Zoo Trip

On Memorial day this year we met Ryan's family at the zoo, it was perfect weather outside and therefore everyone else was there too.  Even with it being crowded we had a fun day.  Tristan loved the carousel ride, bears and the little lego land!

Mother's Day

This year I had a really nice mother's day!  I snuggled in bed with my little cutie pie, while Ryan made me breakfast in bed.  I also got some beautiful white roses, a very sweet card, and a new I phone!!  I had been using Ryan's old 3G i phone and it had a lot of issues, like no camera or video, had to talk on speaker phone only and it finally pooped out last week so I had been using a really old phone from like 4 years ago.  So, finally I have a nice phone and I can take lots of cute pics and video while I am home with Tristan.  At church we got yummy chocolate truffles.  After church I got a nice nap and then video chatted with my mom, grandma and siblings.  That evening we had a yummy dinner with Ryan's mom and family.

Easter

I was not super mom this year for Easter, what with house hunting, and feeling sickly, I did not do any cute easter basket or baskets at all for Tristan or Ryan.  Luckily Tristan's grandma's came thru for him.  He got a cute farm pop-up book which he loves and tries to destroy from Grandma Sue and Grandma Cindy had a yummy Easter dinner and egg hunt.  Tristan wasn't so much into finding the eggs as he was shaking them and eating the candy.  Still fun though.  

Tristan's hugs are head taps, he loves giving hugs especially to his cousins.

Not the best cousin picture

A New House

With a new baby on the way, we hurried to go house hunting as our current two bedroom townhouse started feeling way too small.  We finally settled on building a new house in our neighborhood on a really cool lot. It is .25 acre,  a creek behind it and no houses in the field behind that, one neighbor to  one side and common ground and pathway to the other side.   We picked out everything that we could afford for the house, color of cabinents and counter tops etc, put the construction deposit down and waited.   Finally almost a month later they started digging only to find a spring on our lot, yes you read right a spring of water. hence the subdivision name (Spring Creek).  As much as we like the lot and waited extra time to get it, we are a little nervous of future problems  that could arise with having a spring in your front yard and will probably switch to the lot across the street.  Side note- if we had started off choosing this lot, they already had approval to start on this lot and could be halfway done with it by now.  Such is life.


We are super excited about having extra space, I am excited about having an official guest bedroom, Ryan is excited about doing new projects around the house and having a yard to landscape.

Lot across the street-

A Baby?

A lot has been going on this year for us, I am going to start out with the biggest and best news,  which everyone knows already, as I did the official face book post, but the day after Tristan's one year birthday I bought a pregnancy test while Ryan at work to prove to myself that I wasn't pregnant.  I bought the cheapest one that shows just a cross if you are pregnant. Duh, of course I'm not, was my first  thought, upon closer inspection and reading the directions more carefully I was shocked and well shocked.  I told Ryan  in a rather anti-climatic way in the car that we need to step up our search for our new house,  he was just as shocked as I was and we both thought I should take another test just to be sure and sure enough the same positive result. I called the dr office the very next day and went in to get my blood drawn and they found my progesterone level to be pretty low.  So, for weeks I refused to get excited about this new baby.  Due to my levels being low they let me come in for an ultra sound at week 8 and this is what we saw along with hearing a strong heart beat.  Yay!! I was finally able to get excited.

Ultra sound 1 pic

 and at my 12 week appointment we got this ultra sound pic

1st Year Birthday

The invitation

The set up

 The ceremonial eating of the cupcake.

 Opening his first birthday present.

About One Year Old Tristan:

He loves people!  He is the most happy, friendly and charming little boy ! Right after we sung Happy Birthday to him, he looked around and realized everyone was staring at him and started smiling, he loved all the attention!  Every time we go anywhere, I mean anywhere, he will stare and smile at some one until they look at him and give him some attention, he is bound and determined to make a friend on every outing. He is constantly jabbering in his own language.  He says mama, dada, and ba for ball and bottle.  He loves going outside, and thinks getting his diaper changed is a huge waste of time. He is ,I think, getting close to walking.  He sometimes will stand by himself but as soon as he realizes he is he quickly sits down.  But he loves pushing his little walker around and getting into anything and everything possible.  He can destroy a room in 10 seconds flat.  He loves opening and closing drawers and doors.   He loves being chased and he has the best laugh in the world.  Sleeping at night is still not great, but other than that he is about as perfect as you can get.  He weighs 20.8 lbs, 29 inches and still is only in the 10% for his head size:) Mama and Dada love him to pieces and can't help but dote on him!

Super Baby

My little boy is 11 months old! I've been thinking I haven't been good enough and recording all the little things that make this boy so super and he is not going to be a baby for much longer!

A couple of Saturdays ago, were doing our usual Sat. cleaning of the house and Ryan was vacuuming.  Tristan has always been scared of the vacuem so usually one of us holds him while the other vacuums.  I sat him down on the floor while Ryan was in the other room and he actually started crawling towards the vacuum, when the vacuum started coming towards him he got a really nervous look on his face and started booking it away but he didn't cry and as soon as the vacuum was not coming towards him he would crawl towards it.  What a brave boy!  I wish we would have gotten video of it, we did a little re-enactment the next saturday but it wasn't the same, he was a little more scared the second time around.  A few days after that, I found him hitting the vacuum and yelling at it (while it was safely stowed away of course), he's so funny!

Here is some video of Tristan crawling and going about his daily business and the re-enactment of the vacuum incident.