Denzil is 5 months today....where has the time gone. He is such a cute kid! The things he has learned in his 4th months is rolling over from his tummy to his back over Christmas. He hasn't done that one since. He learned how to roll from his back to his tummy and is pretty good at it. I wish he would remember the tummy to back roll because he doesn't seem to like being on his tummy after he's rolled over. He has learned how to scream, not being fussy but just testing out his voice. He has also learned that being "regular" for him doesn't mean that he has to go every day, or even every week. He drools A LOT and loves to eat his hands. Maybe he's teething but nothing has come through yet. He loves to laugh but changes what makes him laugh so it keeps us on our toes to figure it out. He loves to stand and he's pretty good at the pelvic thrust when we try to put him in his car seat. He can now sleep about 10 hours at night but he still wakes himself up sometimes by getting one or both of his arms out of his "straight jacket" as my dad calls it. Denzil is such a fun kid and we are having fun watching him grow and be more interactive. We love having him around and are excited for all the new things he is learning.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Chimney Rock State Park
For MLK day we took a little trip down to Chimney Rock. It is a new state park in the last couple of years. For any of you who have seen The Last of the Mohicans, this is where the waterfall scene at the end was shot. So, we were pretty excited to go check it out since the weather warmed up a bit and Kris had the day off. Kris had done his homework of checking their website to make sure the trails were open etc. Well, after a 2.5 hrs drive there the lady at the ticket booth says that the waterfall trail and some other trail are closed for the day because of falling ice. So much for a warmer day. Of course we weren't going to turn back so we enjoyed the stuff we could do and we will just have to go back sometime in the spring or summer.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Sledding
Before we left to make our way back here to NC we did a little bit of sledding at Southwood park with my sister's family. Denzil had fun sledding again and I had fun riding on the saucer that some other family let us borrow for a minute. We love the snow and miss the mountains but we are glad to be back home. Thanks to our families for such a fun vacation.
New Year's Eve
Wii
So my parents got a Wii right before Christmas and a little foosball(sp) table to prepare for the holiday houseful. Carver is 6 and he is awesome at the drums for Beatles Rockband. I tried the drums and they are really hard but we had so much fun listening to great tunes and playing together. Even my dad and mom got in on a little guitar playing.
Visiting with Friends
We visited some friends in Richfield and went for a little drive to eat at a place called Hoovers that is in an old gas station only to find out t is closed on Tuesdays during the winter so we went to The Big Rock Candy Mountain cafe instead. We had some delicious burgers. The mountain behind the restaurant is called the Big Rock Candy Mountain but with the snow you can't really see the reason it is called that. We had a fabulous time with our friends there and were able to visit a couple of my aunts and uncles on the way back up to Salt Lake.
Cabin
"Dad is great, he feeds us Chocolate cake!"
Christmas Eve
When we first got to Portland we went to Church and ran into one of Kris' friends from high school and said we should get together. So on Christmas Eve in the early afternoon we went bowling. It was great fun. I'm not the greatest bowler but it's always fun to throw a heavy ball around. I think I even got a strike or two.
Our Christmas Vacation
So our vacation was to start early Dec. 19 with a flight to Portland, OR at 6 am in Charlotte but it was foiled by this white stuff that fell from the sky. It turned out to be to our benefit because we were able to get the flight changed to the airport closer to us and we didn't have to pay the extra money we would have if we just bought tickets from Greensboro in the first place.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Gingerbread Houses
Last weekend we had a gingerbread house making party at our friend's house. While Kris was busy making a house I was busy chatting with the girls and eating some of the toppings. This picture of our house doesn't do it justice. Kris was so clever to put a few gummy bears on the premises and they left a little present for all to see. He also had a little pond with a fish craved out of a Twizzler. We had a great time getting together with friends and eating treats and drinking hot chocolate and hot cider or wassail ( I don't like it but if you do you can imagine how great it was).
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving this year we made a trip to Washington DC with Kris' parents. It took a while to get there with all the stops for feeding Denzil and for his biggest blowout yet. It took 3 washes to get it all out of his clothes. We stayed in a nice place and thank goodness for ear plugs. Denzil did really well keeping up with his trend of sleeping 7-8 hours a night. Thanksgiving day was a bit foggy in the morning and kind of chilly. We visited the Washington and Lincoln monuments as well as the WWII, Vietnam, and Korean war monuments and then we went to the Museum of American History. We discovered after a few pics and the monuments that our cameras were out of batteries.
Thanksgiving night we went to dinner at TGI Fridays. Needless to say, it wasn't like mama cooks it. At least there was some place open, I'm thankful for that.
Friday we went to the Jefferson memorial and then off to the Air and Space museum and the Museum of Natural History. We had a great time but my feet were a bit tired after all that walking and standing. There were tons of people out then too.
This is what it is like to travel with a nursing baby. I was pleasantly surprised at how well he did under the cover.
We had a great time lounging around in our hotel room in the evenings. Thanks for being a great traveler D.
This is where Martha and George are buried. George could have been buried under the capitol building but he loved Mt. Vernon so much he wanted to be buried there and his family kept to that.
And last but not least, Denzil was rooting for the Cougs in the holy war. Rah rah rah rah rah, GO COUGARS!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
3 months
My how time flies. I'm now 3 months old and I am so cute. I like to talk, sometimes I even sound like I say "mamama." I'm starting to sleep through the night too. I'm a good eater and I love hanging out with mom and dad. I'm a little camera shy too so we haven't gotten any good video of me showing my skills. We will keep trying though.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Blessing Day
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Halloween Night
We spent halloween night at our friends for a "beer and brats" party. The Jackson's made homemade rootbeer and provided the brats and everyone else brought a side or dessert to share. We were going to go to another friends house afterward but Denzil had had enough so we just chilled at home. He was so cute in his costume for the few minutes it lasted. I decided that it is necessary to have 2 people to get the smile pictures, 1 taking and 1 to get him to smile.
Mt. Biking at Salem Lake
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