sicky

My Poor Baby. Nothing worse than a sick baby. Last Saturday I woke up at 5am, and he was sick. No joke, I put him to bed and he was fine. Then we wake up to a stuffy, runny nose. He's slowly getting better though. I'm hoping it happens faster. We're not sleeping too well at our house right now. No fun.

food.

Big Boy eats food now! Don't let the grossed out look on his face fool you. He loves it! He's had rice cereal, pears, peaches, mac&cheese... We haven't bought any baby food yet. I've been trying to give him what we are eating, just blending it so he can have it. So far we haven't found anything he doesn't like.

four months

08.19.09

24 1/4 inches
13 pounds 15.5 ounces

california

Here are our California pictures as promised. Ryder was perfect on the ride down there and on the way back. It's a good thing cause the 12 hour car ride probably wouldn't have been too pleasant if he hadn't been. We stayed at a way nice place in Palm Springs. We did some traveling around while we were there. I'm really glad we did because it was WAY hot where we were staying. I think it even got up to 109 while we were there.


When we were in Palm Springs we did a lot of swimming. Hannah, Chase and I even spent a day at a water park while my Mom stayed with Ryder. It was a ton of fun. One of the nights, we went to the street fair that's on one of the old streets in town. It didn't quite compare to the farmers market here is Salt Lake, but it was decent. The main reason that the girls wanted to go was to get some henna. Hannah got it on her hand and my Mom and I got it on our feet.

We were pretty hungry after, so we went to Ruby's diner. So YUMMY! They had the best strawberry shakes and fried zucchini. On our way out of the restaurant, Hannah and Chase had to try for a free Root beer Float. Of course they got one! We were so stuffed that we only had a few bites of it and then threw it away.
Sea World was a lot of fun. Ryder stayed awake the whole day and for all of the shows until Shamoo. Can you believe that?! Poor guy missed the best part of the day. And is it just us or is that the cheesiest show ever? Don't get me wrong. It was way cool to see, but they were just way too over the top. Chase and I were laughing through a majority of the show just because of the trainers.

Of course we had to go to the beach. How could we be that close and not go? We didn't spent too much time in the water. It was seriously disgusting. I have never seen so much seaweed. Yuck. It was all over the beach and all over in the water. There was no escaping it. So we just hung out on the beach for most of the time.

I forgot about how when you are on the beach, you get sand all over everything. Poor baby took a nap, and when he woke up, he had sand all over his face. I tried to get it off with a wet wipe but that didn't work at all. We took him to the car to feed him before we left, as I was feeding him he had a HUGE blowout! It got on everything! I tried to wash him off with a water bottle and some baby soap I had in my diaper bag. I got him all clean off and put clean cloths on him and as I was about to put him in his seat so we can leave, he spit up all over! On his clean cloths, on me... At some point you just have to give up, and this was it for me! So we got him buckled and headed out to go find something to eat. When we got the restaurant, I realized that I was missing one of my shoes. As I was giving Ryder his water bottle bath, I got water on my feet so I took my shoes off. Apparently when we left, I only grabbed one of them. Brilliant. I had to walk around the rest of the day with only one shoe on.

lava.

Last year was my first time going to Lava Hot Springs. Chase had been telling me about how much fun it was. He and his buddies who he went to BYU Idaho with would take little trips over because it was so close, and lets face it, there's not a whole lot to do in Rexburg. Chase was right. We had a blast! We swam in the natural hot springs at the Inn we stayed at, went to the karaoke bar on Main Street and watched all the drunk people make fools out of themselves. Then we went to an Olympic sized pool and played. The boys jumped off the platforms and we all played sand volleyball. My favorite part of the trip was floating the river. It was so much fun!
I've been wanting to go back ever since. My Mom and Hannah have really been wanting to go too, so we looked at Hannah's ridiculous work schedule and found a day that would work. My Grandma and Grandpa joined us which was really nice. My Grandma watched Ryder at the park and my Grandpa would pick Me, Mom and Hannah up at the end of the river and drive us back up for another go. It was way nice that we didn't have to walk all the way back up! The highlights of the trip would definitely have to be my Mom losing her tube in the river and getting attacked my an otter. No joke. An otter. No one believed me when I said that there was an otter in the river until it swam right to my Mom's feet. You should have heard her scream and jump out. I don't remember the last time I saw my Mom freak like that. Unfortunately our trip was cut short because it started to rain. We'll have to check the weather before we go next time!

stay-cation.

It's been a while since we had our "stay-cation", but I'm a really big slacker and I'm just now getting around to blogging about it. We went up to Pineview for the weekend with Chase's family. We had a blast hanging out at the lake and playing on the wave runners. Chase and I drove up on a Thursday afternoon and met Bill and Jake. We set up our temp. camp (we had to move the next night) and went to bed. The next morning the boys were all planning on getting up early and going fishing, but that didn't happen. They decided their sleep was more important. Kinda what I was thinking. The boys took the wave runners and put them in the lake. We all took turns driving around and having fun before we needed to pack camp up and before everyone else got there. When we went to get the wave runners later that afternoon to move them closer to camp #2 they wouldn't start. We couldn't figure out what could be going on since they had just replaced the batteries. Turns out, they boys were so excited to get those things on the lake that they forgot to put the plugs in and they flooded . BUMMER! They had to spend the rest of the day on shore draining. (Luckily they started up just fine the next day and everyone else got a turn playing on them.) As our first camping trip with Ryder, it was a success! He did really well. Slept well. Napped well. The only real problem was that he got a little hot during the day. He got a little heat rash and we had to spend a little bit of time driving around the camp site with him in the air conditioned car. After that he was just fine. We definitely want to try to go camping again this summer before it gets to cool.

Rolling over!

He's finally doing it! He started last week. I had answered the front door and was talking to my neighbor Jen. Ryder was laying on his play mat. When I turned around to check on him, he was on his belly. I freaked out! He has been trying to do this for about a month now and has been getting really frustrated! Apparently my "freak out" sounded like a bad freak out because Jen thought something was wrong. Whoops! Sorry Jen. Well, He's been rolling over ever since. He puts his little legs up in the air, throws them over to his left side and then wiggles himself the rest of the way onto his belly. Big Boy!

Tummy Time

Chillin'

Ryder enjoys hangin out like this.
I enjoy it too.
It's pretty dang cute.

Short Hair

I finally did it! I've been saying I was going to do it for a long time and I finally have. Cassie was cutting my Mom's hair one afternoon, and the next thing I knew I was getting mine cut too. Chase has been bugging me to cut it for the past year so he was pretty excited. (That is once he noticed that I had cut it. It took him a while.) I went back a week after these pictures were taken and had more cut off. It's so much easier to have short hair! I love it!