Proof

A few of you have heard us tell the story that Alex loves the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. For some, this is hard to imagine. I mean the kid is only 5 months old. How does he really know if he likes them or not? He could just like the bright lights and movement of images on a screen. Last night we finally got the proof :-)

I realize that we have nothing to compare it to, so you'll just have to trust us. He does not do this with any other show on. He is only this focused and intent on the computer when the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are on. His daddy is so proud and we are terrible parents for letting him watch this... oh well :-)

I have a new trick!

Da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu, da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu- da na na nu na- da na na nu na (theme of the circus) and repeat. Da na nu na na nu na nu nu nu na

And touch the toes - na nu na nu na, da na na nu na

Da da dun na na nu na nu nu nu

da da da da du, da da da du dah!!

TA DA! And take a bow

Family Pictures

There are advantages to being poor medical students. You get AWESOME pictures taken by AWESOME friends! Here are some of them:

This one is my FAVORITE of Alex

This one is my FAVORITE of my boys

So sad! Hehehe

There has to be a creative way to say 'Update'

I recently went to Utah to 'help' my pregnant sister move into her new house. Both of my sisters are pregnant and so I am thinking I am going to be a great help. I can help lift and I figure I have a lot of energy so I can help. Plus it would be nice to go visit because I haven't been to Utah since December (a VERY long time for me). Alex could see his cousins etc. These are my thoughts and rationals for going by myself to Utah.

I soon found out that I am the biggest idiot you've ever met. I don't know what I was thinking going by myself anywhere outside a 30 mile radius of my house. Needless to say, I wasn't as much help as I initially planned. But here are some pictures from my adventure!

Afton started holding Alex and so naturally the girls flocked to her. They LOVE 'Alk'.

He had an explosion at Aftons house and unfortunately I was unprepared for this event. I had to put him in Taylee's old PJ's. He looks so funny, huh? He is just too much of a boy.

The next day I had to take a picture of him in his boy clothes to make up for taking lots of pictures of him in girl clothes.

He touched his toes for the first time while we were out there! He totally doesn't even care, does he?

Now we're home:

Alex LOVES his daddy! That and he loves to grab everything.

We went on a walk... he was SO tired and crabby! It was hilarious! Poor kid.

"Just do what you want with me, I don't care anymore" - Alex

A close up of his grumpiness. I swear he glared at us the entire time

There is a trail right by our house we love to go on. This is part of it.

Family photo

Alex will be smiling and laughing up until the second we take the picture. We can't get a smiling picture to save our lives. That is why this is such a treasure.

4 Month check up:

His daddy dressed him before we went the doctor :-)

He did his feet like that naturally. I love this kid, he is SO cute

Four months:

- He weighs 15 lbs 10 oz (53rd percentile)

- He is 25.25 inches (49th percentile)

- His head circumference is 16.75 inches (47th percentile)

- When he fills his gut he eats rice cereal, bottles and nurses

- He eats everything in his hands

- He grabs everything in front of him

- He smiles/laughs only when provoked and when a pretty girl is around (no, seriously)

- He used to wake up only once a night, but since Utah he wakes up 2-3 times a night... gggrr

- He hates to bend, its laying or standing for this guy

- He also has to be out and looking around at everything

Rice Cereal!

As you can see, it went quite well!

Daniel's 26th Birthday

We had a FANTASTIC weekend! It was Daniel's birthday on Sunday so his sister, brother-in-law, 2 nieces and 2 nephews drove out from Utah to be with us. It was such a blast!

Day 1 started with lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant. Alex liked daddys hand

Eating is hard! So he just fell asleep on his arm. So cute

Here we are!

The next day we drove to Woodland Park CO to go four wheeling with my family. When we got there Caleb got out and said, "Hey, look! Real trees!!" and thus the collecting of trees and branches began. I think the boys, Daniel included, hunted for sticks for at least 2 hours. It was so cute. It started out as just sticks, but eventually turned into huge trees :-)

Here is the pile Caleb started! Look how big it got!

The tree that took 5 men to bring down

Eventually we went four wheeling. This is me with Caleb, who is a huge rival of Daniels!

He was SO good with Alex. Here he is playing peek-a-boo with him. Alex loved it.

Here we are! About ready to go

After we got back... it was SO dusty! Lovely

Cute family

Brenna and her helmet that was too big!

Strapping young men

I got back before he did so you can see the difference and how dusty it was

Sunday- his birthday:

Daniel with his awesome food spread. For his birthday dinner he had: chicken tortilla soup, tex mex, hala (how do you spell that Amy?), fruit and lemon aid. YUMMY!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Amy and Leah

First birthday as a family. Daniel got a Josh and Johns ice cream cake, which is basically heaven in your mouth. Do you love the spit up Alex is sportin? Awesome

Our little dinosaur! Look at his feet. SO CUTE!!!

On Labor Day we attempted to see the hot air balloons go up down at Memorial Park, but they didn't because of the wind :-( So we went to Garden of the Gods!

One big happy family!!

We had such a great weekend. Thank you Amy and Ben for coming and hanging out with us. Come back!!!!