New Beginnings

Its been a while since I posted, but have we been up to lots of things.  We MOVED!!!  An opportunity came up to rent a house and well I was not loving the 3rd floor apartment so we jumped at the chance.  We have been here only a couple of days but already we love it!  Here are a couple of pics:

Don't mind the mess, we still are moving in and adjusting!

While we were moving Rayne turned 11 months.  Can you believe it, in a short couple of weeks my baby will be 1!!!!! I honestly feel like I was pregnant with him just yesterday.  He has grown considerably and is still loving life.  We have had some digestive problems still, but think we have figured it out and so far we have had a couple of really good days.  For a while he wasn't sleeping completely through the night because of tummy issues and also a loud and hot apartment. Since we moved he is sleeping awesome and doing so much better!  We had a pediatricians appt last week and my baby is now 21.14 lbs (70 percentile) and measuring in at 30" (85 percentile) and his 5th tooth is popping through. I will do a longer blog at his birthday but for now, hes happy, big, strong and healthy and keeping us on our toes! We love our Bean!

Dancing and Stairs

I feel like its been a really long time since I posted.  We are up to so many things around here, just go go go.  Rayne is on the move, he has taken his movement one step further, literally.  He is now climbing stairs like a champ.  I was at my parents house one day doing laundry which is just off their stairs and i turn around and he has climbed 2 stairs, so i followed him and he did the whole staircase.  CRAZY!!! I'm not ready for him to grow up this fast.  Another thing i have discovered with him is his dancing.  I will have the tv on, piano or radio and he will hold onto whatever ledge he is holding and bounce up and down to the music.  I thought he was already adorable but this put it over the top.  He turns 11 months next week so I will post that as well as we move into a HOUSE!!! More info on that later.

Standing

Well we have moved on to the next phase....STANDING!!! Rayne can't wait to find a ledge to pull himself up and then move down the line and find everything in eyes sight to grab.  He is now keeping me on my toes.  Even though he has been crawling for a while now, its taken him some time to realize that he can follow me out of the room instead of crying until i get back.  Today i was running room to room and he kept up with me until something distracted him and he would shoot off for that.  Every day i'm falling more in love with him.   He is so affectionate and loves momma and daddy and we LOVE him!

He loves the Piano

Garbage can distracted him as we were playing

9 Month Checkup

Today was Bean's 9 month check up.  He weighed in at 20lbs (70th percentile), 29 inches long (80th percentile) and i can't remember the head measurement but he is also in the 80th percentile for that.  Everyday Im amazed at how long he is, I guess he has our genes.  3 more months and my baby is the big ONE!!!! How is it that time goes by so fast? 

Favorite Moments

We had a couple of favorite moments that I had to post:

He loves playing with big cups future pop addict like his mother :)

This is what happens when daddy plays

This was my absolute favorite.  Moments before he noticed the bottle on his onsie and grabbed it with his hands and tried to suck on it.  He quickly learned it was not real!!!

Uncle Chris

Rayne met his Uncle Chris for the first time last week.  It took a little getting use to but he warmed up to him.  He especially loved the books and blocks that Uncle Chris brought.

 

One of the books from Uncle Chris

Mama

The picture is a letter that spell out his name, thanks Grandma Bates!

There is no sweeter words than a child saying Mama for the first time.  Rayne has been growing like a weed!  He is already 9 months old and saying Mama and so much more!  Everyday I point to myself and say "Mama" and Rayne use to just laugh thinking it was a game, he now knows its me!!! My mom has also showed him how to say hi to someone and wave...especially at the birds in their backyard :)   He is so perfect, everyday Kyle and I look at eachother and just look and wonder how we got such a perfect bean.  He's so happy all the time, even if its a bad day his smile can turn it around.  The last couple of months have been huge for us so many things to blog about.  We decided a month ago to sleep train Rayne, oh my goodness!  I loved rocking him to sleep but i LOVE more that he can sleep on his own now.  We still have some rocky nights but for the most part he has learned that when mom or dad carries him into his room and wrap a blanket around him that its sleep time.  He will cuddle into the crook of our neck and let us rock him for a song or two and then we lay him down say goodnight and leave the room, he still fusses for two seconds but will either find his soother or teddy bear to calm him down.  He will then roll over on to his tummy and stay there for 11-12 hrs.  He has also learned to pull himself to sitting which means if he's not quite tired he can pull himself up to sitting in the crib and yesterday i caught him standing in his crib.  We decided it was time to lower the mattress in his crib, reality sunk in that he's quickly becoming a toddler and not my little baby anymore.

 We had a small scare a couple of weeks ago, my active little boy was still and quiet.  He woke up from his noon nap and within an hr wanted to go back so I let him sleep, when he woke up around 3 he was glued to my chest and wouldn't move and as i was holding him i could feel his heart just pounding through his chest.  Although he had no fever and I decided to take him to the ER.  His pulse turned out to be 185 so they took him back and checked him out but he checked out okay with everything.  The Dr said it was probably due to teething and its stress.  No teeth have announced itself yet, but he has recovered and back to himself.

Things at this stage:
*He loves cheerios and mum mums
*Loves to grab hold of our chins and cheeks for big kisses
*Becoming a little bit strange with people.  Loves to be with Mom and Dad
*He's long!!!  I'm not sure how long,  we go for a checkup in a few days but he's quickly growing out of clothes
*Loves the grandparents both sides!  My mom called today and rayne heard her voice on the phone and talked at her.  When i hung up the phone he got upset because he couldn't hear grandma anymore
 *Still at 6 oz of milk each feeding but it has spread out further sometimes going 5 hrs in between feedings
*He loves drinking cold water out of a glass, he's actually quite good at it, if someones holding it of course or else it would be all over him
*Still has 2 teeth
*Loves technology already, any cord, remote control or computer in his reach he moves quickly to it
*Loves, Loves, Loves Books....He takes after my own heart
*Loves to walk with us, he's over the crawling stage and wants to start moving on feet
*His grin will just melt you!