Hmmm

Does anyone still read my blog? I never get comments and it makes me feel like i'm talking to myself.

Lots of stuff going on with the littlest man in the house!

pushups

Finding tootsies

eating solids for the first time!!

Look at him staring at the spoon! lol

Marcus would put the spoon right by Jamie's mouth and right when he'd go to eat, Marcus would yank it away. This is mid yank.

He SO loved it tho!

And this is Marcus' first time feeding himself icecream. He actually didn't make that big of a mess. He didn't want to waste any of it!

They almost look pro!

I offered to do a photoshoot for my friend Amanda. She's pregnant with a little boy. She told me the name they picked so I went out and bought some stuff [like blue ribbon, some blocks to paint the letters of his name on, etc] and it got me pumped to do photography again. So I called Connie to see if she would bring her girls over and she obliged.

Before they came over I tried to get some pics of the boys. Jamesen is sitting so well! I was able to get quite a few pics in between catching him.



Marcus was fighting me. This is one of two I got by himself.

And some together. Marcus really didn't want to have Jamesen touching him.


Then Connie came over. Her girls are so beautiful!


I'm looking at these and they almost look like pro pics. The lighting is a bit off in a few I didn't show and a couple other things but I'm getting close! I hope to make enough sales in templates that I can get some more photography equipment and maybe start charging for this too!

Entering into WAHMhood

WHAM-Work At Home Mom. That's right. I'm going to be a WHAM! A couple months ago I started making templates out of my pages for other people and finally worked up the nerve to apply to a store online that sells digital scrapbooking supplies and I was accepted! I'm so excited about it! My store should be going up soon. I've been working really hard the last couple days to get stuff ready to go into it. It's been a pain really.

On another note, Jamesen is doing push ups. About a month earlier than Marcus did too. Booo!

We're sitting!!

For the most part. He's still a bit shaky and topples when he gets excited but look how well he's doing! Sitting Vid He's following right along with what Marcus was doing. Making me said since that might make him our last baby. We'll see though. I'm going to try and enjoy every second I can since he'll probably be our last. I don't want to look back and wish I had spent more time in the now and not dwelling in the past.

The Picture of Health

We had Jamesen's 4 month well check today. We had his two month check a little late so there wasn't enough time since his last set of shots for him to get this next one. I have to go back in on Monday. That's not that big of a deal though since I was going back for my spider bite anyways.

They said he was the picture of health and everyone kept commenting on how adorable SHE was. Honestly, does he look like a girl? I had like 7 people say "Oh she's so adorable!" It's probably because of the teething necklace, but honestly, he doesn't look like a girl! He's obviously a boy. One lady said "He's a boy? He's too pretty to be a boy. He should have been a girl!" *rolls eyes*

They were really impressed with how well he held his weight while standing and how well he's rolling. He can roll everywhere! It annoys me a bit actually because I have to stick him in something and strap him in to keep him from disappearing on me. Marcus didn't roll around like that until after he could sit.

Anyways, he's 16 lbs 3 oz and 26.75 inches! that's the 93% for height and 62% for weight. So I have another tall and lean baby. He's not skinny like Marcus was, but he's not fat like Patrick is. I wish he were Patrick fat :( But at least I don't have another skinny mini on my hands! To give you a comparison, Marcus at 4 months was 14 lbs 2 oz and 26.1 inches. I have a feeling that Jamesen will always be taller than M was at that age and later pass him up completely. Though I doubt Marcus will be short. He's always been in the 60 something for height. We'll see!

Rashes, rashes everywhere!

If you don't know the story behind me using cloth diapers, I have to tell you.

Lucky for Marcus, he inherited my family's sensitive skin. When he started teething, the super acidic poops would give him a terrible terrible rash. If it was even left on his skin for a minute it would turn into a bleeding rash. It got to the point where he would get a rash and it would take me 2-3 weeks to get rid of it and then in another 2-3 week he'd have another one! I felt like the worst mother ever for not being able to figure out what I wasn't doing right to keep him from rashing up.

I prayed so hard one night when Marcus had a particularly nasty rash that I would find something to stop him from rashing up all the time. The next morning I randomly decided that I wanted to cloth diaper Jamesen. As I was looking up different kinds of diapers, I found a one size diaper and decided to get a few to try on Marcus. After getting enough that he was mostly in cloth, I noticed a significance difference in him and he didn't get his first rash in cloth until MONTHS after he was in only cloth.

It's days like today, though, where he's teething terribly and has the worst acidic poops literally all day long and has a bad rash, that I say a prayer to God, thanking him for leading me to cloth. If his rash is this bad in cloth, I can only imagine how bad it would be if we were in disposables.

On another note, thanks babe for all you have done for this country to keep us all safe! I love a Veteran! :)