Hanging out at the park.

My family came to visit 2 weeks ago. According to Stephen, they have been making a sibling tour. In one month, the visited Matt in Idaho, Jeff in Utah, and us up here!

We went to the park with them, and it was a lot of fun! My Dad took all the group pictures, I only have pictures of us. 

Twin Falls - Washington

A couple of weeks ago we went hiking with some friends to see Twin Falls. The first fall was beautiful! I wasn't expecting it to be as large as it was. The second fall was not as impressive, but still beautiful.

It was a nice way to stay cool on a hot, sunny day. Doran fell asleep for most of the hike. It's a hard life being a baby.

I thought these trees that grew on other fallen down trees were pretty cool, so I made Devin take a picture.

Everday Doran

I know that most kids sleep like this at one point in time, but this was the first time Doran did and it was too cute not to take a picture. Love this kid.

This is his favorite toy in the whole house. I know I shouldn't let him play with this, but I do. I leave the strings just long enough he can play with them but can't strangle himself.

This is how I found him the other day while I was taking care of some housework. Just reading his books. They were both touch and feel books. All those toys and he chooses his books. So proud.

Messy Messy and Funny Faces.

Doran loves eating and he wants to eat everything. Especially if we are eating it, he goes crazy until you share some with him. I give him table food to snack on while we eat dinner and then I feed him baby food. He won't eat baby food if we're eating real food.

I love these progressive pictures of his facial expressions.



His First tooth + 3 more!

Doran got his first tooth on the 23rd and the 3 more quickly followed! He was pretty cranky and feverish with the first one.

We gave him frozen fruit and veggies to gnaw on, which seemed to help. He liked that, especially frozen peaches.

 

Naturally, I bought him his first toothbrush!

 

8 months old

I know he's now nearing 9 months old, but here are Doran's 8 month old pictures. As far as size goes, he hasn't really gained weight or gotten much taller, but he is growing! He looks much older than he did a month ago and his hair is coming in fast now! It's crazy how much he's changed. I found this picture when he was just a brand new baby. His hair was dark. Now he is all blonde!

It's crazy how much they change in just a month. From 7-8 months he learned to crawl and is eating a lot more foods!

He is such a curious little guy. Whenever we go out, he is perfectly content people watching.

Good food in the summer.

One of the things I love best about summer is all the good food! Corn on the cob, fresh fruit, and grilling. Doran also really likes gnawing on some corn on the cob.

After seeing my friend Jill eat a very large doughnut on her blog, I had to go to the farmer's market to get a giant doughnut. Seriously, it plagued me. Every Wednesday rolled around and I needed to go get a big doughnut. For some reason, we were always busy. We finally made it there. I almost didn't get it. $5 for a doughnut? But, then I remembered that I had been craving this doughnut every Wednesday for over a month. It was delicious. And worth the $5.

He's on the Move!

I think being around all of his older Cousins helped Doran learn how to army man crawl. Before we left for Wyoming, around the 8-13th he started to push himself forward a little bit. Only for things like cell phones, remote controls, laptops, or computer mouse. On July 29th he finally figured out how to army man crawl! His left arm got stuck a lot at first, but he's a champ now!

 Some of his very first attempts. Of course he went for the movies!

He can now go where ever he wants in the house. His favorite place is to head to the bathroom! Even though it is more work, it is a lot of fun to have him crawling. We know a lot more about his interests now. We never realized how much he loved the bath!