Santa's Little Helper

Prepare yourself for a sleighful of pictures starring our little Santa wannabe himself.  You have been warned...

I'm loving this special Christmas baby boy!

Our House...

At Christmastime...

Our tree lights up our home.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

Thy leaves are so unchanging

We hang special ornaments...

Picture of Evan's baptism

Our wedding ornament

Evan's first time meeting Santa

Evan's special baby ornament

Special stockings hang from our fireplace...

We decorate with glitter and cheer...

Our Advent Calendar

We make holiday crafts!

Sometimes our home is dusted with snow...

We hope you are enjoying your holiday season as well!! Sending you love and joy!

8 Months

Evan you are 8 months old!

This past month was a big one.  You had a lot of firsts!  I am desperate for time to stand still because it seems like I blink and another month goes by.  

Eat

Your eating schedule is similar to last month with just a few minor changes.  First off, you no longer nurse after I get home from work.  You have cut out that eating time and just eat solids.  This means that the only time that you will truly nurse is very early in the mornings or the middle of the night (both of which doesn't happen too often).  I'm having a little bit of  a hard time with that, but I guess each baby has to move on eventually.  You are still not on any formula.  You have tried many new foods this month including meats!  We pretty much give you anything now.  You eat puffs sometimes and we are soon going to be giving you more finger foods.

Sleep

You are currently taking 2-3 nap per day.  Your bedtime is 7pm and you wake up around 6am every morning.  Sometimes you fight naps, but you are getting better about putting yourself to sleep.  You have this new thing though where you don't want to take your bottle before bed.  We have to get you up about 2 hours after you go to sleep and give you your bottle while you are half asleep.  Whatever works!

Sizes

You are currently wearing mostly 9 month outfits but can still fit into a lot of your 6 month clothes.  You are STILL wearing size 2 disposable diapers.  You have a teeny tooshie!

Stats

Weight: 17 pounds

Likes

• FOOD
• crawling around all over the house
• Joey
• flying in the air
• clapping 
• playing with your baby piano
• attempting to put cords in your mouth-we don't care for this interest of yours
• the Christmas tree (thankfully we have it in the study in the front of the house so we can close it off)
• toys that sing and make noise

"Check out my gymnastics moves!"

Dislikes

• having your diaper changed (most of the time)
• having us put clothes on you
• people trying to give you a bottle
• being put in your carseat

Firsts

Evan you had some big firsts this month!

• crawling!!!! you cannot be stopped!
• first words: mama, dada
• you met your Grandma Winston, Grandaddy, Grandma Flores, Grandpa Carter, Uncle Luis, and Uncle Mark this month!
• you enjoyed your first Thanksgiving.
• you clapped for the first time
• you met Santa!
• you now insist on giving yourself your own bottle
• working on drinking from a sippy cup

"Why hello Mr. Elephant.  Fancy a hug?"

"Oh well, if you insist."

I cannot wait to see what this next month holds for us.  We have big plans for your first Christmas!

Thanksgiving Break - Part 2

Our last stop on our Thanksgiving trek was to visit Matt's family in Temple.  We had to cut the trip a little short because Matt had to be back for the playoff football game on Friday afternoon.  We got to spend Thanksgiving day at his house and the weather was absolutely gorgeous!  I took some pictures outside of his family with our little boy.

Mema spent the entire time loving on our handsome Evan.

Four Generations of Baggerlys

Evan with Mema and Gene

Spoiler: Christmas card picture

Uncle Shane

Another four generations picture

When we got home we immediately kicked it into Christmas gear!  Matt was in charge of the outdoors, and I was tackling the indoors.  We took some quick pictures of Evan in front of the tree.  I hope to get some better ones in a few days.

Our beautiful tree all lit up at night...

Matt worked hard to decorate our home for the holidays.

After spending 9 days with family and friends, we have a LOT to be thankful for!