We are in a HOUSE! It's AMAZING! We're just renting for this first year until career-wise we know where we want to be long-term, but it's still a house and we love it and are absolutely thrilled beyond words to have a backyard, a garage, two bathrooms, a real bed, each kid have their own room, and lots of living space. My raced around the several days between getting back from California and moving in getting stuff off of Craigslist and in Facebook garage sale groups
including Steve's birthday and graduation gift, a new truck! We needed a second car, and the plan was to get an SUV. Then we decided we'd wait until kid #3 comes along, so Steve started looking at another sedan for himself. Then he thought he should get an older, small pick-up truck. He's always talked about getting a truck and I told him it would have to be a third car because to drive one around every day all day with the gas they use and the inability to drive a family around in one of our two cars just didn't make sense. But then he found this quad cab which could fit all of us, and he brought up a very good argument, that we will be buying and hauling around lots of things as we are moving and getting settled so a truck just made sense. And he found a screaming deal on this one, and, well, he just plain loves it. And he almost died driving a motorcycle so I figure he can be one of the big guys on the road from now on. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda obsessed with driving it too. I can hear him turning the engine on from inside the house and I'm sure I could a couple houses down too.
We went out to celebrate his birthday the next day. He signed the check, paused a moment, then added two little letters in front of his name....
First bath together. They're obsessed.
The next Sunday we had some neighbors stop by and bring us cookies to welcome us. So nice! The ward has been great, lots of young couples our age, and we've already gotten together with several of them and Parker and I have had several playdates too!
Lyla Bean turned 6 months and we started her on some real food. Carrots were the food of choice, not much of it went down, but she didn't seem to hate it! I started making my own food for her (I just blend up different mixtures of fruits and veggies and freeze it in ice cube trays. It's like $1 for a week's worth of cubes. I've also been giving her whatever we're eating: mooshed up spaghetti, curry rice and potatoes and carrots, beans, hummus, she loves it all! She's now 7 months and is sitting up on her own, rolling all over the place, jumps and stands if she's being held, babbling mostly "bah-bah-bah-bah", is super smiley, loves to grab and scratch my face, isn't much of a cuddler, was sleeping better until she got sick a couple weeks ago so now she's kinda back to waking up once or so around 4-5am. As she's gotten better and less congested she's going back to sleeping from 8pm until 6-7am about every other night. I am still always so so so so tired. So tired. She was taking 3 naps but I think she's trying to transition to 2 naps, just depends on the day. I also recently stopped the swaddling and binky when she sleeps, which is awesome to not have to deal with that anymore.
Trying to get the muffin in his mouth. Der....
This little man...he likes to help me "make it" when I'm cooking now. Especially most mornings when I scramble the eggs..."Want Parker to make it?" then he rushes over and grabs the fork and bangs it around in the raw eggs a bit, then rushes back to whatever he was doing. A while ago we were driving in the car and Steve had to slam on the breaks or something after another car did something stupid. Neither one of us said anything, and Parker says, "Seriously car? Seriously?"
I was trying on a green skirt I had ordered the other day and he says, "You pretty, mommy?" Melt my little heart! He said it again the next day when I was getting my shoes on, I think (can't remember). So cute when he wants to be! Randomly he'll also start to pat and stroke my arm and say, "Awww, it's OK mommy, it's OK." Yes, Bubby, it's OK.
I miss the beach so much! SO we went to In-N-Out. Parker liked the pickles and Lyla ate the lettuce.
He loves taking all of his clothes off and running around outside in the back. Grabbing rocks to throw into the kiddie pool is the best.
Two little monkies jumping on the bed. Parker's favorite.
Celebrating first day at work! He didn't see any patients, just shadowed the doctors to get a feel for the flow of the office. He's loving the staff and is super excited to get into his groove.
I came in the next day and was his first patient! He was totally checking out my optic nerve.
I thought his little head was going to explode: a semi-truck, a forklift in action, his dump truck, and disintegrating sandstone rocks to trash the sidewalk. Little dude about died and went to heaven. "You see the beeeeg semi-truck?!" "Is that a red tractor?" "Wanna throw the rock?! Whoaahhhh!"
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