The evolution of a nickname

Henry's nickname is Bugs. If you know anything about me, you know that I loathe bugs! They are icky and creepy and I am petrified if one is even in the same room as me. So how, you might ask, did it come about that I call my precious baby boy, who I love more than anything else on this planet, Bugs? Well here's the scoop on his nickname. Before Henry was born James and I would talk to him. We had no idea if he was a boy or a girl and no names picked out yet. So we would just call him baby. Then when we discovered he was a boy, we added a word and called him baby boy. Now eventually along the way we did settle on the name Henry for him but we were so stuck on calling him baby boy that it stuck around for a while even after we knew his name would be Henry. Once he was born, we continued calling him baby boy but that got a little too long so we started calling him bub, kinda short for baby boy. But they we realized that was a little confusing since we call each other babe or bub sometimes too. So we went to bubba. That opened the door to all kinds of stuff. I started with bubba-licious (like the gum!). That then became bubba-loo, which changed to bugga-boo and eventually shortened to bugs and that is where we stopped. It hasn't changed again or been added to since we landed on bugs. We normally don't call him that when we are talking to other people and we try to call him Henry when we are talking to him so that he will learn his name (hopefully) but James and I still call him Bugs when we are talking about him. Not sure why, but it's cute on him. I just tell myself his nickname is NOT bug, like the creepy things, rather it is Bugs, like Bugs Bunny and he is cute :) So you just never know what you'll end up calling your kid. I would have never guessed this nickname in a million years. But look how easy it was to get to Bugs from baby:

baby

baby boy

bub

bubba

bubba-licious

bubba-loo

bugga-boo

BUGS :)

We love you Bugs!!!

Chillin' like a villian

Wud up?

Give me the camera mama!

This is not a great shot but look at how blue his eyes are!

I love bath time :)

Can I please be naked ALL the time?

This finger is GOOD!

A veteran's day treat

Today Henry got his first taste of solid food! I've been looking forward to and dreading this day for some time now. Looking forward to it because babies eating food is freakin' adorable and so fun and yes, messy! Dreading it because it means my baby is growing up, which he seems to be doing at lightning speed! All the baby books seem to disagree with each other on exactly when the right age is to begin solid foods. So we opted to listen to what our pediatrician told us at Henry's four month check up: start him on rice cereal at five and half months. Seemed strange but I was sure there was some method to this madness and patiently waited until Henry was exactly five and half months. It just happened to fall on Veteran's day, a day that I have off from school, yay! So this morning, after Henry's bottle, we strapped him in his infant chair (he can't quite sit up well enough for the high chair yet) and tried to feed him some good old rice cereal. The video is kind of long, sorry! Here's what happened...

As you can see, Henry was NOT a big fan of the cereal. I was hoping for a little bit more enthusiasm on his part but after tasting it myself, I can see why he didn't like it! Oh well, we will try again this weekend.

Practice makes perfect!

Henry is a champ when it comes to rolling over. Now we are trying to get him to sit up a little better on his own. He tends to just lean over when we put him in the Bumbo and just chew on the sides of it. So I started having him sit on his own with me behind him as support and then slowly moving away to see if he could do it on his own. It was hard to do this and try to capture it on the Flipcam. I hesitate to even put this on here as it shows what a stellar mom I am. Henry falls at the end of the video, mother of the year strikes again! Enjoy :)

This next video I thought I'd post just to show that I am really trying to get Henry to say dada as well as mama. See James!

The last one is just Henry being Henry, totally adorable :)

Mama!

After a week or so of hearing Henry say, baba, he has finally added m sounds to his repertoire! So I busted out the old flipcam and caught what I feel are his first attempts at saying mama! :) The video is a little shaky cuz I am laughing at cute he is :)

I love hearing him say mama, even if he doesn't quite mean it... yet ;)

Trick or treat!

James and I never went trick-or-treating as kids. Our parents just weren't into that kind of stuff. So when Halloween rolled around, we weren't sure exactly what to do with Henry. After all, he is only five months old and can't eat any candy anyway. But we had already bought him a costume and totally wanted to show him off. We thought about going to the zoo or the mall but Henry is really only awake and happy for a couple hours at a time and by the time we drove anywhere, we wouldn't have that much time to really do anything. Plus, he really, REALLY likes going for walks and being outside. So we decided to go ahead and take him trick-or-treating. He seemed to enjoy it :) Here are some pics of our adorable little Henry :)

Here he is in his pre-trick-or-treating outfit.

In his Tigger costume :) We were afraid his little feet would get cold, so we put some footie pjs on underneath.

Now let me get this straight, all I have to do is ring a doorbell, look all cute and I get candy!?!

Ok, I'm not sure I believe you so I'll try it out for myself.

Ding dong!

It worked!!! Score! Help me get this paper off of here momma! :)

Henry did really well trick-or-treating. Of course, everyone thought he was just the most adorable Tigger ever! I couldn't agree more!

Ok I'm ready to go home now, I'm sleepy.

Henry also had a cute skeleton onesie, so we had to take some pics in that too!

James and I had fun taking Henry trick-or-treating! Next year, he will be walking... that should be even more fun :)

These next few pics have nothing to do with Halloween but they were taken the day before and are just precious! Henry has discovered that his toes can go in his mouth! This is his new favorite activity :)

How cute is this?!

This last one is for my mom. Don't you just wanna pinch that adorable little booty? :)

Daddy dresses henry

James is going to kill me for posting this video! Normally, I will get Henry up in the morning and dress him. Sometimes Henry will sleep in so I have to leave before I can dress him. Since it's been getting cold in our house in the morning, I dress him in a onesie, pants and socks. I told James to dress Henry one morning and I find him dressed very... interestingly. See for yourself! Just don't tell James ;)

Teeth for Henry!

My baby is growing up! :*( Within a week, he has gotten TWO teeth! I've been trying all week to snap some pics of his teeth but it has proven incredibly difficult! Finally last night I enlisted James's help. I held his mouth open and James quickly got a pic. Then James held him and I got a pic. He was not too happy with us after this so we only have two pics and they aren't the best quality but you can see his little chompers!

Henry has been hard at work at some other things too. He can roll over from back to belly and belly to back like nobody's business! When on his belly, he has started lifting his booty up in the air, pushing up on his hands and knees like he's getting ready to crawl! Lord have mercy on all of us when he figures that one out! I've tried to get videos of all this but he's a bit camera shy! Here are my attempts at capturing Henry's antics.

He has also added some consonants to his speech. Where before he was all vowels, he now has some b sounds! I was hoping for some m sounds so that I could maybe hear a mama instead of baba but oh well, I'll take what I can get.

Henry's next adventure... Halloween! Now what do I do with a five month old for Halloween??? I would feel weird taking him trick-or-treating since he can't eat the candy but I want him to show off his cute Tigger outfit. What to do?