5 months

Kort was late on getting his 4 month checkup, but he's still growing like a weed!

Height: 27 inches = 90th percentile

Weight: 17.3 lbs. = 75th percentile

Head Circumference: (I always forget this number) = 50th percentile

He had 2 shots in his legs and built up his scream after the first shot, but he calmed down pretty quick and was just kind of fussy throughout the day. 

I'm weaning him off with his nighttime feedings and just bouncing him back to sleep.  He's doing better and only waking up usually once now.  We're also not swaddling him anymore.  That kind of makes me sad :( Our swaddler was a lifesaver but lately he's been waking up with his arms punched out the top and sometimes his legs also.  He's just grown so long now that they don't fit him and swaddling him with a blanket is useless. So, we are resorting to his jammies now :) He's starting to get the hang of it and actually sleeping pretty well.  Still has his 1/2 hour daytime naps which are a little annoying, but he's still usually happy.  I just can't believe my baby is already 5 months! Hopefully we'll get more videos of him with his milestones.  I still can't get a video to upload on here though. Anyway, until then...

judge ye not

i love reading other people's blogs. especially when they're uplifting and talk about their trials and successes. it makes me want and try to be a better person. one particular one that i read was a simple post about a happy birthday shout out to her SIL. first off, this girl and i go way back to the beginning of my semesters at byu-idaho. we played basketball against each other and she was the off-the-wall type of girl. very outspoken. show off during time-outs. the list goes on. well, i was very judgmental about her. a few semesters into transferring there, we got stuck in a science lab together. i was going to freak out. we were the only girls in that group. now, to make the story short, i was very wrong about her. we got to know each other and i actually started to like her. no, we didn't become best friends, but i gained respect for her. since then, she has returned from a lds mission and her facebook status updates are amazing, she loves, loves sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, and her blog posts are just the same.

before the post about her SIL, she blogged about one of her guy friends there in rexburg. about what an example he was. about not being judgmental. just what i needed to hear. crazy that it was on her blog, whom i had judged from the beginning. why not sacrifice your blessings to bless others' lives? we're not going to run out of blessings. our father in heaven loves us too much to withhold those blessings. i need to do better. i want to do better. it's just sometimes i don't know how or where to start. i do know that i have been blessed with the best sister anyone could have. stuck in between 6 mean, ugly, loving brothers, we definitely had to work together so we didn't get our hair permanently torn out. she was always there when i was going through a rough patch of my life, even though she was clear across the other side of the world, serving the lord, being selfless. she was able to serve many communities through her platform of music and share her love for it, to help young women be their best self. i love my sister. we've had our ridiculous moments of stealing one's clothes, but we'd get over it 10 minutes later. there's no way i could go without talking to my sister. it was the hardest thing to not verbally talk to her while she was on her mission. i'm so glad that we could both be mommies, especially have new babies the same time. both boys. what a great example she is to me. love you janelley belly!

rexburg visit

we were fortunate enough to get to fly to idaho and visit clay's brother, justin, who was on leave from afghanistan, and the rest of the family and friends!  it was a quick weekend, but it was jam packed with things to do.

we got in late thursday night, so friday we ran errands and wanted to go to dinner. our great and wonderful cousin, roy, offered to watch kort that night so we could go have some fun. off we went to winger's followed by a fun night of shooting guns :) we went skeet shooting and shot clay's new guns.  justin had his .45 which i shot for the first time and i.loved.it! i tell clay i want a handgun so now i know i love them! ha ha it was awesome.

saturday we packed up and went 4-wheeling up to the ice caves.  i didn't get too far to realize there was no way i was going to make it in all the way so i chickened out and went back out and took a nap on the 4-wheeler. clay and quinn had lots of fun though!

i'm surprised they got good pictures because it was extremely dark in there (another reason i chickened out). 

later that night we had a bbq with family and friends. had some great brats, clay and nathan (and annie) were able to shoot clay's .22 in the canal while nicole and i caught up!

 kort met his great grandparents for the first time!

 4 generations of the fenton boys.

catching up with nicole and her girls (shae snuggled up warm and tight :)

we enjoyed going to church sunday with the family. we stopped by auntie mel's afterwards to let her play with kort.  later, christie (my cousin) was able to come over so i could meet little karver and so cousins could play :) he's such a cutie! they just loved looking at each other and kort would get a big smile on his face when their eyes met. so cute.

we later enjoyed some homemade ice cream and kort couldn't get enough of it! he kept reaching out for the spoon and kind of ate the ice cream too. 

we went over to nathan and nicole's that night to get some more time together and play games. kort was being grumpy that afternoon and when we got there. i guess i forgot to burp him because once he did, he was just fine. not but a couple minutes later when we put kort and shae next to each other, we caught this ADORABLE snapshot of them.

kort grabbed shae's hand instantly!!!! we were scrounging for our cameras and luckily got a shot! i.love.it! we sure already miss you guys! it was so great seeing you!

monday i was able to meet up with a couple of other friends, but didn't get any pictures. :( i was able to see sam and her 2 beautiful kiddos, and mindy with her cute braylee who is growing so fast!

we headed for the airport that afternoon. i felt sick the whole time, but thankfully kort ate and slept well this time so i could kind of relax. once we got back to seattle, the stomach churning hit again. it took forever to get our luggage and i just wanted to get home. we were walking across the skybridge and i couldn't take it any longer. i ran the rest of the way to the parking garage, found a garbage can and puked my guts out. oh my heck. i don't know what it was. maybe lunch? i usually don't get sick like that on planes and i was sick before we boarded. i feel much better though even though i feel weak. maybe just a quick flu thing. ugh, nasty though. i haven't thrown up since before clay and i got married. oh well. it felt so good to get back home. it was wonderful being back in idaho, slowing down and being able to relax. i'll admit, it was so nice waking up to peace and quiet, mooing cows, and fresh air. i do love big cities with so much to do, but i miss my roots. until our next adventure, hope you enjoyed :)

technical difficulties

ok, so i've been writing several posts and ever since we got our imac, i haven't been able to upload any videos on here. HELP!

birthday wish

We got a new computer so I suppose that's why I'm doing all this updating on the blog...it's a lot easier working with this one :) I wanted to post this picture of what Clay got me for my birthday! 

(Idaho Falls Temple)

We only had one temple picture, which was of the San Diego Temple.  So I hung it up anyway.  Everyone asks us if we got married there.  Sadly, no, but it was the first temple we did do a session in together after getting married, so there is something special about it.  I remember my friend (Kelsie!), having a huge picture of the temple they got married in and I decided from then on that I wanted one like that. And that's just what I got :) I have such a wonderful husband!

wade vs. kort

A while back ago we went to visit our new nephew, Wade, in Boise.  It was quite the trip with Kort, but luckily we made it ok and he did alright sleeping, etc. We had so much fun just shopping, eating out, and spending time with family.  Some of my brothers and nephews/niece were able to come over and finally meet Kort too.  Wade is such a stud! He didn't look as big as I thought he would like he did in pictures when he was born.  I really don't remember Kort looking like a baby like he did, too. Ha ha I already miss them! 

They'll be the best of cousins!

uh-oh

Kort is rolling onto his belly! Now we're in trouble. I put him on our bed for literally 5 seconds to run into the bathroom and came back in to find him already on his tummy. Video to come :)