Griffin - Four months old

I've heard people say things get a lot more manageable at four months. They were right. Griffin started sleeping through the night. He takes a long nap. He started eating rice cereal. He sits up a lot better. He spits up less, cries less, and laughs and interacts more. His face is still so expressive. He has Brandon and me cracking up all the time. And he's growing. As of his 4 month check up his percentiles are: Weight - 72%, Head - 89%, Length - 96%

Still bald

From the month:

I love his hands

He took this. I was keeping him entertained with my iphone and he tapped the screen in the right spot

He's found his thumb

baby leggings. They make diaper changes so easy

Homemade toys. We love them

Aunt Baylee came to town. He showed off his jumping skills

First time eating rice cereal. He's still not a big fan but will humor me and swallow it with a disgusted expression

Little old man

I have no words for this except I'm grateful for the friend who suggested I buy a box of disposable rubber gloves

He was into the Costco coupon book. Cried when it fell onto the floor

Hiking with Uncle Russ

Thumb AND bottle. Tough life

Cutting through a casino in Vegas to get to a family friendly restaurant. A lady passing us in the casino said to the guy with her in a really snobbishly disgusted voice, "why would you bring your baby to a disgusting casino!" Obviously we just wanted to expose him to second-hand smoke, tasteless attire, and greed at a young age. Duh!

Denise in town

It's rare that people who don't live is Utah would find themselves in St. George for the weekend, but my good friend and former roommate's dad moved here, so hopefully we'll get to see her. I haven't see her much since she moved to Seattle.

ready to go meet more people

Mia loved his big cheeks

Reading time

I'm pretty sure Griffin doesn't understand anything we read to him but it's fun to do anyway. He likes to look at the pictures and grab the book. Brandon likes to show him cartoon on his iphone.

"Hello Bugs"

Pretty sure more kids would aspire to be mailmen if this were really what the mail trucks looked like

Winnie the Pooh

Griff's first trip to SLC

We finally got Griffin up to SLC where he met A LOT of new people and visited some of our favorite places. Unfortunately I didn't get picks of everyone. I'm much less quick with the camera these days. Oh well.

Melanie is like a mother to me. She's my best friend's mom. Griffin took right to her like a grandmother.

This is Kristy but I didn't get one of her face :(. Griff is checking out their dog. He didn't look too sure of things and pulled up his pant leg as if to try to get it away from the dog

My cousin Heidi and kids

My cousin Sheri and daughter

Sheri's oldest daughter

Brandon's good friends and previous co-workers Matt and Rebecca at the Soup Kitchen, one of B's favorite lunch places

Mmmmm, Porcupine Grill for dinner

with Russ and Adam

At the house and with the old roommates B had for a lot of our friendship/dating time. Cory and Lynn. This is Cory's house

Here are the wives of the original roommates. Tara (Cory's wife) and Michelle (Lynn's wife).

Awww, Tif (at Porcupine once again, but for breakfast)

Chad and Candace

Griffin was a fan too

Can't believe I don't have any pics of the Jennys, Rachael and Jane, Shannon, Kristy, my previous co-workers who put up with my green first trimester, etc. I'm really getting bad with my camera

A NEW New Years

Things have definitely changed. For one, I didn't get any pictures of New Year's Eve. Two....well, we opened our cooler the day after a the kid's welcome New Year's party at our friend's house and what we found pretty much summed things up...

Happy New Year!

Summing up 2011
We got pregnant
We went to Norway
We barely got out on our mountain bikes (I didn't at all, but got a few road in)
Brandon graduated from the U with his Masters in Social Work
We moved to Washington, UT (just outside of St. George) where Brandon got a job as a therapist
      and co-director at a new youth academy
We celebrated our first anniversary
Griffin was born
Adjusting to and loving being parents

Griffin's many faces

Griff has so many facial expressions. Brandon and I were playing with him and were lucky to capture this series of faces. He usually freezes up for the camera

Griffin - Three months old

So much has changed in 3 months. The biggest change is that he's starting to smile. We had to work really hard to get him to do it at first, but the week of Christmas they started coming more freely. I can't always get it on camera because he goes serious when he sees the lens, but sometimes we can distract him enough to capture it.

Official 3 month pic

That's my Mr. Serious

Christmas gifts. Notice the blurred arm? He's ALWAYS moving

Of course this happened right as we were walking out the door

He loves to suck on his hands

bumbo time

Just finished a bottle

He loves to watch Mr. Green, a toy that can quiet him in the middle of a cry fit

Letting me know he hates tummy time