This is hilarious!

What's a boy to do when his mom decides that it's nap time and he thinks otherwise? I guess you cry until you pass out. :) I put Tracen down this afternoon, it was obvious he didn't think it was nap time. I went down to start the laundry after he quit crying and I could hear him snoring so I went in to check it out. He woke up when I tried to lay him down so we forfeited the nap, but I couldn't resist taking these pictures. I died laughing.

Have a good day!

Love this

Josh's Aunt Helen bought us this baby food grinder the other day....love it! We've made all of Tracen's food so far. It may sound crazy but it's super easy and it actually tastes good and it's cheap. I always felt bad feeding Ty and Jesse baby food I didn't want to taste :) So Josh broke it out the first night we had it and ground up Tracen some Bajio chimichanga, he loved it. He's also had chicken parmesan and I ground up some beans with it. Thanks Helen!!

32 years baby

Of course I had to find the perfect picture to post....well, he'll be mad at me anyway :) He doesn't even know it yet, because he's not awake but Josh is now officially 32 years old. Ya, he's getting up there! Poor guy didn't even get to do anything fun for his birthday because he takes forever writing a talk for church. Maybe next week. Don't worry he was helping remove these :)

So in honor of his 32 years I decided I'd post 32 things I love about him. I was going to have the kids help, but hey they're home in bed too. Maybe I'll post those later. Ok here we go in no particular order:

1. He does the laundry!


2. He's a great Dad to all of the boys.


3. He teases...me, the kids, his mom, anyone he can basically.


4. He is so cute with Tracen (the other boys too, especially when they were little)


5. He helps the boys with their piano lessons when I'm at work.


6. He doesn't get mad at me when I call him in the middle of the night from work to ask him police or spanish related questions.


7. He feeds the dogs....Hate to do that.


8. He helps with the house cleaning...heck, he probably does more than me most days.


9. He watches the boys while I work all night.


10. He turns into "chef Josh" (that's pronounced "shay") when I work and makes things like chili, pb&J, mac and cheese and other delicious meals....the chili really is good.


11. He likes to joke around


12. He enjoys being outdoors and all the outdoor type activities that go with.


13. He tells me I smell good.


14. He honors his priesthood.


15. He's really good friends with his dad.


16. He gives me hugs.


17. He works hard at a job he enjoys and doesn't complain much.


18. He loves his family.


19. He's very very mellow.


20. He gives me a hard time about my cooking but eats it anyway.


21. He enjoys doing stuff with me.


22. He never (really like never has ever) yells at me


23. He has nice lips :)


24. He pays the bills now but still keeps me involved in the finances.


25. He's WAY more patient than I am.


26. He overthinks everything and I underthink everything so it all works out in the end.


27. When we say prayers together.


28. He works hard at his church jobs no matter how much he complains about it.


29. He always gets buyers remorse, even though this drives me crazy, I also love it about him.


30. He has a black and white sense of right and wrong. Either it's right or it's wrong.


31. He shovels the snow most of the time.


32. He humors me and helps me with all my to do lists for him fixing stuff, working in the yard etc.

Happy Birthday Josh! I love you and hope you have a great day....while I sleep.

8 Months

Tracen is 8 months old today. I still cannot believe how time flies. Two days ago I was telling people he was 7 1/2 months old and then I realized that he's not! We are still just having tons of fun loving on him and watching him learn new things.

Here's some of the stuff he can do now:

• He says "Da Da" although I don't think he knows what he's talking about we love it all the same! He also says lots of other stuff we don't understand.


• He blows raspberries.


• He smiles A LOT! And giggles and laughs. He's very ticklish, especially his hands and feet.


• He crawls all over.


• He pulls himself up to the couch, in his crib, anything he can.


• He's an eater. He gets mad if we don't feed him on time and he goes after the spoon with his mouth. His new favorite food is cheerios. He doesn't quite have the pincer grasp thing down yet though so he can't quite feed himself yet.


• He wears cowboy hats and got his very first pair of boots....see below...this is very important to a certain brother of his (Jesse)


• He's started playing with his toys a lot and especially loves his piano he got for Christmas.
• He loves a good shower, or a good bath. He often falls asleep in the shower and the minute you lay him down in the tub he gets a huge smile on his face and kicks his feet and arms.

We just love him to pieces. Here are some pictures from the past two weeks:

Here's the first cowboy hat. Apparantly he wore them all day and crawled all over the house. ( I had nothing to do with it, I was at work)

Oh look, a new hat. Jesse has a plethora of hats to share and dress him up in.
And his cute new, too big, boots. I did pick these out.
Brushing his teeth....all two of them. Or chewing on the toothbrush, whichever you prefer.

Yay, toys! When I work all night and then get to take care of Tracen we convene in his room with a bottle and a basket of toys. I sleep on the floor and he plays, eats and sleeps.

Pulling himslef up to stuff. He also loves to play xbox with dad and the boys. He's good at slobbering on the controller.

And this last photo has nothing to do with Tracen or 8 months. But we started packing today. This is about as much help as I got out of Jesse. He made himself a "Jack in the box" He's Jack, and then played xbox while lounging in the box. Funny kid.

I think we just...

Yep I'm pretty sure we did. We just signed our life away but in return we got a new house. Today we closed on a house in Parowan. I get really funny comments about the location at times but hey, I grew up in the outskirts of Logandale, what do you expect. I think it'll be fun. I'm just a small town girl.

I'm excited, anxious, scared and sad all at the same time. I'm excited for our new house and having a little more room to run and stretch. Anxious and scared about moving the boys because they love their school, teachers and friends. We've been so lucky with the boys at school. They've always had amazing teachers and good friends. I'm sure they'll do great and adjust but since I never moved when I was a kid I don't know what to expect. Josh says he moved when he was Ty's age and he doesn't really remember it so it must have not been traumatic. I'm sad to leave behind our amazing neighbors that we've had for the past 5 years. No one could ask for better neighbors (and adopted grandparents) than we have right now. We will definitely miss them all!

So my hand has writers cramp after signing my name 10 bazillion times. Now we have to move. I don't love the moving process, but hopefully I'll throw a bunch of junk away, right? But I am really excited about it!

He's on the go!

Tracen has been threatening to crawl for some time now. This has been surprising to me because neither of the other boys crawled until they were 9 months old. I just prayed he wouldn't crawl before Christmas. I got my wish, he didn't crawl before then. But for awhile now he's been assuming the stance:
This is hilarious and he does this more than the crawling stance. He's quite proud of himself when he gets into this position. It has several names on is the stink bug.

The other is the push up. Look here perfect push up form :) Down:

UP:

He's been doing this for a few weeks. He shakes and rocks and even leapfrogs forward occasionally when he gets enough momentum. But no movement of the legs.....until yesterday that is. I worked until 12:30 Thursday night so when I woke up the rest of the fam was already into the swing of the day. I was greeted by the boys shouting "look mom! Tracen can crawl!" Sure enough he could. Here he is in his crawling glory:

BTW, to all of you who are annoyed by my music, which Josh assures me you are (ha ha) I'll be changing it up soon. He did NOT love the Josh Groban Oh Holy Night at Christmas and I don't think he loves the other piano/Josh Groban/relaxing type music I've recently chosen. He can't wait until I get something suitable on the blog :)