Simple Moments

It is moments like these that make you really stop and realize how good your life is. I have to admit that I have had more of a complaining attitude about life in general lately and I am grateful that I was sent this simple reminder of how much I love my family.
Seth loves sitting on the porch and watching the cars go by. He was having a particularly bad day when Justin took him out to watch. I happened to walk past and thought how big my little boy looked sitting next to his dad and how fast he is growing up. I can't believe he is almost six months.

5 months

Some firsts

Well lets be honest everything Seth does is new to him but what is new to us is taking Seth with us on these outings. We have now taken Seth to two Real Salt Lake games. The first one was raining and very cold but Seth loved it seemed to stay warm in his coat. The second game was a cool spring evening but again he enjoyed looking around all night and Grandma was there to help entertain him. Justin has been very antsy to get the boat out and going and Saturday turned out to be the perfect day. I was kind of dragging my feet because I knew it was going to be a little more work getting Seth there and my brother was bringing his kids. Luckily Taisa and Andrew came to help out and we enjoyed a nice day at Utah Lake. I stayed behind with Zeke and Seth the first run and they were so funny checking each other out, wondering why the other one had the toy that they suddenly wanted and both of them were rolling into each other and almost ontop of each other all the time. Zeke has started scooting so that made for some fun times keeping him on the blanket and in the shade as well. I think Seth is right behind him. He pulls his little butt up and stares at the toys but he is not quite sure yet how to scoot it up to his arms and go forward. He mostly just ends up turning around in circles. Over memorial day weekend we played tough love and let Seth cry himself back to sleep instead of getting him. The first night he cried for two hours, second one hour and the third 45 minutes. Then he started sleeping through the night. With the new skill of rolling from his back to his stomach that he learned this last weekend he keeps rolling into the rails on his crib and that is waking him up again. More tough love and some long nights but I hope that we are continuting to make progress on the sleeping thing. I really appreciate it when he does. We are hoping to go camping sometime soon. We will see how that turns out.