We're getting this parenting thing down!!

So glad Christmas is over!!  The holidays were crazy!!  Especially with a new baby!!  For the most part, Callen is in a really good routine, and by routine I mean he sleeps at night!!  He hardly ever wakes up in the middle of the night...maybe once in a while to eat.  We've started putting 1 tablespoon of cereal in a bottle of breast milk before bed and he sleeps like a rock!!  Sometimes we need to wake him up in the morning!

Since my bonding time with Callen is nursing, Brian's bonding time is bath time.  This means "NO MOMMY AROUND AT ALL!" (unless Daddy calls me to bring him a towel or something!  :)  Max is allowed to be around during bath time though.

Callen just turned 4 months old this past Sunday and man is he aware of his surroundings!  He loves to be upright, looking around.  We have a Bumbo chair with an activity ring around the entire seat, so he likes to sit in that and play.

I'm not sure if I posted the 3 month pic & it's hilarious, so here are both of them!  He's getting so big!!  He's turning more into a little person everyday!!

It's almost 2015!

Where'd the year go???  It's almost 2015!  I'm pretty horrible at this whole blogging thing, but it's ok!  Maybe eventually I will find the time to keep track of it a little more!  :P  I'm in the process of trying to get the house cleaned up!

Callen's first Christmas wasn't anything spectacular.  He's a baby, so it wasn't too big of a deal.  I have a lot of memories to show him when he's older.

It's Friday!!!

It's almost the weekend!!  Which doesn't mean anything to me!  lol  I will just find more things that I need to get done!  We finally went grocery shopping last night!  We actually have some healthy food to eat now!!  :P  I needed to go to Target last night to get Christmas gifts for Callen's teachers at the daycare.  I really needed to clean the house.  I got some of it cleaned up.  :)  So I feel a little bit better now...not as stressed out!

Callen has been eating so much lately!  I only have a few bags left in the freezer at this point, so I need to get on it & pump a few more times each day!  He's been doing really well with the rice cereal.  He's been sleeping so well that we have to wake him up sometimes!  :)

Brian's knee is still injured.  :(  He won't be working out for a while.  He can hardly move around and do anything at home or work.  Hopefully he gets better soon!

I need to go get ready for work now.  Hopefully I will get a chance to take some more pictures of my squid...he's getting so big!!  :(

Still busy!!

It's been almost 2 weeks!  Sorry you guys!!  :(  Work has been busy, Callen's kept me busy & we're trying to get Christmas stuff together!

This weekend I left Callen overnight for the first time ever.  I wasn't gone the entire weekend, just for Friday night.  I was more worried about myself than I was Callen or Brian.  I was afraid I was going to be a bum and cry the entire time I was gone, but I managed to have a good time!  Had fun with the girls!  We're excited that Jayme is getting married soon!

We tried to get Callen in for pictures with Santa at Bass Pro Shop, but the wait was too long!  We're going to have to go another time and get in line as soon as they open.  We did have good lunch!  After leaving Bass Pro, it was dark enough for the Christmas Nights of Lights in Mobile.  It was pretty awesome!  I wanted Callen to be able to watch the light show, but he was sleeping!

Callen hit a milestone, I guess you can say.  We started him with a little bit of rice cereal before bed.  He loved it & slept from 9:00 to 6:30 last night!  We'll see if we have the same kind of luck tonight.

Brian hurt his knee while doing Strongman yesterday morning.  He is hobbling around on crutches.  He is going to get in to see Dr. Turnage as soon as he can.  It's not the knee he had surgery on, so hopefully it's not bad.  I don't want him to have two bad knees!  :(

Callen & I went over to my mom's.  We started to do some baking.  We didn't do a whole lot tonight, but I do have two tins full of cookies for Callen's teachers at daycare.  :)  Hopefully we get more baking done this week.  We'll see how everything works out.

That's all the updating I will be able to get done at the moment.  Someone is hungry!!  :)

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!!!

Ok...so I'm beginning to think this is just going to be a weekly thing because by the time I get home & get settled down it's already 7:30!  :P

Callen is napping at the moment, which is so wonderful because he was a bit cranky ever since we left daycare.  :(  I have a load of laundry in the washer...YAY for clean clothes!!  Dinner just came out of the oven & Brian just left work.  I think after dinner we will make a pot of coffee, get some Christmas ice cream & watch a Christmas movie!!

Here are a few pictures from yesterday after we decorated our Christmas tree.

We also tried to get a few shots at the mall with Christmas scenery for our Christmas cards, but here are some more really cute pictures of Callen in some of his Christmas clothes.                                             

Hopefully Mom & I will be making Christmas cookies soon!!  I can't wait!!  Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year!!  I'm so glad I have an awesome husband and kiddo to enjoy it with!  The rest of the family is pretty awesome too!!  :P

Getting ready for Thanksgiving!!

Here's my little turkey!!

We're having Thanksgiving at our house this year, which is very exciting!!!  It will be Callen's first Thanksgiving!!!

I love that I am going to be getting art projects for the fridge now!!  :D  Although I did freak out this morning when we were getting Callen ready for his bath!  I couldn't figure out how he got dirt under his toenails!  Later in the day I realized it was the brown paint from the art project!  lol

This past weekend, Callen went to his first birthday party!  It was a Samantha's 6th birthday and it was a girl party, but he went!  It made me thankful that I have a little boy!!  Little girls go nuts over Frozen!!!

Lately Callen has been watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Netflix in the morning.  There is only 1 episode on Netflix, so Brian and I are getting kind of tired of it, but Callen loves it!  He starts waving his arms up and down when they sing the "Hot Dog" song (when we don't have him in his "Taco Shell").

Other than that, we've just been trying to get into a routine!  It's more regular than it used to be, but it's still not rock solid!

Check back for more pictures of my little turkey from his first Thanksgiving!!  :D

My kid is awesome!

It's a quarter after 5 and my kid is awesome because he is still sleeping!!  :P  He woke up to nurse at 3:30ish but went back to sleep after about 10 minutes!  We left him in his bear suit because his humidifier and the fan in the room make it really chilly in there.

We also took some pictures yesterday because Lite Mix 99.9 has a "Santa Baby" photo contest and I submitted a picture.

He has cute Thanksgiving outfits, so I will definitely be taking lots of pictures & posting them here!  

Brian and I have both been working hard lately.  Brian has been pretty stressed over a certain file and I pray that the loan closes soon so he isn't so stressed!  :)

Other than that, not much has been going on lately!  Just trying to adjust to life as a family of 4 (can't forget Max!)  :D