Why Hayden has never slept with us. . .

These are just a few of the poses that we actually caught. There were many!

This was a dead give away to never let him in our bed.

He already can't believe the night he's had!

As close as he's ever got :)

Gets progressively worse. . .

He usually has to have his head wedged somewhere.

That just doesn't look right!

I do however have a small idea of where Hayden gets it. . .  :)

The 9 month "tude"

This last week has not been tons of fun because Hayden has developed an attitude out of the blue. What the heck! He has been ultra (ultra = sensitive) and everything is the end of the world. At least in his world. He runs into something while he's crawling with his head down and you'd think we slammed his leg in the door or something. I thought boys weren't supposed to be like this. But to give him a slight break he's getting more teeth in on top. The last bout of them was NOT fun so I can't imagine what big ol molars are going to do to him.
Last weekend we decided to go to Utah just to hang out and go shopping. The whole trip was planned around Hayden going swimming. Andrew hadn't seen him in the pool so he really wanted to. We drove down Sunday afternoon and stayed in Layton. We jumped in our swimming suits and was so excited when we saw no one in the pool. We found out why. It was SO cold! Don't worry we still put Hayden in. He was going to have fun cold or not. Hayden started splashing but kinda slowed down a little later. Probably because he was having onset of hypothermia. . . we decided that it was too cold when his little chin started shivering. So what did we do? Put him in the hot tub. Talk about shock to the body. No we're not that bad of parents we just splashed water on him and then got out.
The next day we went shopping and hung out. One of our purchases was Hayden's front facing car seat. I'm more excited about it then Hayden I'm sure. I'm so tired of throwing my back out caring that big lug of a thing around. It was fun to just get away and hang out with my cute family.

Doggy paddling

Front stroke

Still happy but starting to slow down. I think Hayden's lips were starting to turn a faint shade of blue by now.

Getting his hair dipped or learning how to dive. Whichever comes first.

Dad getting his dipped as well.

Twiners

What Hayden's been doing at 9 months:


* Loves to give kisses. Mostly gives them to his mama though :)
* When we say do pat-a-cake he starts clapping his hands.
* Is crawling all over and pulling himself up on things. Not walking yet but starting to cruise a little bit.
* Loves being outside in the stroller and petting the dogs.
* If he gets hurt or is sad we bring him to a window and he immediately stops crying.
* Loves other babies or kids. Especially his buddy Cade. They light up when they see each other.
* Likes to get his teeth brushed and loves his fluoride. Hopefully continues to. . .
* Still feeds himself finger foods.
*Has discovered that he can spit things out if he doesn't want to eat it or blocks it/swats it with his hand. (That's where he starts with his "tude")
* Drinks out of a straw and prefers water over juice.
* Usually goes to sleep without crying. We'll just hear him in there singing.
* He knows what night-night means.
* Still taking two 1 1/2 -2 hr naps and sleeping 10-12 hrs a night. Everyone says that'll end soon. I really hope not!

His stats:

18 lbs 15%
28 inches 43%

Our Dr's office got a new program for this and so she said that it could be slightly off. How off could it really be though? But Hayden actually dropped in his weight percentage this time. She's not worried about it since he's been more mobile. But I told him if he keeps up his tude when eating then he's not going to make weight. Which means he wont be able to sit in his car seat. I'll let him make the choice :)

*Just a side note. I started this post a week or so ago and I never did pubish it till today so I do want to redeem Hayden a little bit. He is doing so much better and has dropped his attitude. At least for the time being :)

Weekend in the sun!

When I look out across the nasty, dirty, brown lawn with no sign of vegetation even close in sight accompanied by dark, gloomy skies it makes me think. . .  why do I live here?! But then the positive side comes out in me and I think this is the worst time of the year to be looking outside so give yourself a break. So instead of being depressed and cold I did something about it and went where it was warm and sunny.

Don't mind the "palm bangs" in my face. . . I need them. My last post explains that :)

The family that Andrew and I watch their kids when they're gone has a house in Arizona and they said that we could go down and use it. . .  however Andrew didn't get to go. But the girls took advantage of the offer and made it a girls trip. I have the funnest family ever! My two hilarious aunts Kay and Connie went. Along with my fun mom, kid sister :), and 3 sun seeking cousin's Chantel, Lacey, and Hailey. We were quite the group.
We got really cheap flights out of Idaho Falls to Mesa and the house was 4 miles away from the airport. When we got off the plane we immediately went outside took off our winter coats, sweaters, snow pants, long johns, wool socks, stocking caps, mittens. . .  ya get the picture and basked in the sun. Oh it was so wonderful! The goal was to soak up as much vitamin D as possible. We really just hung out by their pool, did some shopping, and ate. What more do you need to do then that. It was so fun.

Kinz and I bought the same swimming suit (WalMart special!)

The pool was FREEZING! Psych, we weren't jumping in. Unless you're Hailey and she jumped. She's crazy!

She came up gasping! It was so cold it made your skin hurt.

I wish I could of got more pictures of the aunts. They were always behind the camera!

When we all went somewhere we loaded up in the suburban and stayed in the same seats. When we would make decisions we would do it by rows. Well middle row which consisted of me, A. Connie, and Chan, ALWAYS :) made all of the decisions on where to eat, where to shop, etc. Whenever anything was good or turned out right we always would say "Good job middle row!" But then back row would always chime in "no back row was the ones that said Mongolian. . . " Right, back row. . .  keep on thinking that :)

Back row babes

Shopping in SanTan Village. Oh Arizona, how we love you!

Thanks SO much to my fun, fun, aunts and mom for paying for a lot of the trip. We love you guys so much and appreciate all that you do for us. We made some great memories and can't wait to do it again.

Tracee and LaMar, you guys are the smartest for having a house in Arizona so we could go and enjoy it as well. We can't thank you enough!
Thanks so much Andrew who stayed home with Hayden and when he had to go to school on Monday Tiff came over at 6:15!!! and was there when Hayden woke up and then took him over to her house to watch him till I got home that afternoon. We SO appreciate her. Hayden loved playing with Cade. They are so cute together. I have the greatest family ever!
I also appreciate my sweet husband that encouraged me to go when in all reality he should have been the one taking the break. Andrew has been working so hard with school and work. He has been so selfless while doing all of this and I can't put in words how much I admire and love him. He is my one and only and I love him more and more every day. Thanks again, Andrew, for letting me take a break and doing so great at being Mr. Mom.

Hayden was turning his hat around and then it ended up looking like this. Peter Pan style or something. He told me when I got home that he had tons of fun with Dad!

Haircut!

Hayden was starting to look like a little orphan child so we decided it was time to cut his little baby hair and officially make him a little man. Tiffany is not only amazing at cutting people's hair that actually sit still but she was even more impressive at cutting the little wiggle worm.

Day before the cut. We got out of the tub and decided it was time.

Doesn't quite know what to think about the pink cape.

Meet our orphan Hayden.

He really enjoyed himself.

All in a days work . . .

Finished product

He did so good and we so appreciate Tiff for using her mad haircutting skills! Our baby isn't so babyish anymore.

Speaking of haircuts. . .

. . .  No my 3 year old niece did not get a hold of some scissors while I was a sleep and decide to give me a new look. No I did not fry my hair off with my straightener. And no I did not get gum in my hair and have to cut it out.

Yes, all of this is new hair growth from when I went bald after having Hayden. What's funny is I didn't realize I had bald spots or had lost that much hair until one day I was combing my wet hair and then pulled it back and I about died. I ran in and showed Andrew that I was going bald. It was really kinda scary because it was so far back and very bald. Then gradually my bald spots started "sprouting" and now it's resulted in this. It's bad because it goes all the way around my head. Even at the nape of my neck. We plan on having our kids fairly close, so if this keeps happening I might look like Smiegle off of Lord of the Rings before I'm done! So, that is why I don't straighten my hair ever now and I'm very thankful that I have curly hair to keep these unruly "locks" under control. One of my greatest fears about having kids was what it'd do to my hair. I was afraid that I'd have one side go straight or several random spots have no curl. So when that didn't happen I thought I was in the clear. I never worried about my hair falling out. I actually welcomed it. I'm just thankful it's coming in curly. I just hope it keeps growing fast! What us mom's go through. I tell ya :)

Happy LOVE day!

I used to hate Valentines day and it was only because I didn't have anyone that I truly loved in that romantic "valentine" way. Well now I do have someone that I truly love and it's such a fun day to celebrate that. Andrew and I don't do anything crazy for Valentines day but it is still fun to remember why we love another and enjoy each other that day.
But not only do I have a great LOVER I have another person in my life that I love with all my heart. I didn't know being a mother could create those feelings until it happened. I love Hayden so much and would do anything for him. However, even though I love Hayden I will always love Andrew more! (Sorry to all my future children as well.)
So me and Hayden are playing at home today and were messing around with my camera on my phone and took some fun pictures. I thought they turned out so cool. Who needs a professional? We are a little bored waiting for Andrew to get home from school. When he gets home we get to go celebrate!

I would have added some pictures of Andrew but the ones that would fit the Valentine post aren't appropriate for a public post :) hee hee! Just kidding. . . ok not really. Happy Valentines day Andrew, you're the love of my life!

Swim day in January

My sis-in-law, Tiffany, had the grand idea to take Hayden and Cade and go swimming at the Apple today so I said we're in. T'iff and I both weren't exactly excited to jump in our swimming suits but we were the good moms and didn't think about ourselves and let our boys have fun.

Tiff was ready. . . socks and all! We were laughing about that one.

Hayden was wearing swim shorts that were 0-3 months. They fit snug but worked fine. He didn't get to use them when he was actually that age, but I don't think he'll make it to summer in them though. He looked so cute!

I love this picture! This pretty much showed how much Hayden loved swimming. He was kicking, splashing, doing the back float, being a "merman", and trying to jump out of our arms. It took Cade a few minutes to warm up, but after awhile he was right there with Hayden. It was so cute and I think they had a lot of fun!

Bound to be best buds!

A day swimming can really wear a little boy out. Tiff said that Cade konked out on the way home too.

Thanks Tiff and Cade for inviting us to swim. It was a ton of fun and hopefully there are many more fun play dates in the future!

7 months and more!

What a crazy little while we've been having. We experienced our first ER visit a couple of Sundays ago which was not fun. Hayden came down with a cold and runny nose and low grade fever which I just attributed to his teeth that by the way I think I became obsessed with, because I started having dreams that his teeth came down but never broke through. So he had these "gum" teeth. It was awful! I had two of those similar dreams. It was more like a nightmare, but anyways so I didn't think anything of it but then in the night I could hear him breathing hard and raspy and then he started the "bark" cough that you could tell hurt him. I woke up with him a few times through the night dealing with that. Then the last time I got him up I was holding him and all of the sudden he just got SUPER hot. We checked his temp and it was 100.4. I started getting nervous because his breathing was really labored so we decided to take him in. He was such a good boy there. It was kinda embarrassing because when we got there he was all happy and acting like nothing was wrong. They took his temp and it was 100.7 so we were pretty dead on. They ended up giving him a breathing treatment, some Tylenol, and a steroid to make his breathing easier. The poor little man was so tired. I'm glad I have a super cute husband that reminded me to take some pictures. Not a fun event to take pictures at but something to document as well.

We also took him to his wellness visit on Tuesday and his stats are:

                                                                          Head: 17 inches (40%)
                                                                          Height: 27 inches (45%)
                                                                          Weight: 16.4 lbs (25%)
Hayden is also doing the following:

*getting around by rolling, spinning on his stomach, inching, flapping, and any other way BUT crawling
*sitting up and VERY flexible!
*starting to try and pull himself up on things
*loves, loves, loves food still. I have to force him to drink his bottle. He knows there's better stuff out there
*eating finger foods and whatever we feed him from our plate as well
*takes 2 naps and sleeps great at night
*starting to reach for you to pick him up
*knows when he's in trouble or has done something naughty
*still loves the tub and is famous for his tub river dance
*he's a ladies man. Lights up when girls talk to him. Especially the young women at church for some reason
*doesn't like men in hats or anyone in hats period
*he's still my snuggle bug and loves to be sung to when getting ready to go down to sleep
*loves it when we do actions with him to: Popcorn Popping (favorite), Book of Mormon Stories, Snowman, The Wiseman, Patty Cake, Itsy Bitsy Spider, and whatever else we can think of :)

Since he had steroids they couldn't give him his shots but they gave him the drink vaccine at his wellness visit and that did not go good at all. He usually doesn't have any problem with it but for some reason he started coughing and then gaging and then dry heaving and then up chuck! We learned that he is a really noisy thrower uper. We'll have to warn his Aunt Jackie if he's ever sick so she wont have to listen to it. She doesn't do good with listening to throw up in action :) Now I have to take him back in to get that vaccine again. Not the best way to start out the new year, but maybe we'll just get it out of the way and be healthy the rest of the time.
P.S. I can stop obsessing over his teeth now because his 3rd (top left) tooth broke through and he is back to normal! Yay! It was almost 7 months to the day that it graced us with its presence.

I believe in a tooth devil!

Everyone talks about the tooth fairy. How fun it is when she comes and how exciting it is when you wake up in the morning and find a prize under your pillow. She's so invisible. Doesn't make a ruckus when she arrives or leaves. The fairy every parent and child loves.
However, there's someone else that comes long before the tooth fairy and that is the tooth devil. There always has to be opposition in this world and boy are they opposite!
The tooth devil has a very different approach opposed to its counter partner the tooth fairy.What he brings is snotty noses, constant moaning, clingy babies, bad eating habits, interrupted naps, early and late night time sleep, drooling, swollen and sore gums, fits, frustrated and grumpy parents. I'm sure the list goes on. I know now why mothers don't mention the tooth devil. They don't want to revisit this "happy" period in their child's life. But I'm here to let everyone know there is such an evil and he visits happy little babies and makes them miserable. Along with their parents. It's not the baby's fault it's just that they have been taken for a while by this monster.
So, dear tooth devil, bring back my content, happy baby so we can all be one happy family again!