The Stenquists (no the other ones): July 2012

Monday, July 16, 2012

Goofballs

These boys melted my heart! They were so funny together.

High Five! Yay!

Sullivan and Coen, 19 months

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Some friends from Georgia came in town. Sean and Stephanie and their two boys Hudson and Sullivan. Why I only have pics of Coen and Sully I have no idea, but thats how it happened! Hahaha. Coen and Sullivan are a week apart (S:11/23, C:12/2)

We went to the zoo...

Look a seal!

I think its MY seal.

No, OUR seal :)

Whoa is that a lion??

Coen's favorite part was playing on the "beep beep"

We went to the park...

Oooo...breakin the law!!

HURRY!!

The one and only shot of the two of us and the December boys. First try even :)

Yes the boys are holding hands too.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Warm Lake, Idaho July 2012

We had such a great time at the Wheeler Family cabin. Its a little bit of camping, but with a shower and wifi. The weather was perfect! Coen is a running, sliding, falling and crawling in the dirt kind of kid. In the mountains, this translates to...filthy. Hahaha. He was head to toe dirty every time we headed back inside. Once I established a clean up routine to get back in the cabin, it was a lot less stressful to see him explore outside.

exhibit A: clothing from day 1 outside.

We went on a hike Thursday and Friday morning to Vulcan Hot Springs and then to Summit Lake. I had never been up here before, so I didn't know what to expect. Brodie grew up going on those hikes and he was pretty surprised to see how changed they had been from the fire. I can only imagine how shaded these hikes used to be when the trees were thick and green. Going through sections to Summit Lake was just completely dead trees everywhere you walked/saw. That trail was a little sketchy. It was obvious no one had been back there in a loooooooong time. There were times I couldn't tell we were on a trail. But Brodie kept going...so I had to keep up! We found the "lake", which is really a pond in the middle of a really pretty green meadow.

Vulcan Hot Springs

Made it thru the "trail" at Summit Lake

If you notice in our hiking pics, Coen is eating apples. He was so funny about them too: didn't want to share, didn't want me to take it away...just kept taking small bites at a time working on the thing. Brodie kept wondering what the chomping sounds he kept hearing were. The first day I didn't check on his apple till we reached the car. He was holding the bottom of the apple in one hand and had eaten the entire top half. Yes the ENTIRE top half, including the top half of the core. Oops!

Appa's!

We got beach/lake time in every afternoon. I wish we had pictures of Coen jumping off the dock into Brodie's arms. He would jump in, say "brrrrr" once he was in the water, be put back on the dock...only to jump in again!

S-T-U-D :)

And of course we roasted some ooey gooey super messy marshmallows. Brodie was hoping the boy would want to hold the marshmallow (on poker) in the fire...nope, he wanted to stab the fire and blackened sticks with the it.

Mmmm MALLOWS!

All in all we had such an amazing time out in the glory of the mountains. Coen slept better than he has ever slept away from home (which really is saying a lot considering our last couple years). He was up with the sun though, which was pretty hard for me. Sure missed having a ton of family to play with, but it was just so...perfect with the three of us plus pup. Oh yeah Jackson came and of course had the time of his life. I think he slept all of Monday trying to catch up on his z's.

Monday, July 09, 2012

July Update

Oops! It's already July 9th and I am barely doing my monthly update! Yikes this summer is getting away from us.

Look at my new do-rag mom!

Our days are filled with playing outside in the morning/at the pool/at the park, coming in for lunch and a loooooong nap, and then heading back outside to play with dad! We go on bike rides every day, and walks every morning/evening. He knows there is a ritual now for going outside. You have to get shoes, your sunglasses and then lathered with sunscreen. Hahaha. So patient for going "ow-sighhh" (outside).

Milk break from playing hard.

Recently the boy and I have weekly visitors every Monday morning! Declan and Sullivan come over to play while their mommy works. So far we have had a blast! And by blast I mean toys everywhere, food in their bellies, and me about to pass out on the couch. Hah! Actually Declan and Coen play very well together. And Sully...well he is just a sweet little baby that likes to be held. Which is MY kinda guy :)

In the past two-ish weeks, we have been to both McCall and Warm Lake for some MUCH needed mountain time. I'll do a separate post for Warm Lake, but just wanted to add this kid is definitely a mountain man. Not only does he love running around and getting dirty, but he loves the water and all the animals he sees. Playing trucks in the dirt, collecting big "ocks" and "icks" (rocks and sticks), and sampling the fine greenery the mountains have to offer. I could do away with the last one, really Coen eating plants now?

Hanging in his chair eating "o"s and watching Sesame Street. Man his legs look long!

We've been on a spinach kick, and the boy can't seem to get enough. Sometimes I "sneak" it into foods (like spinach and scrambled eggs, or black bean and spinach quesadillas) sometimes I just chop it up into mac n cheese. He can clearly see the green, but he loves it anyway! I love this kid. As he is getting older and his appetite grows, I've been allowing/experimenting with more treats with him. At the Rib Fest with Gma/Gpa he ate a sponge bob push pop. Its basically orange sherbet with vanilla ice cream swirled in. And by "eat" it...I mean he licked and sucked on that thing and basically demolished it while making a HUGE mess. At one point he was eating the pop, while he played with the river of orange that was going down his chest and pooling in his belly button. So okay, push pops are too messy for me, though he clearly loved it. Another treat he has had recently was chocolate milk. Oh man, cannot pry that thing out of his hand! I wonder if this is how every new treat is going to be since he never really got any before! Hahahaah. Sugar = crack, fyi.

While the mess wasn't ridiculous.

He is so affectionate! If he finds a doll or a stuffed animal, he is instantly hugging it and holding it by his neck. I stinkin love it!! The first time Sully came over he tried to hug and kiss him, then promptly smelled his feet with a big "EW!" He has been trying out different names for people/things. We see our play group friends a lot, and I'm always trying to get him to say their names. So far he says O (Orlando), Adda (Adam), and my favorite (and clearly his too) is Fifi for Sophia. Of course I should mention his Sesame Street friends, since he says those names more than anything. Its not that he watches the show a lot (though probably almost every weekday) its that he has 5-6 big flip books that have all the characters in it. These books are for after eating, while mom/dad is still finishing their meal. He also pulls them out while I am cooking so he can sit on the floor watching me, and showing me all the things in the books. He says Ernie, Gro-ber, Big Bird, Abbey, and just growls om nom nom nom for Cookie Monster. While Elmo is his favorite, Ernie is a close second. We found an Ernie plush doll at a bookstore and he about freaked out when we had to leave it in the lost in found.

Chilling with a baby he found at our friends house.

We are getting geared up to float the river soon! I AM SO EXCITED!!! I am a river girl through and through, and my favorite place to be is on the river/by the river/in the river during the summer. So far Coen is the same. He loved jumping into Warm Lake with Brodie.

Trying on his life vest and being a ham in the mirror.

We are loving life with this little man, and can't wait to show more pictures of him being a big kid! No stats to report, is fitting in the same clothes, and no changes in his sleeping or eating habits. No 2 year molars out yet, but one is starting to poke out the bottom. He is a funny kid and loves to make you laugh.