I know I'm cute. I'm Scottish.

The last few weeks have been awful busy, but here are some highlights in pictures:

Sonic cups are hilarious. Simply move the straw up and down so you get the squeaky sound and you've got a giggly little boy. Talk about a whole new meaning to "Happy Hour".

Henry got some solids! He has tummy issues sometimes and apple sauce seemed like the best option for various reasons. He loves it!

The weather is warming up, so we've been spending time outside. Henry LOVES his new walker, so he scoots himself everywhere and it serves at great entertainment while I clean the fence. (More to come on the fence. I'm very excited about this project!)

He also got a new high chair/booster seat. He love it! He gets very excited when it's time to go in it.

He can't crawl yet, but he gets where he wants to go. Here he is caught in the act. I guess it's time to baby proof.

I thought we got pictures, but can't seem to find them at the moment, but he had oatmeal the yesterday night. I think he likes oatmeal better than apple sauce. He tried to pick the bowl up and drink it out of the bowl. (Now that I think about it, I bet I deleted the pictures already. :( Hopefully they turn up. Anyone know how to recover pictures deleted from a memory card?)

Do I know you?

Seriously. Does ANYONE know these people? I get emails from them constantly about family stuff, local events, the new group weight loss goal, kids soccer games, shopping days, etc. You name it, I've probably gotten an email about it. Here is a little of what I know. They obviously have a family member named Dixie Dixon, we've emailed back and forth a little and I know they live in the Mesa, Arizona area, the kids play soccer, someone in this picture thinks they're a "bunch of hotties", and according to the picture, they're a lot of BYU fans. Kinda random, but I'm starting to think I should just show up to a family event some day. Maybe I will!

4 Month Checkup

As usual, I'm a little slow, but Henry went for his 4 month check up when he was 4 months and 10 days. Here are his stats:

Weight: 13.36 lbs or the 13.83 %tile
Length: 25 inches or the 44.32 %tile
Head: 17 inches or the 68.59 %tile

So, we have a skinny, average lengthed, semi big headed boy on our hands. We think he's pretty cute. He had to have one vaccine by mouth and 2 shots this visit. He only cried for his second shot and he was smiling before the lady even left the room. What a champ!

These pictures are a from a couple days before. Henry was very interested in the water coming out of the faucet, so we let him play.

Nate finally got a picture or our nightly routine. He nights he sleeps in his crib, this is how he falls asleep.

I have to lean over the top of the crib and sing to him while rubbing his head. Sometimes he sucks my thumb. Sometimes we just put him in here and he falls asleep, but that doesn't happen very often.

Portland Wedding Fun

We spent the end of January in Oregon for Emily's wedding! I can't believe my tallest little sister is married! We did not want to chance there being bad weather, so we flew. Henry did very well on his first two air plane rides. He was a very interested in everything going on on the plane, so he didn't get but 20-30 min sleep each way. All of the wedding festivities were really nice. It's always nice when you get to see family that you usually don't get to see. Sadly we didn't get many pictures during wedding fun. We had a big enough job keeping Henry happy for the official pictures. Thanks to the help of the Butterfield Grandparents we were able to have a happy baby. I know Henry had fun meeting his Aunt Judy and playing with so many adoring fans.

Henry on his first plane ride.

I want to touch everything on this nasty plane then put my fingers in my mouth. Yumm!

Ian and Emily on the way to the Temple.

Grandmother Nance, Mama, Me, Henry, Grandma Dixon

I love Emily's face there.

Emily and Ian at the ring ceremony with the yummy food.

Henry driving my parents van.

Uncle Ian, Henry, and Auntie Em

Plane ride home. He decided he needed to have a stinky diaper each way.

Doing Laundry is Hard

Thought I would post a few pictures real quick. Henry is falling asleep in his crib at the moment, but we have to stay close in case he decides he needs a hug, so here they are. We kinda like him. He's a keeper.

Give me food!!

Laundry is so exhausting!

Just make it stop already!

Had A Little Time and 2 Free Hands

At the moment Henry is asleep, Teddy is banished to the downstairs so he won't wake Henry up, the desk and kitchen is as cleaned off as they are going to get tonight, and it's not quite time to start supper, so I thought I would give a quick update and post some pictures (which I just realized hasn't happened in a very long time).

Henry had his 2 month appointment at the beginning of the month. He has fallen in all of his percentiles since his 2 week appointment, but we're not worried. We're pretty sure that Pyloric Stenosis thing is what did it and he's back to growing at a healthy rate. He's a little baby, but healthy as ever. His stats are:

Weight - 10.19 lbs - 10th %tile
Length - 23.25 in - 50th %tile
Head - 15.75 in - 40th %tile

He's pretty cute, I think. He's getting pretty good at rolling from his tummy to his back. He loves to lay on his sides, so he finds this new skill to be handy. I think he started to figure out that rolling can be done both ways yesterday. He got this really ponderous look on his face then started trying to roll from his back to his tummy. He didn't make it, but he ended up on his side and seemed to be content with that.

This is him being content kinda on his side. Who needs to roll all of the way over when you can lay like this?!

Maybe I'm a bad mother, but my boy already likes to watch tv. I think he was watching Keeping Up Appearances here. Or maybe it was Harry Potter. Either way, lots of British people.

He likes to talk to us and smile, which we rather enjoy. Those are my favorite parts of the day. Too bad I don't know what he's saying, 'cause he sure seems to think he's clever.

Emily has some really cute pictures she took while she was here for his blessing. You can find them at her blog, 'cause I really don't feel like posting them myself. I'm pretty lucky to have a talented photographer for a sister. Thanks Mims!

As for the far less interesting grownups in the house, I started back to work yesterday. I only work 3 1/2 hours a day, 4 days a week. Nate gets to take care of Henry in the morning then they meet me at my office where we just do a switch off. I'm grateful for the extra moolah and for the chance to get out of the house without spending the moolah, but it is kinda sad to leave Henry for a few times a day and miss the mornings with him. I am glad that we both have good employers that are flexible and that he's not going to a baby sitter at all! Nate is still working full time and working on his MBA, plus being an amazing father/husband. We're both looking forward to him getting a short break from school for Christmas. Wahoo! No papers/quizzes for a couple of weekends!

Spinning in I-15

To add to our list of good luck happenings as of late, we got in an accident on Friday (the 4th). Nate took the day off so we could go up to Salt Lake for a day of family fun, followed by buying a Christmas tree, but on our way up our plans were changed.

We had to stop by Costco for gas and to pick up some stuff, so we were sitting in the exit late to get at University Parkway. Traffic was backed up at the exit, so we were at a dead stop in a line of cars. Nate, for some lucky reason, had angled out so that the front of our car was not facing the car in front of us, but the shoulder. We were sitting there, waiting, when Nate looks up in the rear view mirror and sees a car coming for us. We're not exactly sure what happened, but a Honda managed to take out the rear axle of an SUV, spin around and hit our trunk. We went for dead stopped, facing about 2 o'clock, to spinning in circles 3 lanes over then back to the shoulder. While we were spinning out to the middle of the interstate, I looked up and just watched the oncoming traffic. It's times like that when everything is in slow-mo and you just pray you make it out alive.

Luckily, no one was seriously hurt. We were the only car that drove away from the accident, but the total damage to our car is still unknown. We know we'll need a new bumper and there is a dent in the trunk.

After the accident we spent the rest of the day getting everyone checked out. Henry seems to be okay. You never know how much his little brain shook around though and seeing as how he just had surgery a few weeks ago, I'm a little bit of a nervous mother. Nate and I did get whiplash. We've both been sore and are in need of a chiropractor or massages or something.

I'm excited for life to slow down someday and return to normal. Next week is the last week of my maternity leave, so hopefully we'll have our car back or a rental car and we'll be able to have a nice week. With any luck, this weekend we'll get a Christmas tree, decorate, get Teddy a hair cut and unstinkyified, and maybe even go to see the lights on temple square.