Good Vacation!

WOW what a week and a half...
first we flew down to Phoenix so Eric could interview with Ernst & Young:
Everything went great and he has accepted an offer to intern there beginning Jan. 2nd!
We're excited to get some sunny Phoenix weather instead of gloomy Provo.

While in Phoenix I got to spend a lot of time with mom while Dad competed in the Tour de Tucson bike race (go Daddy!) and I finally got to see Drew and Misty's fabulous house. We also had a party to celebrate Tesseract, our shetland sheepdog that we've had for 12 years. She's had bladder cancer since the beginning of the summer and won't be around much longer, so we made a stepping stone for her to put in our backyard.

We flew back to SLC on Sunday, just in time to turn around Monday for Colorado. We had a fabulous time there, even though it snowed. I won two out of the three late night games of Lord of the Rings Risk, so there's not much to complain about! Scotty got spoiled with lots of grandma love...



I think that about sums up our fabulous vacation...oh wait, one more thing: BYU 17, Utah 10.

We're looking forward to spending time with friends here before the semester ends, and then it's on to Phoenix for sunshine and family!

Scotty is almost three months old....

So we celebrate by taking lots of pictures! I can't believe how fast he is growing--he learns a new trick everyday!

Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

We didn't actually get out, as Scotty was having another of those "no-nap" days where he refuses to sleep and makes himself fussy. But still, doesn't he look cute?

I also snapped a picture of baby Madsen in his monkey suit--Madsen was born three days after Scotty (and 2 pounds lighter!) but now outweighs him by at least a pound...

Getting Strong!

Scotty keeps finding new tricks to keep mom and dad entertained--yesterday he graduated from a "head-lifter" to a "chest-pusher". He suddenly realized that if he uses his arms, he can lift his head all the way up to vertical. He's so excited by the new view it usually makes him giggle!





Tomorrow being Halloween, I'm excited to dress him up in the sheep/bear sleeper I got--it feels like a sheep but has bear ears...the poor child will probably suffer from animal confusion for the rest of his life. Eric thinks that we should dress him up as a bag of Doritos.




In other news, the bottom basically fell out of the company Eric's been working for (and they haven't paid him in a month and a half!) so he now has more time to hang out with Scotty and me! It's tremendous :o) I'm plugging away at my program, and I've finally figured out how to do my hair with it's new style...

A Whole New World

From the other room, a little whimper becomes a grunt, accelerates into a cry, and then: silence.

*suck suck slurp suck slurp sluuuurp*

Scotty has discovered something amazing: he has two perfect hands! With long fingers to suck on! With fists that almost fit into his mouth!

Suddenly, his hands are no longer enemies that swat and stab at him, that callously rip his pacifier from his mouth, that scratch and tear at his nose and draw blood. They're toys! He now spends hours each day happily and noisily slurping at the side of his fists.

Scotty has also become more of a toy for mom and dad--we can now hand him things and he'll hold on to them and entertain himself! Already he's displaying amazing musical talents and cultural heritage:



Besides exhibiting latin rhythm, he also loves the new Winnie the Pooh mobile we bought this past week. While the theme song (Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff he's Winnie the Pooh...) is already starting to drive his parents mad, he loves it and happily chirps and coos along.