Good Friends

My dear friend, Lori, whom I have known since the 2nd grade, came into town last weekend with her three kids. Lori and Allison are also friends, as they were college roommates. We got together so the kids could all play together. It's so crazy and neat at the same time that I used to play with Lori when I was little, and now our kids are playing together! I think that's pretty cool. Later that night, the three moms got to go out for dinner and a drink! It was a ton of fun!

Holden and Brayden

Adi, Jaylen, and Kambria

Adi, Brenden, and Jaylen

Dominic chillin' on the pool table

Chopped

Adi decided to chop her hair off up to her chin! Just last week she told Lance and I that she wanted to grow it out long. But her and mommy spent Veteran's Day together since they were both off and mommy took her to get a trim and Adi said to cut it short! It's really, really cute, but man does she look so much older!!

10 Months!

Loves playing chase. Mommy is chasing him down the hall in this picture.

Holden, what are you doing?.....

Who me? Nothing mommy!

Helping mommy empty the dishwasher

Holden is 10 months! He just had his well-baby checkup and he now weighs 21.5 lbs and is 30 inches long! He's in the 50-75% for weight and 75-90% for height. He is beginning to thin out a bit, which I'm sure is due to his constant motion! He is all over the place these days! Loves to walk while holding on to things and he took his first couple of steps just the other day! In fact he took 3 steps! So we are thinking walking is right around the corner. This is definitely the time for exploring - he's into everything - the dishwasher, doggy door, cupboards, fridge, under the kitchen table, clothes hamper, sissy's kitchen, the bathroom...you name it! Oh, and he wants to be outside all the time, rain or shine! One of his favorite things right now is this car that we push him in everywhere! He loves it! Still hates getting his diaper changed and getting dressed.

Summer 2009

Now that fall is officially here (yeah! I love the fall!), I thought I would recap our summer. Wow what a fun and very busy summer for our family. We did a lot and I wasn't able to find the time to blog about all of it so I have included some pictures. Let's see, we went swimming at Grandma's and Grandpa's quite a bit, the kids were baptized, Gran and Gramps came out for a visit and we all went to Fort Bragg/Mendocino, took a trip to Arizona, Zander Henry was born, we went to Roseville for Gracie's 2nd birthday/Labor Day/baseball tournament, took the kids to Six Flags, and to Mt. Lassen, and Adi started playing soccer and 1st grade!

First day of 1st grade

Gracie's 2nd birthday

Bouncing in the jump house with Grandpa!
(They both loved it!)

Brad got to visit for a couple of days

Grandpa pulling 4 out of 6 grandkids

Having fun at soccer

Holden loves it when sissy squeezes him, can't you tell?

The stinky sulphur pits at Mt. Lassen

Adisyn Is 6!

Wow! Adi is 6 years old! What a big girl! Adi started 1st grade in August and she's loving it so far. She heads to school at 8 and has breakfast and then her class starts at 8:30 and ends at 2:20. She then goes to an after school program until we pick her up sometime around 5. It makes for a long day for her and she is usually pretty darn wiped out by the end of it.

She lost another front tooth and has a very cute gap on the top. She's enjoying soccer, singing cheers to me (C-C-CHI, I-I-ICO, CHI, ICO, Gooooo Chico is now stuck in my head), learning cursive, playing with the neighbor kids, and being a big sister to Holden. She has developed a little sassy attitude over the past few months, but for the most part, she's such a delight to be with. She has a zest for life and is going at it full speed ahead. We love you so much Adi!

We celebrated her birthday with our nephew, Gavin, over at my parent's house on the 15th since Gavin's birthday is September 17th. Grandma made them yummy (and yes, vegan) cupcakes. Then on Saturday the 19th we had her birthday party with some of her friends -Dominic, Brayden, Lucca, Siena, Braden, Graysen, Jacob, Lauren, Holden and Sidney. She had a blast!

Opening gifts on Tuesday at Grandma's and Grandpa's house

Cupcake time!!

The cupcakes I made for her party on Saturday to go along with her Madagascar Escape 2 Africa party

Dominic giving big smiles while eating his pizza. Such a cutie!!

Having tons and tons of fun in the giant Cheetah bounce house, compliments of Gran and Gramps!!

And having tons of fun in the pool

9 Months

Holden is 9 months old! Wow - I can't even wrap my head around that. Let's see, he is now crawling and when he sees something he wants, he can go so fast! His little crawl is just too cute because he pushes off with his left foot instead of using boths knees. Sometimes he slips on the hardwood floors and does a faceplant and I feel so bad for him. He loves to pull himself up to standing on everything, including tables, chairs, stools, the floor length mirror, cupboards, the couch, and yes, the bathtub. Holden does not like to sit much, especially in the bathtub! He loves to stand and play with the faucet, or even do what we call "jumpy, jumpy", which is where he bounces up and down.

He now claps his hands and we are working on waving bye, bye and signing the word milk. He's still quite the screamer. Screams when he's happy, screams when he's tired, and screams when he's mad. Our poor baby still has pooping issues. He's only going about every 3 to 4 days (which is actually an improvement) but he is still having a hard time going. Dr. told me to cut out cereal, bananas, and applesauce. I try to get prunes down him every day, but I think he is on to me now and he's over the prunes. He loves to sit and eat anything that he can feed himself, like puffs and cheerios. Changing his diaper and clothes is becoming quite the challenge lately. He screams and cries and rolls over. I can't figure out what the big deal is, but he hates every second of it! Oh, and his sleeping - not good. Fights it and fights it. It's actually pretty cute to watch him babble on and on and roll all around just to stay awake. When he does finally fall asleep he only stays down for an hour. I get him back down and he wakes up anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes later. I used to let him cry for a few minutes and he would go back to sleep but not lately. He now stands and cries until we come get him. He just loves to sleep with mommy and daddy. And we don't mind it too much either. :)

It's been a challenging but very fun first 9 months! We love you so much Bubba!

Matching grandpa

The dishwasher is so cool

Oooohhh, look what I found. These make a great loud noise!

I don't need baby toys, just give me a box and I'm happy

Loves to stand at the door and look out back

8 Months

Okay! I know this is a whole month overdue, but better late than never right? Holden's 8th month flew by pretty quick. Poor little dude was sick for half of it with some virus that he picked up from our neighbor, Lauren, who goes to daycare with him. It lasted a good two weeks and it caused an ear infection. His first of several I'm sure. Then mommy got the virus and let me tell you, I have never, ever felt that sore in my life. I felt like I pulled every single muscle in my body. At the worst of it, I couldn't get out of bed and couldn't pick Holden up. I forced myself to do both of the above, but it was hard. It was the weirdest feeling ever. My forearms were so sore that I couldn't write, grasp things (including the steering wheel), unbuckle Holden from his car seat, you name it. If that's what Holden was feeling while he had it, oh man, no wonder he was so upset. Poor baby. So, sorry for the hiatus from the Blog, but all better now! So let's see, at 8 months Holden was starting to "creep" and getting quite frustrated that he couldn't quite figure out how to crawl. He would lift up and then his belly would fall back down. Stay tuned for his 9 month update where I will have much more to share.... Napping with dada

Oh cool, what is this?!


Look at me mommy!



Loves to rip up magazines and play with my cookbooks

I think he's over it. Actually, he cracks me up because it seems like he is always checking his toys out to see how they work. He's always looking under them and turning them around and exploring them. Silly boy!