8 Months Old

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I think I see a lot of My family in this picture.. anyone else?

Blurry but I love it!

Dear Landon,

8 months! I feel like the baby days are over. You are a very happy boy and still very handsome. This month has been a busy one I can't believe it's already to this point. Your new favorite is to climb the stairs. If I don't have the baby gate up you can move pretty fast- which was very surprising to us. You go over and check to see if the gate is up because you like to practice. :) You and Carter play together, nothing makes me happier then when I hear the two of you laughing.

Daddy has been digging a pit in the backyard.. and you have a great love for fist fulls of dirt. I hold both your hands and and you just dive at it with your mouth. You crack me up. You still have only eyes for me and follow me around as best you can. Landon my love you sleep through the night! (You sleep better than Carter does actually). You go to bed around 8 or 7:30ish and wake up at 6:30. It is so wonderful. You seem to know what are baby toys and what are not and you prefer the non-baby toys.

I love watching you grow up! But I am afraid you are doing it too quickly. Slow down!

Love you Forever,

Momma

Super cute boy!

Carter is funny.

Lately when Carter is eating often he will simply use his mouth.. aka forget the hands.. "I can get my face down close enough to the treat and eat it." He thinks. We went to the park today. I try and be prepared. I had water bottles, cheese crackers and puff cereal, even a few toys. Clearly everyone else's snacks are always better. He and a friend were sharing his fruit snacks. They were feeding each other, cute in theory until someone gets bit. Maybe it should not have been funny. But I keep hearing little R say "hey!" as Carter accidentally nips his fingers.. I guess older kids are smart enough to keep their distance.. Carter opened his mouth and they threw their snack at him. I need to teach him to use his hands..

every post needs a picture

Landon, 7 months

fort

Ryan needs a project.. so he choose this one to fill his time. He says it's for me.. my sanity but really it's a project for his. Ryan is building a hexagonal fort for our boys. So I guess the project is for everyone. Here is the progress so far at the end of day one. We will see how it unfolds as the weekends/evenings go by.

weekend of fun!

Ryan's Mom, sister and Grandma came to visit us. it was so much fun to have some company. And it was a good motivator for me to get the house much more organized. :)

We spent a lot of time at the local parks playing and enjoying the Columbia River. Look closely at the pictures. See

*Madisyn with a handful of seaweed for Ryan

*Landon's eyes full of tears from laughing too hard

*Ryan's River Bath

*Spoiling in action..

Carter loved having his grandmas here. He loves them so much but he certainly missed having his grandpas around.

Carter

"He Fall down, Momma. He get wet"

"He fixed it"

Not sure what he is remembering I did have to reattach the petal the other day so maybe that is what he is remembering

"Building Momma! Helicopter, right here, Momma"

7 months old

Dear Landon,

I cannot believe that another month has already flown by! You are crawling around like crazy you can sit with your hands out to hold you up. You seem to know that baby toys arn't as cool as other things and don't really like when I give you baby toys. You would rather have Carter's toys or a shiny bowl but not a silly baby toy. :) You don't like being the horse when Carter wants to play horsey..

Food isn't totally down pat you seem to like sweet potatoes and applesauce. You gag on rice cereal (I can totally see why) and you don't really like green beans. You love the rice cereal puffs and Carter enjoys taking them from the tray and eating them for you.

You are doing better at sleeping through the night and it totally helps that you have your own room and your own real bed. Daddy sings this song to me often when he is holding you "I only have eyes for you.. " you follow me with your eyes and long for me when others hold you. It is really quite flattering We love you!

Love you Forever.

Momma

C's month 7 letter

The best life

I shouldn't be blogging. I've felt a little bit down the last few days with very good reason. We just moved in. I love our house. (I love our couches it's been over 2 months since I've sat on them and when the movers dropped them off it was bliss to sit on my couches!) Anyways we had an eventful weekend. Landon had a small fever last week and than Carter got it too on Friday but no big deal it's just a small fever. WRONG.. Carter suffers from Febrile Seizures which is not a big deal but it is when he has one at Lowe's. Long story shortened a bit we ended up at the ER and because he also had a collision with the tile floor earlier that day not only did we have an IV but we had a CAT scan as well. I felt pretty down on myself got a case of the should-ofs along with my own fever, and sickness. Ryan is pretty sick too. Hopefully by the end of the day we will all be feeling much better!

I read this today. This bloggers words on gratitude despite/because of trials really touched me. I also heard about an old friend's niece Preslee who is holding on to life despite drowning last week. Her parents are already at peace with the situation and are praying for their little girl with all their heart.

I know this isn't anything new but it was so nice for me to read these posts during my crazy life and realize that I need to just love my perfectly imperfect life!

scrub a dub two boys in the tub

bath time fun

Landon's face makes me laugh

In Our Lovely Deseret

Children's voices, oh, how sweet,
When in innocence and love, Like the angels up above,
They with Happy hearts and cheerful faces meet.
LDS Hymns #307

For some reason when I heard and sang this song today in Relief Society the chorus of the song just jumped out at me. The first line made me tear up. I was thinking about how LOUD and often disobedient Carter is yet he is still so sweet. I don't always see how sweet he is and I wonder if other just miss it all together. But my little boy is so sweet. When we eat almost at every meal he says. 'Thank you Momma this is Really good'. Some times he says 'this is Delicious'. He's pretty good at saying Sorry if he steps on me or inflicts some pain on me. He tells me he loves me and that I look pretty. Ryan has trained him pretty good. And it certainly is wonderful to pause and think about the wonderful and sweet things that he does.

Oh and I don't want to forget. For the last few days/weeks Carter has been saying something that we haven't been able to figure out.. and it's 'I'm working' he also says 'I AWAKE!' usually he waits until morning to say that but sometimes he says it on the way to nap time or after we've put him to bed. He also says 'I sleeping' when he doesn't want to do something or just when he is playing. So not only is he sweet he's pretty cute too. At least I think so. :)

love and waiting.

I love to be with Ryan. When we were dating and I was expecting him I would wait for him in the hallway or on the balcony at my apartment complex. My roommates would tell me that I was crazy and that I should just wait inside. Maybe they just thought that I was being too desperate.. But I still do that. I sit by the window or will sit on the porch waiting for him to come home. So it makes me sad when he is late or isn't coming. We've been married for 3.5 years and this is only the second time he has ever left me. Once for an overnight camp out for Business Department and this time to fix a pipe, paint a wall, mow our horribly over grown lawn and to over see the packing of all of our belongings. So I've left him a few times but it's different when you get to go versus the one being left behind.. left behind with the kids.

Anyhow we all miss Daddy. We actually were all crying/screaming on different levels when we left the airport. "No go Airplane! No go Airplane!" I was silly enough that I had to make a second loop.. before I would slow down and let him out. I know it's totally ridiculous but I love Ryan a lot and he truly is a part of me and despite the need for him to go I didn't want him to leave us. Plus it made me sick to my stomach to see him go.

Can't wait for him to come back home.

6 months

Dear Landon,

It's June already and here we are again time for another letter. Six month is naked picture month. You are growing rapidly. Last night a lady who walked passed us stopped to say that you are the most beautiful baby. I must agree you are good looking.

We are having a bit of a sleeping issue right now but I don't really blame you. We don't have a crib right now or space for me and you to work on sleeping better without bothering a lot of other people. I hope this skill will quickly become one of yours once we get into our house. We haven't started giving you solids regularly. You didn't like your first taste of green beans and last time you had rice you kind of gagged. We will try again soon.

You crawled today. We were very surprised with your quick progress from nothing to getting what you want and very quickly! We love you Landon and are very glad we have you in our family.

Love you,

Momma

Compare my boys.

crawling!

skip to 32 secs.. if you want to skip the more boring stuff (like C enjoying his breakfast)

Sand Box..

We took a walk over to the big sandbox.. I had to carry Landon on my back so Carter had to carry monkey on his. Monkey helps us all get back to the apartment together and he carried the tools. We had fun digging and hiding rocks. We used the tools that Grandma gave us for Easter and had a lot of fun. Thanks Grandma. We miss you and love you.

Our New House!

We have been house hunting since we got here in Tri-cities area of Washington. We are in contract now with a house that is Almost Perfect. We love the location and we love the house (minus some cosmetic issues). I love the kitchen! We wish the backyard was bigger but the house is wonderful and there is a large neighborhood park close by and the ward seems to be just what we want! We feel very blessed we hope the blessing keep coming. :)

Pommy Sunset

Can't wait until harvest