Little Squirt!

December 2013 - March 2013

One week old

From the start Karl has been a very content, easy going baby. He just loves to be fed, held, and hear and watch people around him. During that first month he'd have me up three or four times in the night for about an hour each time, but he made up for by sleeping in and also taking a nice long nap at about the same time everyday that Jared took his nap.

This is just a short video of Karl at about four weeks old cuddling with Daddy.

Six weeks old

This is a picture of  Daddy playing with Karl. Of course the doctors like to remind me that "your baby will start smiling when their about two months old, smile before then is just because of gas" etc, and they may be right, but I felt with Jared and now again with Karl that he's just a happy boy and is sometimes smiling because he's happy. During those first two months sometimes I'd be holding him and talking to him and he'd smile. I like to think he knows he's loved. =) And we're finding that Karl has a ticklish neck!

Seven weeks old

 When Jared was a baby he often cried when he was getting his cloths or his diapers changed, and that's been my experience with other babies, so I was pleasantly surprised by Karl the way he would smile whenever I changed him. You'd almost think he was being tickled the way he'd light up sometimes when I'm taking on or off his onesie. It's very cute.

Eight weeks old

 We've loved how Karl's been growing and turned into such a cute little chunk! At Karl's two month check up he was 13 lbs 11 oz and 23'' long.

 This is a video of two and a half month old Karl with his smiles and wiggles. Jared and I get very distracting during the day wanting to stop and play with Karl. =)

Twelve weeks old

 When Karl was 15 weeks old (three and a half months) is when I heard him really laugh out loud for the first time. I was holding him in the living room and he was looking down at Jared watching him play and jump around. I guess he thought it was pretty entertaining and started laughing. It was one of the sweetest sounds I've ever heard.

Four months old

 This is Jared's dinosaur baby. Jared loves this jacket on Karl. =)

Goober Sweet Goober

January - March 2014

These are some short videos and pictures of Jared growing up and playing and discovering new little things.

This is a video of Jared doing palates. Sometimes I'll do it in the morning and if Jared get's up early enough, he'll come in and see me doing it and want to try it too. His interpretations of what they're doing on the dvd is pretty funny sometimes.

This is a video of Jared wearing my shoes to put them away in the closet. He is always putting my or Ryan's shoes on. It's very cute, but sometimes tricky for him.

This is a video of Jared being a gorilla. He did it after watching a gorilla on a cartoon. I thought it was so funny so I had to get a video.

 Jared got his first bottle of bubble bath for Christmas and he loves it!

 He also got this rocking horse for Christmas from our neighbor. It took some getting used to before he'd get on it because it neighs and wages it's tail and such, but now he likes riding it and saying "yehah! yehah!"

After things slowed down after the holidays, we started potty training Jared. He's made some progress, but still has a long way to go. He doesn't mind sitting on the toilet now, just so long as he doesn't have to go in it. But, he's getting more comfortable with it,... and I'm being patient. 

Jared in one of his new suits.

Jared has been pretending to be three things a lot lately, a cat, a dog, and a baby. This is him climbing across the couch pretending to be a cat. Since Ryan got the Lego Marvel Super Hero game for his birthday, his very favorite thing to pretend to be now is the Hulk. He's a very fierce 2-year-old Hulk. ;)

Friends and SNOW!!

January 2014

Brandie holding Karl.

 Our new year started off pretty good with some visits from some good friends. We had my friend Brandie Beadle and her husband, Brian, over for dinner with the sister missionaries.

Sister Quist and Sister Ogden, the best missionaries in the field, aside from one. 

 We then had the sister missionaries over again because we love them so much!! Jared especially go nuts whenever they come over.

Jared making a popsicle stick puzzle.

 We got to have a play/baby-sitting day with the Kelley's kids. We made homemade popsicle stick puzzles and raced cars and ran around outside and watched a few cartoons. I managed to get 2/3 of them to take naps.

Eeva, Jared, Ryan, Nathan, and I making puzzles.

 We had a few days that were kind of icy, which I guess is a big deal here in Houston. Ryan stayed home one of those first days that it was icy because they were going on and on about it on the news and telling people to stay home. But, Ryan and I soon learned that they kind of go nuts here about any snow or ice what-so-ever, so he went in from now on after that. There was only one day that we actually saw snow that stuck. That day Ryan went out the door to leave for work, but then came right back in to bring me a handful of snow. It was all gone by 10:00am, but it was fun to see it for one morning.

Ice outside our kitchen window.