14 months

The happenings of the last month began with a little outpatient surgery where Brian got his tonsils out.  It was amazingly quick; I felt like I was just sitting down when they came out to say he was done!  Brian recovered well with seemingly no hiccups... except the hiccups.  They started on our way to Tree Farm, and increased in frequency until at their worst they were every 4 seconds.  Who would have thought hiccups could be so annoying?! So yes, we went to Tree Farm the morning after surgery and spent a week there recovering and visiting.

We spent Easter and General Conference with the Hoyts.  Spencer loved delving into his easter basket and couldn't stop talking about it!  I took a little video because he was so cute.  

opening Grandma's easter box!

The Tree Farm goodness continued when we got to take part of it home with us... Hailey!  It just happened to be Spring break for her :)  She is so fun and helpful!  She babysat so Brian could come to my basketball game (something we were beginning to think would never happen since Spencer is always asleep by the time my game starts), she bathed Spencer, fed Spencer, played with Spencer... even cleaned the house with me!!! :)  We also had fun hiking around Riverfront Park, seeing Manito Park, and taking Spencer to see animals at PetCo.  Brian's schedule was from noon to 10pm+, so it was also so fun to have someone to hang out with after Spencer went down for the night.  Anyways, it was such a wonderful visit, and I am so glad Hailey came!

We went on a run to the house where Brian's family lived his first year of life.  

Spencer trying some cat food :) 

beautiful Hailey at Manito Park

Riverfront Park

 I'm glad I snapped a few photos of our stake basketball season.  It was so fun to get together and play!  I became our self-appointed team manager :)  Mainly that just means I texted everyone about practices and games and tried to get everyone to sub in, thought that was probably my main disappointment in myself.  For the most part I was able to get everyone in, but there were a couple games were I lost sight of the real purpose and got a little too prideful in wanting to win.  Which now that the season is over and I am not caught up in the moment, the interpersonal interactions stand out far more than the scores of any of the games.  This is something I will definitely miss while we are in NH.  Maybe I will see if I can get something going.
 

basketball practice

basketball game

Now on to my little boy! Spencer is changing lots, with many changes quickly approaching.  

*He comes up to us and grabs our hands and lifts them up over his head to let us know he would like to walk.  He prefers two hands, but if we are sneaky and distract him we can sometimes get him to walk with holding onto just one of our hands.  

*He sneakily got several teeth without us noticing.  Well, he was acting like he was teething, but the teeth we kept checking on did not seem to be coming in.  Then one day I was holding him and saw far back in his mouth.  It was big!  I went to get it out and guess what???  It was a molar!  A stinking one-year molar! haha then after a little more investigation it turned out he had cute 3 teeth I didn't know about.  

*He is completely weaned.  I have been cutting back on a feeding every two weeks, but was nervous about letting the last one go.  It ended up just sort of happening.  We dropped him off with a friend so we could go to the temple one night and got back and he was sleeping.  The next night was the Women's Broadcast and when I got back Brian had already put him down.  So then we just kept doing no nighttime nursing and here we are!  

*Sleeps through the night all the time except when teething.  We can tell if he is waking up due to teething because he cries/whimpers in his sleep.  Usually when we go in we seem to wake him up and he really starts to cry.  We give him some tylenol and he goes back to sleep with some help.  He usually only wakes up for 2 nights or so before cutting a tooth.  

*Naps twice a day.  Once around 10am, once around 2pm, each only for an hour to an hour and a half.  When Hailey was here he napped 2 hours in the afternoon though, maybe we were just doing to much exciting stuff. 

*Eats a variety of food, but hates milk.  Not sure what to do.  I just try to keep offering it and make sure he gets yogurt and cheese to his hearts content.  

*Screams!! Thankfully it was only for about 2-3 weeks, but it was so strange.  He would randomly scream, and very loud.