The Greatest Show on Earth (And Stuff!)

The Circus is in town, and now that I have kids of my own, it was a great excuse to go.  So, we craigslisted some tickets and got 12th row end seats in the middle section.  They were THE GREATEST SEATS!  Arlo did amazing the first hour, he could not take his eyes off the show for even a second to take a pic.  Then his attitude slowly dwindled until the last few minutes when he was covering his ears and complaining that he wanted to go.  Cohen on the other hand was amazing the entire time.  He even took a little nap.  The pics turned out horrible because they were our cell phone cameras. (I did not want to bust out the Nikon in such a crowded, busy place).  But when we asked Arlo if he liked the circus when we left he very enthusiastically said YES!  Here are a few highlights!

Here are some pics of Tim and Arlo's first father and son's camping trip. (Hopefully first of MANY!)  Arlo had a blast and Tim was pleasantly surprised at how much fun they had and how good Arlo was.

A Diamondback's Game.  Arlo now LOVES baseball!

Irrigation + Arlo = Muddy Messy Fun

Arlo's New Haircut.

It took 2 popsicles and a lot of convincing, but he sat through it and is now Buzzed.

Our New(Used) Ride

My Handsome Boys

Turn of Tides

Schedule Of Events (Times are estimates):

7:30  We do our bed time routine and say goodnight to our boys.

7:40  I leave the boys room

7:45 Tim Leaves

7:45.01 Arlo starts crying (SOBBING) "Daddy, I need you"

7:55 Tim can't take it any more and goes back in

8:15 Tim tries to leave

8:15.01 Arlo starts to cry

8:15.10 Tim decides to stay a little longer

8:30 Tim tries to leave

8:30.01 Arlo starts to cry

8:30.10 Tim decides to stay a little longer

8:40 Tim leaves

8:40.01 Arlo starts to cry

8:40.02 Tim says something to Arlo, Arlo settles down, Tim gets out.

8:41 Tim says to me "Ha Ha He loves me more than you.... Finally... Yea!"

8:41.30 I say to Tim "Yea, he loves you more than me.... FINALLY!!!!!!!"

Am I a tiny bit sad?..........................................  Nope!

Happy Early Fathers Day!

A Whole Bunch of Random

These are some of my favorites of Cohen.

Arlo and his black eye.  This was the day of the swing incident... a few days later it was so much worse.

We went to a splash pad to meet up with some friends.  Arlo has never liked splash pads before but this time he had tons of fun jumping over each fountain.

 This is my friend Heather; Juli and Kyle were also there, but I din't get any pics of them.  But thanks to all of them for seeing me!  I missed them dearly.  Oh... notice Cohen's legs... so cute!

 He slipped and fell right before this picture.  I was very concerned:-)

 Cohen and the train.  Looks scared, but he actually loves it, always scoots over to it.  But when it comes close he starts to fuss.  Then, it passes and he tries to get it again.

Did you notice... he is up on all 4's?  He is trying so hard, but cannot figure out how to move those hands.

See the 4 bottom teeth?  That is right he has been at 8 teeth for a few weeks.

Do not know haw to explain this one...

2 little monkeys going to bed.

 Did you notice the hand holding in this pic and the next one?  Arlo loves his little brother!

Arlo's strange habit.

His fingers are crossed 50% of the time.  I guess he is my good luck charm!

In other Gooch news.  

We moved!  Hopefully we will will move again soon. (Seriously)

I'm pregnant... again!  (Really)

Of course not really!  I just want to see how many people are reading to the end of my blog.

Swimming, Crawling, Growing!

Cohen's first six months have come and gone!  Life has been flying by, but luckily I have my trusty iphone to get some of it on camera!

But first... On Cohen's six month appointment he was 27 1/2 inches tall (85%) and 18.1 pounds (63%).

I know... what???? Cohen has not grown much since his 4 month appointment.  Only 1 inch longer and 1.5 pounds heavier.  He went from being in the 90% in weight, to the 63%. I did talk with his wonderful pediatrician about this and she reassured that I did not need to worry... yet.  Yes, she added on the yet, so,  my boy may look chunky and healthy... I am going to make him healthier and chunkier!!!!

We also determined at this appointment that he does have eczema and he has been suffering from infant hypnagogic myoclonus.  When I went into the Dr. I was very concerned because there had been six times when Cohen was nursing and falling asleep that he goes into very small convulsions.  Well those convulsions turned out to be hypnagogic myoclonus.  Or in other words twitching, like most people do when they are sleeping when they know they should be awake... like in class, or in church, but with Cohen instead of being large, single twitches... they were small, and numerous twitches.  Well, I liked that answer much more than the alternative!
Other than that, the appointment went well and Cohen is a beautiful, healthy, strong, baby boy!


Now, on to the fun stuff...
Cohen is a swimmer!
No not this type of swimmer (although he does enjoy this!),

This type of swimmer... a fish out of water!

Cohen is also a crawler!
Okay, not really but he is working hard on it!

(Update: he is now getting up on all four limbs and trying to move forward, only to fall and army crawl to where he wants to be.) 

Cohen is a shark!
Look at these teeth coming in!
All 4 on top are just about there, the 2 on the bottom have been around for a while and the 2 next to them are just starting to teeth, the bumps have formed!

(Another Update: Today the top four are now all through.  And the bottom two (besides the two that are already in) are now budding white... so in a few more days he will be up to 8 teeth!) 


Eating...

Cohen, unlike Arlo, LOVES food!  Since his very first bite... until now if you put food in front of his face he will eat it.  The problem is, he will eat food and not drink his bottle.  I think that is where we are going wrong with the losing weight battle.  On days where he eats 2-3 meals he will only drink around 10-12 oz of milk, on days without food it is more like 22-24 oz (right where it should be, even with food).

President's Club

Congratulations to TIMMY!

Stats:  

Quarterly MVP

Rocky Mountain Division MVP

Rocky Mountain Team Member of the Year

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Company Presidents Club

This year they sent all President club members to BEAUTIFUL.......

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Scottsdale, AZ

(we were the only couple from AZ)

Funny? YES!

Disappointing?  HECK NO!!!!

It was an all expenses paid trip with no kids.  (Actually we had to pay for gas to get to and from and our bill was 23.00$)  How much better could it get.  I really enjoyed it because it was a great peace of mind knowing if anything happened to my kids we were only minutes away.

SO... we spent the weekend at the JW Marriott or Camelback Inn.

Here is the room...

The resort was overbooked and so they ran out of king beds... in the end it turned out all right, we had our own space and we both slept so peacefully!  Especially me since it was the first time in over 5 months that I got a full nights rest.  Although, the last half of the nights I tossed and turned because I was so full!  (Only mama's will understand that comment!)

We started our weekend with a welcome dinner where we were in a ghost town on mummy mountain and there were activities such as tomahawk throwing, cowboy golf, western pictures and a country band to keep us entertained.

The next day they provided a delicious breakfast and then we headed off to different activities.  Tim and I chose a cattle drive.  It was actually tons of fun.  Neither of us had been on a horse in years and they actually let us herd the cattle instead of walking our horses in a line.  It was more fun that I had expected!

Later that night they had a farewell black and white dinner.

When Tim and I read the announcement we both read black tie casual, thinking it meant sunday dress.  But no... what it actually said was black and white casual where you could wear anything as long as it was the colors black and white.  Tim was wearing peach and gray and I was wearing pink!

We were out of place... but we looked good doing it !-)

We figured since we got all dolled up we should take some pictures... the lighting was horrible and we were filling time...

The next morning I went to the resort's spa and was pampered for an hour with a desert nectar honey wrap and facial... it was so relaxing, the way I should wake up everyday!

While I was pampering myself, Tim was sleeping in (his form of R&R!)

This next picture I just had to post, the resort was filled with cacti (cactuses) and 90% of them were thorn free... that's right they plucked all the thorns out of them.  And look at the sizes of the plants... ridiculous!

So thank you Timmy for not only being an outstanding husband and father, 

but a stupendous employee as well!  

Keep up the good work so we can go again next year... to somewhere other than here!