One busy week!

Since I have so many pictures and I dont want this post to be forever long I'm going to try to do a quick recap of our week! Last Friday we went to dinner and the chalk walk at the Gateway with our good friends the Newmans. They have a little boy that is 3 months younger than Crue and I can't wait 'til they get a little older and can play together (or get into trouble together which I'm sure will be the case with these 2). That night we took Crue up to my moms house so she could watch him while we went to Powell with Mike's family and the Barkdulls. It was hard to leave the little guy and I missed him a lot but it was a nice break and Mike and I had so much fun not having to worry about him. However, I felt bad that Mike had to spend his first fathers day away from his boy. I hope he knows that, even though we didn't really get to celebrate being on the lake and all, we really love and appreciate him and all he does for our family. Mike really is a hard worker. I love ya babe. Anyway when we got home on Thursday we were so excited to see Crue but apparently he wasn't too excited to see us. When we came through the door and he saw Mike he just started crying! It was so sad. He would stop crying as long as my mom held him but he didn't want to be around us. Thank goodness that didn't last too long and now he is happy to be home with his parents! Well because I felt guilty for leaving him we decided to go to the zoo the next day. We went with my friend Aubrey, her husband, and their cute little girl Jayda. I realize the kids were probably a little young but we had fun anyways! On Saturday while Mike was working in the yard Crue and I went to breakfast and the farmers market in SLC with my mom and grandparents. I can't believe how crowded the market was, I can't wait to go again next week though!

Chalk Walk

Aiden & Crue

Jeff & Mike being themselves

Meg & I doing who knows what!

Lake Powell

Mike teaching Dyl had to drive the boat

I wish I would have gotten pictures of this guy wake boarding...he's pretty good

The Zoo

LOVE this face

Crue & Jayda

The monkey was right by the glass but unfortunately you can't see him :(

I think the best part of going to the zoo was messing around in the gift shop!

Breakfast & Farmers Market

6 Months

We had Crue's 6 month appointment today and I wasn't at all suprised to find out that he was in the 20th percentile for height (25.5 in.) and weight (16 lbs). He's so tiny still but I'm hoping he might have a growth spurt soon now that he's eating baby food. Some new things Crue has been doing lately are holding on to the side of the couch and standing there by himself, when put into the sitting position he will sit there for quite awhile, he's definitely talking and screaming a lot more, and he is learning how to throw tantrums.! Yay! My mom actually noticed this last little trait while I was at her house yesterday. Apparently I have been babying my child. In my defense he has been sick with a runny nose, pink eye, and a cough(all of which he so loving passed to me) so when he would cry I would pick him up and try to comfort him because I knew he didn't feel very well. Anyway while I was over at my moms he started to scream while he was just sitting there with his toys and my mom looked at me and said, "thats a fake scream, do not pick him up just see what he does". Sure enough a few seconds later he was totally fine and found a new toy to play with. This scenario went on for a little while: he'd scream, we would ignore him, he would find something else to entertain him, he would get bored and....repeat. I do love my little buddy though, even when he is naughty and throws tantrums. Here are some random pictures in no particular order:

Crue LOVES his walker

Here he is throwing one of his tantrums (arched back and everything)

This pic was taken about 2 seconds before the one above

Crue loves hanging out with his Uncle Zane

Not sure what's going on here...

Nap time has turned into play time now that he knows how to roll over

Hanging out with his mom

Update

I can't believe how fast the time has flown. Everyone says that they don't stay little very long but I didn't know how true that was until now. I feel like my little baby isn't a little baby. He doesn't like being held like a baby and he wants to hold his own bottle. He reaches for the spoon like he wants to feed himself and he's even learned to lift his legs when I go to put a diaper on him. I know he'll only become more independent from here on out and the thought of that breaks my heart. I don't even want to imagine the day when my little boy won't need me anymore. I love you little buddy!

Crue eating his sweet potatoes

Crue and his dad, grandpa, great grandpa and great great grandma

5 generations!!

Crue and Katy at the wedding dinner

Crue finally meeting his great grandma Morrell

I love this smileRelaxing in St George

(the funniest thing about this was some guy that was walking his dog came up and commented on Mikes new figure)

Crue and his buddy Sammy

I need to explain this next picture. We were at my moms and Crue was really dirty so we decided to bath him. Kaisha was suppose to bring me the clean clothes to put him in but she ended up never showing up so he was all clean and had nothing to wear. The only thing my mom had the he would fit in was little girl dresses. This was the best thing we could find. He hated every minute in it (Mike wasn't too happy about this either). So now without further ado....

Happy Mothers Day!!

I'm so excited to celebrate my first Mothers Day!!! Nothing could have prepared me for motherhood...it's just something that I am learning as I go. Poor little Crue has to be my guinea pig but I'm hoping I haven't screwed up too badly. I love being a mom more than I thought I would and can't even imagine not having my little buddy with me. Crue is an amazing little boy, I'm so happy he chose me to be his mom. Getting up in the morning and walking into his room to see him get the biggest smile on his face when he sees me melts my heart. I think the love between a mom and her child can't be put into words..it's too special. Being a mom has also made me appreciate my own mom. So I just want to say thank you mom for always being there for me. I could go on and on but it would take too long to write about all the wonderful things you did/still do for me. I love you! I hope that I will be just as good a mom to my kids. I also need to thank Mike for making me feel special not only on this day but everyday. I was complaining to a coworker about how Mike doesn't load the dishwasher how I like or that he doesn't get the counters clean enough. She said that she would love her husband to help out, it wouldn't matter to her if he did it wrong or right as long as he helped. Then at church today I heard a lot of woman say how nice it is that there husbands are cooking dinner tonight so they don't have to worry about it. I thought this was so crazy because my husband cooks dinner for me EVERY night. I'm beginning to realize that I have a pretty amazing husband and he's such a great dad (but we will get to that post in a few weeks). Thanks Mike for everything you do and for the awesome gifts...I love you babe!!!

it's been awhile....

I know I haven't posted anything in awhile but I'm too tired to write an update so I'm just posting pictures of my cute little buddy. He's becoming more and more animated everyday and I love to watch his personality develop.