Sunday night stroll through the Meadows

Crystal bridges

Having fun on our Saturday night walk at crystal bridges.

Getting my cracker on at Damgoode Pies

So Amy and I have been wanting to try a place called damngoode pies for a while now and finally made it there tonight. We definitely thought it was a desert pie shop. You have no idea how happy I was to walk in and find out it's PIZZA pies! Anders didn't seem to mind.

First time crawling!

Farmers Market

We rode our bikes to the farmers market today. We got some veggies, jam, goat cheese, and done yummy treats. Anders sure was worn out!

Finally has his own chair!

Blueberry Picking for FHE

The weather was perfect, the tranquility of a blueberry farm in the middle of nowhere was relaxing, and delicious berries made for a great night!

Blueberry Picking!

8 months

This post is long overdue, but with moving and being without a computer, etc. for so long, now is about the first chance I have had to sit down and work on it.
Anders has grown up SOOO much in the past 6 weeks.  It is just crazy.  He has all four teeth on top now.  He LOVES to eat whatever we are eating.  I don't think he really loves food that much yet, he just likes to be in on the action, and doing whatever we are doing.  He really wants to be big and run around so bad.  He loves watching the other kids at church run around, and he really is doing his darndest to join in.  He is not crawling yet, but LOVES to walk around with his walker.  He doesn't get on hands and knees to rock back and forth anymore.  That's just too baby-ish for this kid.  Instead he gets on his hands and feet (bear-crawl style) and tries and tries to figure out how to stand up.  He loves to jabber.  He says "mum"or "mum-mum-mum" when he is sad, which just melts my heart.  Love it.  He says "Bob" "Bop" Pop-pop" "baba" and other such words when he is happy.  He still LOVES watching "Oui Oui".  Its his favorite show.  And unfortunately he has become a little obsessed.  We let him watch it a bunch when we were unpacking and such, and now he thinks that whenever he sees an i-pad, its sole purpose is to play oui oui for him.  He gets soo mad if he sees one of us on the iPad.

Last monday we decided to sing "Love at Home" for FHE.  Anders was not so sure it was a good idea.  Everytime we started to sing he would burst into tears.  He even tried to cover our mouths with his hands.  If we stopped singing, he stopped crying, and when we started again, he started again.  I even tried humming the tune to him several minutes after we were done singing, just to see what would happen, and sure enough he started wailing and the tears started coming out.  I didn't know we were such terrible singers.

Anders and I signed up for a Mommy/Baby swim class at the fitness center. We go once a week for a half hour.  He LOVES it.  We have only been twice, the first time he loved, the second time he recognized the locker room, and it was all I could do it get him in his swim suit, he was so excited.  He kept choking on water during the lesson because he was too excited to close his mouth!  I don't think he stopped smiling/splashing/wiggling the entire time we were there.  He is the youngest in the class.  The other babies stand up on the edge of the pool and jump to their moms.  Anders sits on the edge and wiggles himself in.  He isn't about to let this not being able to walk business keep him from missing out on the fun.  He actually has a really strong kick, and uses his arms quite well in the water.  Im sure that if I let go of him he could go quite a ways before he sunk, but im not going to try it.  The kicking and splashing do make it very difficult to hold on to him however.  I always look like a drown rat by the time we are done.

I need to set up a Dr appointment for this little man.  I can tell he is getting heavier again.  Its seems that all of a sudden one day, I pick him up and it feels like he has bricks in his pockets.  He still wakes up often at night to eat (crazy kid) but has been going a little longer in between I think we are up to 4 hours on average now.

Well, he is awake from his nap now, and is demanding my attention, so off i go.

Helping Mom out in the garden

Bike ride

So, last time Anders went on a bike ride he screamed the whole time. This time, not a peep. Can't say he loved it (yet), but we're making progress. Atleast he had a friend to play with during the ride.

Anders asleep in his first real bed!

Not only his first night in his own bed, but also his first night in his own room!

All by himself

I left the room for one minute, and on my return I found this!! Can't believe he is this big already.

Happy birthday!

Helping his Mom open her birthday presents!

Happy birthday to me :)

Cutest husband ever. He is taking over the birthday decorations from now on :)

I love my granny and grampy!

Thanks for the book granny and grampy! I'm excited to have you read to me even though we're far away!

Hipster baby

Official chair tester

Sneak peek

We are still in the process of getting everything unpacked, but here is a look at the front room-minus the computer

The new bike trailer

We bought this bike trailer right before we left Utah, and we thought we better take a break from unpacking and go for a ride.

End result- a screaming baby. We hope he learns to appreciate it. Nonetheless, his hair looks pretty rad from the wind.

Just chilling while Mom and Dad unpack

Better than Elton John

We could have gone to a free Elton John concert tonight for share holder week, but decided to hang out with this guy and do this instead. I think it was a good choice.

I Love Arkansas!

And We're Off!

Thanks for letting us crash at your place the last month. Now, off to Arkansas!