My Life is Crazy

I know I promised to update more. My life has been nuts, and I am trying to learn time management. Since my last post, I have had six photoshoots, started making all my dinners from scratch, (nope, didn't do that before. We had lots of frozen pizza.) worked on no-cry sleep training, (Baby-E slept 11.75 hours last night. WHAT??) got a stitch fix (more on that later), moved Baby-E to the crib and J-Man to a "real" toddler bed, rearranged the boys' room, and started running. In that, I DID manage to take Baby-E's 7 month photo (it may have been a week late. Still counts.) and even a few of J-Man.
J-Man's speech is improving by leaps and bounds! I think preschool has helped him so much, and he LOVES his teacher. He asks for him on a regular basis, and cheers when we pull into his driveway for preschool. He can say around 30 words now. I'm so proud of my little guy!

Baby-E had his 6 month check up. (At 7 months old.) The doctor is finally seeing my concerns about his reflux.
15lbs 9oz (less than a pound of growth in 3 months)
25.5 inches (a half an inch in 3 months)
I don't remember what his head circumference is. I'll have to look it up.
She is still not medicating him, but he is going back for a growth check next month. We have started him on some oatmeal, and it seems to be helping him to not throw up quite as much. (Mr. T has food allergies, so I delay solids just a little as a precaution. J-man started at 7.5-8 months, so that is what I had planned for Baby-E as well, but we went ahead and started him at just under 7.5 months.)

Anyway, here is Baby-E at 7 months!

Maybe I am a bad mama, but his little crying face is just so stinking cute!

A New Blog

Welcome to our new blog! I am excited to have a fresh start with everything, and I thought our blog could use one, too. ;) And also, a chance to keep it up instead of going two months without posting. (Whaaat? Did I do that?)
Here is what has been going on with us the last little while.

Baby E turned 5 months.

And Baby E turned 6 months.

We also moved into a new house, but those pictures will have to wait for later.

At 6 months Baby E is:
sitting up
TRYING to get up on his hands and knees, but isn't quite there yet
scoots himself backwards and in circles all day long
still naps really well, and takes 3 naps per day
he is still exclusively breastfed. We have tried avocados and green beans, but his little tummy has NOT done well with either. (He throws them up.) So we will wait a little longer

he is SO easygoing, and super smiley. He is always in a good mood, even when he is tired

no teeth yet

LOVES his big brother

he can roll both ways

And as for the J-man, he just started PRESCHOOL! I can't believe how big he is now. He has gone and grown up on me. :(

Mr. T and I are just chugging along. We are anxiously awaiting some news about a new job sometime in early September, and I'll keep you posted on that.
My photography business is FINALLY starting to flourish in small-town Nevada. I have FIVE shoots lined up in the next three weeks! I am very excited.

And that's the news in our family. How are you?