A New Year.

Good-bye 2010, Hello 2011. Although I am very excited for our future I would like to take a moment to thank 2010 because you were a freakin' awesome year!

January
We moved to good 'ol snowy Provo from sunny Hawaii. I think I was a little disappointed by the weather at first but as the year torn on, I grew to love it more and more!
We also celebrated our first year anniversary.
(Eating and drinking our Mocktails at Spark in downtown Provo. Yum.)


February
We had a blast preparing for the arrival of our sweet bundle of joy and sight seeing around Utah before we knew we would be house bound for a while!

(not taken by us! ;) )

March
I traveled to Tucson for a beautiful baby shower. Intimate and relaxing, just what I wanted!


April
We celebrated Danny's Bday, and watched the belly grow! Looking back we also got to watch my FACE grow!! Holy swollen! :p


May
This was the best month of the year! We welcomed Rowan David Lamoreaux on May 4th weighing 8 lbs. 11oz. at 10:53 am. Our lives got so much more exciting, and we fell in love...big time.
(Fresh from the oven! It was a very undramatic birth for both of us...thank goodness!)

(Showing Ro off one Skype date at a time! I think Grammy must have been wanting to hold Rowey! ;P)



June
We watched Rowey grow, visited the Farm, got a few Lam visitors, and blessed Ro.







July
We listened to first giggles, celebrated the 4th, took a trip to the lake, and took many summer walks.







August
Rowey took his first airplane ride to Tucson to meet lots of important people and celebrate Grandma's big bday. Daddy also started another semester at school!






September
We took our first road trip to California to attend a friend's wedding, Ro started solids, mom celebrated a birthday, and we gained a new family member, Eli!


(Fresh Eli)





October
The weather cooled and Rowey got even cuter. We said good bye to summer and hello to beautiful fall. We thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Grammy and Poppa Collignon, and celebrated Halloween.

(thanks to the photog Poppa!)





November
We continued to enjoy the beauty of fall, made a surprise trip to Tucson for Thanksgiving, and had fun with bath time and new hairdo's!






December
We continued to get cold in Provo so we snuggled, snuggled some more and then snuggled with people in Tucson where it was much warmer! We danced, laughed, cried, and loved our time spent as a family over Christmas break. I sure love these boys and am so grateful I have an eternity to spend with them!




(Sorry for picture overload. I just had so much fun recounting our memories!)

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!