HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALVIN!!!

Weight: 25 lbs. 1 oz. (80th percentile)

Height: 32 inches (97^th percentile)

Diaper Size: finishing the fours about to go into five

Clothing Size: 24 months & 2T

Eating Schedule: three meals a day with two snacks in between. We’ve started bottle weaning so we’re down to two instead of three and working on moving to the sippy cup only! So far, so good J. Each day we’re working on introducing new foods. Calvin seems to like just about anything that is put in front of him!

Milestones: Calvin can pull himself up, cruise around furniture and stand independently for a few seconds on his own! He walks everywhere with the help of his walker toy, so we’re confident we will have a walker very soon.

Calvin has six teeth.

Calvin sleeps an average of 12 hours per night, with a 2-3 hour nap during the day.

Calvin had a SPECTACULAR 1^st birthday party this past Sunday! We are so blessed and grateful to have such wonderful family and friends that traveled near and far to be part of Calvin’s special day. He is so lucky to have so many people that love him so much!

The CAKE!

The Goodies :)

Favors

Little Mateo's face painting

Cousin Mikie and Sophia becoming "vampires"

The cake smash! Calvin chose not to get very messy :)

A little football toss

Fishing!

Bowling fun (Calvin liked eating the pins!)

Eleven Months

Weight: @ 25 lbs.

Height: 30.25 inches

Diaper Size: four

Clothing Size: 24 months & 2T

Shoe Size: five

Eating Schedule: three 9 oz. bottles during the day, followed by 1.5-2 tablespoons of oatmeal and a jar of prunes for breakfast, a fruit for lunch, and a meat with a vegetable for dinner. He caps the night off with usually anywhere from a 3-5 oz. bottle just before bedtime.

Calvin is doing great with small pieces of soft foods like bananas, cheerios, diced apples, carrots, and avocado. He has become quite the fruit lover, watermelon specifically ;)

Milestones: Calvin stands while holding on to furniture, pulls himself up to stand and cruises around furniture he can hold onto.

Calvin has his bottom two teeth and has all four top teeth coming in!

Ten Months

Weight: 24 lbs. 15 oz. (93^rd percentile)

Height: 30.25 inches (91^st percentile)

Diaper Size: four

Clothing Size: 24 months & 2T

Eating Schedule: three 9 oz. bottles during the day, followed by 1.5-2 tablespoons of oatmeal and a jar of prunes for breakfast, a fruit for lunch, and a meat with a vegetable for dinner. He caps the night off with usually anywhere from a 3-5 oz. bottle just before bedtime.

Calvin has also started eating (well, tasting really) more table food at each meal. He likes small pieces of banana, cheerios, he’s warming up to a mini bagel with cream cheese, avocado, and he loves fruit! He likes apples, cantaloupe and (surprise, surprise!) loves watermelon!

Cries when: tired, hungry or when he’s bored and ready to start a new activity

Milestones: We have a crawler! He started the “rocking” a ton while on vacation in Mexico, and was crawling about a week after we got home.

Calvin took his very first plane ride last month. Not only was it just his first plane ride, but also his first international trip! We had such an incredible time on vacation in Mexico. Lots of sun, fun, beach, pool, and even a road trip to Chichen Itza, one of the new “modern” seven wonders of the world.

Calvin also cut his second tooth while in Mexico!

Calvin is such a happy baby! We are beyond blessed to have such a happy and healthy little boy. He has developed the cutest little personality. He loves to laugh and play, listen to music, clap his hands and wave, “bye bye!”

Nine Months

Weight: 23lbs. 5oz.

Diaper Size: four

Clothing Size: 18-24 months

Eating Schedule: three 9 oz. bottles during the day, followed by 1.5-2 tablespoons of oatmeal and a jar of prunes for breakfast, a fruit for lunch, and a meat with a vegetable for dinner. He caps the night off with usually anywhere from a 3-5 oz. bottle just before bedtime.

Cries when: tired, hungry or when he’s bored and ready to start a new activity

Milestones: Calvin is officially a sitter and is working on crawling! When on all fours, he has started the “rocking” movement, so I’m pretty sure the crawling will happen soon!

Calvin has also said his first word, “dada!”  Everything is, “dadadadadadadadadad!”  Once in a while, if it’s not “dada,” sometimes instead of his old favorite, “bob,” now it’s, “gob.” We can listen to him talk forever because it is just the cutest thing J.

Calvin also cut his first tooth! He’s been such a champ through teething. It really hasn’t affected him much at all besides a few days where he was a little fussy, but nothing major.

The 9 Month photo blooper reel...

Eight Months

Weight: approx. 22lbs. 8oz.

Diaper Size: three, about to go into four (just trying to use up what’s left!)

Clothing Size: 18 months

Eating Schedule: 4 - 9oz. bottles during the day. Calvin also eats 1.5-2 tablespoons of oatmeal with a jar of prunes for breakfast, a jar of fruit for lunch, and a meat with a vegetable for dinner.

Cries when: tired or when he’s bored and ready to start a new activity

Milestones:

Calvin is finally sitting up on his own! It's not 100% perfected (he still sometimes topples over to the side), but he's doing so great!

Calvin has also started clapping his hands and dancing! Music will come on from one of his many toys and he starts bobbing to the music--it's the cutest thing!

Calvin is babbling more than ever! We're constantly joking about his friend, "Bob," because his babbling is basically, "bobbobbobbobbobbobbob..."
It's quite adorable :)

I took Calvin to the aquarium for the first time and he loved it! He was amazed by the sharks!

We also started going to Gymboree classes. It’s a fun indoor activity for him to beat this brutal summer heat…that is of course on the days we’re not at the beach! He has grown to love being in the water J

Calvin finally met Uncle Frank for the first time this month!!! He absolutely loved every minute he got to spend with him!!!

Seven Months

Weight: 20lbs. 4oz.

Diaper Size: three

Clothing Size: 18 months

Eating Schedule: bottles every 3-4 hours during the day, followed by 1.5-2 tablespoons of oatmeal for breakfast, a fruit for lunch, and a meat with a vegetable for dinner.

Cries when: tired or when he’s bored and ready to start a new activity

Milestones: Calvin isn’t sitting up completely on his own yet, but he’s getting close! He can do it with support and reaches for his toys while sitting. His pediatrician isn’t surprised due to his size (he’s huge!), as he has a lot of height and weight to support.

Calvin experienced lots of “firsts” this past month. We took our first family road trip in the beginning of the month to attend my cousin Tim and his wife, Katherine’s, baby shower and to also attend my cousin Jennifer’s son’s (my Godson) first holy communion. Calvin did great on the road and slept great in the hotel!

We also took our first trip to the beach to celebrate Mother’s Day. I’ve been dying to get to the beach since Calvin has been born and this was the perfect opportunity. Calvin did great, although the water was a little cool for his liking. He definitely likes the temperature of his bath water better! He had just about the same reaction when we took him to a swimming pool for the first time just a few weeks later. We had to ease him in, but eventually got comfortable about waist-deep.

I found a park about 5 minutes from our house that has a great playground and swings. I took Calvin for the first time and he loves swinging! We go just about every day J

Calvin was also invited to his first birthday party. It was for a little boy of a coworker of Tim’s who was turning one. I think Calvin was a little too intrigued by the smash cake at the end!

Calvin also started drinking from a sippy cup this month! He’s practicing the action of cup to mouth more than actually drinking, but he’s doing great as time goes on.

Six Months

Weight: 18lbs. 12oz. at his last doctor visit!

Diaper Size: three

Clothing Size:  12 months, some 18 months (depending on the brand)

Eating Schedule: every 3-4 hours, plus 2-3 tablespoons of oatmeal after lunchtime bottle and a jar of baby food after dinner bottle

Cries when: hungry and tired

Milestones:
This has been a big month for Calvin and exploring the new world of food! He loves to sit in his highchair and eat like mommy and daddy. So far, he eats oatmeal, apples, green beans, squash, carrots and bananas.
He likes everything so far! The peas are still staring me down every time I go into our pantry. I can't help but not want to give them to him because I hate peas myself! But I promise I will do the right thing and feed them to him...I just won't force them on him, haha!
Calvin laughs and smiles all the time, he's a super happy baby. We have been truly blessed with such an incredible little boy J

Here are some recent photos....

My first Easter :)

 Uncle Anthony came with his company to Sarasota for a boat show, so Calvin helped make some sales!

Green bean face!

Watching my first Masters Tournament with daddy!

I LOVE TO ROLL

Checking out all the cool things on my exersaucer

My favorite rattle/teether

First trip to the zoo!

Calvin loves Elmo :)

Good morning!

Calvin loves taking selfies with mommy's phone

cool dude

I love to eat!

Five Months

Weight: 16lbs. 5 oz.

Height: 27 inches

Diaper Size: two

Clothing Size: 9 months, even some 12 month now!

Eating Schedule: every 3-4 hours during the day, no more middle of the night feedings since March 10!

Cries when: hungry and tired

Milestones:

-Calvin laughs, a lot now! He especially thinks it’s funny to get undressed particularly just before bathtime (he gets really excited when he hears the water start to run).

-Grasps toys

-Rolls over

-Puts just about everything in his mouth, especially his fist and thumb

-Sitting upright while supported

-Sits in his stroller without the car seat adaptor when we go for walks

-Calvin started sleeping through the night this month (specifically the night of my birthday! He knew just what mommy wanted…I couldn’t believe it when I woke up in the morning only to realize I got 8.5 uninterrupted hours of sleep!) He goes to bed just around 8:00pm, and we wake him up at 10:30pm for one last feeding. Lately, he’s been sleeping through the feeding so he’s probably close to not needing it much longer. He wakes up between 7:00-7:30am.

-Leans forward/sits up in his swing, bathtub, car seat and bouncy seat…strapping in is a must!

-Started solids! Calvin so far has eaten oatmeal and apples and loves it. He sits in his highchair and eats like such a big boy J

-We finally moved into our new home this past month! We have a small lake in our backyard which is home to about 6 beautiful mallard ducks that come right up to our sliding glass doors some mornings! Calvin loves to go outside to feed them!

I know I promised baptism pictures, so here are a couple...

He did great when holy water was poured over his head!

With Godparents Anthony and Jessica

Feeding the ducks!

Whoa...what is this!?