Our Week in Pictures

Brace yourselves, I took a TON of pictures this week! So I'm going to jump right in and not waste any more time. 

Monday was Labor Day. We went over to my parent's house for dinner. They made shish kebobs and they were delicious! Crew tried watermelon for the first time and loved it so much, we took some extras home with us. After dinner Jon joined in with Britian, Kannon, Bridger, and Chance for a soccer game. Later, Crew and I joined in. We had so much fun!

  

Tuesday Crew ate leftover watermelon and made a mess! And later that evening we went to the library. We had lots of extra time since Jon works late on Tuesdays, so we spent some extra time there reading and exploring.

And this is what happens whenever I give him my phone. Baby Selfies!

Wednesday, Crew helped me fold the laundry and we went with Jon to his eye doctor appointment. It's been years since he had a new prescription and he needed one badly.

Watching the fish in the waiting room at the eye doctors

Starting him early! Popular Photography.

 Thursday we spent some time over at my parents house. Crew loves that piano of theirs, and I introduced him to the toy train which he thought was a delicious snack!

He also discovered my candy stash. Jackpot!

Oh, and he discovered the guitar.

On Friday we went up to Albion Basin (up Little Cottonwood Canyon) for family pictures. I am nervous to see how they turn out! Crew was not smiling very much for the photographer. It was GORGEOUS up there, though! And I wish that we could have stayed longer and explored more, but it was close to Crew's bedtime by the time we finished and he was making sure with all his fussing that we didn't forget about it so we will have to go back another time. I did take a few pictures on our way home, but they don't do it justice.

On Saturday Jon went to work until the evening. At lunchtime, Crew made the biggest Ramen noodle mess any baby has ever made before! Jon's parent's also came down for a visit when Jon got home and it was nice to talk with them, but I didn't get any pictures of that.

I also caught this cute video of Crew and Papa on Saturday night. 

We also hiked up to Battle Creek Falls. This was Crew's first time going. We borrowed a hiking baby carrier from my sister to try out with Crew and he did NOT like it. I think part of it was because he was tired, but he screamed and cried and made such a scene and wouldn't stop so we eventually just took him out and I carried him the whole way. Little stinker. Like I said, he was still tired, so he doesn't look very happy in the pictures. Especially the family selfies. Oh well. It was so pretty up there and there was a beautiful sunset so I took lots of other pictures too. I wish I had brought my nice camera! I'll have to remember it for next time.

And that was our week!

10 Months

Once again, Crew would NOT lay still for his monthly picture. This was the best we got. It started turning into a screaming fit so we gave up after a while. 10 months old!!! How did this happen???? In the past month, this little bear has learned to crawl, finally started getting teeth (and so many all at once! He now has 4!), has said Mama and Dada, and occasionally even pulls himself to standing position! His current favorite books are:

Happi Baby, Happi Mommy (I don't know why they spell Happy like that)

Baby Sees

Spot's First Walk

The More We Get Together

 He loves crawling everywhere and eating anything he can get his hands on (I've started hiding my shoes because that's just gross!), going on bike rides, playing with the neighborhood kids, and snuggling with Mama. He also likes playing ball, although he is still working on aiming it back to you. He still loves nursing, and his favorite solid foods are ramen noodles, watermelon, and french fries. Our house is a mess, but we love this little tornado!

Going, Going, Gone!

Crew is crawling and moving EVERYWHERE! It's hard to keep track of this little rascal! He is learning that he can get to places on his own now and explore things he never has before and he is taking full advantage of it! Jon and I are constantly running here and there to stop him from picking up something he shouldn't and make sure he is staying safe. Whew!! He is keeping us busy! But I love how curious he is and it's so neat to watch him learn new things every day about the world around him. Here are some highlights from our week:

 Another new trick! This week (on Monday) Crew learned how to wave. He's still getting the hang of it, but it's pretty darn cute!

It's in these moments, after he falls asleep, that I finally get to catch my breath and rest for a while and as I watch him sleep, and I realize just how perfect he is and how lucky I am to have him.

We finally got our carpets cleaned! With Crew crawling now, it was time for us to get our filthy carpets washed so we could feel more comfortable about him crawling all over it. This was while we were waiting outside for the carpets to be done. He loves his Daddy time!

We also got him a new carseat since he is getting closer to the weight limit on his infant seat. As usual, he was more interested in the packaging than he was in what was actually inside of it.

The higher I swing him, the bigger his smile!

Okay so this was interesting. I was walking around outside one afternoon with Crew and I noticed that the neighborhood kids had been playing with sidewalk chalk recently so I walked over to look at their work. Among all the usual kid-like drawings I found this! What the????? Now, that's slightly disturbing. I snapped a pic to send to Jon at work and we had a nice little nervous laugh about it together. 

No biggie. Just eating paper. Yummy!

Crew waving at a large group of Quails 

These two!!! They melt me.

Helping daddy repair a chair.

Sucking on the piano bench at Mamie and Papa's house. Mmmmmm!

Don't let the pictures fool you, Jon is still busy busy busy. I feel like we NEEEEEVER see him and it's driving me insane!! We miss our time with him so much, I hope we can get used to this new schedule soon, or it's gonna be a long semester. Until next week!