Blakely Gray: 6 months OLD!

My dear sweet sweet baby girl,

You are 6 months old today. I feel like I was just at the hospital having you, but you are already half a year old!  You are such a sweet baby girl, ALWAYS smiling and giggling, ALWAYS!

You weigh 13.5 lbs, are in mostly 3-6 months clothes, and are in between Stage 1 and Stage 2 diapers.

You LOOOOOVE your toes.  You play with them all the time, hold them, even suck on them. haha.  You are working so hard on being able to sit up on your own, and can if you lean forward on your hands.  You LOVE LOVE when we give your raspberries on your tummy, and you are quite ticklish everywhere.   In a few weekends, mommy is going to start making some baby food for you to try.  I can't wait to see your reactions.

You mostly sleep through the night.  You wake up every now and then and just need your paci back. 
You love playing with your brother. He can make you giggle so hard!
I love when I am feeding you and you put your sweet palm on my cheek and coo and smile, it lights up my heart, on even my hardest days.

Here are a few pics of you in your 6 month onesie, but we are having some real pics done of you soon too!

Blakely Gray: 5 months

Blakely Gray,

It is so hard to believe you are 5 months already!  We are so in love with you!  I love getting up to come get you in the mornings, because you are always SOOO happy!  At 4.5 months you FINALLY broke the 10 lb mark!  We were SOO proud of you!  Now you weigh around 11 lbs, are in 3 months clothes, and Stage 1 diapers.  You are moving on up, big girl!  We have pretty much doubled your birth weight.

You love to coo, giggle, and squeal.  You LOVE when we give you raspberries on your tummy and tickle you on your legs and under you chin.  You even have a few little "rolls,"  they are too cute for words!
You love playing with brother; he makes you laugh and smile all the time.  You are great at holding your head up and are gaining control over your torso very quickly!  You want to be able to sit up so bad, but I think it'll be at least another month or two before you can pull that off.
We love you baby girl; we pray for you and thank the Lord for you every single day!

(you'll have to excuse some of the grain, her room is kind of dark, hence the high ISO)


My little bath bunny:

Blakely LOVES to play with her feet.  She constantly holds them in her hands and rocks back and forth on her back!

Some more cuteness

Mommy got some new photography props, and had some fun :)

we love you, sweet Blakely Boo!

Family Update

This will be a fun picture blog.  We recently gave Hudson a really old digital camera.  He has had sooo much fun taking pictures like mommy.  He always wants to have it with him, and get so excited to see the things he's captured!  I'll have to upload some of his work. haha.

Here are some recent shots of Hudson and Blakely:

Here's Hudson, doing a photo shoot:

I love you little man, and your chubby little toes:

Blakely Gray,

You are 4 months old now! Adjusted age 3 months.  You are giggling, laughing, and smiling ALLLL the time.  It's soo adorable.  You are learning to grasp and hold your toys.  You have great head control, and love playing with your big brother!  You are SLEEPING IN YOUR CRIB now!  I love that you are in there, but dearly miss you being right next to me.

Your checkup isn't scheduled until the 1st week of July, but based on our bathroom scale you are somewhere around 9 lbs!

Here you are sweet thing:

I love you both so much, my sweet babies!!!

Watch my sweetpeas Grow :)

Hudson Michael,

You're 2.5 ish these days!  You are adorable in everyway.  Mommy and Daddy are learning everyday to teach you and grow you through this stage in your life.  We love you so much, and have so much fun playing with you and watching you learn and develop into who you are going to be!  You are so handsome!!

Blakely Gray,

You are 3 months old now!! You weigh, according to mommy's scale, 8 lbs 12 ounces.  You are in newborn diapers and newborn clothes, and some 0-3 months things.  You are such a happy and sweet baby.  You rarely fuss, and usually smile or cuddle all the time!  You are getting bigger, slowly...haha, but you ARE getting bigger!

Blakely Gray: 2 months

Blakely Gray,

You are two months old now!  You weigh in at 8 lbs 4.6 ounces.  You are 22.5 inches long, and your head is 14.5 inches in circumference.  That's a WHOLE 3 lbs bigger and 2 inches longer than you were at birth!.  You are in the 3rd percentile for weight (11th percentile adjusted age), and 75th for length!
You give the BIGGEST gummy grins when you wake up from naps, and have even started a cute little giggle.  You sound like the Pilsbury Doughboy!  You have fabulous head control for being SO tiny still!
You now wear newborn sized clothes and diapers!  We are glad you are out of the preemie clothes, b/c there really weren't many preemie options at the stores.

Mommy was the photographer at a wedding this past Saturday, and the bride and her father danced to a song with these lyrics:

 "But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her away
I loved her first"

Your sweet little life flashed before my eyes, and all I could do was imagine you, being so beautiful on your wedding day, dancing with your daddy.  Oh, how I cried.  (it's a wonder I got good pics for that poor bride!)

I LOVE writing in the journals we got for you and Hudson.  Daddy and I write you letters a couple times a week, telling you of the new things you each are doing.

Hudson Michael,

You are 2.5 half now! You are ALLLLLL BOY BOY BOY!   You want to wrestle, jump, ticklefight, climb, scream, yell, fall, watch t.v., play in the sprinklers, and make us LAUGH all the time!
You are learning how to bargain, and think you can make deals ALL the time with mommy and daddy.
 It's hilarious!   I still sing your night night song to you every day at nap time, and sometimes at bedtime, when daddy needs a break from your night night routine!

Here is your favorite part:

"God bless mommy and matchbox cars
God bless dad, and thanks for the stars
God hears amen, wherever you are,
and I love you.
Godspeed little man,
Sweet Dreams Little Man,
You know my love will fly
to you each night
on Angel's wings."

You make me laugh so much.  You require a lot of patience, repetition, and even spankings! haha.  You love to sing twinkle twinkle little star, but you say "tinkle tinkle yittle tar."  melts my heart every time.

First Swim at the Neighborhood Pool

1 month in :)

Blakely Gray: You turned 1 month old on March 24th!
You weigh approximately 6 lbs 10 ounces, and are about 20.5 inches long.
You are in preemie diapers still, and mostly preemie clothes.
You are waking up about 2 times a night to eat now, and sometimes stay awake for a while afterward. But, you are good at switching from nursing to a bottle, so mommy and daddy do get some sleep every now and then.
I love it when you smile REALLY big right before you fall asleep. I try so hard to get it on camera, but haven't been able to yet.
You also LOVE to be held, and may be on your way to being spoiled, but we are loving every second of spoiling you!
Sometimes when you fall asleep you take her hands and fold your ears down, as if to block out all the outside noise :) It's so cute.
Big Brother Hudson is enamored with you. He wants to hold you, kiss you and talk to you all the time!