Wyatt is a Crawler

 

Our baby Wyatt is growing up too fast.  He just turned 8 months and we are so excited to announce that he crawled for the first time tonight!  This little boy has beat all odds.  With the very serious (and worrisome) medical conditions this little boy faces, we have been worried about how he would develop.  It is amazing what a happy disposition, a strong will, and an amazing Mommy will do to combat the medical challenges a little boy faces.  There are only 140 diagnosed cases worldwide of people with Wyatt’s condition, and one would be very hard pressed to see one without severe to devastating disabilities.  This little boy never ceases to amaze us, and has met every normal milestone.  Much of the credit goes to a Mommy that works tirelessly to help her little boy and give him all the time and attention necessary.  When she is not working with him, playing with Jonah, cooking and cleaning, etc. she is busy worrying about what she could be doing.  She is the best Mommy ever!  He has learned and grown and we feel extremely blessed for the amazing progress this little boy has made.  We could not be happier to see our little Wyatt become a crawler!  Way to go Wy Guy!

Tulip Festival

This afternoon we went to the Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival with Grandma & Grandpa Haberle and Aunt Alicia.  The tulips and grounds of Thanksgiving Point were beautiful as always.  We had a great time walking around and talking, and watching Jonah explore everything.  The boys were happy and had a great time.  Afterwards, our little family made our way to the Thanksgiving Point cafe for dinner.  The food was great, and since we were all good little eaters, we decided we could all share one of Thanksgiving Point’s famous banana splits.  It is a little slice of heaven, and enormous.  Surprisingly all of the food actually cost less than the entrance fee to the tulip festival for just Ashley and me…which is probably why we don’t make it down there every year.

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

This morning we went to our neighborhood Easter egg hunt.  We have a big breakfast with everyone bringing food, then we have Easter egg hunts, where different ages go to different neighborhood yards.  Afterwards the kids all cash in their empty Easter eggs for a fun prize.  At the end of the hunt, there are age appropriate games at many different homes.  It is always a fun event and it is great to spend time as a family and as a neighborhood celebrating the Easter holiday.

Weekend Getaway

Ashley and I went away for a much needed break this weekend to Park City.  Ashley’s sister Alicia was so awesome to watch the boys for us.  We walked around Park City, shopped a tiny bit, slept in, and relaxed.  It was fantastic!  Some of our friends even drove up one of the nights and went to dinner with us.  We had a great time on our much needed break.  We missed our little guys, but made up for lost time by playing with them the minute we got home.

Biking

  

We decided to invest in a new bike trailer/jogging stroller for our little boys.  We both enjoy biking and we both want to get back in shape.  With us, that only seems to happen when our exercise involves our kiddos.  We have been biking almost every day and we feel ourselves getting slowly stronger each day.  The boys fall asleep more often than not, and it is cute how they cuddle up to each other.  We also prefer the trailer to our regular strollers as it can handle almost any terrain and actually folds flatter.  We have a lot of fun and we are grateful for the opportunity to exercise in a fun way together.

Six Month and 2 year old Pictures

We had to take the opportunity to get some pictures of our two little boys before they grow up even faster.  These are Wyatt’s six month pictures and Jonah’s 2 year old pictures.    This was our first visit to “Pic Couture” and we could not be happier.  They don’t play games about selling you all sorts of prints.  They also don’t make you feel like cattle that they are just trying to get in and out.  They give you a 45 minute session, and give you every photo they take on a CD.  They release the copyright to you, so you can make your own prints.  They offer prints if you want them, for only like $5 each.  We were impressed with the photographers and the end result.  We would recommend them to anyone.  Overall, they did have some amazingly cute little boys to work with, so I can’t give them too much credit.  We love these two little boys and we feel that these pictures capture so much of their cute personalities.  We have been blessed with such cute little boys with such fun personalities.  It is so fun that we get to raise these choice sons of our Heavenly Father.  Unfortunately, we have not been able to get the twins in to have the pictures taken at this time, so we will have pictures of all four kids taken when they are here more in the Summer.