3 Months Later and Nothing is the same!

Thats kinda disgusting that I havnt written on here for 3 MONTHS!!! And you know why? Because every time I go to I think of all the pictures I want to post and get discouraged at how long that will take. You know its all ways something, last time I tried, the USB port on our computer stopped working....3 of them, or at least they wouldnt recognize my iphone, that took about 30 min of trying and failing to get pictures off, so I had to use our lap top but of course the only portable USB I could find was full....its a 2 Gig too...so I spent an hour filing stuff off of it so I could fill it with pictures to be able to transfer them onto our terabite which is hooked up to our other computer so that I could easily find them on here. Yeah 2 1/2 hours later and no blog posting....

Which means a REALLY long catch up post......

Anyway......3 MONTHS....and where to start, you have NO IDEA how crazy these three months have been. Well the most exotic news is that WERE MOVING!....we actually came thiiiiiis close to moving to Anchorage Alaska. Jordan lost his job at the beginning of October...didnt see that coming, he just started in May. So since then we have applied to every job that has to do with IOM or EEG positions. (IOM is intraoperative monitoring in the OR at hospitals) Lucky for us it is a very available position all over. All over except in the Northwest where we WANT to go of course. We were offered Kansas City Missouri....which is right by Independence and I just went through there on my road trip...it is a beautiful city and area. Ft Lauderdale Florida, Boston, New York New York, California.......The goal is to be within a 12 hour drive to both families....we'll see if we can make that happen.

Kyren is SIX MONTHS already....in december he will be 7 months which I CANT believe is right around the corner. This fall really hasnt seemed real it has gone by soooo fast. We have been so busy that we havnt had time to pay attention to any holidays which makes it feel even less like the fall since there are so many holidays in the fall. Hopefully everything will calm down by Christmas so that we can actually celebrate it.

So at his 4 Month check up Kyren weighed in at 19 lbs and was 26 inches long ranking in the 95th percentile for both weight and height. He was wearing 6-9 month clothes. Its funny cuz his torso is sooo long that he could only wear 9 month tops but his legs were short enough to fit in 6 month pants.

At his 6 Month appointment on Nov 11th he had grown to 21 lb and 30 INCHES long! He is in the 99th percentile for his height, still 95th for his weight and 50th for his head circumfrence. His head is like 45 cm. So he has a comparatively small head. Which I am fine with. He can now only FIT into 12 month clothes, which is sad cuz he out grew his 6 month clothes really fast, the arms on this 6 month clothes go to his elbows. I would say the most expensive part of babies...at least for us is buying clothes, they grow out of them so fast!

So what Kyren can do:
Sit up without support-started at 4 months
Raise up on his arms-Started at 3 months
Get on all fours-crawling position-started at 5 months-mastered by 6
Can go where he wants too and get what he wants-started at 5 months but just now really good at it
Loves to destroy towers built out of blocks built by mom and dad
Loves being upside down
Really ticklish and laughing with a deep laugh....its soo funny
He just picked something up with his thumb and forefinger 2 days ago-instead of his fist
Loves to dance to music with mom and dad.
LOVES baths
Put his binky in his own mouth-4 months
Loves to play with my touch phone
Jumps with anyone and everyone that that holds him-as if he is in his jumper
EATS pureed veggies and Rice----he does great-started at 6 months
Likes to drink from cups-started 5 months
SMILES all day long-at everyone!Hes such a flirt. Its funny cuz he will pick someone he wants to smile at him and will stare at them and smile his cutest smile until they look at him and smile back and then he moves on to the next target. Everyone falls right into his trap ;) And every one I meet says he is the happiest most smiley baby they have ever seen.....and he is the most happy baby I have ever seen too.
He loves textures-he prefers touching everything than playing with one thing
Doesnt really care for things that make noise....likes textures better.

Well that most the big things, we have discovered that he loves warmed up squash. Course he hasnt had any fruits yet so he probably will like them better when ever we decide to give them.

A typical day for Kyren is waking up at 6:30 am, I feed him and put him back in his crib cuz hes usually asleep in half an hour and he wakes up around 8:30, then he eats a little bit more around 9, plays until 11, usually in his jumper or on the ground chasing things. He plays really good by himself in the mornings. He goes down for his morning nap at 11 and wakes up at 12, eats, plays till 2:30 when he gets veggie baby foods which he loves doing. Usually goes down for an afternoon nap at around 3 wakes up at 4-5, eats again at 6 and then hangs out and does what ever we are doing....by this time he usually has to be around one of us, its funny cuz he doesnt want to be held he just wants to be right next to where ever we are, so he usually hangs out in the bumpo on the counter playing with dishes while I cook dinner. Lately its been tower building on the floor and rolling things away from him for him to chase. If he gets a bath he gets it right before bed, eats and is usually konked out by 8:30 pm.

Then of course we usually stay awake till 12, its been around 1:30 am for the past 2 weeks cuz were doing construction.
So High lights of the last 3 months, My birthday present was going camping with my family on the Oregon Coast for a week in August. Jordans little sister entered the MTC at the beginning of August, unfrotunately we werent able to go to her farewell, she is now in the Philipines..Hurray and is loving it of course. We flew out to Boise in August and had Kyrens baby blessing in my older sisters ward in Bosie Idaho, that way both sides of the family could come. Which both of them did we were so excited. His whole family drove up from Spanish Fork UT and his Grandma and Grandpa came too, one is from CALI. My family drove over from Centralia WA. It was the neatest thing to see the blessing circle be all men from our families....it was an awesome sight. Then we headed over with my family to go camping the next week, we camp right on the coast and go sand duning on four wheelers, crabbing, swimming, play in the ocean , star gazing on sand dunes etc. Thats been a pretty steady tradition in my family growing up but we havnt done it for like 4 years until this year so that was AWESOME to go. The goal is to do that every year...I love camping! My cousin Jenny got to come down and that made it even more fun and special.

After camping I headed out on a LONG road trip with my brother and sister Ethan and Chelsea and of course Kyren. Jordan could only take off the week for camping so he flew home. Jordans parents were life savers and gave us a car when they met us in Boise to take home, our gray pontiac is about to blow any day. It was an amazing gift that we will always be indepted to them for. And its really nice to have a reliable car. So since we had to drive it across the country we decided to make it fun, especialyl since we had to go slower with a baby. So we took about 8 days to drive it to Pittsburh. the Road trip was AWESOME, we stopped at Mt. Rushmore, went to all the church history sites, Winter courters, Independence, Far west, Adam-ondi-Ahmen, Liberty jail, Nauvoo. We ended by meeting Jordan up at Cedar Point in Ohio, which is a HUGE amusement park, stayed the night and made it home to Pittsburgh the next day. Kyren did great in the road trip, he was still small enough that being in a car seat that long didnt really bother him at all, we of course had to stop often to change diapers and get him out anyway. Oh yeah and we went through Yellowstone and camped there.

After the road trip my brother Ethan actually stayed out at our house for 2 months getting odd jobs and just hanging out. That was really fun, especially since he just left on his mission this last wednesday and we wont see him for 2 years and didnt get to go to his farewell either. It was lots of fun to get to spend that much time with him. And not to mention having a permenant babysitter if we needed one. So we got to go to the temple which we hadnt done sine Kyren was born. Now that hes 6 months were fine leaving him for a day and so can go more often. Kyren LOVED Ethan, I think its cuz Ethans a spaz ;) no but he could put Kyren to sleep just by touching him, whenever he held him Kyren went right out. And he was great at playing with him. We played games all the time, it was nice to have 3 people to play with. He would beat us both at Nertz without ever actually winning nertz each round, he was really good at getting cards in the middle.

After the Road trip my pelvic bone and tail bone were finally healed enough to run and play tennis so we started playing tennis every day. Jordan would come home from work and Ethan Kyren Jordan and I would go play tennis. Ethan had never really played before and the first time he played he hit the ball out of the court every time....just like a brute....but he learned REALLY fast and by the end of 2 months I could barely beat him.... I would say our skill level was/is the same now...Jordan is slightly better than both of us, but I can still beat him which makes tennis really fun. We have decided that that is our officialy hobby together, we love playing tennis together, and it works perfectly cuz were about the same skill level and just get better together, so were always a challenge for each other. Although we discovered we dont play very well as doubles. Have to work on that one. We started running in the park near our house too and since its fall out here its GORGEOUS! Oh I LOVE fall, its my fav season. I wish it just alternated between spring and fall. PA is amazing in the fall too cuz all the trees out here are deciduous.

Oh yeah and then just last month My big Brother got MARRIED...finally. hehe. He married a girl from Hermosa Beach California her name is Kimi and we all think shes awesome. Shes nice and spunky and I can tell she will be lots of fun to hang out with. Its fun to have a sister in law, kinda weird too since we have only had boys enter the parry family. THeir wedding was amazing, it was probably the nicest, most fluid wedding reception I have ever been too. Which says a lot cuz I loved our wedding reception. It was a beach theme. They got married in the LA temple and their sealing was very touching. They had a great sealer. While we were down there we stayed in my parents time share resort thingy right next to disneyland, went surfing, boogy boarding, played on the beach a ton and overall just had a blast. It was really cool that my whole family was there, my sister and brother in law and 4 nephews and neices drove down from boise, we all got to meet our brand new neice, Keturah Lynn Gottfredson, shes tiny! And the Chatmens flew down too and hung out with us. It was great we were all together!

Then I stayd a week in Cali so I could go to my old roomates/and one of my best friends wedding which was also int he LA temple. Yay for KRISTEN!! All the while with the blob by my side. Her wedding was so cute. I was a bridesmaid so got to help decorate and hang out with her the nights before, I got to do her hair for her wedding. Which turned out amazing and the best part was just hanging out with girls again. Katie came down from northern cali and we all spent the night in a hotel the night before playing MASH and having midnight nachos/bean dip. I hadnt played mash since on the bus in elementary school...it was so fun. Then I flew home. Which is not easy to do alone with a baby lugging all your crap with you through 3 air ports and 3 transitions! But we made it.



So then Jordan lost his Job in October like I mentioned, we were very SHOCKED to say the least but in reality we both kinda like it. I love having an unemployed husband! hehehe it was a terrible adjustment to having him gone all the time when he was working full time and we both really didnt like the hospital he was working at, really crude co workers.