6 Month Drama

Our cute little monster, errr angel had her 6 month check up this month. I picked her up a little early from daycare to go and the cute girls that watch her had changed her into a fresh outfit and put a bow in her hair for her big appointment. As they sent me out the door they gave me fair warning that she hadn't slept for more than half an hour the whole day. I was so prepared and impressed with myself because that morning I had remembered to bring the diaper bag with me but as I quickly figured out not prepared enough to have a bottle made for the ride. The dr's office is literally 5 minutes away and she was in the backseat going on and on. We get there and we are a little late so I head right up for the appointment without stopping to get some water for her bottle. While we are checking in she is still carrying on. We get checked in and Kaley (my oldest niece works for the pediatrician) immediately comes and gets us (THANK YOU!). We get into the room and we have to get Adi naked so they can weigh her. Normally nake nake is her thing but today she just wasn't having it, she was in no mood for any of this. We get her weighed and I pick her up to take her back to the room and she pees on me. I am finally able to get a bottle made and this makes her a little more bearable. The doctor comes in and does his thing and she tolerates it well enough, she even gives me time to talk to the doctor to ask questions. He leaves and enters Kaley, the one with 4 shots to give, it gets ugly. I have never seen her carry on and on like she did, she was so upset! She cried getting dress, she cried while we were making her next appointment, she cried down the elevator and all the way to the car. As I was driving away she was still crying and finally after about 5 minutes in the car she fell asleep. Blessed silence!

Our little peanut weighed in at 13.8 lbs - 10th percentile. Height 25 inches - 10th percentile. Head Circ. 16.5 inches - 25th percentile

Ummm, where'd he go?

We wake up on Saturday(the 18th) ready to play some soccer. The day is actually nice, it's not snowing or raining and we can actually see the sun. We load up and head to the field, not realizing how huge these fields are. We park and get out, only to wander around for 20 minutes trying to figure out where we should be. Luckily, along the way we ran into Grandma Lynn and Grandpa Lance to help us find where we should go. The game is almost ready to start as we are setting out our chairs and Adi decides she wants out of her bucket (car seat). I get her on my lap and grab the camera to catch the action of Gar. I could only get this one picture and he is out on the sideline and refuses to go back out. (he's on the far right chasing the ball)

I go down by Gar to ask and see if I can talk him into playing and he claims he's not playing because Dad pushed him. (Sean has volunteered to be the assistant coach of his team, his main job is making sure all the kids get a chance to play and for equal amounts of time) Sean had simply touched Gar on the shoulder to get his attention and this upset him giving him a good excuse to sit and watch. I'm not suprised at all by him sitting out, he's extremely shy and does not like the attention to be on him. I was just hoping his excitement and love to play would have kept him out there longer. Maybe next week?!?

Does the wind ever stop blowing at 40th West? By the end of the game we were all FREEZING!

So all last week we talked up his next game and how much fun he was going to have playing, Gar has even promised several people that he is going to play. I was hoping that by him watching last week he knew what was going on and he'd feel a little more comfortable playing. Unfortunately, by Friday we are all feeling sick and the weather has turned cold. Saturday morning comes and Gar is still asleep at 9:30 (I can't remember the last time he slept that late), this isn't going to be good. I was throwing a wedding shower for my niece (that makes me feel old having a niece old enough to be getting married) so I wasn't able to go to the game. Sean and Gar finally get out the door but they are both snappy with each other so I'm very nervous that he won't play again. I finally get a call from Sean and he reports that he played for about 3-5 minutes and than sat on Grandmas lap. Baby steps.....next week hopefully he'll play a little longer.

Go Red Robins!

OK, really...Red Robins?!? I know they are only 4-5 year olds but couldn't we have just a little better name like, Red Dragons. Anyways, Gar's soccer season begins tomorrow and he is so EXCITED! If you ever have a free Saturday and would like to see him play here's his schedule

4/18 @11:00 am

4/25 @11:00 am

5/2 @ 11:00 am

5/9 @ 11:00 am

5/16 @ 11:00 am

5/30 @ 10:00 am (mixing it up this week and throwing out an early game)

6/6 @ 10:00 am

6/13...Oh wait, we'll be in HAWAII!!!!

They play at the West Jordan Soccer complex 4000 W. 7800 S. Call if you can't find us

I can't guarantee Gar will show his excitement that you are there but I know he would be so ecstatic on the inside!!

Hippity Hop and You Don't Stop

Happy Easter!

Another great holiday down..... This is Gar on Sunday morning with his Easter basket. He was so excited to have that Bunny come, he had us up before 7 am to find the eggs we had colored.

A little later in the afternoon I jumped in the shower and when I came back out to check on Gar he had fallen asleep on the couch, he never does that! (We are still trying to figure out how Aunt Kim got him to take a nap every day because he never has done that for us). In his basket he had gotten Gummy Bunny teeth which he apparently had put them in his mouth before he fell asleep.




Great Grandma and Grandpa Hardy had us over to their house for Easter lunch. Grandma Natalie never disappoints the kids when we come over, she's always got the best prizes! Here she is reading a story to the kids before the egg hunt.

Sitting up and Carrots

What do these two things have in common? Nothing that I can think of except within this past week they have been two new skills Adi has added to her quickly growing bag of tricks. She was able to sit up all by herself without tipping over immediately. You still have to be sitting right there with her because she goes to grab for something and she face dives to the floor. But this weekend she was able to sit there a little longer without tipping to either side, she was even able to grab for something and still remain upright. I am savoring every minute of her immobility because I know it isn't going to last much longer!





We had been giving Adi rice cereal in her bottle but I realized that it was making her throw up a lot so I stopped and now it seems like she is just always hungry. Our pediatrician had recommended that we start with baby foods around 6 months so I decided last week was a good time to start spoon feeding her since she would be officially 6 months old on the 7th. I was trying to decide what would be the best food to start her off with and everything I read or heard was contradictory (I didn't even bother to check the baby books this time, it just upsets me that I didn't keep better records). As I was thinking about all the opinions I remembered Gar's love of carrots, or obsession with all foods orange. Look at this picture......

He ate so many jars of carrots that according to his pediatrician the beta carotine built up under his skin and turned his nose coloring orange. That was it, decision was made. On Saturday (April 4th) we loaded Adi into the high chair and gave her the first spoonful. I was expecting a bigger reaction but she just sort of ate it like it was nothing new to her, no funny faces at all. Now when she's sitting in her chair and see's the orange container she gets really excited and I can't feed her fast enough. Maybe we'll have another orange nosed tot around our house again.