McKay 5 Months Old

January 15, 2017
Size 2 diapers (huge on him)
Size 3/6 and 6 month clothes

I feel like McKay has really grown this last month.  His cheeks have really filled out and he is starting to get some rolls on his thighs.  I'm not sure how much he weighs since he didn't have a doctors appointment, but he definitely looks chunkier to me.  He is still eating well.  I cut back my pumping and now only pump 3 times a day and have to grab some milk out of the freezer to supplement.  I am hoping to keep up just breast milk until he is 6 months old and then we will have to start supplementing with formula and then totally switch over around 7 months.  We are still working on the whole rolling over thing.  He doesn't really seem to care much and honestly I don't really either at this point.  I figure he will get there when he is ready.  He does however seem interested in sitting, sometimes he can balance a little bit when he is leaned over and has his belly on his legs.  His sleeping is still about the same.  We lay him down around 8:45pm and then usually have to put his binky in at some point and then I will feed him between 5:00 and 6:00 am and then he will sleep until 8:00/8:30.  Every once in a while he will throw in a full night and sleep until 7:00 or 8:00, but those are few and far between, but I am just fine with having to get up just once to feed him and I usually get to go back to sleep for an hour or so.  His naps are still sporadic.  He will typically have one decent nap in the middle of the day an hour and a half to two hours but then his other naps are about 30 minutes.  We are trying to transition him out of swaddling which he does ok not having his arms in, but the problem is that if I have to go put his binky in to get him back to sleep he just pulls it right out and gets frustrated because he can't get it back in all the way.  If anyone has suggestions I am open.

We took him swimming for the first time.  not the biggest fan.  He was doing fine until he got splashed pretty good, so then I just dried him off an we watched the other kids swim.  But he looked dang cute in his swimsuit.  He loves bath time and to kick his legs and make splashes. He has also started sticking his tongue out a bunch, well like all the time.  He laughs a lot more now and still smiles all the time. He is super tickalous (sp?) and you can always get a good giggle out of him that way.  He really is just a happy baby overall.  He found his toes this month and loves to grab them and try to eat them.  Brooklyn loves to get him to laugh and she continues to get louder as McKay gets louder, which  is not very fun when we are in the car.

Happy New Years from McCall

Craig took a few days off of work right at the new year so we decided to head up to the cabin.  We drove up Saturday morning the 31st during McKay's nap.  Craig's brother Mark and his family were up at the cabin when we got there.  That afternoon everyone headed outside to play in the snow.  Brooklyn loved having her cousins there for a few days with us so that she could have other kids to play with and I loved not having to entertain her. On Sunday we went to church and then that afternoon everyone but McKay and I headed into town to go sledding on a small hill by the lake.  Craig and I also went snowshoeing that afternoon during McKay's long nap.  It is just just a winter wonderland in McCall this time of year.  On Monday Mark's family had to head back to Boise, but we stayed a few more days.  We were just lazy at the cabin, played in the snow a few more times, drank a ton of hot chocolate, went out to eat at Pueblo Lindos, My Father's Place, and Pancake House, we also went sledding one more time in town and brought McKay along this time.  We bundled him up nice and warm and he even went down the hill with me one time.  After a little bit Craig took him back to the car to let him warm up for a little bit and he ended up falling asleep.  Luckily the car was parked right by us so we just left it running and kept sledding for a little bit longer.  We were going to head back home on Wednesday, but Boise got hit with a huge snow storm and so we decided to wait one more day since we didn't have anything we had to be back for.  It was such a fun little getaway and it is so nice that it is only two hours away and we can head up there anytime.  Craig enjoyed his much needed time off after a very busy last few months at work, but we were all very sad when he had to head back to work.  Hope everyone had as great of a 2016 as we did!

Merry Christmas

We had such a wonderful Christmas together as a family.  Christmas time just keeps getting better and better as the kids get older.  Every night Brooklyn would ask us how many more nights before Santa would come.  On Christmas Eve we spent a lot of time with my family and it was fun to do some of the traditions that I did as a kid.  It snowed a bunch the night before and so that morning Craig and Brooklyn headed out to the backyard to trudge through the snow.  We then went to Chinese food for lunch and then Brooklyn and I went to a movie with the rest of my family while Craig took McKay home to take a nap.  We saw the movie Moana, super cute.  It was Brooklyn's first movie at the theater and she loved it.  There will definitely be more movies in our future.  After the movie we went over to my parents house and ate a bunch of treats and other yummy food and then read the nativity story and a few other Christmas stories before we headed home to watch The Grinch.  After we got the kids to bed Santa came and filled up there stockings and ate Brooklyn's cookies.

Since Christmas was on Sunday this year we had church at 9:00 so we woke Brooklyn up in time to be able to see her gifts from Santa before we headed off to church.  After a wonderful church service full of beautiful music and testimony we came home and finished opening presents and Factimed with Craig's parents so they could see the kids opening their gifts.  I then went to my parents church because my Dad was giving a talk and Craig stayed home with the kids and then we went over to my parents house because my brother Tucker was calling from his mission in Arizona.  It was so good to talk with him and just hear his voice, he is such an awesome missionary and we are all so proud of him.  We then headed home to cook up our yummy Christmas dinner of ham, funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, and rolls.  It was quite delicious if I do say so myself.  We had such an enjoyable Christmas together.  I really hope that we are teaching our kids the true meaning of CHRISTmas and continue to remind them that it is a time to serve and remember the ultimate gift that our Savior Jesus Christ gave us of the atonement and eternal life.

Her sweet nursery leader gave her this apron embroidered with her name

She was so proud of the necklace that she made with her new bead set