Dayton is Crawling

Dayton started crawling last week!! Wow, our baby is getting so big! 

Pictures are worth 1000 words...

We are pretty slow at our updates.  Here is what's been going on resently in picture form.

Dayton and I stayed the night with Blaine in the semi.

This is why I am a worry wart and a stresser...Blaine drives the tractor on by himself and sometimes unloads it by himself too, and then he drives the semi to its destination.  It's best that I NOT see the dangerous things he does for work.

Dayton on Daddy's lap eating his toes.

Dayton eating his toes!!

Dayton's new hat.  This is the only hat he will not take off...go figure only because it's a tractor hat. We got it when we went to the parts store a month ago.

Daddy and Dayton's game.  Daddy growls and Dayton growls back.

Blaine cutting our wheat.  

 

It yielded about 40 bushels to the acre...that is fair.

A visit to see cousin Carson.

Grandma Connie made Dayton this very cute froggy quilt.

Blaine's elk hunt was successful.  He got this one October 9th.

The Hunting Crew...(left to right)

Trevor, Blaine, Dusty, Mitchell, and Jedd.

They did well to have this huge elk shot at 5:00 pm, loaded, in the freezer and home by midnight! Good Job! 

Dayton is 9 months and growing fast as a very cute weed! He does some of the cutest things now. On the 4th weighed 17 lbs and 14 oz and was almost 28 inches. He is in the 15% for his age still on the smaller side. He is so much fun and does some of the funniest and cutest things now. He can sit up all by himself. This last week he finished getting his 2 top teeth in. He scoots and rolls around everywhere! He babbles and gabbers. It is so cute and my favorite thing...he says dadda amongst other things in his little conversations. He gets up on his hands and knees and he even can do downward dog yoga style. We are getting really close to having a crawler. He hums and kind of growls when he is tired, we call it his tired song. He loves kids and wants to get down and play whenever we see them. Our Dayton is such a good little boy. He plays on the floor by himself for several hours at a time and hardly complains. He loves his mommy and daddy and grandmas and grandpas all his aunts, uncles and cousins. We are so privileged to have such a special sweet little boy.
I worked in the potatoes driving truck for nearly 3 weeks. While I was working Mandy watched Dayton and my mom also came and watched him for a week. It was so wonderful to have him in good hands. Yes, it was hard on me but I made it through.

The first snow fall this season October 26th. This is my beautiful view from my front door!

2ooth or teeth

         Dayton is in such a fun stage! I wish I could freeze time for a while. He is discovering so much in the world around him. He can sit up pretty well on his own now with a little help from mom and dad or the pillow. One day I thought he could do it all by him self so I put him down with no support and away I went to the kitchen. I heard a thud, he started to cry and I went running. He hit his head on the wood leg of our couch and I felt so bad. I was afraid that he might have a concussion but I watched him closely the rest of the day. I will not trust his progress as much next time. Dayton is so busy. He is learning fun things his mouth can do, learning to sit up, playing with his toes and keeping his mommy very busy. Dayton got 2 teeth this month. The first cut through Aug. 1st and the second Aug. 14th, exactly 2 weeks apart. His gross motor skills are really beginning to develop and it is just a fun for us to watch him grow as it is for him to discover what he can do.

Dayton officailly has 2 teeth! I can't believe our baby is growing so fast. He even looks older now. I tried to get a picture of the teeth and this is the best he could do.  His tongue is right in the way but they really are there.

 

Dayton's giggle is so contagious!  I snapped this on Aug.13th. Sorry it is kind of wiggly because I am terrible with the camera.

Our Dayton just being himself...

Dayton blowing raspberries. Watch this it is so cute!

Dayton loves to play and splash in the tub!

I since have turned his bath seat around the opposite direction so he doesn't do any damage to the wall.

I like to eat, eat, eat...

Wow Dayton is getting so BIG!! I can't believe he is sitting up in a booster now!

I was feeding him cereal and he sneezed and it went everywhere.

Dayton loves vegetables but he has a hard time with fruits...silly boy.

Dayton is 6 Months!!

          Dayton turned 6 months old this month! Oh, how fast time flies. He weighs 15 lbs 12 oz and is 26 inches long. He has doubled his birth weight and is growing just perfect. He started eating baby fruits and vegetables. He likes his rice cereal when he is not too sleepy to eat it. He is slowly discovering his toes and can sit up with a little help. He still loves toys, baths, tv, chewing on hands and another new love is tractors...go figure! He fights tremendously to take naps and go to bed, Well I guess he is a normal kid.  He hates the vaccum, blowdryer and blender they scare him so I have to hold him when loud noises are around. He officially rolled over from his tummy to his back on the 12th. I put him on his tummy and then turned around to fold some laundry then I turned back around to check on him and he was on his back playing with his toys. I feel bad I missed it but I am sure this is the beginning of a fun stage and it will happen again soon now that he knows how to roll over. He kind of gives kisses now too. We love our little boy. He makes our little family look good! We have a lot of smiles and giggles with him around.

Playing with his easter tractor daddy decided it was time to get acquainted with it!

First ride in the swather!

We are lucky that we can go to work with daddy whenever we want!

He was being so cute watching tv and playing toys this day.  He was smiling alot too so I pulled the camera out to get a picture of him smiling but he was more interested in the camera and stopped smiling to stare at the camera.  But he sure is a cute boy...if I say so myself.

Eating peas and playing with toes!

Happy Father's Day

         Blaine had to work Father's Day morning and by the time Dayton and I got home from church daddy was home!  Hooray!  We went to Malad and celebrated with Blaine's family for the afternoon and evening.  We always have a good time and good food.

Happy Father's Day Blaine/Daddy!!

This is the onesie Dayton wore for Father's Day.

Alicia came to visit that Friday, Saturday and left Sunday morning to be home with Andrew for his first Father's Day.  The onesies and T-shirt below we made for the Blaine and Andrew.

Alicia and I got up Saturday morning and went to Malad to get the supplies needed to make these gifts.  I had iron-on printer paper and so we just needed the shirts.  We told Blaine we were going to yard sales...which is true and that will be another sweet post...but we also needed the shirts.  We got bck to my house later than we thought which pushed Alicia to stay an extra night.  It took us an hour and a half to figure out how to mirror image an object so we could do the iron-on the shirts.  Me the computer dummy searched and finally figured it out...thank goodness.  We were happy to have auntie Alicia and cousin Carson come and visit.  We had a fun night before at our Fancy Nancy ward girls party, sorry no pictures of that I forgot my camera, we had girlie things like necklace making, bow making for the little girls and yummy chocolate fountain with strawberries and chicken salad sandwhiches.

Here are the boys before we dunked their feet in the paint.  Thanks Alicia I couldn't have done it with out you. Carson 2 months Dayton 5 months.