Thursday, March 26, 2009

Oh baby

I've noticed that this blog has kind of become the Eden show. I didn't mean for that to happen, but she is the literal "baby of the family" and her first year of life is going by so fast...I want to document every moment of it. Believe it or not, I am actually holding back when it comes to all the things I want to post and say about this baby. :)
She is about to be 10-months-old, but I haven't documented her 9th month yet. So here are some pictures and tidbits of and about Eden at 9-months.


She's as happy and sweet as ever...

One thing Eden loves is playing with and chewing
on Dave's ties. She just sits there during church
and chomps away on the smaller length of Dave's tie while he
holds her every Sunday (he's a very nice daddy).
It seriously makes her the happiest baby ever.
So we used her weakness for ties against her to try to get her
to crawl. I think it helped with her practicing because
she started crawling the day after this picture was taken... :)
Besides the crawling there are a few other fun things Eden has figured out this month. She actually says a few words (at least I think she says a few words.) I swear she says "ma ma" and "da da" and actually means it at least half of the time. :) She also says (and sometimes signs!) "all done." It actually sounds more like "ah da" but it sure is adorable. I am completely in love with her little voice and can't get enough of listening to her words and noises.

Eden had another first this month. She was really sick
for the very first time which was really heartbreaking for us.
She had an ear infection and was pretty miserable for a couple of days.
Check out her sad face...


This was also her first time ever playing with a balloon,
and it actually cheered her up for a little bit!




We had a Sunday morning photo shoot with the kids
before church a couple of weeks ago...
(Eden was way better at holding still than silly Justin!)





Eden happily playing...

I left a bowl of her oatmeal a little too close to
her high chair one day and she grabbed it from the counter
while I was gone for a minute and proceeded to make this mess...
(I was wondering why it was so quiet in there)

Eden is really enjoying crawling and is getting faster everyday.
She loves crawling under the table... She also loves crawling in the kitchen and the
bathrooms (yucky, I know). I think she likes the
slapping sound her hands make when she's on the
linoleum. She also loves to bee-line it to the fireplace
every chance she gets. Why are kids always
drawn to the most dangerous, weird places!?

One more thing...the seperation anxiety has really
started kicking in for Eden this month. I know that
it is very normal for this age, but it's still been kind of
a bummer. She gets so sad and nervous almost every time
someone besides our family tries to hold her. She smiles
like crazy at everyone around her as long as she is in my
arms, but if someone tries to take her...forget about it.
There are times where randomly she is just fine, but in
general she is almost guaranteed to get at least a little sad.
I guess Dave and I will have to say bye-bye to dating for
at least a little while. :(

She sure is worth it though!!!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Yay for Eden!

After weeks of doing this...




And this...


And after a lot of this...



Eden is finally doing this...
Her crawling is still a little awkward and still a little slow...
but all of her hard work sure paid off! Way to go sweetie!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Why Can't we Live Here?

Dave and I ask ourselves that question every time we visit Southern California. I know CA has it's problems...but I can't get over the beautiful weather, the gorgeous scenery, the beautiful and unique flowers and foliage, the amazing beaches and gorgeous ocean, and of course...the delicious Mexican food. We took a very short trip to San Diego last weekend and we were able to get a taste of all of these wonderful things while we were there. :)
We left last Friday, visited SeaWorld on Saturday and came home on Sunday...like I said, it was very short. But oh so fun!
The grounds at SeaWorld are so beautiful!
(let's see how many times I can use the words
beautiful, gorgeous, and amazing in this post ;))
Our first show of the day...the Dolphin Discovery!
Emily and Eden were so excited.

So where are Justin and David during the show, you ask?
They were actually IN the show!
Before it started a SeaWorld worker asked
Justin if he'd like to be in the show, and he said yes!
It was so cool, he and Dave got to meet and feed the
dolphins and were totally part of everything.
Justin did so awesome...the video of his performance
is at the bottom of the post. It's so funny.

Here are some actual pictures of Justin and Dave...

And here are the dolphins...
these animals are so amazing!


After the show, Eden took a little nap...

and we went to see the sharks!
(The exhibit was very dark, so none of the pictures I took
inside turned out...but the sharks were very scary and cool.)




We saw Flamingos, visited with the sea stars (the correct name for
star fish we found out) and fed the sting rays.




Emily is saying...
"Look Justin, this is where the mouth is."

Emily's favorite part of the trip was feeding the
sting rays. They were very cute and friendly.

Eden just kickin' it at SeaWorld...

The Sesame Street kid area was so much fun.
It had this huge fort with nets everywhere to climb,
the most amazing bounce house ever, and a few rides.




(I think this picture is so cool, they are both flying)

Fun rides...


Waiting for the Shamu show...
Justin said this was his favorite part of SeaWorld.
It was awesome.

Our camera battery died about 3/4 of the way through
the day which was a huge bummer. A few things we
did/saw that aren't pictured are: fed the dolphins, saw the
penguins, polar bears, and beluga whales. Went to the
sea lion/seal show, and Justin went on his first ever scary
roller coaster. Good job buddy!

We were at our hotel 2 nights and the kids went
swimming both of them. We really milked this
trip for everything and got so much out of it even though
it was so, super short! The kids loved swimming in the dark!

The morning we left we took a drive
across the Coronado Bridge and went to fly
kites at the beach. It was perfect kite weather...
Emily and Justin loved it.



They played in the sand for a bit and then we headed home.

We drove by my favorite temple on the way out.
Isn't the San Diego temple so beautiful?!

Here's the video of Justin in the Dolphin show.
Keep in mind I was holding a very wiggly baby
in one arm and trying to video with the other. It's
a little shaky but turned out o.k. overall.
I'm so proud of my little guy!