This is so difficult...

I am so bad at regularly blogging....but that's too bad! I'll get to it when I can, which is now because I have other stuff I should be doing while Niko is actually napping for more than five minutes :)
Niko is now almost five months old...so I guess I'll share some photos from his fourth month here with us!

I just love this one...his eyes are wide and so blue!

Niko loves the dogs...and they love him. Tinkerbell watches him or lies next to him frequently. And she will let him yank out her fur and then beg for more. They are cute together.

His first Easter basket...that is hidden from all the stuff he received! 

I love the ribbon in his mouth :)

New frog towel from Tracy

And on his 4 month birthday

AWESOME smile

So adorable!!

He found his tongue :P

Checking out Daddy's tags

It's always about the pictures....then I don't have to say as much! Well the school year is coming to an end, which means I can start letting Niko sleep as long as he wants every morning....hopefully then we can get to a more normal schedule. 

Nathan will be coming home this summer and I am so very excited! I can't even express the crazy emotions! I'm looking forward to having the family together and coming up with a routine that works for all of us and really get Nathan involved so they can bond. I can hardly wait to see Niko smile at his Daddy for the first time (he has smiled while on skype but not directly at Nathan since he doesn't really see him). So thrilling. Of course that means I'm busy trying to get everything done that needs to be finished so that we can just relax for a week or so and get into a rhythm. So I'm blogging, because that's a must....except not. So now I'm headed to actually accomplish things!!!

Slacker

That's what I am, a slacker! It's been almost a full month since I posted meaning if I don't do something now then I will go from Niko's 3 month to his 4 month with nothing in between. I'm busy, give me a break. I don't know how people with children can post every few days....maybe they don't have an extra job. I'm so exhausted on days I work that I have to force myself to workout (which is going quite well, Jillian likes to kick my butt and I'm thankful since I have a wedding to appear in soon). Then I play catch up with everything else on days off and this is not a top priority (sorry).
Anyway enough excuses. We are finally preparing for Nathan to come home!!! I'm so beyond excited to see him for long than two weeks and to see him with his son :) He did so well when Niko was born...helping with diapers and cuddling and encouraging of the nursing (which I needed), but it will be even more fun to see now that Niko is interacting with people. He smiles, giggles and flirts....he even smiles to get your attention or will give me the pouty lip because he knows it makes me laugh and then he giggles too :) SO MUCH FUN!
Part of getting ready for Nathan to come home involves figuring out a job for him and just our life plans in general. We all know the military is unpredictable and we will be waiting to hear about two different jobs in the military...so he needs a civilian job while we wait for that....you know since the bills don't stop coming. The homecoming is stressful, but so very exciting.
Speaking of bills, I'm doing this to put off paying bills...so I should get back to that.
But before I do...a picture from our trip. Niko and I drove down to Utah since I had a long weekend for Easter. We stayed at Jenise's house and added to her chaos :) We were working out and Niko fell asleep  in his Bumbo

Avarie loved Niko...she was always trying to calm him if he started crying or anything, so adorable!

I just realized how few pictures I have from the trip...sad.

Here's a few from this month before our trip.

Uncle Trevor helping him "walk" and the last 

picture of them before Trev left for his hike

 Above and below are some cute outfits from Sheri and Bob :)

With his little fohawk :)

Rambo still loves him!

Okay now I'm getting the stuff done that I actually NEED to do!

Three months already!

It's been three months since Niko was born and I don't know how I ever thought I was so busy before!!!
We are doing much better with going to work now that Niko has decided he wants a bottle and only a bottle. I'm still struggling with the arrangement, but he is happy so I am too :) And how can I complain when that's the only real issue we've had? He is such an awesome baby...he only cries when he needs something and is happy to just check things out (although he has a new thing where he wants to sit up straight all the time and he can't do it by himself, it can be tiring) and he will go to sleep in his crib. I think I am being very spoiled by this first baby. But if he's anything like Nathan or me when we were toddlers then he will make up for it :)
And now some pictures:
It was finally warm enough for a walk...he's asleep or he would be hating the sunglasses!

The smiles took team work: Grandma held him, I talked to him and Ryanne took pictures...but they're so worth it.

I finally got a good smiling picture by myself...while at work even! And his outfit is so adorable :)

He fell asleep while I was vacuuming....but he was only happy if I was carrying him.

 Rambo loves him too :)

A couple of the official 3 month pictures (on time too!)

 And some extra cute ones............

That is all. And of course it is all about this little (well big, but still little) boy!

FAMILY

I finally got Nathan to send me this picture so I had to share!

This is from Niko's blessing when he was one week old. Nathan did a great job and it was a small but awesome gathering. We did it kind of last minute because I was still in too much pain to do it at church the one Sunday Nathan was here and then we were running out of time. So a huge thank you to the bishop, Remington and the family for coming so last minute!

Anyway, this is our only family picture where I'm not in a hospital gown so I have really been bugging Nathan to email it to me :)

That is all for now!

So there's this boy...

and my world revolves around him :)  I have lots of pictures of him and nothing else! So here are a few:

He was really upset and didn't like anything I tried, until I wrapped

 him in Daddy's blanket! He's a fat little burrito :)

 A couple on the day he turned two months:

Since I'm living with Gramma while Nathan is away I'm trying to keep to my bedroom as much as possible. So I have had to keep coming up with more places to put things. This is the most recent and my favorite. I needed some more space for his clothes so I bought this. It is actually for a bathroom, but it works perfect to hang his clothes in my bedroom that is running out of floor space.

And for more pictures you can go here.  

PS I had more pictures and a full blog and then closed the window before posting...so mad. So I just put all the pictures on facebook and didn't even delete the bad ones!