Can You Believe It....

Timothy is 6 months old! It seems like we just brought him home! But then again, it is hard to imagine our family without him. He is such a sweet, happy baby! Even Joshua will shake his head "yes" if we ask him if he loves Timothy & if he wants to be friends with him. Of course, he still doesn't want much to do with him, and does not appreciate his wet little hands grabbing for him all of the time. And, we have alot of work ahead of us on sharing.

Here are some pictures of some of the things Timothy does that crack us up:



Practicing some new sounds. This was taken about a month ago. He has now moved on to vocalizing alot. Right now it is "da-da-da-da" all day long....love it :)

Getting a head start on the crunches!

Pulling himself up by the rings on his swing. I guess he is working the upper body.

Happy 6 Months sweet boy!

Neglected Blog!

My poor blog is very neglected these days....along with my house! I realized I never posted the following pictures on here. These were taken in October by our friend Megan at Trolard Imaging. These are a few of our favorites:

Here's a quick update on the boys:

Timothy is growing up too fast! He will be 6 months old in a couple of weeks! He loves to eat. He started solids a month ago & has loved everything so far. He usually starts crying about 15 minutes before the times I normally feed him baby food! He also got his first tooth about a week and a half ago. I think the next one will be here soon. He has always hated tummy time. He will lay his face down & cry (and spit up) everytime we put him on his tummy. I felt sorry for him & didn't do it often. So of course he couldn't roll over. About two weeks ago I got serious about tummy time & started rolling him over. Yesterday he rolled over by himself...both ways! He hasn't rolled from back to front again but everytime I put him on his tummy, he rolls to his back. So funny!

Joshua is also doing well. He seems to be enjoying preschool and his teachers say he has done incredible since he returned after Christmas. He has started to say some words occassionally. "No" is what we hear the most, but we have also heard mama, more, cool, & attempts at cold, llama, daddy, poppa, movie, & gulp. He even said "trouble" twice! He has a phonics/alphabet toy that has 10 modes of play. One of those modes asks you to spell words. Joshua has learned to spell several words, including car, jug, ogre, flower, elephant, dinosaur, zoo, pear, rose, monkey & yacht (I know, this toy has some random selections for words for a preschooler). It has the same game in Spanish & Joshua can spell several words in Spanish! Crazy! He is also down to only one seizure medication...after weaning him off of the ineffective one over a period of 2 years! Now he will only have to deal with side effects of one medication!

How Do They Compare?

People always ask me if Timothy looks like Joshua did at this age & if they are the same size etc. So, I finally found Joshua's stats (I know his baby book should be done but it isn't...thats a goal for 2011!). Here are some pics & stats. They uploaded in reverse order...sorry! No time to redo!

4 months:

Timothy - 18 lbs 12 oz & 27 in

Joshua - 20 lbs 12 oz & 26.75 in


6 weeks:

Timothy (pic is 6 weeks but stats are 7 weeks) - 14 lbs 3.5 oz & 23.5 in

Joshua - 12 lbs 3.5 oz & 23.5 in



2 weeks:

Timothy - 10 lbs 4.5 oz & 23.5 in

Joshua - 9 lbs 5 oz & 21 in



Birth:

Timothy - 9 lbs 4 oz & 21.5 in

Joshua - 8 lbs 4 oz & 21.75 in

Happy New Year!!

Don't you love all of the left over chaos from Christmas?

Timothy started rice cereal on New Year's Day....he's a big fan!

It's Hard Work Being Cute!

This little guy just makes us smile!

Does this picture remind you of any one?

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas this year! Things were hectic for us, as usual. I didn't get pictures at any of our get togethers! We were thrilled that my brother & his wife were able to be in town for Christmas this year! It was the first time they got to meet Timothy! In true Asbeck fashion, Timothy had an ear infection! Of course, I didn't even know it...he is such a happy baby! I took him for his 4 month check up on the 23rd & the doctor told me he had an ear infection. He wasn't running a fever or fussing at all!

The past two years, Christmas has not been as fun as we had hoped with Joshua. He was either sick or medications had recently been adjusted, causing behavior issues, etc. So, I think we went into this Christmas with pretty low expectations. However, it ended up being really fun. Joshua was in to opening presents, and actually liked some of them (it is always a gamble with him & toys). He was in a great mood at all of the family gatherings. He got excited when we talked about Santa. He even sort of helped me make cookies for Santa. We had Christmas cookie cutters & he thought the candy cane was a "J", so he cut out a few with that! He really liked eating them! On Christmas morning, I asked him if he wanted to see what Santa brought him, and he got excited. When we got downstairs, he ran right past his gifts from Santa & went straight to one of the toys he had gotten from us the day before....oh well!



Joshua with the train table Santa brought him, and some sing-a-ma-jigs.

Timothy was precious for his first Christmas. He smiled & laughed most of the time. He really is a very happy baby! We are so thankful to have him here! Here he is with his Taggies Elephant from Santa! This was taken at the end of the day on Christmas. He is in his Christmas outfit here, but he actually didn't wear it earlier in the day. My family arrived before I got him into it & I didn't want to put it on him right before he ate because he would spit up all over it. Somehow it got to be the end of the day & he hadn't worn it, so I needed to put it on him for at least a little bit!

Mom Can't Compete with the iPad

I was trying to get a picture of the boys in their matching shirts. Unfortunately, Joshua was playing a game on the iPad, and Timothy seems to like the iPad as much as Joshua does. I couldn't get them to look at me at all! Oh well!