Growing Up

Spencer just continues to grow! Here's a little update on him:

About 2 weeks ago he came down with a croupy cough. I ended up taking him to Good Night Pediatrics after Jon came home from work. No antibiotics, but we had to do breathing treatments with him for about 4 days. He finally got both of his bottom teeth in. He's a much happier baby now that they're here (and I'm a happier mom)! He's also got to try rice cereal, which he really likes. This was his first time trying it and you can tell that he's pretty excited about it.

And I just gave him sweet potatoes today. He didn't like them so much, but I think that he may like them more if I warm them up a little bit. He tends to like things on the warm (if not hot) side.

(I thought he was still cute, even when he was crying.) He can't quite crawl, but he wiggles and squirms all over the place. He can slowly, but surely, get to where ever he wants to go. He does get up on all 4 and rock, but he hasn't quite figured out how to move his hands yet. He can finally consistently sit up by himself.His most recent trick is sitting himself back up from crawling position. I took him to the doctor yesterday for his 6 month check-up. He weighs 17 lbs and is 28 in long. The poor little guy had to get 4 shots, but he got over it quite quickly. (I'll be taking the girls in for their flu shots tomorrow and I'm sure that it won't go so easily!)

We all love having this happy little guy in our home!

Move #7

I guess that it is becoming more and more real every day, but at the end of the month Jon and I will be moving for the 7th time since we've been married. I really don't like to move, but we haven't lived in the same house for longer than 2 years (actually less than that). We have lived here for almost 16 months now, so I guess that our time is up. We have been looking for a new home since Spencer was born. It has definitely been a frustrating process. We absolutely love the ward that we live in now and it took us about 4 months to decide that we would have to look at homes outside of our ward boundaries if we didn't want to have to move again in 2 years! After looking at lots of awful homes, we finally found what we were looking for. It's a little further east than I would like it to be, but I'm willing to deal with it. The home is 4 bedrooms and a den. The kitchen and family room are very open. The girls' bedroom will actually be able to fit a real bed in it (as opposed to Savannah's toddler bed and Melanie's crib). They are very excited about the move too. (Savannah just wishes that all the current furniture would stay with the house!)We close on the 19th, but won't be doing our official move until the weekend after Christmas. So Merry Christmas, we get a new house!

FYI: We are planning on renting out our current home, so let me know if you know anyone that may be interested in a nice little 3 bedroom home.