First Step

It's so exciting when your baby takes their first step. I think Orson found out he's not ready. He wanted to walk before he can stand on his own. He pulled himself up on the couch, turned around, let go and took a step and promptly landed on his face. He was pretty shocked. He pulls himself up on everything now.

Bath in the Sink

So our bathtub is out of order right now so I take Orson over to Grandmas to take a bath in the sink. He has lots of fun in the bath now that he can sit up. He splashes everywhere, hence the apron, and pulls himself up to stand.

8 Months

Well, 8 months was fun because it was right after Christmas. Orson loved opening presents. He crawls everywhere! He's also too smart for his own good. He hid a candy cane under the rug at Melinda's house and took another candy cane broke it and started to suck on it. Naughty! When we took that one away he took out the other candy cane he had hidden under the carpet, broke it by slamming it on the ground and then proceeded to suck on it. My little trouble-maker right? Anyway, I saw this outfit in Target and couldn't resist.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Due to complications and sheer laziness I haven't updated my blog in a very long time. We are moved into our home. We are so happy to be here and to be our little family once again. While the home needs a bit more work before I put up after pictures, it's still our very own and we love it. Orson has grown so much. I'll be putting his month pictures up since I haven't updated for 2 months. Dan is doing online school to finish up his degree. CU Boulder was getting too expensive and he also wants to be done asap. So we're back at "USU" doing online school. He'll be done this fall. YAY!

Seven Months

Orson is now seven months and is learning and growing so fast. He's 15 1/2 lbs and get longer everyday but I still need to measure him. He sits up, which he learned really fast. He army crawls and is to the point where I can't leave anything on the floor that I don't want him to get to... even for a minute, he's just too fast. He just started to pull himself up on his play yard from a sitting position. Orson is my strong little boy. He says mommom and I've heard dada twice but he won't say it again. He also has a new favorite youtube video. It's called The Dinosaur Song. If you haven't seen it, look it up, it's cute! And he'll watch and listen for a long time... over and over and over.

Bananas

Orson's first food was bananas and since he's had sweet potatoes, avacado and a pureed apple. Banana still remains his favorite, he LOVES them! These are photos from the first time he had solids.

Melinda's 50th!

So this post is way late but I wanted to put it on my blog to show that Melinda was documented to have an awesome birthday! She does everything for everyone and she is appreciated and loved... and to prove it I present her 50th birthday pictures.

Dad flew Jessica and Kevin out for Melinda's birthday and you can see in the photos how happy and surprised she was. We had just come from our ward Trunk-or-Treat so that's why she's dressed 50s style (seeing as it was her 50th birthday it was fitting though)



For her birthday breakfast the next morning we went to Golden Corral. Mmmm-mmmm.





As for her presents... we had been planning them for a while and she loved them.


She was making this face because she thought that we had spent what a Cricut actually costs but we got a way awesome deal!





We got her a cake from Sam's Club and had a poem put on it. Dan wrote it and this is the poem:

"50
Wow! What a number!

Is that how many hours you work in a day?
Is it how many costumes you've sewed for the play?
Maybe how many lives you've touched when the sun's not yet up?
Or how many times today you've washed everyone's cup?

Could it be the number of Eagles you've "raised"?
Or the number of items on your to do list today?
It could be the play days where you worked instead,
Or perhaps how often you've told Eric to go to bed?

50, for you in a day could be:

Cans that you canned or weddings you planned,
Dresses you sewed or gardens you hoed,
Diapers you changed or lives you arranged,
You've done 50 of everything when "go getters" do one,
But today we celebrate you, oh you'll have so much fun!

No dishes to do, no stress to be had,
You'll get what you want, oh won't you be glad?
50 great years you've been on this Earth,
And today we want to show you how much you're worth!

We love you!"

To finish Melinda's birthday we went to see a movie and also had dinner at Cracker Barrel. It was a great day and we hope that Mom knows how much we love her!