4 month shots!

On thursday Austin got his 4 month shots. Poor baby!! So here are all the stats: He weighs, are you ready for this?! 17 lbs, 8 oz. Yep thats right 17 1/2 pounds!! EEEKKKK!! So he is in the 90th percentile for weight and momma has arms of steel from lugging him around all day....and he is 24 1/2 inches long, 27th percentile for length. So basically still short and fat, or as Joey's grandpa phillips puts it he is short for his weight, just like him, hehehe! Anyways his doctor checked him over and he is doing just marvelous. He was all smiles to her and loved all the little gymnastics she was putting him thru. But later that night and all yesterday he had a horrible runny nose and just wasn't his chipper little self. You could tell that he definetley didn't feel good and I'm not sure if it is from the shots, a cold, teeth or all three. But today he is doing much better. Back to his busy little self. Ooohhh and I almost forgot, she said we could start giving him rice cereal at night before bed!! Yea! So we gave him some on Thursday night and it was hilarious. He has found a new love of his life and its called THE SPOON! It magically has yummy cereal on it everytime he opens his mouth and is refilled by the time he swallows and opens his mouth again. He loved it. It only took about 3 bites for him to figure out how to swallow the cereal and not push it out with his tongue and after that he was lounging towards the spoon and trying to use his hands to put it in his mouth all by himself (my independent little baby). Then when we got to the end we just tipped the bowl and held it up to his mouth and he just slurped the last little bit down. It was so funny! We were all laughing! She said in about a month we could start feeding him twice a day and start adding in vegetables. But she still wants him mainly on breastmilk until at least 6 months, which is fine with me, because breastmilk is free and momma has lots of it! So hopefully eating this rice cereal at night will help him sleep more. Poor momma is tired because Austin has been waking up at least two times at night to eat and then getting up for the day at 6 or 7. Some nights he wakes up more then he ever has even more then his first night home from the hospital, so I am TIRED! I got used to him sleeping through the night and not waking up until 6 or 7 and then eating and sleeping until 8 or 9 and now he just not doing that anymore. So we will see if this holds him over a little longer at night and lets me get more sleep.
I have been watching Taylie on Mondays which has actually been pretty easy. She is a good little girl as long as you feed her right when she is hungry, and not a second later or else she gets very mad! Austin and her kinda ignore each other except when they are laying next to each other and then Austin will try to eat Taylie. He tries to grap her hands or her feet or anything he can get and shove it right in his mouth so I have to watch him. They do really good in the stroller though, but it won't be much longer before they won't be able to fit in there together anymore and then I don't know what I am going to do because it is a nice distraction for both of them during the middle of the day to go on a nice big walk. It is really fun to see how different they are and how they play so different with things and just amazing that they have two totally different personality's. They are already there own little people at 4 months old. I'm really enjoying being a mommy and a auntie and every day with both of them just brings new discoverys and new laughs and it is just so much fun! Austin has been doing this new thing where he talks himself to sleep. It is really hilarious. Its pretty nice though, if he is really tired I just lay him down and he lays there and talks and talks and talks and before I know it, I look in on him and he is asleep. He still doesn't sleep for long though and usually only takes about 15-20 min naps. But hey, he still goes to bed at 7:00 so I can't comlain. If it was up to him I think he would go to bed at about 6:00 but I make him stay up till at least 7:00. Anyways, his first Halloween is next week so I'll try and have up pictures and tell you how it goes......until then bye everyone!

Here are a few new pics!

Awww, he loves his great grandpa!

Austin & his great-grandpa phillips, 4 months

Austin and Taylie, sooooo cute!

At Descanso gardens 4 months

Caution! Nudity picture!! Austin in his bath chair 4 months

Austin in his warm jammas, 4 months

Austin & Taylie going for a walk, 4 months

Taylie 4 months

More pics...4 months old

Austin is already 4 months old. My precious little baby is becoming an independent, busy little monster!! He gets bored sooooo fast, and he always wants to be busy busy busy. He is definetley ALL boy! He smiles all the time and talks and talks and talks. Its very cute! But he really wants you to entertain him and he gets frustrated when he can sees things but he can't get to them or when he picks up things but can't put the ENTIRE thing in his mouth. He's not happy just chewing on the sides of his toys, he wants to eat the whole thing. He started rolling over as well. When he is on his stomach he can arch his back and fling his legs over and the rest of his body follows. But he still can't roll over when he is on his back, he is like a beached well and can just scoot himself around with his feet. So its always nice when its the end of the day and bedtime and mommy can have a break for a few hours until it starts all over again tomorrow. He is truly the light of our lives and we don't know what we would do without him. He is our little one man show and has us constantly laughing. I love my new little family and life right now for us couldn't get any better.

Huh? What's going on?

Hey there!! Austin yelling at mom

Austin and Taylie, they had fun at their

photo shoot with Aunt Tammy

Austin in his midget, 4 months old

He is doing really well on his tummy,

he can even roll over on his back

He has to be strapped in his bouncer now

He is too wild and bounces his way out!

Austin's First Hike

So we took Austin on his first hike about two weeks ago. He had so much fun. Of course, like any baby, he loves to be outside, so outside all day long was fine with him. We went to Rock Creek which is at Tom's Place and hiked in to the fourth lake. It was just gorgeous, nice and warm, no bugs! And the trees were changing so that made for a great show! We took lunch and hiked around the lake (Box Lake) to some rocks and ate our lunch. Why is it that when your out camping or hiking that a boring ol' ham sandwich is soooooooooo good, and those cool ranch doritos are the best thing you've ever tasted! We had a great time just relaxing and looking out into the water. Austin layed on some blankets and played in the sun. Aaahhhhhh it was so wonderful to have no noise, no cell phones, no other people, just us and nature. It was definitely very refreshing and I'm sure we will do it many more times in the future.

The Aspen trees were changing, GORGEOUS!

We hiked over to those rocks and had lunch

In his pack ready to go!

15 weeks, Rock Creek

Here's a few pics

Helping mommy play the piano,

he LOVES the piano!

Around 14 weeks, he loves to sit with

his bobby pillow cause he can sit all by himself...

Exhausted, he stayed asleep the whole time

I changed his diaper.

Awww, cute little guy

Around 13 weeks, he always sticks his tongue out

when he smiles, silly baby!

Hello everyone! Well I've been back to work now for two weeks. And it is great!! I love it! It is so much fun to see all of my clients again and to actually get out of the house and talk to ADULTS! Don't get me wrong, I love love love being a mom, but I think it is good for Austin to have some time with his daddy and his auntie and good for me to get out of the house and have a reason to get up and ready for the day! It's only two days a week which is perfect! So I still have five days at home with him. He is really becoming a lot of fun. He loves to talk to us and makes all kinds of funny sounds and he is a very happy baby and smiles all the time to anyone who will pay attention. The other day I was changing his poopy diper, I had his butt in the air wiping it off and I heard him start to fuss. When I looked up at him he was peeing all over his own face! Poor little baby!! He had pee in his eyes, all over his face, in his mouth, and all over his head. He was pretty mad and look at me like it was my fault!! I felt bad for him but at the same time I was laughing because it was pretty funny. Needless to say he got a bath that night! Anyways we are just doing great. Joey is almost done with his midget and hopes to enter it in the car show in October. We still go for walks almost every night, which Austin loves! He really enjoys looking around and being outside. And he is still a great sleeper. He usually goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 and doesn't wake up until between 6 and 7. It is so wonderful!! But he doesn't like to take naps during the day, so I guess I can't have it all. Well that's about it for now. Talk to ya'll later!

13 weeks old sleeping on the couch

Austin's little midget! Now it just needs a seat!

All finished and put together

Then taping it off to paint it red

Joey painted Austin's midget white

Silly little smile

12 weeks and he LOVES to sit up and look around

Just exhausted!

Sucking his thumb, silly baby!

12 week old

Midget, Lear Jet, Pouty lip and Already 11 weeks old!!

Wow! Sorry my blog fans that its taken me so long to update...but with laundry and a house to take care of and a yard and a husband oh and wait, a new baby! its amazing how fast time just flys by. It seems like you barely get up and ready for the day and before you know it, its time to go to sleep again. It really is true that time just keeps speeding up, and I can't believe my handsome little baby is almost 3 months old!! AAAGGGHHHH its going WAY to fast! I'm trying to enjoy each little moment and not take any of it for granted.

So back to what we've been doing for the past three weeks. My aunt Laura and cousin Caroline came up from San Diego and visited. We had a great time and Austin really enjoyed them. Then my Aunt Tammy, Uncle Keith, Lindsay, and Casey all came down from Washington. We had a great visit with them and boy does Austin love his cousin Lindsay! It was really fun to show him off and pass him around to everyone. We spent lots and lots of time at my grandma's cooking and eating and cooking more and eating more and just being a family. It was a wonderful week with them and makes you realize that family really is the most important thing. Meanwhile Joey has been working on a midget for Austin. For those of you who are like me and are wondering what the heck a midget is, it is a 1950's minature go-kart. Joey's dad had started to fix it up for Joey when he was a baby but never finished it, so now Joey is going to fix it up for Austin. Its really fun to see him get so excited and work so hard on this project for Austin. He sure loves his little boy! And last but certainly not least Austin went on his first plane ride. Joey knows a wonderful pilot, named Roger who offered to fly us to Sacramento to visit Joey's mom Tammy. He also invited my grandpa to come get a ride in his lear jet and returned him back to Bishop when they were done. Austin did great on the plane ride. As soon as we were in the air he fell right to sleep and could have cared less that we were 12,000 feet up and going almost 600 mph!! Then to make it more fun Roger let my grandpa sit up front and help fly the plane with his other pilot Brit. It was a lot of fun for my grandpa who used to be a pilot but had certainly never flown anything with that many bells and whistles. Then to our suprise when we got to the airport Roger had a car waiting for us to use the whole time that we were in Sacramento. WOW! We felt so incredibly blessed. He is such a kind, generous man. When we landed back in Mammoth after 3 days in Sacramento, I told him that it was such a relief to only have a 30 minute plane ride versus a 5 hour car ride. God has certainly blessed us with some amazing people in our lives. Next we come to the pouty lip. Austin has been making this pouty lip for the past couple of weeks whenever he starts to cry but I can never get it on camera. Every time he does it we joke around because he really looks just like Joey, so we had a photo shoot last night and I finally got some pictures of it. Poor baby, he really looks pathetic when he does it!! He is getting so big though and I can't believe that he will be 3 months old on thursday. Oh and some other really big news of the week is that Mommy is going back to work. Yep, Wednesday is my first day back. I can't really complain though because I am only working two days a week. And it is actually going to be perfect because Joey is going to watch him on Wednesdays and my sister-in-law Sarah is going to watch him on Fridays. So he won't have to go to day care and won't have any strangers watching him. But still, I think I'm going to have a hard time with it. It will be sooooo nice to see my clients again but at the same time, leaving my little baby is going to be difficult. But at least it is only two days a week and I'm sure it will be good for the both of us. So I will try to write a little more often and wish me luck on my first day back to work!!

Look at those chubby cheeks with that little pout lip!

Poor little baby, he was getting mad at me

More pouty lip....

Austin and daddy with "the pouty lip"

Austin and Daddy hanging out

Austin talking to mommy

11 weeks old!

Roger and Joey

This is what Austin did during the plane ride...
10 weeks old!

My grandpa flying the lear with the other pilot Brit

Talking to Austin while we were taking off

My grandpa, Roger, Me Austin and Joey

Me, Roger and Austin in front of his Lear Jet

Austin's first plane ride, Roger the pilot was holding him

Austin LOVES sleeping next to his daddy in the early morning
9 weeks old!

Joey putting primer on Austin's midget

8 weeks old! and first shots...

So Austin is 8 weeks old and Joey and I had our 2nd anniversary today...Wow

time sure is flying!! Austin had to go get his first shots today, poor little baby.

He weighs 12 lbs 13 oz and was 22 1/2 inches long. For his weight he is in the

75th percentile and length is the 25th percentile. So basically he is a short, fat

baby! He is just doing perfect though, and the doctor was very impressed with how

happy and mellow he was while she was examining him. He had to get his

shots, and with the first one he didn't even cry! But then shot number two and three

he screamed his little head off. Poor little guy! It was hard to see him cry but

Joey came with us for support and he did make both of us feel better. He is a

very involved dad and Austin loves him so much. Sometimes I feel like all I am

is the milk factory because as soon as he sees dad or hears his voice he is so excited

to see him and starts smiling and talking and I'm like hey there! I've been with

you all day and you don't get that excited to see me! Oh well, I know he loves

me too but dad is definitely the highlight of his day.

He really is starting to smile a lot which is so fun!! He

is a little person now!

He just started sucking his thumb and we aren't sure if we should let him or

try to stop him. So far he doesn't do it very often but we will see...

He loves to talk and smile at his little stuffed animals

Silly little guy with his cousin's sunglasses on

Daddy giving Austin his first bottle...they were practicing to make sure

he will take the bottle from dad when I go back to work. And yes I'm

still breastfeeding I'm just going to pump at work and Joey can give him bottles.

It really is the healthiest thing for him and he does a really good job at it so I'm

going to try and do it for a year. 2 months down, 10 to go!