9 Months and Horsies

 Baby boy is now NINE months old. It seems like he is doing new things all the time now. Every day he crawls a little bit faster, starts breaking in new teeth, and does all sorts of cute new tricks. He has one tooth that is about half way in and two others that are just sprouting through his gums. 

We recently starting bathing him in the big tub. He loves it. He probably needed to be put in there sooner because he was starting to lunge around the little tub, but he really is doing well. The twins usually end up in there with him and the three of them have a ball playing with all of the bath toys together. 

 

It seriously seems like one day he was getting into the dishwasher like this...

 

then the next day he was getting into the dishwasher like this. This boy is growing so fast!

The other day we were able to go to a local ranch/museum and the kids had a blast. We were able to do so many fun things.

Here are the boys making the fence squeak outside of the "cattle branding" station.

They had to wash some hankies the old fashioned way. Dallin really loved this and washed about four hankies then hung each of them on the line. It was way cute to watch him. 

They had to do barrel racing with a stick horse. Cameron's horse was especially feisty. It ran him all over including up a steep hill with tons of cacti yikes! . It was so entertaining to watch him run all over with his little horsie. 

Last but not least, the boys were able to ride a pair of real horses. I was so proud of them. Cameron wasn't even scared at all. I was a little worried that he would be apprehensive because of the whole dog fear, but he was great! I can't believe my babies are all grown up and riding horses!

We were also able to pet some miniature ponies and donkeys. Cameron and Dallin really loved those tiny animals. Cameron tried to drink out of their trough and everything. He wasn't even scared when the little burro tried to nibble his hair. Dallin loved them too. He found one of the leading ropes and wanted to lead a horse around. I would have liked to have seen that. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of them with the little ponies.

Here are my handsome little cowpunchers.

Easter

We had a great Easter, especially because we were able to have my parents come and visit for a few days. The boys loved seeing their grandparents and I loved being able to visit and enjoy their company. We sure wish that they live closer to us. 

Here is a little taste of what we did for Easter:

We went to the city egg hunt. It was better than the horrible time last year, but still a little bit crazy. Perhaps we will skip this next year as I do not really appreciated being shoved by crazy parents trying to get their kids to savagely grab cheap plastic eggs filled with crap away from others. 

A sweet moment from our boys.

The church egg hunt which was WAY better. Except for the fact that the wind was blowing harder than the inside of a vacuum. While the boys were gathering eggs one of them found and OLD goose egg. I was just glad that Darin caught him before he tried to open it to get the goodies out. Gross.

The loot that the Easter Bunny brought. Don't you love the look on his face? Notice I did not show the look on my face at 6:00 a.m. Yeah, way to early.

My baby boy. Wow he is growing so fast! All spruced up for Easter Sunday.

One of the more decent efforts of a family picture.

Grandma and the boys.

Enjoying time with Grandpa and playing the piano. I think that he was trying to sneak a treat or something.

We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa. They need to come and visit us again soon ;)