First Hair Cut

Holden was born with a head full of hair.  Unlike his momma who was bald forever.  We had trimmed the hair over his er when he was a few months old cause it had gotten so long.  We decided it was time for a little trim all over though.  The best way to describe his hair is like this, he has the peach fuzz baby hair, but then on the top its almost like he has a toupee.  Seriously, you could lift the hair up and there would be nothing underneath it but little baby hair.  Any who, our neighbor Jennifer manages a Sports Clips, so we figured she's really good with cutting boy hair; so we had her come to the house.  Holden did so well.  Fortunately Bree came too, Jennifer's daughter.  Like any other typical boy, he was mesmerized by her.

We didn't "cut" his hair, just trimmed it up so that we could actually style it again. 

He is such a cutie pie!  After we got him all cleaned up he looked so handsome!  I could just eat him up.  Love my baby boy.

And, I didn't cry.  I did save all the little hairs though.  Well, maybe not ALL the hairs, but a good bit of them.  My little tooter bug is growing up.  Can't believe he will be 6 months old on Tuesday.

Happy 76th Birthday PawPaw

My PawPaw turned 76 yesterday, so after work Holden and I surprised him and GG (short for Great Grandmother).  It was such a wonderful evening.  I love seeing how my grandparents light up when he is around.  It's like they have this new energy.  I love these memories and I am so blessed that Holden has 3 great grandparents to watch him grow up.

Let's Go Rangers

Thanks to Jeff and Sandy, Holden got to experience his first Ranger's game in style, suite seats.  We had a really good time catching up with friends.  Holden loved it.  The a/c was nice too, best way to watch the game away from home, especially in this heat.

And they WON!  I think it was their littlest fan cheering them on that got them the win.

Grrrrrrrrrr!

Ok, so we're getting caught up now.  Last week on our way home, I kept hearing this noise coming from the backseat and I couldn't figure out what it was.  When we got home, Grammy came over to visit and we were playing in the floor with Holden.  It was then that I discovered the "noise."

We call it Holden's growl.  It is the funniest thing!  He does it all the time now.

You can't really hear the first growl, but the second time he does it you can definitely hear it.  Too funny!

My 1st Fourth of July

So, Holden's first 4th of July was a little on the low key side.  Mommy came down with strep throat earlier in the week, which put a damper on having too much fun; but we managed to still have a little fun.  We kicked off our weekend wearing our festive outfits to work/Ms. Linda's on Friday. 

Followed by a nap with Mommy, cause Mommy was not feeling so well Friday afternoon.  We were saving all our energy for Fun in the Sun on Saturday.

I didn't take any pics from our small pool party we went to on Saturday or Sunday, but I have a few precious pics from Holden and Mommy day Monday.  Daddy played golf on the 4th and then joined some other friends at the pool while Mommy and Holden stayed home and rested.  I use the word rested lightly here, as Holden had other plans for our day of rest, it was more like day of NO rest.

All Holden wanted to do was play, play and play some more.  And that is just perfectly fine with this little momma.  I could sit and watch my little man all day.

We ended the night with cuddle time while we waited for Daddy to get home.  He is such a sweet baby.  I don't know what I did with my time before, but I know that ever moment I have know is cherished as every moment I spend with tooter bug is amazing.

Yum, that taste good

Nothing like cooling off on a hot summer night with a popsicle.

Caught in the Act- Happy 5 Months

I'm way behind on post, so bare with me.  Holden is almost 6 months, just so we know we're at.  So much is going on this summer I barely have time to even get on the computer once I'm home.  Little man is growing so fast.  He has learned so much over the past several weeks and has changed so much.  We are now fully un-swaddled, we have to keep an eye on him for tummy time as it is no longer just tummy time.  It is "wherever Holden wants to roll" time.  We went through the tummy upset of rice cereal and funny that we much rather prefer oatmeal cereal are are currently up to 3 tbs. in the am and 4 tbs. in the evening.  It took several weeks to get him back on schedule of sleeping through the night, but we survived!

During our attempts at night sleeping un-swaddled, we awoke to this one morning.....

Please note that he does have on the swaddle still, but BOTH arms are out and thumb is placed just perfectly in the mouth!  Yup, after this we figured the swaddle was now useless!  We definitely missed the swaddle for a few weeks until he got into a new sleep routine at night.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Holden mastered rolling over in all directions a few weeks ago.  This definitely help is night sleeping.  For a while he would roll to his tummy in the middle of the night, wake himself, get so mad cause he couldn't turn back over and would scream bloody murder until we came in and rolled him back over.  But, he finally figured it all out. I was worried there for a minute, but of course Grammy to the rescue with this very logical explanation:  "Tiara, he is just fine.  There's a lot of weight back there to be trying to roll over with." Wow, I feel so much better now!

More to come at 6 months post!