Bath time with Chase!

I wanted to post a few pictures I took while daddy was bathing Chase tonight. Chris picked out a bubble maker for the bath tub one night when we where out Christmas shopping and tried it out for the first time tonight. Chase always loves his time in the bath and was pretty intrigued with the bubbles.

Chase's new thing is nodding his head yes and no. He has no idea what he is agreeing or disagreeing to but he always looks so serious as if he does.

Nine plus months

I seem to have gotten lost in the month of December and haven't written about Chase's ever changing personality. He is now nine and a half months old, which breaks my heart. This time last year I was super preggo with swollen feet and sleeping with a heating pad a night because of my aching back and this year I am a mommy to a beautiful baby boy.

Chase has been crawling and pulling up for months now and has perfected "furniture cruising". He has taken 2-3 steps in a row a hand full of times but seems to get braver and braver each day. I give it another few weeks until we have a walker on our hands.

He loves food! Over the past few weeks he has become less interested in baby food and much more interested in food he can pick up with his tiny finders and eat himself with Dr. Rose said was very normal at his last wellness check. I have yet to find a food this child doesn't care for other than spaghetti o's.

His two bottom teeth have been in for about 2 months now and the top left if very visible and the right is not far behind, you can feel it if your lucky enough to sneak your finger in his mouth.

We have truly been blessed with an amazingly happy baby. Sure he gets fussy from time to time however rarely without a reason. He smiles and talks constantly, and this mommy never gets tired of hearing mamama and even hearing him call for dadadadee from the bottom of the stairs up to Chris' office melts my heart. He high fives, claps when we say "yea", and tonight mimicked grandma's cough. I have been working on "kisses" for a while now and love it when I get an open mouthed kiss from my sweet baby or when he leans in for a kiss on the cheek from me.

We constantly heard from friends with little ones how quickly they grow and not to blink or we might miss something, but I never imagined how true it is. I have to remind myself daily to enjoy each day with him because I'll never get this day back.

Baby's 1st Christmas Continued

Christmas Eve is always spent with Chris' mom's side of the family, we eat, visit, go to church, come back to eat again and end with night with a round of white elephant. Chase is a very loved baby boy and left with lots of fun new ornaments, puzzles and stuffed animals from his great aunts and uncles. As always it is great spending a day with people you love.

For all the years Chris and I have married we have always spent Christmas Eve at either his parents or mine, but always said that once we had kids we would wake up Christmas Day in our own home. Since we were here in Houston my family came to us this year to share Chase's 1st Christmas. They drove in Thursday night only to arrive to a very dark house, the heavy winds caused our electricity to go out on Christmas Eve! We made the most of the situation and used the fireplace and candles for light until the power came back on about 2 hours after they got here. I was a bit irritated but very thankful it came back on so quickly. We spent Christmas Day exchanging gifts and watching Chase play with all of his new things and enjoyed a yummy dinner of ham, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, corn casserole, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce prepared by me! Chase soaked up all the attention, hugs and kisses from Nana, Papaw, aunt Megan and Joe.

Nana enjoying some Chasey Poo Love

Figuring out his new mailbox from Aunt Megan and Joe

Chase is a cuddle bug....and loved the chase size bear from Nana & Papa

Baby's 1st Christmas!

Chris and I could have not asked for a better first Christmas for Chase. I have looked forward to celebrating Christmas with our little guy since the moment we found out we were expecting. We decided to have Christmas with the Henderson's on Wednesday so we spent the day eating and visiting at Grandma and Grandpa's. Chase being the only grandchild (until April) of course got loaded up on all sorts of fun things.

Chase checking out his new toy box

He was a bit slow opening gifts, thankfully there were lots of willing hands to help!

Chase must have been a really good boy the past 9 and a half months because Santa left lots of toys under our tree! We weren't really sure what kind of reaction to expect from him since he is still so little, but were quite surprised to see how excited he was to see his new toys.

Chase as he races to the tree

Chase in his "Big Boy"chair

Checking out his stocking

1st Haircut

Chase got his very first haircut today! We've been talking about it for weeks but decided with the holidays quickly approaching we could wait no longer. For 9 months old (as of Wednesday) the kid has a lot of hair! We took him to Cool Cuts where they specialize in babies and kids, they have toys and a tv/dvd player at each chair. Chase was pretty much wrapped up in Baby Einstein during much of the cutting process. Daddy held him since he is still a bit too small to sit in the chair alone and I took lots of pictures. I did fight back tears when the stylist was done and a much older baby sat where my little baby with hair hanging over his ears had sat just moments before.

Before

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Daddy & Chase

After