Happy Easter

Ford is the happiest kid I have ever seen. He is always smiling. He lights up a room with his adorable smile and huge eyes! On Easter he woke and was dressed in the cutest three piece suit, minus the jacket. ha. He had his first tie on as well!







Going to his first Easter egg hunt...he was more interested in his steering wheel than the hunt!


Ford loved gnawing on the eggs that his Daddy bought him. Brad couldn't help it, we weren't going to get him anything seeing he won't remember them or even care about an Easter basket, but when Brad saw eggs designed like baseballs he couldn't help himself. They were filled with candy that his sister and mom and dad got to take advantage of!

Well Ford road his first horse! Well not a real one, but he did ride his rocking horse! There is an attachment to the rocking horse that Annabell got for her first birthday.
I screwed the baby attachment on and it worked great! Ford loved it. He was very interested in the horses mane, because it crinkles.

Let's see, Ford is HUGE still! ha. He is now sitting up on his own, but sometimes still falls over, not too bad though. He lunges forward for things all the time, but can't get past being on his belly yet. He kind of scoots on his tummy sometimes. He is rolling around a ton in bed which sometimes wakes himself up, but usually he still sleeps. He took his first nap in a pack-n-play at my friend Brooke's house today. He slept great, even better than when in his swing, so I will probably start trying to put him in his crib for nap time as well. He is eating great. I think I will start other foods soon.

Here is a picture of Ford and Meema, his Great Grandmother. They were having so much fun together, I had to snap a photo!
Oh and one last thing, I think Ford said "HI", we he at least mimics the sound very well. Brooke is the one that noticed it first. We kept saying "Hi" every time he would make eye contact and then he would mimic it right back to us! It was pretty cool to hear, but I wouldn't count it as his first word quite yet. Well I love y'all!
P.S. We went to the pool today and Ford loved it! He's another one of my water babies!

Ford is loving his food. We have officially moved him to eating two meals a day. He eats so fast and really enjoys every bite. He is still a bit small for his high chair but is able to sit in it. He sort of slumps to the right though. He is starting to try and crawl. He flips over to his belly and begins to push with his toes, which scoot all over the place. He also is at the point where he watches to see if I'm going to leave the room or not and begins to get upset. His eyes follow me no matter where I am. He also gets upset if someone takes a toy from him.
He is such an affectionate child. He is constantly touching faces and pulling people toward himself.
Ford got to meet his Great Aunt Babs and Great Uncle Parker today. He was his happy normal self so they enjoyed the visit.
One more thought. Ford has started to blow raspberries on me. I will blow them on his cheek and then he will reach out and do the same on mine. It makes for a fun game.
Well we went to the beach today. I didn't get any photos of Ford though! I wish I had. He was so relaxed and just played with his toy and pacifier most of the day. Well that's all for now, love y'all!

P.S. Nanny (mom) we love you and miss you.

Growing so fast

Ford has grown leaps and bounds in the last few weeks. On Tuesday her rolled from his back to his belly twice, and by the next day he was doing it non stop. I heard him crying tonight after I laid him down and when I went in he had rolled himself over and was crying because he wanted up.

Ford has also had cereal finally, yesterday was the first day. He LOVES it. He couldn't get enough. He had no problem chewing and swallowing his food. He was so excited and I couldn't feed him fast enough. So now he has cereal after his second late morning feeding. I'm not sure if it's the food, but he slept great last night, but he has been doing that for a while.

Ford also got to go to his first Pro Baseball game. He was more interested in his hands most of the time, but we did catch him watching a bit. But after a while the heat was too much and he past out. Brad said Ford looks like he looked in the dug out! ha! We had great seats, 3rd row back, but went up the the cheap seats so not to bother everyone around us when the kids started to get fussy. Plus the sun was very hot for the kids!

Annabell tripped and fell landing her head against Ford's head. I was so worried about them and they both got huge knots on their heads and bruises. Praise God for healing them quickly though. Ford stopped crying within a minute. Which actually made me nervous. But he was great.

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!