8 & 9 weeks/ First Family Vacation to Colorado

Whitewater Rafting on the Arkansas River in Colorado! AWESOME!

Whitewater rafting pic #2!

Grant and I on top of Pike's Peak---with a wind chill of 24 degrees!

Tucker at 9 weeks smiling at Mommy with Daddy behind her! :)

Another pic of Tucker before eating!

Occasionally, I put Tucker in my peanut shell to do things around the house! This is 8 weeks!

One of our professional pictures by Sara at one week! Had to add this in!

(More pics to come from Colorado etc...)

Wow-I am definitely behind on blogging about my little boy! It seems like so much has happened since the last time I posted! First of all, we are all doing wonderful! We are just truckin' along each and every day only to find that each one is different! :) Going back to work on July 6th is definitely on my mind. I am torn. I really like being at home with Mr. Tucker but I also feel like I need to have a few breaks by going to work 3 nights a week! However, I am going to HATE missing our bedtime routine and HATE leaving Grant by himself at night(even though he doesn't care at all)! I know we will pull through and be successful at work and taking care of Tucker!

Anyways, we left for Buena Vista, Colorado last Sunday the 14th! We stayed in Trinidad, Colorado the first night! It was craziness. We were nervous to sleep in the same room as Tucker. He is a VERY loud sleeper! And come to find out he still is! However, we arrived to the house in Buena Vista on Monday and got him set up in an attached library next to our room so we could be separated during the night for the week! :) It worked out really well! It was so beautiful and the house was absolutely amazing! It was so great to be with my aunt and her side of the family! It has been YEARS since we were all together! The house had an awesome deck with a hot tub, tons of chairs and hummingbird feeders with tons of little hummingbirds to watch! They had a zipline, a fire pit, their own river rock stream, a tv room with a projector, tons of bedrooms, a Wii/Rockband, foosball......to name a few! We had great cooked meals every night and played games after Tucker went to bed! One day we went whitewater rafting and another day we took the Cog Railway to the top of Pikes Peak-FUN! It was more work taking care of Tucker because everything was out of place but it was worth it! We didn't take many pics but I have a few that I will post when I round them up from family!

While we were in Colorado Tucker had quite a few bouts of projectile vomiting! He actually had one Saturday before we left. He had not done that in quite a while! Anyways, we called the doctor on Wednesday and they told us he may have a little reflux. They told us to keep him elevated after eating, elevate him a little while sleeping, and to give him CEREAL! WOO HOO! I loved hearing that because all I hear from everyone is how awesome they sleep when they get cereal around 4 months. The reason they wanted us to start this is because it will help prevent air in the formula which will help him not to throw up! And of course they want us to continue burping him really well! We started him on cereal that day but I think it was too much for him too quickly! His tummy seemed to hurt for a couple of days and he did have a few more bouts of vomiting! We went to just giving him cereal at night! He has slept AMAZINGLY! He actually slept through the night the Friday after we started him on the cereal and did GREAT the days before that too! He slept 8 hours straight on Sunday night! WOW! So awesome. We are so happy! We are now trying to introduce it at nap times which has seemed to help too! We will just keep introducing him to it slowly with most feedings! We see Dr. Gray this Friday for his 2 month shots! I am dreading this! Its going to be so hard! But we will make it! Grant will be there to hold our hands!

Tucker is now pretty much smiling on command! Especially at his daddy! It is soo cute! He still loves to be on his changing table! And he is having a lot of content awake moments! Which is nice! He is cooing alot and holding his head up even better the past 2 weeks! It is soo fun to watch him grow!

On Father's Day we were traveling so it was not as special as it could have been if we had been at home all day and could celebrate! Tucker told me to tell Daddy Happy Father's Day though! :) We had a good day spending time together! :) That is all that matters, right?!

Above are some pics! :)