4 month photoshoot

its so hard to believe that on Sunday my little booger will be 4 months old. time has flown by. since the weather was lovely and he was in a wonderful stick a camera in my face mood, I did just that :) I have to say that I am fairly proud of myself with the lack of photography experience that I have. Enjoy!

I'm going to have to lock him up if he keeps flirting like he is....we went to a highschool football game Friday and he just fell in LOVE with the cheerleaders and they just flirted right back.

sorry for Brad looking so rough...I tried to get him to shave but he will before I take him Brayden to Big Spring Park so we can have nicer pictures then.

as he sleeps

poor Brayden has been battling a cold and he just sounds so pitiful. his little nose is conjested and hes got a cough and a slight fever :( you can tell he doesn't feel too good since he has been sleeping all day. normally our routine runs something like this:

8:30pm-5:00am~sleepytime
5:15am~bottle and smiles
6:00am-8:30-9:00am-more sleepy time

Then we are ready to start the day and I start work.

Except this week....its been more like:

8:30pm-5:00am~sleepytime
5:15am~bottle but no smiles
6:00-8:30~sleepytime
8:30~bottle
9:00-12:30~sleepytime

and then he sleeps on and off most of the day.

last night Brad gave Brayden a bath and you could just tell that they were having a good old time.

Tuesday night we started Brayden on cereal and he took to it like an old pro. I'll post pictures later.

a few of my favorite things...

who doesn't love baby stuff??? i did even before i had Brayden and now it is just magnified. as each day goes by, i sometimes think about what i would do if i didn't have any of the things that i have for him. they are lifesavers in my eyes.

this first one really isn't for Brayden, but for me. and it started waay before i ever got pregnant. my Vera Bradley bag that i call my diaper bag is just so perfect in every way. i've come to aquire a vast collection of Vera bags and its more so of an addiction. the bag that i use actually isn't the diaper bag that they make, but its a tote. the bag design itself is called the "Vera" and i personally "pimp" the pattern "java blue"

any Vera bag or anything from her collections will run you a good penny, but they are so worth it. you can just throw them in the wash when they get dirty and they are made of cotton so they are soft. the very first one i bought is now 3 years old and still looks brand new and i used it all the time until i got another.

during the day, tater stays with me while i'm at work...usually he is right next to me in his bouncer. he lives in his bouncer and i suppose thats why i need to invest in duracell battery stock. he just stares at the toy boy and will get so excited and just kick the living daylights out of it. sometimes he also tends to nap there. Monica was wonderful enough to purchase his bouncer for him. btw, the Fisher Price Rainforest collection kicks some major tail! i love it. when she gets pregnant, be with one or two, i will buy every single one of them their own bouncer. and a LOT of batteries to boot.

yesterday, tater sat in his bouncer and watched two SEC football games. granted he did get a little upset when UT lost but oh well :)

call me a fisher price fanatic because i am ;) my first baby purchase, other than clothes was his cradle swing. i had heard from everyone that i would need to invest in one...so i saved my money and i bought the one pictured. i had heard that a cradle swing was better than a regular swing because it swings in two different directions. i do now think though that i should have spent $10 more and bought one that plugs in. it would be worth its weight in gold. at first he didn't like it but now he loves it...sometimes he naps in it as well, i usually can get a longer stretch of sleep out of him while he is in his swing.

hmm, i'm trying to think if there is anything else for Brayden that i just can't live without. i don't think so...but we will be investing in the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo here soon :)

Shame on me

call me a slacker, i'll admit i am at times :) brayden is now officially 3 months old and just lights up a room. he started to giggle, giggled for a few days and now just has a all out laughing fit. i love it! he is just such a happy baby and i could honestly just gobble him up. to make up for my lack of posting here lately, i will overload you with some pictures...hehehe.





here he is just three days old...look at how those sock engulf his little feet. just looking at these pictures i can see how much he has changed over the past three months...he no longer looks like my little china man with a MAJOR cone head. poor thing i smushed him in that same spot for a month. oh well, no permanent damage done so far i suppose ;)




i think in this picture he was telling me that he was just tired of staring at that wretched monkey on his bouncer. he now favors the frog and will watch it ever so carefully and move his head along with it.

i'll admit, here he looks like his daddy. which i mean isn't a bad thing, brad is an attractive man, when he wants to be, so it could be worse. i just love brayden in his little "kicks". compared to brad ginormous feet, they are tee-tiny, and i can only pray that he doesn't end up with feet like brad....ohh size 15 horror.



later tonight, i'll take a picture of where we live...dont worry...the three of us are crammed in a small bedroom. but atleast its a place to stay and its free in some sense...we are watching his brother this weekend, oh well.