Jalen is Six Month Old!

Last week we took Jalen to his 6 months check up. He is 20lbs 5oz (90%) and 28.5 inches (97%). He has another tooth popping out. Jalen got another round of shots this time but he's handling them much better now and wasn't fussy afterwards. Jalen is too big for his baby bath tub now so we've started giving him a bath in the grown up bath tub. After the bath, I hold him and rinse him off with the shower. He really loves being in the water and doesn't complain at all about getting his face wet. It's a lot of fun for me too!

Jalen's New Tricks

Just when I thought Jalen was a slow learner, next thing you know, he's rolling over both ways. He can now roll from front to back and back to front with ease. When you put him on the floor, he's rolling around like a little worm. It's amazing how quickly they learn to do new things! When you offer to hold him he will stretch out his arms to meet yours. He's also got a couple of teeth breaking through!

Jalen and Katelyn

Jalen had a play date with Trenton last Saturday. They're already fighting over the same toys! Here's Trenton loving the baby gym.

Jalen is 4lbs more than Trenton and they're the same age!

Jalen's First Week of Commute

Our little family finally moved into our new home in Bellevue last Saturday. Rick had a break from traveling for work and he was home for more than three nights in a row for the first time in about four weeks although it feels like it's been forever. We had no TV, no internet but Rick and I were happy to be back in our king sized bed. :) I had done enough unpacking in the kitchen and bathrooms so that we could have all of the essentials. Unfortunately, I came down with a cold that same day and had a hard time getting rest because Jalen woke up several times in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, spending our first night in our new home was a huge milestone.

Living at our new house means that now I have to take Jalen on my daily commute. Our schedule for the last week has been something like this:

5:00 am - first feeding of the morning, then put Jalen back to sleep
7:30 am - I wake up and eat breakfast, get ready dressed
8:30 am - wake Jalen up, feed him
9:00 am - leave the house
9:20 am - drop Jalen off at his grandma's
9:30 am - get to work
12:00 pm - feed Jalen at his grandma's
6:00 pm - get off work and feed Jalen, eat dinner at his grandma's
7:30 pm - go home
9:00 pm - feed Jalen and put him to sleep
11:00pm - I go to bed

This is the ideal schedule. Some days, Jalen decides to wake up at 7am. So I give him to his daddy so that he can either be entertained or be soothed to go back to sleep. Some nights, Jalen wakes up at 3am or 4am and I just go and try to put him back to sleep without feeding him. I decided to give up the scheduled midnight meeting and just see how long he can last after being fed at 9pm. When it goes well, he'll sleep until almost 5am which is 7.5 hours! I hope he will develop a habit of it.

Here's Jalen all bundled up and ready to go. Look at his penguin hat! The feet keep his ears warm!

Jalen's First Halloween!

Last Wednesday Jalen celebrated his first Halloween as Tigger! I took him to trick or treat at Amazon in the afternoon where he met a few of my other coworker's kids. He was very well behaved and didn't complain at all about being in his Tigger costume. We discovered that Jalen knew how to reach and grab a piece of candy and put it in his mouth! After Amazon, we took him to Vulcan where they had even more Halloween festivities. They had lots of amazing Jack-o-lanterns, a ton of candy and scary decorations. We took Jalen through the haunted house but he is too young to understand and be scared. All of Rick's coworkers thought Jalen was just sooo cute. After almost 2 hours of trick or treating fun, he came home and completely passed out for an hour and a half. Then we took him to Betsy's house where we took pictures of him in his costume with his cousins and their friends. When we finally got home he was so tired that he slept from 9:30pm to 5am! Almost 8 hours!


Tigger and Pooh!


Finally heading home after a long day of trick or treats.