It's My Birthday!!

Well not quite yet but we celebrated early!

This weekend our awesome friends Nadia and Adam threw me a birthday party! We had a few friends out to celebrate. The food was amazing! I have to comment about the mini burgers Adam made, they were amazing. I think I had one to many!! But thank you for the great spread! They had a ton of food and made two special desserts, a fruity one(for me) and a chocolate one for all the chocolate lovers!YUMMY.. It was fun to see friends I hadn't seen for a while and just visit and see everyones little families grow. Thanks again to all my wonderful friends that came out to celebrate with me.
Nadia, Alex, Me, Amy, and Anona
The wonderful Host, Nadia
I even got to blow out the candles!!
Thanks again to all my great friends for coming out!! and to the Larsen's for the awesome night!

Today Brad's Family threw another party for me and my nephew Joe, we share the same B-day! We went out to Strathmore and had another delicious dinner. The best part was dessert, Sex in a Pan!! I could of ate the whole thing!! I love Sundays just to be with family and hang out and just totally relax. I wish we had more days like this. I also wish I had my own family closer.. My parents took me out to dinner on Friday night for a pre-birthday dinner as they are coming up next weekend for another birthday dinner. Kinda getting spoiled with all these great dinners, I'm gonna have to throw in a few extra workouts after all of them.
Channing's Ready to party!! Can you tell??

It's crazy that I will be 25 on Tuesday, I feel so old!!! I know I'm not, but I think this is kinda crazy, I have been married for 5 1/2 years now and have a little guy. Back in High School I told everyone that I wouldn't even start thinking about getting married until I was 24, so to be where I am today is not what I had planned. I can honestly say I am so glad that things turned out the way they did. I'm happy at where I am in my life and for my beautiful family and great friends. I have had a wonderful 25 years and look forward to the next 25 and more!!

Photoshoot!

Brad stayed home from work today because of the big snow fall so I was able to get his help with getting some pictures of Channing in the studio. You would think I would be shooting him all day but it's pretty hard with just one person and I'm the one shooting. It was so funny as everytime I would try to get him to smile he was just so serious! Then of course when he is not in front of the lights he's all giggle and smiles. Oh well I think he is still just the cutest!!

6 Months

At 6 months Channing is a healthy 17 lbs 9 oz and is 27 inches long. He ranges in the 50% aisle for weight and 90% for height!

It's hard to believe that Channing is now half a year. Honestly as soon as he turned 6 months old he started to do so much more. Like over night he learned to roll both from his front to his back and then his back to his front. He is now rolling everywhere. I just wish I had more carpet on the main floor because he tends to bonk his head when I'm not watching him. He is wearing 6-9 month clothes and continues to wear 12 month sleepers. He is also eating solids constantly and his favorite is avocado and pears.

He will just eat those up. He usually is pretty good at taking cereal but I don't think he cares to much for it. He continues to breast feed as well and I just love these moments. He is so cute, he is always reaching his little hands up and putting them in his mouth as he feeds, I think it comforts him!
He is sitting up on his own but still tends to be top heavy so topples over after awhile. He loves making lots of sounds and is always gabbing away usually saying "dadadada" or" yeeeeyeee"

Brad thinks that he is saying Dada but I'm not counting that as a word. He loves his puppy. He is always trying to grab for Skeeter's toy and is always giggling when she is running around the house playing fetch. I am so glad Skeeter is so good with him. She tend to try to lick his face right after he eats but other then that leaves him alone. She does like to lay by him allot and I think it's so cute.

Channing loves when I dance with him and throw him in the air. He just has a perma-grin and laughs hysterically!

His favorite thing is to be naked and chew on his toes. He will just gnaw on them forever. He loves his big toe and just sucks on it until it's all pruned up. He is so aware of everything that goes on around him. He loves when Daddy comes home from work. He will just start jumping up and down and smile!

I really need to get him on a sleeping schedule, it is just all over the place. He does really good during the day, usually going down 3-4 times and napping for 1-2 hrs. It's the nights that are crazy. I will put him down usually at 10:30 and he will sleep until 2:00, I will go in and give him his soother, then he will wake up again sometimes at 4:00 but usually at around 6:00, I'll feed him, and then he will sleep until 8 or 9 and then feed and sleep again until 10-10:30. It just everywhere and I wish I could just get 6 hours. I need to crack down on just letting him cry himself to sleep but I feel bad. I know he can do it but then it wakes Brad up and he has to get up early so it's just easier to give him his soother. I am going to crack down on this this month!

Channing loves his grandparents and just anyone that loves to play with him. His grandparents just love him to death and love visiting and playing with him. We just love when they love him just as much as we do.

Channing is such a happy baby. As long as he is fed and not tired he is just all smiles. He loves when you make funny noises and sounds. He giggles when his toes are chewed on and is super ticklish, pretty much everywhere! He loves going outside and being in the fresh air(finally we are getting out of the house with this good weather) He is so good in his car seat, but is honestly growing out of it. As soon as he is in, he usually falls asleep or just plays with his hanging toys.

I love this age as he is just learning so much, from picking up toys( or anything within reach) and sticking it in his mouth to sitting and rolling and just being his happy little self. We love our little Channing so much and are so happy he is ours. I could just cuddle him all day long. He is just growing way too fast. Please slow down...

Me... Making Food?

Yes it's true, I have decided to make Channing's baby food.

For those of you that know me I'm sure this is a surprise, as I don't even cook, and when I do, I hate it. So when I decided to make Channings food we had to make it be as easy as possible for me or I knew it would probably just be a faze. Well, we went and bought a little baby cooker(steams the food and purees it all in one) Easy is always better!! It is pretty amazing, all I need to do it chop up the veggies or fruit, dump it in and let the machine do its magic! I know I am lazy... Oh well I just want to make sure I stick to it. Lately Brad and I have been really watching what we eat and trying to be as healthy as we can.. So as we started talking about Channing and what to feed him once he hit 6 months, we thought it was probably best to make his food cuz I really wonder what kind of preservatives are in those little cans of baby food for them to be able to sit on the self for so long.. Brad was also talking to one of his clients and she was telling him of an awesome book that tells you exactly what to eat at certain ages and when to introduce new things to your babe so we went and snatched it up. It is called "Superfoods for babies and children" It looks pretty good and from what I have tried, Channing really seems to like it!! I also tried a few jars of fruit(apples and pears) and veggies(carrots and sweet potatoes) and Channing hated it, he would have nothing to do with it. So I have already seen improvement! He seems to love it! I really just feel like I want to feed him the most healthy things and what better way then to make it from scratch.. As long as we are being healthy better get babe on board too! I have really enjoyed introducing solids to Channing, he makes the silliest faces and it is just fun to watch him express his little personality. He always want to feed himself, he is always grabbing for the spoon and shoving the food inside. It's messy but I think it is so cute!

Once while I was doing a photoshoot Brad fed him some carrots. Well.... I come up from being finished and there is orange everywhere, all over the counter, the dish cloth, highchair, and his sleeper is laying on the floor covered with orange. I go up stairs to see the damage and there is Channing mostly cleaned up but still a little orange on his eyebrow, his neck and on his cheeks. Brad ran to get his iphone to show me the pictures. Brad would scoop the carrots and just give Channing the spoon and it just went everywhere! It was hilarious, I wish I could post the photos but have no idea on how to get the photos from the phone. But let me tell you he had fun!!
Watching Channing grow and do new things is seriously the best... I love watching him be independant, not really in feeding himself, but hey he tries!!