Six-Month Check-up and Pictures

Bryson had his six-month check-up last week and he weighed 18 lbs 6 oz and was 28 1/4" long. He is still in the 97% in height and 75% in weight. His shots went much better than the time before, but he kept his eye on the nurse the whole to make sure he was not going to poke him again. Here he is all konked out from his bad day.

Here are Bryson's six-month pictures. A lot of you have probably already seen them, but they were too cute not to post. He had them taken at Sear's and they did a good job. His grandma Earp got him the horse below and he loves the thing, and the photographer was great to work with our props.

Since Brian does not read this I will tell you now so he can't argue with me. Bryson looks like my family in these pictures. Normally I think he looks like his daddy, but he is starting to look like a Short in the pictures below (God love him).
Whoa horsey, not too fast I just ate!! :) He kept talking to the horse it was so funny.

Her are his cousin's Haylee and Jamison. Amy and I call Haylee - Angelica (from Rugrats) and Bryson and Jamison are her minnions. She is actually really good with them. She calls Bryson her little man. She will go up to him and talk with her "baby voice" and say "hey my little man, how's my little man." He just smiles. Haylee kept telling the ladies at Sears this is a boy and this is a girl and they are getting married. She doesn't quite get that cousins does not mean boyfriend/girlfriend in Oklahoma! :) He loves all his cousins. Him and Jamison had not seen each other in three weeks and Amy brought her up to the church and Bryson went crazy after her, and she just kept smiling and cooing at him. It was adorable. She has the cutest little dimples. Someone once asked us if they were twins, and Amy and I joke that Bryson is the fat one. Afterwards I have to tell him we meant phat! :) Nana will set the two of them facing each other in their car seats and they just talk and laugh with one another. We wonder what they are saying. Oh, the fits those two will cause us when they get bigger. :)

Such a big boy!!

My little B-Man is growing up too fast. He started eating cereal for the first time on Saturday. He was so excited to sit in his little bebe seat. He kept hitting it like it was a drum. He did not really care for the cereal as you will see in the video at the bottom. He ate a little on Saturday and Sunday, but now he will not open his mouth. He has his daddy's stubbornness. He just keeps turning his head and then he will clench his mouth shut really tight. He won't even take his pacifier. I guess he is afraid I am trying to outsmart him and put cereal on the pacifier for him to take. :) So, if anyone has any suggestions on what to do when babies will not eat cereal please share.


How big is Bryson??? SOOOOO BIIIIGGGG!!! :)

Of course the fun part of feeding him is giving him a bath afterwards. He loves to take baths in Nana's sink because he fits perfectly in it.

His papa Short kept talking to him and making him laugh, and papa can not stand the pacifier so he kept taking it out and saying that boy is trying to talk to me get that thing out of his mouth. You know, I would be more willing to listen to his papa IF papa would keep the oreos away from Bryson!!

Here is the video of him eating his first cereal. Sorry if it drags on. Brian was filming and I think he was still partly asleep. As you can tell he really did not like his new food.

Bryson's 1st Play Date

We went to our friends Chris and Brandi Howell's for dinner last week and they have a 10 1/2 month old named Hunter. Brandi and I have been really good friends since high school. She used to drive me around everywhere. I was actually with her the first time she had a wreck. To her defense the roads were covered in snow, and this was back before Skiatook had all the money in the world to build a new huge U-MAC Center, and we had to drive to the Middle School for b-ball practice. Anyhow, I am so glad we have boys so close in age that met within a few hours of Bryson's birth. It will be a story to tell them when they are older. :)

Okay, so back to dinner. We had delicious chicken spaghetti which is Brian's favorite. We decided to do dinner at their house so we could actually play with the boys. Hunter is so cute. He is starting to walk, and he has the whole penguin walk going on! He is non-stop, I do not know how they keep up with him. Brandi would chase him while he was crawling and he would start going faster. It was so fun to watch him. Bryson just started sitting up, so he was a little boring for Hunter. But, you could tell Bryson wanted to keep up with him really bad. Hey, maybe a few more times together and Hunter will have Bryson crawling or walking in no time! :) I actually got him to sit still for the picture below.


Here Hunter is with the infamous spoon! We could not get them to sit together, so these are the best pictures I could get of the two of them. As you can tell Bryson is almost as big as Hunter. :)

It is so funny because Hunter has this thing with pacifiers and Brandi will set a bunch in front of him and he will pick one up and try it and then toss it to the side. And, he will continue this until he finds his favorite. Well, he noticed Bryson's pacifier and Hunter kept walking up to him and grabbing the pacifier from Bryson's mouth and tossing it to the side. Bryson would just look like what did he do that for. It was so funny to watch. I can't wait for Bryson to get a little older so he can keep up with Hunter. They will be so much fun to watch.

Here is Bryson after leaving. He was tuckered out! We had such a fun time. Brandi and Chris are such great parents and are raising an adorable little boy. When Bryson is recovered we will have to have them over to our house. I hope they like take-out!! :)

Six Months - Yeah!!!

Bryson turned six months last Friday and it seems he like he can do so much more now. He can sit up for a really long time without falling forward. Of course that is until he wants something in front of him and takes a nose dive after it. He loves to play and have me read to him.

Here he is playing with a dog Great-Grandma Crow got for him. He loves this dog. He kept giving it kisses. So cute.



My mom got him this cowboy hat and he is so cute in it. I was trying some overalls on him to see if they fit, and Brian was trying to get him to sit still so he could take a picture with his phone, but he kept looking at his momma!

He is such a big boy in his church clothes!

Whatchu talkin bout Willis???

It is so cute - he is starting to try and suck on his toes. I think he can fit most of them in there at one time.
Oops...mom caught me!
Again with the hat. This was too cute not to share. He started laughing so hard when I would sing the farmer and the dell to him. I don't know if he was laughing at my singing or the song. We will go with the song.


Here is a video of him cracking up at Brian trying to put the hat on him. He started laughing so hard he got the hiccups.

Christmas 2007

Here are some pictures from Christmas. We had such a good Christmas with Bryson. He was such a trooper traveling every where. Although every where we went he would fall asleep right when it was time to open presents. So mom and dad got to open them, and I think he racked in more than both of us combined. :) Thank you to everyone for all you do for our family. Bryson is truly blessed to have such a loving family.

I sent this picture out as our Christmas Cards. I wanted to put a caption:
"I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus", but it would not fit.


Here are a few of him just "tearing" into his presents!

Now I am just trying to find the space to put everything. We may have to add on to the house just to accommodate Mr. Bryson's things. Who knew a boy could be so high-maintenance. :) I thought I would do the sensible thing and buy him clothes for Christmas. Well, I bought 6 months pants and some of them are already too short, and he has only worn them once. He is growing like a weed. He is going to be so tall. Brian keeps telling everyone Bryson looks like him, and I just say that is fine as long as he has my athletic ability!! :) Brian did not think it was very funny.

Well, I know it is kind of late to post Christmas pictures, but I wanted to share.

First Blog Ever

Okay, so this should be interesting. I don't have a my-space page because I did not think I had the time to devote to it, but somehow I am hoping I can keep this up. I created this manly for my little guy. I think it would be something neat to help me remember big and small things that happen to us. Lord knows I am bad at keeping track of baby books and scrapbooking. I have not even completed my wedding album. Okay, enough about my procrastination. I am here to talk about my family, in particular the new man in my life - Bryson Mack (or as we call him Baby Mack or B-Man).



He turned six months last Friday and he just amazes me more everyday. I never in my whole life thought I could love another person as much as I love him. We found out we were going to have a him at a time in our lives when my family really needed some joy to hold on to. We lost my aunt in March 2006 unexpectedly and I was extremely close to her. November 2006 we found out we were going to have a baby, and all I could think of is how excited she would have been to meet him, and how God must have sent him into my life to help me get through the heartache of losing someone so close. And, he has truly been a blessing from God.

He was born July 18, 2007. Weighing in at 8 lbs 5 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. I still need to have a talk with my doctor she told me he would not be over 7 lbs. He has been the perfect baby. He has slept thru the night since the second day we brought him home. He has been very healthy besides an ear infection and the stomach virus the day after Christmas.

I hope I can keep this blog up!! I am really excited to talk about my little man even if nobody reads it! :)