Saturday, February 25, 2012

Calen is 7 months old

This is us . . .



Calen is 7 months old.  Wow time goes way too fast!  He is so much fun!  Each stage so far has been my favorite, guess I like them all.
What you are up to now . . .
You love sitting and playing with your toy box.  So much so that you are trying to climb in it, I will post that picture soon.  You ended up face down with your feet up in the air!  Mobility is in your near future.  You want so bad to move forward and you know you can but the coordination is just not there yet.  We have started crawl training.  It consists of me standing you up (which you love) then I bend you forward and put your hands on the ground.  You look like a monkey but you seem to like it.  After doing that for a few days you finally bent your knees and ended up in the crawl position for the first time today.  Standing and holding onto our fingers or the laundry basket is a favorite.  You even took one step while holding my hands.  
Other new things: 
Loves, hugging us
Kisses, open mouth and slobber, but we love it!
Arms up, letting us know you want us to pick you up
Swimmer legs when you are on your belly
Trying to pull up on the laundry basket
Attempting to crawl up on Daddy's lap when you are sitting next to him on the floor.
Petting Maggie or getting a wad of her hair in your hand or mouth!
Dance parties . . . you love them!
Smiling and laughing when you see a picture of yourself on our phones.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Maybe I will stand and walk first . . .



Training for Crawling

Calen doesn't like his tummy time very much, but he loves to stand.  So I am trying the reverse approach to get him crawling.  He won't bend his knees, so we will trying bending at the waist first.


He does however get the push up part of crawling.

Puffs are a parents best friend!

Our Sweet little Boy



Girls Night with all the little ones

Well it's safe to say we are in the baby stage of life . . .





 Callie, Calen and Baby Greene #2 in Katie's Belly behind Calens elbow.
 Callie Greene, 21 months
 Lucy Sweeney, 6 weeks
Elliot Jackson, 16 months (baby girl Jackson hiding behind the purple sweater)

6 months old

I cannot believe 6 months has gone by already!  2 days before he turned 6 months old Calen finally figured out how to sit up for longer than 30 seconds.  The first time was 4 minutes and less than 24 hours later he was sitting for 20-30 minutes at a time.  He only fell over backwards twice before he learned to flip himself to his stomache as he fell.  He weighed in at 18 lbs 3 oz (60%)  Length of 26.5 inches (51%).  Calen still has acid reflux but hardly spits up anymore.  He is still smiley and very talkative.  He started making the Ba noise in addition to Ma and Da.  He often sounds like he is saying Hi but has yet to officially say the word. 

First Big Boy Bath

Calen can finally sit so this means his first big boy bath!





Hanging with my cousin Charlie


Calen thought Charlie was being pretty funny!

Trying to get a Good Family Picture


If Jeremy could just do this behind the camera so Calen and Charlie would be entertained in the right direction!

Random pictures from January




5 months old and Catching up Christmas

Calen turned 5 months old on Christmas Eve.  He is still such a happy, curious and talkative little guy.  He weighs 17 pounds!  Sleeps thru the night,  Mommy and Daddy likey!




 Christmas Morning
 That's a first, fell asleep with his thumb in his mouth on Daddy's chest.
 Grandma and my cousins while I was taking a nap.



 I'm thinking Blue Steel or eTrade baby . . . ?



Can you tell my Grandpa wasn't feeling the best, silly hearts :-(
 The aftermath of my first Christmas.

Mommy and Calen Photo Session

During my nursing times I became addicted to Pinterest.com!  Have no fear I put some of my new addiction to good use, learning how to photograph your own baby.