Harlow & Brielle

I love you/I hate you...yup, about sums up their relationship

There are plenty of hugs, kisses, hits, and pushes going on between these two crazy toddlers of ours.  They make life so much fun and keep us on our toes!  It is funny to see how different they are, maybe its just their personalities or maybe its just the difference between boys and girls, and oh man, do they act their part.  Brielle is fun and cutesy and Harlow like guns and roaring!  So So So different, and that's nothing that we've taught him, he's just always liked cars, bugs,  wrestling, dirt, growling...

My boy is all boy!

They play better with each other when someone else is there playing with them...but we can't really do that very well in the photo shoots.   So here's a cute picture that Becca snagged while they were grabbing Kelton's prop balnket.  I could just eat these two up

My Pumpkin Boys

6 Months Old

I can't believe Kelton is getting so big. He is such a happy and smiley baby. Harlow calls him "Kelti mi Shmelti".

He is still not sitting up yet. He is long, mostly with a long torso. I think it is hard for him to have the muscles to hold that long torso up. He is starting to go up on his hands and knees which is something that Harlow really didn't do very much. (Harlow walked and did the traditional crawl at about the same time and that was just about when he turned one. He did a cute little Scooch the whole time before that.) I am realizing that I am actually going to have to baby proof this time.  

Kelton is very interested in all the food that we eat. So far he likes everything we've given him. I don't know that he has a favorite. He has had rice, bananas, cucumbers, squash (oh yeah, he loves the squash, probably his favorite), apple sauce, and grapes.

He wakes up two times a night. Once around one and once around five. I am about to move him into our spare room so that maybe I can sleep better and so he doesn't wake Harlow up.

He is such a good natured baby, especially for his mommy. He takes a bottle, which has been nice the times that I needed it. (Just breast milk, not formula)

Allergic to Deer

Our little Harlow boy has an interesting allergy - deer! Who would have guessed, right?

Nathan drew out a buck tag this year so last weekend we met Grandma and Grandpa Andersen (Mike & Jill) near Ely, Nevada to do the deer hunt.  (Uncle Greg and Taylor drew out too in the same area so they came too.)

Nathan got his deer and the next day Taylor got his.  Nathan and Mike jumped in to help Taylor with his deer and since we hadn't taken pictures with Nathan's deer we posed with Taylor's.  Harlow picked up the antlers and afterward touched his face.  Both eyes swelled up, nearly shut.  It was right as we were packing up so we helped get him taken care of then were on our way home.  His eyes got gooped shut, which kinda scared him.  In Nephi we were able to get some benedryl and dinner.  His eyes, though significantly better, stayed swollen a few days.  Within the week he and Nathan were out doing yard work and he found Nathan's antlers.  I was at a RS activity when I got the above picture in a text.  I thought he had fallen in the tub and hit his face on the water spout, nope, it was the antlers again.  There have been no effects to his respiratory system at all, so we are very grateful for that and we now have all sorts of benedryl and eye drops for this guy.  ((So, to be honest, we are guessing but still pretty sure that its the deer dander or something similar, but I guess it could be anything that was out there that both deer happened to rub on them...I guess only more eyes like this will tell))

Big Boy Underwear

It's official - HARLOW IS POTTY TRAINED!!!

I'm not sure who is more excited, Mom or Harlow. Both are pretty darn pumped.  He's got to pick out some cool underwear and is telling everyone about how he goes in the toilet.  

Once when I was going to the bathroom, he ran up to me and asked me what I was doing.  I told him and his face lit up.  With this ecstatic grin on his face he clapped his hands, "I'm so proud of you Mom!"  I just about died laughing.

A time before he was potty trained he had an accident in his pants.  He stopped what he was doing on his own and looked up at me.  He pointed his index finger at me and kinda shook it.  "Don't be mad Mom" - oh my goodness!

Little Sahara Sand dunes

US Synthetic Hosted a weekend trip to the Little Sahara Sand Dunes.  We got there later in the evening and barely got the tent set up before the sun set.  The Lego Movie was projected on a large screen out under the stars and the kids had more candy, popcorn and drinks than they ever could have eaten.  It felt good to get out of the city and just have some fun family time.  In the morning there was a nice hot breakfast and pancakes, eggs, hash browns and bacon provided for us.  We brought Harlow's little strider bike and everyone was talking about how awesome it/he was.

Then it was off to the sand dunes.  Nathan went out for a bit on his dirt bike and I stayed with the boys and played with Harlow in the sand.  Harlow had a blast.  He and some other boys found a stink bug and kept burring it.

I vaguely remember going to the sand dunes as a little girl.  Taking sheets of card board and using them as sleds to ride down the side of the dunes with.  I am grateful my parents went through the efforts to do fun things like that with us as children.  Nathan's family was similar.  They went out to the dunes more often than we did.  Nathan and I want to be like our parents in so many ways, more than just this, but providing fun activities and memories for our children is a major one.

I have never driven a 4wheeler in the sand and was a little nervous.  I was cautious and timid as I started but slowly got braver and braver.  Goodness, it was fun.  I ended up going quite a ways out there when I came to this hill.  I stopped so I could see over the crest at the downhill slop, not bad at all.  But when I went to start the atv up it wouldn't...I let it sit for a bit and tried again, nothing.  I stayed out there for a bit.  No one else was around.  I got my phone out and though I wasn't sure if i had service I sent a text to Nathan.  He called me back for someone else phone.  They sent guys out searching for me.  One of them found me a bit later.  Nathan was going to come meet us but couldn't find us.  Finally I tried to start it again and it fired right up.  Just over heated.  I felt silly to have had such a fuss made over me when I was fine. I am glad Nathan knew I was okay.  He gets pretty worried about me, just in general (that's gotten better the longer we've been married)

The boys had fun and were well behaved.  Nathan and I had a blast switching off playing and watching the boys.  A fun weekend was had by almost all.  There was a girl the ran into a valley ridge on a dune and her tummy ran into her handlebars.  She got some tears in her intestines...scary stuff, glad she's okay now.

Kelton's 3 Month Pictures

          

Museum of Natural Curiosity

Huge jungle gym; kids could play in there all day.  I asked a worker and he said that on an average people spend about 5 hours here - I believe it.  It's an incredible place.  We're lucky to have it.

I love Kelton's face, even though it is a little blurry.  He was so excited about the water.

A little baby water station - there are chairs the babies can sit in while they play and splash in the water.  Water is a huge sensory stimuli for children/babies.  They say it makes their brains go into overtime :) I like that thought. 

Thank You US Synthetic for hosting this family event and all the other amazing family-oriented things you put on!  It's so wonderful to work for and be associated with a company that believes in and supports its families!

We sure like the park

Some Shooting Up the Canyon

No Cavities!

Hobble Creek Dental Care

I brought Addy along with us to watch Kelton while I sat in with Harlow and then to watch both of the boys while I took my turn.  Nathan went later today, once he was off work.  We were all able to celebrate "No Cavities" this time.  Did you know Nathan has never had a cavity, not ever! Isn't that just nuts! I definitely can't say that :/

Harlow totally enjoyed the dentist.  The staff were incredible and very kind with him.  He had a good experience and is already wanting to go back.  They all just adored my wonderful little Harlow! He was "the best 2 year old we have ever seen"

You might notice that Harlow's sporting one shoe…

that's because he got attacked again my mosquitos, I think he is allergic to them.  They always swell up more than say mine do, but this time the ones on his ankle got hard and red/purpley, and there was clear liquid coming out of them, super gross.  I didn't dare put his other shoe on.  His right ankle was worse than his left one.