Stephen Joseph

OUR ALL AMERICAN (MOMMA'S) BOY!!

Stephen is a delight!!  We love having him around!  He keeps everyone smiling- :D

Stephen is hit or miss sleeping through the night.  Sometimes I will wake up and it will be 6:30am and I will be floored because he will still be sleeping!  Other nights, he is up every hour to eat.  hmm...Stephen, you have me stumped!  I seem to have the best luck when he is in his swing.  I use the Bundle-Me cover to keep him toasty warm. 
 

Stephen is really good at the 'hand-to-mouth' skill.  When we give him a toy to play with, it goes strait to the mouth.  He gets very excited to play and be played with- he LOVES when John brings him toys to play with.  They make perfect brothers!!  Stephen has a great belly laugh--  he keeps us laughing!  If you repeatedly say "PEEEK" he will just keep laughing. 

In the last day or two SJ has started to enjoy his 'tummy-time'.  He is getting stronger at holding his head up enough to play with a toy. Before he would get an arm stuck at his side and not be able to pull it back up to prop himself up.  He finds it fun to be able to look around- he is proud of himself! And, we are too!!!

Tonight, SJ was sitting in his Bumbo chair on the counter.  I put a bouquet of flowers in front of him to look at while I was making JR his dinner.  I went to bring JR his food at the table (gone...30 sec...maybe?) and when I got back to the kitchen SJ had eaten a flower!!  HAHA He had the whole bouquet tipped over and he ate the flower right off!  JR was appalled that he would eat the beautiful flower!  I guess he was trying to tell me he is hungry.  Needless to say, we fed him banana and rice cereal.  :D Yummy!

Stephen loves his bath time, he is a busy boy in the tub.  Lots of kicking and doesn't mind too much when he gets water in his face/eyes.  SJ was weighed at about 4.5 months he's a big guy- 17lbs 1oz!!  Happy and Healthy! His nick name is "Beef-Cake" -- Because he is beefy! hehe

I got the Orajel out tonight,.... teething already,.... yay! Stephen is a very vocal baby-  He will be talking in no time.  There is almost a constant chatter coming from him.  I just love baby stories!! ;D

SJ does a great job tagging along with his big brother John- I can't wait until they can really play together!!

More pictures to come.... :D