6 months already!!

I can't believe my little baby turned 6 months old on the 12th!! Where has time gone?!! At his 6 month appointment, dr said everything was looking great. He has doubled his birth weight--weighing in at 16 lbs and 1 oz and is 25 1/2 inches long. He is in the 25% still for weight and dropped a little bit in the height department to 19%. Looking at how tall Jason and I are he doesn't stand a chance. Poor guy!! He has started to get more and more personality and is such an easy going, happy baby. He is such a good roller, but has no desire yet to sit on his own. Someday we will get there!

These photos (above and 3 below) were taken on his 1/2 birthday!

The day after his 1/2 birthday we decided to start some "real" food. First food-sweet peas. He LOVED them!!! He probably would have eaten more if we let him. I just didn't want to fill up his belly too much.

Here he is already trying to feed himself...

Also another thing Carter has learned to do is to hold his own bottle! It is exciting and sad at the same time since my baby is growing up soooo fast!!

On Saturday the 19th, Alyssa, Jeff, Jason, Carter, and I headed down to the Gateway mall downtown. They were having a chalk art festival. Here were some of the entries. It was amazing to see what they could do with just chalk! After walking around we enjoying some drinks and nachos at Sky Box.

Mr. Man loves his stroller and shades!!

We had a pretty relaxed Father's Day. I went for a 6 mile run in the morning while Carter got a much needed nap. Later that afternoon we went and saw Toy Story 3D with Jamie, Amanda and the girls. It was the first movie we have taken Carter to and he did AMAZING! He watched the first half of the movie than took a nap. He woke up and we had his bottle ready already and than the movie was over. Maybe Jason and I will be going to more movies with him. After the movie I cooked Jason some dinner and his favorite--chocolate cherry brownies. Carter got him a Mickey Mouse golf towel, a Mickey Mouse driver cover, and 2 passes for 18 holes. What a great daddy!!

Nap time for the boys! (You can't see the dogs in this photo, but they were sleeping too)

Daddy and Carter

5 years!!

I can't believe it has been 5 years already!! What a whirlwind it has been. We have been so blessed by amazing family and friends, great jobs, a nice house, 2 fun dogs, and a beautiful baby boy. We left Mr. Man in daycare on Friday and celebrated just the two of us. We went and saw "How to Train Your Dragon" (highly recommended) and than went and had some sushi at the Gateway. We walked around for a little bit and than went home and relaxed for a little bit, enjoying the house w/o Carter. After we picked up Carter from daycare, we went and grabbed some In N' Out, dropped Mr Man off with Alyssa and went to the Nicklecade. We than picked up Carter (he was SOUND ASLEEP) and got a bottle of wine and some ice cream to finish off the night. Happy Anniversary honey! Here's to many more years to come



Carter will be 6 months old this Saturday. His personality comes out more and more each day. He is such an easy going, relaxed baby.

On Saturday, Alyssa invited us to the pool again. Carter and I went while Dad and Jeff (and Steve) built the rest of our fence. Can you tell this child likes the sun and water?! He is definetly my child! :)

So we have caught Carter "scotting" a couple of times. He is really good at pushing himself all the way up on his arms until his arms are straight. He also gets his legs going pretty good too. Too bad he seems to have NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in sitting up on his own. Everytime I try he pushes his legs straight and falls down. I guess he will do everything when he wants to...

Here is the beginning stage of the rest of our fence. If you want to see the rest I guess you will just have to come over. It has been so nice this week just letting our dogs run free and not having to tie them up everytime they go outside. Thanks Jeff (and Steve) for your help!!

So for the last couple of days Carter just hasn't seemed to get full enough from either breastmilk or formula so we decided it was probably time to start some rice cereal. Here is his first feeding from Sunday. (He looks like such a big boy in his highchair)

He's ready for it....

Mouth open....

Already trying to help mom....

Such a cutie!!!

Mr. Man will have his 6 month check up next Monday. Hopefully he does okay with his shots because I have to leave town for work that afternoon. It will be my first overnight trip away from him. I hope that I do okay....

And the training for the 1/2 marathon seems right on target. I wanted to do the one at Disneyland, but Jason said no. So I think I will be running the Cedar City one on Sept 18th. Apparently it is one of the fastest courses in the nation (cause it's almost all downhill). Sounds perfect to me!!!

Also Jason and I have started doing p90x to get rid of the rest of the baby weight. It is such a good work out (and we've only done 5 of them!)

Hope everyone else is enjoying the summer!

Summer has arrived!!

It has been a busy couple of weeks for the Locke household. The first week of May we had to find Carter new daycare and all the stress and headache and heartache that went into that. Carter also turned five months old! Man, where does time go???
The second weekend in May we went to Carter's first Bee's game. Luckily it wasn't very busy so we got seats under the shade. Carter finally got to wear one of his baseball outfits!

This past weekend we enjoyed some nicer weather and decided to take Carter swimming. He LOVED it!! He was in the water for probably almost 2 hours!!!! I'm glad I have myself a water baby!!!

Than after swimming, we had everyone over for a bbq, some smores, and some hukah. It was great food and great friends. Carter did great getting passed around to everyone too.

This next weekend is Jason and I's fifth wedding anniversary. We planned on going to Vegas to celebrate, but daycare fell thru so we are going to celebrate in Vegas in July. Hope everyone is having a great summer so far. My baby will be 6 months next week!!!