For Your Eyes Only...

So I decided to give the whole private-blog thing a try. If it's difficult to log-in or something let me know - it's easy to switch back to public.

So... now that the blog is private to only you friends and family, we can really be ourselves:

Don't tell!

Goings On...

Here's what's up with our family these days...

CAROLINE

People ask me how Caroline is liking kindergarten. She LOVES it!

Here is Caroline on "Hat Day". She has cute little friends at school and she loves the teachers. She says her favorite things are computer time, PE, and music day.

Here is Caroline on picture day. She's already learned the YMCA, the Chicken Dance, The Macarena, and "Atooty tah"...so she should be reading any day now ;)

MILES

Miles has been teething this last week. Yeah, no fun.

It's been a rough week, but his tooth broke through and now he looks like this more often:

SUSAN

I've started babysitting these two chuckleheads again a couple times a week:

So far it's working out pretty well. They come right after I drop Caroline off at school and they get picked up right before I go get her. I'm also working hard with my calling in the Stake YW as we have a big youth conference coming up next month.

DAVE

Dave has been working extra hard this month. It's not unusual for him to work 12 hours in a day and come home looking like this:

Tile dust! Things are supposed to slow down this week for him. We're sure lucky to have this hard-working man for our husband/daddy!

PS - I'm thinking of making the blog private soon. Let me know if you'd like an invite!

6 Months!

Our boy is 6 months old!

Miles eats all kinds of baby foods and loves rice rusks. He drinks juice from a sippy cup (with a little help).
I took him to the doctor for shots and check-up, and he weighs 19 lbs and 6 oz. Other than a slight heart murmur, which we'll get check out by his cardiologist soon, he is the picture of health! He wears 6-9 month clothes. We decided he puts the Hunk in Chunk!

He LOVES going out and getting attention from other shoppers. He's kind of a ham like that!

Now that he's taking baths in his bathseat (and not in the kitchen sink!), he loves it! I had a hard time getting him to look at me and smile because he was so fascinated by the water.

Miles doesn't have any teeth yet, but he wants to put absolutely everything in his mouth.
He rolls all over the place, making diaper times and getting dressed a struggle. We don't have a whole lot of floor space though - other than in our bedroom - so he doesn't spend as much time on his tummy as he should.

Miles is (now) a great sleeper! On a good, normal night he sleeps 11 hours! YAY! He still takes 3 naps - one that's about 90 mins and two that are 40 mins. He always rolls onto his side or belly and for some reason always sleeps in the same corner of the crib - no matter where I lay him down.

I can't believe he's already half a year old! We love him to pieces!

A trip to Dallas

We met some of Dave's family in Dallas this weekend to see Dave's brother get married. We drove 8 hours one day, the wedding was the next, and then eight hours home. It was a quick trip but worth every minute to see some family that we haven't seen in a year. And it was the first time Miles met his aunts and uncles.

The wedding was at night, so we had pleanty of time to kill in the hotel. It was fun just to visit and hang out together.

We missed Caroline's cousins who stayed back in AZ, but Caroline had a blast with her "Aunties" who she didn't want to leave!

The reception was a lot of fun. Caroline was on the dance floor the entire time.

The Dancing Queens!

Miles did so well and didn't fuss once all night. Around 9pm he just tuckered out. So Sweet!

We're home now and the kids are currently going through withdraws from all the attention they got this weekend!