five months and two days

These are from the last month or so with our new fantastic camera.
































Incase anyone is curious Logan and Rowan are in a barn in this picture.





















Those Godsiff men aren't the most photogenic bunch are they?















Well except for the little one ;)




















cutey little guy

TOOTH!!

Hooray! Yesterday Rowan's first tooth pushed through! And I suspect that another one will be along soon. Unfortunately it's not much to look at yet and nearly impossible for me to see with out a lip or tongue getting in the way, let alone capture on film digital or otherwise so no picture. But exciting nonetheless! :D HOORAY FIRST TOOTH!!!

I do apologize for the lack of updates this month, we've been on holiday. I'll have to download all my pictures and get some up here soon.

update

Rowan is officially doing good :) He had his 4 month appointment with the doctor today. He did pretty darn well with his shots (3 of 'em) and recovered quickly enough to make the doctors smile with his happy cuteness during his exam. He weighs 17 lbs 9oz and is about 26.25 inches long putting him in the 90th percentile in both height and weight as well as making him just about a quarter of an inch too long for his carseat's height limit.



Luckily we bought a bigger carseat a couple days ago in anticipation of this news so all we have to do is switch them. But I would be lying if I said I'm not just a bit sad to see my sweet little baby boy grow big enough to be too big for the seat we brought him home from the hospital in. I'm pretty sure seeing him in the big boy stroller seat will tug a bit at the heartstrings as well *siiigh*




It's amazing that four months can bring so much change and that every change can bring feelings of excitment, happiness and pride in my big little guy but also twinges of sadness that each phase seems to last such a short time and a small wish that he could just stay this way forever. Being a parent is everything and nothing that I thought it would be... and I love it :)

Hooray March

Four months!
He's soooo cute!

Hooray! Pictures!

Alrighty guys here's the picture laden post :) It's gonna be too hard to try and line text up with all these photos so I'll just give you a run down and let you sort it out. We've had a fun 2008 so far Rowan has gotten cuter everyday and so too it seems has everyone else around him ;) Logan is a phenomenal dad and even though he sometime has to work more hours than he'd like forcing me to make do, I couldn't do it without him.

Enjoy this randomly arranged collection of cute pictures of Rowan or with Rowan

...and Hans Von Blitzkrieg... the German snofficer (snow + officer)


























































































































Don't Rowan and Cherise look alike?

maybe later

I was going to create a nice post FULL of pictures but my son is not too keen on sitting and playing with his toys or bouncing on my knee so I guess all you get is one. Perhaps more later...

You can fly!

You just need to think
of happy things. Thoughts of converse shoes, joyful times with brothers or kittens and green pens.

Or that time you talked to Kiel on the phone and Micah and I wailed and screamed for the pope or cute little babies.

Think of the golden lanes, a victorious Hayden atop a slide, and pretty purple flowers.
You can find a happy thought I know it.

This post is for my sister Cherise and her sore knee.
No more sad eyes Stuie.

fresh new face

I've played with color, layout and extras. Whadda y'all think?

snow!

Hooray for snowy fun! On Saturday morning the boys (the big one included) decided they wanted to find some snow to play in. Gear was acquired and visions of gigantic snow covered hills filled everyones' minds. Bright and early Sunday morning we bundled up and headed out to Tiger mountain. Spirits were high until we reached the summit and discovered little snow and not much evidence that it was going to fall anytime soon. We stopped to let the littlest boy eat while the bigger ones went into Safeway to get snacks. On return to the truck they announced that the cashier informed them of snow just a bit further up the road. So with hopes renewed we forged on and discovered the wintery wonderland. Cameron was astonished, he had never seen that much snow in his life and kept asking me how there could be that much and how it stayed there. Fortunately not being able to make head nor tail of it didn't stop him from having a great time :) Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely (especially Max) with the exception of Rowan getting a bit cranky before falling asleep and the drivers of two trucks who tried to drive up a snowy hill with just road tires and slid back down. All in all it was a great trip and MUCH better than having to drive all the way home defeated. Gotta love sisu :)

I believe this snowball was lovingly created with Logan in mind

I don't know how much Max enjoyed this...

Rowan wasn't asleep here, he was rubbing his little face on mine.
I LOVE this picture!

forgotten sunglasses = fashion statement

As you can see the snow day was a success. Before we got home Logan reported that we had all fallen asleep :) Aaand we brought it with us! When Logan got up for work this morning it was snowing! We don't have a lot and it'll probably melt within a day or two but for the time being it's snow on the ground in my backyard and I'm happy :)

He's really alert!

We went to the wonderful Indian restaurant down the road again tonight. It was our second dinner there and this time was DELECTABLE as was the first! When we set Rowan up in his car seat next to our table the waiter smiled at him, asked how old he was and said he looked really alert. The funny thing is that the same guy said the same thing last time we were there. But thats ok because it's true Abu! :)

Just look at them cheeks!

pictures pictures pictures! I'm not very good at self photography yet so I don't look best in most shots but Rowan is a freaking cutie! A big one at that too, on Friday at his 2 month appointment he weighed in at 14lbs 12ozs and measured 24 inches. He's in the 90th percentile in weight and the 75th in height :) He did pretty good with the shots he had to get, I was definitely more nervous while waiting for the nurse to get ready than he was. We both handled the actual shots better than I was expecting and he recovered faster than I thought he would also. He is all better now and didn't even get the low grade fever they said he might. So without further ado here are a small gaggle of photos of my big little guy :D

time sure flies

Wow, it was a pretty exciting holiday season. It's hard to believe Rowan's only been around two months. It feels like much longer. I am loving being a mother!! Since my last post we've been hanging out and enjoying the holidays :)

Here's a cutie on the couch with his big brown sheep

For Thanksgiving we visited Gremmy and Goddy :)

Logan dressing Rowan for his dedication
(unfortunately I forgot the camera in the car so we didn't get any pictures of the actual thing)

Our family (minus Max) Rowan isn't so happy...

Here we are visiting our new friend Carson who was just born on Jan. 1st :)

I'll post more pictures later but right now I'm late for a dinner date so I've got to hurry out of here. But before I leave I can't record sound on my camera but I can shoot videos so here's a silent video of my little guy hanging out in his bouncy chair a couple days ago. It's not fancy but I think he's adorable so I'm going to show him off.

One month :D

It's been a whooole month! ...nuts... it seems like he came home last week but it seems weird at the same time to think about what I did all day everyday without him here. We sure love our little man :D he's sure chubbin' up eh?


It's December now so we went out and got our tree :) it was a good day for it. Nice and cold with some snow "flurries" (as the weatherman put it this morning). This picture doesn't show it but it got snowing pretty good but melted just about the same time it stopped.

Here's Logan cutting down our tree (notice that it looks straight vertically)

We bundled Rowan in layers, blankets and stroller hoods. He slept the whole time which was quite a feat since we pretty much were offroading that stroller and it was bouncin around like crazy.

I love this picture :) it just looks cool.

He's a big strong dad

here's an artistic shot I took stopped behind Logan at a stopped light.

And last but not least this is our tree set up in the living room. Don't worry, it's not falling over we discovered once we got home and tried setting it up straight that the trunk of our tree is crooked just below the bottom branches. So it looks like it might be falling over, which just makes me like it more :) it's