6 and 7 months...

The time has flown by again pretty darn fast. The past 2 months seem to have gone by pretty fast at least. :) So fast I never got around to posting for Cy's 6th month and now he is 7 months old. SO i just decided to make one post of both.

Cy is a pretty happy baby for the most part. He still has his moments where he will only be happy when he is being held by someone. Which does make things hard sometimes. But we all get by. :) He still has some issues with eating but is getting a little better. He just doesn't like to eat the fruits cause they seem to make his acid reflux worse. So we have stuck with the veggies for now. He is pretty much sleeping thru the night finally and started doing better about it when he turned 6 months old. He does still have one late night bottle before he sleeps all the way thru. He doesn't like to take many naps and when he does they are not very long, or maybe not as long as I would like them to be. :) He loves to play pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo. He is also VERY ticklish. Which makes it fun to get him to laugh, and we all LOVE to hear him laugh. He is a pro at sitting up now and he seems to want to move on to the next stage and crawl but hasn't gotten to that point yet. He now has 2 teeth on the bottom, more coming in here soon I am pretty sure.

His cute little smile makes me smile and melts my heart too.

He still loves to stick out his tongue, and even more now that he has gotten some teeth.

Loves his brother Ryken, and always is watching him. And Ryken loves to make Cy laugh. :)

Trying to test out all 4's but not that well at it. :)

Eating a cracker for the first time and wasn't a big fan of it.

Mister mischief maybe his name in the future. And I am sure he will give this look alot. :)

Smiley guy with rosey cheeks. (i am pretty sure the rosey cheeks were from his teething.)

7 months old and now getting better at the all 4's thing, but still no crawling.

Check out his 2 chompers. And his big blue eyes. Man I just want to squeeze him sometimes. :)

Pulled out the wipes and was chewing on one, he likes to do that and also chew on the wash cloth during bath time. :)

It is still so crazy that he is already 7 months old. He is for sure a different baby then his brother was but it is fun getting to know his personality too.

Christmas 2009

We had a pretty darn good Christmas this year. Justin was able to take the day off, so we stayed home this year and just had to wait that morning for him to get home to open our presents. Good thing Ryken wasn't into ripping open all the gifts right when he woke up, but I am sure next year he will be. :) He was so fun to watch this year, cause he actually loved opening his presents and knew how to. And of course he wanted to "help" everyone else open theirs. And we were all okay with that, until next year when Cy may have a problem with it. :) The boys both got lots of fun stuff this year.

Showing off his stocking. :)And he found some fun stickers inside, as well as a couple books and some fun coloring stuff too.

Cy was already surrounded by toys, and his stocking too.

And he got another fun toy, which I think Ryken has played with more than Cy has. lol

All of the fun stuff that Cy got from Santa and us. :)

Ryken with all of his loot from Santa and us too. :)

They also got one big gift to the both of them but I am sure Ryken will get a little more use out of it now.

A little bounce house!! Ryken was a little scared to get in at first, so I had to climb in and he followed. And after he was in he was there for a good 40 mins. He LOVED it.

Cy wasn't as into it as Ryken was, but he was into checking it all out. :)

We also went over to Justin's parents that day and enjoyed opening a few presents over there and having a yummy lunch too! I wanted to try and get a little family picture and this was the best we got...

It is hard to get a good one with such little wiggle worms. :) and this was the best I could get of the 2 of the boys together...

And boy do they look scared. LOL! We had a great Christmas this year. Ryken was pretty sad when it was all over, he asked to open more presents when he woke up the next morning. And now that the Christmas tree is down he had also asked a few times where his Christmas tree went. I was so glad that he enjoyed it so much this year and I am looking forward to all the years to come to be able to to teach him all about the real meaning of Christmas! I am so thankful for the reason that we celebrate Christmas, and the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. No better reason then him to have such a wonderful celebration.

Family fun before Christmas...

Every year we always have some fun family time before Christmas day. We usually get to have a fun family party with my mom's side of the family and then also a fun family party with my dad's side of the family too. We have had Family Christmas parties with both family's for as long as I can remember. So it is lots of fun to get to do it now and have my family involved too. :) This year I forgot to take my camera up with us to my mom's family Christmas party. But we had lots of great times like every year. We got to hang out with family we don't get to see much and eat lots of yummy food and just talk and remember all the fun past parties. We also got to go watch the Holbrook Light parade, which we have been doing for quite sometime too. I stayed in the warm car with Cy for the parade and Justin braved the cold and watched it outside with Ryken. Ryken had so much fun just watching all the people and floats in the parade. :) And of course we got to have some fun at my parents house, and Ryken LOVED getting to hangout and play with is cousins.

Before we had the party for my dad's side of the family we got some of us together and went to Mccormick Ranch Railroad park and rode the train and saw all the lights out there. Everyone else stayed later and saw Santa but we had to be on the road for our little guys to get to bed. But we enjoyed the time we were there.

Here was most of our group, pretty far back in the train even. We had close to 25 with us there that night. :)Ryken and Justin got front row seats and here we were going thru the tunnel with lights, Ryken loved all of it, Train ride + Christmas lights= An awesome time in Ryken's eyes. :)

The cute train in the front of the park. Ryken and Cy weren't to happy when I was trying to take the pic. lol

At the other family party we got to go on a fun hayride/caroling around a neighborhood by my uncles house. It was lots of fun. Chilly but fun.

Justin and Cy all bundled up before the ride. (ryken of course wouldn't let me take his picture)

We also did a gift exchange at both parties, and the last few years we just do the gift exchange along with a story. So as you listen to the story you have to pass your presents around the circle. It gets kinda tricky and funny when the little ones all try to do it. But they all seem to have fun, especially since there is a present at the end of it for them. :)

Here are some of the kiddos in the circle ready to start the passing of gifts.

Ryken got something that he LOVED, color wonder stuff!

We got the chance to take a few fun pictures while with everyone too.

Myself and Justin with the boys and also my parents and grandparents.

Mom and dad in the cute nativity cut out...

And Justin and myself too. lol

Then of course we got to have one more family party with my parents, brother's and all of their families. And this year it was lots of fun cause Mickey, Kelly and the girls came from Vegas to share in the fun!

Ryken getting ready to rip into his present...

And he got another winner, Gator Golf!

Cy was asleep when we did gifts so Tatum opened his and he got himself...

A musical turtle. :) That both him and Ryken of course LOVE.

The kiddos also got to have fun by frosting some sugar cookies, and they had lots of fun decorating the cookies and eating the cookies and frosting. :)

Here was Ryken and his masterpiece. Did it with some help from aunt Nicole. :)

Cy had fun at the party with his Uncle Mickey and all his girls as well as all the other aunts, uncles and cousins

Ryken joined in on the Karaoke fun, and sang his ABC's. :)

Since all of my parents grandkids were here this year they had to take the chance to get a picture with all of them, so here they are with all 11 grandkids and they have one more on the way. :)

Then we also got the chance to take the boys to see Santa at the Mall since we missed out at the train park. Ryken was so excited to see Santa and sit on his lap and that is all he talked about on the way to the mall. But of course once we got there and he saw him it was a different story. So it was a good thing there wasn't any other kids in line so we were able to chat with Santa and then Ryken decided it was ok to sit on his lap and talk to him too. After that it was tons of fun for him. :) And Cy, well he doesn't know much different yet. But we did get a pretty cute picture out of the visit.

Cute right? I sure think so. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

5 months...

Wow, almost half a year old! My little Cy guy is getting up there. :) We are still enjoying all the joy he has been bringing to our family. Things are still about the same when it comes to his being fussy alot. But he also gets in alot of smiles and laughs too thru out the days. Which make us all smile and giggle.

He has started rolling over from his back to his belly, only one way so far. And then gets stuck on his belly and pretty much freaks out. So hopefully his next trick will be learning how to roll from his belly back to his back.

He is pretty obsessed with his toes and playing with them alot. He also likes to get in a little bit of fun playing with his rattle.

And he concentrates on it very hard. And he still curls up his toes like daddy too. :) We gave him some of his first tastes of Rice cereal this past month too and this is pretty much what he thought of it...

:) It isn't his favorite, and he for sure hasn't taken to eating it as well as Ryken did for the first time. But we are still working on it.

He is also likes to play with his tongue quite a bit and is always munching on his fingers or ours if we let him.

He is also getting pretty darn good at sitting up for a little bit by himself. So we are going to keep trying extra hard at that cause it seems to make him the happiest. I think he just wants to see what is going on all the time. All I know is the past 5 months have flown by pretty darn fast for us. And like I said before we are enjoying all the laughs and smiles we get from our chunky little guy every day. :)

Halloween 09

We had a great Halloween this year. By far the funnest so far because Ryken was pretty much loving it. We had to do a little convincing at first to get him to wear his costume. But once he heard that he would get lots of candy when he wore his costume, he was all for it. :) And it was also fun to get to see how cute both Ryken and Cy were in their costumes.

Ryken "the bat"

Cy "the giraffe"

We were able to get out and do 2 Trunk or Treats. We went to our ward party on Friday and played games and Ryken got to go around and get lots of candy with his cousin Tristan. He of course loved everything about it.

Here they were relaxing after all the walking around getting candy.

Cy stayed behind and helped me pass out candy to all the other adorable trick or treaters.

Then on Saturday we got to go out to Maricopa for the 3rd year in a row and do some more fun Trunk or Treating with our friends the Lee's. It was lots of fun to get to take Ryken and Porter around and see how much fun they had.

Ryken with his friend Porter "Peter Pan".

And Cy with Anastyn "Tinkerbell"

And finally an adorable picture of both of my little guys all tired out from a long evening of fun, friends and lots of candy. Thanks Lee's for inviting us out there again this year. We always have so much fun with you guys. :) Until next Halloween.