Cruisin' for the ladies Er Mom

Holy cow! I can't believe how big the baby's getting. Huge. I'm still holding on to certain things that will keep him a baby. Like the cradle in our room. Okay so sure he techniquely isn't in it. Can't be because of weight limitations. Hasn't slept in it in months. Isn't under 10 lbs. Sleeping in his own crib fine. Oh and the fact that he's 7 months old and standing! Hello EmilieAn. I should take it down but I just can't do it yet. I will. I will. I just feel really guilty that I never took a picture of him in it once. Brenner and Beckett both slept in in for months and not one picture. I can remember where it was for Brenner in Monterey and for Beckett here in Oahu. Okay so the sappy portion of the blog is done.

While working in Beckett's room we were just going about our stuff while he was in his crib talking and entertainig himself. We look up and see him standing in the front and mom says. "I put him in the back by the wall." So we did it again and he fell and then pulled himself up and tried again. This is what we saw.



Now he's got teeth. Look how cute and big they are. Two half teeth equal one full whole cute tooth. My baby's got tooth.

Having a secret identity (bat baby) and saving the world between nap times and feedings. Oh and if he's got a clean diaper.

He is becoming a cereal eater. Not every day but everytime we eat something he is so interested. Not as interested as a peice of paper. That he'll go to town on.

Playing games of peek-a-boo with towels, hats, around pillows, walls, and now his crib. He's so proud of himself here. When he was offically done playing like this he took a quick nap. Not so much a long good one but that he fell asleep so fast it was shocking. Sore muscles when he woke up. He stretched and cried. So we started the baby massage time. He loves it.


I guess he's trying to tell me I'm growing up mom. Okay Beckett I hear you. I love you and want you to grow big and strong. But I'm going to enjoy every minute of you being little and tiny. It won't be long untill you're big like Brother.

Grrrrr Mom hard worker Grrrr

Dad's off and "playing" on the mainland. Here I am with all this work to do. Got my list in hand and away we go. First up is to get the safety gates up. Now I'll tell you he did do most of the work before he left. Yada yada yada. Measure, mark, measure, drill, affix, secure, and set up for me. But hey. I did have to tell him where to do it. "over there somewhere" were my exact words. So I pull in our safety gate and all I need to do is line up the marks and slide down. Sounds easy in theory, but, when you're not Mr. Kemper and don't have the muscle and leverage of a six foot man it isn't. I was grunting and gerrring trying to get this simple gate installed. I did get it installed but I think I pulled something on the second to last gerr. Or was it one of the gruntings? Not sure but I'm careful with either grunt or gerrr.

Off to item numero two. The crib. Beckett is now able to get himself to standing and is loving the idea of leaping out of our arms because he's found something either shiny, moving, brightly colored, brother, or small on the floor. So when he's at the crib we don't need him lunging forward and toppling over because of his huge noggin. Lets face it. Little babies are very top heavy. So here is a little before and after look. And yes it is easier for me to concentrate with my tongue out. I have tried it with it in and I have to admit. My work suffers. So out it goes. And yes Jen I still can't have anyone talk to me while counting and cooking. I'll mess that up still too. So you're right and it will always happen.

Sorry back on track. Next item. Fix vacuum. First off is vacuum just the weirdest word to spell ever? I hate spelling it. I'm not a good speller in the first place but still. It's weird right? Okay off the soap box. I pull out the screw drivers. Take off everything . Give it good taps, whacks, and shake it apart. Somehow get it together again and still not working but a little bit and then the red light turns on and says brush failure. all I can think of is that Dyson commercial with the squeaky toy vacuums and how I now have one. But I'm not about to let this thing win. It's war. My baby needs to have tummy time. He's laying on a dirty carpet. Mama bear steps in. Lifting the vacuum high in the air (four inches) to throw out the window I think I could trick it. So I keep my left hand on the on/off switch and the other the handle. I keep turning it on and off for about 3 seconds each time. It works. I go over our new rug

Who's got the toy vacuum now? ha h a ha . Okay so I do. But my boys are rolling around, playing, and practicing their flying on clean carpet. Thanks for the demonstration Beckett. You're form is great!

Now on to the iRobot. I had taken it apart (the way the instructions said to to clean it) and it wouldn't go back together. I tried for days and now after all that I had accomplished I felt i could harness the chi in me and make it work. Ta-Da! It worked. Only after 16 tries and turn upside down and ask two neighbors that have one too. The neighbor that would know just got her husband back home from a 15 mo deployment the day before and I couldn't ask her to help me put my robot back together. One more try, I told myself. Five more and I'm still one-more-try-ing it. Then wham. It works.

The rest of my list isn't nearly as thrilling as these were but most got done also. So all in all it was a good and PRODUCTIVE day.

Random things

Squeals of delight come from Beckett any time brother is around. These two play so well together. Nana made him the neatest little body pillow. It's kind of a long skinny pillow but for him it's a baby body pillow. Super cute. Well he just goes nuts over it. And under it. And chewing on it. Brenner was playing real life Nintendo DS light with him and he just loved it.



Oh and I finally found the best video ever. Brenner's class sang Happy Birthday to him. That's not the cool part. The best part is that before singing his teacher just whips out the classroom Ukelele and begins strumming the tune. Now the bell tolls but you can see why sometimes it's pretty cool to live on the island. Thanx for having a birthday Brenner so we could see this.


Brian's garden is doing it's best to survive without him. I am not that good at it and didn't really want the extra added responsibility. I know it's just a few plants how hard could it be right? Wrong. I have only seen a few buds growing and not one single vegetable has become of them. Then the cucumbers and squash start dieing. They have some sort of icky creapy tiny bug climbing all over the leaves and eating them. And yes that is their technical term - icky creapy tiny bug. Now I'm growing ginourmous killer tomatoe plants. Look closely at the hight of the fence. Now study the top of the tomatoes. Something's messed up. So in my grand efforts to show my husband my love for him. (Especially while he's on the mainland.) I head out with Q-Tip in hand to pollonate the vegies. I did just like the bees would do. Jumping from blossom to blossom and back again. However I did not buzz around. So if there are no vegies starting to grow in two weeks I'll go out and try it again buzzing. Or maybe I need a nome? I don't know but hopefully I'll grow something. Either way I've got some great oxygen makers in the back yard.

Brenner's newest roommate came to town the other day. He wakes up in the morning and leans way over the side of his bed and poof. "There's a Nana in my bed!" Now we have the happiest little boy on the block. So we've been a little busy. Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

Sunday was a big day for us. Brenner gave is first talk. He thought about it and wrote it himself. I was his scribe, so he could just talk what he wanted to say, and then read it again. He put on his best Sunday clothes and slicked his hair back. What a handsome fellow! He did great. When we got to church he was wondering why he was sitting with us. He thought he had to give his talk in Sacrament meeting instead of the children's Primary. He did awesome. Beckett fell right before he went on and he wasn't even embarrassed by all of his very loud crying. He was so happy and excited to give his talk. I hope you love it as much as I do. Sorry about the shakiness; I'm holding Beckett at the same time trying to keep him from grabbing the camera.

Beckett's teeth are really here. Cute as a button. I'm still nursing and we haven't had any issues with the new teeth. We've had some talks about it but lucky for me we're still focused on the food instead of the teeth at this point. We'll see what happens when there are teeth on the top to touch the teeth on the bottom. I may be crying to a different tune.



Brenner found and bought this for his little brother. Never too soon to train your brother for a life of servitude for the greater good. Gotham has never been safer. Brenner said that Beckett could be his side kick any day. Beckett left it on for about 10 minutes. Since he's got these enormous eyelashes and the mask didn't touch them at all he didn't mind it a bit. I think he looks pretty intimidating. Evil Elmo beware! KAPOW!


We are officially thinking about crawling. This is the cutes attempt I've ever seen. I'm sorry but I'm going to say this. I'm glad that Brian's not home right now. Not that he's not here but because he's not here I'm videoing so much more and recording it and started this blog. I never would have captured all of these things. I don't have Brenner's firsts of a lot of things on video. I'm also learning that each day has a lot of fun and excitement in it. Even if all we do is clean the house. And I think Brian will agree that it is nice being able to have this so that he can really feel like he's at home.