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I just posted about Henry's 10th month and some 8-14 month milestones that might be helpful.  Head on over to http://www.meetthepiersons.blogspot.com

I really should be planning my lesson I have to teach the YW on Sunday.  I have a few ideas floating around my head, I just need to get organized.  I also need to get crackin' on some work I'm doing for the Child and Family Support Center (my old place of employment).  Hopefully Henry's nap lasts A LOT longer.  

New Blog

Hello my blog readers {which is probably just my family and maybe I have a few friends that are kind enough to read my super cool blog}.  I have started a new{old} blog.  That will make sense once you read my new blog.  Go here if you want to take a gander.  It is still a work in progress.  Like the free background I chose will not show up on my computer.  It's bugging me.  So it just looks like an orange background which is fine but kind of boring.  So just know it's not totally complete yet.  But since this blog has reached its "storage limit" or whatever Google is telling me, I decided to revamp an old blog.  I'm not really trying to be a "professional" blogger, but I'm going to make it more of an "informational" blog.  I can't say a "craft" blog because I don't craft.  But you may see some posts on me attempting to craft or sew.  It will be fun to see how bad I am at that stuff.  But hey, maybe it will inspire another non-crafter to take on a project.  If I can do it anyone can.  I also want to include some of my knowledge I learned in college way back when.  I didn't get a degree for nothin'.  So check my blog for some Child Development/Family Relations stuff.  This blog is pretty much dead now.  I don't think I'll delete it since I have my list of blogs I like to stalk, but I won't be posting things here anymore.  Unless I decide to pay Google to let me upload pictures... which I probably won't.  

Henry 7 months

This was Henry on November 10th.  The actual day he was 7 months.

The sticker didn't stand a chance...

And we are done with the 7 month sticker.  Next month I'll have to put the sticker on his shirt and then put his shirt on.  Then he won't even notice.

Big boy on his chair.  After I took these I realized everything was blue!  

Mom is so funny!

I love this one!  His head looks huge because he is leaning forward.  

I also love this one.  I think his little feet look so cute and his little pudgy hand. 

Loves his soccer ball (Thanks Jenn!)  

Rolling all over the floor

Henry Bird

His hair was out of control this day.  He loves sitting up in the shopping cart like a big kid.  Just ignore that I forgot to put socks on his feet.

Henry had a quick play date with Adelaide while she was visiting from Arizona.  He loved playing with her cool toy.  Thanks Jenn and Laila for the fun!

She couldn't keep her hands off of him! She knows a handsome boy when she sees one.  Henry was intimidated by the cute girl :)

Some of Henry's milestones:

• Sits up like a champ and will start to lean forward like he wants to crawl or move forward but he isn't sure how.  
• Still loves to eat solids.  He tried beans for the first time.  He does not like them unless I mix them with something.  Last night I hid them in some sweet potatoes and I don't think he noticed. I just purchased some carrots and asparagus to make into baby food for him to try.  We will see how it goes! He has technically tried other things like spinach, beets, and blueberries but they were all mixed in with other things he had tried like bananas or sweet potato.  They are those fun little food pouches (I don't know what to call them.  The brand I have is Happy Baby organic.  Basically food on the go.  They are awesome for church). 
• He is in between sizes of diapers which is kind of annoying.  Size 2 are almost too small, but size 3 are too big.  I ran out of size 2 the other day and I had a bunch of size 3 from a diaper cake and shower gifts so I've just been using them.  They work fine, but sometimes he leaks because I think they are too big.  I went to the store to buy him some size 2 and they were out of Luvs size 2.  I don't like Huggies or Pampers, plus they are more expensive.  So I just keep using the size 3 (which are Huggies.  Maybe it's just me, but Henry leaks more with those). 
• He rolls onto his belly in the bath tub.  At first it was cute and funny because he will kick his legs like he is trying to swim. Now he will not stay on his back.  We have to hold him down.  He can be on his tummy, but I worry he is going to put his head down and swallow a bunch of water.  Which I guess would teach him to stop rolling over.  He is also really slippery in the bath tub so it's hard to keep him in one spot.
• He rolls all around when we try to change his diaper.  I have to distract him by singing silly songs, giving him the lotion bottle to play with, or any random thing that is near me at the time.  He just wants to grab everything and put it in his mouth!  I call him my little goat!
• He started having a snack of cheerios or those little puffs.  He loves them. When he sees the container the puffs come in he gets really excited.  Sometimes he does really good with getting them to his mouth.  He has the pincer grasp down, but sometimes the cheerio or puff gets stuck to his hand and he isn't quite sure what to do.  They are great for keeping him happy during church.  Can you tell we need lots of ways to keep him entertained during church!  He won't nap in our arms so he is awake ALL 3 HOURS!  Unless we can take him for a drive during Sunday School to get him to fall asleep.  But once you take him to class and people start talking, he is awake again.  He stays happy, but I can tell he is just so tired.  
• I think he "clapped" his hands the other day.  I was singing this song about clapping your hands and after I would clap, he would move his hands together like he was trying to do it.  He didn't actually clap, but he was getting the idea of it.
• He still babbles and screams/squeals all the time.  Doesn't sound like anything yet although I keep trying to teach him to say "mama" or "dada" or "ball".  Those seem like easy first words.  So far he just looks at me like I'm crazy! 

We love our little Henry (aka Henners or Henry Bird).  My sister came up with Henry Bird because his hair makes him look like a little birdie.  The NICU nurses called him a Spring Chicken when he was born and the other day in the grocery store some random lady made a comment about his hair and called him a baby chick.  Everyone loves the fuzz.  

Fall Festivities

On October 29th we finally went to pick out some pumpkins! Our friends Justin and Ashley came along too.  There was a cute little pumpkin patch out on Addison road.  They have a tractor that will take you across the street to the field so you can pick out your pumpkins.  There were so many different kinds of pumpkins, I wanted one of each!  

It wasn't that cold, but I felt Henry needed his little beanie to make it feel more like fall!

Henry found his pumpkin

Halloween Day

We went to play group from 10:30-11:30 that day.  All the cute little kids were in their costumes.  I didn't even think to put Henry in his.  He wore his Jack-o-lantern shirt so he was festive. 

Photo-op outside

Basically Henry just wanted to eat the leaves. 

It was super sunny so he would only look at us if we gave him some shade

I dressed Henry in his Parrot costume later in the afternoon, mostly just so I could get some pictures.  He wasn't too sure about it....

He's kind of smiling in this one

He really just wanted to play with the candy bowl! He must belong to us.  We love candy

That night we had pumpkin pancakes for dinner and when Henry went to bed Clark and I carved our pumpkins. Can you tell whose are whose? Hint: Henry's is the one with the little teeth.  We only had 5 trick or treaters, 3 of them were our cute neighbor boys across the street.  We had a lot of left over candy which sadly did not go to waste.  But I'm sure it went to my waist, ha ha!

This picture is out of order, but I didn't want it to be the first one people saw when they looked at this post.  It is kind of nasty.  We went to Bear Lake over the deer hunt (October 19-22).  Clark and his Dad each got a Buck.  I made Clark shave his mustache immediately after this picture.... okay not immediately after, but pretty close.

Baby Savannah's Blessing

We went to Utah on October 13th to be there for Savannah Jane's blessing.  She is such a sweet little baby.  I swear she is still so tiny.  I don't think Henry was that small on his blessing day.  She is chunky, but small. She didn't make a peep during the blessing and Tyler did a great job.  I remember he said Savannah would be the peace maker in the home. I'm sure she will have to break up fights between her crazy older brothers :) 

The Falslev Family

Great Grandma Emmett with Savvy J

Best Buds

Henry: "Hey Savvy, you have something on your head"

Cute babies almost exactly 4 months apart

Oh and for those who are wondering, Yes this is the little baby that was born in her parents car on the side of the road in Smithfield UT.  She's a local hero.... or is it her Dad that is the hero?  Either way, we are glad she is here!

Henry loves her already

6 months

I think it is starting to be the trend that I blog about Henry's milestones a month late.  At least I'm doing it, and sadly I'm not sure I will do it for the second baby.  Sorry way in advance second baby.  

Here is my growing baby.... 

Excited to be 6 months old

EVERYONE comments about his hair.  I'm not even joking.  Ladies in the grocery store, at church, in restaurants.  You name it.  People can't get enough of it.  

He thought the sticker was better in his mouth

I love his lips

Henry's 6 month Doctor appointment was switched to a week early so he was actually not quite 6 months so they said they couldn't give him his shots since the child has to be over 6 months.  If I had known that I wouldn't have let them switch my appointment to a week earlier.  Oh well.  I just took him in a week later just to get the shots.  He did really good this time and didn't act fussy.  He had a slight fever that night so I gave him some Tylenol and he was great.  Henry is such a trooper.  

6 month Stats:

Height: 27 inches

Weight: 16 lbs

Head: 17 inches 

I don't have the percentiles written down but he is in the middle on almost all of them.  I think his weight is closer to like the 30th percentile but head and height are around 50.  He is still growing so that is all I care about.  I just have to come to terms that I will not have a chunky baby.  But he does have some awesome hair!

• He is still loving solid foods.  He eats them 3 times a day after he nurses (which has become a challenge, but I'll get to that later). 
• Foods he has tried: baby oatmeal cereal, pears, avocado, sweet potato, peas, yellow squash, zucchini, bananas, and apples.
• He loves avocado, pears, and sweet potato.  I make my own baby food using the Baby Bullet.  I feel like it saves a ton of money because one sweet potato made a lot of food.  Avocado is hard because it turns brown after a day in the fridge, so Henry has to eat it for each meal before it goes brown.  He wasn't too sure about the peas at first, but now he will eat them.  I guess he wasn't too sure about any of the food the first few bites.  It takes him a few bites to get used to it.  He eats his solids really well so that is great.  Every time I feed him squash I will say "Henry do you want some squash" and then that makes me say "oh my gosh, I'm a squash" which is a line from the cutest book called "The Ugly Pumpkin".  I need to buy it but Barnes and Noble up here didn't have it.  My cute little niece Nashtyn had the book memorized last Fall and just hearing her cute little voice read the book made me love it even more.  It is definitely worth buying.  



• Henry started sitting up sometime in the last month and he does really well now.  He rarely tips over just sitting on the carpet.  I still don't let him sit up in the tub because that is a little more dangerous if he falls over.  He loves to just sit and stare out the window and play with his toy bucket. 
• He rolls all over the place, especially if he sees something interesting.  He just rolls right on over to it.  He loves to roll over to our coffee table and get the books that are sitting on the bottom.
• He still sleeps through the night from about 10pm-6:30am and then eats and goes back to sleep until 9am.  
• He has breast milk 5-6 feedings a day.  If he has 6 he will for sure sleep through the night, if he has 5 it is hit and miss.  So the past month he has been too distracted to want to nurse.  If he hears something he will want to look all around for it, if I sneeze he has to stare at me forever and figure out what the noise was, etc... So I decided I would just pump and feed him a bottle which was working out great until I noticed my supply was drastically cut in half.  So basically he went from getting 5 ounces to like 2 or 3.  It was bad.  So after much stress and asking the "experts" which are my facebook friends I decided to take an herbal supplement called Fenugreek and so far it is working great.  Henry will nurse great at 6:30am and then after that it just depends on the day.  But I can pump and get enough milk.  Plus with the 3 feedings of baby food, I don't think he will starve.  But for awhile there I thought he might.  I was being very dramatic one day and I said to Henry "fine, if you want to end up in the hospital because you are malnourished then that is just fine with me!"  Ha ha my poor baby.  I can get a little dramatic sometimes.  Luckily Clark is still married to me after he has seen me be a crazy mom.  
• As you can tell from my previous bullet point, he is getting very "active" and interested in everything.  I guess I shouldn't say active because it's not like he is crawling, but he just wants to touch everything and put it in his mouth.  He kicks his legs and sticks his arms out when he is excited!  He will sit in a shopping cart and his little arms are out the whole time, he loves it.  

We love Mr. Henry and are so happy he is in our family.  I've been calling him King Henry lately because he rules the household.  Whatever Henry wants, goes.  But at 6 months thats how it should be!  You can't spoil a baby :)  

He does this funny look where he tilts his head down but then looks up at me with his eyes!  So funny.

Here he is with his toy bucket. 

Rolling to get the books