Miller's 1st Easter

I have talked about this with my friend Heather and she agrees, it is hard to celebrate holidays when your kids are still little. You try to do the traditional things, but who are we kidding, they are mostly for us parents. Like Miller cares if he gets presents from Santa, or a Valentine, or if the Easter bunny fills his basket with goodies.

Despite my skepticism, I still do these little things because I figure we are starting traditions. Last weekend, Heather and I heard about a Easter egg hunt in our town. Not that Miller knew what was going on, but Isla got to enjoy it a bit.

Isla took Miller's pacifier but was so sweet and helped him get back in his mouth.

This is about as close as we got to participation from Miller.

One night this past week, we were packing in Miller's room and he would not stop fussing until Ben did this. He sat like this for an hour.

 

Saturday night we dyed Easter eggs. Ben and I always wear bunny ears while we do that so Miller did too. You can see the mess of moving in the background.

Funny story. Saturday I was on the phone with my mom and she asked what Miller was doing. I said he was trying to eat my hand and when he did, I felt something sharp. I said no way a few times but yep, there is definitely a tooth in there. I can not believe we had no idea he was teething.

He did not like us trying to get  a picture of his tooth. 

I love this look. Like, "Okay I am smiling, now leave me alone".

 Ta-da, the tooth! You can also see where he has two more in there. It is hard to see in pictures but they are definitely there.

He dropped all the eggs about a minute later. At least they are hard boiled. 

He was such a good boy at church. Even though we sat in the cry room, he was so quiet and behaved. He feel asleep towards the end and got a little nap before brunch at Cheesecake Factory.

This is us recreating the picture from last year. The only difference, I am not pregnant and have Miller, Isla has grown so much and all three of the other ladies here are pregnant. Who knows what this picture will look like next year. 

After brunch we went to a park and took his 6 month pictures, which I will be posting this week. We cam home and dug into his Easter basket.  Miller (daddy really) got some Peeps, clothes and a toy phone.

We all took a nap, except Miller woke up after 30 minutes so he came in our bed and played with mommy while daddy slept. It was still fun!

We hope you all had a wonder Easter weekend!

Our Little Bunny!

 I, like every holiday, have to take pictures of Miller. Here is bunny butt outfit.

 

There are bunch of somebunnies who love him. 

As a former Beanie Baby collector, it made me uncomfortable to give this to him. Especially when he started chewing on the tag (you don't mess with the tag!!!!). I eventually had to take it away because I kept cringing.

This vicious little bunny is going to eat you (or give you really slobbery kisses). 

 

I love this smirk! It is like, "What? I know I am cute". 

His bunny face. 

We hope that you all have a very happy Easter! I will post pictures of us celebrating the holiday early this week.

Miller: Week 25

We are here. The past few weeks have been busy but I have not had too much to take pictures of. Here are a few random pics.

Chillin in his chair.

Chillin in his swing (which he barely fits in).

He has become quite the contortionist. 

Ben's sister Liz came in a few weeks ago and hung out with mostly Miller and I. Here we are out to lunch.

We went out to meet some of Liz's friends for dinner. Look how cute my matching boys are!

As soon as Liz left we started packing up the house for our move. Talk about stressful! It is bad enough to have to move at all, but with a baby it is almost impossible. Ben and I can only get so much done at night in between our normal schedule and during the day, Miller goes from this......

 

....to screaming in 30 seconds.It makes it hard to get anything done. I feel like we are doing pretty well but I also think there is a lot of  things lying around that needs to be dealt with. The good thing is that we do our walk through on Tuesday so we get to start moving in for a few days before the official move day. I feel like that will help me see what needs to be done after we have moved some stuff out. Plus, we have lots of help with this move so I hope it goes quicker and smoother than out last one. 

This past weekend we went to an Easter Egg hunt, and this weekend we have some Easter festivities. I will post those pics soon.

I am sorry in advance

You are going to have to forgive me over the next couple of months. Life is about to get super crazy and I am sure my blogging will suffer! Lets start off with April.

About a month ago, Ben and I started discussing moving to a bigger place because our little guy is outgrowing this one. We thought we could last here longer but why suffer. Miller is into rolling around and there is nowhere for him to go in this house. We started looking with the intention of moving before Miller turned a year old. Well I started looking and in a few days I found a great place. Our current condo is 2 bedrooms, 1400sqft, carport, small kitchen, living room, dining room, 2.5 bath. This new place is 3 bedrooms, 2200sqft, 2 car garage, bigger kitchen, living room, dining room, 2.5 bath, 2 patios, small yard and a family room. Yes, much bigger! I am sure I will be posting a bunch of pictures at some point. We turned in our lease and deposit last week and are moving in 3 weeks (OMG....yes 3 weeks!). So we are going to be super busy packing over the next few weeks and I am super nervous about how to get this all done with a baby.

Before that happens, while we are packing, next weekend we have plans on both Friday and Saturday night ("Hunger Games"girls night out for this momma). The next weekend is Easter which just entails dyeing eggs, making Miller's Easter basket (I mean, helping the Easter Bunny), church and brunch. Then the next week, Miller turns 6 month so we start solid food, our 6 year dating anniversary so we want to go on a date and we move so rush to pack, clean and hold on tight to our sanity.

I am hoping I might have a little help while I unpack but either way, that is what I will be doing the week after the move. The weekend of the 21st I will probably be going to Knoxville for a week. The first weekend in May is the lone weekend of nothing to do. I am sure it will be errands and still unpacking.

On the 10th, I am packing up with Miller, my grandparents and mom and going to Oklahoma for my cousins wedding. The next weekend we are going to Knoxville for my college friends wedding. The following week we are going to Memphis to visit with Ben's family and his best friends wedding.

In early June I have my cousins wedding, and a shower that I am helping plan (which I have to manage to do in there somewhere).

I am seriously so overwhelmed that I want to cry. I know it will all get done somehow and I will probably feel better once the move is done. Please pray for me and be patient. I will try to do my normal posts.

Trusty Family St Patrick's Day

So St Patrick's Day is a big deal to me. While yes, my family is Irish, but isn't everyones?  That is one reason we have always celebrated but it is also because my high school was the Fighting Irish so we always made it a big deal.

Like all holidays, I took some pictures of Mr Miller. 

On Saturday, I made green pancakes. These are mine that have chocolate chips in them. 

Our little green family. We were out all day like this and at the first store I saw other people in non-green and I wondered if they thought we were morons.  Then I saw a mom and her two kids in all green, then another family, then another. I felt better then!

Ben's green beer my Bailey's chocolate milk.

 

 For dinner I made shepherds pie. 

We had Irish Cupcakes for dessert.

 

I hope you all had a lucky St Patrick's Day!

Miller: Month Five

How is my baby one month away from being a half of a year old???? I am in shock! I am so happy that he is where he is but I am so sad for the time that is passing by. I wish I could freeze time for a bit. There are days when I want to pull my hair out and runaway for a while, but by the end of the day, when I put him to bed, I am a little sad because I want to spend more time with him. I can not believe how much I love him. I am trying to look forward to watching him grow, rather than dwell on where he has been.

*These measurements are ours so they may be off from last month when we were at the pediatricians.

Weight: 17lbs 12oz (+9lbs 10oz)

Height: 27" (+ 6.5")

Head: 18.5" (+3.5")

Sleep: Maybe we should not open this can of worms. He is still only taking 30 minute naps. I can count on both hands the times he has taken a naps longer than that in the past 6 weeks. Somedays he takes 4 naps, others 2(!!!!) for a grand total of 1-2 hours a day, then by the end of the day, he is deliriously tired. At night, sometimes he sleeps 7 hours, eat, goes back to sleep for 3 but most nights he is up 3 or 4 times. Most times, he is barely eating if he is at all. The past few nights he is just waking up to fuss. Last night I got so frustrated and went to the bathroom. When I came back, Ben and Miller were about 2 feet away from each other, holding hands and both sound asleep. I keep thinking, is there one thing that I might be doing wrong that could make everything fall into place?

Eating: Another can of worms. I have been trying to keep him happy and hoping filling up during the day, might help him sleep better at night. Obviously not working. Right now, I am on a 2 hour schedule with him, which I think is a bit excessive. I was assuming at this point we would be closer to a regular 3 hour schedule.

Best Moment: He is so smiley lately! I will be doing something around the house, stop to look at him and he just beams. I love that he is doing this for other people too. I worry about his social skills since I am staying at home with him but hoping this is a sign he will be a social butterfly.

Milestones: He is rolling over both ways now. He mostly likes to roll from back to belly and hang out there, but then gets mad because he is not sure what to do while he is there. He is learning to get his knees up under him, yikes! We are also working on sitting up. He is a bit wobbly from side to side but doing pretty good.

Monthly Wisdom: I am majorly freaking out about his sleeping but my friends assure me that he will regulate soon (hopefully!!!).

Goals for the Upcoming Month:
-Always working on the sleeping. We are hoping that when we start solids in the next month, it might aide him sleeping through the night. We will reassess after a month of that.
- As I mentioned, starting cereal and other solid foods in a few weeks. We have given him a few tastes of things but we will be full on feeding him soon.

Things Miller is doing
-He is into flailing his arms. Sometimes his hands out his sides, other times he is holding his hands and doing it.
-He hoots. It is the cutest thing because he sounds just like and owl. He will do it for 10 minutes straight.
- He is becoming so social and smiling at everyone. Him and Ben have started becoming buddies. He laughs and smiles at him as soon as he sees him.

Miller Week 20 and 21

Back to pictures. These are from the past few weeks since I have been slacking.

Bath time at Ninny's.

"Mommy, it is my turn with your camera".

One day in Knoxville my parents decided to take Miller and I to some daffodil fields that were on the side of the highway to snap some pictures. I love them!

This is an outtake at the end because he was so over it.

This is my absolute favorite picture that we have of him.

Miller helping daddy build a computer for the first time.

This is the smile that melts my heart over and over again, day after day. I love being busy doing something, looking at him and he gives me one of these.

"Mom, seriously, it is my turn!!"

He turns 5 months today and I will post that update sometimes this week.