall off, then turns it upside down and eats it.  This was taken at our last family game night on January 6th.  So funny.