JT's 6th Month

I've started venturing out with John Thomas some more...hitting up Wal-Mart and the like. We have a lot of fun, but apparently a shopping trip to Wal-Mart is exhausting for everyone!

He made it all the way to the check out lane
before he passed out!

JT loves wearing fun t-shirts now...as you saw the "My Dad Rocks" (yes he does!) t-shirt in an earlier post, and he got an "iPood" t-shirt to match his girlfriend, Ruby!

JT is having so much fun in Discovery Zone...Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights in the church nursery are full of Kodak moments, and I am so glad our sweet friend, Jennifer, snapped this one!

Playing footsies (already) with his girlfriend, Ruby!

I love this smiley boy of ours...and I love that he loves to eat. I can always manage to get a good shot at feeding time. Look at him striking a pose for the camera! Hahaha!!!

Cheese! (Look at that bicep ;-)

We are trying to introduce Little Puffs to JT, but he can't quite figure them out yet. He doesn't realize they go IN his mouth...not ON his chin! :-)

Since JT has learned to roll over, he has been sleeping on his belly a lot. However, he has yet to learn how to turn himself back over in the middle of the night and wakes us up crying and screaming to roll him back over. I'll be very proud of him when he accomplishes that next step!

Sweet sweet boy...LOVE him!

Teething...UGH!

John Thomas still has two teeth...

See my two teeth?!?!?

...and continues on with this horrible thing called TEETHING! Ugh! I feel like we're back to the newborn phase of his life...crying, fussing, drooling, waking up 2 to 5 times each night...and now he's biting. Yes...OUCH! But every time I get frustrated dealing with his teething, I stop and remind myself that he is hurting...my baby is in pain, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. So, in an effort to help him through this horrible horrible teething phase, we have been alternating Ibuprofen and Tylenol every 2 - 4 hours, giving him teething toys, using Spiffies wipes to rub his teeth and gums, and brushing his teeth and gums every morning and night. Nothing is working. Again...UGH! But "Super Nana" came to the rescue and got him a Sophie the Giraffe teething toy, and he loves it! I think we'll make it through teething now. Thanks Nana!

My 1st Mother's Day!!!

Wow...what a blessed day and occasion. My first "official" Mother's Day was wonderful, and I was showered with love. I received sweet cards in the mail from several precious friends and family members, and my amazing husband got me a beautiful necklace with John Thomas' birth stone (opal). 

Shawn took me to my favorite restaurant in Starkville, City Bagel, and we took our yummy food and had a picnic on the MSU campus...it was perfect! JT had a lot of fun, too! Then Shawn made me a steak dinner that night...I was spoiled, and I loved it! ;-)


I hope every mother had a very Happy Mother's Day!!! And by the way...I LOVE being John Thomas' mommy!

This is How I Roll!

Well...we hit another baby milestone in the Family Stone. Our sweet baby boy is ROLLING OVER! The first time he rolled over was on Easter Sunday in the nursery at church. Yep...Mommy and Daddy didn't get to see his first roll over, but Nana did! She was keeping babies that morning, and he apparently rolled over twice and then bragged about it all morning long by cooing and "talking" over the other babies. :-)

"Here I go, Mommy! Watch this!"

"Going, going...rolling, rolling..."

"Tah-Dah!"

John Thomas is so proud of his new accomplishment! I still can't get over how much he's changing and growing every day. He'll be 6 months old this Friday...time flies so fast I don't want to BLINK!


Another milestone...tooth #2 made it's appearance the day after tooth #1 made its appearance! Teething is no fun...UGH! Poor baby is hurting so much these days. I wish I could just bear the pain for him. His two pearly whites on the bottom are precious, and I'm certain there's more on the way real soon!

See my two teeth?

Easter Sunday 2011

I must say...John Thomas had a wonderful first Easter, and so did we. We are truly blessed with wonderful family, friends and church family! Thank you, Mt. Vernon, for a wonderful Easter Week!

"Happy Easter!" Love, The Family Stone

Sitting up in the grass at church. Yup...he's
sitting up now, too!

Ruby, Harper and JT...buds for life!

The Easter bunny came to see him
at Nana and Papa's!

Playing in his Daddy's old walker...he
LOVES this thing!

We hope all of you had a Happy Easter! HE IS RISEN!

"He isn't here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen." ~Matthew 28:6 

JT's first MSU Baseball Game

We went over to Starkville this afternoon to meet up with our friends Amanda and Michael to go to the Cotton District Arts Festival and to meet our other friends, Kelly and Michael, at Dudy Noble Field for the MSU v. USC baseball game. JT had SO much fun, and I have a feeling we'll be back for more games real soon! :-)

Of course we had to make his first experience just right
by hanging out in Left Field Lounge!

His eyes were fixed on an MSU flag waving

He LOVED watching the flags!

Our little Bulldog!

He did really good the whole time we were in Starkville. He only cried one time...when we scored and everyone started screaming, clapping, whistling and ringing their COWBELLS! It scared the mess out of him. He's gonna have to get used to all that noise come football season! ;-)

Girls, girls, girls!

JT is having WAY too much fun with all his "girlfriends" these days! We're going to have to keep an eye on him. ;-)

Playing with sweet Maddy in Discovery Zone at church
Wednesday night...see them holding hands???

Holding hands with sweet Ruby! He is such a "romantic"!

"More bars"! Hahaha!

Sweet petite Harper and little Miss Ruby came to play!

So many fun times ahead for all of us...we are so blessed!

JT LOVES to play with Ruby's hair (and hair accessories)!

And Ruby loves JT's muscles...they taste so yummy! ;-)

We truly are blessed to have such wonderful friends to share these times with. And JT already has a great group of "gal pals" to grow up with.