4 Month Stats

Look at me....posting this on the day of Joshua's appointment!!

He was a sweet sweet boy while we were at the doctor. Many people commented on his cuteness, and I have to agree! He is the most adorable little guy I've ever seen!! Everything went great at his appointment. He is healthy and is growing a lot! The doctor couldn't hear his heart murmur that she heard at his 2 month appointment, so that was an answer to prayer. Here are his stats for 4 months (plus a week):

Weight: 15 lb 5.5 oz (about 60th percentile)

Length: 25 3/4 in (about 75th percentile)

Head Circumference: 16 1/2 in (about 50th percentile)

He screamed and his face turned bright red when they gave him his shots. Poor guy. He cried for maybe 5 minutes afterwards and then went to sleep on the way home. This afternoon he has been doing pretty well....even smiling and talking to mommy some!

I'll leave you with a picture of my cutie....

November Happenings

Here's what we've been up to in November so far....

The first weekend in November we spent some time in Concord and Albemarle and had a great time.  On Saturday we went to Holly and Ben's baby shower in Concord at Ashley's house.  Their little boy is due Christmas Day!!!  We cannot wait to meet him!  Hurry up Baby Wyke!!  Joshua is ready to play with his friend!!  The shower was a lot of fun!  We don't get to see those guys very often, so it's always a special treat to see them!  Joshua was for the most part on his best cute-as-can-be behavior.  Due to our running around everywhere he wasn't exactly on his normal schedule, so we had some fussy moments.  We also got to spend lots of time with my family that day!  It made for a great day!

(Holly, Ashley, Jenn, Erin and Joshua)

We spent that night in Albemarle, and on Sunday we celebrated Gaga's (Derek's dad) birthday with Derek's family!  Tabitha, Taylor and Riley were there.  That was only the second time we've seen those girls since Joshua was born, so it was especially nice to get to see them!  That was a wonderful way to finish up our weekend!!

(Grandma, Gaga, Joshua, Taylor and Riley)

(Joshua and the Birthday Boy)

This past weekend we didn't keep ourselves quite as busy.  Friday night Derek went bowling with the middle school youth leaders from our church, so Joshua and I went to hang out with my friend Jen while the boys were out.  Her husband is the middle school youth pastor.  He was in a fine mood when we got there, and for most of the night.  On Saturday Derek took him "camping" at Jordan Lake.  Okay, maybe they didn't so much go camping, but they did go visit some of his college friends who were camping at Jordan Lake.  Some of them hadn't met Joshua yet, so they had a lot of fun.  Our good friend Jeff Knapp came over for dinner on Saturday night!  It was so nice to see him, and we had a great time!  Thanks for coming, Jeff!!  He and Derek even pulled out the ping pong table that has been out of commission for a long while and played a few games.

Joshua will be 4 months old on Wednesday!  I can't believe my baby is growing up so quickly.  Sometimes it's hard to remember when he was a tiny little newborn.  We're really enjoying the stage he's at right now, though!  He is full of smiles and laughter all the time!  He wants to roll over so badly.  He is so close from going from his back to his tummy.  He gets over on his side and then just hangs out that way.  With just a tiny nudge he goes on over to his tummy.  It won't be too much longer before he does it completely on his own!  He did "accidentally" roll over from his tummy to his back on Wednesday (the 5th) last week.  He did it at Nichole's house....yay for him, sad for mommy.  She said she put him down on his tummy for just a minute and when she turned around he was on his back!  I wrote this post last night and was still bummed about not seeing him roll over and then this morning while Joshua was throwing a small fit (I think he had gas) we put him on his tummy and he rolled over to his back twice!!

We go to the doctor next week for his 4 month appointment.  I can't wait to see how much he weighs and how long he is.  He has grown a lot from his 2 month appointment and is just so big now.  I'll post his stats next week (hopefully!).

Check out our flickr page for more pictures.  I'll try and do better with posting, but I can't make any promises.  Until next time.....whenever that is.....

October Happenings

Sorry for the lack of posts.  I have a hard time finding enough time to sit down and write.  Plus our computer died a few weeks ago, so we had to get the hard drive replaced.  The sad part about that is that we lost some of our pictures.  Luckily, many of them were on our flickr page, so it wasn't a total loss.  Here's a run down of what we were up to in October....

Derek's birthday was October 15th, so we spent the Saturday before his birthday in Albemarle.  His mom cooked a huge lunch that was so yummy!  YaYa (my mom) got to come see us in Albemarle and spend some time with our little man, so it was a really fun day!

Joshua turned 3 months old October 12th, and we went and had some pictures taken.  They turned out so so cute!  As soon as we scan them I will post the two pictures we bought. (I know, I know.....we've had them for weeks and they still aren't scanned and saved to our computer.)

The weekend before Halloween we went to the fall festival at our church, Hope Community Church.  Joshua was the cutest pumpkin around!  We got to see lots of friendly faces there!  Here are a couple.....

(Jason, Evan, Joshua and Derek)

(Derek, Joshua, Greg and Ayden)