"I think I like him"

Kaleb's face below pretty much sums up the way he's felt about his brother the last 6 months.But after lots of forced play time together Kaleb stated the other day, "I think I like him. I didn't before, but I think I do now". The day before he said that I caught Kaleb smirking at Chase. The next few days he would say " I still like him" and now he says "I like him!" Yeah! Now we all like each other. It took Kaleb 4 months to get back to normal with me and now after 6 months he's decided to like his brother too. This was definately not something I expected b/c every transition we have had w/ Kaleb has been extremely easy, so I know this had to be really tough on him. I'm glad he's finally come around.
Now they are getting closer and Kaleb is even teaching him some KungFu moves.
I mean, who wouldn't like this adorable little guy!!

EASTER

This Easter started with gifts to the Easter bunny. Kaleb painted him a picture and we left carrots and grass for him along w/ a tall glass of water. Oh, and cheese. Kaleb thought the Easter bunny would want some cheese too. In the morning he came down stairs and the carrots were chewed up and left all over the floor. Messy Easter bunny!
Kaleb got a sword from the Easter bunny. Kaleb declared, "Cool! A StarWars sword"...huh, we've never mentioned Star Wars to him and he's never seen the movie or a cartoon. Somehow, he learned about the sword. I'm pretty sure that they don't allow swords at daycare or church, so I don't really know where he learned about it, but he was right, it was a "Star Wars" light sabor.
I think Chase was pretty excited that he got some new paci's for Easter, along w/ a rubber duckie, a rattle and some cute bunny ears.

This was our 3rd annual Easter lunch and egg hunt with our friends, The Tumlins. Neither of us have family in town and now we both have two boys each, so it's always fun getting together.

VISITORS GALORE

The first of our visitors this month was Grandma and Grandad for Chase's baby blessing at church.
Next Uncle Jeremy, Aunt Amanda and cousin Nylah came down for the weekend. We went to the zoo and played around the house. Nylah took a liking to Chase, but unfortunately she was sick most of the weekend and couldn't play too much.

The next weekend GiGi came into town and we went to Clarksville to visit my Grandmother for her birthday. We made sure she got enough little boy lovin'.
She and Gigi had to fight for Chase. Meanwhile Kaleb and I were fighting for the Ukrops cake that mom brought from Virginia.
We were glad to have our families visit. We are also getting very excited for when Christie, Brett and Baylor visit this coming August!

Chase at 5 months

There's my favorite bunny. Chase had a wonderful 5th month. We had a lot of visitors and events that made the month fly by. He started eating baby food and rice and barley cereal, which has been awesome b/c he has been sleeping so much sounder. He has been sleeping from 7:30pm to 6:30-7:30 am. I think I'm actually turning into a person again.He loves being in the standing position and therefore loves his exercauser.
Chase in the hood in one of my favorite outfits. I'm so glad its summer now b/c I can see his chubby little legs all the time now.
Just recently we figured out that Chase loves to read books. His favorite is "Pat The Bunny". He like the books that he can feel the different textures and the ones that make noises. He really looks at the pictures and feels the pages. It never seemed that Kaleb was that interested, although now he likes to read too.
You have to watch out for Chase b/c if you get too close he will grab your face and try to literally twist it off. I have to keep his nails short b/c he has put his little fingers in every orifice on my head and it hurts! He also likes to pull my hair, but I'm not going for a mom cut just yet.
He found his feet this month and just loves to play with them.
He also loves to go to the park w/ his big brother and be toted around in the chest carrier, although it just about kills my back. Most other times he just sits around looking cute and being in awe of his big brother who he thinks is sooo cool!