Hat trouble

Today I was getting Asher ready to go to the library- I put his hat on him and then turned my back to put my coat on. He started making crying and fussing sounds and when I looked over, he had knocked his hat down over his eyes.
I fixed it and then went to go get my keys and when I came back- he had done the same thing again! It happened three times within 5 min! I think he was kind of frustrated with his hat!

We knew it-- he is a genius!

My dad told me that I needed to put up some new pictures because the ones I had were of Asher in his first few weeks of life. I agree, so here are the latest pictures of my little nursling.

Asher studying up on his statics and dynamics-- you know just in case.
Loving life in his bouncy chair-- with a deer caught in the headlights look!

Straight from the bath with a new hairdo!

The hair is slightly more under control-- but he looks pretty intimidating in his prison (baseball) getup

Charlie Bit Me!

Okay so I swiped this off of a friend's blog (thanks Danica!) and I just wanted to re-post because it made me laugh so hard. My favorite part is Charlie's diabolical laugh after, it reminds me of something from a cartoon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

Sad and Funny Story

Sad part of the story:

On our way back from Idaho we had some car trouble. We were only about 10 min from home (luckily not on the freeway) and had some problems with our transmnission-- our car wouldn't move and made this awful grinding sound. Luckily the Farrells came and resuced us in their Suburban and towed our car back to our house. That was quite an adventure given that it was snowy and dark. But we made it. Jon has fixed part of the problem but it still makes a funny noise, hopefully he will be able to fix it and we won't have to take it in to the shop!



Funny part of the story:

Because our car doesn't work our next door neighbors, who just bought a new car, let us borrow thier minivan 'till ours is fixed. Last week we drove it to Bountiful to visit the Farrells and as we were pulling into Jon's neighborhood we saw one of Jon's high school friends walking out to his car with his baby. Jon was excited to stop and show him Asher, but just as soon as he started to slow down, he changed his mind and instead sped up past his friend. I looked at him in suprise and he just looked straight ahead and said,
"We can't stop, we are in a minivan. I'm not ready to stop in a minivan yet."

I guess a minivan is a long cry away from the Mustang. We'll give him a few years to break into the "minivan stage" of life.

Oh and just for fun here is a cute picture of Asher dressed up to go out in his snow suit
and sleeping with his mountain man dad.

Asher's First Christmas

What at wonderful Christmas we had! We had a wonderful time with the Thomas Family up in Idaho and it was fun to get to see Asher with his Grandpa, Uncle, Aunts, and Grandma. My favorite moment was when my dad turned to me and said "You know I don't mind being a Grandpa so much, I didn't think I'd feel this way about this little boy." It melted my heart:)

Asher didn't pay much attention to any of his presents, in fact he slept through all of the Christmas presents! But here is him reveling in the aftermath.

Anna gave him this little Christmas outfit when he was born. When I looked at it I thought, "boy that won't fit him by Christmas, but we can put him in it and take a picture for Anna." But when we went to put him in it, just ten days later, I was so surprised to see that it fit him perfect! He has been growing so fast. He was back to his birth weight within five days after his birth and had already gained a pound by his 2 week check up!
Jon asked if he was going to keep gaining a pound a week and then stopped and said "Well, I sure hope not because then he'd be 52lbs by next Christmas." Needless to say we'd have to get a new car seat:)