Deitrick Detail: Feburary travel plans

well it has been a busy month! lots of family and friends and travel. but oh so worth it.

ryker turned 9 months old last week! it is so crazy to see him grow so fast! my little boy isnt so little any more. i kinda miss it. but i love how independent he has become. he finally broke 20 lbs. so he is still pretty chunky. but now that he is crawling so fast everywhere i wonder if he will loose his chub. i just love those cheeks i dont want those to go away. Ryker is standing and moving along the furniture. he does really well even with just holding on with one hand. he never wants to be left out. he loves to go up to dad when he gets home and just sit in between his feet. or climb up his leg begging to be held. its adorable. and very attractive to see justin with his son. ;) haha. he LOVES bath time. we have to set aside at least 15 min to just play before any washing actually begins. loves to splash in the water and play with his cool bath toys. he has found the silver round thing (i have no clue what it is or what it is called) thats on the tub under the faucet. he can see his reflection so he will play with that and try and bite it. to much lime scale so i dont let him chew on it. gross. he has learned how to clap and loves to praise himself even if its because he knocked over the trash can. but we clap with him when he does do something great like finally listen when we say no dont touch the cable cord. its not a chew toy. its hard to discipline a 9 month old. how much does he understand? not much... we are still experimenting on that one. he never wants us to eat without him. it doesnt matter if i just barely fed him lunch! if i have a sandwich i better be willing to share. he loves his cheerios. gets so excited when he gets to have some with breakfast or as a snack every once in a while. he is learning more everyday and will sometimes even sit still enough to read to him! he loves to pull himself up and try to be up on mom and dads level.

he got his first haircut this last week. he was getting a mullet in the back. i loved the little curls, i wanted to keep them, but as soon as justin called it a mullet i knew it had to go. so we clipped them. because he is so curious and moves around a lot i didnt want to use scissors. so we tried clippers. he was a little scared. we got him used to the noise, then i pressed the handle against his leg or arm to get used to the buzzing feeling. once he was okay with that i tried to be quick and do the back of his head. he didnt like that so much. thought it felt funny to have his head buzz. but he cried for a little bit but then sat still and whimpered till i finished. sad, but it worked and he did great. now he looks like my little boy again.

justin and i have been doing good as well. justin hard at school, work, and everything else. he did get released from his calling at church so that should free up a little time. he went to a career fair at BYU last weekend and met with some good companies. hopefully we can hear something from them! fingers crossed.

the last 3 weekends have been packed. the first weekend of feb my mom, alicia, and ethan came to visit. they got here friday and we spent a fun weekend together. lots of games and playing with ryker. we even went to the track at the BYUI center to walk around one morning. we went over to dani and jareds for the superbowl on sunday. a room full of bronco fans and justin rooting for the seahawks. it was so sad. and so embarassing. broncos did awful and it was a terrible game. but justin was happy for his team. very proud to be from seattle that day haha.

then the next weekend Ryker and i went to utah to visit my friend and old roomate rachel. she is pregnant with a little boy due in june. it was fun for her to meet ryker and to catch up. it really has been too long. im pretty sure i havent seen her since before she got married. not cool. i clearly need to see her more often. we really just chilled most of the weekend. but i was all for that. its easier for ryker if we are not running around so much. he had a pretty good weekend. didnt get too fussy. on sunday we went to kaitlin reeds farewell. she had a great talk. and after we had to run home. got home around 6 that night so we could still have a relaxing weekend.

then wed night we went to utah again! justins career fair was thursday and it is easier to travel at night with ryker so we went and stayed with tricia and brandon. Misty moved to utah and is styaing with them too for a little while so we got to be with her too. we brought the truck for her to use while she is there before Italo gets there next month. it was different driving by myself. justin normally drives. so ryker and i in the forester listening to a book on cd and justin in the truck caravaned to utah. it wasnt too bad. and ryker did great. only stopped once to feed him dinner. friday justin and i were able to go on a lunch date for valentines day while his sisters watched ryker. he was being a stinker and didnt want to nap. it was a struggle some days but he slept eventually. saturday we went to the hunting expo with tricia and brandon in salt lake. ryker loved looking at all the taxidermied animals. there were so many people there! and it seemed like everyone was drinking. unfortunate. but its utah so there were plenty of people who brought their kids in strollers too. definitely fit in haha.

sunday was a hard day. both misty and i got sick with a really bad flu. we were both up all night throwing up. i havent been that sick in a really long time. not even when i was pregnant. it was bad. i heard ryker and had to wake justin up so he could feed him while i cleaned up my mess in the bathroom. all day misty and i just sat on the couch. didnt have anything solid. just sips of water and a little ginger ale. i could hardly move. eventually the nausea went away and i was achy and weak all over. that was hard too. but after a good night sleep i was doing better. not completely but mostly. i could function. justin was so great with ryker. he took care of him all day sunday. played fed put him to sleep. i really could just sit there. which is all i could do. he is such a good help and i am so grateful. we came home that night and then justin promtly got sick with the flu i just had. it was a rough night for him. scary really. i have never seen him shake like that or be that sick. normally he handles throwing up better. the whole 2 times i have seen it in our whole relationship. so tuesday it was his turn to lay around and not do anything. i was a good little helper and took care of ryker and got him everything he needed. more than willing to do the same for him as he did for me.

thankfully ryker didnt get sick! i dont know how he avoided it but i am so grateful. it was awful and we are adults that know how to handle it. i cant imagine how hard with would be to have ryker that sick. knock on wood that he doesnt.

well. that is our family update for the month. ryker is still as cute as ever. i love to see him grow, but still wish he was my little baby.

i have pictures this week! i figured out how to do it. i hope they turn out okay. my phone sucks so the quality is not so great. but its something. be happy about it. they are out of order but thats okay.