Sporting the burp rag

 Vaughn I am. Crazy Daddy is

Here is an update on our lives thus far. It has been 10 weeks since my little man was born. I love just sitting and watching him. Jake and I find it hilarious how we get so excited over the smallest things. For example I am sitting there on the couch watching him wiggle and all the sudden he will make a new sound. He keeps wiggling as if nothing happened and I am the one that gets all excited and mimics the noise back. Vaughn will just look at like I'm nuts. Or I get excited if he passes a good amount of gas. Really? Who gets excited about a few escaping gas bubbles or a poopy diaper? This Mom does.

So we were at church last week and Vaughn was being fussy at the end of 3rd block (not surprising we start at 2 and he slept through his 3 o'clock feeding) and I was roaming the halls when I was stopped by the librarian by her look of utter surprise. She was flabbergasted that I had a baby. I was taken aback as well. How could she not know? I was a blimp and not that hard to miss. I am thinking that the bishopric didn't announce it over the pulpit like they usually do. I'll let that slide since they had only be called the week prior to Vaughn's birth. Oh wells. : P

My Awesome Offspring

I know almost every parent says this but I truly do have the best baby. Over this last weekend Jake and I helped Joel with the LoToJa. This is our third year doing and it is always a blast. When of the differences about this is that we have Vaughn now. Now, I am going to be honest and say that I was a little nervous going on a 12 hour drive with a 2 1/2 month old. This wouldn't have been to distressing by itself, but both Vaughn and I had been battling colds. I was exhausted from being sick and getting up more often because he was waking up at night and not sleeping well.

But you know what!?
Vaughn was the poster child for AWESOME!

While we were getting the last minute info about our trip we learned that they had changed the number of stops we make as a Support Crew. So instead of stopping in every 2 hours or so we were to do the 1st feed zone in Preston, the 4th feed zone in Afton, and then the 5th feed zone in Alpine. There was a roundabout route that we had to take and we were afraid it would take forever to get from Preston, ID to Afton, WY and it would cause major disruptions in Vaughn's schedule. Nope. It worked out beautifully. It took us the right amount of time to get from Preston to Afton. As we pulled in our dear son was waking up from his daily morning nap and was hungry, right on schedule. He was such a happy baby. I was able to sit in the back and keep him entertained and happy the entire time. This also was a repeat of the drive home. He only go fussy because we got stuck in a bajillion mile construction zone with nothing happening so it took longer than an I had planned to get to Brigham City. We had to stop in Tremonton to feed him and ourselves. This took longer than  we had planned because he was so upset. Thankfully he did eat and I was able to persuade him to fall asleep even though it was an hour before his regular bedtime. I am so glad he was able to go back to sleep after getting him ready for bed and sleep the rest of the night.

Vaughn is such a good and easy going personality. Jake and I are so grateful that we have been blessed with such a peaceful soul.