The Awesome Adventures of Jason and Heather: September 2011

I know, I know. It's been a while and I haven't had much of an opportunity to update you on what has been going on in our lives since the end of July. We moved out of our old apartment at the end of July and couldn't move into the new one until August 5th. So with the help of my Brittany and Clay we were able to stay at their home for a week so we didn't have to pay for another month of rent. I got to see what it would be like if I had ever had a long commute to work, and I'd prefer not to have to leave an hour before to make it on time. That Friday we got to move it and did the walk through and started moving things in. I was going to take a picture before we started moving everything in but I forgot because I was just so excited. Our apartment is quite spacious 1000 sq ft. There isn't a storage shed or anything so we have some stuff stored behind the couch, under the bed and on the back porch which so far seems to be working out fine.

We've gotten back into our regular routines which is good. Jason is enjoying being at home during the day with Braydon and then going to work at 5pm or school. We're glad that my work allows him to drop Braydon off with me at 4:30pm. Jason started school again at the end of August, his last semester at SLCC. He'll graduate with his associates and hopefully he'll remember that he needs to finish his application for UVU today. He just had 2 classes this semester but they are a little more time consuming than the past few semesters. From what I've gathered it's also more difficult to do homework when there is a baby in the house who seems to crave constant attention.

Braydon is doing fantastic, he's a very happy baby. He's been eating solids since we moved into the new apartment. He likes applesauce, peaches, pears, carrots and he wasn't a fan of the rice cereal, green beans, peas, squash or bananas. He's grown accustomed to some of them but he's still not eating as much of them as he does his favorites. He got his first tooth at the beginning of September which was accompanied by a cold. His second tooth came in about a week later. At the beginning of September he also started pulling himself up to stand next the couch or using us as his anchor. In church I noticed that he likes to pull himself using the chair in front of us, which is usually occupied by a sister in the ward and he'll touch their bottoms in order to get the grip that he needs. It's pretty funny but I always apologize to the sister only to come to find out that she is fine with it. Hopefully that doesn't teach him that just because he's cute that it's OK to grab girls butts. He also started crawling which caused us to go out and buy some electrical outlet covers and create a fence out of various things in the living room. We have to keep him out the fireplace and away from the entertainment center and in order to keep him contained in one place so we aren't running all over the house after him we just block that area off completely. I also went to Kid to Kid and bought him some pajamas since it's starting to get cooler at night.

We had a family reunion with my side of the family at the end of August which Braydon seemed to enjoy seeing all of his cousins, even dressing up in Noah's Jack Sparrow hat complete with hair. I think he really enjoyed seeing Ty who is only a few months younger than he is. We had fun playing around with the kids and playing on the playground. He enjoyed the swings which made me happy, he went down on a slide with Daddy and he seemed to like it. Our new apartment has a swimming pool and we went out and bought some Little Swimmers for him and an outfit to wear in the pool and we never got the chance to take him in the pool. Either Jason or I were working most of the time and rarely had time off together to take him in the pool, which is now closed for the winter. There is a hot tub still but I don't know if he can go in there. The week after my family left, Jason's parents came out to visit. Braydon liked showing off for Grandma and Grandpa P and enjoyed all of the attention.

Here are some pictures of our last month: