Parenting for Dorks

I have decided that being a parent pretty much automatically makes you a dork. All of a sudden, the baby does some little tiny thing, something rather insignificant in the long run, and we come all undone and call everyone we know.

Earlier this week, I was changing McKay's diaper and he reached up and pulled my glasses off. I immediately called for Christina to get the camera and come quick! McKay repeated the stunt once for Christina to see, then kept his hands to himself once the camera came out.

Yesterday, the little bugger rolled over. Yep, went right from his tummy onto his back like it was no problem. I was at school, but the news was important enough to be communicated immediately, so Christina got the feat on her cell phone video camera and sent it on over. I tapped my foot until my class went to break and excused myself into the hall and watched the 40 second video 4 times, beaming with pride each time. I probably watched 10 more times during the day, and it took every ounce of self restraint I had to avoid showing it to everyone in the lunch room. I didn't see the feat in person until tonight, but after a little coaxing and coaching he pulled it off again. In my eyes, he might as well have won an Olympic gold medal.

Dorky, I know. I've come to terms with it.

Some pictures:

Christina had the idea to put him in a pumpkin in respect for the season, and the idea is cute, but unfortunately, our model wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea. The pumpkin was also a little too deep for him, and since he has decided he likes to chew, he immediately leaned forward and grabbed a mouthful of pumpkin. Yummy. Needless to say, the final result wasn't the "Ahhh" inspiring , blue-ribbon winning photos we had in mind. They weren't all bad, so we decided to share anyway.

Here is McKay chewing on the pumpkin!!

Halloween Preview

Here is a little preview of our Halloween costumes! At least for McKay and I... There are some details still forth-coming, and, of course, Christina's and Bella's costumes. We just got this together to go to the ward Trunk-or-Treat party last night. It was a HUGE event with hundreds (not exaggerating) of costumed kids. Apparently everyone in the ward, active or not, and all their neighbors come out. They had a nice Chili-cooking contest, so there was plenty to eat and people in abundance. We handed out more than $10 worth of candy and I didn't eat one piece... Looks like I might have to trick-or-treat on my own...

As a little side note, I wanted to mention that Christina made McKay's costume from scratch. She didn't even use a pattern... Pretty awesome, if you ask me!

Also, McKay turned 3 months old this week, and we had intended to take some nice pictures of McKay, but Father Time has been unforgiving this week. Maybe tomorrow, after church, we'll get something together, but for now, here is a cute one of our little big man asleep in his Bumpo.

An Update and some pictures

I know its been awhile since I posted because I can no longer find our blog on the sidebar of other blogs and especially because my brother called to check on me because the blog hasn't been updated for so long. We definately appreciate the concern and love good conversation for whatever reason.

It has been a busy few weeks down here. I have been in the middle of midterms and trying to keep up with the temporary test increase (instead of one every week, which is normal, I had five in two weeks). Christina is almost always busy with McKay, and if she can catch a breath from that, she is working feverishly to construct Halloween costumes for McKay and Bella. (Yep, Bella.)

We also had my white coat ceremony last week, which added to the general business. The white coat ceremony is where medical students receive their white coats, officially welcoming then into medical education. It is a neat ceremony, sort of like a reverse graduation. Unfortunately, Christina had to care for McKay through most of the ceremony, so we didn't get much for pictures, but I did get a nice one with "The Guys" that I frequently study with.

We have also found some time to explore Phoenix, and we took advantage of Free Musuem Day and went to the Desert Botanical Gardens. This place would definately be worth the price of admission if we went during the day. Unfortunately, because of everything else going on, we didn't get there until just before sunset. We still enjoyed the park, we just couldn't get the beauty to translate into the camera in the dark. We posted a few pictures, still: a nice one of a Monarch butterfly that Christina took a few minutes before the sunset and one of me and a Sahuaro, just to show how massive these things are.

And, of course, McKay is growing like crazy. We have been taking some pictures, and we are always looking around the house for stuff to use to dress it up a little. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... We thought a couple of these picnic basket pictures came out pretty well, but some others certainly haven't...