Bryce - 5 months

It's been a busy month!
Football season is in full swing, and we've already had homecoming. Bryce turned 5 months old, and Blaine is officially 2 1/2!
We have enjoyed attending pep-rallies to cheer on our Rattlers, and hot, sticky football games to cheer them on some more. We are, however, looking forward to some cooler weather for our cheering!! The boys both LOVE going to the games. Bryce is a people watcher and enjoys sitting with Mamaw B.J. on the sidelines. Blaine enjoys what he understands of the game and cheering for 'Matt-Matt'........who just happens to play on every team and in every game, according to Blaine! AND, Mommy and Daddy enjoy being able to send them both to Grammy and Gramps's by half-time so they can ENJOY the second half of the game!!!
Blaine is learning to count and LOVES to sing.....many of his songs even have words in them now. He's also learned to recite several nursery rhymes!
Bryce had a check up this month and weighed in at 12lbs. 13oz. and 24 in. long, which are in the 5th and 10th percentiles respectively. He's my small-fry! He has started to eat oatmeal and peas and is looking forward to trying carrots this coming week. He wasn't too sure about eating 'real' food at first, but after the first couple of days he got the hang of it. He's also sitting up by himself and is developing quite a personality!
Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

Bryce's first bites of oatmeal

Blaine and Rylan watching the homecoming parade

Me and my "LITTLE" brother

Matt-Matt and the boys at homecoming

Bryce - 4 months

It's hard to believe that 4 months have past since our sweet Bryce was born. He is so happy and such a blessing!
He had a check-up on July 21, at 3 1/2 months. He weighed in at 12 lbs. 8 oz and was 23 in. long. This put his weight in the 25th percentile and his height in the 10th percentile. For any of you who know Blaine, this all comes as quite a shock. Blaine was always in the 75th - 90th percentiles for weight at this stage in his life and usually around the 50th in height! So, I guess I have one big one and one little one. Bryce is plenty fat and very healthy; he's just a little guy! He's learning to do all kinds of knew things. He's always been a good sleeper, waking up only once each night since he was only 2 weeks old, but about three weeks ago he began sleeping all night. I usually put him down between 9 and 9:30, and he usually sleeps until 7 or 7:30 (or until Blaine comes in making too much noise for anyone to sleep!) He really seems to enjoy playing with his toys.......much more than Blaine did at this age. And, just today he started rolling over! He sits up well with support for balance, so I'm sure that will be his next new trick. Here are a few pictures of Bryce taken on his 4 month 'birthday'!

Football 2010

As most of you know, my brother, Matt will be a senior this year. Blaine thinks he and his friends are the most wonderful thing EVER!! Media day was last week, and I took the boys to take a few pictures with 'Matt-Matt' and his friends!

July

It seems I just can't keep up with this blog lately.....okay for quite some time now. I will do my best to catch up with at least a few pictures.

The boys are both doing great. Bryce is growing like crazy and changing everyday. He is beginning to develop his own little personality which is fun to watch! He is a happy baby and is sleeping quite well!

Blaine is a good big brother......most of the time. He ocassionally tries to stick thinkgs in Bryce's eyes, ears, nose, and or mouth, but he mostly just wants to love on him and hold him. He likes to 'help' change his diaper and give him his passy.

Blaine is also developing quite a personality himself. He has become so much more expressive in the past month. Some of his speech is still a little difficult to decifer, but he certainly knows what he's saying and what he wants!!! He is very head-strong (can't imagine where he gets that!! :) He is also proud that he is wearing 'big-boy' pants (underwear) all the time now, except at bed-time. We were still using diapers at bed-time, but he is now pretty insistent on pull-ups instead. He is so much fun, and I must often remind myself of that when he is laying in the floor because things didn't go quite the way he had planned...........Gotta love 2, in all it's glory!!

Here are some pics of the boys from the 4th of July! It is impossible to catch them both looking at the camera...........

Bath Time and Fishing Fun!

Again, my pictures have loaded in reverse order......I really must learn how to fix that problem!! Gramps recently got Blaine his first fishing pole and a new life jacket for the boat! Blaine was thrilled.........Today he got to go fishing with Daddy and Gramps in Nana's pond, and he 'caught' his first fish.

Here he is with Gramps and the fish

Daddy, Blaine, and the fish

Here is Blaine working on his casting skills (or lack there of)


And Blaine and Bryce recently took their first bath together! Blaine enjoyed it greatly and Bryce, well, he may have gotten a little more water in his face than he was accustom to!

Life with Bryce

Blaine is very into baseball right now. He LOVES to hit the ball!

Bryce's first trip to church

Ready for a baseball game!

This is the outfit and blanket we wanted to bring him home from the hospital in, but it was WAY to big. I had to send my mom out to get a premie outfit, and he really wasn't that tiny!

Trying to get a picture of these two together is impossible. Bryce always looks like he's trying to get away or begging for help!

Just after his first bath at home

First bath at home......I have a picture of Blaine that looks EXACTLY like this. I mean I'm not sure I could even tell them apart!

Bryce turned 1 month old yesterday. Unfortunately none of these pictures were taken yesterday because my camera battery died!!! I did get a couple with Grammy's camera, but I don't have those with me right now.............I will try to post them later.

Bryce is growing like a weed and getting cuter every day! He is a good baby and usually sleeps for about 6 hours during his first stretch each night. Our only problem is what seem to be regular tummy aches each evening. Some would probably call it collic, but it's really not true collic because I can get him to calm down by walking and bouncing. It really seems to be excessive gas that he just can't get rid of......other than that he is a good baby!! He's already been shopping alot, and he's been to at least 4 or 5 baseball games and church!!

Week before last the boys and I made our first solo trip to Wal-Mart! It was a smashing success. (I certainly don't expect future trips to be that easy!) Blain enjoyed the bus-like cart with the extra child attachment, and Bryce just slept.

So far Blaine seems to have adjusted well to being a big brother! He loves Bryce and likes to 'hold' him. He will try to give him his passy when he's crying, and he's always wanting to know if 'Baby Bryce' can play baseball with him. I think my favorite is when we are getting ready to leave, Blaine will walk over to Bryce's swing or bouncy seat and say, "Come on Baby Bryce, let's go"! He says it as if Bryce can just get up and walk out the door.

They are both wonderfully sweet boys, and we are so blessed to have such happy healthy children!

Bryce is Here!

Baby Bryce is here!
He weighed in at 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21 1/2 in. long
He is doing great and has a big brother who is VERY proud of him!