Jumperoo Time!

Kaelan is officially using - and loving - his jumperoo. Thank you Aunt Marcy and Uncle Brent!

Also, today, Good Friday... April 22, 2011 was the first day Kaelan officially laughed a big baby belly laugh.  Nick and I about died with excitement... and I *might* have teared up at hearing it.  Man I'm such a sap!  Nick was holding him and I was talking to him just being silly and out of nowhere he just started full-on belly laughing.  It was one of the most amazing things I've heard.  I can't wait to hear it again! Hopefully this time we'll have the camera ready. :)

Happy Easter Everyone!
Nickolas, Ashley, & Kaelan

Kaelan's Baptism Invites

Kaelan's baptism invites came in today... I'm so pleased with how they turned out! Shutterfly never ceases to amaze me.  Just wanted to share these with you everyone! :)

Baptism Baroque Navy Baptism Invitation

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Happy Easter Week!

Kaelan's first Easter is coming up - I am so excited!  I've had his Easter basket goodies for over a month now... pretty much the day Target stocked the shelves, I was there buying.  I missed out on getting a personalized Easter basket, but I'll definitely be ordering one for next year.  We didn't make it to church today for Palm Sunday, but we did take some pictures.  I'll admit, they aren't as good as the Valentine's Day photo shoot, but we got a few good ones.  Enjoy!

Getting a lick from Sully

Not toooo sure about all this...

He HATED this hat. Oh well. :)

Contemplating my demise for making him wear the ears, I'm sure ;)

As you can see, I think we have a finger-sucker on our hands.  He actually has a blister on one finger... didn't even know that could happen!  It was a constant struggle during these photos to keep his hands out of his mouth!

This totally reminds me of an Easter-Baby edition of Rodin's "The Thinker"

With his new Easter bunny

Again, with the fingers...

Finally! A *real* smile :)

I apologize for the photo overload... being Kaelan's mommy, I think all his pictures are fantastic and I have a REALLY hard time picking and choosing :)

Photo Bomb!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately... We've entered a new element to our evening routine that takes up some of my time: evening walks. The weather has been so nice lately and Kaelan really seems to enjoy them. Our routine nowadays seems to be something like this: pick up from Paula's around 5:15, home and plays with Nick while I rush home, I feed him a bottle around 6 while Nick gets dinner started, sometimes a small 10-15 minute catnap follows, then we head out into the neighborhood.  We've met a few more neighbors by doing this... including one couple who thought Kaelan was a girl b/c of his name.  No matter the fact that he was in a BLUE outfit with TRAINS on it.  Come on people... if I had a girl, she would be covered from head to toe in pink, fluff, and lace. Anyway. Kaelan really seems to enjoy the walks... my cheeks hurt from smiling back at him so much... his favorite thing to do is stare at the trees overhead.

Here are a few photos... some recent and some dating back about 3 weeks.  I haven't been AS much of a picture taking fool as usual.. I'm hoping to fix that this weekend ;)

First time in his high chair - he did really well!

Perhaps a little agitated? :)

(***Disclaimer: there was no diet coke left in the can, no babies were harmed during the taking of this photograph).  Taking after his mommy and daddy - we LOVE Diet coke around here!

Playin in his crib

This was last week. Kaelan was so tired he fells asleep in the tub, during lotion time, and during diaper time.

Best. Husband. Ever. He cooks AND takes care of the baby!

This was last night - fell asleep in the tub again.  We're seriously contemplating moving his bedtime up some. Selfishly though I'm resisting it... as it is I only get two hours with him once I'm home from work.

I've been playing around a lot with comparison photos using Photobucket.com.  Here are a few I've made.

This was his "going home from the hospital" outfit. On the left he was ~5 weeks old, this was taken the day of the Cotton Bowl. On the right, he was 2 days old. Look how baggy the onesie is!! Man... where did my tiny newborn baby go?

Funny faces after bath-time. We have nicknames for him depending on what hooded towel he is in.  If he's in the shark towel he is "Shark Bait Ooh Ha-Ha" (yes, from Finding Nemo) and if he's in the froggy towel (there is a crown on the top) he is "Frog Prince Kaelan." Oh the silly things parents do... 

This is my now and then... the photo on the left was taken a few days ago while the photo on the right was taken at about 1 week old.  He has grown so much!

That's all the photos I have for now... I hope everyone is having a great week! I am headed to College Station this Friday for the Aggie Mom's Boutique.  Last year I wasn't sure if I was having a boy or girl, however, this year I have a feeling I might go a little overboard with the baby items! ;)

Thanks & Gig'em!

Not a baby related post at all but...

Congratulations to my lady Aggies!!! National Champions, WHOOP!! 

Our First Video Post!

I've been trying for WEEKS to figure out how to load my darn Flip Video videos on here, or send via email, or load on Facebook.  It seems even a 20 second video is too large.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, so I thought I'd load it to YouTube and go from there.  Hopefully you guys can see it, and if not... someone please tell me! :)

This is from last night... Nick was playing with Kaelan and Sully started getting all excited.  He would run over lick Kaelan and run away.  Well, Kaelan thought this was great fun so he started smiling and talking back.  He even giggled a few times, but we didn't catch any good ones on camera.  Maybe next time.  :)  Eventually Sully got a little TOO excited so we constantly had to get his attention.  This literally went on for about 30 minutes, off and on.  Love my little man's smiles! :)

Ok, I promised more pictures... so here are a few!  Ok, more like a ton ;)

Hangin' Out in his Bumbo

His new shades. I love this picture because you can see Nick being a goofball in the reflection of his glasses.  Oh the things parents will do for a smile :)

Just chilling during a wardrobe change.  This was too cute not to photograph!

Just the sweetest baby ever... ;) Something tells me when he's 16 and getting into trouble, all he'll have to do is give me a smile and all will be forgiven.

Last night from playing with Sully... we got some cute photos... here are a couple :)

4 Month Check-Up

Kaelan had his 4 Month Well Check-up today - ie: Vaccine Day. :( Poor Baby.

Stats:

Weight - 15lbs 8.7oz (70.05 Percentile)
Height - 25.5in (77.7 Percentile)
Head - 16.73in (62.01 Percentile)

I was surprised that he hadn't grown more than that - I swear my back is killing me and he is almost growing out of his car seat!!  But the pediatrician said he is doing great!  He may even be teething.  Not sure how I feel about that!  We were given the green light to start solids.  She gave us some cues to look for to tell when HE is ready, so we'll see how this goes!  Here he is waiting for his shots, poor kid had no idea what was coming:

He was not a fan of the oral vaccine... mainly because he had just had a bottle and the nurse made me cradle him like a baby... this baby does NOT like to be cradled.  He is a big boy now and wants to sit up.  The shots were, of course, traumatic.  He turned a very vibrant shade of red/purple but Nick got him quiet pretty fast.  Oh and this time, mom didn't cry.  Yay me! :)  By the time we were home, he was full of smiles.  I must admit MY cheeks hurt from smiling back at him so much!  Unfortunately his good humor only lasted through his first afternoon nap.  Then the vaccines must have taken over because my easy baby was gone.  I could not put him down.  Repeat.  Could.  Not.  Put.  Him.  Down.  When I tried, I thought he was going to whip out his tiny baby cell phone and call CPS on me.  So we spent the majority of the afternoon / evening like this (I apologize for the blurry photo quality):

Thanks goodness there was a Law & Order marathon on TNT!  And, thank goodness I took the day off work.  He got a little better tonight, but hopefully he wakes up his usual cheerful self.

I have TONS of photos to post so I think I'll do that tomorrow.  Get ready for cuteness overload!! ;)