Summer Pictures

We got a watermelon from a fruit stand and decided to take some pictures with Brock eating the watermelon. For a fun summer shoot, and since it was what I was eating 1 year ago today and I couldn't not get enough of it. It was my #1 craving! Even if it wasn't a craving its the best dang watermelon we have ever had! We really thought he would go crazy but he was so cute just tearing it about at first.

 

 But he did start getting into it!

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 This boy is too cute!

Month of May

This past month has been a lot of fun, but a lot! We will start with the first week which is actually the last few days of April. Michael did some yard work for the church and was bit by some strange bug which left him doing finals with extremely itchy legs! Even after cortisone, nail polish, rubbing alcohol, and anything else people told us to do it still itched like crazy.  Finally he went in to see the doctor after it started blistering and looking a lot worse. Tuesday, Brock had started having seizures again. One during a walk of ours and I spent the few days on the phone with doctors and trying to get things figured out with him. He had maxed out on the first medicine we gave him and needed to start a new medicine. The tricky thing with babies and medicine is that it’s not like we can just stop one and start another. We have to slowly give him more and more of one, and after he has had a few days of the full amount of the new one finally start weaning him off of the old one. As you can imagine he didn't really feel great. Then I went to the doctor and we found out we have a very wiggly little boy. He kept running away from the ultrasound pressing on my belly. He already looks pretty darn cute, and well I don't mean to brag but I think we make cute babies, so I am pretty excited to see this little one!

 Let’s just say for a normal healthy bunch of people getting 6 prescriptions filled that week was a little crazy! And we managed to get the same guy at Walgreens every time. He probably thought we were crazy. I am happy to announce that Michael didn't fail his finals, but actually did really well, regardless of itchy legs and seizures.

 Just one bit there was a lot more, the first picture is when it started to itch and the 2nd picture is when we finally got him to go to the doctor the first time.

t He last picture in this one shows what it looked like after he started taking steroids....

After all of this we had one day to pack and drive to Little Rock to fly to Utah and then drive to Idaho. So we forgot a lot of things to pack but we got there and we were so happy to be there. I am so grateful for all the TLC. It was exactly the break we needed. I just felt so bad because our poor little boy was really having it rough and they didn't get to really see him in action like we would have liked. It was a lot for his poor little body to take (adding all that new medication), on top of teething, and traveling in general. Which I think made me ever so grateful for the help. I would have had to do it by myself if we were at home. But it made us feel bad!

I honestly did an awful job at taking pictures of the trip; I did get a few though.

Sad boy traveling too much and ready for bed.

Lots of puppies at Grandma Coles and Melissa's  house!

Playing with Dad at the Airport.

Grandma Cole has a fun little play room under the stairs and Brock had a lot of fun in there.

Ghost Brock, he loved Grandma Coles soft Blanket.

Coming home...

Yeah that was a sad amount of pictures!

Michael’s leg continued to get worse, so Michaels mom dragged him to the doctor (thank goodness) in Idaho were he got 2 more prescriptions and a shot. Honestly no one knew what was going on with him, but they think it was a fungal infection from the bug.

On Friday we ended up in Brigham to see my sister get married. I feel like they have been a part of our family forever but it was nice to see them seal the deal! They all looked great and I still can’t get over how beautiful my sister looked!! I especially loved all the cuddles I got to have with Max. My friends watched Brock during the Wedding itself and then we all headed over to the park for a luncheon.

What Brock was doing during the wedding... Poor Vinnie!

We visited with my family for the afternoon and the next morning and headed to Layton to say goodbye to Michael’s family before we drove to Salt Lake to fly home.

It was a great visit and Brock loved his family and all the animals he got to play with! Thanks everyone so much.

All Brigham Pictures are courtesy of my dad’s camera that he emailed to me! Horrible picture taker again!

My best friend Emily met us in Little Rock and spent the week with us. We tried to do something fun every day but we did spend a lot of time just hanging out at home with Brock napping. I still feel like it was a great visit, I was so glad she came.

Sunday we went to Church and we went for a walk around the neighborhood

We went to eat BBQ at the BBQ shop and grocery shopping, on Monday

On Tuesday she came with me to a Neurology appointment, and then we went to the Pink Palace Museum. (And Michael went back to the doctor for his leg; he ended up with Thrush because of the steroids.)

On Wednesday we went to the River walk and Mudd Island.

 as you can tell Brock loved playing in the water!

Memphis and West Memphis you can see Mudd Island (were we are!)

The Gulf of Mexico

This was actually are first time going here. I wanted to go to the Mississippi River with Emily and I had seen pictures from my friends' blogs of this place but hadn't actually made it! I thought it was so much fun. It is a replica of the Mississippi river and the Gulf is a fun little fountain and pond where you can rent paddle boats, the park itself is free we just paid 6 dollars for parking. There is also a Museum there (which we didn't go into) but we loved the park!

This is how flooded the Mississippi is this year! For those of who came last year and hiked down a hill to see the Mississippi, you can tell how much rain we have had!

On Thursday we went to the Zoo, and ate at Soul Fish

On Friday we went to Beale Street we drove around and we went to the temple and did a session.

On Saturday we took her back to Little Rock. She started her new job that Monday! I had too much fun. We ate lots of good food and desserts and stayed up way too late talking. One day I guess I was finally wore out enough and I fell asleep with Brock. But she was ok she just watched some TV.

Michael got really sick after she left and then Brock got sick with a cold. So the rest of the week was just a blur taking care of these guys.

We got a fun pool to play in which we haven't got play in much yet, but we did have a couple fun days.

 Michael got to feel his new baby move around; though he kept running away from his hands.  We finally came up with a name.

 Brock became used to his medication and just started to be so fun and grow so much! (I will show you all of his new developments in his 11 month post coming soon!) Though he did get a fever for a few days and we ended up talking him in to La Boehner when he woke up and he was burning up. It lasted for a few days but he's doing lots better now.

For Memorial Day we went to the zoo with a family in our ward that also goes to school with Michael. They had never been to the zoo before and we had some half off coupons with our year pass. We played in the water and Brock had a lot of fun.

The Babies waiting for the Sea Lion Show!

This is Baby Teva, This is the first time we have got to see her, she was born one week before Brock was!

Our friend Samwell and Baby Teva

Playing in the water! Both boys loved it.

And I just keep getting bigger and bigger (and more and more tired)! I ended this month at 23 1/2 weeks.

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11 months

This has been quite a month, but I have been very excited to say that even though it started out a little bit rough for him we really feel like we got our happy baby back. I am also VERY excited to say that during his this past month he did not have one seizure (from May 4th to June 4th)!!

 I love this picture so so much.

 (There's a blueberry in his mouth)

I guess he got bored with the pictures because after I snapped a few I looked at the picture and he was gone!

18 month clothes, but some 12-18 month as well. 4 in diapers and he weighs about 22 lbs 12-14oz


hes started to point to things that he wants

He is really getting into everything now:

His food! in about 3 seconds... 

 (Before)

(after about 1 1/2 hrs) with a lunch in between...

He now has officially  2 teeth and one looks like its coming soon.

First one came May 18th, 2nd one came, May 30th (bottom middle)

He is learning how to climb he will pull everything out of his toy box to get inside of it now. He can also climb stairs

He will jump in his crib, and if your holding him on a bed.

Hes starting to expand his vocabulary besides saying Mom and Dad he can now say Up, Yum, and Whoa

he knows what it means and was getting mad at me for not picking him up!

His favorite game ever is peekaboo! he will play it with anything he finds.

he was too interested in the camera to pull the blanket back up on his face but he does it by himself

Just a silly picture to throw in the middle!

 Another one of his favorite games is a chasing game. He will be in one room and we will hide in the other room Michael will yell "Little Crawler" or "Baby!" or call his name and as soon as he sees you he will crawl as fast as he can to come get you in the other room!

 here he is blowing

 He loves his dad and just follows him around everywhere when he is home. If Michael sits or lays down Brock is on top of him. Here is a good example (above) and mom gave him a strawberry to eat so that was all over Michael as well.

Hes gotten a lot more cuddlier lately; which we are loving! He is sick in this first picture but the other 2 he isn't.

Dads shirts

Any material within reach... 

He is starting to love crawling around under the table!

He is getting really good at standing and pulling himself up to stand (without holding on to anything). He's taken steps but hasn't gotten more then 2 steps in. He chased after his cousins Dog Moose and our neighbors cats, hes taken one step towards Michael as well, just recently. At Church recently he leaned against the wall and took 4-5 steps. I think if he would not stand up on his tippy toes all the time, he might figure it out :)

Hes also getting a lot better at sleeping. getting at least 6 in one chunk and hes gone up too a ten hour chunk.

Its been quite a fun month with him and hes been doing lots and lots. We are excited to see what this month brings.