wax on wax off

I htought this picture was pretty cute considering Lindsay took it one handed and somehow captured Erik's smile without knowing it.

Welcome to moon family evening entertainment. Every evening Erik starts to get fussy about an hour before his bath and bed time, so we do all sorts of insane things to keep him entertained and distracted until it's time to play in the water. We figure playing and getting him to laugh is much more fun than continuously listening to his whining ( a new thing for him is to squeal and screach a lot for everything now). We still get fusses throughout but it's much more bearable when we play like goofballs. So the other night Lindsay decided to turn Erik into the karate kid and we got a kick out of it!




Erik actually kept his bandana on for a good twenty minutes or so before he pulled it off. So then we, well Lindsay started to hold ERik really high to the ceiling and bringing him down fast......that is the activity that gets Erik to laugh the fastest, it's super cute. Although tonight all I had to do was bounce him up and down while holding him in the cradle position and it was getting him going. If only my life were that simple to get a kick out of such things!


THis was Boomer last night, notice the frothy mouth. No our dog does not have rabies..............we showed him a big frog that was in our yard and he was pushing it with his nose and next thing we know he was frothing at the mouth, wouldn't drink any water and was trying to spit. It was funny but sad too. Finally Linds turned on the hose and hosed down his mouth the help Boomer rinse all the yuckiness out.

This was the huge toad...

We took a video of Boomer chasing it, but it was taking forever to load, so maybe another time. . Right after the video stopped Boomer punched the frog with his paw, but it escaped unharmed. I think he was trying to get it back for putting such a nasty taste in it's mouth!

Awwww! And this was my two men, one big and one small while watching tv earlier. So cute I couldn't resist. And no Lindsay was not smiling for me, he was laughing at the show. I was just lucky and caught it!

catching up

I know its not good to catch up that we should be keeping up but I tell ya, this summer has been busy. In a good way of course but that has left me little time to blog as much as I would like. Hence the recent posts that have mostly justbeen about Erik, I figured that would keep the far from home family satisfied with his new milestones! We feel like he is seriously growing an inch a night and learnin all sorts of new things.

A few weekends ago we took Erik to the beach for the first time. It was super hot where we lived and figured the weather would be great at the beach. But we were wrong, it was super windy and chilly so we didn't stay long and Erik didn't get to experience the sand or salt water, sorry buddy!

In recent weeks he has started to grab and play with his feet which has been fun. Well aside from when he is trying to do that and squirm when his diaper gets changed, but I can handle that! Actually his diaper changes are some of my favorite times of day. That sounds funny, but I usually act super goofy to keep his attention from trying to roll or squirm too much and he usually talks a lot and laughs so its fun!

Ihad to record this moment with a picture because I had just turned on a baby einstein video for him to watch so I could make dinner and I sat him up sitting on the couch and he actually fell over into this position, I though he was going to fuss because he hates being on his tummy normally but he was just tired enough and entertained enough that he stayed like that with no qualms so I wasn't going to change a thing. He is just so darn cute, huh?

And another new thing, the tongue! He loves his tongue and likes to make all sorts of noises with it. His favorite thing to do at the moment is to stick it out and pant loud and hard, then he waits for us to laugh or mimick him and it the process repeats......too funny!

We had our last supervisory visit with our social worker and so that was nice to not have any more visits. We got the paperwork we need to file with the courts to start the finalization process this next month and...........................we heard from our birth parents and they are going to come visit us next month as well! We are excited to meet B for the first time and see S again. So we have lots to look forward to in the month of August, it will be splendidly busy.

THings should slow down in the fall and I see some trips coming up then to see some family or possibly travel to see Lindsay overseas in Europe! Yep, I may gather all my courage and travel alone with my 7 month old over the ocean to see his Daddy........we will see. We are on the fence about it right now,if so though I will need suggestions about traveling with a 6 moth old. Erik has traveled quite a bit, and I know he does well but by then he will be a lot more mobile. Suggestions?

peeved

all right so i have sat at this dumb computer or gone and done things and come back and i cant for the life of me get videos to post. earlier i got two to upload and when i went for the third my computer froze for the second time. aaarrgh! so sorry family, you won't get the videos tonight, it has been a long day and i will try again tomorrow! love ya

5 months and counting

I can't believe that Erik is 5 months old today! I would take a picture of him today but he is still sleeping and so I am going to use this time wisely...............by blogging : ) He is definitely way bigger than he was just a few weeks ago. Right after Alex and Haley he hit a huge growth spurt and is like a little giant. Ok not really but the difference has been noticable. A month ago he was taking 7 ounce bottles and he now takes 9! He about ready to start rice cereal and that should be interesting! I had to put all his 3-6 months clothes into storage. It was a very interesting experience to put his newborn and small sizes into totes, label them, and them put them away for another child or to give away in a few years. I love our little man and am so excited for the coming stages but I have loved having him be little. But he is definitely a fun little one and so tall. Even some of his 6 month sized clothes are getting short on him and I am freaking out a little bit! He has a good amount of this size clothes and they are all so cute, but at the rate he has been going he may not be able to wear them all, that is crazy to me! I am guessing he is about 16 pounds but he wont see the doc until next month.

Erik had some lovely visitors this last weekend! They came all the way from Arizona and it was such a nice visit. The big Erik's parents Chuck and Ilona came to see us. It was a blast hearing them reminisce with Linds and learning about stories I hadn't heard before. Ilona made an awesome scrapbook with pictures full of LIndsay and Erik all growing up. I didn't know this before but the boys met in 4th grade and were the best of friends up until Erik passed away.

This was another one of the awesome things that they brought for us. Its a huge blown up picture of Lindsay, Erik, and some of their other friends just after Lindsay(far right) and Erik(center in blue coat) had become friends. We are debating where to put it. It came from their elementary school hallway. And Ilona has been saving it for years. I love it.....it is so fun!

Chuck has a great sense of humor and personality that reminds me a lot of my dad. We went to the base one day and went to the flight museum which I am pretty sure Chuck thoroughly enjoyed!

Ilona is just a sweetie and helped to play with Erik or talk to us while I was getting him ready for bed or whatever. We are sooooooo glad that they came to see us and meet our Erik, they definitely are special people and we can't wait to see them again. We feel lucky that they could take the time to come and visit with us....pizza and all!