41 Weeks

Nixon is so full of personality. From his voice, to his expressions, to his enthusiasm when he sees food coming. We sure love this boy of ours and we love seeing his personality developing each and every day.

40 Weeks

As I was getting ready to write this, I thought to myself, "He's officially been out longer than he was in!" Then I remembered, that was true at 37 weeks because he came two weeks early. Sometimes I feel like my mind is somewhere else!

There was no smiles for this guy today no matter how hard I tried. It seems like for the past couple weeks he hasn't quite been himself. It started to make sense when his first tooth popped through. But after it was through, he still wasn't himself. Just this morning, Ethan brought him into me and we snuggled in bed for at least 30 minutes before he started trying to eat my face. Lo and behold, I caught a glimpse and what was there?

A second tooth popping through! Two teeth in two weeks. I guess it's making time up for not having them earlier! Maybe NOW (at least until others start coming through) he'll get back to his cheery, happy self. 

He still hasn't really decided to crawl all the time, but if there is a ledge, he will pull himself up and stand. Just the other evening, we were getting dinner ready and he had pulled himself up to one of the dining chairs. All of a sudden he, very wobbly, started pushing and taking steps with the chair! I tell you, seeing all these milestones come, especially one right after the other, makes me so proud to see him growing and developing. 

First bike ride

It's amazing how when you start taking more pictures of random things, those little moments get lost in the folders on the computer. This was one of those moments.

We were having a beautiful day in California and there were bikes and a bike trailer in the garage so we decided to hitch it up and take a ride. Nixon was in Heaven, and loved the whole thing. 

We started out in our circle and went around the neighborhood. Have I mentioned how much I loved it there? They had amazing sidewalks and paths to go on walks and bike rides. We took one of the paths that happened to go up this huge hill. Luckily, Ethan was the one with the trailer. I don't think I could have made it up if I would have had to pull him!

We finally made it to the top where there was this cute little park. We took a break to pushed Nixon in the swing, which he loved. After a while we headed back down, which was much easier than going up. We pulled back into our driveway, and both Ethan and I agreed this would not be our last ride.

39 Weeks

Nixon is 39 weeks and he's finally had his first tooth pop through! Not that he'll let me get a picture of it, but it's there. He's is also the LOUDEST kid I've ever heard in my life. We sit down for dinner and just... I don't even know if there's a word for what he does because it's not crying or yelling, he just talks/babbles SO loud. I'm beginning to wonder at what age it becomes discipline. I'm assuming not yet, so we'll just have to deal with his loud mouth for now. 

He is also pulling up! The first time it happened was on Sunday and since then, there's been no stopping him. His longest spurt of standing (while holding on to whatever he's pulled up on) is almost 15 minutes! While I was cleaning our room, I started hearing him whimper. I look over and he pulled himself into the laundry basket. Life is going to get a lot busier around here!