Everett: 5 Months

Baby boy you are getting quite the personality.

We have started noticing some of your likes and dislikes.

The cutest thing ever is that you have your favorite books and some you just don't care for.

Your favorite books right now are if you give a moose a muffin, and chicka chicka abc,

however once mom started reading to you the five little pumpkins you no longer liked when I'd read chicka chicka abc. 

So for now the five little pumpkins is your favorite!

You are sleeping through the night every night now waking up around 6:30 or 7:00 every morning.

Just before your 5 month birthday you started sucking on your toes and it is by far moms favorite.

It is the sweetest thing when dad comes home from work and just hearing his voice makes you get the biggest smile.

We've started noticing that whenever you are in your bouncer, in your stroller, or even your car seat you like to always be holding onto something.

While rocking you to sleep you start snoring once your finally out.
Grandma Carman came to visit for a week this month and it was so much fun!

Unfortunately your nails are still sharp like knives and you wake up every morning with new scabs and scratches all over your face and ears.

Pinching has become very common with you. And ouch! It hurts.

You rolled over onto your tummy once this month while in your crib and you weren't happy about it.

At four and a half months we gave you oatmeal cereal and you love it!

You've now tried carrots too but prefer the oatmeal.

One dad moment this month was you laughing in your sleep while dad rocked you before bed.

You started this month in 6 month clothes and are now in 9 month clothes!

drool, drool, drool, and lots of spit bubbles.

Mom had to dedicate the song lose my mind by Brett Eldredge to you a couple times this month, raising a baby is tough.

You smile all day long but getting you to laugh is the real trick. But when you do it is incredible and hilarious because you have a little bit of a fat mans laugh.

My sweet beautiful baby Everett you continue to grow and grow. You are growing up so fast I feel as though you aren't even a baby anymore. Some days I just hold you and don't want to let go because the next time I hold you, you will be different. Time is such a funny thing when raising a child. Sometimes I wish the time would just speed up and other times I wish it could stop. Some days I can't wait for nap time and then once your napping I miss you and just want you to wake up so I can see you again. There are so many emotions with motherhood. Often times I find myself not feeling adequate for the job. But then you smile at me or do something else absolutely amazing and I'm reminded that this is the most important job I will ever do. Loving you Everett and being your mom has been the greatest thing for me.

Oatmeal Firsts 9/17/2015

Stephen and I decided to give Everett solids at four and a half months instead of originally waiting until 5 or 6 months. Every time we would be eating something Everett would just look at us like he wanted some too. Trying oatmeal for the first time was so much fun! I made it really watery so it would be easier to eat but Everett actually prefers his oatmeal thick. It was a bit of a process figureing out just how to eat with a spoon. Stephen and I started out with Everett in his bumbo seat that we had just gotten free from a friend in our ward. After a few bites I tried holding Everett to make it easier. Then after just one more bite we put him back in the bumbo. We eventually ended up with me holding Everett's hands and Stephen holding his head while feeding him. It was a messy fun time! Everett loves eating solids. He likes to look down while he eats so his food falls right out of his mouth but he still loves it. He's like a baby bird just keeping his mouth open for more. We started carrots a week and a half after the oatmeal. We do two days of carrots, then one day of oatmeal until he has tried the new food for a good week or two. On the days its carrots after his first bite he gets a disgusted face that it isn't oatmeal day but he will still eat it all. Next we are going to try squash. We will see how he likes it. This boy is growing to fast!

Georgia so far

After spending 800$ to register our car we can officially consider ourselves Georgians. It has been 5 months in our new home and we so far are really loving almost everything. We really love living in Sandy Springs and feel very blessed with the ward that we are in. The members immediately made us feel welcome and we both have callings now. Stephen is the secretary in the young men's and so far he has gone on one camping trip with the boys and had a great time. I am on the activities committee in the relief society which has been a huge blessing for me. It has forced me to go to the activities and meet people and I have actually made a few friends because of it. This ward is definitely becoming our new family here.
The weather was hot for a couple months there but we didn't mind because we didn't get out much this summer anyway. It is starting to cool down quite a bit now and its perfect. I will miss the beauty here for sure when we leave but I do miss being able to watch the sunset every night and see the stars. I'd say Stephen's least favorite thing about Atlanta so far is still the traffic and we both cannot stand the crazy drivers. By far my least favorite thing are the water bugs (cockroaches). I would move back to the Utah dessert just to never have to see one of them again. But with the weather cooling down we will stop seeing them again until next summer supposedly.

A couple weeks ago we went on a short day hike at Morgan Falls park that is really close to where we live. I can't really call it a hike. It was more of a nice stroll through the trees but it was great to get outside for a bit. Hopefully we can get in a couple real hikes with the weather cooling down.

One of the more fun things we have done recently is another Brave's game! It was on a Monday night and tickets were super cheap so we got amazing seats. We bought Everett his first mini baseball bat and a little boy from the stands that caught a foul ball came over to us and gave it to Everett! It was the sweetest thing. The best part of the night was Stephen and Everett getting to be on the simbacam. I was so bummed though that my phone didn't record it. Luckily the people sitting next to us recorded it and sent me the video. When writing down just how great the game was it sounds like the perfect night. It would have been too if I had been in a better mood. I feel to guilty sometimes as a mom when Everett doesn't eat right when he needs to or take his nap right when he needs to. I don't like watching him cry so I try to always fix it. With that being said I was so worried about Everett not eating his bottle, not taking a nap, hearing the loud noises (even though we had earmuffs for him), and just being fussy at the game that I couldn't enjoy the night like I should have. It's one of the things I'm trying to work on as a new mom. Had my mood been better the game really would have been perfect. Even walking back to our car after the game we got to see the super moon and it was beautiful.

Watching the football game together.

From the car wreck a few weeks ago.