Independent Stylist

Emerick has always been super independent, but now he insists most of the time that he not only pick out his outfit, but dress himself from head to toe. I am usually impressed that he not only sort of matches, but he rarely puts a shirt on backwards! The outfit in the photo below is what he chooses to wear most of the time whenever it is clean.

"SUPERHERO!"

Louis ~ 4 Months

9 days late, but we are finally all on the road to recovery from that nasty virus! Louis is 4 months + 9 days old, or 18 weeks + 5 days today when these snapshots were taken.

At 4 months old Louis is:

17.3 lbs (92%)
26 inches (80%)
43.5 head (97%)

He wears size 3 diapers, and 6-9 or 9 month clothes. He has really started to love sitting in his bumbo and activity saucer. He laughs a lot, especially at his Daddy! He already loves to play with toys and is now a pro at using his hands to bat at, and grab toys and put them in his mouth. He is starting to show interest in table food, so I am thinking at 5 months I may introduce cereal. :-)

Not a huge difference in size from last months snapshot, but I think his blossoming personality really shows in this months photo! He really does have the best personality.

Mr. Neb

Louis turned 4 months old on January 21st, but I have yet to take his monthly snapshots because a nasty virus has been running it's course through each member of our family for the past 8 days. It started with Emerick. He was the sickest I have ever seen him. He has always been such a healthy child. He had hand foot and mouth once, and has had only a few colds with a low fever, but never anything that stopped him from playing (and if you know Emerick, you know he plays HARD ALL day!) Poor guy was up every 45 minutes two nights in a row crying un controllably saying "Mama save me!! Help me Mama!" It was the saddest thing ever. James and I both have it - yesterday was my worst day, and the only day I have had a fever. Yesterday was also Louis' 4 month scheduled Dr. visit, and had he not had that appointment anyways, I would have brought him in yesterday because he was SO sick. Yesterday was actually the 3rd day of sickness for Louis, but the first day he seemed bad enough to see the Dr. He was really struggling to breathe and sounded so congested in his chest. The Dr. gave him a nebulizer treatment which seemed to really help. So...we were sent home with our own Neb to use every 4 hours as needed while he is sick.

So for now, here are a couple of photos of Louis doing his breathing treatments. Hopefully in the next week or so we will be all healthy again and I will be posting Louis' 4 month snapshots and his growth stats!

Favorite Toy

Louis already has a favorite toy, Sophie the Giraffe :-) If he is fussing (and not hungry or overly tired) Sophie will calm him down. He loves to hold her and to chew on her.

Just because...

I don't post nearly enough photos on here these days...

Blonde Baby?

I've noticed for the past month or so that some new hairs on the top of Louis' head seem to be growing in white! James' brother and sister both had white blonde hair as kids, and our nephew has white blonde hair! This snap of Louis really shows how light his hair is getting! What you can't see from photos is that the back of his hair is quite long, and still several shades darker than the hair on the top of his head. He also has very light eyebrows and eyelashes.

Happy 2012!

We partied on New Years Eve at Aunt "Essay" and Uncle Aaron's house. Emerick got to play Guitar Hero, and is now obsessed. The tantrum when we left proved it, and on the ride home he said over and over again "No Mama's house! I wanna rock at Gracie's house!"

Louis stayed up past midnight, proving he knows how to party!

Louis' Bed

Ever since Louis was about 1 month old, he has slept exclusively in his car seat. Nap time, night time, all the time. It is the only place he sleeps and STAYS asleep, so whatever works, right?

Tubby Wubby

Just a little video of Louis lovin' bath time! I love his reaction when he splashes himself in the face.

Grasping

Louis has been working on this new skill for about a month. He also loves (most of the time) to sit in his bouncy chair by the Christmas Tree.

Louis ~ 3 Months

Louis is wearing 6 month size clothes and size 3 diapers (though I am squeezing him into the last of our size 2s!) I call him "Big Lou" because he really is enormous. He SCREAMS, instead of cooing like most babies. He screams a high pitched scream both when he is upset and when he is happy. He won't take a binky and fights taking a bottle, especially if Mama tries to give it to him. He has started using his hands to reach for the toys on the toy bar of his bouncy chair. He also lifts his feet to he can get a better look at them. He still loves bath time, probably his favorite part of the day. His little personality is blossoming and he is such a joyful little person to have around.

 He doesn't have his next Doctor appointment until next month.

 Not as big of a change this month as I saw from 1-2 Months I don't think, but still amazing to see these side-by-side. 

Hats.

Hoot!

Louis has been sleeping through the night now for several weeks. He started sleeping 4-5 hour stretches, and then 5-6 hour stretches, and now most nights he will sleep 6-8 hours. He usually goes down for the night around 11pm (naps off and on in the evenings before that) and then wakes up anywhere between 5-7am to eat, then back to sleep for a couple more hours. He is really happy in the morning when he wakes up, but only stays up for about an hour before he wants to take his morning nap - which is usually from about 10am-noon. I am happy that we are on somewhat of a schedule now with him. The rest of the day after his morning nap, is always different. Sometimes he cat naps all day, sometimes he will take another solid nap in the early afternoon.

I took these photos of Louis at 11:30pm on Thursday December 8th just after he fell asleep for the night.

Ho Ho Ho!

We took the boys to sit on Santa's lap today, and Emerick was really into it. He acted really shy, but this was the first year he didn't cry! He says he wants Santa to bring him a "Spiderman Guy" which he already has dozens of, but you can never have enough I guess! He calls Santa "Manta" but if you tell him to "say SANTA" he says it perfect. I don't get it!

Here are my cuties in the classic awkward Santa shot!

Our Elf is Back!

Our Elf finally returned this year (our 2nd year) and Emerick is really excited about it. I think he has given the Elf a name...... PETER PARKER! We will see if that name sticks, but for now....here is our own little Elf sent from Santa - Peter Parker!

Louis Giggles

Louis has been giggling for a little while now, and this video was the best I've been able to get so far! Taken at Grammy's house/playing with Grammy on 11/20/11. :-)

Louis ~ 2 Months

Update: Louis had his 2 month checkup at exactly 10 weeks old, he is in the 98th percentile for everything! He weighs 15 lbs 2 oz, and is 24 1/2 inches with a 41 1/2 cm head! Big boy!

Louis is 2 months old today! Looking at these photos side by side really makes me realize how much he is growing! I am so excited to see the end result at 1 year old with this monthly series of snapshots! He has his 2 month Dr. visit next week (even though he will already be 10 weeks old) and I can't wait to see how big he is as far as the growth percentile, I am pretty sure he is bigger than Emerick was! I will update this post with his growth stats next week.

He has started sleeping 5-6 hour stretches at night just in the past few nights. During the day he eats every 2-4 hours. He loves to nurse, even if he isn't hungry, and he is very smiley (most of the time!) He is still a very moody little guy. He naps and sleeps at night in his car seat, the only place he will sleep for long stretches! Hopefully he learns to love his crib as much as the car seat, because he will only fit into it for so long. He will take short naps when he falls asleep playing in his bouncy chair.

Mr. Bones - Year 4

I have always had a little obsession with what I call "Mr. Bones" jammies. Since before I had kids of my own, James and I bought them for our niece and nephew. Since Emerick was a newborn he has had a set of Mr. Bones jammies every Fall! Louis has his own set (in addition to the one Emerick wore as a newborn) because I found one with candy in the belly - who can resist?!

I never did get around to getting a snapshot of the boys together in their Mr. Bones jammies in October, so I decided to squeeze Louis back into the 0-3 month size sleeper (which by the way was already packed by up because he has outgrown that size and is huge!) and get a photo. And so, I took this photo.

 Emerick quickly lost interest or so I thought, and got up off of the couch...So I took a couple of Lou by himself.

Emerick came back over, with his little toy CARS camera in hand, and started taking his own photos of his little brother!

Big Boy Bath

I love bath tub baby pics! Here is Louis taking his second bath in the big tub like a big boy. He loves it!

Day 5

My sweet friend and fellow photographer Lindsay took Louis' newborn photos for me when he was just 5 days old. Here is a little peak into the session. It was a lot of fun to not only hang out with Lindsay during the shoot, but to work together a little bit. It sure makes it easier to accomplish certain poses with 4 photographer hands ;-)

Enjoy!


{Baby Mine} Harford County, Maryland Newborn Portrait Photographer