Lot's of Pictures

This is the first time in the big tub. If you look closely you can see his little teeth.

Will really loves his dog. Now that he's crawling Sidney better lookout.
This is Carley and she likes to bang him on the head with blocks.
What do you think she is saying to him? Sorry for hitting you on the head. ???
Here he is crawling.
Gotchya mama!

He hasn't learned to tilt it up yet.
Here is his first try at the sippy cup. Apple juice is yummy!!
He loves his baseball. Notice what hand it's in?
But.....he also like's his soccer ball. Maybe he'll be a well rounded athlete.
He's trying to catch a snowflake on his tongue.

Playing in the snow didn't go real well.
Believe me, he wasn't try to make a snow angel.
Thanks for the hat mammaw!

These are Will's girlfriends. Vanessa and Carlie
uh oh.. is he going to be a tarheels fan.....................
................Like his daddy? Naaaahh......go CAVS!
This is the face he makes when he eats applesauce. Pretty cute in my opinion!

Just chillin'
He just learned to crawl and now he want's stand.

Update on Will

I'm sorry that I have not updated you on Will in awhile. I really have no excuses. There won't be any pictures with this update either. He is sitting here in the office with me and with the way he is acting it seems like I only have a minute or two to do this. So.... he is 6 months old now ( and 2 weeks). On Jan 5 his first tooth came in. And the second one followed 6 days later. So he has 2 cute, sharp, little teeth on the bottom. I don't see any others in the near future. I think he handled these first two pretty well. I could tell they were coming though but it only lasted a couple of days. He is on the verge of crawling. Technically he knows how to and has but it's only one knee and then a belly flop. Plus he's pretty good at going sideways. We just have to figure out the forward direction. He had his 6 month checkup on the 15th. He weighed 18lbs (52%). He was 27 1/2 inches long (79%- we know who he got this from) and his sweet little head measured 17 (23%- and we know who he got this from). He is eating 3 jars of food a day and loves most everything I feed him. The one exception- green beans. But his all time favorite is still his milk. Well, since he's about to choke himself with a pair of goggles that he found??? that's all for now. I promise to upload pictures shortly.

Will's First Christmas

Mommy and me at the Christmas tree farm.Hey Santa, is this thing real?
Mommy and Daddy are trying to get a cute picture for the Christmas card.
They found their cute picture for the Christmas card.
This is my first roadtrip. We're going to NC for Christmas!!! I hope Santa can find me.

First we stopped to see "Uncle" Ricky.
Then we went to see Great Grandmom Harper. She hasn't seen me since I was born.
I got to meet Great Uncle Jim for the first time.
And then we went to Mammaw's. We had a lots of fun at the Christmas Eve Celebration.
We got to open presents.

I don't need your help mom. I can do it by myself.It's Christmas morning and Dad won't let me get up to see if Santa came.
I'm ready!!
Look what I got! Thanks Mammaw and Pappaw.
It's my very own computer.

All of this present unwrapping is wearing me out.
Ok, I've had some breakfast, a nap, and now I'm ready for more presents. Off to Grams and Gramps.
Merry Christmas Gramps.

Santa found me at Grandma and Granddaddy Stricklands too.
This is from GG. I love it.
Granddaddy, you sure know how to spoil me.
Grandma, did you see what Santa left? A jumpy gym for my house. Thanks for telling him that I wanted one!

I sure know how to make GG laugh.

Will's first Christmas was so much fun. He was spoiled, as I expected, getting a lot of really cute clothes and toys. He was so cute to watch. He loved eating the wrapping paper and tissue paper and banging on the boxes. He was able to meet members of the family for the first time. I think he liked all of the attention. We really appreciate all of the wonderful gifts and we hope all of you had a Merry Christmas.

Mom's been waiting for this day!

I'm a little late reporting but Will is sleeping through the night. He has been now for about 2 weeks. He goes to bed between 8:30 and 9:00 and sleeps until 7:30 or 8:00. It's marvelous. I forgot what a full nights rest was like. The swaddler is a thing of the past as well. Next is the pacifier.



He came down with a cold over the weekend. This is his third one and the worst one. The others didn't seem to affect him too badly but this one is getting the best of him. I didn't realize how hard it is to use an aspirator on a screaming, squirmy baby.

Other than that he is doing great. He is doing well eating his cereal now. I think he actually likes it. I think I'll try baby food again after Christmas.

He loves you all. Merry Christmas

5 months old