4 month Check-up

Jonathen had his 4 month checkup today.  Wesley did not want to go into the doctors office until we explained that he did not have to get checked today.  He spent the entire visit telling us that it was not his turn.  Jonathen did not have any problem with the doctor.  He was happy to get weighed and measured and did not even cry when Dr. Graham examined him.  The only time he cried was when he got his second shot.  He only cried until we got him his pacifier.  Dr. Graham was really impressed with Jonathen.  He said he is a really mellow baby and has advanced motor skills.  He does not normally check if they can sit up until the 6 month checkup, but he did this time.  I am guessing that his nurse told him that I had Jon sitting up on the table.  So he sat Jon up to see if he could sit by himself and was impressed that he was staying up even if he was a little wobbly.  He said he is not suprised if some 6 month olds do not do even that well.  Jon weighed in at 16 lbs 7 oz (80th percentile) and 26 1/2 inches tall (95th percentile) with a head circuference of 17 inches(75th percentile).  Dr. Graham was just about to tell us that Jon should not get teeth for another 4 months when he opened Jon's mouth and saw that he already had two of them.  Oh well, Jon just got ahead of the curve on that one.  Jon had to get two shots today, but he seems to be doing okay.   

Jon has teeth.

Yes, you read that correctly.  Jon has teeth, as in two of them.  He now has both of his front bottom teeth.  He got the first tooth on July 13th and the second one on July 18th.  He is growing up so fast.  Wesley got his two front at about the same age.
Speaking of Wesley, I thought I would jot down some of the things Wesley says.  I will call them Wesleyisms.

Wesleyism #1 - in response to asking him what his name is.
"I not a tiger I'm Wesley Meyers."
Wesleyism #2 -
Dad -"Wesley are you addicted to chocolate milk?"
Wesley - "I not a dick, Dad."
Wesleyism #3
Poppa - "Are you OCD-man?"
Wesley - "I not a demon."
Wesleyism #4 - any time he feels like it
"I not Wesley Meyers I'm a tiger, ROOOOAAAARRRR!"
Wesleyism #5 - in response to Jon crying
"Its okay, baby, its okay."
Sometimes he is so funny.  He loves his brother very much and has apparently decided that he would like a little sister now.  He was watching Lion King and at the end they have the baby lion.  Wesley said that it was a baby like Jon and Kyle said "Except that it is a girl."  So Wesley said he would like a baby sister.  He is going to have to wait a little while, I am not getting pregnant again so quickly.

Matt's Family came to visit.

It was great to have Matt and Amelia come back to Idaho for a visit.  We really enjoyed having them here.  While they were here we did a number of fun things as a family.  There was the 4th of July.  All of the guys went golfing while all of the women took the kids and went to the parade.  The kids all seemed to enjoy the parade.  After the parade we went back to Mom and Dad's house and got dinner ready.  We were having a turkey fry with potatoe salad.  It ended up being a really good dinner.  While waiting for the turkey to fry a wiffle ball and bat were found and a game was started.  Most of the family played for a little while.  Wesley really wanted to bat so Jennifer helped as best she could considering Wes bats left-handed.  He got to run around the bases with Jennifer.  He preferred to bat though.  Dinner went really well and the turkey was absolutely great.  It is probably a good thing that we do not do that very often.  After dinner we all went down to try out Jennifer's new game, Just Dance.  Matt's family had never played before.  The kids really enjoyed it.  It was as much fun watching Stephen, Jack, Hallie and Wesley play as it is to play myself.  It was great watching them try to do the moves to songs that were popular when their parents were kids. 

On Monday we headed to Lava Hot Springs for camping and swimming.  We sat around the campfire had dutch oven one night and hotdogs the next and, of course, roasted marshmallows.  Jack really liked to roast the marshmallows, but preferred to have somebody else eat them.  The second night we were there we

needed to chop some firewood.  We had some fairly large logs that needed to be a little smaller.  Don got out his ax and Amelia went to work.  She did pretty well on the first log, but if the ax ever got stuck she had to have someone else pull it out since she was not wearing any shoes. 

It was pretty funny to watch her.  Swimming was great even though almost all of us ended up with sunburns.  It is nice to see that my boys did not inherit my tendency to burn.  Both Wesley and Jonathen ended up with nice little tans while Kyle and I both got sunburnt.  On Wednesday, we headed to Pocatello to get some family pictures done.  They turned out pretty well for a group so large with so many young children.  It is nice to have current pictures of everyone.  Overall it was a great visit and we were sad to see them leave.   

Trip to Utah

Over Father's Day we decided to get out of town for the weekend.  Mostly to keep me from being the on call person for our fill in pharmacist for the third time out of three times.  We booked a couple nights in Wolf Creek down by Ogden and took off Friday night.  On Saturday we headed into Salt Lake City to go to Hogle Zoo.  Wesley loves animals so much that we thought he would really enjoy the zoo.  Jennifer came with us and squeezed into our backseat with Jonathen and Wesley.  Wesley really loved the zoo and got to see lots of animals.  Some of his favorites were the monkeys and the tigers.  Throughout the zoo we would ask him what animal we were looking at and Wesley would tell us that it is not a monkey.  Here is Wesley at the monkey cages.  These monkeys were super loud.

At the end of our time at the zoo we went into the gift shop to get a few souvenirs.  Wesley found a hat that he absolutely loved, a black hat with a tiger head and front paws sticking out of it.  Kyle thought it was kind of silly, but Wesley adored it so we got it for him.  Besides, a hat that looks stupid on an adult looks great on a 2 year old.  Wesley really liked the zoo.  Jonathen, of course, could not have cared less.  All he wanted was to be out of his carrier.

 

After the zoo we took Jennifer to the Rodizio Grill in SLC.  It is a Brazilian themed grill where the bring the meat around on spits and you take what you want.  There is also a buffet with different salads and entrees that are commonly eaten in Brazil.  At the end of the meal we got two creme's to share, one strawberry and the other passionfruit.  Passionfruit is a slightly tart fruit and so the creme was also slightly tart.  I forgot to warn Jennifer about that before she took a very large spoonful and put it in her mouth.  Needless to say, that was the only bite of the passionfruit creme that Jennifer took.  That night we went back to Wolf Creek and went swimming.  Wesley and Jonathen both really enjoyed the pool.  Wesley discovered that if you get a noodle full of water and then blow on one end you can spray others with a fairly large amount of water.  We went home the next day in time for Jennifer to leave with Mom and Dad to go to Moscow.  Overall, it was a fun weekend.