Cody Mouse - 5 Months

My little Cody mouse is 5 months old already, can you believe it? You're such a happy baby! Your smiles are so big and just light up your entire face, people would have to be a scrooge if it didn't make them smile as well. You've been eating solids now for about two weeks and just loves it! It's hard to get you to take a bottle some times cause all you want is cereal. And you eat so much! Julie said to me the other day, "I don't know how he was getting enough food when he was just on formula? He eats so much cereal." Which could have been part of the reason why you weren't sleeping well at night. You've been doing better these last couple of weeks, but still up at least once a night. You weight 18 lbs, but don't really look chubby and mainly I think it's cause you're so long. I'm betting you're going to be tall or at least taller than Logan cause you already are longer than Logan was at this age. You've also almost out grown your 3 - 6 month clothes. Most of them still fit, but a few of them are getting really tight.

Cody you LOVE your brother! And I know that Logan loves you as well. As soon as you see your brother you get the biggest smile on your face and just squeal. Logan thinks it's fun and then tries to tickle you, which you also love! It fills my heart completely to watch the two of you play and laugh together. And at night Logan can't go to bed without kissing Cody goodnight.

You're really starting to get around more as well. The picture below show's how much you do get around. When I set you on the floor you were over by the burp rag on the left hand side of the picture below. You just roll and roll, back and forth and sort of scoot around.


Here's a short video of you starting to get up on your knees. Won't be long I'm sure and you'll be crawling.



You also LOVE to be naked...or at least have your clothes off and just your diaper on. At night you'll get kind of fussy right before bed and the only thing that calms you down is taking off your clothes and letting you roll around on the floor in your diaper. Luckily Daddy finished the fireplace so the floor and the house is nice and toasty warm! You love to grab your toes and kick your legs up. You're also my little TV baby. You really like to watch the TV. If it's on in the room you crank your neck around to see it and love to watch the colors change. Mom listens to the satellite radio on cable a lot and you love to watch the little 'Directv' symbol fly around the screen.





Happy naked baby!


Aaahhh, a little help here Mom...I'm falling over...


Nevermind. I'll just chill here like this for a while.


I love you my little mouse!
Love,
Mom

P90X: Bring It...Brought It...Done!

I know I know, most of you are probably sick of me talking about P90X, but it's a difficult program for 90 days and I'm extremely proud of completing it. Sunday Sherri and I did final testing and took our after shots, so I promise this is the last time I'll talk about it on the blog/facebook.

The before and after shots.

Sherri looked FANTASTIC before we even started! Most people would kill for her before body! But she worked hard and pushed herself every day to get better! Great work Sherri and thank you for motivating me to keep going! I couldn't have done it without you!




Here's my shots. No I am not "pushing out" in the side shot...that was my little Cody Mouse belly...which I'm glad to say is now gone and all I'm left with is the cutest little boy!!




The stats:


Yes Sherri did gain weight during this. Muscle weights more than fat!
Yes we did count halfs for pull-ups...have you tried one...they're the hardest things on Earth to do...my 2 1/2 about killed me...
Toe Touch is a flexibility thing...which I suck at so getting to +5 was almost my biggest accomplishment for the training...well besides my 2 1/2 pull-ups.
In & Outs are ab strength...as you can see before I started I had NO ab muscles...I did just have a baby 3 months ago though so I didn't really expect too much.

It feels so good to say that we've done this! Thanks again Sherri for helping me kick Tony Horton's ass! :-)

Ok, now I won't talk about it any more....

Hair cuts

Brian's in charge of hair cuts around the Ranch. He gave Cody his first hair cut already even! Now I'm a little upset because he gave Cody his first hair cut when I was stuck in the airport in Chicago...Mom was not very happy about this AT ALL! I already missed everyone like crazy and then to miss out on my son's first hair cut...well that just broke the camels back! But it's ok...I know I won't miss his first REAL hair cut with Jody though...you can count on that!

Brian did save some of Cody's hair for me though and said we could reenact the hair cut. Here's our attempt at it last weekend and some pictures of Brian cutting Logan hair.

NOT THE REAL THING...NOT THE REAL THING...

Rice Cereal

We started Cody on rice cereal last weekend. He did GREAT! He's a whole month older than Logan was when we started him on rice cereal and the month made a difference. He really understood how to swallow better. First we just tried the rice cereal, but then we added in some bananas to add some flavor. He really liked it with the bananas...guess it's just mom that doesn't like bananas.



"HRM...what is this solid stuff?"


"Hey...it's not too bad."


"But Dad, I'd much rather do it myself."


Such a big boy!

Cousins

Saturday afternoon Debbie, Mikey, Stella and Weston stopped by to visit. Mikey had to grab a few things quickly so they weren't planning on staying, but Stella was so excited to see Logan that she immediately took off her boots and coat and decided she was staying. Which was totally fine with me since I hadn't seen her since Christmas! Debbie and Mikey still had things to do, so Stella stayed behind and hung out with Logan. It was so fun watching them play together. For the most part they play really well together, but every once in a while you get this...



Here are some more pictures from Saturday night.

Both Stella and Logan are at the stage where you say, "Smile" and they both give you the squinty eyes and huge smile...it's so cute!


Playing in the basket. I'm starting to realize that Logan really likes to wear things on his head...I've got so many pictures/videos of him with buckets, bags, coffee cans on his head...


Steller


See even Cody got in on the big smiles and "Cheese!". ;-)


Haha guys I'm up on the counter!! "I am Mighty Mouse!"


It was late when Debbie and Mikey got back so they just decided to stay the night and hang out on Sunday. It was so much fun! Sunday Brian and Mikey cut wood so Stella, Logan, Debbie and I ventured outside while the two little boys napped. It was cold, but also fun. Stella didn't have her snow pants with, so since she's so little she wore Cody's snow suit. She looked so funny in it. I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. Here's a few pictures and a video of them...so cute!

Stella Bear!


I love the look from behind! :-)


Winter Fun!


Going for a 4-wheeler ride!


He was cold and the sun was too bright.


Stella was making snow angels.




Here's some more pictures from the weekend and another video. The other big thing this weekend was Cody started eating solid foods. I've got a post on that coming up as well...and one other one I think...

Uncle Brian's so fun!


Bath time fun...Cody and Weston first...(doesn't it look like Cody's sleeping? He's not of course)


Then Stella and Logan. It would have been way way to crazy to put all four of them in the tub at once...maybe some day though!


I Love this picture! So cute!


Cousins!

See-through Fireplace

Here are the pictures of the See-through fireplace. Brian did a fantastic job on it and we've had a fire every night since he finished it last week...ok well not the one night I was home with the boys by myself...I'm still a little intimidated by the HUGE fireplace. I'm sure I'll work up the courage to start a fire by myself some day, but for now I'll let my caveman build the fires. :-)

FIRE!


Brian did everything on this side. He welded everything, made all the handles, doors, EVERYTHING!


It kind of looks small here, but it's big in real life.


This is the view from inside the house.

Sharing

The last month or so we've really struggled to get Logan to eat. Julie says he eats great at daycare, so at least I know he is getting enough nutrients/food, but he just doesn't want to eat at home with us. I'll make dinner and he won't eat it and then about 20 min later he'll want an apple and eat the whole thing. I guess for now I'm cool with that cause an apple is better than candy. Don't get me wrong, most of the time it's, "Snack Please". Which refers to the gummy fruit snacks. The nice thing is he has no problem sharing his fruit snacks with people. Ask him to share his toys and all hell breaks loose, but he'll gladly, without even asking, share his fruit snacks with you...and with Cody...

(When I was taping this video I did not realize that Logan is cramming as many fruit snacks into his mouth as he possibly can...whooops...guess I should pay attention more and stop watching through the video camera...)



"Aaahh...Mom Cody really wanted that fruit snack. He told me himself."


"Yeah Mom why can't I have a fruit snack?"


"Someday they'll get to share for real."