First Day of Summer!!

FINALLY!!!! Summer has arrived! In preparation for my trip to Arizona, I figured it would be good to get Hunter to like swimming. SO we bought a kiddy pool. I had my friend and her son over in the morning, and then in the afternoon, Nick and I played with Hunter. I forgot how much I LOVE SWIMMING!!!! Thought I would show off my little swimmer. The water was warmer in the afternoon so Hunter wanted to play more.

Enjoy!

Me, Hunter, and Devin Rader

I like this one becuase we can see all the little water drops!

Could life get any better than this:
Hunter's ball and playing in the water!

Priceless!!!

Daddy and my swimming boy!

It's not water until you get to drink it!

10 Months!!

Hunter is getting so big! He eats by himself and drinks like a big boy from hi sippy cup.

He runs around on his walker and is starting to walk by just holding one of our fingers.

He just cut his second tooth, as of this morning. and is sleeping all night long!!!!

The weaning process is going better than we thought! YAY!!!

Took this this morning! He's getting so big!

Lower Thomas Creek, Reno

One of the days that it was actually spring weather. We decided to go for a hike. Hunter had a blast. He had to look out the side of that pack the entire time. Nick took his fishing pole and Hunter would laugh every time Nick took a fish and the fish would move all over the place. Can't wait for summer weather to come, so we can get out some more.

My cute hikin' boys.

Love Hunter's smile in this one.

He is always happy to be outside!

We thought he'd have fun putting his feet in the water,
But the water was cold and he would just take his feet out,
 and then put them right back in.

He wanted to touch it,

But he really only wanted to twig!

I really liked this shoot.
So I had to post it.

I love my boys!!!

My young Cellist!

While Hunter wasn't moving, Nick use to put Hunter in his little bounce, and Nick would play to him to get him to go to sleep. NOW, it's a different story. Hunter has to be right there with dad (while Nick is playing). It's funny to watch him because he get so focused and just watches Nick. It's so cute. We hope that this will help him want to play the cello.

Dad's looking this way, so might as well.

His face just says it all.

This last picture you can see the wheels turning in Hunter's head trying to figure out what those little knobs are for. Got to love this little boy.

Easter

For Hunter's first Easter, we thought he'd have fun looking for eggs. So we cleaned up most of his toys and put out some eggs for him to find. He had fun going from one egg to the next. Can't wait for next year when we can hide them!!!

When I was growing up is wasn't Easter unless we had a family picture in our Easter clothes. SO I decided to pick up hte traditoin. These pictures are the best do to the sun and trying out the timer on our camera, but who cares!!

Hunter is wearing 'duck booties' that Nick's Aunt made for him.

Our Easter clothes are the same that we wore for Nick's sister's wedding!
Why not get more use out of them.

Hunter did a great job and never ate his tie!!

Had to get a standing shot of my big boy!

We had a fun day, and weather was even nice. Can't wait for more fun holidays to come with our little family and start our own tradtions!

8 Months!!

Hunter's Stats:

Height~ 28.5 inches

Weight~ 17.5 lbs

He likes:

Climbing over his toy basket.

Pulling himself up and walking against the couch.

Pulling himself up on everything.

Drinking out of his sippy cup by himself.

Crawling in the grass and playing in the dirt when daddy is outside!

He will do anything he sees another baby/toddler do!

Enjoy some recent pictures:

Look, I'm crawling on this werid green stuff!

He has been holding anything and everything and tries to reach over his head!
It's really cute becuase he only gets just past his forehead.

I like to stand on my tip toes!!

I sure love this little guy!!!!