Paul Five Months

Paul turned five months old on June 9th.   It makes me want to cry.  So his fifth month was from May 9th - June 8th.  He is doing better on his sleep schedule, but I still have to be pretty on top of my game to get him to take his naps.  He still wakes up at 3:00 am in the middle of the night to feed, but since he goes to bed at 7:00 I don't think it's too bad.  Actually I would not give up my co-sleeping time with him for anything (he sleeps with me from 3:00 am to morning and may nurse continuously.  Not sure.)  He is really grabbing for stuff now and can get a toy to his mouth.  He gums on his arms constantly.  He never stops moving and throws himself back.  It makes me a little nervous for when he starts being mobile.  He is sooo happy, smiley, giggly, and easy.  If it wasn't for the sleep issue, he is definitely my most easy going baby.  He still only likes his mom, dad, and brothers to mess with him.  He almost rolled over from back to stomach in an effort to watch television.  He gets into an all out belly laugh by just watching Beau.  I have a feeling those two will run circles around me.

Beau is starting to look a lot less like a baby and more like a boy.  Some of his most said phrases are "oopsie", "be careful mommy", "don't lost that mommy", "It's ok, it's ok", "I wanna wrestle", "On your mark, get set, GO".  He has such a deep voice for a two year old.  He has figured out how to jump down from stuff and especially loves to jump from a chair onto Clint when they are wrestling.  He is getting great at ball and loves to play catch with Clint.  He loves bugs and just picks up any bug with his hands.

Sawyer is still our nature boy.  We spend a lot of time outside and he never stops looking at stuff.  He loves frogs, bugs, and lizards.  The boys will spend a long time building roly poly "habitats" and campfires in the back yard.  Sawyer's imagination is finally starting to fly.  He might see bandits on the horizon and have to drop bombs (rocks) on them or a million other scenarios when playing outside.

Meme's Cancer

In May my mom felt the need to get a MRI of her brain despite her doctors advice.  Sure enough they found a tumor.  It was tiny.  Several doctors said it was so small not to worry, but Meme is a fighter.  She found a doctor with a "cyber knife" in Tulsa.  Went she went to him two weeks later. The tumor had doubled in size and another had popped up!  The doctor was able to use his laser to remove it immediately.  We are so thankful that these tumors were caught early.  She and my dad went back to Europe for more treatment and is doing great!  We spent some time in the Tulsa waiting room.  On the evening we were getting the procedure done there was a tornado.  Fortunately the doctor's office was in a basement, but my dad an I saw the funnel cloud form out of the door way.  I had never seen that before.

Yep, that's my mom on the floor right before a major brain tumor.  I guess these two little angels are irresistible.

May 2013

 A few more pictures from May 2013.

Sawyer got to go visit Dad's laser.

When Clint was out of town the garbage disposal backed up into our bathroom.  This seems to be a chronic problem, ugh.

Sawyer took this picture of me, yes, nursing Paul at the park.  

Shepherd, Summit and Julianna came to visit.  It was Shepherd's birthday!

Throwing bad guy bombs.

Beau is obsessed with his four wheeler.  Look at his rad tricks.

Dad always brings back swag for the kids from his trips.

There are nine boys between our next door neighbor, behind us neighbor and our house.  For a few weeks a year they are perfect steps in age: Grant (8), Jackson (7), Kyle (6), Thomas (5), Sawyer (4), Henry (3), Beau (2), Reid (1), Paul (0).  We LOVE our neighbors.

This picture includes the princess, Isabelle.  She is almost two in this picture.

 Saturday morning coffee and stories.  Clint even lets the boys get their own cup of coffee.  Clint thinks coffee is the nectar of the gods and would let the boys have their own cup 7 days a week, but I flip out about them drinking coffee daily. This is a constant "argument" between us.  Hah!

 A Beaument in the mud.  I thought it was pretty funny that he threw himself down on the muddy ground.

Memorial Day Weekend 2013

We were completely worn out by Memorial Day weekend.  May was a tough month between Clint's travels, end of semester, end of school, my mom's health problems, a baby who gave up napping and sleeping in general, weddings, and on and on.  We decided to have a slow Memorial Day weekend.  We took a day trip to the Tall Grass Prairie.  It is one of our favorite places.  We had never seen so many buffaloes there before.  The rest of the weekend we watched the rain and swam.  It was a good start to the summer.

 We sometime splurge on RootBeer in the summer.  Sawyer was sooo excited.

Clint and I never get pictures together.  We decided to have fun with this one.

 Playing in a creek was on our summer bucket list.  Check.