All about Tristan

Man, I love this little boy so much!  Time is just flying boy, he is 8 months old now, I can hardly believe I have an 8 month old!  He is constantly on the move looking for the next thing to play with.  He can sit with the best of them, but he prefers to stand.  He is trying so hard to crawl,  he does fish out of water in an attempt  to go mobile and usually ends up scooting backwards, further and further away from his goal, but is starting to get up on all fours more often. He is so friendly with everyone, always smiling, I just can't get over how cute and wonderful he is.

  Unfortunately, his sleeping has taken a turn for the worse, he has actually always been a pretty good sleeper but the past month or two,  he suddenly started waking up a lot.  We can't seem to committ/pick  a sleep training method, so I'm just tired... a lot.

  

 Tristan's first trick or treating, he didn't get to eat any candy but he was pretty content chewing on the wrappers.

We actually haven't had many cold days this year so this was the first time we got him bundled up.

 Ryan had taken the day off work to go camping with his dad and brother but it ended up being the only rainy and cold day of the month so instead we went to Sheels' (a sporting goods store that just opened) but its way more than just your typical sporting goods store, it had a freaking ferris wheel inside the store, but they wouldn't let us take tristan on it, he didn't fit the height requirements:(, random pic opportunities throughout the store, games you could play, a food court,  you get the picture, anyways we had fun taking lots of random pics as seen below...

 Hanging with mom and dad.

Lazy sunday afternoon, Tristan snuggled up to us while he watched Blue Clues (his favorite show) and fell asleep on us.  

 Oh yea,  he's taking guitar lessons!

I have a couple of videos to post too, but I can't seem to get them working right now, so I will have to do another blog post with them.

Summer

As the official close of summer is tomorrow, for once in my life, (or for at least as long as I can remember, because usually fall just reminds me that winter is too soon to come)  I am excited for fall.  I am excited to wear clothes with layers, for the holidays, and to experience them with Tristan and see him get bigger and bigger.  But before moving on, here is a little of what we did this summer....

Ryan ran the Ragnar race with all of his cousins on the Egan side

Father's Day was the next day, Ryan was so sore from the race that he could barely walk, ha ha:) So, Tristan and I got him breakfast in bed, Oreos , and the traditional father's day tie and we had a bbq with the fam in the evening!  Ryan loves this boy so much and is the best dad to his little buddy!

  August was $2 tuesday at Thanksgiving point so  we took full advantage of that and went to the gardens almost every tuesday that month

Tristan invited his buddy Swede with him who his 6 weeks older and they inspected the grass together:)

We went on a couple of hikes... Tristan loved it, but you can't blame the little guy if the hike got a little too tiring

With our neigbors on our 24th of July hike

We went on the same hike with the fam visiting from out of town and my uncle paul and aunt rachel and their fam came too, it was so much!

For my birthday, Ryan took me to Salt lake for dinner at the Roof  and had a bouquet of summer flowers at the table for me and spent the day hanging out with my two favorite boys!

We went to a Real Soccer game, so much fun -  the tickets were free and we got free food and the weather was amazing!

 We took Tristan swimming a couple of times, he absolutely loved it! Next summer will be a blast!

 We took Tristan to the park and he loved the swings!

 Ryan got me tickets to see Phantom of the Opera in Vegas for my birthday, the show was leaving Vegas beginning of September and we had always wanted to see it there so it was awesome to see it before it left and it was such a good show!

And last but not least we went to my sister Penny's wedding in Seattle.  It was a busy weekend but we had fun with all the wedding festivities and seeing Penny and Tim so happy together on their special day!

All in all a pretty good summer:)

5 months

 He has grown so much over the past couple of months!  He has been such a joy to have around, he is always smiling, laughing and learning new things.  It is so cool to see this little guy grow and I just love his growing sweet  personality come out more and more each day.

 Here are some of the things he has been up to....

He found his hands,  then his thumb and then his feet

He sleeps Ferris Bueler style

He loves his rice cereal

 He is turning over from his tummy to his back and from his back to his side and is almost able to make it all the way back to his tummy

 Loves sitting in the bumbo chair ( yes its purple not very manly but we borrowed from it a friend)

He is also reaching for toys, loves standing and lots of other things, basically as smart and as cute as you can get for being 5 months old, and no I don't think I'm biased:)