6 Month Check-up

Nash had his 6 month check-up on Tuesday. He is now 26 3/4 inches long (50th percentile), 15 lbs (10th percentile), and his head was 17 inches (25th percentile). HE'S A GROWING BOY! We are now starting him on solids and Darin says lard...whatever! Now we just need to wait until after the mad rush of black Friday to get a high chair. You all know how much I like shopping...blah! :)

The Sky is Falling!

Chicken Little should have come to our house! A few weeks ago our friend Missy, who was caring for our house, called to let us know she had found a hole in Nash's ceiling. We notified our landlord but ended up coming home to this....

Notice the huge bubble. Our landlord didn't want to fix this hole until it rained again, in order to find the leak. Today, we were unpacking Nash's things, and this is what happened due to the rain... Yes this was very scary to have the roof crashing down on us, considering Nash was laying on the floor watching us unpack. As we were cleaning up the mess on the floor caused by the crash, it continued to fall until it looks like this....

Happy Thanksgiving to us! Nash is now sleeping in our room. The poor little boy will never get to sleep in his own crib!

Gone Truckin'

Our world here in Blanding revolves around this place....

My dad's shop! My dad is a trucker...well the boss of a trucking company now...and a dang good one! He owns Cosby Trucking Inc. The company started with my Grandpa Cosby, and now is operated by my WHOLE dang family. My mom is the President (another story) and book keeper, my dad is the boss, brother Cody is the safety man, brother Kedrick is a mechanic and driver (little boss:), and my SIL Ashley is another book-keeper. Amazingly they all work pretty well together to keep it all running. Right now they are all busy with a big job with 22 trucks, and 32 drivers. Needless to say my dads mind is always preoccupied.

Today I had some fun at the shop taking pictures.

This truck is old red and white 34, my dad drove this truck when I was a kid. Now it is retired and sits in the back of the shop yard as a "has been trophy". Basically it is my dads baby and he won't get rid of it.

I haven't said much about my dad, but he is one of my heroes. He is a very hard worker and a great example in honesty and integrity. I was very appreciative for my dad when I became stranded or lost somewhere (happens often). He knows everyone and has been everywhere. I love my dad and I am grateful for the time we had to spend here in Blanding.

This picture is classic of my dad. He loves his grand kids...but he loves his dogs most! Especially this grouchy old dog Chico. LOVE YA DAD!

ONE MORE DAY!!! AHHHHHH!!

Okay so I am just letting you know how excited I am! One more day and our family is together again! YEAH! Can you feel my excitement!

Woman in Action!

Just thought I would post a picture of my mom in action! She is always busy busy doing something. This is a quilt she finished this week. (along with all of my projects!) It will hang in the Blanding Visitor Center for the Christmas Holidays. Way to go mom! For those of you that go to the visitor center ever the centennial quilt in the very front of the center my mom made the corner block with the cows. That quilt is amazing! All of my moms quilts are beautiful....she is a talented woman!

Good Luck!

Good Luck Darin on your residency interviews this week! You will do awesome.

We miss you and look forward to seeing you next week!

Our Invention! (maybe)

Here at my moms house there is always a project going on. My mom is very talented and she often tries to teach me how to sew...or rather she starts to teach me then ends up finishing it for lack of patients! (How do you think I always won the 4H sewing blue ribbons at the county fair...it certainly wasn't my sewing or modeling skills...sorry Jeanine and Bethany....the truth comes out!)

This time around she has decided to finish all my Christmas projects which include my homemade Christmas presents for family and friends, Nash's Christmas stocking, and a Christmas wall hanging for my house....while I play with Nash and take pictures....I LOVE MY MOM! (BTW no doubt about it she will complete all of these projects within a week...all the Christmas presents are done and it is only MONDAY!)

Anyway, so you all have heard me complain about Nash and his crazy hands! Sure he inherited this trait from me...my hands and feet never stop moving even when I am asleep. (when we were kids Brooke (cousin) didn't want to sleep in the same bed with me because my feet wandered!) When I got to Blanding I decided I was going to stop swaddling Nash...I tried it for 2 WEEKS! Lets just say I became a zombie because of it! His wild arms kept him and me up all night long! (hence the ogre picture) I tried closing his door and my door as well as turning off the monitor so he could cry himself to sleep. No luck....This child will cry forever! So I went back to the Don Jose Burrito Baby Swaddle (see former post) so I could get some sleep...NOPE he is too strong, busted right out...we invested in the Kiddopotamus...TRY AGAIN the material was too stretchy he could worm his arms to the top and wake himself right up! SO being the mean mommy that I am, and having a talented sewing mother we invented the NASHAROO STRAIGHT JACKET!!!! (at least I think we invented it??)

This thing is awesome and he sleeps wonderfully with only maybe 1-2 wake ups in the night, compared to the 10-50! (hehe) The arm holders are large enough for him to bend his arm comfortably, but he cannot pull them out to reach his face. At first he resisted, as anyone would when their freedom is taken away, but now look at him ...HAPPY BABY! (equals HAPPY MOMMY!) Once again I LOVE MY MOTHER! So to all of you that may think I am cruel...think what you want....I am getting some sleep! ZZZZZzzzzzzz!!!

Uncle Cody!

It has been so fun being in Blanding while Darin has been away. (sad that he is gone!) Nash receives so much love. I believe his most favorite person here is Uncle Cody. This picture says it all! When Cody is around Nash constantly is smiling and paying attention to him. Not only does Nash love Cody he loves his puppy Sancho. He is his favorite out of all the dogs. He thinks Sancho is here for his enjoyment and has the cutest belly giggle when Sancho prances around him.

We are so lucky to have such great families! Thanks for letting us stay for a while!

Trick or Treat...kind of!

So the moodiness continued on through out the day so I was tempted to postpone Halloween...and yes I can do that because I'M THE MOM! However after a good nap, our sweet boy returned and I put his Smarties costume on only to make him angry...again! Moodiness and all we hopped in the car and caught up to Koen and Sadie trick or treating at my dad's shop. This was Nash's only stop considering he thought his costume was edible and began to eat it...he was starving! AND lets just face it, if we had gone to any other house the candy would have come home to feed my mouth...not a good thing! The rest of the night Nash helped Granny hand out candy in his Long John Cowboy outfit which ended up being his favorite choice. Moral of the story...keep the Halloween costume simple for a HAPPY BABY and a HAPPY MOMMY!

We missed you Darin! Hope your Halloween was just as sweet!

The climax of the whole night was when my mom opened the door to a HUGE GORILLA costume. It didn't just say "trick or treat" it actually began screaming and chasing her up our stairs. She was screaming and running as fast as she could....HILARIOUS! (it was Kirk Black). One year when we were kids, 3 HUGE GORILLAS came to our house and sat in our living room saying nothing, and then left with out a word...some Blanding psychopaths! (we still do not know who it was) SOoooo I think my mom is a little jumpy when it comes to over sized apes!