11 months

Cody, Happy 11 months!!! This has been a fun month of playing outside, camping with the cousins, cutting 4 teeth and learning how to walk.  You are growing so fast, it is hard to believe you are almost a year old!

Cody-Bear, at 11 months old you:

~ walking along furniture, stand alone and have even taken a couple steps

~ you have 6 teeth (4 on top, 2 on bottom)

~ you go to bed easy after a bottle, but like to wake up between 12a and 1a and think its time to play....hopefully this will end soon :)

~ still love your binky-the same green ones they gave you at the hospital

~ you love the tags on your toys and blankets

~ you like to knock over the toys Jackson is playing with, then he pushes you away and you fake cry to try and get him in trouble

~ you love playing in the water and sanbox

~ you will eat anything, sometimes it is hard to keep the food coming before you scarf it down. Then as soon as you decide your done it all gets thrown off your tray

~ you are busy exploring everything you can get into

~ you crawl super fast and bear crawl on the sidewalk or grass if you don't like the feel of the ground

~ you are so cute and so much fun, and I love to see your little personality shining through.

We love you sooooo much and you bring us so much joy everyday!

xoxo

Mommy

CFD 2013

At the end of July, we went to Cheyenne Frontier Days and spent a few days in Cheyenne.  We went to the Luke Bryan concert on Wednesday night.  It poured rain and his sound equipment quit so he dimmed the lights took the mic and sang some acoustic songs for us.  It was amazing.  Thursday we took Jackson and Cody to see the cows at Uncle Twan's ranch.  Jackson named the baby girl cow Rosie.  And he even got to ride the John Deere tractor.  Friday, we took the boys to the carnival to ride the rides and eat Dippin' dots. They loved it.  And we got back to Grandma's house just in time to see a giant hail storm and a funnel cloud even dropped down right off the front porch. It was scary, but it never touched down.

Jackson and Daddy

Moving rocks with Papa

Building a fire pit

Kristine and Jackson at the farm

Cody sitting on the fence

Kristine and Cody

Riding the train at the carnival

"Scruff the Scruncher"

Carousel time

warn out

fun in the sun

snow? or hail?

and a rainbow to be reminded that God is merciful and full of grace.

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10 months

Happy 10 months, Cody!
Well, a combination of lacking photo skills and a photo target that cannot hold still long enough to snap a photo makes for some poor quality 10 month photos.  But they sure do capture Cody in action! And, boy do you go!  This month started with a trip to Cheyenne for a few days to visit Grandma and Papa during CFD, and ended with a sick Cody and 3 new teeth.

Cody, Cody, Cody,

You are becoming quite an independent little guy!  You love to explore, crawl in and out and around everything.  You swat the spoon away when we try to feed you, because you would rather do it your self, and are exploring lots of new foods. You like to listen to music, but don't have the patience to sit through a book-maybe a page or 2, then you move on to something else.  You like balls, trucks, or any toys that move so you can roll/drive them all around.  You like to climb on and roll off of Jackson's bed, over and over.  Changing your diaper actually works up a sweat-its like trying to rope a calf and tie them down.  You love the water-baths, lakes, pools, water table-love it all!  You are quite vocal with your high pitch squeal-which Jackson loves to imitate! You two can be so LOUD!!!  Sleeping? Oh I thought that was the time to do acrobats in the bed! haha Cody, you sure are busy and definitely keep us on our toes, but you are also so sweet and snugly when you want to be.  You still like your binky and like to find the soft tags on your blankets and toys. And you give the best little open mouth kisses.  Cody-Bear we sure love you and can't imagine you any other way! 

xoxo

So sad this post is over......but stick around another one should be coming soon!

4th of July Festivities

4th of July was a fun-filled day of celebrating America's birthday.  It started off riding in the Greeley Stampede of the Select Energy Float that Chris built with some people from work.  It was super hot out outside and we were one of the last floats to go, so we were tired before we even started.  But it was a lot of fun, lots of people!  We also had a block party/BBQ with all of our neighbors complete with a jumping castle, water slide, shaving cream, pools, and even a car wash for the bikes.  We had the road blocked off so the kids could ride their bikes and run all around.  They sure loved it.  After the block party we headed over to the Greeley Stampede to see Joe Diffie play on the free stage.  Jackson wanted so badly to stay awake to see the fireworks, and he did! (barely) We made it back to the truck just in time to lay in the back of the truck and watch the firework show.  Needless to say, we were exhausted after our fun day!

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