More Gabe

This is Zeke's hat but Gabriel looks so cute in hats. They both do, and they actually wear them too.

Here is another cute picture in a hat. Also note the feet. I love how he does this. He is such a little koala.

This picture makes me laugh. It kind of reminds me of the 'Al Bundy' pose. Except he's so innocent.

He looks so peaceful!

We have had our concerns with Gabriel. He refused to eat anything for a while. We tried everything. Amazingly he is back on the charts at the 3%, small but okay. This is a cute picture of him with his bottle, but he actually won't take bottles anymore, (well never really would). He nurses well, except not often, only about 4 or 5 times in 24 hours :(

The good news is he loves food! He will eat his baby food really well. He also loves munchies like puffs and cheerios. He gets so excited to drink from a cup of water and tries to grab our food if we're eating. He wants adult food soooo badly! It's really funny to watch the effort that goes into trying to snatch it from us.

I caught this picture of him singing. He used to hum himself to sleep. Then he discovered his voice and he would sing and distort his voice everyway he could figure out. His latest thing is blowfishes/raspberries, he does them REALLY well. It is funny to hear such a loud sound come from such a tiny boy!

Halloween 2009

I know I haven't updated forever. But instead of waiting to find time to catch up, I thought I should at least put some Halloween pictures on so you could see how cute they still are.

They were even cuter later on but the camera battery died, so we only got the pictures of Gabriel when he wasn't used to his costume yet. Here they are together, two cute boys but they must have looked like girls because quite a few people said look how cute she is.

Here is Zeke's cute puppy dog face (covered with soup). He really wanted to be a doggy this year. It took a little while to figure out the trick or treating, by the end he was trying to grab handfuls of candy at a time!

Here is Gabe all bundled up, I was expecting it to be really cold so I was prepared. It ended up being a fairly warm day so I think he was too warm at times.

Here's daddy with the boys at my sister's trunk or treat party Friday.

Me with the boys Halloween getting ready for 3 more trunk or treat parties! Good and bad that they didn't get very much chocolate :)

We were going to go to the cabin again this year but then Brigham needed the time off for their family reunion so we weren't going to go. His brother Ben got the cabin in August. Brig ended up trading shifts to get an extra long weekend so we ended up going for a few days after all. We didn't go to Yellowstone this time.
It was pretty cold but Zeke didn't care, he wanted to jump right in. He's a good splasher. He would have stayed in the water all day but mean mommy said it was too cold. He had a lot of fun though.

Here is Brigham and Zeke with most of Ben's family on the new cabin toy.


A chair just his size. Zeke spent a lot of his time here, he loved it!

Here is Gabriel showing off his new pj's.

A scenic family photo.

Gabe has such a cute smile.

Gabriel 4-5 months

Thought I would show off some of his cute pictures and big smiles! Look at the hair!

One of his first reactions to toys. He laughed at this elephant over and over, it was so cute!

He likes this elephant too. Big smiles!

He loves to bounce and climb. Here he is trying to climb over daddy. He didn't here, but he can now!

Here he is exactly 5 months! He's got some good expressions.

Starting to sit up on his own already. (He can now)

All dressed up for church.

Zeke 18-19 months

This was his first day of nursery! He loved it, didn't even know I was gone. He is starting to like it less and less though, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
Look how big he is getting. Sitting there just like a big boy! :) :(

He loves to play the piano.

You can't see how wet he really is but he wanted to help daddy water the plants outside, he enjoyed it too. Partly this was him hitting the water and partly, daddy couldn't resist!

Poor kid found a screwdriver and got the same eye that he hurt a few months ago. Luckily it didn't leave a permanent mark.

Zeke loves clothes lately. He is like Mr. Rogers and tries to change his shoes several times a day. He also loves hats, which he thought this was, he had fun with this.

One of the rooms in the basement has mattresses covering the whole floor. Zeke thinks this is the best thing ever. He runs and bounces all over the place.

He HAD a balloon.

Look at my cool Jammies!

Another trip to the dentist. This was the part he enjoyed.

Gabriel is 6 months

Wow where has the time gone. He is getting big so fast, and yet he's still so tiny. Poor little guy doesn't like to eat or sleep. We're really having some issues with eating, he almost had to get a tube, he's still won't eat some days, but he's gaining weight. He is developing well, learning new things. He loves to talk, climb, and play with Zeke. He has said mom and dad a few times, though I don't think it's controlled yet.

Here are some pictures of the boys I took that day. I am so glad they love each other!

Holding hands and flashing signs at the same time. I bet his thumb is up and you just can't see it :)

Brig has been dying to cut Gabriel's hair. I told him he had to wait until he was 6 months, so the next day....

Here is the before picture.

At first he just tried to figure out what was going on.

Then the poor little guy was scared to death. He was so scared his little hands and feet were shaking. We had to stop a couple of times to calm him down, it was so sad :(

Here is the after picture.

He does not stand alone yet but Brig tried to set him back in the highchair afterward and he didn't want anything to do with it. He was not going to sit back in that thing, it's too scary. He stood there for a few minutes until we took him out, he wouldn't sit down for anything. What a smartie.

Autumn

We drove up Nebo canyon to look at the color changes. The pictures didn't work very well but it was nice.

There was a clearer picture but the smiles are so cute in this one.

Gabriel was smiling too, just in the truck still :)

First we played at the park and Zeke fed the ducks, well first he fed himself.

He got the hang of it later when they came out of the water, then he was willing to share.