Sunday, August 30, 2009

I took these last night after his bath. Garrett loves to be in Mommy and Daddy's bed, rolling around, burying his face in the pillows, twisting, slobbering all over our sheets.

He's so incredibly close to crawling. This morning he had the legs down but he didn't move his hands forward. When he does this he just lifts his waist into the air. Eventually he gets to where he wants to go. I wanna try to get video of it because it's pretty funny watching the struggle.

His latest discovery is getting his lips saturated with slobber, then vibrating his lips, spitting all over the place.

Last weekend we tried chicken noodle, chicken, and beef. He hated every one. I think Liz mixed the chicken noodle with something yesterday and got him to eat it. The smell of each one was bad enough for me not to eat it, but his poops are 10 times worse and he doesn't make funny faces when he smells that.

I Don't Like Green Beans or Peas

We tried giving Garrett some green beans and then later some peas. I couldn't help but laugh as I fed him spoonfuls and watched his facial expressions. He kept looking at me the whole time. If it's something he likes, he groans and looks all around. But not with peas and green beans! I felt sorry for him after the 4th spoon. You know he was looking at me laughing at him and wondering why he's getting treated that way.

After a few spoonfuls and having half of those all over his bib, we gave up and gave him the rice/fruit cereal combo which he loves. Maybe veggies will have to wait for another day.

But he has two lower front teeth now. Liz loves it when he shows them off when he smiles. The only way I can see them is if I pry his lips apart. He might be getting another one in based on the amount of drool he has been having. We bought him some extra teething rings the other day and are having less complaints about his gums. The other teething rings we had were much harder. He likes the very soft ones.

We've started giving Garrett baths in the kitchen sink instead of his little tub that we used to have. Now that he's able to sit up it makes it much easier. He loves to splash though, as could be expected, but at least it's only with his hands and not his feet like it was in his little tub. The sink has also made it easier for Mommy to bath him while Daddy takes pictures. And what is it with the smell of baby powder? Kinda gives you a certain feeling. He wears a "nightime" diaper (forgot what it's called) that smells like baby. Same with the soap we used for his bath. As he fell asleep in Liz's lap tonight, we both watched him sleep for a little bit smelling that baby smell. I told her that even though we appreciate it when we look at him, I realized that this will be the last time we'll see him sleep like this on this day...meaning before we know it one day we'll wish we'd taken some time to really take it all in. If all that makes sense.

Enjoy the photos.

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Pics from the other day

We headed to a park not to far from here that has planty of water and ducks. We forgot the bread, but still got some pretty good photos.

Enjoy.

My 38th Birthday

Had a great surprise when I got home. Kinda knew something was up since Liz was dropping hints for me to eat out for lunch instead of going home. So I got home after work and the back patio door blinds were shut, which is rare. Liz asked me again to fix the door handle on the patio door, which then set me up to ask why the blinds were closed, which set her up to say "I don't know...let's see" and she had spent all day setting the back porch up to look like this...





She went to IKEA last week and bought the curtains, Home Depot for the wire and eye bolts. She hung Christmas tree lights along the edge of the porch and put the Maui picture frame along with the wind chimes we bought in Maui along the outside beam, but inside. Was very nice and I was extremely impressed!!!

We had Garrett in his Pack 'n Play while Liz and I ate Bamboo House. Later we had some chocolate birthday cake and vanilla ice cream.

I think we're making the curtains, etc. a more permanent fixture. Nice to be able to use the porch, even in the heat. Also the curtains hide all the work I have yet to do on the back yard! Can't wait for cooler weather. We'll probably live out there this fall.




We had to tie back the curtains when Myron came outside. He was acting like he was going to spray them with the curtains down.


So overall this was a very very good birthday, thanks to my awesome wife!

Schultz Creek Trail

The other day Liz bought a new backpack for Garrett and I. He sits in it just right above my head and it has storage underneath. We're wanting to take him hiking here in the Valley this fall. Not able to wait, we made a spur of the moment decision to head up to Flagstaff and hike a trail up there.

The high today in Flag was 80 degrees. Sunny. Slight breeze. Perfect weather. Garrett has become unpredictable lately with his napping, etc. We didn't think he'd want to sleep while we're on the trail, but today he seemed to want lots of sleep. We stopped once to feed him, then later on he was cranky because he wanted to fall asleep and couldn't. So I carried him back to the trailhead. He was finally able to fall asleep even while walking the trail.

It was still worth the trip even though we hardly did any hiking. The field of flowers with the San Francisco Peaks in the background was awesome!

Enjoy the photos...

6 months old!!

Today Garrett turned 6 months. We thought he was going to crawl tonight...he came very close. But he did manage to sit up in his crib, which was a first. We lowered the matress a notch last weekend but now I think we'll lower it some more since his head was very close to the top of the rail when he was sitting up. He will be crawling any day we're sure. Liz and I both can't believe he's 6 months already. I don't think we're ready for him to get any older than he is right now.

Enjoy the video...

Snook

Garrett loves the end to "It's A Big World." This is the video that plays at the end of the show. Snook is the big sloth in the rainforest in this video. He will smile and giggle a few times to this video. It's pretty cute.

http://pbskids.org/bigbigworld/video03.html