31 years ago

Ryker and I surprised daddy with a Happy Birthday poster on the door and some balloons. We dropped off Ryker to Nana's house while we spent the evening together eating at Red Lobster. We were then off to our favorite cupcake place the Cocoa Bean. We picked up Ryker at my parents house and then headed home to eat our delicious cupcakes (dirty mint and smore) and after we got our little man asleep we watched a movie.
Happy 31st Birthday DAVID!

{Sound Asleep}

It was weird to wake up at 8am having it quite in the house. I went to check on you and I found you sleeping like this. You usually sleep on you stomach. We have been looking for a crib bumper and when I found your head squished up against the bars I knew I had to pick one out a lot faster!

{ A Sunday Afternoon}

{Resemblance}

When I saw these pictures of me I insistently saw you in me. You definitely have the Card round head, my nose, round chin and ears. You have dad's eye shape, you also have a mix of both of us in your cheeks, and smile. You are just the perfect mix so that makes you darn cute!

{9 months}

*A couple of days before you turned 9 months, you started to roll up on your knees to grab toys that are far away. When you are on your knees you make grunting noises.
*You are in some 9 month clothes but mostly still in 6 months.
*You are still in size 3 diapers.
*You are not a huge fan of food but the little foods you like are:
cold Gerber baby yogurt
Pancake
Scrambled eggs
Cheerios
Oatmeal and rice cereal
Carrots
Sweet potatoes and
Squash

We struggle each day trying to figure out what you like. If you don't like the food you will promptly hit the spoon away or stick your fingers in your mouth and suck on them. When I try to pull them out you fight back and suck even harder.
*We started supplementing formula with breast milk. You will only drink the formula if it has breast milk in it, so we do 5 oz of formula with 2 oz of breast milk and you drink that just fine.
*You started to wake up during the night for a mommy's hug and if daddy comes to get you, you cry even louder until I come and hold you and feed you your bottle.
*The bottle feeding before bedtime, dad will try to feed you, but you start crying immediately and arch your back. Dad will hand you to me and you will drink your bottle. Once you are done drinking you will then go to dad and he will rock you to sleep.
*You are such a happy baby, every one who sees you just falls in love with you and tells me how cute your smile is and how happy you are.
*You love to take walks in your stroller.
*You love dogs and when you see one you say, ya ya.
*You have 2 darling little teeth.(We laugh because Spencer lost his 2 bottom ones and you got your 2 bottoms.)
*You have your dad's stare. You two can do the staring contest and both never blink.
*You figured out that you are ticklish. You love it when we start tickling you at your feet then move up to your belly. It gets you every time.

One of my favorite things is watching you and your dad interact with one other. It brings me so much joy knowing that your dad loves you more then words can explain. I see it through his actions, he will do anything to make you happy. We both love you to the moon and back.

Summer Pictures

Pictures were taken at South Fork Park in Provo Canyon.