The Powell Family Blog

Is there anything cuter than a bear on the butt of a baby?!

Now that he can sit up by himself bath time is a lot more fun.  There is lots of splashing!!!

Braydon hasn’t been sleeping well lately.  I’m not sure if it’s because of the teething or what.  Normally, he’ll wake up at least once a night but lately it’s been a couple times a night.  What’s frustrating is that when we go in and pick him up he’ll fall back asleep almost immediately with his [...]

I managed to get a picture of B showing off his new teeth!

Braydon is growing a mohawk.  It makes me think of the movie Joe Dirt.  “Are you telling me that you are so ingrained with white trash DNA that your facial hair grows in naturally all white trashy like that?”  Hee…it makes me laugh every day!  I’m sure one of these days the rest of his [...]

We finally pulled out the walker a couple of days ago.  I think he likes it quite a bit but he doesn’t know how to go forward just yet so he tends to back into the furniture and get stuck.

We took B to the doctor yesterday for his 6 month check up.  The doctor said he was “advanced” for his age.  (I’m sure she tells all the moms their kids are advanced!)  She was surprised that he was already trying to crawl and that he uses his thumb and pointer finger to pick things [...]

At 6 months and 8 days old, our boy has teeth!  He was chewing on my finger today when I realized I felt something sharp.  We’ve been focusing on his top gums lately because you can see the teeth under his gums but they haven’t broken through yet.  I hadn’t even noticed his bottom gums, [...]

So I stayed home with a sick little boy today.  Poor little guy hasn’t been feeling well since Saturday.  He’s had a slight fever and stuffy/runny nose.  On top of all of that he’s been teething for the  last couple weeks.  We can see the little teeth moving their way through his gums but they haven’t [...]