Sullivan's 6 Month "Birthday"

My sweet Sullivan Rose,

How in the world are you 6 months old already? Time really does fly when you are having fun! Wednesday was May 15 which marked your 6 month "birthday." Around our house that means Crye babies get to try solids for the first time (we did the same thing with Coleman). Up until yesterday you have been exclusively breastfeed, with the exception of whatever your brother has tried to feed you when I have my back turned. :) So you can thank momma's milk for all of those sweet fat rolls!

Sweet potatoes were on the menu tonight. I had smashed up some we had left over a couple of weeks ago and frozen them in preparation for you starting solids. You seemed a little confused and excited all at the same time by the texture and taste of "actual" food.

You are growing so fast! We go for you 6 month check up in the next couple of weeks so we will get your "stats" of how much you have actually grown then.

More 6 Month Tid Bits:

You can sit up completely on your own now(you have been "tripod-ing" for a while but no hands are need to help keep you up now).

You have been army crawling for a couple of weeks but now you are really on the move! You switch between really crawling and army crawling but boy can you move!

You are such a morning baby! You usually go to sleep between 8-9  and sleep until 5:30 or 6. On occasion you wake up somewhere around 3, I bring you to bed with us, nurse you back to sleep and then you just stay in our bed. No matter what time it is you usually wake up cooing and the moment I come to pick you up I get the biggest grin possible!

You have cut the two middle teeth on bottom.

You like to be worn in the baby wrap when we are out and about walking or running errands.

You absolutely love your brother! You laugh and grin at him all the time. He in turn loves his sister! Coleman tells everyone "That's my Sullivan."

You and Daddy have father/ daughter time most weekday mornings after I leave for work and Coleman is still sleeping. I think he is training you to love Sports Center then I will be out numbered. :)

Love you to the moon and back,
Mom

Mother's Day 2013

Coleman and Sullivan,

I am so proud to have the privilege of being your mom! You brighten my day beyond measure everyday not just Mother's day. I thank God every night for both of you and pray to be the best mother I can be for you two! 

Love you to the moon and back!

Mom

Sunday Funday

 Coleman this is what you are giving me when I say "let me take a picture."

Sullivan you on the other hand don't mind mommy's picture taking on bit! 

Yes I did make that giant bow on your head and love it! Everyone should go check out your mommy's etsy shop for more cute bows made by me! :) 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/theleopardturtle

Coleman I'm not sure that you and Brandt have much of a choice but to be buddies. You two are exactly six month and two days apart and are really at the age where you love playing with each other when we can get together with the Harrisons.

Four babies under two and half + a group picture= interesting

Keeping Prospective

Song for a Fifth Child

by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew
And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo
But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.

I have come to find that this is all too true. 

I've been so busy living my busy life that I feel have done a poor job of documenting it. I have come to realize that memories leave us all too quickly and while rocking and loving my babies will always come first, I must try to do a better job or recording these wonderful memories.