{The soothing way}

I love the way you suck on your fingers to sooth yourself. You stick your pointer and middle fingers upside down in your mouth. They usually find your mouth when I am trying to feed you your rice cereal or when you are crying. You always bring a smile to my face.

{Look what I can do}

You love this caterpillar toy. It sings nursery rhymes and every time we change your bottom, you enjoy listening to it. Just recently you figured out how to mash the top button to start the music. You are such a smart little guy.
We can tell when you are thinking because your hands and arms will start to shake. It must be hard trying to take it all in. It is so fun to watch you learn new things.





Look what I can do, I can grab my feet. When I put on your socks you grab your feet and examine them. I love those precious little feet.

{5 months}

The day before you turned 5 months you learned 4 new things.
*1st: you found your vocals, you can sure make a lot of loud squawking noises. Luckily, you don't increase your volume very often.
*2nd: when you are on your tummy you will put your arms under your chest.
*3rd: when on your belly you will turn your leg over to your side.
*4th: you started to really grab at things and you love to help your parents grab whatever we have in our hands.
*You started rice cereal and you aren't a huge fan of it.
*You have out grown most of you 3 months clothing and now you are into 6 months.
*Daddy will be trying to get you to smile and then I come over and you give me the biggest smile. You are such a mommies boy.
*We have heard you say "Hi" and "oh".(all by accident)
*You love me to hold you cheek to cheek and look in the mirror. You always get a big smile.
*You love it when I pick you up and hold you in the air and kiss your chubby little cheeks.
*You take 3 hour naps.
*Your in size 3 diapers.
*You found and like to grab your feet.
*You suck on your middle and pointer fingers upside down.
*It is so fun to watch you so patiently wait for your bottle and see your excitement as the bottle approaches your mouth.
*You enjoy bath time.
*You are the happiest baby.

We are so blessed to have you in my life. We thank our Heavenly Father each night for letting us have the opportunity to raise you. We love being your parents and seeing you grow each day. You always bring us so much joy.
Love always,
Mom and Dad

Unthinkable

Oh, my poor finger. I had no idea how I strained it. All I remember is one day it started to swell and I couldn't get my ring off. My only idea might be that I strained it while trying to multi-task holding Ryker, my breast pump with all the attachments, and a bottle. For the next couple of weeks it kept on swelling and my finger started to turn a little purple and started to feel warm. On Monday we headed over to the insta-care to have a doctor look at it and cut my ring off if necessary. The doctor said that getting my ring cut off was on the boarder line. I could still slightly move my ring back and forth. I opted out because he said that it would take 15 minutes to crank it off and it wasn't going to feel pleasant.




A month later my dad looked at my finger and told me that I might want to reconsider getting my finger looked at again. The next day I headed back to Insta-care. I wanted to get my ring cut off because my finger wasn't healing and every time water, soap, or lotion would get under my ring it would sting. My ring was rubbing my finger raw. The doctor wanted to save my finger and ring so he first used a rubber tubing that he would rap around my finger really tight to get the fluid to drain. He did this about 6 times and each time he did it I wanted to cry and my finger would turn blue and cold. After the 6th time he decided that it was best that we sawed my ring off. He used a manual ring cutting tool, outfitted with a high grade blade. The lower jaw of the cutter slides between the ring and finger. The circular saw is turned by the handle to cut through the ring. He sawed at it for 20 minutes or so. It was the most uncomfortable thing, especially when he would slip and pull my finger forward. It was the best feeling when the ring was finally released. I never thought that this would happen in a million years.

{Taste of Rice Cereal}

This was your first time trying out rice cereal. I mix it with formula so you can get use to the taste. You were unsure about it at first,but as you kept on eating you started opening your mouth for more. Each time you would take a bite you had the funniest facial expressions. It was so much fun to watch you.


(You were making this pouty face because we were laughing at how funny you were trying out your new food.)

{LOVE him to DEATH}

These are some of my favorite photos. I love you to death.


(3 months old)

His shirt says,"Chubby Cheeks" (4 months old)

(3 1/2 months old)

(4 months old)

All I can say is your parents love you to death. We just can't get enough of all your silly faces, noises, smiles and your laugh just melts our hearts.

Family in Pink

{4 months doctor visit}

Look How Much I've Grown

Date: 3/4/2011
Length: 24 3/4 -- 50% (percentile)
Weight: 12.5 oz -- 10%
Head Circumference: 15.70-- 10%




You got 2 shots and 1 oral at this appointment. They gave you 2 shots on your left thigh and you were so mad that your whole head went bright red. It always makes me so sad to see you cry like that. Right after daddy picked you up and you calmed right down. The next day you got a fever and all you wanted to do was to cuddle. I am glad that only lasted until late afternoon then you were back to your regular happy self.


The nurse measuring your weight and head circumference.

Dr. Spencer doing your wellness check-up.

Right after the shots.

Our New Car

Last Saturday we dropped Ryker at my parents house and we headed up to SLC to Strong's Volkswagen to look at cars. We've been needing to get a new vehicle. My little Mitsubishi Lancer was getting to small for our growing family. Ryker's car seat barely fit in the back seat. It didn't have curse control so driving long distances was hard for me. The seats weren't very comfortable and we had over 100,000 thousand miles on it. It was due to break down soon. However, we had it for five years, so it was a sad day when we signed it over to the dealership.
I am going to miss you Mitsubishi, you were my fist BIG purchase. If you could talk you would tell stories of everything we did together. Like, driving extremely well in deep snow, driving to the far end of Spanish Fork 5 days a week to go Nanny, a rock hit & cracked the windshield in a perfect circle while in Montana. Driving to South Provo from North Orem to take Dave to work each day and last driving up to Pleasant Grove each month then each week to my pregnancy appointments. Finally our last trip to SLC to drop you off to the car dealership. I am going to miss you, but it isn't going to last long because I have already fallen in Love with my Used, but New to us, Hyundai Santa Fe Limited.