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| this is how he was sitting in his jumper...funny baby |
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| Loves to play peek-a-boo with dad |
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Playing Catch Up
We got a new camera! Our old camera had seen better days, it had been through Chances mission....enough said. So we got a nice new Canon, and I love it! So here are some pictures of the past few weeks.
Christmas
We had such a great Christmas this year. Chance was able to get a whole week off from work, which was so nice, and we decided to go down to Ava to spend Christmas with family. The holidays were spent catching up with family, enjoying good food, playing with babies, giving and receiving gifts, and so much more. I love family, and am so grateful for ALL that they do for me and my family, we really did have a special Christmas, especially Christmas morning taking turns opening our gifts and seeing and feeling the love that surrounded us that morning, it was definitely a Christmas that I will never forget. Chate had a fun time too, he mostly liked to watch everyone else with all of their goodies, but man did that baby get spoiled, he really got some good loot though! Thanks to his grandparents :), what would we do without such amazing parents? I truly appreciate all that each one of you do for us, we love you all so much!
6 Months
I am finding the time to blog few and far between these days. My days are filled with cleaning, baby bubble baths, toys, acting crazy to the enjoyment of my baby, playing with toys, and getting the songs from those toys stuck in my head all day...I even find myself drifting off to sleep with those songs still playing around in the corners of my mind. I change diapers, wipe food all over Chates face, I mean I am feeding him and he wipes the food EVERYWHERE! I love being a mom, and though at times it can be very trying and exhausting, i could not think of a better way to spend my day than playing with my precious baby. But alas, I do not get very much time to myself, while he is sleeping I often ask myself, should I clean, or catch up on a favorite tv show/read/exercise? Usually I try and to multiple things at once, which i am quite good at multitasking these days, i guess it comes with being a mom and having so much to do! Ok so now to catch you up on what Chate has accomplished during his 6 month mark.
- He says "dadadada", cutest thing ever...we are working on "mamama" :)
- His favorite foods are sweet potatoes, squash, and carrots. You can tell he likes his orange veggies by his face color, being a slight orange yellowish color. But he is not a huge fan of the fruits...
- He loves to watch mom and always keeps an eye on me wherever I am.
- He weighed 17.3 pounds at his 6 month check up, and was 26 inches long.
- His favorite song is "God Blessed the Broken Road" Ironic, you say? I think not.
- At night when I sing him lullabies, he tries to sing with my, it pretty much melts my heart.
- He LOVES books, Grandma Gwen got him a book that has pull up tabs, and different pictures are under them, he loves to open and close the tab. The only problem is now he thinks every book has takes, and "scratches" at the pages trying to find the tabs to open, it is pretty funny.
Well I think that is about it, or all that I can remember. Chate is so fun and watching him reach different milestones everyday truly amazes me, some things he does I didn't teach him, and it just makes me so proud to see him growing and learning. Love you baby :)
- He says "dadadada", cutest thing ever...we are working on "mamama" :)
- His favorite foods are sweet potatoes, squash, and carrots. You can tell he likes his orange veggies by his face color, being a slight orange yellowish color. But he is not a huge fan of the fruits...
- He loves to watch mom and always keeps an eye on me wherever I am.
- He weighed 17.3 pounds at his 6 month check up, and was 26 inches long.
- His favorite song is "God Blessed the Broken Road" Ironic, you say? I think not.
- At night when I sing him lullabies, he tries to sing with my, it pretty much melts my heart.
- He LOVES books, Grandma Gwen got him a book that has pull up tabs, and different pictures are under them, he loves to open and close the tab. The only problem is now he thinks every book has takes, and "scratches" at the pages trying to find the tabs to open, it is pretty funny.
Well I think that is about it, or all that I can remember. Chate is so fun and watching him reach different milestones everyday truly amazes me, some things he does I didn't teach him, and it just makes me so proud to see him growing and learning. Love you baby :)
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
The Kindness of Strangers
In the world we all live in today, we always hear of the awful things that human beings can do to each other and I often wonder if there is any good left in the world, and if, in this scary time how can I do all I can to protect my baby, and help him to grow up and be a kind, loving, and an influence of good on the world? Well thanks to a kind-hearted couple I know that there is a great deal of good in the world, and thankfully you don't have to look to far to find it. Me and Chances 2 year anniversary was on the 28th, but due to traveling back from the holidays, and chance working that night, we did not have to opportunity to celebrate. That being said, last night Chance said he was taking me out to dinner, and he surprised me with Red Lobster, it was surprising because we are not the most wealthy of people at this present moment, and Red Lobster is on the expensive side, so needless to say I was VERY excited. Chance told me to order whatever I wanted...and I did, we even ordered an appetizer, which we NEVER do haha.
As we were waiting for our food Chate found a new friend, a nice older man sitting in the booth next to us and his wife. Chate and him chatted it up and played for a long time, the couple was so nice, come to find out he was in investigator, and even knew where Ava was, thanks to some murder that he was investigating down there...any who....we talked to them the whole time until the food came. Our meals were so good! Let me also give props to those cheesy biscuits, I could eat bushels of those darn things, ugh mouth is watering as I think about them...yum. At one point in the dinner the man got up to use the bathroom, and when he came back they were getting up to leave, the man said bye to us, and shook Chates hand and gave him .50 to start a college fund with :). We thanked them for being so kind and entertaining Chate, and they went on their way, never to be seen again by us anyways. When we asked our waiter for the check he said we didn't have one due to a very kind act. Wow, did this really just happen to us? I have heard of things like this happening before, but now that kind act was directed towards us, we were so grateful, and felt a lot of love towards a couple we didn't even really know. We also felt a little bad because the bill was not cheap, as this was our one night of going all out and ordering whatever we wanted. Such a kind, loving couple.
So I just want to give a shout out to that sweet couple and say thank you so much for making mine and Chances night, and may God bless you for being so kind. Chance and I now have the opportunity to pay that kind act forward, and we are looking forward to when that time comes. Thank you to all the kind souls who make this sometimes harsh world, so much better to live in, we all need to be a little more kind towards those around us and willing to help, this is my New Years resolution, and I pray that we can all do a kind deed when we see an opportunity, and bring joy into this new year of 2013.
As we were waiting for our food Chate found a new friend, a nice older man sitting in the booth next to us and his wife. Chate and him chatted it up and played for a long time, the couple was so nice, come to find out he was in investigator, and even knew where Ava was, thanks to some murder that he was investigating down there...any who....we talked to them the whole time until the food came. Our meals were so good! Let me also give props to those cheesy biscuits, I could eat bushels of those darn things, ugh mouth is watering as I think about them...yum. At one point in the dinner the man got up to use the bathroom, and when he came back they were getting up to leave, the man said bye to us, and shook Chates hand and gave him .50 to start a college fund with :). We thanked them for being so kind and entertaining Chate, and they went on their way, never to be seen again by us anyways. When we asked our waiter for the check he said we didn't have one due to a very kind act. Wow, did this really just happen to us? I have heard of things like this happening before, but now that kind act was directed towards us, we were so grateful, and felt a lot of love towards a couple we didn't even really know. We also felt a little bad because the bill was not cheap, as this was our one night of going all out and ordering whatever we wanted. Such a kind, loving couple.
So I just want to give a shout out to that sweet couple and say thank you so much for making mine and Chances night, and may God bless you for being so kind. Chance and I now have the opportunity to pay that kind act forward, and we are looking forward to when that time comes. Thank you to all the kind souls who make this sometimes harsh world, so much better to live in, we all need to be a little more kind towards those around us and willing to help, this is my New Years resolution, and I pray that we can all do a kind deed when we see an opportunity, and bring joy into this new year of 2013.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Christmas Time
Oh how I love Christmas time! I think I am even more excited for Christmas this year, thanks to my little sweetie who I get to spoil. I love my little family so much!
Picture Overload of the Past Few Weeks
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| Date night with mom and dad at Macaroni Grill...YUM! Chate was actually really happy, the flash just catches him off gaurd...lol |
5 Months
Wow. That is all I can say...can my baby really almost be half a year old already?! I swear it feels just like yesterday that I found out that I was pregnant, and that was already a year ago! My mom used to always to tell me that as you get older time speeds up so enjoy every minute of being young with no worries. I completely agree with my mom on that one. Being in school, all I wanted to do was graduate and move on with life, but now, as I see my life quickly passing before me, I just wish time would SLOW the heck down, wouldn't that be great? I think yes. So I will take my mom's advice and enjoy every minute I have with Chate being so young, because I know it is going by way faster than I would like it to. Ok here are some fun things Chate has accomplished this past month:
- He can now sit up, but every once and a while gets excited and topples over, so I have to really watch him, and can not just leave him by himself sitting up yet.
- We have ventured into the realm of "real" food, all we have tried is squash, but he seems do be doing quite well. FYI and maybe to much info, but since we have been starting him on food, his poop and toots are SHTANKY (my way of saying stinky)! Yuck, is all I have to say about that.
- Chate loves to go out and about and see different scenery, since we pretty much just stare at each other all day long, I don't mind it one bit, but he gets tired of just seeing mom all day long.
- He loves church, and has been a good boy the past few times going. He always seems to start chatting VERY loudly during sacrament though, hopefully nobody minds. I would rather him be happy and talking than mad and crying, so people will just have to suffer through his cute little banters with himself.
- Chate is practicing really hard at blowing raspberries with his tongue, he has succeeded a few times, but we are still working on getting it down really good.
That is all that I can think of for now, but I am sure there is more...Chance and I just love Chate so much, and love his little personality. Chance really likes that Chate is able to do more things, and Chate loves when his daddy gets home from school or work, his whole face lights up, it is the sweetest thing ever. I just love my boys :).
- He can now sit up, but every once and a while gets excited and topples over, so I have to really watch him, and can not just leave him by himself sitting up yet.
- We have ventured into the realm of "real" food, all we have tried is squash, but he seems do be doing quite well. FYI and maybe to much info, but since we have been starting him on food, his poop and toots are SHTANKY (my way of saying stinky)! Yuck, is all I have to say about that.
- Chate loves to go out and about and see different scenery, since we pretty much just stare at each other all day long, I don't mind it one bit, but he gets tired of just seeing mom all day long.
- He loves church, and has been a good boy the past few times going. He always seems to start chatting VERY loudly during sacrament though, hopefully nobody minds. I would rather him be happy and talking than mad and crying, so people will just have to suffer through his cute little banters with himself.
- Chate is practicing really hard at blowing raspberries with his tongue, he has succeeded a few times, but we are still working on getting it down really good.
That is all that I can think of for now, but I am sure there is more...Chance and I just love Chate so much, and love his little personality. Chance really likes that Chate is able to do more things, and Chate loves when his daddy gets home from school or work, his whole face lights up, it is the sweetest thing ever. I just love my boys :).
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