Wyatt @ 5 months old

Wyatt turned 5 months old on the 13th of October.  I know I've probably said it before, but I just can't believe it!

Personality


Wyatt is still such a happy baby.  He wakes up happy and grins and smiles all day long.  He still does really well with people other than the Mommy and Daddy.  By this age Jillian had really bad stranger anxiety, he doesn't...yet!  He is in LOVE with his big sister, from watching her every movement to laughing at her when she's being funny, he just adores her.   This makes my heart smile!

Growth


I just weighed him the other day at work and he weighed 21.5 lbs, can we say Chunky Monkey!!  I also measured him myself and the tape read 27 inches, maybe a little more.  This boy is growing by leeps and bounds, we can barely keep him clothed.  His is wearing size 3 in diapers and is growing out of 6-9 month clothes, (even though I'm trying to keep him in these as long as I can!) and into 9 month to 12 month clothes.

Schedule/Feeding


Wyatt is still nursing every 4 hours, usually 6/6:30a, 10/10:30a, 2/2:30p, and 6/6:30p.  In between those nursing he is eating solids.  Breakfast, around 8:30a, insists of oatmeal cereal and a stage 2 fruit, yes a whole jar.  Lunch, about 12 to 12:30p, includes 2,  stage 2 veggies, not always the full jars but close, and supper, usually around 6:30-7p, he eats another 2 jars of the stage 2 veggies.  His favorites so far are all the orange foods, and all the fruit.  He eats the green veggies okay  but gagged when we tried the meats, (not that I blame him!).
I am so happy/sad to report that he is sleeping in his own room all night.  Before we would wake him at 10:30p for his night time bottle, then put him back to sleep in our room.  Now we don't have to wake him, he sleeps all night in his own room.  I was really sad to move him out of my room, but he actually sleeps more soundly in there, and so do I!

Smilestones


Sleeping in his own bed all night long!  His vocal cords have apparently just developed!  He has always made small noises and giggled and talked but this month he has learned to really get loud and sometimes even squeal!  It's very funny but sometimes very piercing to the ears!

Activities/Play




Playtime equals lots of sweet giggles, kicking and playing with anything he can get his hands on.  This month he has started to pay attention to everything, big toys, little toys and stuffed toy, (see below, poor monkey).  He also enjoys watching cartoons with his big sister.  Dora, Mickey Mouse, and anything on Disney!  He still plays in his play mat and has learned how to bounce in his jumperoo.

Wyatt, mommy and daddy are so blessed to have you in our little family.  You put a smile on our face every single day, and for that we are so grateful!!  We love you soo much little man!!

Punkin Time

This past Saturday our family took a little trip to Gallerin Farms.  I say little because this farm is only a hop, skip and a jump from our house.  

We enjoyed feeding the animals at the petting zoo, climbing on stacks of hay, taking a hay ride and picking pumpkins.  Jillian had a blast, and she picked the biggest pumpkin of all.  It was a twenty pounder!!

She thought this was the coolest, she could run across the line of hay bales and jump.

Here she is Queen of the castle, of hay bales, whatever!!

She got to feed the miniature horse.  The little girl beside us taught Jillian to pick up the dropped corn off the ground and feed it to the animals.

The goats were all saying feed me, and one of them to a liking to her hair.  I had to stop him and pull her hair out of his mouth, it was kind of funny!

She didn't like the chickens, she said " Mommy they run a way from me", hmm I wonder why.  Probably a good thing though, considering the sign said chickens and rabbits bite!  Needless to say we did not go see the rabbits!!

This little goat in the back was having a good 'ole time on his play set complete with slide.

The pumpkin in the very front is Jillian's.  Randy said, "Babe, she has her heart set on this one", still don't know if she picked it or if daddy picked it.  She does love it though, she says she's going to paint it.

Family photo opt!  If you look close you can see we are all in there.  And might I add there were no stools behind there, not that Wyatt could stand anyway!

My little big pumpkin!  He fell asleep on the hay ride and I woke him up for pictures, but I couldn't resist!

The boys!  Noah was interested in everything but the camera, he loved the vine thingy!  And Wyatt is actually sitting up here by himself! 

 Didn't last long before he laid back on the pumpkins, but he thought it was funny!

Miss Jillian decided she wanted an apple, but she didn't ask, I mean they were right there at her level.  She took a bite and Daddy said "umm, we just bought an apple"!  Hey, it could have been worse!

The hay ride to and from the pumpkin patch was nice.  Wyatt slept going to the patch and Jillian wanted to sit anywhere, without us!  Isn't she a little young for that?

I don't think he was thrilled or amused with my mini photo shoot!!

Now Wyatt was more interested in that vine thingy, it must have looked really cool to them.

These boys are going to be such buds!  I just love that they're so close in age.  BUT I do think my sis is right when she says Noah's going to be the one who comes up with the bad ideas!!  DOUBLE TROUBLE I say!!

Jo-Jo and Noah on the hay ride.

Daddy and Wyatt on the hay ride.  I just love their colorful shirts!

I said hey Jillian, you want to take a picture by the big pumpkin?  She didn't care that I wanted a picture of her actually looking at me!!

Some cute little giggles from the baby boy, always make me smile!

The ending to our perfect little trip.  I hope we can make this one of our fall traditions!  We had so much fun hanging out as a family and being outside in the nice fall weather!  

Do you have any fall traditions?  Where is your favorite pumpkin patch?

Family Pictures

Two months ago we had our family photo shoot.  If you don't remember read it here.  So with out further ado,  here they are!

Our photographer actually took 2016 pictures, wow!  It was really hard to pick out my favorites.  Little Bugz Photograghy, Aimee and Nikki, did a GREAT job.  Now we have some wonderful pictures to show for it.  Thanks again guys!