Baby Food

Our first bite of baby food---we decided to try carrots first.

MMmm--this could be good.

Nope its definetly not--yucky...

Okay, I'll try again....

Ewww--still yucky--too bad Im going to have to try these a few more nights

Since then we have moved on to sweet potatoes--and he loves them. Friday we get to try green beans, and then peas, and then we move on to fruits. More of the faces to come.

6 Months Old

Brayden turned 6 months old February 17th. We had his sixth month doctor appointment last Friday. She gave us the go ahead to start baby food, and said Mr Brayden is looking great.

He weighed in at 22 pounds, and is 28 inches long. He gained 3 pounds and four inches from his four month visit. Our next appointment will be for his nine month check up, where she says we can talk about table foods--yay :)

Look What Brayden Can Do.

Brayden is doing something new everyday. It is amazing to us how much he has changed in just 6 months. The dr said at his appointment that the next three months we will notice the most changes....now is definetly when we need to babyproof the house completely! I can tell he is going to be getting into everything before we know it. We cant wait!

Here he is sitting up, we have been practicing, and then one morning he could do it, every day he sits up a little bit straighter and longer.

He also loves to be on his tummy and pull up as far as he can so he can see everything that is going on.

Playing with mommy with his George in a box. He loves this toy, and even more now that he can sit up and grab for George as he is jumping out of the box. You can kind of see in his face how concentrated he is on this.

Brayden has also become very independent. He likes to hold his bottle, and will barely let anyone else hold it but him or mommy. He is the same way with his pacifier, he has decided that he doesnt like it very much, and when he does want it, only he can put it in his mouth, if you try, he will spit it out every time.

He is still very cuddly. Here he is very tired after an evening of playing with daddy. They were both sitting there watching tv and sleeping...oops mommy woke daddy up taking the picture. Here is our sweet angel sleeping---his sleeping pictures are still my favorite!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Grandma (mommy's mommy) had a birthday in the beginning of February. So daddy helped me make a special birthday card while we were waiting for mommy to get home from work, and had mommy get the pictures of me making it printed. She loved it and it was fun eating pizza and playing Wii to celebrate. Arent I cute--and look how big Im getting? Hope you had a great birthday mawmaw!

Congratulations Nick and Jesie!!!

Proud parents Nick and Jesie, welcomed our newest nephew into the world. He is a healthy baby boy--8 pounds 12 ounces, 21 inches long-Beau Micheal is the newest addition to our family. We are so happy for them, and so blessed to have another healthy baby in our family. We cant wait to meet him!!!

This makes three boys for the Flinn family---as most of you know my husband has three brothers---I think history may be repeating itself, and we can look forward to a lot of trouble and playing in the future with all of these boy cousins within 18 months of eachother!!! We cannot wait until they are wrestling and running around!!!

So Far in 2009...

So far in 2009 we havent done very much. Brayden has been sick on and off since New Years weekend. Its the winter crud, and we cant get rid of it completly. His nebulizer treatments have helped so much, and we are glad he is feeling better, we just hope he is 100% soon! Nathan and I both decided that little babies shouldnt get sick. We feel so bad when they are so helpless. In between not feeling well, he has grown so much, and has gotten so strong. He loves his cereal and his exersaucer. And today he FINALLY rolled over from his tummy to his back. I am so glad he decided to do it on my day off so I could see it----he is always such a good boy to his mommy :)

Braydens First Christmas

Brayden had a great first Christmas and we enjoyed it with him. Christmas was crazy, but we are very thankful that we got to visit with all of our families. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas celebrations.

Picture of my family at Reese Christmas--this was also grandpa Nusbaum's birthday---Happy 50th Birthday Grandpa!!!!

Getting ready to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas Eve.

Picture of Bray looking at one of his gifts from Santa. We thought he wouldnt be that into the presents this year, but we were suprised when he couldnt take his eyes and sometimes hands off the paper and the presents. We loved it!

Brayden posing with another present from Santa---and another one of his faces--- :)

Christmas Day we went to Nonna's for Nusbaum Christmas, Nonna bought Brayden a special little people's nativity, here they are checking it out! All of the Nusbaum cousins. About every three years, all of the Nusbaums get together and celebrate, it was so nice to be able to visit with our Colorado family, we definetly do not get to see them enough.

Aunt Brookie snuggin with Bray as he takes his afternoon nap.

Friday after Christmas we hopped back into the car and went to Missouri to celebrate the Flinn Family Christmas weekend. Grandma Flinn made us pizza at her house Friday, and Aunt Amanda and Uncle Jesse had the family to their house for an all day Pajama Christmas on Saturday. As you can see with our ever growing family--we take up a lot of room...I can only imagine how next years pictures will look. We are very lucky that we get so many opportunities to be able to spend time with them.

Here is Cohen---17 months old...I wonder if he is thinking..."when are all these people going to leave?"

I know its late, but I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a great 2009!