Lake Cushman

So Silas has a new best friend. The baby in the mirror. We were getting ready for bed the other night and I put him up in front of the mirror and at first he just looked at himself and then he started smiling and wiggling. He thinks he's pretty cute.

So last Saturday we went to Lake Cushman and here are some of the highlights.

Eric was sad to see that this tree had fallen over. The last time he was at this tree it was standing up and he could walk inside it. I can't wait to take him to Humblodt someday so he can see lots of huge trees.

Justin took Miles off the reef at Staircase.

This was the coolest part. Riley wanted to jump off of the big rock into Lake Cushman so Justin carried her up monkey style...

and then dropped her into the water. She was such a stud! We were all really proud of her for doing it and she was really brave. You can't see him but Eric's in the water to catch her.

Funny Eric story: We were talking about what house Silas would be in if he went to Hogwarts and we've decided he would be in Slytherin because his name just sounds like it belongs. Then Eric used his parsal tongue to show us how cool Silas's name sounds in parsal tongue. I didn't know when I married him that he could speak parsal tongue. It's pretty cool. :)

Thumb Sucker

A couple of days ago I woke up on my own without Silas waking me up to eat. I was a little concerned and found him sleeping in his bed going to town on his thumb. It was the cutest thing in the world. He is still having a hard time getting his thumb in his mouth but every once in a while I'll catch him napping with it in. Hopefully it's not too big of a battle to break the habit.

Silas's two month birthday

This is Silas on his two month birthday. He's wearing his new shirt that says 'Little Monster' which is quickly becoming his nickname because he's so chubby.

Silas is really good about letting the kids hold him. It was really cute he really liked Natalee holding him.

This is what Silas did while Eric and I worked on chopping and stacking wood.

And this is what Eric looked like while he was chopping wood. A little scary. :)

So Silas is two months old today and very chubby. He's getting to the point where Eric and I have to take turns holding him because our arms get so tired. He's getting over his cold and starting to sleep a little better at night. He's started sleeping from 11 to 3 in the morning and I love it! He has been starting to have a fussy time everyday. It starts around 8 pm and he is just impossible to calm down for about an hour. But besides that hour he's a very happy baby. He has started giggling and talking all the time. Eric is still working out here and is super bored at work. I haven't had much going on besides hanging out with Silas. We've been starting to do P90X. We haven't been super hard core about it. But doing it a few days a week is kicking our butts! We're sore all of the time.

Silas's First Cold

Silas has been enjoying sitting in his swing when he's not demanding to be cuddled.

So Silas is suffering through his first cold that just wont end. It started about two weeks ago and it just keeps changing and getting worse. I think it's just getting passed around the kids on the Vail side. It started out just with a stuffed up nose now he has a horrible cough. The first night every cough would wake him up but now he's starting to stay asleep while he coughs. The nice thing about all this is he's such a happy baby. Only sometimes does he fuss when he coughs and he hates laying on his back. But just as long as he's being held or sitting in his swing he's still VERY happy. It's really funny/sad when he starts talking to us he starts to lose his voice. It makes me laugh because he's just so happy but sounds so sick.

Lake Chelan (update part 3)

Every year Eric's side of the family goes to lake chelan. It's just a week of fun with the family. We stay in condos and go swimming and boating and we have a girl trip and the boys go golfing. So these pictures are in backwards order.

Silas HATES cold water. But we put him in the pool just to see how he'd do. He was not a fan!
This was before he even touched the water so he was still happy.

This was on the boat. He LOVED it. He spent the majority of the time sleeping in his car seat in the middle of the boat. But towards the end he got hungry so i took him out to give him a bottle and then i held him until we got to the dock. it was really funny how much he loved it. when we were going fast and the wind was in his face he was awake and smiling then when we stopped he started fussing.

I didn't get very good pictures of the action behind the boat but here's a picture of Eric on a tube.

Man Hike (update part 2)

Every year Eric likes to go on a man hike. This year he went with Justin and Chad to Lena and Uper Lena lake.

When they went to Uper Lena they found that the lake was mostly still covered with snow but that didn't stop them from getting in the water. CRAZY! There's pictures of the jumping in but loading pictures just takes too much effort.

Bon Fire (update part one)

So we've been very busy since getting to Washington. So I'm going to have to update our blog in parts because Silas doesn't allow me to spend too much time on the computer. So the first week we were back we went out to Melissa and Chads land and had a little bon fire and tin foil dinners.

The kids made giant smores and got them all over themselves.

Silas was really good the whole time and spent most the time in his carrier.

Miles was super messy. :)

The kids had lots of fun roasting the marshmellows

They also spent lots of time playing in the dirt.