Can't Get Enough of Him!

Barrett wearing Justin's hat.


Enjoying some spagetti...and giggling as he fed most of it to Koda.


Barrett climbed into this box all by himself, pulled all the packaging out, and then climbed out of the box to throw all the packaging into the other room. :) He's a very busy boy!

We've Got A Climber!!!

Mommy had to move all the plants, because I love to get into them! This now looks like a great thing to climb.


One leg up...I'm ready to go!


No feet on the ground anymore! I think I can go all the way to the top!


Uh-oh!!! Well, maybe next time....

Barrett is 10 Months Old!!

He loves playing with the blinds!

What a happy guy

Look at those blue eyes!!

He's definitely all boy


Barrett is growing so fast and soon he'll be one year old!! I have realized that I need to start planning for a birthday party. :) Maybe that will be a good time for people to all get together and hang out too, since most of this summer we are all pretty busy. Every year I promise myself that I'll get to the cabin more, but as always I don't think I can get up there that much this summer. :( Anyway, I hope everyone understands about the whole privacy of the blog thing. As I blog I realize how many random people could be reading my blog and feel like they "know" us. I'm not sure I like that. It's also for safety reasons for Barrett. I know it all seems far-fetched, but you never know. Okay, here are Barrett's stats:

**Weighs 23 lbs. (didn't gain any weight in 3 months...I guess it's all his moving around)
**75th percentile for length
**Sucks his right thumb
**Cruises around objects
**Army crawls and crawls on hands and knees
**Has practiced standing without holding anything, but falls soon after
**Nursing was officially done two days ago
**Drinks formula just fine now
**Eats all solid foods (no more blending foods in the blender)
**Likes to eat any and all fruit, pasta, zucchini, lunch meat, hamburger, well why do I even bother listing things...he eats anything. (Ben even gave him a little sauerkraut and he didn't even make a face)
**Loves swimming and will even paddle and kick when you hold him in the water
**Says lots of sounds, but no first word yet.
**Gets compliments on his blue eyes all the time. I was told today that Barrett's got something special and she wasn't kidding! :)

A Weekend Getaway

We enjoyed a long weekend with family. We first headed up to Rose Lake to visit with Ben's aunt and uncle and family. We enjoyed the sun and the boat rides and the campfires. After that we headed over to East Twin Lake and spent the days and evening with my family. Rex and Monica were there and brought 80's Trivial Pursuit and Wii. We had fun playing, although I must say that the 80's game is very difficult. The sun was shining, but the temps stayed cool. There wasn't any laying out for me. All I did was go in the hot tub a lot and enjoy the company. We did take one boat ride which was very nice, too. won't be able to go back up until a stort trip for my cousin's bachelorette party and then not again until August. Wow, the summer does book up quite fast.