First Christmastime.

We sure had a wonderful Christmas holiday. We traveled to Tucson and stayed for the whole break from school. My parents were kind enough to let us stay with them, but we were able to visit the Lams a bunch and even snuck in a Red Rock sleep over. Our visit was filled with dancing with the LamFam, eating at our fav. Tucson spots, soaking up the sun (for a few days), playing with cuzzies, visiting friends, celebrating birthdays with extended fam, reading Christmas stories, being on the nice list (Santa came all the way to Tucson for Rowey!), opening/playing with presents, visiting parks, petting kitties, cuddling grammies, riding on airplanes and celebrating New Years!

Here are a few pics to sum up the trip...
(Technically, this is before our trip, but I wanted always remember what Santa brought Rowey his first year...an awesome play table!!)


(Chillin in the AZ sun before the cold front hit. CUTIE PIE!!)



(Our Elfy Boy!)



(Uncle Josh warming up for the groovin'!)



(Rowey got lots of kisses this vacation. Here are some from second cuzzie Callum at GGma Jane's 90th bday party.)



(Soaking up more of that awesome AZ December weather!)


(One of Daddy's awesome photos! A trip to Reid Park Zoo!)



(Cuddling with Uncle Kev. He is very cuddle-able!)


(Momma being silly dancing our the annual Christmas Eve fire ;) )



(Christmas morning. Opening my presents by soaking them in saliva first!)



(Checkin' out his new kicks!)



(Daddy's wildest dreams come true!)



(Cuzzie Tristan, who is the sweetest boy ever. All of Ro's cuzzies are sooooo sweet and love him to pieces. I think Ro loves them all right back!!)



(Checking out cuzzie Gavin!)


(Goofin' with Nana ReRe)



(Family Piktcha!)



(Mommy smoooooochies.)



(Darcy tickles!)



(Checking out Chick-fil-a with Daddy, Uncle Josh, Aunt Lainey, Maya and Darcy! Mommy was home fighting a fever so this was Daddy's first solo outing!!)


(Rowey would not nap on the plane, so after 2 minutes of being in his carseat in the car I look over and he is OUT! This was the first time he really conked out and it was really cute!)

Phew. Glad we got a lot of pictures on this trip! Unfortunately we got almost none of my side of the family, but I promise they were all there! Thanks to all who made our trip fun, comfortable and memorable! We love you all.

6/7 month recap

What we love about Rowey at 6/7 months:
I never got around to posting a 6 month Rowey blog :( . He was just too much of a delight and we were enjoying him too much to stop and blog! The 6 month of life is sure a good one. Just the right combination of growing independence with still needing his mommy's love and comfort. So, just to sum up we loved everything about Rowey at 6 months! Plus- he did not get sick once these past 2 months (knock on wood)!!! I guess the Doc's suggestion of bathing our little germy boy every night worked!

On to the 7 month:

• He really is growing into his sweet personality. Ro is a ham! He loves to laugh, smile and scream little bursts of sound to show his excitement.
• He is starting to become more comfortable around new people! If he has seen you a few times he loves you and will give you kisses and snuggles. If you are still new (or if he is tired) he can be quite serious! His serious face is still pretty cute!
• He LOVES when someone claps for him and tries to clap along too.
  
• The latest thing that Rowey thinks is hilarious is if you wave HI or BYE to him. For some reason it is super funny!! We sure love to see him laugh and will both do pretty much anything to keep the giggles comin'!
  
• He is not as good of an eater as he once was. We try to trick the food in, but sometimes the lips are sealed! He DOES want to eat anything that we are eating, however! We were sharing a banana the other day and instead of wanting the tiny bite size pieces on his tray, he wants to bite a LARGE chunk off mama's piece. Very interesting, but I am willing to share if it gets him the nutrition he needs! New favs are bananas, pears, and apples!
  
• Ro is a full time sitter! He loves to sit and reach for all his toys. He has recently started going from sitting to crawling position! We will be knocking him down and not encouraging the crawling until after XMAS! :p
• Like a typical baby, it seems Ro gravitates to anything that is not one of his many toys during playtime. Some favorites are Daddy's Mac cord (we are trying to kick this one quick!), any paper product especially the mail, and Mommy's face is still a favorite. We are trying to kick the "gnawing on mommy's chin" habit as well! It is a little difficult to redirect however, when he grabs my ears and pulls my chin to his mouth in the blink of an eye! Kinda funny.
• He loves to stand on the couch and look out the window at the trees, cars and animals passing by.
• Bath time is a fav. He loves to play with his rubber ducky and other bath toys! Does not enjoy getting water in his eyes though!
  
• He still LOVES music. His favorite is to hear Danny sing and play the guitar (especially Nick Drake songs).
• He loves other babies, and is interacting more and more with them. He loves to talk, hold hands, and give head kisses.
• So far Ro is a pacifist letting any baby take anything from him...I'm SURE this will change, but for now it's kinda funny to just see Ro look at them like "Hey Dude, that's my sippy ". ;)

We are seriously in love with this baby. We get to the point around 10 or 11 at night where we miss him, so we often sneak in to peak at our sweet boy. We couldn't imagine our lives without him, and are SO excited to see him grow and encourage him on his journey! Life is awesome.


Screaming at cuzzy Owen! What happened next was a full on head kiss...Ro grabbed his sweet hair and slobbered all over O. By the time I got him removed from Owen's head, O had a sweet slobber mohawk! Good thing neither O nor his momma minded too much. We are working on 'gentle'. ;)



Gangsta Ro with his bling bling chain. :p


I had to include this picture because I thought it was the sweetest thing. At the Church Xmas Party, Ro's neighbor buddy Oliver came up to him and gave him hugs. He just kept hugging and hugging him! I think I scared O's momma Summer because I yelled to her "Look at what he's doing!!!" It was the sweetest thing ever!! We love Oliver. (Happy B-day today Buddy!)


Rowey playing the part of Santa. :)


Chillin' with the baba watching the trees.


Playin'. Playing right now consists of staring and sharing slobber, but it is still really cute. Rowey thinks little Abby is quite pretty!


Momma and the baby. Hard to get pictures of us together! This is the best I got while trying to smile and make funny noises to make Ro smile too! Mmmmm love his kisser!

Fall.

When we moved to Provo it was the dead of Winter and all the trees were bare. Then came Spring, Rowey's birth, and little green leaves popping up everywhere. Next came summer with lush green filling every branch you could see. As the first few cool days hit in October, the leaves started to change. Yellows, oranges, and brilliant shades of red took over our neighborhood! I had forgotten about Fall, and am so glad Ro was able to experience it! We just had a blast with it!! I use the past tense because today it is November 8th and it is raining...and we have forecast of snow... Oh well! It was beautiful while it lasted and we are moving on to new firsts for Rowey, like CHRISTMAS!! :D

Our beautiful trees outside our picture window.

Beautiful colors in our neighborhood! Photo courtesy of Papa. :)


The full Halloween outfit!


Our little Viking! He loved the hat. It was so comfy, soft and ...yummy?? Photo courtesy of Papa again!


Rowey's little pumpkin all lit up Halloween Eve. You can see grammy's punkin in the background! It was awesome!

Playin' in the fall leaves! Gorgeous. Also, Rowey is sitting up! :)

Good bye Fall, hello Winter! We are ready for you!


And for good measure...
I think we all know where he inherited that... ;P

When Grandparents come to town.

Although it was several weeks ago, we are still basking in the delight that was the visit from my parents. We had so much fun doing many of the tourist-y things Utah has to offer. I think it is safe to say we ate our way through Utah County...and it was fabulous!

It took Rowey a few days to get used to having new people around. He seemed very confused to hear Grandma's voice coming from a real person and not the 2-D Skype version! :) After those initial days of being unsure, he warmed up to them quite nicely, cracking smiles and giggles all around. He had a special affinity for Papa...I think it was the fascinating white gotee. All in all we had a blast. D and I even got a date night! Wahoooooo. We went to SLC to see one of our favorite musicians Jonsi of Sigur Ros. It was the best concert we have EVER been to and we are so grateful to mom and dad for babysitting...even when they had to deal with a baby boy that would NOT take his bottle and "sang" to sleep. Sorry about that mom and dad!! He really does love you! ;) It was a sad goodbye, and Rowey really missed their presence, but we will see them soon enough!

A picture tour through our staycation with mom and dad Collignon:
Corn maze/punkin patch. We got lost in the corn maze (despite Danny's innate sense of direction ;P) and had to make the entrance our exit! Here is our little Halloweenie family. I'm partial to the little black kitty! xoxo

Lost in the maze. Rowey concentrating on finding us an exit!!


Our little punkilin.

Grammy picked Rowey right out of the cabbage patch!

Best buddies.

It rained the day we had Park City on the schedule, but it was gorgeous and fun none the less!

Dog that was the size of a small elephant. There were 3 of them in this store! Grammy was in love!


Grammy knit Rowey a scarf...like seriously, how cute is that! Note the booties. Grammy really wants Ro to stay warm this winter!!

Swimmin' at the poooool. Rowey LOVED it until he remembered it was nap time and Grandma scared him with bubbles. :)

Revealing to Rowey his Halloween costume!

Farewell dinner at Tucanos where we just about all died from a meat attack!!

We loved having you here Grammy and Papa (these are my official names for you... ;) ). Come back next weekend. We'll reserve your room for you!!

So sorry for the lack of pictures of Daddy and Papa. Papa was our main picture taker and Daddy had limited days with us...darn school!

Ro the Hat Man Doooo!

Our little boy looks good in a hat! He is starting to have quite the collection due to a mother and mostly a grandmother who are shopping addicts...I mean experts, ya EXPERTS! One thing is for sure his sweet little pea head that we loooove (25th percentile... ;) ) will sure stay warm this winter!

(more about this one later!)
(and it's nap time.) :)