.: July 2009

I just can't believe Hunter is 6 months already...where does the time go? It's great that he's growing and all, I just get sad when I think of him being my last baby! But I know we have other options so it's not too bad to think about. I thought it would be nice to share 6 fun facts about him thus far...

1) Hunter is sitting up on his own very well
2) Scooting everywhere and anywhere. He loves to get on his knees but doesn't quite move on them yet...
3) Eats non-stop!!
4) LOVES to play with everyone. He also laughs extremely loud!
5) Scratches at our faces when Teki & I are still knocked out and he's up
6) Favorite baby food for the moment is squash & bananas.

He is so fun to have. He's half way to the big 1yr mark and it seems like it's gone by too fast. But I am just so grateful to have him. He's such a great baby and he hardly cries unless he's of course hungry or exhausted. I love him too much!!

Fatty boy with his snuggy bear he loves dearly

He loves this too....His THUMB!!

This 4th of July was a nice one. The guys finished up early so we were able to do a little something. I honestly was not feeling up to going anywhere but when Teki came home he insisted that we go somewhere...anywhere! I didn't even make plans to go anywhere like I normally do each year. For some odd reason I just felt like staying home and relaxing...that's not too common for us now days!

After 10 minutes of Teki badgering me...I gave in!! It didn't help when he got the kids all worked up and ready to go..I was totally outnumbered!
Thinking back...I'm happy I ended up going. We drove down to this shopping center that was 2 miles from home and parked our car in the lot so we could get out and walk to the side of the street where everyone else was. It wasn't crazy crowded but there were lots of people. Watched a 15 minute display of fireworks then walked over to Target to grab a few things. It was perfect timing being that tons of people were trying to leave the shopping center all at once...No thanks to that!

Sunday I got up pretty early...boy did I have a busy morning. Aside from getting clothes ready, packing our cooler, doing laundry & getting breakfast served the plan was to drive down to DC zoo and spend the day over there.
We headed down there by 1pm. Jo & King also came with us so it was nice to have a family outing all together. We all went last year as well..except I was prego with Hunter and swollen as EVER!! But it was nice to have Hunter be able to see the zoo himself. After walking around and snacking for a couple of hours the zoo was closing so we decided to leave and find a park to have a late lunch at.

We found this awesome little park maybe about 3 miles from the zoo. It was sooo much fun!! Jo & I prepared the food and we all ate. There were 2 playgrounds on both sides of the picnic table we were sitting at so the kids were running to whichever one. After watching Teki & King play with the kids for a while Jo & I decided to join in! There was this swirly thing that you sit on and it actually went pretty darn fast! But after Teki got me really really dizzy on that thing I was done. I totally felt like a kid again. It was too funny!

Afterwards we headed home. DC is only 45 minutes away from us so its a nice little drive. The best thing about visiting DC is passing the DC temple on the freeway!! We were lucky enough to live in DC last year for almost 2 months so it was really nice to be back. Once we got home we decided to end our day with a movie and popcorn. I told Lala & Tyson to choose a movie, to my surprise they BOTH agreed on Bambi. I use to LOVE that movie. Anyways, hope everyone had a great 4th as well!!

4th of July