Fish Lips

Hunter has learned how to do "Fish Lips."
It is adorable! Here is a picture, and you can check out more picts of Hunter playing with Mega Bloks and a cardboard box by going to the link I just added to "pictures of Hunter" on the right side of the page. ;-)

Baby Sign Language

We have been working on teaching Hunter some sign language these last couple of weeks. he knows two or three, but only does one very often, "more."

Here is some video of him eating green beans, practicing his sign language, and just being silly :)

New Job, New Teeth, New Semester

A lot has happened the last few weeks, so here's a quick update on the family:

The latest news on Ryan:
Just a few short weeks after Ryan's promotion to day shift, he has been promoted again!! He will be working in the clinic starting in about two weeks. I am super excited because not only does this mean a little more $$, but he gets weekends off!!!! He couldn't be more excited, the clinic is a great opportunity for him to get back to his first love, EMS work. (he is a Medical First Responder).

Another great thing about this promotion is (from what I understand) they plan on paying for him to get his EMT license and paying for all the testing associated with getting the license! God has been doing some great things the last few months with providing opportunities for Ryan in his work, I can hardly wait for him to start this new position and see how God works through him to reach out to the students there.

The latest news on Hunter:
He of course had his Birthday last Thursday (21st) and yesterday I discovered Two little teeth popping through his gum! Both are top front teeth (one center, one right next to it to the left). Plus I can tell that his other top front center tooth will be coming through real soon! the gum is bumped up and just looks like any day that one will appear too!

He is crawling on his hands and knees now instead of his army (belly) crawl that he loves so much! and he is still my little monkey standing up on everything and climbing on whatever he can get his hands on! I love it! I wish that school didn't start so soon for me so that I could continue playing with him all day!

and he needs a hair cut! check out some pictures from his birthday and you'll see what I mean. It is just getting so long that it hangs over his ears. hehe.

One thing I could do with out is Hunter's clingy-ness. Not just to me, but to people in general. When ever I leave the room to get something from the kitchen or whatever Hunter just starts to cry, and then follow me whenever I go. He does the same to Ryan when he's home. If Ryan is playing with him then gets up (and i'm not in the room) he starts to cry. I guess he just hates being alone, even for a couple of seconds. Hopefully this doesn't last too long, it gets old quick hearing him cry when all you do is run to the kitchen for a second to get him some Cheerios or to get a glass of water.

Latest news on me:
I can feel the baby moving quite a bit now! I love it! I am carrying this one lower than I did Hunter, I swear he pushes on my bladder more than Hunter ever did, and instead of heartburn just at night like it was with Hunter, I get it ALL day now. lol. thankfully it is nothing a few Tums wont help! (It is probably good for me to get some extra calcium anyway!)
I get tired a lot easier now that I'm 22 weeks along, but I'm loving every minute of it!

School starts on the 4th (ugh) but this is my last year before student teaching, so I'm almost done(!) I have some good classes this term and I have a great schedule (no more 7:50am classes! and Fridays off!)

I have really enjoyed watching the Olympics these last two weeks, (especially beach volleyball and swimming) and was super excited to watch both the USA men, and woman beach volleyball teams win the gold against Brazil and China respectively.
We have so many talented athletes representing our country in so many different events.
I think what I have enjoyed most about the Olympics though is staying up late with Ryan and having friends over to watch them. What better reason to hang out and eat food than watching your country win a few more gold medals? hehe.

I guess that's all the news for now. Time to go play with Hunter some more and enjoy these last fleeting moments of summer! :D

The Zoo and Hunter's Birthday

For Hunter's birthday we went to Binder Park zoo in Battle Creek. It was nice to get out and spend some time together. With Ryan working so much we don't get a lot of time together like that. We saw lots of Giraffes and Zebras and monkeys, my favorite was watching other little kids feed the giraffes. They would squeal and laugh as the giraffe took a cracker from their hand and almost always you would hear, "Oh! It's slimy!" (or something similar). If you have never been to Binder Park Zoo, it is set up with trails everywhere and is really nice because it is almost completely in the shade.

This is one of the Giraffes that is definitely NOT underfeed, judging by how many treats I saw it eat in the 5 minutes we watched them, lol.

I think that we had more fun at the zoo than Hunter did, he is still kinda little to appreciate all the animals.

Hunter on a big bronze turtle we found in the zoo. :D He is just so cute!

We went to the zoo about a week before his birthday, and that following weekend we had a big party for him. It turned out really nice and we had a ton of people show up, it was great seeing friends and family. Hunter got a ton of presents, and he loves playing with all of them! When we gave him his cupcake, he didn't pick it up and try to bite it, he just stuck his fingers in the frosting and licked 'em off. I finally broke the cupcake in half so that he could eat it better. After that he still just took his three fingers and picked up little bits to eat. He is the cleanest eater I've seen. He eventually got it all over himself, but it took a while.

Cupcakes!

My messy birthday boy!

Links to the full photo albums of our trip to the zoo and Hunter's birthday are to your right, thanks to everyone who was able to come, and thanks to everyone for the wonderful presents, Hunter LOVES them!

It's Back!!!! :D

Well after just a few short days, our computer is back, and although we lost lots of files (most of them unneeded school papers) and sadly some pictures, it is nice to have it back!

so soon i will get those ultrasound picts up and some video of Hunter FINALLY starting to crawl on his hands and knees instead of his belly!!

Harddrive Crashed :-(

I'm not sure when the next time I'll be able to post is. Our Harddrive crashed so I have to walk to the library if I want to get on the internet. It will be a few weeks until our computer will be fixed and I can get ultrasound picts up and the news on Hunter's B-day Party.

We're having a BOY!

We had our first ultrasound done today, I love being able to see our little baby moving around inside, so precious! :D It will probably come out looking like a carbon copy of Hunter! we'll see. Now the hard part, a name. If you have any suggestions feel free to post them!

(I will eventually get around to scanning the ultrasound pictures onto the computer and adding them to this post)

New Pictures of Hunter

Links are up for all 15 photo albums of Hunter
(yeah, maybe I am a little picture crazy).
Here is a preview of the latest photo album:

He has been climbing on top of EVERYTHING!!!

He wanted to see the camera ;-)


Bath Time! (I've been bathing him in the
sink because it is getting hard to reach into
the tub with my growing baby belly :)

Welcome!

okay, so here goes my first post on our new blog!
We are currently getting ready to celebrate Hunter's first Birthday, and in two more days we find out if our next baby is a boy or girl! We have been busy as always but loving every minute of it.

For those of you that have not yet heard, Ryan got promoted to Residential Life Coordinator and is now working days (yeah!). 10 hour shifts, but that means he has three days off, so it's nice. I am enjoying having the days to spend with Hunter before I start classes again in September.

I will be working on getting lots of pictures posted, or at the very least, links to all my Facebook photo albums for you ;-)