Enjoying Laughter

Ford is growing so fast. His interaction with Annabell is so much fun to watch. They play really well together. He laughs at every time she jumps around or plays peek a boo with him.


I still haven't given him cereal yet. I meant to but we have just been busy and Brad and I would like to be able to both be home when we give him his first solid food. So hopefully we'll give him some by next week. Well Ford is going with us to the "Believe" Conference this weekend. It should be a blast. I hope he does well with all the traveling around, please say a prayer for us. Ford is really trying to role from back to belly...he arches all the way over but just refuses to throw his leg over. He is plenty strong enough but just not interested, so I am trying to get him to want to do so by tempting him with toys. Well that's all for now, love y'all!

Ford continues to get bigger and bigger. He is still so young, but I can't help noticing how big he is compared to other babies. We snapped some pictures of Ford next to Levi, one of his friends that was born in the "boy" group that just emerged with pregnant moms at Crosspoint. We measured Ford too, he was about 27 1/2 inches long! I have no idea how heavy though, but he has to be pretty heavy because he is so hard to carry in his carrier! Way heavier than his sister was. Well Ford got in the pool for the first time on Saturday. He enjoyed it pretty well, he was a bit tired so he wasn't as enthusiastic as normal, but enjoyed it non the less. He wore his dad's cap since we forgot his and he's not able to wear sunscreen yet.



Ford really watches Annabell's every move, he is amazed with her. He also laughs at her anytime she laughs or jumps up and down for him. Today she started playing peek-a-boo from around his bouncer seat, poping her head up just to make him laugh. Which he thought was so funny.

Well tomorrow we are going to give Ford his first taste of cereal. I really wanted to wait until 6 months, but he is so incredibly interested and actually tries to get food into his mouth when we are eating that I think now is a good time. I'll let y'all know how it goes! Love y'all!

Happiest Boy

Ford is the happiest baby! Today while talking to my friend I clapped a little toy in front of him and he began to laugh...so I grabbed the camera and he went town laughing...I captured it for y'all to enjoy! Between Ford and Annabell I have so much laughter in our home! What a blessing!

Motor Skills

My neighbor Heather was an elementary teacher before taking on the job of stay at home mom. She knows a lot about learning development and things of that sort. She is always watching my kids and pointing out things I would probably not notice or at least not correlate with a learned skill or brain development etc. She says that Ford has awesome "Gross Motor Skills" and his sis has really good "Fine motor skills".
From what I understand gross motor skills are things like "rolling, jumping etc..." for an Infant I believe it would be his ability to play while pushing himself up and untying his shoe laces, holding toys, grabbing faces, etc. Today in the nursery he was sitting on the floor (on his bottom) with one of the ladies behind him and playing with all the different toys, he will even crawl his hands out to reach for more toy and stay steady. He keeps amazing me. He made the "Da" sound the other day. It will be interesting to see when he says his first word. I think his fine motor skills are also really great. He can now put the binki in his mouth. Yes he finally took a binki again! He started about 2 weeks ago. It has been nice. He doesn't really use it that much though, sometimes he still rejects it too, but it calms him down if I can't feed him while driving or something of that sort. He is eating so much! Looking at him you would think he is eating solid foods by now, but just milk! He has even needed a bottle of expressed milk on top of his last feeding for the evening, it is helping him sleep through the night, which is great! 7:30pm-7/8am! I'm loving it, he is such an easy baby. So happy too, he smiles at everyone, and seems to make everyone around him happy!
He has become very interested in food, he will watch every bite we take and begins to drool. He would of already had food by now if it was up to Annabell. I have caught her several times trying to share her cookies, fruit, milk and juice. I am hoping to not introduce any solids until 6 months though, we will see if he can wait that long.
Well I haven't taken many pictures lately since Brad has had the camera, so here is some of what I had...random shots of Ford. Love y'all!