Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Crew's Special Day

Sunday was a very special day for our Crew man. It was his blessing day. We would have his blessing done at our church building and then we would have a lunch after at our house with family.

Kristen was awesome and came over Saturday night to help me hang up the little banners I made and clean. It was fun spending time with her. Emery was really excited and running around saying 'For Cwoo'. I looked at pictures with Emery of her blessing day and told her all about it and how Crew's special day was tomorrow and what would happen. Who knows if she understood any of what I said but she did like the pictures :)

Crew woke up at 6:30AM on Sunday and was so cute. I loved spending some quiet alone time with him and told him all about his special day and gave him a bath, and he was just being such a good babe and so sweet. I sure love this babe. It was actually a good and peaceful morning and we were all able to get ready with no chaos.

We tried to get a family picture before we left for church but the babies were not having it. That was a crazy moment and we gave up and decided once we got home we'd try. Sadly, that never happened :( At least we got some of the babies.

Court gave Crew a beautiful blessing and the spirit was felt very strong. I have to say my favorite moment of the day though was right before the blessing. Crew was getting a tad fussy because he was tired. I was holding him and gave him his bink, which always soothes him and that's when Court leaned over and said, "Give him to me so I can get him comfortable and ready to take up there." I handed him over and Crew looked at Court the whole time he was holding him and just stared and gave his daddy the biggest smiles and little laughs and coos. It was so sweet. I think these babies know more of what's going on than we think. You could pretty much see Court melt when that was happening. He is seriously the best dad.

We had so much fun that day and loved being with all the family!








 Now for the star of the day...


 C'mon, is he not the cutest!


 She got a lot of M&M's for this, don't judge.




 Grandpa Cook and Crew


Monday, September 8, 2014

2 Months

Crew turned two months on August 17th. Say what?! He is getting so big so fast. He has been such a happy babe and smiling all the time since we got back from California. He also is off his reflux medication as of last Saturday (yay!).  We had his doctors appointment last Friday, and granted that he is more like 2 1/2 months, but he has gained FIVE pounds since his month appointment. At his one month he was only 8lbs. 1 oz. and now he is 13lbs. 8oz. Our little chub chub.

Some things about our Crew at 2 months:
-He can focus much better now and always has smiles for his mommy
-He loves to look around all over still and loves to be held up
-Still likes to be swaddled
-Sleep MUCH better now. Usually goes to bed between 8:30-10 and will wake up once anytime between 3-5AM. (I love the 5AM nights-Heaven!) Every so often we will still have a midnight feeding but not usually
-LOVES baths! and binkys. 

We just love our baby. It's so hard to think that he wasn't part of our family just 2 months ago. They always just fit in so perfect don't they? :) 


 Here are some pictures of our very handsome Crew boo...








The babes look like they are so over this picture taking thing. I love my kiddos! 

California

We went to California a few weeks before Labor Day to visit Grammy! It was another plus that Shelby and Josh and their beautiful girls came for a visit too. We had such a fun time with everyone and it was nice to take a little vacation.

 This girl always wants to be outside! She loved all the hammocks on the patio.


 It is 6AM in this picture. Welcome to a vacation with kids. We love our cuddly babes though.
 We went to dinner for our 5th anniversary and had fun spending time together. Can't believe its been 5 years. (Don't worry, Court's head is not that big in real life)
 My boys
 We even made it to the beach while we there and had so much fun. The waves were HUGE! Emery loves the beach and was not happy when it was time to leave.



We missed California as soon as we got back home. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get to go visit again!