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:)

Houston

So,  Since my brother Orson just took the bar exam this week it reminded me that I hadn't posted about our trip yet which was back in May ( We took some awesome family pics on the beach that I was waiting to get some copies of but I thought I would go ahead and post without them)

Tristan did awesome on the trip!  And we had a ton of fun with the whole family being together for the first time in a long time.

 Our view from the guest suite we were staying at, at Orson's downtown high rise apartment

 We cheered so loud that we woke up a sleeping baby several rows down from us and got a dirty look from the dad, but hey, thats what we came here to do!

 Arts and crafts time, suppossed to be for the kids but I think the adults (weird I referred to my siblings as adults) got into it more

Dang you can't see the Texas flag very well,  but  we are all Texans at heart!

Nursery

We didn't have the nursery all the way finished before Tristan was born and there's still some finishing touches I would still like to make but for the most part its all done (been done for several months now).  Ryan spent hours and hours on this wainscotting so it deserves a post:)

 Thanks to my mom for making him this cute "T" blanket and for the crib bed skirt.

 Tristan's foot print

 He loves this musical mobile, he just smiles and smiles at it when the music is playing.

 Here is the T-man enjoying his rocking chair.

Forgotten Post

I never got around to posting pics from my baby showers or of the nusery.  Old news, I know, this is mainly for me to have on here, for when  ever I get around to making a book out of this blog.

 My mother in law and friends threw me this fun shower ! 

 I made out like a bandit!

 Ryan's cousin's wife threw me a shower for his family who mainly live up north of Salt Lake.

 This is Tristan wearing the cutest hat and an outfit I got from the shower.

Alert: Extreme Cuteness to follow

When the T-man is in his loopy sleepy stage we can get a few belly laughs from him by squeezing his little fat rolls on his thighs. Seriously, so freakin cute! By the way I apoligize in advance for the over use of the word cute in this video and in this blog since Tristan arrived.  I wonder if that might be his first word ?

And when he's just woken up from a nap he's extra super snuggly, I will be so sad when he gets bigger and is no longer as cuddly.

Tristan's Baby Blessing

 It was such a good day! He was 3 months old exactly.  My only regret is that I didnt get a real good pic of his super cute tux. I keep thinking maybe I will put him in it again and take a pic, but reallly is there ever a good time dress up your drooling, spitting up 3 month old in a tux just for a pic?

 There were 5 other babies blessed that same day so our ward which is usually full was packed to the brim.   Ryan was nervous to give the blessing but did awesome.  It was fast and testimony meeting and after 6 babies were blessed and  the sacrament was passed there was about 15 min left for testimony.  I rarely bear my testimony in sacrament meeting and never since we've gotten married and especiallly in our ward as huge it is, but I made a promise to myself that it is something I would do back when we were going thru evereything to try and get this guy.  But when we walked in one of the counselors said there probably wouldn't be any  time for testimonies, so I was like whoo, off the hook.  But I think there was so little time that hardly anyone got up to bear the testimonies, so after my sweet mother in law got up and bore her testimony and made me cry I knew I had to do it and I was so glad I did, after the fact of course.

We had lots of friends and family come and Tristan looked absolutely adorable in his little white tux! We had a little luncheon at the park by our house, it was a little warm but still fun!

THis is 4 generation of Howard Egans!