The freezing Rain could not keep us from seeing Grandpa!

We have not had a lot going since Christmas. We have just been trying to stay close to home. it has been really nice to relax and spend some quiet time with the family.

We have loved to watch Ruxin grow. We took him to his 4 month appointment on Monday. He is 12 1/2 lbs and 25 inches. He is like his daddy were his likes the morning and will talk and talk and likes to be asleep early. He loves to stand up while he holds your thumbs to be big and strong. He does not like tummy time but is slowly getting better at it. Ruxin is still sleeping great through the night. I usually only get up once with him. On the nights were he wakes up twice I have Warren get up with him after 4am and it never fails the moment that Ruxin sees he daddy walk in the room he starts to giggle ( he thinks that it is time to play). He will be a daddy’s boy but loves to cuddle with his mommy at night ( which makes his mommy very happy).

This is his 4 month picture!

I have a lot of time on my hands at work so I crocheted him a little doggie blanket. He loves to chew on it! Because we think he is teething .

Travis is one of my boss at work and he asked if I would crochet him a beard. I was finally able to figure out the pattern and did make him one, but I didn’t get a picture of if. it is pretty cool looking. Most people laughed at him at first but now they have changed their tune and want one to keep their faces warm.

We were all sitting down stairs watching Brave!. Ruxin is starting to watch things on the tv more. He loves when things move.

He rolls from side to side but not all the way over. He thinks he is big enough to stand on his own. Every time he is laying down he tries to sit up. it is pretty cute to see him try to do things.

Ruxin and daddy playing a game.

We were able to be apart of Brex’s 4th birthday! He was so excited to see everyone there.

Grandpa Smith come to visit us before he helped Aunt Rachel and Uncle Endrit pack to move. We were afraid his flight might be cancelled because of the freezing rain but lucky for us it wasn’t. Ruxin loved to just watch grandpa and listen to him talk. It was fun to see Ruxi’s reaching to Grandpa.

While Grandpa was here he was able to see where I work at. Travis and Zack showed Warren and Stan around the plant. They were able to see how they press the bales and ship them out.

Warren and Grandpa were able to go get Cooper and Allie early on Friday. I don’t think that they left his side for very long. They looked at the computer, And Grandpa showed them were his house was at in Missouri. 

 

While Stan was with us were took the opportunity to take a 3 generation picture!

 

Another awesome Allie moment. I love the things she does.

On Saturday after Grandpa had left and we all made it home ( Warren from helping Rachel and Endrit move, the kids and I wen to Coop’s basketball game). The kids were down stairs playing and Allie comes up and asked is she could have some carrots to eat. Dad told her that she could but it would have to be at the table, that she could not take them downstairs. I put this rule in place because most of the time the food doesn’t get eaten and will be left down there or the sip it everywhere. So back to the cute little Miss Allie Mae. So with being to she could have the carrots she would just have to have them on the table….

This is what we found when we went to go downstairs to tell the kids good night. I love how Allie can always bring a smile to your face.

Allie wanted to make sure that she was able to have a picture with Grandpa to. She wanted all the girls to have a picture with grandpa but we were not able to get that one. The only time she has a normal smile and not a Dr. Seuss smile is when she is with grandpa!

It has been really fun to watch Allie and Cooper grow the last few months with Ruxin. Coop is very protective of him!. He doesn’t let Allie do to much with Ruxin if he is not right they to save him. It is pretty fun to watch. Ruxin will just stare at the kids when they do anything. He looks at Coop the most.

Ruxin loves to have Coop help him be BIG and STRONG!

Allie the last few months has been playing with dolls at lot. She always puts them in Ruxin’s swing or bouncy chair. She tells us the her baby’s name. It is always a new name because she forgets what she called them the first time. She tells how old her baby is which also always changes because she forgets. Coop will be playing with Ruxin and she brings her doll and will do the same thing. She tells/does to her dolls whatever we do with Her little brother. It is really fun to watch her.

Today we had so much snow that fell, we had to leave to drop them off early We meet Melissa half way in Malad. It took us an hour each way! When we finally got home and it stopped snowing we went outside to watch the dogs run through it. Ok we really just want to gauge  how deep the snow was to have Bert run through it. It was so deep the you could barely see him as he ran up. The only reason the you could she him was because Gracie had already made some tracks for him. Well the Warren decided to throw him in the snow. Poor Bert! It would cover him every time and he had a hard time getting back to where he wasn’t covered because Gracie would have to got after him. It was a lot of fun to watch. Then I was walking with Ruxin in the back yard and slide, the little guy was a little scared because the dogs come running to play. We went in after that.  

Now we are just trying to get things ready for the next few crazy weeks.