What a difference a haircut makes!

Before we went to AL I cut Ashers hair. I knew it was time when I was getting more comments about what a "pretty girl" he was. The last straw was when the pediatrician called him a girl; don't they look at the charts beforehand??? Anyways since I cut his hair not one person has called him a girl! Yeah! So here are the before and afters:

Pay no attention to all of the computer mess on the last pic!

Asher feel asleep one day in a weird position so I snapped a pic:

Asher has gotten really good at standing at his gate, rattling it and screaming. That is his favorite thing to do in his room. He could care less about the toys or us.

I love his face in the second picture!

Sweet Home Alabama....

Asher and I were able to go visit April in Alabama. We had the best time! April is 9 months pregnant and I was really hoping I would get to meet Ashlyn before we left. That's OK though, that just means they have to come out to us before the end of the year!

Asher grew leaps and bounds with Preston around showing him the ropes. It was so neat to see them interact. Preston was so so sweet with Asher and it just made me smile.

April is always a wonderful host. She made us feel welcome and comfortable. We talked and ate as much food as possible. I was able to meet her friends, and boy is she lucky;) They are all wonderful people.

It was nice to see grass and trees again! They have a beautiful home and they live in a beautiful area. I was able to see Pete for two days which was great. Asher just loved Pete and couldn't get enough of him. Poor Pete had two boys competing for his attention. He did a great job entertaining them both! I just can't say enough nice things about the visit.

We did have to stay an extra day because my flight was delayed and they wanted me to spend 8 hours in an airport. I'm pretty sure they were crazy! We stayed an extra day so I could get better flights.

Asher is now pulling himself up on everything and standing. We are in a lot of trouble! He is eating lots of food and has even started on the gerber snacks (thanks april!). He has his high chair now (thanks grammy!) and its much easier to feed him. I found out that he likes the big boy toys (thanks preston!) so Ry and I had to go to Target and buy some more toys for him. April will be getting a package full of baby toys very soon;) He is getting very vocal. If you don't feed him fast enough he yells at you. He is teething like crazy, so we may see some teeth very soon. There is more but I can't think of it right now.

I will post more today or tomorrow because I have pics and video to share.

Thank you April, Pete and Preston for a wonderful visit!!!!

A lot has happened!

I haven't written in a while because things have been soooo busy here. Asher has changed so much in the past two weeks. Its madness! Two weeks ago on a wednesday Asher just decided he was going to start sitting unassisted. So now he can sit all by himself without being propped up. He also started crawling around the same time. Below is a video of him in the first couple of days of crawling. Now he is like lightning! He has so much energy, its tiring! He just goes and goes and goes.

He has been eating more and more food. He can now eat avocados, bananas, apples and sweet potatos. His favorite is apples. If we don't feed him apples fast enough he yells at us!

He has also been pulling himself up and standing. Yesterday I watched as he pulled himself up by the couch and was trying to grab a toy off of it. I am just loving watching him figure things out.

He is still teething but no teeth:( I can't wait for this to be over.

We are leaving tomorrow to go see April in AL. We are very excited! Please pray that Asher does well on the planes. I am just hoping that he sleeps and plays quietly. I bet you are all laughing about now...... Anyways I will get to see Preston again (YEAH!) and April will get to meet Asher (YEAH!). I will take lots of video and pictures and report on how much fun we had.

I will be posting photos later today. We are going to cut Ashers hair. Its a must! He keeps getting called a girl, even wearing all blue. When he has a hat on there is no issues. His hair is just so long. I will do before and after so you can see the transformation.

Thats it for now! Check back for those pictures!

Videos!

So I finally had the time (and patience) to load these videos! The first is of Asher trying to crawl. I know he's my son but isn't he just so cute!! The second is his first bite of food. He started on avocado's today. He seems to be ok with eating food. Just like everything else you can't tell if he likes it or hates, he just does it without any expression. Enjoy everyone!

Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter! We sure did! We went to morning church service, which was wonderful. Asher had a cute little Easter outfit on. Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture of him in it because he stained it before we got home.

We have also started him on solids. We started with oatmeal. It was pretty uneventful. He tried to grab the spoon but other than that he ate pretty well for his first time. We have a video so I will post asap!

He wants to crawl so bad. I have a video of that too that I need to post. He starts rocking, gets frustrated and then rolls around. I am pretty sure that you will all be seeing a video of him crawling any day now.

He is also teething which is no fun at all! He wakes up a lot and is very fussy and cranky. That is not my normal smiley, happy guy. Today seems to be a new day, thank the Lord!

We bought him a play pen. I was not much of a fan of them but they are a life saver. With all the tile floors in the living areas I can't let him play on the ground. So having that play pen allows me to let him play and not worry if he is hurting himself.

Well that's it from here! I hope you all have a great Monday!

Finally...an update!

So I realized it had been awhile since I blogged. Sorry about that! My camera died and I kept forgetting to charge it. So here are some pictures!

We took Asher on the playground for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was so funny to see his reaction. He is so much like his dad, he just took it all in. No reaction what so ever. He didn't smile or cry. I'm sure once he gets use to it he will like it.

I also wanted to throw in some more pictures of him asleep in his jumparoo. It never gets old with me! I also have a video of him sleeping in it,
so I hope to get that on here soon.

Sunday is Asher's first Easter so we are really excited. We won't be doing any Easters eggs because he is too young, I am really looking forward to doing that next year though. On Monday at my MOPS meeting we made resurrection eggs. It was really neat! Here is a link to make your own:
http://rainbowcastle.org/resurrectioneggs.html

I hope everyone has a great Easter!! Blessings to you all!

Asher's first swim

Asher went to his first pool party on saturday. He had a lot of fun. He wasn't sure at first if he liked the water, but once we got in the warm kiddy pool he decided he liked it;) Dad and Jackie sat on the sidelines and watched while I got splashed in the face by another kid. Good times.

Asher had descovered that he can stick his tongue out. You would think with how much he sticks his tongue out now it would dry out, but no his slobber keeps it nice and moist! Ryan thought something was wrong with him, but nope just another stage.

He also enjoys sticking everything into his mouth. We went to a potluck on sunday where there were tons of kids. A few of the kids tried to give Asher a toy, each toy he inspected and then put into his mouth.

I would like to ask you all to pray for my friend who is having some issues right now with her pregnancy. Pregnancy is never easy so it makes its even harder when you have complications. Please join us in prayer that her pregnancy gets better and that the baby is healthy.

God Bless!