He stuck his tongue at me!

Yesterday Hayden discovered his tongue and it is hil-LAR-ious!  I took a few pictures to share with everyone.  They aren't the greatest because, the second that I get the camera out, Hayden suddenly becomes demure.  Oh well.  Enjoy!

Hayden's new thing is sticking out his tongue!

 I was trying to get Hayden to stick out his tongue here.  The video is kind of boring...sorry!

Got him to giggle!

 Hayden is also working on wanting to crawl.  Believe me...it's all him because his father and I do NOT encourage it!  Ha ha.  Baby boy can make his body look like a bridge, lifting up his belly and bottom from the floor, but so far that's it.  Hopefully it takes him a while to crawl!

Bum in the air!

He kind of looks like super man here.

If he just didn't have the binkie in his mouth, you'd be able to see his HUGE smile!!

He's Getting Too Big!!!

My little bug is getting way too big!  Ok, I know he's 5 months in a couple of days, but we finally had to break down and start putting him into his 3-6 month clothing.  He's just growing like a little weed!  In addition to that, he's also been developing several new skills. 


First, he has found his feet and LOVES playing with them! 

Hayden also likes to grab one foot with one hand while chewing on his other hand.  It's hilarious!

No pictures, but Hayden also found his ears.  It's so cute when he plays with them--he looks like a baby dumbo!  Ha ha.


One of Hayden's favorite new things to do is to do back-bends over his boppy.  Here's what I mean:

Look at that arch!

Hayden's view.  I wonder if he just really enjoys looking outside...upside-down...

My boy also is working very hard at learning how to sit up.  For now, he's practicing in his boppy. 

Sorry for the blurry photo!

 On Saturday afternoon, I caught Paul and Hayden relaxing together.  It was so cute that I made Paul pose for me so that I could take a picture.  Of course Paul wouldn't just hold still, so I got him mid-smile.  Pretty funny.

Gotchya!

Ok, now I have a "mommy" question to pose to all of you parents out there.  We ALWAYS swaddle Hayden when he goes to sleep.  It calms him down and keeps him from knocking his binkie out of his mouth.  Now that it's getting hot here in Idaho, (and with no AC :( ) he gets too hot if we swaddle him during the day for naps.  Do you guys have any suggestions as to how to train Hayden to sleep without being swaddled?

New Developments.

Hayden is growing up so fast and it's so much fun for Paul and I to see it.  At Hayden's 4 month appointment, the doctor mentioned that, if we wanted to, we could start giving Hayden rice cereal.  I went straight to Walgreens and bought little bowls, spoons and cereal.  Here's a tip for new parents:  never try something new on your baby if he's in a bad mood!  Hayden' did not enjoy his first exposure to rice.  Here are some pictures from today when Paul and I fed him his rice.  It was only his 3rd time and he LOVED it.  I even made him seconds!

And the plane goes into the hanger....

It's a success!

So yeah, the kid loves his cereal.  YESSSSS.


Another development...Hayden keeps trying to roll over.  He's done it before (like a month ago), but I'm beginning to think that it was an accident.  He hasn't done it since.  Baby boy likes to roll onto his side and then just hangs out there.  Usually he finds his fist, sticks it in his mouth, and sucks on it...just chillin on his side.  Here are some pictures:

He looks so long!  Hayden contorts his body but doesn't every quite make it to his belly.

See, there are those fingers.

Cute boy :)

Pretty soon this little boy will be rolling over like crazy!

Horrible Pictures!

Well, the other night I was trying to take some pictures of Hayden but....none of them turned out.  None of them.  I think that the living room was too dark, and the flash was too bright.  Every time I took a picture the flash took forever and blinded Hayden.  Soooooo....here are a bunch of REALLY horrible pictures of Hayden.  Enjoy :)

Baby and me :)

Not a good photo....

Another not so great photo...

He looks sick here....

Bad picture....

Wow...awkward...

Such pretty eyes!  He kept trying to roll over.

Aaaaaand, here he is trying to fit his whole fist in his mouth...again.

Happy Easter!

"Good times, noodle salad," As Good as it Gets.

We had a very laid-back Easter:  a roast, a little noodle salad, and easter baskets.  Hayden got a pair of pajamas and cute little slippers.

These were so cute and I got them at Walmart.  They actually have cute baby stuff now!

Of course, Hayden has found a couple of things.  For one, he has started noticing the t.v.  We don't let him watch it because I heard it can stunt a baby's development, but every once in a while he get's caught staring at it!

So naughty!  Ha ha.  BTW:  don't mind my finger in the upper left hand corner.

Secondly, Hayden has found his fists!  If he doesn't have his binkie, he will chew on his little fists.  It is adorable, but I worry that he might eventually find his thumb and become a thumb-sucker.  

Happy Easter Everybody!

Back to Normal Life---and a Catch up of our Week

Hayden and I got home from Washington at about 9PM on Monday night.  It was nice to get back home and have a little normalcy.  I missed Paul and so did Hayden.  Hayden did really well on the car ride.  I sat in the back with him and kept him entertained between naps.  He was perfectly happy until about 2 blocks from home when he started SCREAMING!  It took about an hour to calm him down and get him to sleep.

In Washington.

After Hayden got to sleep, Paul said he had some surprises for me.  For one, he had cleaned the whole house.  He got me some tulips, picked up our new ottoman (which is a huge feet because it was in Pocatello...about 1.5 hours away), finished painting the bathroom, got me a gift card to my favorite store Maurice's, and brought home takeout from Winger's.  I was shocked and so excited!


On Wednesday, Hayden was very happy!  It was so good to see him smiling again.  The 12 hour car ride to Washington and then again back to Idaho was hard on him.  I took a few days to get back to some kind of normal.  Here are some pictures of tummy time:

He can pick up his head and shoulders now!

Cute lil' toes!

Oh his cute lil smile---I love it!

On Friday, my sister Mandy went to the doctor for the ultrasound to determine her baby's sex.  She found out that she's having another boy!  So her little girl Mali'ea is 8 mo older than Hayden, and this new little guy will be about 8 months younger.  Yay!

Today my poor boy has his first fever.  It started last night at 99.1 and went up to 100 today.  We're monitoring him closely and giving him Advil every 6 hours.  Hayden has been having a hard time sleeping, so we just hold him in our arms for naps.  Poor baby!  Through it all, he's relatively happy.  I even caught a few of his smiles today.  

Happy even though he has a fever.

He kept poking his feet out of his blankie!

Just a little update on the Kirby family...

I don't really have much to say, but it's been a while since I've updated the blog.  Sooooooo...here's a few pictures that we took of Hayden today:

Little Hayden boy :)  2mo.

He looks way too big when he sits up!

Isn't he cute?!?  ha ha.  Paul sat him up on the couch and I was shocked to see that he stayed there all by himself!  He is getting so strong already---it makes me nervous.  I don't want an early crawler because of all the shenanigans he'll get into, but at the same time, I love to see his progress.  

Also, Hayden and I will be travelling to Washington on Monday to see my parents.  Paul will be staying in Rexburg and working.  This will be his first time without seeing Hayden every day!  I hope everything goes smoothly!