Five Month Pictures

The months are just flying by! The first picture shows Kyler in his Jumperoo. He loves it. He spends lots of time in there throughout the day!Hmm..some milestones he has down include rolling over. He did this the first time at around 6 weeks but now immediately rolls over when placed on his tummy. He LOVES to stand and loves to be in his Jumperoo to jump. We have been giving him puree fruits and cereal once a day. We might bump it up to twice a day now that more of it is actually being digested vs landing on his bib.

The Day After X mas

It's Italian food night at the Truglio's house. Yum! Kyler had some fun bonding with Great Grandpa Poppy.

Christmas Day

Kyler woke up at the Hood household and we opened gifts around noon (that is the last Christmas that will ever happen!). Then we headed over to the Roth household for more Christmas fun.

Kyler's First Christmas Eve

Jamie's family had their annual Christmas Eve gift/white elephant swap. Once again, it was a total blast. Jamie gave the most practical gift, fluorescent light bulbs as his gag gift..wow, exciting. Poor Melissa wound up with that one. We felt bad, so we gave her some extra gift money afterward. Jamie wound up with an MRE (given out during one of the hurricanes), so justice was served. Kyler opened his first gift ever that night and he was, of course, very interested in eating the wrapping paper..so colorful, it must be yummy!

Puree Introduction!

We were so blessed to be able to spend time with both families this Christmas and get together with some old friends too. We started out visiting Jamie's family in Nederland Texas. Grandma Hood (Jamie's mom) helped me out with feeding Kyler some pears and rice cereal (as we have been given the okay by his pediatrician to introduce puree fruits and cereal). He wasn't too sure about this new texture as evidenced by the picture! After breakfast he was pretty sleepy and was ready for a nap..Time for Uncle Jeremy to put me to sleep.

Bear Cub

I finally got my child a warm hat for the winter. I had the hardest time finding a decent one anywhere..the stores only seemed to have hats for girls (or hats with giant cartoon characters on them)!

Merry Christmas!

Kyler had some Christmas pictures taken. I feel bad b/c we are not doing Christmas cards this year b/c I never got around to it. It just takes so much time stuffing all the envelopes and putting on all the labels and stamps. Jamie has been out of town for work the past month and I was sick all last week with food poisoning (courtesy of Jamie's deer sausage). Thank you mom for coming into town to help with the baby! Anyhow, there has been no time for anything but the minimal. I think one of these pictures would have looked really cute too in a Christmas card, so I am kind of sad about it. Oh well. Thank you to those of you who have sent us cards. Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Kyler's Four Month Pictures

He is getting big! Hitting all milestones. We'll find out tomorrow at his 4 month check-up how much he weighs but I am sure it is 20lbs..at least he feels that big to me when I am walking up the stairs!

Thanksgiving in Nederland

After driving home from Nebraska we had a night to rest and then we drove 6 hours to Nederland (near Beaumont TX) to visit Jamie's family and celebrate Jamie's B-day. It was a really great trip! Jamie's mom watched Kyler during the day and I got to catch up on some much needed sleep. We ate lots of pie and watched a lot of football. I love pie for breakfast..I want to make a cutesy decorative sign (you know, like the ones that say Live, Laugh, Love Often) to go in the kitchen that says, "Eat Some Pie...for breakfast." I LOVE that my in-laws like to have pie for breakfast! Jamie's old high school buddies came over as well with their babies, so it was a nice reunion. Kyler started noticing his feet more this week, as noted in the picture of him grabbing his red Husker's socks. It was kind of cute watching the discovery!

NE Trip

The Saturday before Thanksgiving we (Jamie, myself, Kyler, Shiloh, and Jamie's dad) drove to Nebraska to visit Jamie's grandmother. It was a 15 hr car ride, which could have been bad, except Jeremy lent us his Toyota Sequoya, so we had more room. Kyler did well but got pretty ancy toward the end of the trip due to being in his car seat for so long. Yes, I cheated and took him out quite a bit. The trip was really nice. We visited with Jamie's grandma and even took a day for ourselves to visit the local monuments..Chimney Rock and Scottsbluff, which were major landmarks during the pioneering days when settlers moved out west (remember the Oregon Trail computer game from elementary school?). The top picture shows Great Grandma Hood playing 'This Little Piggy' with Kyler's toes...very sweet.