the boy who lived in the cupboard

why do dad's do things like this?

really, why?

what goes through their heads when they hold their babies and all of the sudden they have put them in the cupboard?

why don't they play normal with them, like patty cake or something?

well, i don't know why.

BUT

it was pretty funny and i did run for my camera immediately.

6 months

oh baby boy...

we are already here!

you know what's the hardest thing for me as your mom?

how quickly everything changes... i thought i had you figured out then you go a head and change.

changes this month:

you eat food

you have man poop

you no longer nap anywhere

you are an efficient roller

you are sitting unaided for 1-2 minutes

i am trying to let you "cry-it-out" when you sleep

in you alert time you talk, talk, talk, well it's more like squeal kind of reptar-ish

the hardest thing for me this month is sleep.

the waking up several times at night started catching up to mom and you just weren't happy so i decided action needed to be taken. i waited till your appointment on the 22nd so the dr could give me the "he's fine and should be sleeping" and we have started the 'crying-it-out'. i know i am probably ruining you cause i think of that face and the possibility that your being strangled by a blanket and i can't bear to have you cry for long.

really. i decided if someone wanted to torture me they would tie me to a wall and just make me watch you cry. that's all and i would break.

so we're working on this change in your life.

you on the other hand.... i can't keep my hands off you when you're in your wrestling onesie....

we went to a new dr this month. she's okay, i think we'll give her one more shot.

she said you looked good and went ahead and gave you 3 shots.

your stats came out to be:

height 26 3/4 in 50%

weight 15 lb 12 oz 25%

head 17 3/4 80%

it's funny cause i'm always worried about you winding up being small like me.

so after they gave me the stats and i was waiting for the dr i knew aunt cass had sent me some of cleo's stats after one of her drs appointments. so i caroused my text messages and found her stats. she was 26 in and 16.7 lbs, i immediately felt better about your growth! until i looked at the date.... those were cleo's 4 month stats haha. but you know what baby boy? i sure love you just the way you are.

xoxoxo

mommy

sure love that dad

very uncharacteristically nate came home from work around 3 last week. 

brig only had eyes for nate when he plopped down and turned his computer on.

he stared at him for a good ten minutes while nate continued to do work on his laptop

i particularly enjoyed the position brig assumed to get a good look at daddy

oh and please note the leg postion...

and here too...

but whenever nate has a bad day he just needs to look at this picture

cause really.

how can anything be that bad when someone looks at you like this?

my 'supported sitter'

i'm not exactly sure what 'supported sitter' is..

i mean is it sitting in a bumbo? or with something behind you? or just able to sit while someone holds you?

who knows... but all the baby food has a 'supported sitter' slogan with a picture of a leaning sitting stick baby.

brig eats food in his sitting support (el bumbo) but when he wants to play and remain happy for a while we hook him up to the boppy for my version of 'supported sitting'

he loves it.

he is actually getting really good too, at the time of this picture he was doing about 20 seconds by himself (yes of course it was nate who timed him)

but this is fantastic for him cause he falls over and it's a comfy pillow for him

he even likes to throw his head back so he can look behind him upside down. that trick makes me kinda nervous of course...

he loves his hands still and they are constantly at his face. 

rubbing, scratching, sucking, holding... which is why he always has scrapes. i cute is nails every week, sometimes twice but to no avail and yeah right mittens will help....

but he's so happy sitting and playing with his banani

and i sure think he's cute.

sippy cup: a short photo history

brig has much love for a sippy cup.... well any cup actually. he wants to share with me every time i put one to my mouth. it was cute at first.... wait it still is cute.

but i caught a typical dinner with sippy cup to write this history

 my nice mom gave me my sippy cup

but i really want to chew on this hand.... and that cup is getting heavy

uh oh... i dropped it

 mom helped me reach it... but it's just so dang heavy

finally my love

oh but those fingers are so tempting

and we're back here again....

.....

all of this

to occur

at any given meal

hats on

so i love that we have had a few cooler days this month cause then i feel like briggy can wear a cap

holy cow he sure looks cute in them

i am very much looking forward to a long winter with a variety of caps

we've pretty much laid low this month, like not really doing anything exceptionally photo-worthy (ie running errands) i am vowing to do better....

but that means sometimes i just take photos of the day to day and they turn out so cute i can't eliminate any....

this was after a visit to home depot and walmart

how wide can you get your smile?

i love that babies do this... the happier they are the wider their smile gets. 

sheer love for me to see

just my purty cute guy sitting purty good

when you have sisters...

when you have sisters you get to do a lot of things together

the best yet...

having babies together

it really is quite the accomplishment that robyn and i had babies together.

sully may very well be her last and brig is very obviously my first and we could have very easily missed out on this. 

i am so glad that someone knew we were supposed to do this together :)

well this little man was blessed over labor day...

and i am learning that effort is everything in life, especially if you live away from home.

this trip took effort on my part... 2 hour shuttle to the airport, 2 hour flight home, 4 hour drive to st. george, 4 hour drive back to slc, 2 hour flight home, and thankfully loving husband to pick baby and me up from the airport. 

i learned brig is old enough now to have opinions about where we are and what we are doing. he didn't sleep much on trip, he nursed like every 2 hours, and he expressed his great aversion for his car seat by crying, oh two hours of the drive to st george? i was an awesome car seat pacifier at that point.

but

THIS

this was all worth it. 

time with my sisters and my mom.

i especially love staying with robyn.

she and bob are really everyones model on a happy life.

they were made for each other and their family is so sweet.

and plus robyn does everything just like my mom so it's like a 2nd moms house for me.

these two are pretty cute too

robyn went ahead and bought them matching outfits

brig found sully hands

oh and my sister grows huge babies.

sully's almost as big as brig.

brig weighs about 15 lbs.. sully is at 13 lbs and is 3 months younger

oh my skinny boy....

labor day we all went to the pool while the men folk golfed

they had a baby pool which was fantastic for brig. 

he stood for probably 15 min splashin a bit

all and all.

it was hard (could not have done it without my mom) but it was fun

and 

i'm starting to really miss my guy.

it's just not the same without him and he's missing out on all this family time.

yes, i am thankful that he lets me go and foots the bill

but

it would have been such a fun weekend for him: golfing, college football, crawdad fishing, and more golfing. 

but he said it to me while i was gone "i picked my own path"

the semi-unfortunate thing about that...

it's my path too.

enough blue

happy labor day!

Daddy-Brig Monster

I love my monsters.

in my opinion.

i feel like things are changing so fast with my boy.

he is a grown up.

not quite as grown up as this picture though...

this is one of nate's favorite games

getting our baby to be the earliest walker.

yes. 

nate's crazy.

and no.

brig will NOT be walking by 6 months.

but it sure looks cute when they're in their training sessions

daddy is always right there behind brig but so far assisted standing is all brig has managed

but you should see nate try to teach him to take steps :)

kind of pretty funny

 me on the other hand....

i love every baby stage.

like when he discovered his feet the first part of august.

they are his most favorite thing. how is it that feet can entertain for so long?

i tried to get some shots of him holding his feet..

the problem is his favorite part of holding his feet is flinging them back down. 

so the pictures were quite blurry.

but i did capture this...

brig rubs his eye often.

i'm not sure if he's allergic to my dogs, tired, or just itchy.

but it's pretty cute too.

xo briggy!