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!

  

Snaggle tooth!

Hayden has been doing this. . .

and this. . .

And attacking Aunt Kinz. . .

Which left her hair looking like this. . .

All of this attacking and chewing resulted in this. . .

Yeah it looks like just gums here but please someone tell me how to pin down a 6 month old and get a picture of a budding tooth. Well this is the results. Yesterday (almost 6 months to the day) it broke through and it's like a razor. Both of his bottom are coming in but the one on the left broke through first. His top aren't far behind. Pretty soon he's going to look like a little hippo!

What kids are for. . . right?

I did a special for my massage business for this month and sent postcards out to my clients. Well, Hayden was the "center fold" of the card :) I LOVED how they turned out so I had to share. My sis-in-law took the pictures and was a big help to me. I so appreciate her bringing over her nifty black sheet and high tech camera. Thanks Terff (and JenAY for the photography tips)!



Front side



Back side

I thought we were quite clever in the saying. Thanks Hayden for being my nudest. What parents put their kids through!

Our Fall Happenings

We have loved the nice fall weather that we were able to have that it's kept us out and about. Now with all the snow and time change it seems like we're in bed and tired at 5:00. When in summer that's when we'd just get started. Limited light does that to ya I think, but we were so grateful for the great weather!



Chillin'

Hayden is getting so big right before our eyes! He's rolling all over now, but he's pretty good to just stay and play on the floor. If he gets mad or bored that's when the rolling begins.


Then he started movin in the crib. How the heck did he get that way? It was funny when we went in there though he thought it was too.

 * He is SO happy when he wakes up. He goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:00 and sleeps till 7:00 the next morning. I swear he has an internal clock because he wakes up within minutes of 7. It's amazing! We've been told that most babies don't sleep that well so we'll take it and consider ourselves spoiled :)
*He loves food! Thank heavens he got his mom's appetite. We get along well in that category. We started feeding him solids at 4 months and he wasn't crazy about it but at 4 1/2 months he got the hang of it and went wild. Basically anything we put in his mouth he'll eat. We've created a monster in the fact that when we are eating he follows every one of our bites to our mouth with his mouth wide open. We just have to be careful because when we feed the little bird too much he'll ralph it up. He's a binge eater :)


Eating pears for breakfast

 The tub is another highlight of his day. Sometimes when he's in there it looks like he's doing some kind of water river dance. It's hilarious! We've noticed too that when he stops kicking and realizes that his ears are under water he holds his breath and then gasps after a few seconds and moves to come up for air??? What a silly kid.



Halloween was so much fun this year! It was fun dressing up and getting in the "spirit" of it. I found these scrubs online and thought it was perfect. Andrew's in nursing school so we thought it was appropriate that Hayden be like dad and be a nurse in training. I about died when I put them on him. It was pretty cute.



I brought Hayden to Andrew's work. They loved him!



We even got a mini stethoscope. It was awesome. The scrubs say "I'm New Here."



I was the patient and in good hands :)

Bry, Tiff, and Cade were hunters. . . if you couldn't tell



Hayden and Cade are 9 months to the day apart and bound to be best buddies



I had to add this one. This picture explains itself :) I love it!

Since Hayden was born Andrew and I, but especially Hayden, have been able to get really close with Andrew's Grandma and Grandpa Johnson. They have been able to watch Hayden at least once a week while I work. It's SO convenient and such a help to us. But it has also been such a great thing to be able to spend time at their house as well.
A week ago Grandpa Johnson had a major heart procedure that was very successful but has kept him in the hospital this last week. He has been leaps and bounds ahead of what they expected. Everyone is thankful for that. We were able to go see him a couple times and one of the times we made the trip with Hayden sporting this.

Grandpa got a kick out of it

He does love his Grandpa Great

With Grandma at the hospital taking care of Grandpa it's put her out of babysitting commission so we are so appreciative of our other family (Jamie and Avery :), Mom, Dad, Kinz and Loretta for letting us have our weekend get away ) that have been so nice to help us out and watch Hayden. I love the fact that I can work and get away for a little bit and Hayden can spend time with his family. It's a win win for us. So thanks SO much! And always thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Great for being our go-to.

Vote for Hayden!

I get an email from Parent's magazine every week updating me on everything and anything I should know about Hayden. Well they have this photo contest that you can enter so I entered Hayden for the heck of it. Well I think every photo that anyone enters is in the contest, but whoever gets the most votes wins $1000! Who couldn't use that? So now we need everyone to vote. You can vote once a day till the 17th. We're very prejudice but we think he's pretty dang cute, but we're his parents :) Thanks everyone! Here's the link:  Click here to vote for Hayden!

This is the photo that we entered. Can he win :)

Hayden chewing gum. . .

He does this all the time. I wonder what it will look like when he really has some gum in there. Pretty funny!
. . . Why is it when someone is behind the camera recording someone or something they turn into a complete idiot and don't realize it until they play it back? Well that's me, I've joined the "annoying person behind the camera" club! I'll have to remember that next time.

Simple but perfect

Today is our 4th wedding anniversary and we both can't believe how the time has flown. These past four years we've done some pretty fun stuff for our anniversary, but this year was a simple year but perfect :)
Thursdays are a REALLY bad day for Andrew. He wakes up at 6 a.m. and has to be to school at 7 and is in school till about 4. Goes over to his grandparents and sleeps till 6:30 and then has to be to work at 7 p.m. and doesn't get off till 7:30 a.m. So pretty much he's going for about 24 plus hours. So to have our anniversary land on a Thursday was not ideal.
When Andrew left this morning he made sure to tell me happy anniversary. I was a little groggy when he told me, but I remembered. When I did get up I went in the bathroom and he had left me a really cute note on the mirror. It was such a fun little surprise. I love it when he leaves me notes of any kind.

Andrew does get a lunch break so we were able to go to lunch together as one little happy family to Red Robin. Then he was headed back to school. I'm glad I was able to see him at least once today.

Here are 4 things I LOVE about Andrew:

1) I know that I am #1 in his life. I know that because of the way he treats me. I cannot imagine being in a marriage where the husband and wife don't put each other before the other one and that's what Andrew does. What a good example to Hayden and our future sons of how to treat their wife. And to our future daughters of what to look for in a husband. I would do anything for him, because I know he'd do it for me as well.


2) Oh the fun we have! We are so stupid together, but I love it. I could go on and on about the weird stuff we do and say to each other. I love our inside jokes and how we can just look at each other and know what the other one is thinking. I believe you really know someone when you can do that.

3) I love how Andrew isn't afraid to let down his guard and be sensitive. He's not ashamed to tear up when something is touching. There have been a few times we'd be watching a show and I'd be crying and then I'd look over and so would Andrew. I love that we can spend hours just talking, discussing, and dreaming.

4) Andrew is such a hard and good worker. I know that I will always be provided for because of his work ethic. I'm so proud of him for doing so well in school and thankful for the sacrifice that he is making to be there. It'll pay off in the end!

I am so grateful that I married my best friend. What a comfort it is to know I can be with Andrew and my family forever. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Just because we didn't do something outstanding for our anniversary doesn't make it any less special. Anything I get to do with him on our anniversary makes it a perfect one. I look at what we've been able to accomplish and the things we've been through together these past four years and I think we're doing pretty good. What a cute, fun, little family we have. Happy Anniversary Andrew, cheers to many more! I love you forever and always.

Unpublished Pictures :)

We're scheduled to get family pictures with my side of the family this month and I realized that I never posted Hayden's first pictures. It was when he was 2 weeks old. So little! Here's a few of our favorites.

We love summer!

Tiff came to help with the pictures because Jen was very pregnant when she took them. Thanks again Jen for sacrificing your body for our pictures! But we had to get a few with Cade and Hayden together, hanging out in their swim suites ;)

Proud Parents

After looking at these pictures I can't believe how big he is now. He's had a rough little go these passed few weeks however. We're still trying to figure things out along the way. I've had to supplement more with formula, because I'm not producing as much milk or he's just wanting more. Which frustrates me because I had SO much in the beginning. Andrew teases me and says he's going to have to put me down because I'm not producing and that leaves another mouth to feed this winter. . . I must have some good self esteem when I don't mind being referred to as a cow :) But since using the formula Hayden's little tummy hasn't liked it all that much. So he's been fussy and has been crying a lot. I can't complain too much  though because he sleeps through the night and has since he was about 7 weeks old. Which I didn't know was uncommon until I talked to other moms. He usually will go down about 8-8:30 p.m. and wakes up around 7-7:30 the next morning. I LOVE it!
We're excited to get our new pictures and see how much he's changed. It's crazy how fast they grow!