9 months

Happy 9 month Birthday

Well, another month has come and gone...and I can't believe we are 3 months away from your first birthday!!  Can you please stop growing!?! 

You are getting so big and learning so much.  This month you have started really army crawling...you get around pretty fast!!  We are working on you getting up on your hands and knees to crawl.  You get up and rock back and forth, but haven't gone forward yet.  You have also learned how to sit up...going from your belly to sitting up.  You have gotten so much better at sitting up...not more getting excited and falling over! You are eating food from the table...nothing too fancy yet.  Mostly pancakes, muffins, waffles, bread, mashed potatoes, canned veggies and fruits, grilled cheese, pasta  and some chicken nuggets.  I guess that is a lot more than I realized!!

Your personality continues to blossom...you are quite the ham.  You make lots of silly faces...we laugh and then you laugh...you know you are being funny.  You are "talking" more with your siblings...it is the sweetest thing.  You also can scream really LOUD!!  We are continuing to work on sleeping at night.  We work really hard to getting up once a night and you do it for a few days and then something disrupts the schedule and you go back to getting up twice a night.  We know you will eventually get it, but we are trying to move you to your bedroom with Josiah.  He is so excited to have you in there with him. 

Well, I guess that is it for now.  We are so thankful for you and love this adventure of parenting you.  We love you, Richard Tobias!

Enjoy some pictures from our photo-shoot taken at our home in Herndon, VA.

He loves sucking his thumb

There is his BIG smile

Those eyes get me every time

Such a sweet boy

And he was done with pictures!

Happy 8 Months to You

 Here I am writing your 8 month journal entry...why am I having a hard time believing that you are already 8 months?!?! 

Well, you are getting to be such a BIG boy.  You can now sit up on your own...you still will fall over here and there out of sheer excitement!  You have learned how to pick up your finger foods and eat the on your own.  You are rolling EVERYWHERE....from the living room to the kitchen to the playroom.  You are doing much better with sleeping at night...you were doing super well before sickness descended upon our house, but you are getting back into the swing of things. You are starting to get up on all fours...crawling should be around the corner.  You continue to be such a happy baby...you laugh A LOT!!  You are really captivated by your reading videos.  You are SO strong.  You like to jump.  And you LOVE being in water...shower or bath...it doesn't matter. 

We are so thankful for you Richard Tobias, and we are glad that God chose us to be your parents. 

Here are a couple of pictures of our big 8 month old!

I could kiss those cheeks all day long!

Playing with his blocks

 

7 months

Wow!  7 months, already?!?!  Tobias, you aren't supposed to be growing this fast!!  You have learned so much in the last month...you are rolling all over the place.  You play a cute game with your brother...you roll towards him, then he rolls towards you and then you laugh.  You are now able to sit up for a little bit with a boppy behind you.  You don't sit up quite as long when nothing is behind you...you get so excited that you throw yourself backwards!!   You now have 4 teeth...2  on the bottom and 2 on the top.  We have given you Baby Mum-Mums...and you sure do like them!  The first time you had them, you grabbed the second piece I was giving you out of my hand and put it straight in your mouth and devoured it!!  You have been in your jumperoo some and LOVE to jump up and down!! 

Tobias, we are so thankful for you...so thankful that God has blessed us with you.  Happy 7 months, Richard Tobias!  We love you so much.

6 months

Happy Half-year Birthday, Richard Tobias!!

Well, six months have come and gone...I still can't believe it!!  This past month has gone by really fast.  We have celebrated Thanksgiving and then it has been getting ready for CHRISTmas.  I can't believe you will be celebrating your first CHRISTmas! 

You continue to be such a happy baby...so smiley!  You have gotten to be very vocal...very loud...just like Kyrie!   You like to laugh...A LOT...when you are getting undressed for you bath.  Speaking of bath...you love your bath time.  You have outgrown your bath seat, so you are now laying in the bath tub on a towel.  Oh, you LOVE to splash away...and you laugh while you do it! You are also rolling from your stomach to your back.  While sitting in our lap, you pull yourself up into a sitting position.  We have been working on sitting up by putting you in your chair.  You are also jumping up and down while we hold you in a standing position.  After Christmas, we will be getting your jumperoo out.  You are sleeping much better at night.  A couple of weeks ago, we let you cry yourself back to sleep after sleeping about 4 hours.  You went back to sleep and slept until 3am.  Since then, you usually get up one time.  This has done wonders for Mommy and Daddy!!  You have also gotten your first hair cut...oh, how I regretted it after I snipped the first hairs!!  You look so grown up now.   I guess you have to grow up, but it still makes me sad to see you growing up so fast!!

Well, we are still very thankful to have you in our lives.  We love you very much, Richard Tobias, and we look forward to seeing how God is going to use you.

Here are some belated six-month pictures that were taken at home...better late than never! 

Such a happy boy

Those eyes...

You are doing some major army crawling

5 months

Well, another month has come and gone!!! Can you please stop growing!?!  You are moving, moving, moving...all.the.time!  You have mastered rolling from back to stomach and even have rolled stomach to back a couple of times.  Your legs are constantly moving.  Since last month, you have started eating rice cereal and now oatmeal.  You LOVE to eat!!  We also have started you on formula for one feeding...just before bed time.  We have done this to try to get you to sleep longer. It has helped some...5 hours is the most we get!  You just like to eat and let's be honest...you didn't get to be your size by sleeping through the night!! :)  You continue to be such a happy baby! You smile A LOT...and laugh, too.  Sophie really makes you smile.  I love it when you laugh when I get you undressed for bath...I don't know why it makes you laugh, but it does...and I.LOVE.IT!! We are so thankful you, Richard Tobias!!!  Mommy and Daddy love you very much and are honored to have been chosen to be your parents!

Happy 5 months, Tobias!

4 months

Well, another month has come and gone!!  I swear this time around time is really flying by!! 

You are growing into such a big boy.  We can't believe how long you are.  We were supposed to have a doctor appointment yesterday, but for some reason they scheduled you for today.  So that means, we will have to make another appointment.  It will be pretty interesting to see how long you really are.  You are wearing 6 to 9 months mostly because of your height.  It will also be interesting to see how much you weigh.  So far, you have only been eating milk from Mommy.  You were really liking your bottle...you could eat so much faster...and not wanting to nurse from Mommy, so we stopped giving you a bottle and now you are nursing better again.  We will be giving you some rice cereal soon...probably going to wait until Daddy's day off, so he can be here for your first time eating. :) 

On your actually 4 month birthday, you started rolling like crazy from your back to your stomach!!!  I guess you really wanted to celebrate.  You continue to sit up really well with some help...your neck is nice and strong.   You got your first cold...made Mommy really sad. :(  One night, Mommy only got 2 hours of sleep because every time you laid in your crib, you would cough and gag.  So Mommy sat up in bad and held you will you slept upright in my arms.  Even though I was really tired, Mommy would do it all again. 

We love you so much, Richard Tobias, and we are having so much fun learning about who God has created you to be. 

4 months

3 months

3 months old!?!?  Where has the time gone?  Can you stop growing so fast!?! 

Well, our family feels complete with you.  Mommy and Daddy are so thankful that you are a part of our family.  In the last month, you have learned so much.  You have started "talking" with us.  Smiling more regularly.  Laughing when Mommy tickles under your neck.  You rolled over from your back to your stomach.  You so badly want to sit up and even try to pull yourself up in a sitting position when you are sitting on our laps.  You have a new love for being outside...just like your brother! You were spoiling us by sleeping 8 to 10 hours at night and then sleeping 3 to 4 hours after that, but in the last couple of weeks that has changed....you go 6 to 8 hours and then every 3 hours after that...not bad for a 3 month old!!  You go about 3 to 4 hours between feeding during the day.  Day time naps are hit and miss.  Sometimes you sleep like a champ and other days, I feel blessed if you sleep longer than an hour.  But I am not going to complain because you do so well at night! In the next couple of weeks, we will start you on the "Your Baby Can Read" videos...just like your brother and sisters...we will get those synapses connecting!

Well, that is all for now.  We love you very much, Richard Tobias!!!  We are enjoying watching you grow and seeing who God has created you to be.

3 months

Love the hair that won't lay flat

There is that smile we LOVE so much

BABY FEET!!!

So serious