Eating, Sitting, Bath Time, and Breathing

Here's a few updates for what is up at 6 months old.......

First, we LOVE our food. Our favorites are home-made squash and sweet potatoes!

As you can see, Mom let Tyler have a little fun, so in the bathtub we go. Now that we're better at sitting up on our own, we tried out the Duck bath tub. The first time he was a little hesitant, but by the 2nd bath we have totally figured out how to splash and play with ALL of our toys!

We have been struggling with a cough for a few months on and off, and we finally had a bad enough episode while in St. Louis to warrant a visit to the Dr. We have Bronchiolitis, and did breathing treatments for a few weeks. For a little boy, he did a GREAT job with them! Dad had the magic touch!

And, our big accomplishments the week we got back from St. Louis was that we began sitting up on our own, and we can roll from our tummy to back! Now that he figured it out, it's automatic the minute he's on his tummy. :)

(Yes, he is watching a Cardinals game...I like to think that it's just the red catching his attention, but I may just have to face the facts that my TV will forever be on ESPN and Fox Sports Net.)

St. Louis Vacation - part 4

On Sunday we had coffee on the deck, took a few family pictures, and all headed our separate ways back home. As the saying in Stanton goes, "And a good time was had by all!"

Since Chase and Tyler are so close in age (August 27th and November 3rd), we try to get them in pictures together as much as we can to see how they grow up together....you can see that they will be trouble on the farm sooner than we think!!!

Emma (2 1/2), Pappa Knute, Tyler (6 1/2 months), Grandma Denise, & Chase (8 1/2 months)

The Newman Family

St. Louis Vacation - part 3

Saturday found the little one's waking up early to ensure the mom's remembered that we can't party like we're still young! We spent the early morning hours just enjoying the quiet. Grandma Denise baked a great breakfast casserole (of which the smell finally arose Andrew, Carrie, and Josh!) and we all spent the day enjoying the cabin, the river view, and the great weather. In the late afternoon we played some games and Grandma again came through with a lasagne supper. After some brief hot-tubbing, we ate smores, played one last game, and headed to bed!

Chase and Emma enjoying the early view - or fighting for a spot on the couch by Grandma!
Grandpa Knute and Tyler enjoying some sun by the river!

Grandma Denise has the touch - Chase is lights out!

Emma had to try on the nice hat she found - and show Grandpa!

Allison, Tyler, and Grandpa enjoying the evening after our hot-tubbing.

Daddy and Tyler - what you can't see is that what Tyler is eating is a pretzel. He gets really mad when you take it away from him!!!

St. Louis Vacation - part 2

St. Louis...continued! While at the zoo, we found out we could now get out to the cabin (long story, don't ask!) so we very quickly checked out of the hotel and drove to the cabin. In a matter of 15 minutes or less, we dumped all our luggage and kids into the cabin, changed clothes, and the 3 young couples too off to go to a Cardinals baseball game. Poor Grandma and Grandpa - they really didn't know what they were getting into when volunteering to babysit the 3 young grandchildren! We had a great time at the game thanks to Zach's friends at Budweiser and Josh's co-workers. You will see in the following pictures how great of a time it was. :) Unfortunately, at the cabin Grandma and Grandpa were trying to figure out who's bag was who's, what food goes with what kid, etc. Grandma Denise changed a lot of dirty diapers, and then poor Emma got sick and threw up on Grandma. Needless to say they were happy when we finally got home.

This is a picture from our seats - THANKS ZACH!!!
Val and Allison enjoying the game.

Val & Zach, Allison, Josh & Carrie

The cute dating couple - Carrie and Josh

Andrew and Val - if you've seen Val's blog - what's up with the whole mouth open thing?!?

Val and Zach Hensley

Carrie - seriously, it's like 11 PM! Lose the shades!

Andrew and Allison - take a bet which one of us got up with Tyler the next morning!

Allison, Carrie, Val, and Josh

St. Louis Vacation

The Hallquist family gathered for a mini-vacation in St. Louis in mid-May. The story of the trip is such a good one that I'll do it in a few posts. ;) We all drove our separate ways and met Thursday night - the goal was to go to a log cabin on the Mississippi, but flooding prevented us from getting out to it. We headed to the St. Louis Zoo on Friday- if you've never been, I recommend it!

Pappa Knute showing Tyler the penguins.
Grandma Denise and Tyler.

Grandpa, Tyler, Grandma - and the Gorilla.

Aunt Carrie, Josh, and that pesky Gorilla!

The Newman's

In case you're wondering, the Hensley's were with us, but we separated a bit for them to take Emma to the petting zoo - and that happened to be when we got Tyler out of the stroller to take pictures! Don't worry - they will be in the next blog!!

Just Monkeying Around!

Here are some of Tyler's 6 month pictures....they turned out good, but I don't think they do his normal smile justice!

Eating & Laughing!

May brought lots of fun in our first Mother's Day, trying lots of new food, and lots of laughs..

Grandpa Knute is great at feeing Tyler. Here he's trying his hand at Jello!

Tyler is trying to show Dad he can hold his own bottle!

I'm Clean Mom!!!

Tyler has started to really laugh, and Dad is great at getting him to do it. Grandpa Knute has been trying to get Tyler to say "Pappa Knute" - so that's what Daddy is saying here... :)