More scrapbooking

I found a little time to do some more scrapbooking over the weekend, mainly Friday night. Hope you enjoy them!

Just one more week

My sweet pea!
Loving his wubbie!
Just one more week til Chase is 6 months old...and I can't believe it. He has just grown so much and is doing something new every day it seems. He is getting so big and time is flying. He is getting closer and closer each day to sitting up and crawling...I know both are just around the corner. He can finally get his toes into his mouth and he thinks they taste pretty good! He is wrapping his arms around our neck when you pick him up and he is fascinated with touching your face now, like he is just noticing for the first time. He loves the remote control and can find it from across the room and just stare at it (luckily I found a talking remote at Target today....now he can't pause shows and change the channels!) On Saturday, we went to dinner with Jim, Beth and Gavin and the boys just sat and looked at each other....I think they were wondering who this other little person was (and why is my mommy holding him)! Oh and Chase drove away some of the people with his shrieking.....but he thought it was pretty funny!

4 nights and counting

Behind bars!
Sleepy time
Love my exersaucer!
Me and Dad
Tummy time
Yep, that's right, Chase has slept through the night now for 4 nights in a row!! Yah Chase!!! He even slept past 8 on Saturday and Sunday morning too! We're not sure why, but we just decided to see if when he fussed in the middle of the night, if he would just take his pacifier and go back to sleep. Lo and behold, it worked. So who knows if this has been the trick all along and we just thought he was hungry or maybe it was just finally his time. Either way, we will take it. We are still up a couple of times, just to check on him or to put that pacifier back in, but he goes right back to sleep!



We had a nice weekend, despite this horrible heat. We went grocery shopping on Saturday and decided to take a trip to Columbia on Sunday and went to Sam's, Michaels and made an Arby's stop too. We don't have to bring home Chipotle anymore, since it is in town now! The trips wore us out because it was so dang hot, but Chase loves to be outside, even when it is like that. Last night, he got fussy around 6, so in an attempt to keep him happy for a little while longer, we went outside. I melted while he was perfectly content...what's wrong with him :)

I'm trying.....

I can do it!
Almost there!
You lookin' at me?
So Mr Man is starting to try to sit up and also getting up on his knees. It still amazes me that he goes from not doing something one day to doing it the next...does that make sense??? :) He had been sitting up for just a second here and there and would slowly lean forward til his belly touched the floor. But yesterday, I sat him down and he really held himself up for a longer period...I was just amazed....like when did he learn to do that! And then I put him down on his belly and he started to pull his knees under him and push off with his feet....before you couldn't even push his knees up under him!! He still doesn't have his arms quite cooperating, but I am sure it will be no time at all!

Chase Thomas Arrives

So I have started working on Chase's scrapbook and thought I would post the pages here for everyone. I also have a pregnancy scrapbook in the works but it's not finished and these pictures are so much more fun to do now that he is here. I decided I better get a move on before I get too far behind and start forgetting things! I am doing them chronologically and will post them that way, so you will get to see pictures from birth forward. Hope you enjoy them!

EDITING TO ADD: If you click on the picture, you will get a close up view...didn't realize they would post so small.

Catch of the Day

Catch of the Day!
Loving my highchair!
Giggles and grins
And then his serious look...
What's Spiderman doing on my feet?

Hello everyone....here to post some pics of the little man! He has found out that he can shriek now and loves to do it. It is so funny and he gets so tickled when he does it, almost like he can't believe it is him making all that noise. He is also successfully sleeping in his crib and there is no turning back now....I actually think he likes it better, he has so much more room to move around, but he also is still getting used to it. He is doing really well at putting himself to sleep at night and naptimes and we have avoided any real meltdowns for quite a while now. When he starts rubbing his eyes and yawning, it is time to go down and usually he is asleep in 15 minutes or less. He has to have his blankie though!



He is just getting so big and I think he is ready any day for some real food. We were at Longhorns for lunch on Saturday and he was perfectly content until he saw me put a piece of bread in my mouth and he decided he wanted some too. He will just follow the fork with his eyes back and forth between the plate and your mouth. He likes to grab for your food and glasses too. He still loves the cereal but it is not nearly enough to satisfy him, so you better have his bottle ready to go for afterwords.

Busy week

5 months old!!
Goofy smiles....can never catch a good one on camera!!
Sleepyhead last night!!

So I am late again posting, been a very busy week at work and I kept forgetting my camera! So let's see, what's new....Chase had his 5 month birthday on Friday, time is just flying by! He is eating cereal like a champ these days, still gnawing on whatever he can get his hands on. We decided last night the sleeping in the carseat was done cause he just didn't look comfortable anymore and he would literally fall asleep trying to sit up in the seat. So we put him down about 7:30 last night (on his back) and he put himself to sleep but woke up several times cause he was just moving all over the crib. So I would go in and move him to the middle and a few minutes later he would be pinned against the rails again.....can I strap him down or what?? :) So he finally fell asleep after about 30 minutes and slept til about 11 when he started whimpering and was trying to turn over in his sleep. I just don't think he likes being on his back, so I flipped him over and he stayed asleep until 5 this morning!! Yah Chase!! Much better night than we anticipated and I guess we just need to realize that he is a belly sleeper...he gets that from me!