Go Jazz!!

Honestly I am not much into Jazz or sports.
But I do get into them if I can go and dress up (I know kinda weird)
Bryson's sweet aunt offered us some tickets along with Bryson's cousin and wife
I was really excited to go but apparently couldn't take Akoy
Disappointed and didn't want to go-
Went anyways
Luckily we had our ID's because you had to be 21 in order to go in the "executive box suite"
We got good food and desert and enjoyed the game.
Even bought Akoy a jersey for $8! Deal!
All in all, it was a good date night and fun to spend time with Jason and Jamie while they are here in Utah!

Needless to say, now I have an excuse to at least know when the Jazz games are.

Today Bryson brought me lunch and Akoy was dressed in his new Jersey, ready to watch the game with Grandpa!

Half a year old!

6 months

Here are Akoy’s stats:

Head: 45.3 cm- 90th %
Length- 26 ¾ 75th %
Weight- 20 lbs 10 oz – 90th %

He is as happy as ever. (except when he cries ☺) I swear he is teething, but nothing is happening. Lately he has been waking up screaming. I’m not sure if it is his teeth, or acid reflux or something else. The last couple of nights we have given him some Tylenol and that seems to help. Akoy was a great sleeper before he got his double ear infection, and then everything turned upside down after that. He is back to waking up once or twice a night. Usually once though.

The other day his Uncle Bronson was throwing a water bottle up and down, Akoy thought this was soo funny. He was laughing hysterically. It was hilarious to watch. He laughs at the most random things.

He loves his toys. Most favorite would have to be a single link/chain. You know those rings that you can link together? He just holds on to one forever! Sometimes I forget he has it and then notice it later.

Loves food now. Tries to attack the spoon. I made the mistake of letting him try my ice cream last night. He would scream for more. Oh well. Such is life. At least he still ate his Sweet Potatoes tonight.

He is still babbling away. Every once in awhile you will hear “Dada” but no mama yet. I’m holding out strong.

He is SOO CLOSE to crawling. Tonight he got up on all fours, scooted his knees up and then lunged his arms forward and pulled himself up. If he is really motivated and concentrated, he will pull himself around the room.

He is still the cutest/sweetest/most perfectist little boy I know. I love him so much. I love coming home from work and playing with my little guy. I can not wait until summer when I can spend all day every day with him!

6 Months

My real 6 month post will be next week after the Doctors Apt. Since we got this outfit on Christmas I wanted to take pictures. These are not that good, I was just playing.

Valentines and Such

Can I just say that Valentines fell on a perfect day this year?? Being on a Sunday, makes it so we can't go out and celebrate it today. Tomorrow, is Presidents Day. Yes, that means no school/work for me! Bryson has Mondays off so we decided to celebrate it tomorrow! Hopefully we avoid the rush.
This week was a crazy week at school. First we had a field trip to the space center on Thursday. It was pretty fun to watch the kids under stress. Gives the teachers a good laugh.
Then Friday we had our Valentines Party. 6th grade is the age where the kids start liking kids and the cutties go away. I had a couple students tell others that they like them. Then one boy volunteered to be in the girls groups for the party. So funny.
Bryson came to visit us right before lunch. My boys love Akoy, a few of them always ask about him. (I thought it would be the girls, nope). He is SOOO close to crawling. He just can't lift his arms to move them.

My sister gave me my camera back and found a few more pictures I thought I would share.

More of him driving/riding in Val Deans Car.


Another Play Date with Coen
As I have mentioned before, one of my friends that I grew up having her baby a day after Akoy. Kinda fun to have them so close. Akoy has a lot of friends around his age.
Another friend he will have, is his cousin, Beckett. These boys are a couple months apart. Beckett was just blessed last week.

And coincidentally, Akoy's jacket fits Val Dean...:)

I just love this picture

E-trade baby?

Okay, so I have been trying to give Akoy solids since he was 4months. He will not have anything to do it! MAYBE one or two bites. And lets face it, he doesn't really need it (hence the fat rolls) But I still wanted him to eat it. Every week or so I would try again but no success.

THEN, he turned 6 months and all the sudden he finished the whole thing!
Crazy.
I guess he just wanted to be 6 months.


Bryson thought it would be funny to put him in the dryer..
He is cute in there...
Eventually we had to dry his tears.
Bryson closed the door one too many times.


And last but not least...

6 months with Mr. Akoy Bear

To get your mind of the mouse...

Here is my cute boy!

My sister has a remote control car that you can control from the car and from a remote! (make sense? A total run on sentence) We put Akoy in it and he loved it!

After Church one day

I can sit up all by myself!!

So much cuter than the mouse!

Timeline of the Mouse!

Friday, January 22^nd

Noticed mouse droppings all over my dashboard

Tried to ignore it and move on

Monday, January 25^th

Bryson Cleaned my car out- too grossed out! (his day off)

Tuesday January 26^th

Akoy was crying so I gave him a binky that I keep in the car.

Akoy wouldn’t take it but he was hungry, so didn’t think about it

Later (after making him suck on it) I noticed a chunk out of it-weird, Akoy doesn’t have teeth.

Mouse droppings in Akoy’s car seat

Yes, it was a mouse who had chewed a piece of Akoy’s binky

Yes, I did make him suck on it….EWW!

Call to the doctor.. resulted

In my first call to poison control!!

Bryson cleaned car again

(Binky)

Wednesday January 27^th

Traps in my car! Probably 3!

Nothing!

Glove Department- 3/4ths of a tootsie pop gone

Another binky chunk missing

Napkins shredded

Brysons drink- straw and lid shredded all over the ground!

GRRR… really sick of this mouse by now!

Bryson cleaned car again

(Cleaned glove department)

Thursday January 28^th

More traps-probably 7

CAUGHT THE MOUSE!!!

Yay!

But no, he chewed himself out of the sticky trap..

So gay!

So mad!

Bryson cleaned the car again

(Chewed out of trap)

Friday January 29^th

Ace hardware bill- $35!

Car- 13 traps

Garage- 6 traps

Paid off, caught the dang mouse or rat! It was farily big and looked like a rat.

You decide!

Saturday Morning I was celebrating when I saw that mouse on the trap! It was still alive so we drowned it.

ITS OVER!!!! Yay!!

Bryson really cleaned the car really good since we caught it

(My goods from Ace)

(More traps)

(Candy traps-He liked a tootsie pop!)

Our not so friendly Stewart Little..

Sunday January 31^st

Another trap chewed up in the garage…

Another mouse!

Parked outside and put D- Con in garage

Monday February 1^st

Another trap chewed

Still parking outside

Bought air freshner for car because it smelt like mouse traps!

(2 of the 3 chewed traps)

Tuesday February 2^nd

Caught another mouse on a trap!

Hopefully this is the end of this story…

It has been such a long dramatic week and a half. It has made for such a long story but a funny one. We laughed about it and were grossed out again. Especially because Akoy sucked on the binky the dang rat chewed! I started typing the story out, but it was REALLY long so I thought a timeline would be better.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed a good laugh and the story made sense. Basically a mouse that kept coming and leaving traces in my car for a week. Lots of traps later we found it. I’m sure there is more, but I’m okay with it, I pretty much live on the mountain. I just don’t them in my car!

5 Months

Oh my, how five months has gone by!

I can’t believe it has already been so long since Akoy was born. Time has flown by. But on the other hand, I can’t imagine life with out Akoy. Akoy turning five months also means we have been in school for 5 months! The school year has gone fairly fast for me. I’m sure being gone for 5 weeks helped. Now for the next 5 months of school.
Akoy has grown so much over the last couple weeks. Last night he tried to dive out of his bath tub. It was scary for half a moment. Lately he has been scooting off his little seat in his tub and then just lays on it. I have been watching him very carefully since he has started this. Since we don’t have a real bath tub, just a shower, his tub sits on a bench perfect. Usually, we have some bonding time and I clean him and then let him play while I do my thing. (makes things so much easier!) Well, no more! After his little stunt last night, we decided to put the bumbo in. Hopefully that works! I told my mother in law this story after I got home from work and then she told me that Akoy learned how to scoot and move around in his crib, almost like he is doing the worm. By the way, we have him in this wrap that keeps his all snuggled up! We call it his straight jacket. He also can flip over in it as of today. So I think I need to start weaning him away from being swaddled. He flips out every time I try. Any ideas???

Here are some characteristics for five months:

Loves his mom and dad- and everyone else.
Knows and recognizes our voices. My mom will hold the phone to his ears and he will look everywhere for us.
Loves being kissed. He laughs so hard when we kiss him a lot
Still blows out of his diapers ☹ It is slightly decreasing
Only wants his binky when he is really tired or going to bed.
Favorite toy is his bumbo with a toy stuck to the tray (see picture)
Loves faces! Constantly grabbing ours.
Babbles like he is just having a conversation with us
Started a couple new solid foods- bananas and squash- he is finally starting to know what to do with it when we feed him.
Out grew his car seat carrier. I should have bought a bigger one. Didn’t realize my 5 month old would be almost 20lbs
First ear infection. Long story, but I think he’s finally got over it.
Loves eating and playing with his feet
Hold his feet up when we change his diaper
Starting to sit up. If he is focused then he will sit for about 5 minutes.
His onesies are 18 months and fit great


Here are some pictures from the last month. One day I will make them look nice, but for now, here they are.

Five Months with his bear

We tried a Johnny jumper.. our doors are too high

His straight jacket

Favorite Toy

My mom sent this to me while I was at work..

Every day I get home, and we play on the rug for a while

Love this guy!

He never does this anymore.. I had to take a picture

I can't believe he is old enough for a shirt like this

He can now sit up in a shopping cart! (not fitting in his carseat made us do this)

Visiting Bryson at work

He was trying so hard to get his bottle