Before and After

Sunday Kaleb told Matt in church he wanted his hair short and spiky like his. I came back from my meeting and Matt had cut his hair.

BEFORE

AFTER

Last weekend we went to the Murray Outdoor Pool. Kaleb loves the diving board and slide. He also started swimming lessons this week. He is definitely the most comfortable in the water in his class. One boy in his class hates getting in the pool. We're pretty lucky that both our boys love the water.

This is how I found Ashton this morning. He always sleeps on his side with his head arched back but this time he made it to the end of his crib and had his feet hanging out. I always wonder when in the night he does all that moving around. He's slept through the night 3 times this week which is awesome. Ashton is really close to crawling. He gets on his hands and knees and tries to move forward but doesn't make it very far.

I thought I would let any new moms know about these Baby Mum-Mum's. These are Ashton's favorite treat. I never saw these in the stores when I had Kaleb but they're rice rusks that dissolve really easily so he can eat them without having teeth. He loves them. I would always give Kaleb Biter Biscuits to chew on but they're really messy and hard to eat. These are really cheap at Wal-mart.The other day they took a bath together for almost an hour. Almost half of that time was filled with Kaleb spitting water on Ashton. He loved it and couldn't stop laughing.

Ashton

I've tried so many times to get Ashton on camera shaking his head "No" but can't seem to get it. If we tell him no he shakes his head at us and it's really funny. Here's Matt and Ashton playing last night.

Bummer!

Saturday I took Ashton to JCPenney's to take his 6 month pictures. I took his white diaper cover so that I could get pictures without the tacky diaper in the pictures. I LOVED how they turned out. I was so excited because out of the 4 years we've been going there I thought they were the best pictures yet. Well, here comes the bummer part. They called me just now and said that their server crashed Saturday night and lost all the pictures they took on Saturday. They said its never happened before and are giving me lots of free pictures to make up for it but I'm still really bummed out. I hope Ashton takes just as good of pictures this Saturday. I scanned in the printout they gave me since it's all I have to show. Here are some that were taken, P7 was my favorite shot. But as bummed as I am I can't beat the price and I've never had any problems before so I'll keep going to JCPenney for our pictures.

Ashton is 6 months old already! I can't believe how fast the last 6 months have gone. I'm not sure how much he weighs now but he was 18lbs. at 5 months so I'm sure he's close to 20lbs.

I came home from the gym this morning to find Kaleb in our bed. He said that I can't workout when he's still sleeping. I asked him why and he told me because the birds haven't woken up yet. He's always good for a laugh. Kaleb starts swimming lessons the beginning of August and then preschool the end of August.

Matt has finals next week and then he'll have a couple weeks with no school until fall semester (his last semester!) starts.

I don't mean to be a downer but while searching through blogs there have been a couple of blogs I always look at. I don't even know the people but they have all recently lost a child. I think I am so drawn to their blogs because of the strength they have. I couldn't imagine going what they've gone through and yet they're so strong and positive. It has helped strengthen my testimony of this gospel. I think the biggest effect it has had on me is that I enjoy every moment I have. I have been a lot more patient since following these families' stories. I don't mind the crying and the messy diapers as much as I use to. My prayers are with the families of James, Lucy, Camille, Joy , and Daxton.