Super Bowl and SIX Months Old!

Grant turned six months old on February 7th. I CANNOT believe how fast these first 6 months have gone. Although I know he definitely still qualifies as a baby(and who am I kidding, I will still introduce him as my baby when he is getting married (: ) he is seeming more and more like a little boy and less like a newborn everyday. Grant is a smiler and a laugher, just like his dad(refer to previous post). When he wakes up in the morning he just talks and sings to himself for a long time until we come get him and as soon as he sees us he starts squealing and kicking his arms and legs like crazy. He really likes his jumperoo and can get bouncing pretty good. He is a VERY sensitive baby and does a huge pouty lip if people talk too loud or if he knows people are talking about him in a joking manner- like saying how chubby and cute his legs are- I know it seems like he is too young to know this, but it has happened several times. It is pretty funny, but we are working on toughening him up. (: He loves to be naked and will let you know how angry he is to have to put clothes on...hope he grows out of that before high school (; He is very clingy to mom and dad, and although he will go to other people, he is constantly scanning the room to make sure we haven't left him. We do leave him with our friends fairly often though and he enjoys that. I think he gets distracted with the girls constantly doting over him. Here are some pics from the past few weeks and some of the things Grant does at six months.

First, here are the pictures that we had taken at Christmas. We did one set with the Lovinger side and then the next week Grandma Kim took him to get some of just him.

Here are the ones of Grant, so cute and looking so grown up.

Here are the Lovinger family pics...

the adorable grandkids, Katelyn and Grant

the whole fam

Love this suit

This was a couple Sunday ago. Grant was a little sleepy and waiting patiently for his Sunday nap.

"come ON"

Grant eats a variety of food now, but some of his favorites are bananas, carrots, and peach/pear granola. He has also started taking bites of bread or rolls if we are having them for with our meal.

He loves to be read to

or to read to himself

He sits up completely on his own for LONG periods of time. We will just lay a bunch of toys out on a blanket and he will play while we get things done. It is VERY nice.

last week we had a super bowl party with Jake and Jill and their girls. It was lots of fun and we had tons of good food.

Here is Cameron trying to get Grant into the excitement...not really working, it was past his bedtime.

the food

Callie LOVES Grant and is always giving him lots of hugs and kisses

I love his expression in this picture

We decided since both Grant and Callie needed a bath before bed, we would just save time and do it together. They both had a lot of fun splashing around. Callie enjoyed putting bubbles on Grant's face and he would laugh every time she did.

Love these pics too.
HAHA! "get me outta here"

Grant's six month stats:

26 inches tall- 33rd percentile

20lbs 15oz- 88 percentile

Grant Laughing HYSTERICALLY

Cameron and I were folding some laundry the other night when Cameron threw some folded socks up in the air and they hit the ceiling fan and flew across the room. Grant was a little tired and delirious anyway, but he thought it was HILARIOUS, so Cameron kept doing it and I grabbed the camera. I just LOVE how he is laughing SO hard that he falls over. Enjoy!

Christmas Summary

Normally I would take the time to put all of these pictures in chronological order, write some descriptive comment by each one, tell the whole long and detailed story of whatever I am updating about and, in the end, have a very nice post to add to our blog to be printed and added to our "blog journals", but I just don't want to take the time to do that this time. Updating the blog has been on my "to do" list for a LONG time and I just want to have it done so I can look back and remember Grant's first Christmas, (I know, bad mom who chooses to not do her son's first Christmas the justice it deserves in the memory books). So here is a QUICK summary of our Christmas and lots of pictures:

We flew out on December 22nd to go home to Spokane for Christmas. Grant was really good on both flights, even though he was super tired once we finally got to Spokane. He LOVED all the family and ALL the attention he got while we were there. He got some great new toys and books from his grandparents and got to meet some family that he had never met before. Cameron stayed for a week and then had to go back to work. Grant and I stayed an extra two weeks and had fun just hanging out. Grant made 2 trips to Pennys for pictures and we got some really cute ones of him and our family. I think it's illegal, but I am going to scan them in here and put them up when I get all of them. Both the Lovingers and the Skeltons had the flu going around and even though we tried REALLY hard not to get it, Grant and I both still ended up getting it too, but really not that bad. Our 3rd wedding anniversary was on December 28th and we didn't do too much because that was the day that I got sick. We did go see Harry Potter and went to my favorite restaurant in Spokane, but I couldn't eat anything since my stomach was not doing so well. We will try to plan a "re-do" anniversary date sometime soon. Grant and I flew back on January 8th. I was really nervous to so the long flight by myself, especially with Grant and I still not feeling good, but Grant did AWESOME. I seriously couldn't have asked for anything better. The flight attendants loved him as usual and we were both very happy to get back to our house and see daddy again! Overall, it was a great Christmas and it was so fun to be home and with family.

So in no particular order, here are the pictures from the trip.

ok,I lied. I just have to put how much I LOVE this picture. Grant LOVED his Great Grandma Margaret and she LOVED him just as much.

Lied again... this was me trying to recreate the Tom Cruise "Risky Business" dance scene.

lie #3... This picture was taken just before we left for Christmas. I had to document some of the fun "man dates" that Cameron and our friend/downstairs neighbor Jake have been doing. This particular night they were enjoying some root beer and watching a movie. We LOVE having friends literally 10 feet away(if that).

These are some funny videos. One of Grant's new talents is blowing raspberries. If you do it to him, he will do it back, and sometimes we just hear him doing it for fun. The other video is Cameron and Grant playing with a stocking stuffer that Grant got. I think he was a little tired because he usually doesn't laugh quite this hard at things.