Being a Mom

I love being a Mom.

More than ANYTHING!

I get to take care of this sweet boy and watch him learn and grow.

I couldn't have asked for a better job.

Little Man's new thing he does is he doesn't like to fall asleep laying in your arms.

He likes to rest his head on your shoulder.

I love it!

Last night I was feeding him and he fell asleep.

I layed him over my shoulder and patted his back while he slept.

As I was listening to his steady breathing, and occasional burp, I was thinking that life was perfect.

Even with all the chaos going on.

I have a loving hubby who helps out where-ever I need him.

I have a sweet, happy baby boy who loves to smile, laugh and cuddle.

I even love getting up in the middle of the night to comfort Little Man.

It makes me feel so good knowing that my baby wants me to hold him.

I'll pick him up out of his crib and he instantly finds that comfy place in the crook of my neck and will fall back asleep.

So does he really have a tummy ache or is he just wanting to be snuggled...? ;)

Who cares.

I'll take it as long as I can!

Eventually they grow up and don't want to snuggle Mommy anymore.

I really can't put into words the love I have for my little family.

I would not go back and change life for anything in the world!

I'll have to post some videos of my sweet Little Man because he is so stinkin cute!

If I do say so myself! ;)

We bought Little Man a sippy cup this weekend and it's been fun watching him trying to figure it out.

I would hold it by him and he would put his arms out and open his mouth like a little bird and his eyes would get really big.

It was soo funny!

He would close his mouth and look at me like, "Come on Mom!" and then open his mouth again.

He did this a few times and I finally put it done on him so he would have to pick it up.

He's starting to figure it out and got it in his mouth a few times.

But he didn't like the taste of the water.

Eventually he just gave up and would hold onto the cup and hit whatever he could with it.

He's so funny!

 

He's getting closer and closer to crawling too!

He will get up on all 4s and rock back and forth!

He does this more and more!

I'm sure he'll be crawling within the next few weeks.

I should probably start baby proofing my house now.

I love my blue eyed boy

This is how he usually sleeps.

 

"What you talkin 'bout? It fits perfectly!"

 

Happy Monday Everyeone!

7 Months

I know I've been slacking...and I think I say this a lot.

But having a full-time job, taking care of Little Man, Dee, a house and a yard takes a lot of time.

Anyways, Little Man is 7 months!

Well, he turned 7 months on the 9th.

But it has gone by so quick!!!

He moves all over the place and he's quick too!

I'm affraid for when he starts crawling and walking.

Maybe I shouldn't have ran so much while I was pregnant.

I think it wore off onto him. ;)

I am actually so excited for him to be running around and for me to chase him.

There is going to be a lot of laughing in house.

There already is but there is going to be more for sure! :)

He loves loves LOVES his food!

He acts like a little bird when I get his cereal out.

He'll look at me with his mouth open and starts going "ah..ah" until I get the spoon in his mouth.

And then he'll do it again.

He so far has had rice cereal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, green beans and applesauce.

I won't have a picky eater on my hands. Thats for sure!

He has started sleeping with his little butt in the air.

It is the cutest thing ever!

But sometimes it makes me nervous beacuse I'll walk into his room and see his little butt in the air, but his face is smothered in the mattress....

I'll have to turn his head so he can breath.

He's done that a few times and I think he's got it figured out now but man!

That kid sure does make me nervous sometimes.

He is loving daycare and all the girls love him!

I'll walk in the door and from around the corner I can hear a little girl saying "wyle? wyle? wyle?"

I think she's the same little girl that likes to steal his socks...

So we don't wear them as much anymore ;)

There are three little girls that are 3, 4 and 5 and they are the sweetest little girls ever.

Everytime I walk through the door they will compliment me on something that I am wearing.

They have even gone as far to say they like my teeth!

It's probably because I have these weird things on them and they feel bad for me.

Luckily I only have a few weeks left with them! woot woot!

So far this summer, Lyle has been on a boat.

Stuck his feet in the freezing Bear Lake

Been camping at Payson Lakes

Was pushed in his first 5K.

We were going for first stroller instead of 1st runner to finish. ;)

ummm...oh!

and next weekend he will go to Lava Hot Springs for the first time!

No he won't go down the river.

But we might go sit in one of the natural hot pots along the river.

He does so good camping!

He sleeps between Dev and I and will even go to sleep without us in the tent.

I love my Little Man so much!

He's so much fun!

Tomorrow is Friday and we get to go play with some awesome friends!

Lyle and Izzy were born on the same day!

I'm excited to see them play together!

Happy Thursday!!

 



Payson Lake

We went camping at Payson Lake this weekend.

It was so much fun!

And Little Man did FANTASTIC!!

We have this awesome tent that goes in the back of a truck.

and it has an air matress that it made for a truck so it goes around the wheels.

I mostly love it because it is off the ground and I don't have to worry about bugs getting into our tent.

there's a less chance anyways...

We got up around 9:30 on Friday and talked for a little bit with the fam and then went to bed.

Lyle slept in between us and then when he woke up to eat I switched him places.

It was mostly because I was being lazy and didn't want to sit up to feed him.

It was nice :)

I made sure he was warm and I loved snuggling him.

We were the first ones up on Saturday.

We were probably up around 6:30 is my guess.

We laying in the tent and played with Little Man for awhile before we got out and stood around looking at each other like we were statues. ;)

I really, really, REALLY wanted to go around camp singing and waking everyone up!

it was so tempting because it was soo quiet!

But I held back and waiting until people woke up on there own.

We tried sweet potatoes for this first time on Saturday and he LOVED them!

of course he loved them!

He loves anything he can put into his mouth! ;)

He is now eating something "solid" with breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The only time I don't feed him any extra is his last feeding before I put him to bed.

Anyways...We went to the lake and watched the boys fish.

And then I took Little Man on the paddle boat.

It was so much fun and he fell asleep.

When we got back to shore Dee took Little Mane and let him sleep on his lap.

He was still in his life jacket and looked so cute/funny the way he was sleeping.

Mandee and Ginger went and jumped in the middle of the lake and was swimming with the kids.

The next thing I hear is "Come on Bobby! Come swim with us!"

Of course when my nieces and nephews are calling me to do something, it is really hard to say no....

I got my life jacket on...and slowly walked to my Dad in the row boat.

Let me tell you a little bit about me...

I have a fear of water and the unknown....

seriously...

something is going to come up from the botton and grab my legs and drag me under to my death...

or something will bite my feet off....

or there is something under the water swimming around staring at me waiting until the perfect time to plan it's attack.

I seriously am affraid of water.

I've been snorkling twice and have a love/hate relationship for it.

Anyways...

my Dad rowed me out to the middle where they were swimming.

I slowly made my way to sit on the back of the boat.

And then I just sat there....

I seriously was so scared.

But I couldn't let my niece see because then she would freak out too even though she was already in the water.

Well...after a little bit I lost my balace and fell in.

I had to keep talking to Mandee about other things to keep my mind pre-occupied.

While we were swimming, Little Man woke up and decided he wanted to give Daddy a present..hehehehe(evil laugh)

I hear my name coming from shore.

Ginger was yelling "He pooped all over Devin!"

What was I suppose to do??

I'm in the middle of the lake!

So I yelled back, "His Dad can take care of him!"

It was so funny!

I could tell that Dee was upset that I didn't swim into shore by the way he was walking back to camp.

oh well :)

We swam around for a little longer until the wind picked up...

It got a little cold.

We all swam back in then headed back to the campsite to warm up.

Of course, once we got warmed up, it got HOT!

We wanted to jump back in the lake it was so hot!

 

When the boys got back from fishing, we made dinner.

We were in charge of our own dinners Saturday night because not everyone was going to be there.

We made yummy chicken hobo dinners.

They were better than what everyone else had for dinner!

(I can't remember what they had because I was still cutting mine up while they were eating. I think they heated leftovers up)

Matt did make cherry chocolate cobler though!

oh man!!

Can Matt dutch oven!!!

He always make delicious dutch oven cobler!

 

Lyle slept great that night!

He woke up twice for a few minutes to eat and then went back to bed.

I think he slept in until 7:30ish because I felt like I got a ton of sleep.

We made breakfast, packed up, and left.

It was so much fun to spend the weekend not caring about anything at home.

I needed the break from the crazyness. :)

 

Happy Hump Day!

(since we get Thursday off)