Bath time, funny faces and perdicaments!

We've used a flower mat that we got at one of my showers to give Chase a bath and lay him on since he was born but since he's learned to roll, giving him baths are a nightmare because he doesn't want to stay on his back. It takes two of us to give him a bath so one person can try to entertain him and keep him still while the other person hurries and cleans him. Well, he can now sit up pretty good so it's made bath time a little bit more bearable. He's still a rascal and makes it hard, but that what makes him so dang cute!

 

This is the first bath where he sat up while taking a bath!

 

 

Just last week Chase started making this really weird face when he smiles or when you tell him to smile, it's the funniest thing ever! He knows when you are taking a picture of him now and will smile or do this face when you ask him to now.

 

I just want to kiss those cheeks off!!
 

Ever since Chase has been crawling around doing his little army crawl he doesn't care what is in his way or where he is. With this being said, he's often laying on his mat when he decides he's over it and decided to take off, which causes him to get tangled in it sometimes.

 

 

 

First Christmas Present..

We had a Christmas party with Chris' family on December 1st because Chris's brother Brad, his wife Judy and daughter Brooke were in town. Usually we have it on Christmas Eve, but since they were in town we had it early. All the kids drew names so each one had a present to open that night. Chase got to open his first present ever and actually kind of liked it! He got a fun dinosaur toy that bounces balls all over the place, he really likes it!

I can't wait for Chase to open his presents on Christmas Day, especially seeing how much fun he had with this one. I'm sure he won't care really, but I'm still excited.

Here's his new toy! He's still not able to do much with this toy but he likes to watch the balls fly everywhere.

Army Crawlin'

Chase is a very determined kid, which we have known since the day he was born. About a week ago he started doing an army crawl when he sees something he wants bad enough that's not within his reach. As each day passes he gets better and better too. I think he will be crawling really soon. Here's a video of him crawling in the hallway to Chris.

I just love the way his little legs move and try so hard! Such a cutie!

HELP!!

Ever since Chase has been rolling all over the place, he gets himself into some pretty hilarious predicaments sometimes and I can't help but share them. Is it bad that I always take a picture before I help him?? It just cracks me up!

 

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5 Months Old

The last month went by SO fast, I can't beleive that he is already 5 months old and it's time to update this again. I feel like so much has happened this past month, I have so much to report!

• One week after Chase turned 4 months old he started rolling over!! He now uses it as his form of transportation and is ALL OVER THE PLACE! He's a maniac. He does get himself into some pretty intersting perdicaments though!
• He eats oatmeal in the morning and baby food at night. He's a really good eater and does it like a champ!
• He started being a little rascal when he nurses so it can be a fight to get him to eat sometimes. I wonder if it's because he is eating solids now, but you never know with him. 
• he had his first cold last week which was the saddest thing ever. It was a cold and he had a stuffy/runny rose and a cough that kept him up at night and made him miserable. It took a week for it to go away completely.....those things linger forever.
•  He loves his jumperoo. He jumps like crazy and loves every minute of it.
• He smiles and laughs a lot more these days. He still doesn't really smile for strangers, but he sure will for his parents or other family.
• He's been waking up once a night, usually between 2-4 but we know he can go all night and thought it was time for him to sleep through the night, So....it means we let him cry when he wakes up. We did it one night and he cried for 25 minutes and stopped but then he would cry every ten minutes or so for about 5 minutes until he got up for the day. I thought it was a bust but the next night he slept from 7:15 pm to 7:00 am!!  WHAT!!??  Last night he did it until 6:15 so it wasn't as good as the night before, but I'll still take it. Let's hope it's a new trend,
• He is such a busy body. He's constantly trying to reach for something or turning to look at something, he can't sit still for anything! It makes Relief Society really hard.
 

Halloween

The Sunday before Halloween we went to Chris' dads house to paint pumpkins, eat soup and skype with Cory and Amanda in Virginia. Chris painted two baby pumpkins for Chase, one that represents the first 4 months of his life, and one that represents everything after (or so we hope).

I bet you can't tell which one is which! HA!

Chase's first time in a high chair, he didn't really love it and only lasted a little while.

Chase and Papa

Chase was just showing Uncle Greg his full costume, growl and all!

He had to wear his costume so he could show his cousins in Virginia how cool he was!

 

On Halloween we went o to Heidi's work, Chris' work and my old work to show Chase off and trick or treat a little. Chase wasn't really having it, but to be fair, he did miss his nap and it was really hot in that costume.

The bank always has someone taking pictures so Chase and I got our pictures taken, not the best but they are ok.

 

I look like a weirdie!

Playing catch up..

Last time I posted my videos werent working and I couldnt figure out why. I tried several times since then and still wasn't able to make it work..........until tonight, that is! These videos aren't even the ones I was originally going to post but here they are anyway.

Chase has the cutest laugh and is so funny when starts to laugh. I don't get it on video that much, but here are a couple clips of him laughing.

 

Cory and Elleny let us borrow their jumperoo, and when we first put Chase in it he couldn't even touch the floor and had a hard time reachig the toys even. He's gradually started liking it more and more. This past weekend he started jumping in it and has SO much fun doing it. He laughs and jumps and jumps and jumps. We got some of it on vidoe today, it's the cutest thing EVER!!