.Where have I been all your life! (insta-vine)

There’s too much to write these days… I want to tell you EVERYTHING, but I end up telling you nothing? How does this happen? Things have been pretty good for us, then they’re bad sometimes, then good things happen, then there’s some crappy stuff and some stuff that’s just alright… you know how it goes?

Sometimes it seems like my moods are directly correlated with the weather, which sounds about right as we’ve had snow and blistering heat all within the past week around here. Air has been pretty ill again lately… mostly on the weekends since he’s working so hard and basically burning himself out during the week at work. This illness of his still has us stumped. He was released from his calling last week because of his inability to make it to church with us most Sundays. Sad because he loved teaching Gospel Doc, but good because it was hard for him to wake up sick on Sundays and find a sub. Guys, please pray for him?

Every time a Mormon prays, an angel gets it’s wings.

And now…

 

Ames can drive//Ames can slide

 

Chopsticks at Sumo Sumo//Proof that we are still around

 

lasso the moon//Can't stop backing up (trying to go forward)

 

Roomba vaccum #ourfirstrobot//Snow at the end of April?

Cinnamon buns yum

 

Sneak peek at our garage projects//Spring cleaning the cars

 

Ames waits while we work outside//I’m cool


Ames is cool too

 

Old men on Whyte Ave//Visiting Dada’s office

 

Walks to the North Saskatchewan River

 

We saw Bryan Baeumler at Lowes!//Ames at church. Total stud-muffin.

I apologize for the overload!

.saddest sad face ever

It's snowing again... It's April 19th for goodness sake. The forecast says it will snow tomorrow as well... so much for my weekend plans of cleaning out the garage and going for family walks?
Well, those things may still happen, they just might not be quite as pleasant as I'd hoped.

And because it is a bit of a gloomy day, I'm sharing the most amazing video to date of Ames' sad sad face. Can I please just eat him up?


Happy weekend? Hope your weather's better than ours.

.insta-vine time

 

The little guy loves a challenge. When he’s sitting on the floor he dives for the ottoman and just slowly pulls himself up to it on his knees and then stands. No crawling involved, just sheer determination to stand. And once he’s up, he always has to see how long he can go without holding on. Taking those awesome excited breaths all along the way. He’s so proud of himself. As am I.

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This is his buddy Rhys… we like to think they love each other. They’re 5 months apart, but Ames seems to be pretty big for his age.

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Ames has amazing hair that will do whatever I command it to do.

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We loved watching General Conference together as a family a few weeks ago… boy was that a relaxing and uplifting weekend.

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We’ve been loading up on fruit lately… ridiculously excited about spring!

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Swinging at the park some more and a walk with the family. The snow is melting away for real this time! Yayay!

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We got an amazing package in the mail from my Aunt Nancy in Utah! We missed the annual family Easter bash again this year, but they were so kind to involve us by sending this adorable care package.

Thanks so much guys! We love you!

.eighth month

Our baby keeps growing. This is really happening at an unbelievable pace. This month Ames has started wearing 12 month clothes. He was breaking through the toes of his jammies, so it had to happen (I was hoping those smaller jammies would stunt his growth for a little while, but no).

This weekend we noticed Ames has a 5th tooth (bottom left side) and 3 more on the way! Soon he’ll have 8 TEETH! He and I have had a terrible cold all week, but I never even considered that he may have been teething on top of it. Poor little guy.

Ames learned to pull himself up from sitting to kneeling and then to standing. He’ll even let go sometimes and balance for a moment. He hasn’t started crawling yet, but he likes to get on his hands and knees and rock… then he’ll roll around to get what he wants. As soon as Ames learns to sit up, we’re in trouble. We dropped his mattress down to the lower setting this weekend, just in case.

That’s our boy, always wakes up so happy… what a dream boat.

…and here’s that new tooth (careful, he bites)  ↓↓

.fun and Ames

Ames loves to play with toys, that’s for sure.

We love to get Ames new toys, that’s for sure.

This little ball pit is fun… definitely doesn’t come with as many balls as the picture shows though… lol

And he’s a little musician on his drum/xylophone/chime table.

But Ames’ favorite toys have always been his Mama and Papa, that’s for sure.