A Day At Work With Daddy!

Braxton and I have gone into the store a couple times in the last week. He is like the newest member of the store's team. Our regular customers are excited to meet Braxton and he enjoys the attention. Our Staff is great with Braxton. Stephen and Ramon our two guy employees even hold him. Anthony was holding Braxton while making a few phone calls. I captured the the perfect picture of the two of them working! We can tell already Braxton takes going to work very serious!

If you need a Sprint phone please feel free to contact Braxton anytime.

A Cold Saturday

This Saturday it was cold......well Texas cold!!! It was in the 50's! We had plans to do yard work and to have a family day at the park. We decided to go ahead and trim the hedges and pull the weeds despite the cold. It really wasn't that cold, but the wind was crazy. I wanted to plant flowers and lay the weed and feed. We decided to hold off for a few more weeks for that. I wanted to help so we bundled Braxton up. We really haven't bought him a lot of 3-6 winter stuff since it gets warm early in TX. Last week we hit our first day in the 80 as a matter of fact it hit 89 on Thursday. Thankfully my Aunt Debbie sent Braxton the outfit he had on a and few other AWESOME gifts for Christmas. I thought Braxton looked so cute I had to post these pictures even though I did a post a few days ago.

Thanks Aunt Debbie for buying him a few winter clothes in 3-6 months they really saved us this week!

4 Months Old

On Wednesday we took Braxton to the doctor for his four month visit. The doctor was so excited to see him. Dr. Cepeda said that she couldn't believe how much he had grown in the month that had past. With Braxton's acid reflux issue we had been seeing her at least twice a month since he was born up to his third month. The doctor said that you want the baby to be healthy so we don't have to seed him, but she missed him. I thought that was super sweet. Braxton's doctor is AWESOME! At the visit he was weighted and measured. Our little boy grew a lot. He is in the 83%for height and the 30% for weight. LONG AND SKINNY!!!!! She always spends a lot of time with him to make sure all is well. She likes to see him eat, play, and tests his motor skills. While she was trying to do his exam he kept getting upset because he likes to stand and hates to lay down. She would lay him down and check his ears then pick him so he can stand, then lay him down to check his joints and then pick him up to stand. She said that his ability to stand as well as he can is amazing. He can hold himself up on things for about 5 minutes and can stand all day if you help support him. She said she would not be surprised if he walked at 9 months. She said he may crawl a little late because he hates to do tummy time......well he HATES any activity that doesn't involve standing. After the whole exam she said well you two have a very advanced child. She said that his body isn't developing as fast as his motor skills. She said it is okay to let him stand all the time. She said that it will make learning to walk easier. She said his legs are still forming so it should be difficult for him to stand. She pointed out that his feet still turn out a little bit. She said this is appropriate for his age. This just makes it difficult to stand. She said on all the motor skills tests she did she was surprised at how far along he is. We always thought he was super smart. I think every mother does though. When the doctor told us he was advanced it wasn’t a surprise. The other good news she gave us was that he will not need his acid reflux medication much longer. She said as his weight increases the medication will be less effective and is natural way to take him off of it. She said by his 6 month exam he will be done. Thank God it cost us an arm and a leg each month. She also told us to increase his cereal feeding from once a day to twice. She said he will be ready for baby food in a month as well. Braxton did get a few shots at that visit. The poor kid doesn't do well with shots. He has to be pumped with Tylenol for 48 hours. We feel so BAD for him. He just cries and wines majority of the 48 hours following his shots.

I have added a few pictures! Enjoy!

Happy Valentines Day!

INTRODUCING Cereal

Our little man is eating cereal from a spoon. We thought he might not like it and it may take weeks for him to get the hang of it. I even read some babies will resist. No way not Braxton he LOVED it. The first day (pics with the I love cereal bib) he blew more bubbles with the cereal than he ate, but he thought it was the coolest thing ever. The next time we thickened it up and he went to town. He ate more than he spit out. We knew we did not have to worry about the possibility of an allergy because he has been getting a half teaspoon in each bottle to help with his reflux. The little amount in his bottle made his belly feel so much better. Such a simple easy fix. He still has to take his prescription for his reflux and more than likely will need to until he is a year old. With the little cereal in his bottle and the prescription he has been a HAPPY, HAPPY baby! This also helped the kid put a little weight on. Majority of his 0-3 pants never fit in the waist before he out grew them in the length. His doctor said this is typical of babies with reflux as bad as his.

Payton was at the house today while Candace was at school. Payton thought it was cool Braxton was eating from a spoon. He was cheering his cousin on. It was super cute. Payton finally learned to say Braxton. Before he only referred to Braxton as "cole baby". He breaks up his name as says "Brax-ton". Payton is attentive when Braxton cries. He says "Braxton noise" when Braxton isn't crying when he is just cooing or yelling. Payton and Braxton are growing up so fast!

Many Faces of Braxton!

Braxton makes many faces! I get a HUGE kick out of his many faces. His expressions change so fast. One second he is smiling the second he is making his mad face. I hope you enjoy!

A Busy Week

This week was a week of many firsts! The biggest first is

BRAXTON SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!

I kept looking at the clock thinking he is going to wake up wanting a bottle anytime now. He went down last night at 10:00 pm and woke up at 6:00am!!!! Anthony thinks he would have slept longer because he was only whimpering and not all the way awake when I went to get him. I hope this trend continues. I know that he might not do it every single night from know on but he is on the right track !

He also seems to have outgrown almost all of his 0-3 clothes this week. The pants still are big in the waist but to short. He still is long and skinny. He isn't crazy skinny but his legs seem to be growing faster than his waist.

Below you find many more of Braxton's many first that he did all this past week.

On Tuesday night we began putting Braxton in his crib. That night we bathed him and got him ready for bed. We feed him and put him down in his crib. He had only slept in his crib a few times during nap. I thought he would not sleep well in his crib in his room without us. I was wrong. He slept fine. I on the other hand did NOT! I was up every hour checking on him. I was a wreck I cried and so wanted to put him back in the room with us. I was good and did not get him. My baby is growing up so fast.

Braxton has to have a burp rag or a blanket to cuddle when he goes to sleep. You can tell he is tired when he pulls it close to his face. He will even cover his eyes with his burp rag to help him go to sleep. This makes it easy for me to know when to go put him in his crib. He finally is able to put himself to sleep.
His cousin Payton was nice enough to give Braxton his favorite toys from when he was this age. One of them was the Bumbo. Braxton does not like to be held unless he can sit up looking out at the room. He doesn't really like to lounge, he has to be sitting up. He is proud he can hold his head up. We just hold him by his waist while he is sitting. I thought he CANNOT be old enough to sit in the Bumbo. I was so wrong. This is one of his new favorite things. He sits in this like a big boy and watches his educational video. I sit beside him during the whole 30 minute video and he is able to sit up. He also LOVES to sit in it and watch the dogs play as well.
I know he looks mad or mean. This is Braxton's favorite face to make. He always curls his eyebrows in. I put him in the seat and thought he would scream. No way, he loved this as well. I was looking at the new colors and lights. I was laughing so hard because he would laugh and then make this face. I do not know what he is thinking when he makes this face. I tell him he is going to need Botox by his first birthday.

We decided to start putting Braxton in his high chair during dinner. We thought he may not like it. He loves sitting in his high chair. I think he likes it because he is so high up. This day was a Gina day. The outfit he has on as well as the high chair were both gifts from Gina and her mother.

In the mornings Anthony gets Braxton and hold him while he is asleep before he goes to work. If Anthony does not hold him Braxton will NOT let Anthony touch him or come near him in the evenings. Instead of putting him back in his bassinet (now crib) Anthony puts him in his spot in the bed with pillows around him. Anthony woke me up to show me Braxton was on his tummy. We never put Braxton on his tummy due to his reflux issues. We both were so excited to see our little man had rolled over. We moved the pillows to get a good picture.

I feel like Braxton grew up so much in one week!

It was an amazing week! I cannot wait to see what this week has to bring!