New Grin

Check out Jax, he has a whole new look to his smile. He FINALLY lost his first tooth. I say finally because he's been asking for 2 years when he'd loose a tooth. All of his friends have been losing them and now he can finally be like the rest of them. He is almost 7 after all. It's a funny little story. About 2 weeks ago, Jax was asking again when he's going to loose a tooth, I'd say, I don't know maybe this year sometime. Then he said that his teeth were hurting. So I checked and the bottom one was a little loose. So we yelled and cheered for him. He'd be careful with what he ate and would tell anyone and everyone about his loose tooth. And on Saturday night he didn't sleep well, he even woke up to tell us he is wiggling it more, it was really bothering him. Sunday morning he took a bite of his toast and ouch, started crying in pain. Greg checked him and said that his tooth was ready to come out, and that it was bleeding. Blood and Jaxon don't mix, he started freaking out. Greg tried to calm him and said it was just a little blood. I quickly got my camera ready and a few days before explained to Jax what my dad (grandpa) did a few times when I lost teeth. So Greg did the same and gathered some tissue and got all ready, just like grandpa did, and went in his mouth to pull it out. When Greg stepped back (with tooth in hand) Jax sat their waiting, wondering what dad was doing? He didn't even feel it come out. Greg showed him his tooth and all was well.

But during all this... Jax was hysterical and crying. He was so scared about the whole thing. I remember being scared too when I was little. Anyways we look over and there is Creed right there crying hysterically too for Jax. So we had 2 crying boys, Rafe and Bodie were just in the family room playing, I had the camcorder and Greg did the work. After it was over, they both stopped crying and were ok. He is ready for his money. He wanted a $2 bill, or at least $5 bucks. In the end the tooth fairy gave him $1. Just one? Greg and I both told him he is lucky, when we were little it was just a quarter. And I had to change the subject a few times the last few months about the tooth fairy being real. I had to let him have at least one experience with "the fairy".

His next tooth was right there already breaking through the gums. And...

Rafe has his first tooth breaking through the gums! Noticed as of today! I don't have a picture of that yet. Such a big boy. Bottom front tooth. I new it was coming. He is almost 7 months, and Jax is almost 7 years. They have so much in common. Ha!

Rafe Time

I did a 6 month photo shoot with Rafe. After about 100 pictures, I enlisted Creed to help me get him to smile. He is such a cute one, but I am a little biased. His light hair and blue eyes is nothing like his brother's. We still search for a resemblance of some relative. Few and far between.
He is 18 lbs now, and that's only like 3-4 pounds less than Bodie weighed at 6 months, but I can't believe it. Bodie was a chunk and Rafe is a skinny bean. Well he is like 85% in his height.

Love his eyes. And now he already looks so different. Greg cut his hair this weekend, it gives him a totally different look.
Rafe is loving the baby solid foods and sits up pretty good. And he rolls all over the floor now. I'll put him in one spot, then I turn around and have to search for him to see where he's rolled off to. And Creed is still obsessed with Rafe. Loves him to pieces. Bodie likes to copy the loves that Creed gives to Rafe. Or as Creed calls him, "Wafe" and Bodie calls him "Baby".

A little BBall

Jax is playing basketball in fall sports. He is loving it! The first few games we would watch and laugh. It was great entertainment watching all the little kids run with the ball, try and dribble, travel all over, stop their own team from scoring. Great fun. His team is getting a better clue on how to play. And Jax has come A LONG WAY! He rebounds, runs, dribbles (the best he can), and he finally scored a basket last week. He loves the games and practices. Creed can't wait until he is old enough to play. My boys really didn't know much of basketball or how to play or hardly how to shoot the ball to the basket. But in August we got a basketball standard for the driveway. They have loved that and are becoming good shots. When we go out to play they love it and could stay out all night. Here is a flash back picture from this summer the weekend we put it up. Fun times, fun boys!

SIS

I have been enjoying a Sisters In Scriptures class that my stake Relief Society offers. (women's church group). It's a scripture study class on the Book of Mormon. They have been doing it every Tuesday for the last year. I am not able to go every time but I try to if my children aren't sick or no errands to run. They even offer a nursery for the kids. So I would go for me and for Bodie to play and be social too. Last year I was pregnant and emotional and I would cry every week. Every little thing would bring tears to my eyes. I would laugh with Greg how "I cried again". But this year I haven't cried once, so it goes to show it was all the pregnancy hormones. Anyways, so now I'm going again this fall and forgot how nice it was to learn from awesome women. They're like the best Institute teachers, one actually used to be. They make it fun, entertaining, and enlightening. At church on Sunday it's nap time and Rafe is fussy so I spend my time in the hall or just go home early. So this is my way to have a little spiritual growth in the week. So I love to go. That's all I wanted to say, is that I am so glad they do it and that I can go.

Bunch of Animals

Having 4 boys is like having a bunch of animals at times. We took our little brood to the zoo a few Friday nights ago. It was great. Nobody was there, it was not hot, and we left in time for dinner. Here is Greg walking and feeding Rafe and watching some of the many monkey's with the boys. Rafe chewing away on his fingers and binki while enjoying the stroller ride. And we had the whole train to ourselves, practically.

This was Bodie's first time at the zoo. He enjoyed it and enjoyed his finger apparently. I think I only had like 3 pictures of him without his finger in his mouth. Finger lick'n good. Oh, wait - that's what we had for dinner (KFC).

My favorite part of the zoo was the tigers. They had just fed them a frozen fish, and one swiped down and grabbed it from the other one. But no fighting back for it. It was cool. Creed said he liked the Gorilla the best because he (the gorilla) turned around and showed him his bum. Jax said he loved all the birds. The boys just recently saw Rio and so he was loving the birds. He had fun chasing all the wild chickens around. I suppose Bodie loved all the monkey's.


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This little man is 6 months old. 6 MONTHS OLD! I can't believe how fast time is going. I say that often, but seriously!


We took a drive up the canyon on Sunday morning before Conference. It was pretty as usual. But I actually thought it would be a great year for colors with it being such a wet year. And perhaps we were just too early. There was still a lot of green. Now that it's all of a sudden cold, as of today, then maybe the leaves will start actually changing? Anyways...



Again, 6 months old. Really! (And ignore the little duckies on his pajama's.)