Beach Bound

As of tomorrow... this will be me :)

I am so excited! We looked ahead and the weather is suppose to be chilly, but I don't think that will stop me from getting in the water. The boys will probably not even try and get in it... I know this from experience. But even if it is too cold I just love being at the beach. It will be wonderful!

I love this kid!

But then again... who wouldn't love this face!

6 month stats

I wanted to post Easton's 6 month stats

At 6 months he was 15lbs and 3.5 ounces

27 and 3/4 inches tall

And these tidbits are Easton up to now (which is 6 1/2 months)

Easton had a 2nd visit to the hospital since he was born... not fun! He got the stomach flu and was mildly dehydrated so I am glad we took him in when we did.

Right now Easton can't sit up on his own, but I think its because he'd much rather be down scooting around. Yes, that's correct. Easton can army crawl everywhere and he's pretty fast too.

Easton sleeps on average 11 hours at night. Pure bliss!

He loves his binky! He will sit there and play with it and twist it around in his mouth and then suck on it up-side down. He loves to put pretty much anything in his mouth actually. Haha.

He also loves anything electronic. If he spots the remote or a cell phone on the ground he is there before you even realize it changing the channel or something. Stinker!

Easton has just recently discovered we have a cat. She apparently is more aware of him too. She'll come up to him now and sniff his face, to which he will just lay there and open his mouth while she does it. Ha! She especially loves his new found ability to army crawl as he follows her around the house. Not really... the reason I say "around the house" is because she keeps moving around to get away from him.

Easton loves bath time! If he is tired and fussy I can stick him in the tub and everything is better.

Easton went swimming for the first time Wednesday and loved it! He kept trying to wiggle away from me thinking he could do it on his own. My own personal fish boy someday I'm sure. I'm excited we got season passes to Wet n Wild because he loves the water so it will be nice to get outside on the hot summer days.

Easton also loves to be sung to. His favorite is the "Baby Bumblebee" song. When he was getting an IV at the hospital we told the nurse to sing it and he immediately stopped crying.

Easton's favorite food right now is Peaches... just like his daddy :)

Easton already loves baseball (of course). He sat through the Diamondbacks game and also sits through Jameson's softball games on Tuesday nights. It's hard to get him to sit still for anything but that so it must be in his blood already.

Easton loves his daddy.

Jameson gets the biggest smiles from E-bay or Easton bug when he gets home from work (those are Jameson's nicknames for him).

These 6 months have really gone by fast, but I can't imagine and different life than now. Easton is so happy and brings so much joy to our little family.

smiling as always

Always putting things in his mouth

found him under this the other day... he thought it was great!

love him!

Easter fun!

We had a great Easter this year. After a hectic week it was nice just to relax and spend some time with the family. Saturday we had dinner with Jameson's family and Sunday we had dinner with mine. Gotta love ham when you visit both families on the holidays :)

Easton looked so handsome in his outfit and I actually convinced Jameson to match us since it was Easter Sunday (this never happens). I didn't get a picture of all of us though, just Easton.

Here he's sitting up, but it only lasts for a few seconds before he falls over.

Easton also got some new toys from Grandma Hunter. Jameson use to have a little duck basket when he was little so Grandma filled that same basket with a bunch of duck toys and a duck towel. Super cute!

On Sunday I got to give the lesson to my primary class (I co-teach so we switch on and off each week). I was grateful though to give this one and teach my 7 year olds about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Helped me remember his great sacrifice and what Easter is all about :D

Let's not make a habit of this...

This has been a VERY long week for us and I am so glad things are back to normal. Making it 6 months without so much as a stuffy nose is very humbling (aside from the acid reflux) for our family. This week, however, was very different. It all started Monday when I took Easton in to get his 6 month shots. He did fine afterwards and was acting completely normal til that night. At about 6 oclock after he ate dinner he started vomiting. I may have lost track, but I'm pretty sure he vomited 8 times within two hours. I read the paper about his vaccines and it did mention that vomiting could be a reaction to the shots he received earlier that day.

Later that night consisted of two parents not sure what to do, a baby who was very hungry, but also a baby who could not keep his food down. Tuesday morning finally came and I talked to the pediatrician and Jameson's mom who both said to give him little bits of Pedialyte all day to keep his little body from becoming dehydrated. He had thrown up a little that morning, but throughout the day Tuesday it seemed like he was taking the Pedialyte well and was keeping it down. Tuesday night we fed him a bottle before bed, which he took well and kept down. Things were looking up!

Or so I thought...

Wednesday came and he had a bottle that morning, which he took and kept down. Then after his morning nap he woke up and when I tried to feed him he just was NOT interested. He pushed it away with his hands and got mad when I showed it to him. I just figured I would wait it out and he will be hungry again later. An hour later he was very tired and ended up falling asleep sitting in my lap. So I put him down for his second nap and woke him up a few hours later to try and get him to eat. He was still not interested. I tried Pedialyte and a bottle and he refused both. By this time I am a little worried he wasn't getting back on track like I thought he was. I tried some rice cereal to see if he would eat from a spoon and he did. Yay! I tried to make him a little more, but then he didn't want it. Then I started to notice he was acting sort of lethargic and sleepy again so I put him down for his 3rd nap. I had to wake him again around 5 when Jameson got home to feed him dinner. He STILL was NOT interested. By now he really hasn't eaten anything since 8am and the day before he did not have much either. We decided to take a medicine dropper and see if he would eat some formula that way. After a few times of denying it we finally got him to take some food from the dropper. But then after he was all done about a minute later he threw it up. ALL OF IT. It was everywhere! I went upstairs to clean him up while Jameson called his mom. He told her what happened and she told us we should come in to the hospital to make sure everything was okay.

We arrived at the hospital a little after 7. After being checked out by the PA, Jameson's mom and one of the nurses gave Easton an IV with fluids and Zofran for the nausea. Jameson and I left because neither of us wanted to watch him being poked. We had to wait an hour for him to get all the fluids through his body. Here you can see he was very tired...

After an hour on fluids, we were allowed to give him some Pedialyte. He could not get it fast enough and was getting mad we weren't giving him more. This was a very good sign that his appetite was back and he was doing much better. Later, the PA came in again and she said the hospital had been seeing lots of kids lately with the stomach flu. Lots of vomiting and diarrhea. My guess is he picked it up Monday at the doctor's office. Isn't it ironic that people usually go to the doctor to feel better, not to get sick!

Anyways, we got home late that night and gave him a little more Pedialyte before finally putting him down for bed. He ended up sleeping the whole night and Thursday morning he was back to his normal self. Slowly we've been getting him back on his regular diet and he is doing great.

The stomach flu is definitely going around because although Easton was better, Jameson woke up Thursday morning vomiting. Stomach flu is the devil! Luckily I did not get anything. It is now Friday and the sick house is no more! Here's to not making a habit of going to the hospital. We told Easton from now on if he wants to see Grandma Hunter he doesn't have to get sick to do it!

Diamondbacks game!

On Saturday we got tickets to go to the Dbacks vs Giants game. Now let me tell you... this is something Jameson has looked forward to since he knew we were having a boy! Actually, the day we found out we were pregnant we were at the Dbacks fan fest and we bought a little baby outfit. So before we even knew what we were having he was getting ready for his little baseball fan.

Anywho, we went to the game Saturday and had a blast! Easton did great! Despite all the noise he even got a little 15 minute cat nap. How he managed to fall asleep is a mystery to me. It was loud! We sat next to some pretty annoying Giants fans. Easton was such a ham too. He was sitting in my lap and would lean himself over just to look at all the people behind us and smile at them. There was this one girl who kept making faces at him and he was giving her the biggest smiles. I tried to not let him because she was a Giants fan, but he passes no judgement :)

Here are some pictures from the night...

In his Dback outfit. Jameson insisted on the eye black, which turned out really cute!

having fun

They look so much alike!

We had great seats. Left center 2nd row!

I absolutely love this picture of us!

We made a sign, but didn't get on the Jumbotron. Why someone

wouldn't put his cute face on the Jumbotron is just weird.

Passed out halfway through :)

That's what you get!

It's no question that besides Jameson my dad was the most excited to hear that we were having a baby boy. I remember when my sister got pregnant with the first grandkid on our side of the family and my dad really wanted it to be a boy. I particularly remember we went to Sedona one summer to go cliff jumping at Grasshopper point. While walking across some rocks my sister, who was pregnant at the time, slipped and fell. To which my dad replied... "Is my grandson ok?" Not is Meagan ok, but his grandson (who turned out to be Tiffany, very much a girl).

Anyway, the point of this post is not that, but about a few weeks ago when we were visiting my parents for dinner. My dad was holding Easton on the couch and out of no where decided to intentionally scared him. Easton's reaction of course was shock and then the infamous sad face appeared. He freaked out and started bawling! It took a good five minutes or so to calm him down.

Now a few weeks later, I think Easton still remembers the incident. My parents came over two weeks ago for dinner and if my dad would so much as look at Easton this is what would happen...

Easton is not a baby who cries a lot. He whines, but he rarely cries hard like this. I think he even remembers where the incident happened because I was at my parents the other day with just me and my mom and he started to cry for no reason. He NEVER does this unless we're at my parent's house. So to my dad I would say... I gave you a grandson, but it is NOT my fault if he doesn't like you anymore! ;)

That's what you get!