big boy

 Decided to pull up 1 day before his 7 month birthday!

 "Mom, that flash is TOO bright!"

(Does he not look SO SO big in this pic?!)

 Hello world!

 Stretching?  Headstand?  Downward dog?

 Do I have something on my face?

Hmmm, how did he get up here?!

pedialyte, popsicles, and pecan pies

It's been a yucky few days at the Turner house!  Thursday night Braden came down with his first stomach virus, and it was a nasty one.  He was sick during winter off and on for probably three months, but this was the first time he was realllyyy sick and couldn't keep anything down.  I talked to our nurse Friday morning, who said there was indeed a terrible virus going around, and that I needed to start giving him Pedialyte every 10 minutes for the rest of the day, increasing the number of tablespoons each hour that went on.  Ohhh my, it was a long day, with a sad little boy, and although we got his vomiting to stop, he's still not 100% better and I know his poor little tummy is so upset.

Can we say pathetic??  Poor little Chubbs :/

Luckily my Mom was already coming in town to babysit Saturday night, so we got some time off to attend the wedding of one of my most favorite friends, Amanda Cleghorn!  She and her fiancé Peter had the most perfect wedding out in Fulshear, at a great place called Ray's Grill.  This picture does not do it justice, but she had the most beautiful arrangements, and so many cute touches that she really put a lot of thought into.  For the Grooms cake, she made homemade mini pecans pies, that were oh so cute and mighty delicious!  Everything had sort of an outdoorsy feel, and cute little rustic touches along with lots of lavender through out.  I'm pretty jealous, as they are heading to Iceland for their Honeymoon - how cool is that?!

Fast forward to this morning around 3 AM - Matt and I were both tossing and turning, and I said "I don't feel good", and he said the exact same thing back to me, and bam, Braden's bug had now hit both of us.  Matt got it much worse than I did, and literally has not been out of the bedroom all day, and now has a 101 temp too.  I spent the whole day running popsicles and Gatorade up to him, and trying to entice Braden to keep drinking Pedialyte, which he is not a fan of anymore, so it's been one crazy day.  Hoping tomorrow both of my boys will be feeling better and back to their chipper self's!

First Foods

Braden had his 6 month appointment a few weeks back, and was *only* 18 lb., 10 oz., which was a few pounds less than what we thought!  He is still a chunky monkey, and his chubby thighs barely fit into his Polo outfits for this summer, so that is creating a little problem in his wardrobe selection.  He's really surprised us lately, and is sitting up, can roll over and sit up, crawling (for real!), and pulling up too - where did my baby go?!  It's exciting to see him discover all these new things, but we're having a hard time getting him to sleep because all he wants to do is sit up and move all over his crib!  He just started eating solid food last week, and it's been interesting so far.  He really seems to understand the spoon, and looooves avocado, but everything else he is a little weary of.  I really want him to be a non-picky eater, so I'm going to have to re-vamp my sweet potato recipe per the video below!

Do you think he likes sweet potatoes?? ;)

Luckily avocado and banana went a little better.  Love this boy so much!