6 months old and our MN trip

Everett is 6 months old!  It is absolutely amazing how much he's changed in the past 2 weeks.  I'm fairly certain he gained a whole pound while we were in MN and doubled the amount of hair he has on his head.
6 month stuff...
-He's eating and drooling like a monster!  Eating 8 ounces every 3 hours and 2 solid meals a day.
-Still sleeping great!  Between 11-12 hours a night.  He napped and slept great over our trip but decided he wouldn't go down without his pacifier.  Still trying to get back to our old ways on this one...
-Found his tongue and loves spitting and making fart noises.  It's hard not to giggle.
-Almost mastered sitting up.  He still needs his boppy behind him just in case.
-Doing much better on his tummy.  Andy says 4 more weeks and he'll be crawling.  He's got the leg movements down but he just needs to get his big belly off the ground :)
-LOVES his bouncer (see video below)
-Still no teeth but his drooling has doubled.  He's drooled 24/7 since about 3 months.  He's soaked all the time.

We had an amazing trip back to MN.  It was super busy as usual but we are so glad we got to spend time with family and see a lot of friends.  Andy and Cali made the grueling drive and Everett and I flew.  He did great again on the flight but it was much different than when he was 3 months old.  He is a very busy boy and was up and moving the whole flight.  The middle seat was open on the way to MN which was amazing.  On the way home we got reassigned to a middle seat (really sucky) but he slept for awhile and our row mates said he did great. Everett was the main attraction at home and wrapped everyone around his little finger.  We spent 4 days at the cabin with the May side, a couple days with my sister Greta in St. Louis Park and then down to my parents place in St. Peter.  Bonnie and Matt drove up from Iowa City, we met Sylvie Gianforte (born the day before Everett), we met the Herzan twins, Lucas and Logan (6 weeks old?), and Mike, Sarah and Logan Withers drove up from Rochester for breakfast.  Thank you, thank you to everyone who went sooooo far out of their way to see us.  We can't tell you how much we appreciate your effort.

Get ready for picture vomit!

Not sleeping on the plane despite the open middle seat

Reunited with Grandma and Auntie Greta

Meeting Auntie Bon Bon for the first time

Matt and Bonnie drove up from Iowa City to see us and meet E.
Everett will have another friend due in November!

Chillin with Uncle Nate.  We invaded Greta
 and Nate's house for a few days

First time at the cabin and already loves it!

Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids

Cousin Avery loved Everett :)

Twins fans!  Cousin Owen and Everett

Our little red tomato meeting Great Grandma Jo.  He turns beet red when he cries

Helping Uncle Nick drive the pontoon

First pontoon ride

Cali was so happy to be back at the lake

Hunk? Yes I think so :)

Getting ready to swim

Silly boys :)

Dunk!

Yup, this is the life

2nd round of swimming

Enjoying the beautiful weather

Someone loves being outside!

The Davis clan took Everett to the Como Zoo

The zoo is tiring!

We visited the Gianforte's and they introduced Everett to the swing!  Little Sylvie was born the day before Everett.  Forgot to take pictures while we were there...

Everett meeting Great Grandma Maggie

Quality time with Uncle Wyatt and Auntie Gabrielle

Uncle Wyatt drove up from Ames, IA to give his sisters a run for their money on Everett time 

:)  Fun times with Auntie Gabrielle

Everett had an audience at all times

Great great Auntie Bea

We officially have a big boy!

Auntie Greta playing with Everett

Wyatt's turn!

I think Grandpa is hooked :)

Grandma teaching E about the birds and the bees...

"Forced cuddle time" with Auntie Greta

Love being outside at the farm.  Only missing Auntie Raquel!

His Aunties DO rock.  

Everett loves his Grandpa

Grandpa won the battle for Everett time

6 months!!

Petting Cali :) He loves his puppy already.  

Professional bouncer.  He was not able to do this 10 days ago.  Amazing how quickly he changes and learns new things!

So I'm a little late on this post.  As of this writing Everett is 25 weeks old.  I'll post this weeks picture later.  Andy took these photos before daycare yesterday.  The biggest news of this week is...Everett has 2 front teeth through!!!!!  They finally came through yesterday.  His 2 front teeth on the bottom are just poking through.  His poor face is leaking...he's drooling like a madman, his nose is like a faucet AND now his eyes are super watery :( BUT he is still sleeping like normal!

Check out those baby blues!!!!!!

Hair!  It looks dark here but it's really super blonde, almost white.

Top Gear Saturday with the fam.  Every Saturday morning Andy turns on the TV show Top Gear and the boys learn about fast, expensive cars.

 Everett is anxiously awaiting the news of Baby Yehl's arrival!  Hurry up Baby Yehl!!!!! :)  I'm trying everything to convince him/her to come out.  Nothings working, he/she is late already :(

Thanks everyone for checking in!

Love,

Lexi, Andy, Everett and Cali

More 4th of July photos

We got some good family photos that I had to share :)

Snack and rest time during out bike ride around the lake

 

MOM!!!!

 

Poor Everett...

Beautiful hike

I love little rivers and bridges

Trail was a little more rocky than we thought...Everett traveling chariot style :)

Not a bad back drop

Everett has hair, I promise 

I made Baby Yehl a quilt.  Hope he/she likes it!

I also made some burp cloths and bibs

5.5 months and our first road trip!

Can't believe we are already half way through July!

We celebrated the 4th of July holiday by travelling to Colorado on our first road trip with Everett.  The first half of the trip was great, the 2nd half was a bit of a struggle.  We started our drive after work and took a new route as we were heading to Frisco (near Breckenridge Ski Resort) to spend the weekend at the Warren condo.  Everett did great!  We had a bit of a longer than normal stop which we planned on and then he slept the entire way!  7.5 hours.  We arrived at midnight, chatted for an hour and he went right back to sleep.

Having dinner in the back of the RAV

Someone decided to sit up on his own :)

If I said our first trip was perfect I'd be lying :)  We had a great time and are SO glad we went but it is HARD being away from home.  A 5 month old baby is exhausting.  You all know that Andy and I have a hard time sitting still.  Everett is soooo close to getting up to speed but right now he definitely lets us know when we were trying to do too much.  Our first day we went biking around the lake for the first time with Everett.  He's still too small for the backpack so he was uncomfortable and it was really windy so he did not enjoy the ride as much as we did.  We ended up doing 8 miles on the bike path around Lake Dillon.  We grilled out and then had the best seats around for the fabulous fireworks show.  They fired the fireworks from across the Lake at the Marina, so we had a great view.

Happy 4th of July!  21 weeks old.

Friday Cassie watched Everett so Andy, Matt and I could go for a mountain bike ride.  We decided to take the vacation route and ride the ski lift up and then bike down.  Super fun!  We did get rained on a little but still had a great time.

Riding the lift.  I will never ever look good in a bike helmet...

The weather was glorious!!!  High's of 75 and low's in the 50's.  Felt so amazing after leaving the 102 temps in SLC.

Everett got the first rinse in the new shower

We went on a beautiful hike on Friday afternoon

Gorgeous wildflowers

Everett slept and napped great while we were in CO.

No video just sound.  Love his little voice in the morning :)

My good little burrito napper

Someone loves his baby :)

Unfortunately that is where the happiness ends...

Everett gave us the stomach flu from daycare :( :( :(  Andy got it Friday night and I got it Saturday night.  Absolutely horrible...Andy battled through during the day on Saturday so we could take a little hike and have dinner in Breckenridge.  Everett refused to eat which he's never ever done before and I ended up laying in the back of the car on the drive home trying to recover and tend to Everett who wasn't very happy about being in his car seat.  Everyone was very happy to be home.  Now that it's been a week we are getting excited to head back to MN for our annual trip!  Andy and Cali are driving and Everett and I are flying.  Really excited to see our families and friends!

Week 22
New stuff this week...
-Everett is growing lots of super blonde hair.  He has a couple really long stragglers so I call him a little Who from Whoville
-Loves playing with his feet.
-Almost rolls over from his back to his front.
-He holds onto toys now instead of grabbing and dropping them
-We started doing one rice cereal feeding a day on Monday.  He does great and makes me laugh every time he opens his mouth.
-Moving onto a yet to be determined vegetable this weekend!
-Still working on sitting alone
-Still no interest in being on his tummy or any thoughts about crawling
-He's gonna have to start being mobile soon.  He can see his toys and wants to go there and then gets pissed  because he can't get there :)

Constantly hanging onto his feet now

Look at that little smirk...

We decided to start with PEAS! Yum :)

Andy used his gopro for the first time and got some good footage from his ride on Friday after work.  Check it out! https://vimeo.com/70289351

Everett and I fly back to MN on Friday and Andy/Cali start driving as well on Friday.  Cross your fingers for an uneventful flight and drive.  Hope to see as many of you as possible very soon!

Thanks for checking in!
Love,
Lexi, Andy, Everett and Cali