First Words...

For a few months now Cyrus has said da-da, ma-ma, and sometimes bye-bye, but now that he's getting bigger, here were his first "real" words.

1. LIGHT. Only Travis' son would look at the light switch and say light.
2. BOP. One day he was crying after falling and hitting something, and he kept crying "bop, bop" and as soon as I got it for him he was fine. It was cute.
3. GRAHAM CRACKER. Yep no kidding. Clear as day, 2 times. I think he's been holding out on us!
4. BRYKER. He loves his cousin, and they play really well together, especially lately.

I also just got back from the doctor today for his 9 month appointment. (We were a little late, he's a little closer to 10 months now. Oops) He got another A+ and here were his stats:

Weight: 20 lbs 4 oz (50th percentile, exactly average although you'd never guess by looking!)
Height: 29 1/2 inches (80th percentile, guess he's going to be tall)
His head was in the 40th percentile, small for his age, although you'd never guess that by looking either!

Grandma's Christmas Party

Every year on the Saturday before Christmas, my cute grandma has a big family Christmas party. We eat lunch and hang out, but her favorite part of the party is the program. Each family shows off their talents (things like favorite instruments, or songs). My brother usually takes care of it for our family because he has 3 kids, but because they're gone for Christmas this year, Amy and I had to think of something. Our kids can't do much, Cyrus crawls well and Jaron just kinda sits there, so we thought we'd try a reindeer pulling a sled. Santa was a little too heavy for the reindeer, but it was cute anyway. They were the stars of the show, and Cyrus loved all the attention.

Cyrus also got to open his first present, a Raggedy Andy my grandma made for him. He wasn't quite sure what to think of it. :)

Meeting Santa

As you can see by the picture, Cyrus thought Santa Clause was very interesting. Santa is the first person he's ever met with so much hair! One of the guys who works at the hospital with Jolene dressed up as Santa for the kids, and we decided every kid should meet Santa for their first Christmas, so we stopped in for a visit. My sister brought Jaron to visit. He and Cyrus are becoming good friends as Jaron gets older. He finds Cyrus fascinating, and Cyrus likes to play with him for a bit although his attention span is pretty short. :)
Tom and Jami also came to visit Santa, and it was fun to take pictures with all the kids and Santa.

Busy for the Holidays

Well... this is it! The Christmas season is upon us, which means lots of parties, shopping, wrapping presents, and of course a bunch of extra treats (my favorite part!). But overall it mostly means being extra busy, not leaving much time for blogging. So here are a few pics of some things we've been busy doing.


For Thanksgiving we got to have 2 dinners, one for lunch and one for dinner. Lunch with my family is always fun. We played volleyball and had a lot of pie. Our dinner with Trav's family was a lot better than last year too. We hadn't ever tried a Thanksgiving dinner before, and our first was pretty much a disaster. This year we were better prepared, and it was the best thanksgiving dinner I've ever had. We even let Cyrus in on the food. He got to have turkey and sweet potato baby food. Mmmm. Not my favorite, but he loved it. What ended up in his mouth, that is.




We bundled Cyrus up til you could only see his little eyes and red nose, and headed out one Friday night to Salt Lake to see the lights and have a nice dinner with Travis' family. We had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack, which was really fun. We got there late enough that there weren't a ton of people, so the kids could be as loud as they wanted. Cyrus and Bryker even got balloons from the balloon man. Bryker got a sword (maybe not the best choice for a 3-year-old. Travis taught him how to sneak up on people, and the waitresses got a couple of good scares :) and Cyrus got an elephant which he loved. Maybe not as much as Travis though...

Then just a little update on Cyrus... He's loving crawling up on things...

and usually falling,

although he is getting more graceful. He's almost standing without help (he's still a little chicken to let go for long.) If you say "no no" to him, he shakes his head, and if you say "bye bye" now he'll wave back to you. He learned to click his tongue on Thanksgiving, and its an awesome way for me to get his attention because he likes to do it back to you. He and Travis have their own little "clicking" conversations in the car whenever we go anywhere. He loves cheerios and hates mac and cheese. He jabbers like crazy, and even though I have no idea what he's saying, he knows exactly. Every day he's getting bigger and getting his own little personality!