3 Month Fun

Forrest has been such a joy to have in our lives! This has been a really fun month . He's been growing and changing so much and is becoming his own little person. He loves being held and talked to and he gives the sweetest smiles and coos back at you. He's a great baby. We traveled about 5 of his first 12 weeks and he did wonderfully - stayed on the same sleeping schedule (in his pack-n-play), did good in the car, ... basically just rolled with the punches... so sweet.

The week he turned 3 months he started sleeping thru the night! He sleeps an average of 11 hours a night!! Wow - I had no idea a baby could do this. (Andrew was only sleeping 8 straight hours at 5 months.) He's also become so playful in the last couple of weeks. He loves sitting in his Bumbo watching Andrew plays cars and trains. He loves his Einstein playmat. And he LOVES his Einstein exersaucer! Here are a few pictures...

This picture was taken on his 3 month birthday. The next 3 are more recent, from the past week or so.

Can you tell how much he loves this?! He even plays with all the toys - pushes the buttons to make animal sounds and spins the wheels - so cute.

Tummy time in the crib - oh, he rolled from tummy to back for the first time yesterday!

and i think we're working on a tooth, too!! His hands are in his mouth ALL the time and you can see he's put the ring in his mouth too.
(He is usually dressed... this picture was taken yesterday when we lost power for awhile. We were both hot so I let him swing in just his diaper.)

What a fun month it's been with this little man. I love him so! Can't even begin to imagine our lives without him.

Sweet Times

Welcome Forrest! (just a little belated)

We finally finished the video welcoming Forrest into the world and wanted to share it with you. I think we enjoy the video a lot more now that we can look back and reflect on yet another huge blessing in our life.

On another note, this is our 100th blog post!

The Boys... Together!!

The boys were so cute yesterday and we FINALLY got some good pictures of them together. Andrew has definitely taken more of an interest in Forrest lately. He loves giving him a kiss on the forehead and singing him a song... always "Row, row, row...". He also likes sitting by Forrest on a blanket or on the playmat with toys. And Forrest is never without music when in his bouncy seat... Andrew makes sure to keep it going for him... what a sweet big brother! :)

I know I've posted alot of pictures, but we were so excited to have 2 happy boys that we took lots of pics!

A couple of cute things about Andrew during this time...

1. the way he "wrapped" the boppy around him - like the way he's seen me do

2. After we had stopped taking pictures and Wilson had taken Forrest with him to another room, Andrew was sitting on the floor playing with the boppy. I heard him say "cheese". So cute! We've said "Say cheese" a couple of times to him recently when taking his picture. I heard him say "cheese" again and I looked over to see him grinning from ear to ear. So, of course, I grabbed the camera to take his picture! It's the one of Andrew by himself.

Breakin It Down!

Just wanted to share with you Andrew's new dance moves. We still can't quit laughing and we promise this was totally his doing, no prompts from us. We are also baffled at where he learned his moves. We think it may be from Bratley DNA. We have tried other dance songs like "Brick House" but only "Hamster Dance" seems to turn the switch on. When he was very little and crying uncontrollably Wilson used to put him in front of the computer and play the dancing hamsters with the terribly annoying music...for some reason he loved it - so here you go!

2 Beautiful Boys, 1 Talented Photographer...

Andrew and Forrest had their pictures made by Allison Muirhead last Tuesday - Forrest's 3 month b-day. My mom has several outfits that my dad wore as a baby boy, and it worked out that 2 of them fit the boys right now- a cute little "sailor" button-on suit fit Andrew and a sweet yellow bubble fit Forrest - it was perfect! Mom has been planning this for a while and was hoping that it would work out that the clothes would fit the boys at the same time so they could get their picture made in "Bubby's" clothes.

Allison has posted some pictures on her blog and I thought you might like to see the boys... she is so talented and is just great with children.

It was so funny because Andrew is actually in kind of an anti-camera stage. Whenever I want to take a picture of him he'll rarely look at me or the camera. Mom and I were unsure how he would do with Allison, but he was great! And Forrest who is such a laid-back baby and smiler was the one who was fussy. But she was wonderful with him and still got him to smile. We can't wait to see the proofs!

In the pics on the blog, Andrew is wearing Bubby's outfit... We love the "vintage" look of the photo. Forrest is actually just in his diaper. She took some basic 3 month photos of him while we were there and that is what she posted of him.

* hope to post some july pics later this week!