Happy New Years and 4 months old

Michael ended up working on NYE, so Leyton and I spent the night at Granna's-relaxing & playing in-front of the fireplace (I wish ours was "real"-but it is just for looks). We all went to bed by 10:30 but Leyton woke up at 12:30 to ring in the new year with a 6oz bottle. On New Years Day my Mom cooked a big yummy lunch and we spent the rest of the day relaxing/playing/sleeping. Leyton is playing airplane with daddy in the pic below-one of his new favorite things. Notice the drool on his right shoulder-something that has been a constant flow over the past month-can we say teething????

As I mentioned in past blogs, we are enjoying experiencing all of Leyton's firsts-however we did encounter one that I hoped we would never have to. (Let me preface this story by saying there are a few* choice words I would like to use, but will refrain.) On the way to his 4 month check-up we were rear-ended by a girl* who wasn't paying attention. Michael was driving my car and Leyton and I were in the back seat and we think the girl* was going 35-40mph (there weren't any skid marks either). It mostly scared Leyton-he cried, but being the big boy that he is quickly calmed down and was smiling before we left the "scene". The doctor checked him out and said that he was okay and that the carseats did its' job. We were so lucky that he wasn't hurt and hopefully he won't have to encounter that again.

At his check-up he weighed in at 13lbs, 2oz (20th percentile) and measured 29"long (92nd percentile)-the doctor said he is going to be tall and skinny like his daddy. We were also given the go-ahead to start introducing baby food and cereal to him as well as diluted juices. So far, he's not too crazy about either which is to be expected. Leyton is laughing more, drooling like no other, putting 4-8 fingers in his mouth at once and sucking on them (quite a sight), "talking" more, and is very interested in our cats all of a sudden. He enjoys watching Baby Einstein and talks to the puppets-it's so funny to watch his expressions when he's watching the videos. He is really into musical books and toys that make sounds and is big into feeling different textures. When we feed him he has to have a hand on our face and feels all over-occasionally we get a finger up our nose :) He is has yet to crawl (but is working extra hard on it as is apparent in the above pic) or rollover-but he is very close. He finally graduated to size 1 diapers and 0-3 clothing but then recently hit a growth spurt and is now wearing 3-6 month clothing because of the arm and leg length.

Click on the pic below to see Leytons 4 month pics-they turned out great-thanks again Aunt Mina!!!!!

I can't believe how fast he is growing and changing right before our eyes and in about a week he will be 5 months old. Peoples always told me to cherish this time because it goes by so fast-now I can attest to it.

First Christmas

Leyton not only experienced Christmas for the first time, but he got to experience it 5 times over. Like most, we had multiple Christmas's with the different sides of our families and Leyton even met some family members for the first time. It was a great time to be together with family. Below are pictures from some of the gatherings.

Every Christmas Eve we attend two Christmas' however due to the weather and icy road conditions we were only able to go to one. For this reason as well, we ended up staying in Justin that night and woke up on Christmas Day to our first (for all 3 of us) white Christmas. Leyton has experienced as much snow in his 4 1/2 months as I have in my lifetime. There was enough snow on the ground that Michael was able to make a snowman-and a good one at that!

Being 4 months old, Leyton wasn't really able to actively participate in Christmas (we tried to get him to tear/pull the paper on some presents-but he wasn't too keen on that). He did however enjoy looking at all the lights on the christmas trees and mantles as well as stockings and the musical Christmas puppets/scenes that were set up. He also thoroughly enjoyed the tissue paper. He was so tired from all the traveling and visiting and present opening that he ended up sleeping through Christmas at Granna's.

As young as he is-he sure made out like a bandit with all the presents that he received (most of them are toys that he can use later in the year-so we put those away for now). Dare I say the child is spoiled?

Christmas Day marked the anniversary that we told our parents that we were expecting-and here we are a year later with a beautiful, precious, blessing-. This Christmas was memorable in many ways .......