The Many Faces of Dawson

Cuddly Dawson

Sleepy Dawson

Dramatic Dawson

Hungry Dawson

Playful Dawson

Dawson on a mission

Gangsta Dawson

(So um, sorry about the picture ... My camera has a tendency of flipping my pictures upside down ... Not sure why)

And our personal favorite:
5-Month-old Dawson

My goodness we love this little dude!

2011 has come and gone.

Our Christmas was an eventful one. We spent 3 weeks in Utah and Wyoming visiting friends and family. We loved every minute of it.

When we first came to Utah, we spent a little time with my brother and his family. Sierra sat on Aaron's lap, and I had to take a picture. How cute!

We had a few adventures with Travis' family. In the top row, 3rd from the left, is a picture of Elise with a candy cane in one hand, and 2 suckers and an M&M in the other. Oh silly Elise!
The bottom right picture is one of my dear Georgia friends holding our Dawson!

Utah didn't have much snow for us, but luckily, Wyoming provided! Dawson had a few snow adventures that included sledding, making snow angels, and not being able to move in his snow suit(s). He ended up falling asleep during his first sledding adventure, and I mean during. He fell asleep on Aaron's lap going down the hill. Oh Dawson!

We had some fun with Dawson's cousins and we went bowling with some friends in Wyoming. The picture of Dawson in his "bed" is the morning we found him perpendicular to where we laid him down. I don't know how it happened, but it did ...

Even after a month, Dawson is still as cute as ever. I made him some bow ties and he sports them with outstanding GQ fashion. We've also found out that he likes to sit up. He needs lots of help, but he still LOVES it. So we plop him in a high chair with all his toys. We tried a sitting up bath, but that didn't work too well, I couldn't reach his rolls as well!
Dawson is so fun, and we loved the time we got to spend with him without the interruption of school! As much as we loved our vacation, it's good to be home and back in the swing of things!

Happy 2012!!

My 3 Month Old

So, Aaron and I decided to take a swing at doing our own 3 Month photos. We'll go to a photographer ...
But these are the highlights!

What are YOU doing here? This is MY photo shoot!

Ok, we're friends again!

Dawson generally falls asleep when we don't want to nor when we are expecting it. (His schedule is pretty wacked out and I have no hopes of reviving it till the holidays and travels are over). So he was playing with his pillowpet, and then it was quiet. He was clutching the pillow with both hands! So cute!

Ahh those CHEEKS!

Another sleeping picture, I thought he was sucking his thumb .... but he wasn't ha ha.

No more pictures?!?! How could you?!

Homework and Babysitting

Aaron and I have a system, Aaron babysits while I make dinner.

I guess whatever makes Dawson happy ... =)

Getting Crafty

So I got this jumper at a garage sale before Dawson was born and before we found our apartment. If we had found the apartment, I wouldn't have gotten it. You see, Our apartment has a serious lack of usable door frames. Not that there isn't any around, just that there isn't any I can hang this bouncer on. Let's just say the only places he can bounce is in his closet, our closet, the laudndry room (he'd have to bounce on the dryer ...), or our bathroom. Not too ideal, but it's working.

This was his first experience in it. He didn't know what to think. He couldn't even touch the ground. So he just sat there and slowly rotated in circles.

So we gave him something to jump on =) He liked that very much.

"Now what do I do Daddy?"

So I just joined pinterest ... and well. It's been fun and addicting. I'm glad Aaron is tolerant of this. The only way I get away with doing all these crafts is by telling him that I can do each one for under $5. And some share supplies, and all of them use up supplies that we've had for a while!

So I made a yarn wreath =) This yarn is a result from an attempted baby blanket ... I did about 10 rows and quit. Lame ....

Our Christmas decorations!

Ok, back to pinterest! (Blogger is special and rearranges my pictures ...)

Aaron collects coins ... he used to have bags and boxes full of them. So I got him some coin books to actually make it authentic. But he has so many foreign coins from his mission and what not. They're all way cool and I love looking at them. They are always tucked away and never looked at! So with Aaron's permission and guidance as to which side of the coin he wants showing. I glued magnets to the back of them. They're on with hot glue too, so if Aaron changes his mind (He had a hard time letting me do this, but he's enjoyed seeing them on a daily basis) he can just peel them off and they'll be back to normal!

I even trimmed his pins down and made magnets. How fun!

Then I got wine glasses at the dollar store. The pretty ones were etched and monogramed and what not. So I painted them =) I lined one with magnets and they are going on our bathroom counter. They'll hold bobby pins (hence the magnetic strip), hair ties, and Q-tips. I'm excited to have these out.

A friend of mine gave me this play place. It converts into a crawl tunnel, and she gave it to me assembled that way. Well, it took 3 months, 400 miles, and a week at my sister's place (Thanks Heather) ... but I found out (rather Heather showed me) that it can convert into a play mat. DUH! I had it in tunnel form with the toys dangling on it next to Dawson. He wasn't that entertained with it, because he couldn't reach it, he could just swat it with one hand. Here is what the tunnel looks like. Needless to say, he LOVES it now and it's been nice for me because I can do things while he enterains himself. Beautiful!

Returned Missionaries, Dinosaurs, and Turkey!

A few weeks ago, my friend David came home from his mission. So we headed back to my old stomping grounds and to the church building I grew up in to hear David's talk. He seemed to like our little guy =)

Dawson got some shots later that week, and I felt bad for him. So I got him a pillow pet so he could be just like daddy! He LOVES it!

He doesn't normally show any response or emotion towards any toys. Well, except for a little plush ambulance ... but that one makes him cry. We put this on top of him and he grabbed it and stuffed it in his mouth. He giggled and smiled. He loves this little thing!

Then we traveled to Kentucky for Thanksgiving. Reagan likes to shower "Baby Dawson" with toys. Soon, he was drowning in them! It's a good thing he's chill and likes attention!

Daddy and I went to the Sluggerville museum. It's so fun to see how the bats are made! At the end, they give you a free little bat. So we thought Dawson might enjoy posing next to it. He didn't really notice, he was just smiling at Daddy and I! But it still makes for some nice pictures.

"Uh Oh, I dropped my bat!"

Of course, we had to pose with our tiny bats ... in front of the GIANT bat!

So his Thanksgiving outfit is a little small ... hence the peek-a-boo to his diaper! But still cute nonetheless!

Dawson took his nap BEFORE Thanksgiving dinner ... but lucky for us, he took one afterwards too!

We've had a fun Thanksgiving with Heather and Jerrel and Reagan. It's so fun to see Reagan with Dawson. She's so sweet to him! She runs into the room to make sure he's happy and pushes the buttons on his toys to make them sing. She's gotten him to laugh several times (which is big because even I have a hard time making him laugh!)