Anthony's Dedication Video

Some Random-ness...

Drinking a bottle is serious business... the house could be on fire and he would not budge from drinking that bottle down... he is so tense when he drinks... his whole body. If you put him in a weird position... he would hold that position as long as it took to drink the bottle... we are not sure why he is like this... but sometimes it drives us bonkers... we tell him all the time... "just relax, Anthony! No one is going to take your bottle away..." He is the same way with food in the high chair... he opens his mouth so big and we don't do anything but shovel it in... no interaction... that part is hard... eating should be fun... not for him... it is just serious! We have started making him make eye contact before we give him bites... so he has to do something to get the food... otherwise he just opens swallows, opens swallows, opens swallows... goodness... He has been home almost 5 months. I thought he would have relaxed by now... but he will take longer i guess.

We actually rarely let him hold his own bottle... we wanted him to learn some dependency on us... i am not really sure why i gave him his bottle like this one night... i think i only let him hold it for a couple minutes, then he looked so cute, i had to take a picture... so...

Something Anthony does well, is fall asleep when he is tired... as long as he is comfy... he will just go to sleep. That is awesome. When i hold him in church even... he will get himself into a comfortable position and then just go to sleep. it is so precious to hold a sleeping baby!


uh-oh... when he is naughty he has to sit or stand on "the pink rug" Sometimes we make him stand up and hold on to his crib... to help him with his leg muscles... sometimes we just plop him sitting on there... either way, when you are naughty you go to the pink rug!You stay there until you stop crying, or screaming in Anthony's case... sometimes he can be on there for quite a while... a few times he has actually fallen asleep on there... I was actually able to get a picture before he woke up to the camera sounds... he is so funny and so dramatic!

Here is one of his goofy faces... i think this was the reaction to the flash on my camera...

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Anthony's 1st Birthday Party!

Anthony tried to grab the fire as soon as we lit the candle... he was ready to eat it... he knew that cupcake was food... He is so serious about food that i think he would literally eat all day long if you let him... a little obsessive! Notice his fisted hand... food is NO laughing matter with this baby! He had a blast at this cupcake... i put in enough pictures so you can see the basic process... he ate pretty much all of it... there were some mashed crumbs left, that he would have sat there all night picking up and shoving in his little bird mouth had we let him! We decided to call it a day and open presents! He was so cute... typical little boy... he seriously threw the clothes aside! It was hilarious! His favorite gifts were the cars and the car hauler that makes all kinds of sounds!

















Our little friend Dylan had a few good moments in the box... playing...

After the party...

We had 23 people here for his party! I made lemon cupcakes and coconut cake! Some of our guests had to leave before the cake was served, but they had been here all day with us... so at least we had time with them.

Anthony at 12 Months.

Anthony At 10 Months!!!

We did a photo shoot the other day! When we started in the morning there was still frost on the ground... But as soon as the sun started really shining it wasn't so cold... the only thing frozen were my feet because I was wearing flip flops!

I am very proud of these pictures and the boys are beautiful...

Home for 3 Weeks!

We went outside one evening last week, just before bed and it was so nice out! We set Anthony in the grass to explore a little before bed! I just had to do a mini photoshoot! Alex didn't want to cooperate too much, but Anthony really can't do much about it, so most of the pictures are of him!

Happy boy and grump boy!

This is his scrunched up scream face!

Was mad because i made him take his thumb out so i could take a picture of him in the little stroller... little squirt is definitely addicted to his thumb!

Anthony has changed a lot already! He is much more comfortable with us! He still looks at us like we are from outerspace when he wakes up, but quickly puts a smile on when he remembers us and where he is! Funny boy!!!

He has stopped the horrible screaming! When he started it, we would quickly take him and put him in his bed, without blankets, go out and shut the door! It was and is hard, but we have not heard him do that screaming in quite a while now! WOOOHOOO!

He likes to squeal... his new favorite thing is to lift his arms and scream while scrunching up his face! It is hilarious! He is even doing a lot of imitating us! The other day, he was scooting around on the floor and rolled onto his side, Aunt Bonnie was talking to him and patted the side of her leg... and he lifted his little hand and patted the side of his leg too! they did this back and forth for a few minutes and then he was tired of being so accommodating and went on his way!

He is still doing the commando crawl, but he can move pretty fast that way! On the kitchen floor, if he is wearing the right thing he can get up some speed and actually slide when he pulls himself hard enough!

He has learned to sit up on his own pretty good. He gets better all the time... the stroller really seems to help... he wants to sit up in that instead of lean back so he works out his little muscles that way!

We took him to the beach last weekend... of course when we got there it decided to storm! well... rain.... no lightning or thunder, but pouring rain! but we drove 40 minutes to get there so we were staying! I forgot my camera!!! Can you believe it!!!? Jerry put it in the closet (helping me, he thought) and i walked out without it, because it wasn't in my bag! I was soooo mad! Anthony was so cute on the beach! Jerry took off his clothes and laid him on the edge of the water lapping up... he LOVED it!!!! he squealed and smacked the wet sand... and scooted toward the water! filling his diaper with wet sand of course! what a mess! :) So we will have to go back soon and stage the photo shoot! haha! Alex of course was practically in heaven!!! He loves the sand so much and someone had dug a huge hole on the edge of the water so he was just playing like a crazy person in there, rain and all!

Next week we will be seeing Jerry's sister and kids and also next weekend my grandparents are coming for a visit! We are really excited about seeing them all! What a fun week ahead... i will post pictures after it all!