Lunch with Daddy

A few days ago Hayes and I decided we needed to see daddy and met Joe at work for a lunch date.  We went to Kneaders... Mmmm... So good.

Hayes got to sit at Daddy's desk. What a big boy:)

So sweet.

Hayes thinks he can drink out of regular cups. 
Seriously, he is always trying to grab our cups drink from them.
Obviously, most of it ends up all over him.

Silly boy.

Look what Dad gave me!
They had these stuffed horses at the bank and we gave one to Hayes to play with for a minute.
He couldn't quite part with it, so he got a new toy!

Handful

Warning: this story is not pretty, but it needs to be recorded.

troublemaker :)

It was a morning like any other. Wake up, snuggle with Hayes for awhile, and then change his diaper. Except this time he decided to surprise me. Not by peeing on me, that would have been something I could handle. I get his diaper off and place it farrr away so he cant grab it anddd... he decides to start pooping!!! The wipes were out of reach along with the diaper- I didn't want it to get all over the comforter so my mind is racing, what do I do?!? With no other option I cup my hand and watch it start filling up.  As if that weren't enough, the little guy fills up my hand and I had to start the second hand. Two handfuls of poop! Oh. my. gosh. disgusting. I just sat there looking at it in disbelief for a minute.  It's a good thing he's so cute (I find myself saying that a lot haha). No matter how many times I washed my hands after that it never seemed like it was enough.  The things I do for this baby......

House Update.... Again

I dropped by the house again this afternoon and took some more pictures (just for you mom). There were a bunch of guys there working on it so I had to make it snappy. I felt like I was in the way so I didn't even go upstairs, otherwise I would have taken more than 2 pictures inside. The outside is basically finished besides the other garage door, which they were working on.  I realize these pictures may seem real boring to everyone else but they are pretty exciting to me!

Downstairs-half bath

Kitchen- the cabinets are black with distressing but you can't really tell that
they're distressed from the picture. I thought that was an important detail :)

Where I am standing to take the picture here will be the living room.
Everything is really dusty right now.

House Update

This is what the house looked like as of this afternoon.  The guys working on it said all the stucco color should be done by the end of the day. Yay!! It's getting so close, we are set to close in 2 weeks! We go out there almost everyday just to see what else has been done. We're superrrr excited! I really can't wait to decorate my own home! I should have taken some inside pictures too.... Oh, well maybe I will next time we go out there. This is not the greatest picture. It was really sunny so it was hard to get an angle that you could see the house and the sun didn't just bright it out.

Hey Baby, Lets Go to Vegas

We got a wild hair and decided to take off to Las Vegas this week.  Joe had Thursday and Friday off so we figured we'd take advantage of it and take a little family trip. Wednesday night we stayed in St. George and then spent Thursday and Friday in Vegas. I hadn't been there since I was in grade school.

Honestly, I didn't like Las Vegas all that much.  I didn't like the feeling there, the basically naked girls on every billboard, the strip bars every other building, the weirdo's walking around, all the smoking gave me headaches, and it just seemed dirty. (Can you tell I'm a small town girl?) I just wanted to put a big bubble around Hayes.  Do I really have to raise my precious little guy in this crazy world? Ahh...

Hayes gettin' pumped for Vegas.

Whoohoo! Roadtrip!

Water show

Walking around the strip

Whose that handsome fella?

Water show

We took Hayes to see the lions at MGM Grand.
Joe knelt down and the lion came and put his face right up to Hayes's.

Anyways. Overall, I really did enjoy the trip.  We did some fun stuff. Even if we were in bed by 10 pm every night, we had a good time. The resorts were nice and relaxing. It was nice to spend 2 whole days with my boys- they make me happy.

6 Months

I have a six month old (as of yesterday)! Was it really half a year ago that I had my little baby? I was telling my mom that it has probably been the hardest six months of my life- and yet the best, most rewarding six months as well. I think back to bringing Hayes home and it has definitely gotten easier.  I'm not sure it's because Hayes is so much easier but I've adjusted to the life of a mom and learning not to stress so much.

Hayes is getting more fun all the time. He is a little jabber box. He says "bababa," "lala," he recently said "da" (which tells me he will be saying "da da" before "momma" ahh well) and a whole bunch of other jibberish. He loves to spit bubbles and make the silliest noises.

He can sit up by himself now.  As in, if you sit him there he can stay up by himself without falling right over- he doesn't sit up from his back or tummy yet.

We started him on other baby foods besides the rice cereal this week. He does pretty good depending on the night. Sometimes he's really good to open up and take bites- other nights we have to force the spoon in there and he just spits it right back out. It'll take some more practice. Hayes is not a big eater anyway.  He doesn't usually even like to nurse for very long. Just a big snacker.

Sleeping. Well, let's just say I need to start some kind of sleep training. He goes to sleep really easily- he just doesn't stay asleep so well. We always put Hayes to sleep with his silky blue blanket. Sometimes when Hayes wakes up wayy too early in the morning, we just put him in bed between us and he loves to play with Joe's face and usually sucks on his nose :). It's pretty cute.

Seriously, Hayes is the happiest little guy.  I know I always say this but he really is.  He is just so content with life and smiles all the time. I think he makes a lot of people feel special because he smiles at everyone and he gets giggling pretty easily.

I can't get enough of his little giggles. Lately, he has been getting so excited and it's like he can't smile big enough for his excitement and his head shakes a little. I've got to get a video.

He stays entertained watching his cousins Trey and Carter play and randomly starts laughing at Carter fairly often.

He weighs about 17 pounds and has been wearing his 6-9 month clothes for about a month.  I remembering buying some 9 month clothes before Hayes was born thinking how crazy it would be when I had a baby that big!

He's been a really cuddly little guy lately too. I love it. There's nothing better than cuddling with my cute little boy.

He still LOVES his dad and Joe is still obsessed with him. We both are. I think it's normal though. 

I'm trying to cherish every moment of this stage and I'm excited for all his milestones to come.

Hayes trying to grab the camera- I guess he was done with pictures.

Hayes's 1st Halloween

We had fun with Hayes's first Halloween. Hayes obviously had no clue what was going on but I loved dressing him up! He was a football player for the ward party and a skunk on Halloween night. He was the cutest little skunk and didn't even mind the costume being over his head, (I guess he's used to wearing hats) although he didn't love putting the eye-black on his cheeks or the paint on his nose :). We carved pumpkins, went to the ward trunk-or-treat with Cody, Amanda and the boys, and did a little trick-or-treating in Blanding with Grandma Webb (my mom).

Removing the pumpkin "guts"

Such a happy baby

How cute are these guys?

"Guts"

The finished products

Joe-Ref, Hayes-Football Player, Haven- Cheerleader
 (Might I add that I didn't even dare try on my cheer skirt! I didn't want to be disappointed when it didn't fit haha. So I stuck with my cheer warm-ups!)

 

Cutest Skunk in the world!

Trick-or-treating at Aunt Liz's house

Happy Halloween!