6 Months Old

Where has the time gone? Our little guy is growing like crazy, rolling over and over and over again, and then scooting himself across the bed, the floor, and his crib! On October 30th he turned 6 months old, and as Nathan and I sat and reflected with tears in our eyes, and said to each other, "if the next 6 months go as fast as the last 6...we're in trouble!" We looked through hospital pictures, and first few days home pictures, and then looked down on the floor at our little guy kicking and screaming, with a smile on his face. Now he is drooling like crazy, making different noises, and sucking his toes! We measured Gunnar last night, and he's measuring in at 28 1/4 inches long, and 17 lbs heavy! Still, just long and lean, but wearing mostly 9 month clothes! I checked my baby book after getting Gunnar's stats, and found that 25 years ago, I was weighing in and measuring the exact SAME measurements as Gunnar! All along he has looked like my baby pictures, and just like my parents used to get, we are getting the "oh my gosh, he is long for his age!" Which he should be, for having tall parents!

I guess you could call us bad parents, since we were selfish and took Gunnar to Rapid City with us on Saturday! It was the only day it was going to work, and Halloween just happened to fall on the same day. Needless to say, Gunnar didn't get to dress up and go trick or treating, which for all 3 of us was probably for the best, because I really didn't need candy sitting around the house waiting for me to eat it! He gets dressed up pretty much EVERY day, with either me or my mom when she is here visiting, putting coordinating outfits on him! Anyway, after our Rapid City trip, we called Kit & Kayla and they met us for supper at the Chophouse in Spearfish-YUM! We had our Walmart trip left, and then we headed home, but not after getting some DQ ice cream!

Sunday was a lazy day, which was nice. We each walked some trees, and a crick bottom, with the 2 girls, trying to find some birds, but no luck. It was a windy day, but we bundled Gunnar up, and he hung out with one of us in the pickup, while we took turns walking. We also got to witness something that many people won't witness, a big badger killing a skunk. I know, gross, yuck, whatever, but to us, it's GREAT! We have SO many darn skunks around here that Mr. Badger is welcome to kill as many as he wants. We pulled the pickup up to him and just watched him, it was very interesting to see the circle of life. Today a skunk live trap also got dropped off at our house, which is exciting for me, because I love to trap those darn things! And now with it being enclosed, we shouldn't get sprayed as often! Nathan has a pretty low maintenance wife if I get excited over a skunk live trap, wouldn't you say? :)

On Wednesday we are doing Gunnar's professional 6 month pictures, and our family pictures! The weather is supposed to be nice and actually "fall" like, so I'm hoping we get to go outside for some pics too! Otherwise, we are just enjoying our life, and our 6 month old beautiful boy!