1 month

I hate to admit it, but the first month of a baby's life is always kind of a blur. I know it's great....and hard....and an adjustment. I remember never leaving the house and trying to nap when I could. Then there's breastfeeding....the bane of my existence. I know my kids were all there all the time (and am grateful that they somehow survived). I know I got a TON of help....mostly from Trav. I really couldn't survive without that guy. But the details and the precious moments of this sweet baby's life are all kind of jumbled together. Which is sad!

Luckily, we did manage to take a few pictures to document this crazy time in our lives. First of all....I'm not sure how, but Rachel got this great idea of building out scenes from the scriptures with legos. This is Lehi's dream: Complete with the tree of life, the iron rod, the great and spacious building, the river...and everything else in between. I thought it was so clever! She also did several other scenes but we didn't take any pictures. (2000 stripling warriors, and Samuel the Lamanite). That was an awesome summer time filler activity.

 Since Jonah was only days old when the 24th of July rolled around we made due with doing our own fireworks at home. I don't think he saw much.

 Nice shirt, buster. It'd be funny if it weren't true!

 And now here's a portion of the millions of pictures we took of this sweet boy. I sure do love this kid!

 He is Mr. Popularity at our house too. Everyone loves him (but Will doesn't seem to love the sing-a-ma-jig singing) Kate will do anything to keep this little boy entertained.

 My boys!

 I just love all those little facial expressions, and wonder what is going on in that little mind.

 I wanted to get a picture of him in Rachel's giant bean bag. Only one of us thought it was a good idea....

 Oh! I do have other kids too. Luckily, they are pretty good at entertaining themselves because mommy hasn't be "there" all the time. This was a day they played with their toy lizards they got from the dentist and each made a lizard house. I love how creative they are.

 Jonah's first attempt at the gym.

 My sister, Heather, also moved back to Utah at this time too!!! Hooray!! It's been really fun having our cousins that we usually hardly ever see, just pop in and hang out. We're hoping they stick around for a while.

 He's too cute when he sleeps.

 Here's his first ride in the swing. I don't think he knows what to even think!

 And officially 1 month old! Holy cow!! I have survived one month with 5 kids. Success!!

He's not the best sleeper in the world....but also not the worst. Feeding him is still really challenging....but it's getting better. Every day he's getting a little more alert and we're starting to hear the very first baby talking sounds which is super cute. Needlesstosay, the world has been a much better place in the past month for having this little dude around. Love ya, Jonah!