Here are some videos. They are separate from the posts cause it was easier to organize for me. But the posts explain better.
Silas and Helen playing - I love how he looks at the paci and then at her, Hey?
Feeding the neighbors cow
Just making faces and noises
Ok, he is laughing really hard here so just ignore the fact that you can see me more than him.
"Sweet baby" coming over to visit. He or she loves us :)
His only word - AH! or DAH! or BAH!
He has learned to scoot in this last week. Even from the videos you can see how much faster he has gotten. His method has changed too. It started out as a wiggle and roll in a zig zag til he got to where he was going and now it is straight up army style
Baby racing
May 11, 2010
May 10, 2010
April Update
Alright so I shouldn't have gotten so behind. I'll just add some pictures and videos and captions. I think the captions will really let you know whats going on. I will work on May's post soon so that it is ready in MAY LOL
April started out with visitors too! Debbie aka Grammy came to visit for a week and it was FANTASTIC! It's so nice to have family in town because we miss everyone a lot. Silas loves Grammy too! You can tell by the pictures that he loves it when she plays with him.
Silas was making this face for about a week but it's gone now
Playing with Grammy
No wonder he loves playing with her
Grammy wishing she could take him home! (And then Gramzy would be able to see him too)
Silas started having more trouble in the nursery at church. He doesn't cry when I drop him off but he will be playing having a good ol time and then BAM he starts crying - really crying. So they come to get me and usually I figure that he is hungry or tired and the solution for both is nursing. We are trying to work on it but it's hard to fix if you don't know the cause. I thought maybe it was because he doesn't spend time away from us but then he did great with Debbie. She could take him pretty much any where for 3 or 4 hours and he didn't care. He is so great every other day and time that it's really hard to complain. I am really ready for him to start sleeping through the night also. I know that it will eventually happen but it is tough to wait for it! I guess maybe my body has gotten more used to it now though because I am able to enjoy snuggling him when he falls back asleep. I know he won't be little forever and I LOVE those sweet sleepy hugs. It's hard to imagine that one day he will be a junior higher needing homework help!
We painted Silas room and hung up chair rail with the help of Grammy. There is the painted name thing that Megan and I worked on.
The poppy fields are in bloom. It's a good year! Last year we tried to take Aunt Windy and Ashley to see them and it was just a dirt field with 4 poppies - which we got yelled at for standing near! Here is what it should have looked like. They are SO bright!
7 months old - watch me grow album
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
Nate's pins came out of his wrist - at home, before they were supposed to. The doctor told him to just take them out. It was freaky but actually made it feel a lot better. A few days later he had the surgery to remove all of them. Then Nate played Dr. and decided he would cut of his soft wrap/cast thing and take out his own stitches. And that darn Dr.! He didn't even give Nate a hard time for doing it - "Well, that makes my job easier." WHAT?! Man, now Nate is always gonna play Dr.!!!!!
Grossness
Sorry if that is graphic for you but if you know me then you know I can handle that stuff so ....you should have known it was coming hee hee!
And I started nannying for baby Helen. Well, she is almost a year old. I am just doing this til the end of the school year. Her regular nanny is my good friend Kathy who just had her baby girl, Maggie on May 6th :) It's been challenging but I think it does help me to prioritize so that is great! It's just grocery shopping that has had to be put off til the weekend. I prefer going during the week without the crowds. I know Debbie and Angie - "Push one cart and pull the other" Well not all of us are 1. super women and 2. crazy, yeah you guys are, don't deny it LOL If I get brave enough to take them one day then I am determined to do it with one cart. I suppose if I were one of the other Walters women this wouldn't be an option because I would be trying to feed so many mouths. If that day ever comes then I will be asking Nate to stay at home with the kids so I can go with just one or none. Anyways, point is that it is going well and of course it is a little more tiring. Helen really is sweet though!
She's cute, huh?
Little buddies
Always playing
Here is Maggie Grace
April started out with visitors too! Debbie aka Grammy came to visit for a week and it was FANTASTIC! It's so nice to have family in town because we miss everyone a lot. Silas loves Grammy too! You can tell by the pictures that he loves it when she plays with him.
Silas was making this face for about a week but it's gone now
Playing with Grammy
No wonder he loves playing with her
Grammy wishing she could take him home! (And then Gramzy would be able to see him too)
Silas started having more trouble in the nursery at church. He doesn't cry when I drop him off but he will be playing having a good ol time and then BAM he starts crying - really crying. So they come to get me and usually I figure that he is hungry or tired and the solution for both is nursing. We are trying to work on it but it's hard to fix if you don't know the cause. I thought maybe it was because he doesn't spend time away from us but then he did great with Debbie. She could take him pretty much any where for 3 or 4 hours and he didn't care. He is so great every other day and time that it's really hard to complain. I am really ready for him to start sleeping through the night also. I know that it will eventually happen but it is tough to wait for it! I guess maybe my body has gotten more used to it now though because I am able to enjoy snuggling him when he falls back asleep. I know he won't be little forever and I LOVE those sweet sleepy hugs. It's hard to imagine that one day he will be a junior higher needing homework help!
We painted Silas room and hung up chair rail with the help of Grammy. There is the painted name thing that Megan and I worked on.
The poppy fields are in bloom. It's a good year! Last year we tried to take Aunt Windy and Ashley to see them and it was just a dirt field with 4 poppies - which we got yelled at for standing near! Here is what it should have looked like. They are SO bright!
7 months old - watch me grow album
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
Nate's pins came out of his wrist - at home, before they were supposed to. The doctor told him to just take them out. It was freaky but actually made it feel a lot better. A few days later he had the surgery to remove all of them. Then Nate played Dr. and decided he would cut of his soft wrap/cast thing and take out his own stitches. And that darn Dr.! He didn't even give Nate a hard time for doing it - "Well, that makes my job easier." WHAT?! Man, now Nate is always gonna play Dr.!!!!!
Grossness
Sorry if that is graphic for you but if you know me then you know I can handle that stuff so ....you should have known it was coming hee hee!
And I started nannying for baby Helen. Well, she is almost a year old. I am just doing this til the end of the school year. Her regular nanny is my good friend Kathy who just had her baby girl, Maggie on May 6th :) It's been challenging but I think it does help me to prioritize so that is great! It's just grocery shopping that has had to be put off til the weekend. I prefer going during the week without the crowds. I know Debbie and Angie - "Push one cart and pull the other" Well not all of us are 1. super women and 2. crazy, yeah you guys are, don't deny it LOL If I get brave enough to take them one day then I am determined to do it with one cart. I suppose if I were one of the other Walters women this wouldn't be an option because I would be trying to feed so many mouths. If that day ever comes then I will be asking Nate to stay at home with the kids so I can go with just one or none. Anyways, point is that it is going well and of course it is a little more tiring. Helen really is sweet though!
She's cute, huh?
Little buddies
Always playing
Here is Maggie Grace
May 09, 2010
March Summary
Snuggles before bedtime
We started off march with a few visitors from Florida :) Jason, Megan and Nathaniel came to visit us. Nate and Jason went down to the Masters Seminary for 3 days for the Shepherds Conference. They loved it of course! Megan and I were mainly inside with the boys because it was cold out still but we did get to do some reading and a fun project for Silas' room which you'll see. It was great to spend time with another wife to a seminary student and mommy to a boy! Nathaniel is just a few months older than Silas.
I don't have any pictures of their visit because of the next part.....:( I dropped the lap top which broke our hard drive so much so that the data is not recoverable. We had a friend from church look at it and it is a loss. This was really really hard for me 1. because I hate that I'm always the one to break things, embarrassing! 2. We had not backed up the computer since Silas was born so we lost a lot of his pictures and videos along with Nate's previous seminary work. My mom was so sweet when I called crying, she just let me be sad and tried to encourage me. I was terrified to call Nate. No one wants to say that they broke something so valuable. At first Nate seemed irritated but then my loving husband let me know that it was only an earthly possession and he loved me despite the fact that I'm clumsy.
Silas had his 6 month doctor visit. He weighed in at 20.5 lbs and was 28.5 inches tall. He is in the 96th percentile for height and 90th for weight. He also became official by getting his birth certificate lol He is growing like crazy and is a lot of fun! He started attempting to eat solid foods. He HATES baby food - he won't open his mouth after he realizes what it is so we have decided to do something called baby-led weaning. This basically involves giving him real food, whole and letting him go at it. He is getting better and better at it. He loves it if I help him eat by breaking off bites of food and giving it to him.
This link will get you to all of his watch me grow photos:
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
(I can't get it to link up so you'll have to copy and paste it, sorry!)
Grammy is going in to feed him his first bite
gooey!
Still plenty of faces but mainly because he took too big of a bite
Quick bath to get rid of the sticky banana
Nate and I officially became Californians - WEIRD!
I decided that I like being crafty and so I've started several projects. I made the hanging name signs (with Megan's help), covered a diaper box so it looked nice for storage, painted and assembled a bird bath, started growing plants to hopefully put in a garden soon and made Nate framed art that he had liked at a store - I knew I could do it cheaper! It's been fun :)
Homemade-ish birdbath
And we got our first batch of chicks! We had some tragedies though - some just died, some drown, some almost drown and were rescued. So the statistics? We lost 13 out of 18. HORRIBLE! We couldn't figure out what was wrong with our set up. We gave them a huge box, kept it clean, blah blah blah In the end we realized that the woman who sold them to us, is a chicken murder, I mean she gave us sick chicks. She doesn't kept them in nice clean conditions so they got sick from coccidiosis. We love our 5 survivors though. They are growing really slow because of this also except one is huge. The others snuggle up next to it like it is a momma hen. It's pretty funny to watch them. We also got our second batch of chicks the first week of April and all have survived since we got them healthy :)
Swinging while we play with chicks
And we found out that Silas will have a new cousin in about 6 months. This one is not as likely to have red hair though! If you get a chance please pray for Christina and Anthony as poor Christina has been so sick. Fortunately I don't know what that is like but I have heard many times that it does make it harder to enjoy pregnancy and the end goal. Pray for her to feel better soon and if it is God's will for her to face "morning" sickness that He would help give her the right mindset through out her sufferings. We are so excited for this newest little one and that joy they will experience. Being a mom now, I am SO excited for our family and friends to experience this!
We started off march with a few visitors from Florida :) Jason, Megan and Nathaniel came to visit us. Nate and Jason went down to the Masters Seminary for 3 days for the Shepherds Conference. They loved it of course! Megan and I were mainly inside with the boys because it was cold out still but we did get to do some reading and a fun project for Silas' room which you'll see. It was great to spend time with another wife to a seminary student and mommy to a boy! Nathaniel is just a few months older than Silas.
I don't have any pictures of their visit because of the next part.....:( I dropped the lap top which broke our hard drive so much so that the data is not recoverable. We had a friend from church look at it and it is a loss. This was really really hard for me 1. because I hate that I'm always the one to break things, embarrassing! 2. We had not backed up the computer since Silas was born so we lost a lot of his pictures and videos along with Nate's previous seminary work. My mom was so sweet when I called crying, she just let me be sad and tried to encourage me. I was terrified to call Nate. No one wants to say that they broke something so valuable. At first Nate seemed irritated but then my loving husband let me know that it was only an earthly possession and he loved me despite the fact that I'm clumsy.
Silas had his 6 month doctor visit. He weighed in at 20.5 lbs and was 28.5 inches tall. He is in the 96th percentile for height and 90th for weight. He also became official by getting his birth certificate lol He is growing like crazy and is a lot of fun! He started attempting to eat solid foods. He HATES baby food - he won't open his mouth after he realizes what it is so we have decided to do something called baby-led weaning. This basically involves giving him real food, whole and letting him go at it. He is getting better and better at it. He loves it if I help him eat by breaking off bites of food and giving it to him.
This link will get you to all of his watch me grow photos:
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2406336&id=5011339&l=dcb3c15df2
(I can't get it to link up so you'll have to copy and paste it, sorry!)
Grammy is going in to feed him his first bite
gooey!
Still plenty of faces but mainly because he took too big of a bite
Quick bath to get rid of the sticky banana
Nate and I officially became Californians - WEIRD!
I decided that I like being crafty and so I've started several projects. I made the hanging name signs (with Megan's help), covered a diaper box so it looked nice for storage, painted and assembled a bird bath, started growing plants to hopefully put in a garden soon and made Nate framed art that he had liked at a store - I knew I could do it cheaper! It's been fun :)
Homemade-ish birdbath
And we got our first batch of chicks! We had some tragedies though - some just died, some drown, some almost drown and were rescued. So the statistics? We lost 13 out of 18. HORRIBLE! We couldn't figure out what was wrong with our set up. We gave them a huge box, kept it clean, blah blah blah In the end we realized that the woman who sold them to us, is a chicken murder, I mean she gave us sick chicks. She doesn't kept them in nice clean conditions so they got sick from coccidiosis. We love our 5 survivors though. They are growing really slow because of this also except one is huge. The others snuggle up next to it like it is a momma hen. It's pretty funny to watch them. We also got our second batch of chicks the first week of April and all have survived since we got them healthy :)
Swinging while we play with chicks
And we found out that Silas will have a new cousin in about 6 months. This one is not as likely to have red hair though! If you get a chance please pray for Christina and Anthony as poor Christina has been so sick. Fortunately I don't know what that is like but I have heard many times that it does make it harder to enjoy pregnancy and the end goal. Pray for her to feel better soon and if it is God's will for her to face "morning" sickness that He would help give her the right mindset through out her sufferings. We are so excited for this newest little one and that joy they will experience. Being a mom now, I am SO excited for our family and friends to experience this!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)