Family Pictures

We took our first real family pictures last Friday! Any one with kids knows how difficult it can be to help them hold still, look in the right direction and smile all at the same time, not to mention keep there hands in a suitable position. Ammon, in the upper picture is doing what we call the "fish hook." Sometimes he does the "Double fish hook," that's two fingers with the same hand or fingers from both hands hooking his lip. Would you guess that these two cousins are almost 4 months apart. At five months Ammon is about 18.2 pounds and approx. 28 inches tall.

The Happy Family!

So Big!

Ammon is continuing to progress! His hair is slowly growing back, it's coming in blond this time, just his mom and dad when they were midgets. Lately he has been practicing sitting up and hand eye coordination. We started him on rice cereal a few weeks ago, he likes it. This morning he was eying our pancakes as we were feeding him. I could almost hear his thoughts, "Good is bad, if it keep you from something better."

Heather and I have both received differnet callings. Before Ammon was born we taught classes together in the primary. Now we are both in the scouting program. I am an assistant scout master over the 11 year old boys. Heather helps organize and execute the cub scout Pack Meetings every month. Heather Also started a new job this week with Salad Master (cookware companey) doing front office work. She is done by 1pm so she still gets to spend most of her day Ammon-the mighty midget of baby giberish.

My boss hand this on his face book. I thought it was awesome!

A few days ago i read online that you can make a compass with a needle. So I decided to try it this morning. The instructions said to get a small needle and rub it one direction with a silk fabric to magnetize the needle, then take oil from your body (like where you nose meets your face) and rub on the needle this helps it float on water as the sharp end of the needle adjusts it self to point North. It took a few trys but it works, I substituted a little butter to make the needle float. After following the instructions i gently set the needle on the water with the sharp end pointing east to make sure it would direct it self and it did! I felt like a Myth Buster!

The Bumbo Buddy

Just chillin' in the Bumbo !

Ammon is kickin' it between meals!

I was making French Toast Last Sunday morning, I cracked my first egg and two yolks came out, I had never seen that before. I thought it was pretty amazing! Smoking deal for Albertsons!!

This is how I felt after being sick for over a week. I finally went to the doctor after five days and after what seemed like a thousand questions (I felt like I was on House) i was prescribed some king of six stage steroid (great stuff).

A couple weeks ago Ammon's greatest ambition was to master his thumb sucking! He hasn't quite got it down yet, but he wrangled it in this time.