8 months

Dinner Time!

Look at my Mohawk

Time to go to the Park

I love to swing!

Me and my Daddy!

Cookie!

I'm so cute

Hollie is my best friend

OooooOOOo

So happy!

Trying to escape!

oh look! Buttons!

Happy Halloween!

This post is about a week overdue but here is my little 8 month old baby boy! He lights up our lives!
Treyson is crawling, chattering, pulling himself up to standing on the furniture, smiling, laughing, eating 3 meals a day, and loving every minute of life.
He currently has 2 teeth and 1 very close to breaking through.
He loves dogs, cats, and other babies, and pretty girls (what a flirt!).
His favorite food is Turkey and veggies. He also loves white grape juice.
He is currently probably a little over 20 pounds and in size 3 diapers, 6-9 month clothes though not for much longer.
He loves playing with Daddy!
Bath time is his favorite and he will stay in the tub for hours if we let him!

Birthday fun

So just days before my birthday Treyson turned 7 months old. He has become this really exciting little person. He is so close to crawling and is even cutting 2 teeth!! His personality is really blossoming lately. I feel so blessed to be able to call him my baby boy.
It would be really hard to post this without acknowledging a change that took place in my life; a change that came from a little boy.
For a little while I had been having a really hard time, Treyson was getting up at least twice every night and I was feeiling very sleep deprived and honestly I was angry when I had to get up with him.
Then I saw the post on Becca's Facebook; her precious baby boy had passed away at just 2 months old. I think I cried off and on that whole week. That was by far the hardest funeral I have ever had the opportunity to attend. I can't even pretend to imagine what Becca has been feeling since that day.
However, it did bless my life. I have been able to cherish every moment since then with Treyson. My heart goes out to my friend, but it has truly changed my life and my perspective on the "difficulties" of being a mom.

I was able to celebrate my 23rd birthday yesterday. I had such a good day. Aj bought me an iPhone5 for my birthday, so generous of him. I was also able to have a small girls night which was so much fun!! Thank you Whitney, Ceason, and Katelyn for coming over!

Life has been fairly normal other wise; work, school, baby for Aj and just baby for me. It's been wonderful just to be a little family.

6 months

I am so in love with this little boy
OK so here is the 6 month low down.

Treyson is pretty much crawling... terrifying I know! He has this little army crawl that he can do really fast now and even gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth.
He loves his binky and everything else comes 2nd on his list... except food.
He's trying really hard to learn to get to a sitting position by himself, but once he's there he can sit up for quite a while, though he doesn't very often because there are just too many things to see and do.
His favorite foods are sweet potatoes, oatmeal, bananas.
He gives very slobbery kisses.
He laughs really hard when you tickle him or play peek-a-boo with him or when mommy is trying to nurse him to sleep and Daddy keeps trying to talk to him.
He loves to help type on the computer... or play with Daddy's Ipad.
Naps are aweful.
Baths are awesome.

basically life is good.

Just Call Me Angel

 Life with this precious boy is so wonderful, and so very tiring. He is so smiley and giggly and he is almost always happy. It's so much fun to watch him reach for toys and roll or scoot his way towards things that he wants.
He is also very needy sometimes. He doesn't like to be left alone for too long or to be ignored and he really hates it when you put him down so that you can go to the bathroom or make dinner :)

 We did, however, get him this wonderful jumper, that he loves. It was long overdue and has quickly become very popular in our house. He still doesn't like to be left alone though. He much prefers to show off to Mom and Dad all of the cool things that this toy does, but if you smile at him and let him play he gets a look of pure joy on his face.

We love to play with the Zufelts and REALLY love watching Treyson and Hollie interact. This is a common sight: Treyson all smiles and Hollie angry (notice that she is flipping AJ the bird lol)

Life as a parent is pretty much wonderfully tiring.

4.5 months old

sleepy boy

His favorite place to sleep

2 months old

Baby and Daddy at Treyson's Blessing

what a cute face!

Captain Cutie reporting for duty

3 months old

naked is the best

Chillin' with Daddy and Grand Dad

First "swimming" experience at Lake Powell

not a huge fan of the cold water

Hollie and Treyson

He sure loves his Bink

4 months old

Beautiful Blue eyes and long lashes

He has basketball shorts just like his Daddy's

Trying to roll back onto his back. It doesn't happen very often and he gets very frustrated

Hanging out with Daddy

I love this face!

The last four months have been some of the most amazing of my life. Treyson has learned to do so much:

smile

laugh

grasp

roll onto his tummy

blow raspberries

eat solids

sleep through the night

recognize mommy and daddy

Even though being a mommy is really hard and sometimes very tiring, it is so worth it. I would not trade my little man for anything. He is such a blessing in our lives.

One month

This post is 2 weeks late but oh well.
One month old.

This little man has completely turned our world upside down, and we love it. Even though adjusting to raising this wonderful boy has been really hard, AJ and I both really love our new roles as parents. He is the most beautiful baby boy.
I am breastfeeding which has come to be some of my most favorite times of the day.
Treyson is an amazing baby and only cries really when he's trying to poop or when we put him in his car seat which he hates.
His favorite toys are rattles. Grandma Whetten got him some bootie rattles which he loves!! but really any rattle noise will do.
I am loving the moments when he just wants to cuddle.
He also is very good at sleeping at night. Not through the night (longest stretch is about 6 hours) but he's definitely a good sleeper.
We love him a lot.

We are greatly anticipating the arrival of Holly Zufelt, who will probably be Treyson's closest friend...at least for the first few years of his life, and most likely because they will be close in age and because the parents of both are best friends so we'll be spending a lot of time together.


Also just for anyone who is interested we will be blessing Treyson Henry Sovine on the 6th of May, 2012.

March 2, 2012

Treyson and Daddy

1st picture ever

1st tummy time

just chillin' with mom

this little man came into our lives on March 2, 2012 at 10:23 PM weighing 6lbs and measuring 17.5 inches long. Such a little guy with so much hair! He is perfect!

I started having contractions late on the 1st but they weren't strong enough to wake me up and they weren't regular at all so I pretty much just brushed them off. Friday morning i took AJ to school and was still having very irregular contractions. After picking him up we went to Toys R Us just to walk around and that was about when I starting having really intense and regular contractions, even though they were about 30 minutes apart. When we got home I got into a nice warm tub and put on some soothing music and relaxed for about an hour and a half with contractions getting closer to 20 minutes apart. As soon as i got out of the tub they were WAY more intense and about 15 minutes apart, so we got out the birthing ball and i bounced/sat/leaned over it until around 6 or 7 pm when I called my mom to come over and help me (about 10 minutes apart). After about an hour and a half of consistent/intense contractions about 6 or 7 minutes apart I decided it was time to go to the hospital so i told my mom goodbye and AJ and I headed out. We arrived at 8:30 and checked into a triage room so that they could make sure I really was in Labor and to see how far progressed I was. Congratulations to me I was 7 cm fully effaced so I got to check in and move to a labor room. Thats when things got really exciting.
I got into that room about 9 pm and by 10 my contractions were so close and so intense that I threw my natural childbirth method out the window and asked for an epidural, which is when my midwife finally got there and decided before I get one they should check me. I was almost 10 cm so we decided to break my water and see if that would get me to a full 10 and then it would be time to push. So she broke my water and I got a good 5 minute break from contractions and all of a sudden my body just took over and started pushing. Its very intense and crazy because it was not a conscious decision at all. Pushing was very hard and very intense also but after only 20 minutes my little boy was born. He is so beautiful and so perfect. I love him. I owe a lot to my midwife for being so amazing and also to my sweet husband who was so amazing and supportive to me.
We are so excited now to be home and to be our own little family. AJ especially loves being a Daddy and lights up at the littlest things our little one does. It completely melts my heart to see them together. We are discovering and being parents sure is hard work, but its so worth it and we wouldn't give him back for anything in the world. We are so blessed.
Special thank you to family who have been so supportive and so willing to come watch him so that we can get a little extra sleep.