It has been a fun summer with our little man! It's definitely been a big change having a dependent now. Can't just leave the house at the drop of a dime anymore, everything takes a lot more time and a lot more planning ahead. But it's definitely worth it. This summer we got to go to Lake Powell twice. The first time in June was for the Robins Roundup. That was one of those rare brief moments when every single one of the Kipp and Tammy Robins family members is together at once! We had a great time down there! We wanted to get family pictures with everyone together, but we just really couldn't take a family portrait at Lake Powell. So we did the best we could and took them right after Lake Powell and only had one person missing, Brandon, who had to get back to Oklahoma for work. Who knows if we will ever be able to get every single person together again. It's pretty tough when there are 12 kids and several of them and their families out of state. By next summer, Anderson will likely be the only grandchild in Utah! So sad! We also took another trip down to Lake Powell in August. That time it was only 7 of the kids there, plus some of the Woolley family. So a nice small group. ;)
We also had a fun 4th of July. I had to work, so Anderson went to the parade with Jared and the Roho's that morning. Then that evening, we BBQ'd at Ray and Sylvia's, then everyone came over to our house for fireworks. Pleasant Grove city does and firework show and this year they were done at the baseball diamonds right behind our house, so we had front row seats. They put on a good show and our neighbor had patriotic music playing over his sound system, so that made it even better! I love 4th of July and celebrating our great nation and our freedom.
Adam sent in his papers, got his mission call, and is now in The Phillippines serving a mission for the LDS church. I'm so proud of his decision to serve and mission and it's so amazing to read his letters and hear about the growth and wonderful experiences he's having. You can tell he's a hard worker and loves serving the Lord and the people of IloIlo. We miss him terribly though. He spent 7 weeks in the Provo MTC and then 1 more week in the Manilla MTC. Heidi and I kept up our tradition of going up to the airport to see our missionaries off. It's always fun to see them and give them a bunch of snacks for their long flights!
For Labor Day weekend, we went down to Pine Valley with my family. We stayed at a friend's cabin down there. It was a pretty fun place! They had a zipline, pickle ball court, hot tub, and all sorts of other fun stuff for adults and kids. We went hiking down there, the girls went to Tuacahn for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and we played a whole lot of pickle ball! Jared and I had to leave Sunday night cause we both had to work on Labor Day. But Labor Day evening, we met up with the Roho's for a BBQ and outdoor games. It was a fun few days.
Last year Jared and I went to the State Fair for the first time and loved it! So we decided to take little man with us this year. We had fun seeing all the animals, watching the different entertainment, carnival food, and just walking around seeing all the different shops they had set up. Anderson was a champ! He was a happy little camper with a nice nap and early start to bedtime.
The end of September, Anderson got another cousin! Little Clark was born on the 23rd. That makes 4 cousins within a year (with a 5th cousin on the way that will be about 9 months younger than Anders), plus two more that are 15 months older than Anders. All of those are boys except one, and Mindy hasn't found out the gender of hers yet. That's going to be a wild little bunch of kiddos running around! One of those little guys is also named Clark, he's on the Roho side. We're hoping Clark Rohatinsky gets another little sibling so there is one more cousin around our kid's age on that side. With Jared being 6 years younger than the next sibling, that puts us a bit behind and unfortunately our kids won't have many cousins their age. But they will have lots of older cousins to love on them and to look up to, so that's great too!
Milestones:
Anderson starting eating, no, devouring rice cereal at 4 months. When we went in for his 4 month check up he had dropped off his growth chart. Anders already wasn't even on the growth chart cause he started off so small, but he was at least following the growth curve. But from his 2 month check up to his 4 month, he had only gained one pound. Mama wasn't producing enough milk. :( I had been suspicious cause I wasn't pumping as much volume at work, but Anders was never grumpy and seemed fine after feedings, so I just figured I wasn't pumping as much as he was able to get when he was feeding off me. It was really sad and hard for me to switch to the bottle though. I had just planned on exclusively nursing till 6 months and then still doing a little bit of nursing till 9 months. That's just what I had in my mind that I wanted to do, so then when I wasn't able to and to see my poor little guy not growing adequately, I felt like a failure. I had to keep reminding myself that even though he was switching to a bottle sooner than I planned, he would still go to kindergarten just like all the other kids. And I knew it was necessary and I obviously wanted it for my child's health, but it was just hard for me to get over "breast is best." It really made me feel for all those mama's that aren't able to breast feed, that it just doesn't work out for one reason or another. But you know what, all their kids turned out just fine! So once I came to terms with it, it really did end up being a lot more convenient! And again, I would never do or not do something for my baby cause of convenience, but since it had to happen, that was a nice perk!
Anderson STILL hates tummy time and refuses to roll. I think he's accidentally rolled over about 6 times, but I'm quite sure they've never been intentional. He'll play on his tummy for about 5 minutes, then he's over it! He'll start crying and push himself around in circles with his feet. I try helping him flip over to his back so he can get a sense of the feeling, but he just has no desire to do it! But on a more positive note, he's great at sitting! Since birth he's been really good at holding his back straight and holding his neck. He's always had great control that way. So I kind of always had a feeling he'd be sitting before he rolls. I was right. He hasn't perfected it, but usually he'll sit for upwards of a minute before kicking his legs too hard and falling over. So I'm proud of him for that! You win some, you lose some. I figure with any child they'll be ahead with some milestones and behind with some milestones, but eventually they'll hit them.
I'm just really so grateful to have such a happy, healthy little boy. We love our Anderson Ray to pieces and have loved watching him grow and develop!
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