The Bryan Family

At 6 months Liam:

• is 18 lbs. 6 ozs
• is 27 1/2 inches long
• can roll over both ways (but would rather scoot and squirm around than roll)
• can sit up for a few minutes unassisted
• has started eating food (He’s had sweet potatoes, avocado, banana, carrot, peas, apples, zucchini, and brown rice cereal. )  He loves to eat!  He wasn’t so sure about those peas, though.  Love my new baby bullet, by the way!!
• loves his big sister!  Anytime she is around he will look and smile at her.  He even gives her hugs (and pulls her hair) when she comes to him.
• really enjoys music (especially when Daddy plays his guitar)
• said his 1st word (mama!!)…and Neale was there to witness!  Shortly followed by dada.  He says dada all day long.  He will occasionally say mama..but not very often.  He does say nana when he is hungry.

This week we learned about the letter S.  We also talked about Winter and snowmen.  (even though our weather around here feels more like Spring)  Our shape this week was circles.

Here are some letter S printables:

Confessions of a Homeschooler:  PreK letter S

Totally Tots: S is for Snail

Tot School Printables:  Letter S

Letter S

Using our new sparkly do-a-dots.  Thanks Aunt Beth!

Letter S tracing

We put stickers on our S for our S collage.

Ellis enjoying a sucker after nap.  (Love the bed hair!!)

Matching the letters in the word snowman.

Snowmen

Making a snowman by spelling her name.  

Painting snowmen with bottle caps.

Making snowmen with felt.

Ellie made our little family into snowmen…Mommy, Daddy, Ellie, and Liam.

Finding letters in the “snow”

Circles

We made different objects with our circle.

She decided to make a flower with her circle.

We glued buttons for our circle collage.

Scooping and playing with buttons.

Next week:

Letter Q

Quilts/Winter

Squares

The boys hard at work.

We’ve been having problems with Liam leaking through his diapers at night.  We’ve used our cloth diapers and disposable ones and he still wakes up wet.  I heard some great things about using wool covers over cloth diapers especially for night time.  They can run about 30-45 dollars a piece.  So I decided to try and make some with some old wool sweaters Neale and I had.  I can’t find the tutorial I used to make these, but this one has the same idea.  We’ll see how well they work.  I am also going to try to make these as well as soon as I can find more wool sweaters.

We were able to spend New Years with Neale’s sister and her family this year.  Ellie had a great time playing with her cousin Max.  (She still talks about it.)

Story time with cousin Max. 

Max trying to hold Liam.

It was so nice outside, so we had to try out Max’s slide.

All ready for bed!

Ellie, Max, and Liam

Happy Holidays!

Liam sitting up.  He’s getting so big!

All the grandkids 

All my siblings (plus spouses)

My parents with the 5

Our annual sister photo

The Bryan 4

All 19

We decided to wait a little while with Liam before we introduced him to solid foods.  I think we started too early with Ellie.  Since Ellie had such a bad experience with rice cereal, we skipped over the cereal and went right to the yummy stuff…sweet potatoes! Liam really enjoyed it! 

Each year my family all gathers at my parent’s house in St. Louis around Christmas.  We have recently added on a new tradition of going ice skating while we are all there together.  This year Ellie was finally able to do it…she was so excited to go ice skating!!

 

There she goes…with Daddy on one side and my niece Katie on the other side.

Liam enjoying the show.

My nieces and nephews (minus 2).

I guess Liam got a little bored, so he decided to take a little nap.