Happy Four Months

Wow! I can't believe our little guy is already four months old! It's been quite the eventful last four months. The last few months have been the most exhausting and difficult, yet precious and rewarding months of my life, and I wouldn't trade them for anything. We love our little man more than words can express!

 

 

 In his short four months of life, this boy has already been on 8 airplanes, 5 states, and one other country (Canada)! Needless to say, he is well traveled.  

At the airport on our way to SLC

He was asleep for most of it, but now Ryker has already seen one of the seven wonders of the world!

 

Ryker is talking like crazy these days. Anytime he's playing with Mom, Dad, or on his play mat, he just babbles (and squeals) away! Every little noise he makes always makes us smile. He also is salivating much more frequently, and lately every noise he makes is followed by some bubbles being blown. It's pretty freaking cute. 

His bubbles can definitely get better than this. But this is the only pic I have of them

Some of Ryker's favorite things include bath time (where he'll kick his legs like crazy!), his play mat, kicking the yoga ball, standing on his strong legs, watching tv, chewing on his fingers, looking at himself in the mirror, and getting tickled by Daddy.

Did you catch that one in the middle? Yes, Ryker is ADDICTED to the tv, and I'm a little worried. Since I'm home with him pretty much all day every day, I will watch some tv to not go crazy. That's become quite the issue lately, as Ryker cannot take his eyes off of it. We try to do everything we can to keep him from being able to see it, while he'll do everything he can to get a good look. Lately, I've just been shutting it off all day.

Since Ryker clearly needs more fun things in his life, to distract him from the tv, we recently got him this little jumper. He's still way too small for it, but I think he's going to be spending a lot of time in here in the future :).

Someone I worked with at LVHS gave us this super awesome high chair! I'm getting excited cause Ryker is almost old enough to start eating solid foods, so I wanted to see how well he fit in the high chair. As you can see, he's still a little tiny in it... I think we'll probably have to use the bumbo till he's older. 

 Speaking of Ryker starting solid food soon, I've been on a baby food making kick! Since I know how expensive it can be, I thought I'd try my hand at making some! Turns out it's actually super simple. I've just been prepping the fruits/veggies while he naps, and then letting them cook for a while. I also recently discovered a farmer's market not too far away that sells reeeaaallly cheap produce, so I was aaalll over that!

Some more of Ryker's new skillz include grabbing toys, and crunches. Any time he's reclined or sitting up straight, he tries to lean forward like he's doing a crunch. I think he mostly does it because he's looking for something to chew on.



So, as many of you probably read on Facebook the other week, Todd, Ryker, and I had a bear encounter. I don't feel like writing the novel of a story of what happened, but here's a shorter version. I wanted to take a "cool" night picture of our tent illuminated from the inside. I went to the car to get the camera and left the trunk open. As I was taking pictures, I heard loud thumping noises. I ran back to the tent, where Todd assured me it was probably just noisy neighbors. Todd left the tent to go close the trunk, and a giant bear turned around from the front seat of our car and growled at him. Then I started taking a video and narrating, but the video won't load... so basically, some other campers came over (cause they had a gun just in case), and them and Todd were able to scare him back out the trunk, and he ran away. Talk about a close call! At least... to me it was.

We were very fortunate that the car was not damaged in the slightest! The most damage that bear did was chew up some bottles, get my diaper bag muddy, and pee on the front seat. Could have been SOO much worse! So after that frightening experience, Todd packed up camp while I stayed with Ryker in the car, and we got the heck outta there! It made for a good story, but it was probably one of the more scarier moments of my life!

Can you see how wet the seat is? Yeah... pretty sure that was pee

One of the bottles he chewed up

There are many more things that I could say and update you all on, but to be frank... I would rather sleep right now :). So I'm going to go do that, and leave you with some more 4 month pictures of our handsome, goober of a boy!