A baby's laughter is the greatest joy in life!

So I have two purposes for this blog; 1. to share with the world how cute Sterling laughing at our dogs is and 2. an update on my furniture that I am SO close to being finished with!

So we were sitting in our bedroom and I was playing with Rocky. We already know that Sterling LOVES watching Rocky and starts laughing even more when Rocky or Bella barks. It melts my heart when he starts laughing so hard he has to stop to breathe! He was so cute and luckily Shon had his phone right there and was able to capture this moment.

Here is the link to watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZCgsINbcG0

We also have a tooth! He has been drooling an enormous about lately and has an obsession with sticking out his tongue! I looked a couple of days ago and his gums were really white. Today I rubbed him gums with my finger and felt something sharp! His bottom tooth had broke through! It is so excitingto get to see the milestones and at the same time I think about how fast he is growing and how these times aren't going to last forever like I would love them too. Next milestone that we are really close to.... crawling. That I am not ready for. My house is no where near baby proofed!

As for my furniture.. I am finally finished with the painting part and all I need to do is finish putting the mirrors on the nightstands and the knobs on all of it. I ordered some clear glass knobs that look like diamonds for all the furniture. I really liked the way it turned out! I am really debating on whether or not this summer I am going to start refinishing furniture and selling it. I feel like this is a great market for it and it is something I really enjoy doing. Next on the list is my headboard so we will see how it goes!

I posted some before and after pictures below. I will posta final product picture after I get finished putting the mirrors and knobs on. Would love to hear what everyone thinks!

Sterling is 6 months!

Wow I can't believe that Sterling is already 6 months old! He has changed so much and continues to change everyday. He is laughing at things and it melts my heart when he starts giggling! He thinks our dogs are the funniest thing he has ever seen and just laughs so hard when they play and bark. I took him to his 6 month yesterday and while I was a little nervous about going to a new pediatrician, everything went great. He is in the 50th percentile for his weight and 75th percentile for his height. He was in the 95th percentile for his weight at 4 months so I guess since he doesn't sit still for longer then 2 seconds he is burning some calories!

We have been doing solids for about a month now and we have introduced cereal, sweet potatoes, zucchini, bananas, and apples. Believe it or not his favorite has been zucchini, but he is by no means a picky eater. I don't think he has spit out one bite yet! He loves his food. I keep getting excited to see what face he makes, and then he just eats it and has no reaction to it at all. He is such a funny little guy. We are amazed by him everyday and he is our joy in life.

He can definitely snore some massive logs! He has recently started snoring like a grown man and at first it was just funny but then it got a little concerning. He has always had the tracheamalacia that makes him sound worse than he is, but we took him to the ENT just to be safe. They put a little camera down his nasal cavity and looked at his voicebox and nose to make sure everything was ok, and it was a little traumatic for him, and mom. He just didn't like being held down but everything checked out ok, and they think he might have a little reflux because his voice box was swollen so we are going to try some meds for that.

We took him to the zoo for the first time over spring break and he liked the giraffes because he could see them and they came up close but then he was more interested in watching all the other kids then looking at the animals. I think is was more fun for us than him!

We are finally getting settled in in our new house and we absolutely love it. We have great neighbors and a great community that we are really enjoying. Our house is ALMOST put together. We are doing some last minute touches and finishing some rooms that were the "collect all" rooms for a while. I am currently a little obsessed with DIY projects and refinishing furniture. I made all the curtains in our house (yes I learned to sew for those of you who don't believe it!) and we recently purchased an old set of bedroom furniture from Salvation Army that I am refinishing so as soon as I finish them I will post some pics! Older furniture was just made so much better and is heavy solid wood that I think is going to turn out awesome! My next project is to upholster a headboard for our bedroom. I will post pics when I get them finished. They are taking me a little long because I am working on Saturday's so I just have Sunday to work on them but it is my stress release and I love it. It's like a challenge to me to see how cheap I can refinish something and make it beautiful. Of course I have my mom to call and say "how do you do this!" She is amazing with paint and DIY projects so I have a good teacher.

Till next time... hopefully I will be done with the furniture!

Long Over Due!

So I haven't posted since I was like 24 weeks pregnant and there is a LOT that has happened since then!! I am trying to get better at posting so that I don't have to bore everyone in a novel to catch everyone up to date. I have been so busy working and finishing up my internship hours for my masters program in counseling. I can not wait to graduate!!

So obviously Sterling joined us on September 24th which was two weeks before my actual due date. I went on bed rest at home on August 25th because I was having too many contractions (had to get a shot to stop them and they gave me steroids to make sure his lungs were developed if he came early) and was 90% effaced and dilated to a two at 34 weeks. Then all the sudden my blood pressuresky rocketed and I had to stay in the hospital on strict bed rest 7 days before I had him. That was just a little bit miserable! They induced me on the 24th of September and Sterling arrived that evening weighing in at 7.94. I wonder what he would have been if I would have made it two more weeks to my due date!

He is doing great and growing out of control! He is already 4 months old! He changes so much every week and I just can't imagine my life without him. He is our entertainment. Just to hit the high points:

He is sleeping through the night (8 hours), smiling and laughing, rolling over, started on cereal, the best baby we could ask for. We arespoiled with such a laid back chill baby.

I took him to his 4 month appointment on Thursday and he weighed 15lbs and 23.5 inches (which I think is a little off because I measured him and he was right at 25 inches). So he was in the 97th percentile for weight and 75th percentile for height!! We just love him so much.

Another area of our lives that changed was we moved into our new house on December 15th in Fate. We love our neighborhood and are so excited to get to know our neighbors and start a new chapter of our lives here. We miss Keller, but love it here. Im not sure if I mentioned this in my previous blog, but Shon got a new job working as an assistant controller for Park Place so Keller was just a little too far of a drive for us, plus my mom is keeping Sterling during the day so it just worked out really well for us.

I think that caught us up in a very short way, so I will try to be better at updating! We had a major ice storm this week so school was cancelled yesterday, today, and tomorrow so I actually had time to do things I want to do! Plus I get to stay home andspoil my baby!!

See you nex time!

Sterling's newborn picture Sterling at 4 months

Our new house