Porter's Officially Crawling!

Porter has been rolling and scooting for a few weeks but yesterday he officially move forward with full intent. Here's the proof...

Did I happen to mention that this is my favorite age. Porter has entered a whole new phase. He is so much more content and happy. He also interacts more and seems to be taking everything in and thinking about it. I love love love this age!Brooke & Porter playing.Hey! She pushed my buttons, Mom!!!

Well, I'll show her!I put this toy arch by the door to take back to Denise but Porter kept picking it up on his walker and dragging it around. Maybe he was trying to tell me something.

6 Months/ 7 Years/ 1st Year

Last weekend Porter turned 6 months old. I know I say this every month, but this month is my favorite so far! This is what I pictured a baby would be like. He is so fun and playful and lovey and happy. He's acting like he wants to crawl and lifted up his belly for the first time today. He doesn't let that stop him though, he gets around by rolling and scooting and turning. The walker makes him even more mobile and he loves that. The walker is also where he likes to poop and is in fact the only place he likes to poop these days. I think that being more mobile has made him more content and happy. This month Tom also went back to work so now onto our day care plans. I'm glad that he is 6 months old before we have to leave him with someone else because he is less fragile and helpless. He can hold us his head and roll over and scoot himself around and almost sit up by himself. We have started to try and feed him solid foods but he is not taking onto them yet. Porter weighs 18.4 pounds and is wearing 12 month clothes!
Applesauce... yum!
Waiting for Grandma Sue.
First time in the swimming pool.
Last weekend was also Tom and my 7 year anniversary and Tom's first Father's Day. We had a great weekend. This is a very busy but happy time in our lives. On Father's Day it was almost as if Porter couldn't wait to wake Tom up to wish him a Happy Father's Day. I guess he didn't remember that the Father's Day present was supposed to be letting his dad sleep in! We laid in bed all morning and played. It was great! Me and my dad on his first Grandfather's Day with Porter...
Today we took a trip to Urgent Care because Porter had an infected toe nail. Yesterday his toe looked red but this morning it was swollen and oozing. The doctor had to pull back the toe nail to empty the puss. I held Porter's foot and watched while Tom held Porter's hands and cried with him. We got some antibiotics and Epsom salt and are on our way to healing Porter's big toe.

Today was also our friend, Connor's first birthday. This is Connor and Porter being entertained by Tom, the baby comedian. Happy Birthday Connor!

Father's Day Card

Porter picked out this Father's Day card for Tom. When I showed it to Porter in the grocery store he was laughing so hard people were coming over to see him. When I got home I showed it to him again and he still laughed hard. This card is amazing! I had to buy it. This will be Porter's first Father's Day card to his dad. This is a video of my friend Jannene playing with the card with Porter.

Ready for the stroller without the card seat. So big!
Carrots? Nope! I dont think any of the carrots actually made it to his belly.

Working on crawling. Porter can almost do the army crawl.

So many toys, so little time...Watching Tom play soft ball.Snuggling with Grandma Care before church.Snuggling with Grandma Care in the morning.

We love this baby!

5 months old

Porter turned 5 months old yesterday. The months seem to be going faster and faster. And Porter just keeps getting cuter and cuter. He is growing into his own. He has a sense of humor and laughs at funny noises, faces, and the Baby Einstein puppets. He is also very loving. He loves to give us sloppy kisses and hugs. Its the best! His new toy this month was a race car walker. He loves to be mobile. He wants to crawl so bad. He's not there, but he's getting closer by scooting with his arms and pushing with his feet when he has something to push against. He's also getting very close to sitting up on his own. He can sit up but still needs a little help for balancing. He is also gaining a love for books. He studies the pictures and tries to turn the pages and then puts them in his mouth, of course.
This month has been all about sleeping for me. Five months of sleep deprivation are finally catching up to me and I'm exhausted! I've desperately been looking for advice on how to get Porter to sleep through the night. In my search I found a great book called "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child". This book advocates a 7 pm bedtime with a 7 am wake time and three scheduled naps during the day. This is only our third night of this, but I love it! And Porter seems to love it too. Although he is still waking up twice to eat at about 11pm and 3am. Once we get the sleep schedule down we are going to concur the night feedings starting with the 3am wakening. He is up to 17.4 lbs. and gaining! I don't know why I'm worried about cutting out a night feeding! He is obviously eating enough. Speaking of which, we gave up on the rice cereal and are going to wait until he is closer to 6 months old to reintroduce it along with other baby foods. I'm excited for what the month ahead holds!

Rice Cereal & A Spoon

This last week I have been worried if Porter is getting enough milk to drink or not so we decided to mix in a little rice cereal and see what he thought. I read somewhere that you were suppose to introduce rice cereal with a spoon but this didn't last very long before we poured the rice cereal in a bottle and fed it to him that way. I don't know if Porter's ready for solids yet, but this sure was fun!

Porter's new commercial