5 Months!

Our healthy, happy little boy is 5 months. He is very social, smiles at everyone and loves to get attention. He's rolling over the second we put him on his tummy and doing this scooting thing I have on the video. I guess all babies develop their own way of getting around, but this one makes me laugh. We've been practicing sitting up, but this guy has no balance what so ever and falls over the second we let him go. One of his biggest issues is EVERYTHING has been going into his mouth. In the case of sitting, it's his toes, socks or shoes (whatever we have him in that day). So, he bends in half trying to get at them and ends up falling over. Silly guy! We've also noticed that his hair is coming in lighter, so I'm interested to see what color it is in a few months. He had such black hair when he was born. He's still taking about an hour nap in the morning and about 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon, then a quick nap power nap at 5:00 for about 1/2 hour. He'll get fussy after about 2 hours of being awake, but is easily distracted, so we can sometimes push him a little if we're out somewhere.

Father's Day with Papa

Brian was on call Father's Day weekend and got called in for a case that lasted all day on Sunday, so we celebrated on Monday when he had the day off. After breakfast we went to an "Underwater Adventure" puppet show at the library. It was really cute and took place in a fish tank they had all set up with underwater puppet fish and everything. Papa doesn't usually get to join us for these fun outings because of work so it was a special day to have him with us! Then because it was such a nice day Brian and Ashley planted a garden with tomatoes, carrots, pumpkin and pink flowers (Ashley's request) while I went to the store to get stuff for dinner. Ashley has loved to watch the hummingbirds at my parents house and wanted to get a hummingbird feeder for Brian for Father's Day. Now they can fill it together and watch the hummingbirds come to our house. Then dinner was prepared by.... ME! I am never in the kitchen making a nice dinner. My specialty is lasagna, but other than that when I'm in charge of dinner, it's usually very simple and easy. I've made (I should say tried) to make nice dinners before, but Brian is a much better cook so he's usually the one making dinner for all of us. I made Dijon chicken with asparagus and sweet potatoes. I had to make a reduction sauce and everything! I do have to say that it turned out pretty yummy and I think he would agree. Then for dessert we had berry crisp. Luckily Brian was home and able to entertain the kids while I worked on my creation because it took all my focus and I had no room for distractions. Only perfection for the most wonderful father these two kids could ever have!



Our new hummingbird feeder





You don't see this very often.

Father's Day with Grandpa

Grammy took us all out for lunch at Manzana in Lake Oswego to celebrate Father's Day with Grandpa. The brunch was delicious and even though we didn't get to walk around after because of the rain we had a great time. Uncle Dan even got to join us and didn't have to work! That was a treat. We did miss Papa though.

Rose Festival Parade

We had such a fun weekend and it helped tremendously that the weather was so nice! Saturday morning we headed out to the Rose Festival Parade. We got tickets for the bleacher section from one the Dr's that Brian works with, but after finding free parking and front row seating in the shade we decided that we didn't need to walk further, we had it pretty good where we were. The tickets did give us the idea to head down there though. We stayed for a few hours to watch the parade and then headed to Joe's Crab Shack on the Columbia River. Since it was so nice we decided to sit out on the deck and enjoy more sun since we haven't had it in so long. The kids were great and Ashley was boppin' to the music and entertaining us. After lunch we headed back for naps and that night Grammy came over to watch the kids while Brian and I went to a birthday party for one of his co-workers. She has a condo right on the Columbia (actually right across from where we had lunch) and the view is stunning. She looks right at Mt. St Helens. After the party we weren't ready to head home, so we took a long walk along the river and soaked up a perfect evening just the two of us. Sunday we went on a trail that goes around the Nike campus. We heard about it from some friends, but hadn't checked it out. It was a really nice walk and another good excuse to get out and enjoy the summer day.

Chilly morning, but got up to 85 later in the day.

This was our favorite float.



I think she waved the entire time we were watching the parade.

Having Fun

Roll Over, Roll Over

He actually started rolling over awhile ago, but we never could catch it on video until recently and now he won't stay on his tummy and can almost roll back to front. As you can hear in the video Ashley is very proud of her brother for accomplishing this milestone!