Personality

Taegen's personality is starting to come out alot more. He is so smiley now and I love it. the other day I showed him himself in the mirror and he just got the biggest grin on his face. He kept smiling and looking at himself, it was so cute! How could you not love this little man, He's so adorable

2 Months

I can't believe that Taegen is two months old. It's so crazy. Things are going great. He's such a good baby. He definately has his bad days, but for the most part he's fairly easy (or so I'm told since I don't have much to compare him to) but of course I'm still new at this so that makes things hard too.

I'm told (from just about everyone) that Taegen looks more like Jon than me. Actually that he looks exactly like Jon and not me at all...what do you think?

Me?

or Jon?

Loving Jon's face here. Apparently he can't take a pic and smile for it at the same time.

Jon is gone a lot! Actually he's gone from like 7 am till about 10 pm most nights. So the time that he gets to spend with Taegen is very limited. Here's a pic of them finally getting some time together. I also have a super cute video of Taeg to upload but I gotta figure out how to do it first. haha

Emma, Hanna and Hudsen absolutely love Taegen. Anytime i go down to their apartment they come running just to see or hold him and he loves it! Here's Hanna playing with him.

Taegen two months old. Love the little smirk

Me and Jon went to a park the other day and had a little picnic. While we were there I said i wanted to find a 4 leaf clover since I'd never seen one, none the less found one myself. Jon then went on to say that they didn't exist and I could look all i wanted but would never find one. the minute he stopped talking I found this! ahahaha it was so funny. I forgot to take the picture before it dried up, but you can still see the four leaves.

It's official, I'm going back to Utah July 6th. I need to go back to work :( Jon's staying here until mid August to continue to work and I'm not looking forward to being away from him for that long, but we gotta do what we gotta do right. Taegen is gonna grow so much while he's gone and I know Jon's gonna miss it. I just talked to my boss today and finalized it, so I've been super depressed all day, just trying not to think about it. 

Other than that things are still going great. Here's another update on the little man.

-He's still sleeping really well. He's even slept through the night a few times.

-He's figured out he can move his legs and he does it all the time. he pumps them like he's riding a bike.

-He's starting to suck on his hand. It's so cute.

-He still wont cry himself to sleep. I can set him down when he's fussy and tired and instead of crying himself to sleep, he'll cry until it's time for him to eat again! So frustrating.

-He's growing so fast now. Most of his pajamas don't fit him cuz he's so long. the ones that do are 6 month ones. but then they're too big everywhere else since he's so skinny.

-He's still got his chubby cheeks. I just love them! it's the only chubby thing about him.

Us so far

                                                                  Taeg and Hudsen

Hudsen loves Taegen. It's so cute. Everytime I go over to Steph's he runs up to me and says "bey-bey" and trys to hug and tickle him.

Taegen is getting so big, even though he doesn't look it in this pic compared to Hudsen. I'm adjusting to my new life of not working and after 7 weeks its still weird not having to get up in the morning and go to work. I've had a job since I was 15. I guess it might take longer than 7 weeks to make up for 8 years. haha
Here's some things about Taegen at 7 weeks old

- He finally fits in size 1 diapers
- He shakes. It's like the shivers you get when you're cold, except he's not cold.
- He is a lip quiverer. He does it all the time. It is also compareable to the shivers when you're cold, but he does it randomly and not when he's cold.
- His poor belly button is infected :( It was a little infected when the cord fell off, but that went away. It's just recently decided to come back.
- He likes to watch T.V. Ok ok, i'm sure it's more of the movement and colors that he likes, but he'll stare at the tv for quite some time.
- He loves his floor mat of toys. I don't remember what it's called, but its the one with the mat and the toys hanging above his head. One of the toys is a mirror and that one is his favorite.
- Most nights he sleeps pretty good. At least 4 hours at a time. Don't get me wrong. He still has those nights that he wakes up every 2 1/2 hours or so. But luckily those aren't that often.
- He hates his car seat. Almost everytime I get in the car to go any where he starts freaking out. I think the long ride here ruined it for him. He used to fall asleep everytime we put him in it...not so much any more. I'm really looking forward to the drive home let me tell ya.
- He loves being swaddled. I can put him in his swaddler and most times he'll calm down in a few minutes and fall right to sleep.

As for us, we're still liking it out here. Jon's really busy. Most days he leaves before 7 and doesn't get back till 9 or so. So other than Sundays we don't really see to much of him, which sucks. But hopefully it'll be worth it. Oh random thing, since theres no mountains, the sun rises at like 4:30-5:00 here. Its really weird since I'm used to it rising at like 7:00. That's about it for now.