Four months already

My sweet, fun, cute, needy and grumpy Mr. Cole is already four months. I swear time is going by so fast. Where did my little baby go? I want to start posting about how my kids are at different ages in their lives so I can come back and read them when I forget. I try and remember stuff I did or how Jackson was at Coles age and I find that I'm already forgetting things!! I know I should be writing in a journal but I'm not :)

Mr Cole,
We are so in love with you and you bring so much joy and fun into this family but you are sure a HARD baby! For four months now we have battled with treating silent reflux/gas/colic/food allergies/thrush. Honestly we don't know what the real problem is! We have been to the doctor many times trying to get help for you. The main problem is you HATE to eat. From birth you would spit up, toss and turn/gut wrenching through out the day. While we were in the hospital we had to keep your bed tilted at all times. When we left they told us to keep you elevated while you slept so it could help you when you spit up. They told me you would grow out it within a couple weeks but four months later you are still a restless sleeper. We have tired to put you laying in your crib but you soon wake up crying.. From what we are still deciding. Back to the main problem is you eating. Its crazy how you are. As soon as we get bottle to your month you will start crying, turning your head, and pushing the bottle away. You don't like to be held while you eat or loud noises while you eat either. When we finally get you distracted or asleep and you are eating you move around like its hurting you or you have a ton of bubbles. Once we take the bottle out of your mouth to burp you 99% of the time you will not start drinking again! To say I haven't gone crazy would be a lie :) I wish I could say that it was better for me when dad got home so he could take you but around 5-6pm you turn into a crying, needy grump and want Nothing to do with anyone but ME... Dad will try and take you and settle you down but you will just scream and scream. I'll come and hold you and within in 30 seconds you will calm down. Its frustrating for both dad and me!


Oh Mr. Cole its a good thing you are so cute! You really are so fun and other then feedings and after 5pm you are a happy baby. You are always smiling and jabbering about something! You will sit there and Jackson watch play and laugh. It's a great thing for both of you. Jackson has someone that will watch him play all the time and thinks he's cool and you are entertained. I can't wait for you to be able to craw/walk and be able to play together. Jackson always has me carry you and play around with him. He will look at me and and say: Mom, Cole come play? He sure loves you.

 Right now:

• You weigh 16.01 pound and  are 25in long
•  Are growing out of your clothes faster then I can get you into all of them
•  You love your brother Jackson and will laugh at him
• Are starting to Jabber and laugh a lot more
• Not to sure about your bumbo
• A needy and momma's boy
• Love being outside
• Still sleep in your swing
• Will play for a little while under your play mat 
• Hate to eat
• You love to hear your voice
• You can almost roll over
• Tummy time is not your favorite. You usually spit up when you are there too long but when you are there you go in circles pushing with your feet.
• You are not sleeping through the night. You usually go around 4-5 hours sometimes a little long between feedings
• You love to eat your hands
• Thrush is another battle. We have you on medication and I boil your bottles at every washing but somehow it comes back. 

Cole we are so grateful you are in our family! You make our family so much better and remind us how important the little things are

**Quick what we have tried to help you. We have tried, gripe water, Mylicon drops, Zantac max rx 1.3ml, rice cereal in your bottles (4tsp every bottle) and you were on similac sensitive. The doctor has just told us to try soy formula so we will see how that goes. Thrush you are on Fluconazole 40

Family Picture

I checked another thing off my list of "things to do while in MS". We went and had family pictures taken by the Mississippi river. Our friend BreeAnn came with us and took them. It was a little humid and towards the end I could feel that my face was getting pretty red but I'm happy with them. One day I will take a class on how to work my photoshop and be able to edit them. I'm going to play around with them and try to edit some but until then her are some raw photo's!

Members night at the zoo

We went to the members night at the zoo this past weekend. We alway try and go when they have it because all the rides are free. I think it so dumb you pay for a pass and then they want you to pay $2 to go on a short kid ride. Call me cheap but we only go on ride at the zoo when they are free! Throughout the night they will bring different animals out in the main area and the kids can touch them. When we showed up they had the red tail boa out. This thing was huge! A good 10+ feet but Jackson wasn't scared at all and loved being up close to it. We then headed over to the rides. Jackson loved them and could have stayed all night. 

Planes were up first. This was Jackson's first time riding on a ride all by himself so I was a little worried but he did great!

Jackson and Soren ready to go 

Flying in the air. Soren wasn't enjoying the ride as much and Jackson

Dad and Cole watching Jackson go on rides

The boats were a hit for both boys! I loved seeing them drive the boat around

And the who doesn't love the train!

I don't know what both of them were looking at but it must have been something good!

Sprinkler park

This past week we went to the splash park with some friends. When we showed up all the water was off. We found out that the power was out and they didn't know when it was going to turn on. I was super bummed and was trying to figure out how I was going to tell Jackson and not have him scream the whole 45 minutes back home! Lucky for us we waited about 20 minutes and it came back on!! It took Jackson a little bit to get use to it. He has a love/hate relationship with water. He loves it but hates it on his head. So, he had fun but there is a lot of water that gets on your head at a splash pad :) He would run around and duck under the water shooting out so it wouldn't get him wet lol

Waiting for the water to come on

This is the closest Jackson would get to having the water on his head.. One foot in!

Ducking under the water haha

4th of July

July is such a fun month. I love the bbq's, fireworks, parades, boating and being with family and friends! July in Utah is much better then July in Tennessippi though. Its so hot and humid here that there are no parades (they do their's in November/December) and they don't celebrate pioneer day... Weird I know :) So we have to take in all the fire works we can on the 4th. This year we went over to our friends the Christensen's and had a bbq and lit fireworks that evening.

I had to put this picture on. Ross made waffles and when I went to eat mine this is what I saw. He was in the shower so I hurried and took a picture of it. I thought it was a total fail with the food colors.. When he got out he asked if I saw his waffle. I told him I did and said nothing more. He then told me that it was kind of messed up but he was trying to make a FLAG haha I'm glad I took the picture because looking back I can see it was a flag and not just a mess up with the colors! He's such a good dad and husband.

The two trouble makers with matching shirts. This is the best picture I could get of the two

 Cute Cole just chilling

We tried to put a tat on Coles foot but it quickly rubbed off with all of his sweat.

Watching warms

Ross in heaven. Great food and fireworks

All the guys played home run derby while we waited for it to get dark. Jackson loves baseball and had to join in. 

Waiting for fireworks. Note the frizzy hair. This happens every time I go outside. With high humidity my hair won't stay straight.

The boys playing home run derby

playing with poppers. 

Jackson and the start of his cheesy smiles 

Most our sparklers seemed like fire on a stick!

One of the few that worked

Shooting fireworks with dad

Some of the big fireworks the we had

Camping.... In the frontroom!

Last weekend we had planned to go camping with a bunch of friends. We had told Jackson all about it, set up our tent in the frontroom to make sure we would all fit, cleaned, did laundry, went grocery shopping, packed and were ready to go. We knew it was going to be hot and were okay with leaving early if Cole was having a hard time. The night before we were to go our friends, who had gone up that day, called and said not to bring anything warm that it was pretty hot there and they were going to put their little boy in just his diaper to sleep with maybe a thin blanket. After that I was questioning it a little more but the plan was to still go. We finished some stuff up that night and I went to bed. As I was laying there I just kept having this feeling that we shouldn't go. So I went out and talked to Ross and we decided that we would stay home. BUMMER. We had hyped it up for Jackson and he was super excited to go. So we decided that we would still make it a fun weekend and we would go camping in our frontroom!

Our stuff all packed ready to go

We started off the weekend by going to the zoo on Friday morning. These are phone pictures so the quality isn't the best. 

The lion was super close and Jackson loved it.

 We then came back and had tinfoil dinners, caught fireflies, cooked s'mores over the oven and watched a movie in the tent.

Jackson loved the whole idea of the tent but when it came time to go to sleep we turned off the lights and told Jackson to lay down and go to sleep he looked at us and said "no, sleep in my bed" we tried to tell him that we were sleeping in the tent and it would be fun but he wasn't having any of it. He said again "no, sleep in my bed" and grabbed his blanket and walked out of the tent and into his room haha Smart boy. Why would you sleep on the ground when you have your soft bed ten steps away.

Happy Cole

I love baby feet

Making s'mores

It was perfect to have the ipad in the net at the top of the tent so everyone could lay and see it! 

The next day we went to the Redbirds baseball game and watched their fireworks after. Cole did so well with the fireworks. He just sat there and watched them. I had put stuff in his ears and was covering them with my hands so he couldn't hear a thing. I was trying to get him to sleep but he was having none of it and kept watching the fireworks

The night was perfect! You don't get those here in June. Cole was happy to be outside and not sweating to death

Love this picture

Jackson made friends with all the kids around no matter their age! He loved just running around

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A little family picture

Mr. Cole taking a nap during the game

Jackson was dancing with the music and I was taking picture of him when all of a sudden he was on the jumbotorn! I was glad I had my camera ready and got a picture of it

The firework show was awesome too!

Ross and I were talking on the way home from the game that we were glad that we didn't go camping and were able to do fun things as a family and not have to die in the heat.