Look what I found!

What are you looking at?

What's this?

I've got 2, sweet! Now, where can I put them?

Almost there

Finally!

About a week ago, Orion found his feet and really started to use them. For his 5 month birthday, he gave us a treat and found his mouth. Not the most hygienic thing in the world, but very cute!

More Giggles

Just a few giggles on Orion's 5-month B-Day.

Baby time

Lauren making sure Sarah and Kevin do it right!

Uncle Kevin has his hands full

Hudson loves Uncle Kevin's kisses

Hudson sleeping

Meet the Becker family

Uncle Alan & Orion

Aunt Geri & Orion

Orion napping with Jerod

Uncle Kevin snuggling Lauren

Everyone trying to feed Orion

We went to visit Grandpa Bob this weekend to celebrate his birthday a few days early. We had lots of family come to help us celebrate as well. Of course when my family gets together it's never a small gathering. I would guess somewhere around 34 people total which isn't even the entire family. We had enough people for a baseball game with kids vs. the adults with the adults winning 8 to 7...although the game was called early due to exhaustion by some of the adults. It was great for Orion to get to meet more of his family and of course he charmed everyone. Here are just a few pictures of the 140 I took this weekend!

Lots of family

The Tuttle Kids & Dad

Jodi & Savannah

Uncle Dan & Orion

Aunt Peggy & Orion

More family

Hugging Grandpa Bob goodbye

Tommy & Orion

Who is BS'ing Who?

"How did the rattle get on my foot?"

Giggles

Grandparents everywhere

Today Grandma Barb, Grandpa Pete and Great Grandma Donna came to visit Orion. He was just about ready for a nap when they got here but he held out and even flashed his smile a few times. It was a nice visit and once they left it took Orion exactly 2 minutes to fall asleep.

Photo shoot

I realized this afternoon that we needed to get some new pictures of Orion up today. So I put him in the chair and began taking pictures while I was on the phone with Auntie Mary. He only smiled for one of them of course. When he is sitting now he likes to pull himself up even more and he ended up tipping over in the very last picture.

20 weeks old

Orion swinging with Daddy

I'm such a big boy!

Orion swinging with Mommy

Relaxing with Daddy at the park

My two boys both swinging.

Orion is 20 weeks old today. I told Kevin this morning I keep thinking we are half way to 1 year with him being 20 weeks because we were half way done with the pregnancy when we hit the 20 week mark. We walked to the park for the first time today and took Orion on the swings, down the slide and on the see-saw. It was so much fun to watch him on the swing all by himself although it doesn't seem right that he can swing by himself already. Where did our little baby go?

Play time

More play time

Mommy digs me

It's not so easy to get Orion to sit for a picture now. If he is laying too far back for his liking then he will try to sit himself up. Today he did that and ended up pretty much folded over in half and eating his toes. He is wearing a new outfit that we just had to buy for him that says "Mommy digs me".

Mother's Day

Today has been a very emotional day for me for many reasons. This is the 11th Mother's Day that I have had to endure without my mom and for that reason it is very sad. This is also the first Mother's Day that I get to celebrate with Orion and that makes me so very happy. One minute I am crying because I miss my mom and the next minute I am crying because I look over at Orion and feel so blessed to call him my son.

My mom was the most incredible mom in the world, those of you who know her will agree with me. She made me feel so special every day and even though I only had her for almost 21 years she taught me many things in such a short time. I like to think I am a little like her with a few things. I like to mow the lawn like she did, and for her this weekend I mowed the lawn cross ways like she loved to to. I also love to read like she did. Every time I pick up a book to read to Orion I remember her saying that she was never too busy to read to a child. She read to her nieces and nephews and to her two grandchildren that she got to meet, Jerod and Tommy. I also make sure that when I am rocking Orion to sleep I take the blanket and pull it up over his ear. My mom was magic when it came to putting babies to sleep and she always made sure their ears were covered.

I am trying to pass on everything to Orion that my mom taught me. I want him to grow up knowing that his mommy loves him so much and always will. I want him to grow up saying that he had the Beaver Cleaver life like I did, although he probably won't know who Beaver Cleaver is! I tell Orion about his Grandma Dotti in heaven who watches over us and I swear I can see her smile at me through him.

As I write this Kevin is reading books to Orion and I am watching them thinking that this is the best Mother's Day ever because I got to spend the entire day with my husband and my son. If my mom was still here I would call her and simply say "thank you for being the mom that I hope someday to be".

Saturday visitors

Grandma reading to Orion

Lennon you look at the camera, I will look at my Mommy

Orion is looking at his Daddy and Lennon is looking at his Daddy

Yesterday Grandma Barb came to visit with Orion for a while. Right after Grandma left our friends Steve and Christin came with their 6 month old son Lennon who we had yet to meet. We managed to take a few pictures of the boys together although Lennon looked at the camera better then Orion did.

Elmo

When Auntie Geri gave Orion these bibs she said that she bought them for him to wear for Hadley because she knows how much Hadley likes Elmo. We didn't get to see Hadley yesterday when Orion wore these but we are hoping she can look at the pictures and see how cute he looks wearing Elmo!

Daddy's getting me

This is the fun game that Daddy plays with Orion and he laughs every time!

Play date

Hudson you look up and I will look down

Now we both look at the camera...but which one?

Why does he want to hold my hand Mommy?

See Auntie Becky I am not always an angel!

Auntie Sarah and Hudson came today to visit us. We had many plans for what we were going to do this afternoon and we ended up just staying in and talking between nap times and feeding times with the boys. Even though they are a few months apart in age they don't look that different in size anymore! We managed to get a quick photo shoot in before they had to leave. We want to have another play date soon!