I am an independent little guy...

We started letting him hold spoons to distract him when he is eating, and all of a sudden he figured out how to put the right end of the spoon in his mouth. Here is a little video and some pics

More fun and look, I want to stand and walk not crawl

So after he learned how to bend and jump in his jumper, he always wants to be bouncing. So Devin and Austin do some little standing, jumping, bouncing and flipping for playtime. There are times when he is much better than in this video, but we haven't gotten them on tape. This will give you a little flavor though...

Fun times!!!!!

Alright, Debbie, we hope you love this post. Austin really loves doing the super sneaky attack on lynette. (sorry we didn't send earlier). What is really awesome about this video is that Austin loves to watch it. He gets mesmorized watching himself be the star of the show, he laughs, watches his movements, etc. Really fun.




Hope all is well there in Idaho, and that Spring is coming!

My first "real" food

After Austin's check up at the Dr. he was able to start eating solid foods. Some Stat's of Austin at 6 months 27" long and 16lbs 12oz. He is getting big and from his shots and immunizations we have learned that he has a sweet tooth. He loves the sugar water they give him mixed with one of him immunizations... thus when we started him on "real" food we started with Veggies... the reaction we got was this...
"I love Veggies"!

Blessings

On February 12th we had Austin sealed to us in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. It is such an amazing blessing to be an eternal family with him in our lives! It was a beautiful ceremony and we are so blessed to have had so many family and friends there to attend. Devin also gave Austin his baby Blessing while we were there and that was such a sweet blessing for him to have. We are so blessed to have been able to adopt Austin and blessed to have you as our amazing, sweet, birthmom who we love and are eternally grateful to have you in our lives.

Austin goes to Court

We woke up bright and early (6:00am) on the 7th of February. We were excited to take Austin to Court... It was such a special day that we waited for, for so long. The hearing went really well he was so good and the judge just loved Austin and even gave him a teddy bear. Who we named "Court". Austin really loves "Court" and in the one picture he is holding "Court's" hand.
We think of you and pray for you every day because when you chose adoption, you gave us something no one else ever could have. You have made our lives complete and we love you so much, you are the best birthmom we could ever ask for and we love sharing this with you. I love you birthmom Debbie!!! LOVE Austin

Austin is so talented

We are so proud of little Austin. He seems to do things early. He decided that he could feed himself and now likes to hold his own bottle and doesn't want you to hold it for him or help him except on the few occasions when he drops it then he wants help. He often gets upset when you are trying to help him get the bottle back in his mouth but doesn't realize that his little hands are preventing you from putting it in (he's pretty strong). He gets very excited when he sees his bottle and can't wait to get it. He reaches so hard for it while we are making it up. It's really cute! He also went on his frist skateboard ride. We went to this standing wave place and they also had skateboards you could test out so Austin tested out his first skateboard. He rode it all by himself for 10'. We may have to post the video of that to prove it.