Crazy Life

Life has been pretty crazy around the Bridge household lately.
1- Because Spring has come and with it a variety of household and Yard work responsibilities. Justin has been working like crazy trimming trees, tearing out bushes, builiding flower beds and expanding the vegetable garden area.

Hack job on the cherry tree that was out of control. It doesn't look great but at least now we can reach most of the cherries. Bushes around the tree

Bushes gone and a huge limb sawed off. The neighbor asked us if we were done cutting and did we realize how long it took that tree to get that big?

Before with the bushes

After with new retaining wall and flower bed area on both sides of the porch. I transplanted the rose bushes and grass from the back yard. I planted a ton of petunias last weekend but don't have a picture of them yet.

2- I returend to work at Kids on the Move after a very fast 12 weeks of maternity leave ended on April 12th. I had a pretty rough week leading up to going back. There were lots of tears shed over what I imagined to be missing my child doing all these wonderful things without me each day. My friend Marci assured me if he did them during the day he will do them at night but I know I am still missing some special moments. Justin was still in school until the end of April so thankfully Annette saved me again and volunteered to watch Seth during that month for us. A big thank you to her and her family for letting her. You saved us a ton of money and I felt so much better knowing he was in good hands. Justin is now playing the role of stay at home dad and finishing up one more computer class over the summer. He is a great dad and I am glad that he is able to build that bond with Seth. Each day is still hard to leave but I love my job and when I get to the homes of my families I remember why I like being an SLP and even better an SLP for an early intervention program. Kids on the Move is great as well and has allowed me to flex my schedule as needed to be there for Seth as well as my job. My hope is to be able to drop to 30 hours sometime soon so that I can be home before 6pm. Then maybe I won't feel like the nights go too fast.

3- Seth had his fourth month check-up and is continuing to grow to be a big healthy boy.
Stats: 16lbs 9oz, 26in 90th percentile for both. His personality is continuing to show through as he develops. He loves attention and is starting to respond to games like peek-a-boo. His eyes will get really big when you make the ahh sound before stating boo and then he has big smiles and sometimes laughs. He proves to be stubborn because while we know he can roll from his stomach to his back, some days no matter how many times you put him on his stomach he just won't roll. Then the other day Justin left him on his back and came back to find him on his stomach so apparently he is learning new skills in secret. He loves the rings and will grab for those out of any toy put in front of him. He loves being sung too, my preference that seems to calm him down or bring a smile from him is you are my sunshine. Dad likes to sing the counting song from Seasame Street. I also vaguely remember this little angel that started sleeping all night at two weeks. The week I came back to work he decided it would be fun to wake up anywhere from 1-3 times a night. Of course Justin snores right through it and I gave in and started feeding him each time because it was the fastest way to get him back to sleep. I read babywise and other books before he was born so I know I am doing it wrong. However, judge not lest ye be judged :)

Ready for church. Which he hates by the way. This kid has a sense about it being Sunday. He can go from being the happiest baby ever until we leave and then he ends up crying and fussing most of church. Which makes it really fun for us.

Just a random note, Justin's brother John purchased several bee hives to start collecting his own honey. He placed one of them in our back yard. Here are pictures of them working on the hive.

Tummy Time

I'll show you what I think of tummy time.

Heathers Amazing Pictures

Thanks again Heather for taking these wonderful pics. Bridgephotography.com

Blessing Day

On March 28th Seth was blessed in the Westland 1st ward. Justin was nervous before giving the blessing but he did a great job. (the specifics are in his journal). We were lucky to have friends and family in the circle. Grandpa Scott, Grandpa Brian, Uncle Eric, Uncle Cory, Mark, Brandon Bath, Brandon Peterson, Alex, and Tim and Bishop Zander. Here are a few pics from that day. His amazing Aunt Heather has taken better pics in his outfit when I get those back I will post a few.
Grandma Kristie made his outfit. Thanks so much mom.

Happy Family Cousin Zeke and Seth.

Updated Pictures

What you looking at mom

This is one of my favorite things that he does he will point his finger at you when he is cooing and happy.

Bath Time.

Happy Boy

Still Happy.

My mom made the curtains, thanks mom.

Seth had his two month check-up last week and he weighs 13lbs 4oz 23.8in both 90%. My little boy is not so little anymore.

8 weeks old.

Our little boy is growing up way to fast and I wish we could just suspend time and keep him little forever. He has given us so much joy in the last eight weeks. His smiles are bigger and bigger each day and he has even started to coo when he is doing it. He is sleeping between 10:30 and 6:30 each night. His hair has started to come back on the sides from rubbing it off in his sleep and his eyes seem to become a brighter blue each day. This last week he has had a lot more gas than normal and I have racked my brain trying to decide what I am eating that is causing this. If any of you have sage wisdom for me please let me know. I hate seeing him not feeling well. The uncertainty of how to help your child is one of the hardest things I have ever faced. However, being a mom is the best thing I have ever done. I did not expect to love so much. I thank Heavenly Father each night for Seth.
The last week we have been working on decorating his room. I gave in to the theme room and to no ones surprise we did a cowboy room. Justin is working on finishing the changing table and then we are done and I will post some pictures of the room and our little boy.

Sleep precious sleep

He rarely sleeps without one of his hands on his head somehow.

He likes his pacifier but also has problems not pulling it out when his hand passes by.
Seth and Cousin Zeke one month apart.

I have absolutely no room to complain about this because my sweet little boy knows his mom loves to sleep and for the past week has slept from 11-6 each night. I am hoping that by posting this I am not jinxing myself. Another thing we discovered about Seth is that he loves to watch things move and follows you around the room. Last night he was being fussy and I turned on the fan in our room he immediately found the moving object and was a much happier baby. I received a nursery music and projection device from my work shower and he also loves to watch as the images rotate around by his cradle. Seth also seems to like mirrors. When we change him on our dresser he turns his head and looks at himself in the mirror and when he sits in his swing he stares up at the mirror above him the entire time. It seems someone besides mom and dad thinks he is pretty cute.