Welcome Baby Girls!

I just realized that I've been so slack in posting that I haven't announced the newest member of our family! My beautiful niece Addie Mae was born July 28 in Fargo. We CAN'T WAIT to meet her when we go up to Minnesota in September!! Thanks to Addie's beautiful mama for sending lots of pictures! Check out her blog to meet Addie.

Thursday our dear friends Jack and Amy welcomed Baby MacKenzie Claire to the world. We met her Thursday evening, and she's beautiful! Check out Amy's blog for pics of their precious girl.

We're off to Grammie and Gramps house to spend the evening with them and Aunt Jennifer and Uncle Brian. Happy Saturday!

New Summer Staple

Every summer we've come up with a new summer dinner staple. A couple years ago it was pasta salad. Last summer it was grilled pizzas. Both are still on the menu this year.

This year's new favorite is grilled chicken sandwiches in different variations.

Herbed Chicken Sandwiches
Pound chicken breast thin, salt and pepper and grill.
Mince fresh thyme, basil, and a little rosemary and mix with mayo
Toast buns, spread with herbed mayo, top with chicken, sharp provolone, bacon, avocado, and tomato. MMmmm.

Spicy Chicken Sandwiches
Marinade chicken in preferred marinade - I made it with a lime garlic marinade the other night and it was yummy.
Season mayo with cumin, chili powder, and cayenne.
Make sandwiches as above.

Randy wants these at least once a week and would be perfectly happy if I made them more often. Enjoy!

Like Father, Like Son

People ask us who Wyatt looks most like. While sometimes I think he looks a little like my brother's baby pictures, all I have to do is look at these and know exactly to whom he belongs.

Randy - 3 months

Wyatt - 3 months (and in his daddy's outfit)

We had some fun with the camera on Saturday taking his 3 month pictures (3 mon, 2 weeks). Enjoy!


He's starting to laugh more now. Last night my brother had his giggling as much as we've heard. My sister in law taped it, and I'll try to get it up when she sends it to me. So adorable!

Look at that belly button!

Good thing we didn't wait much longer to try this outfit on! At three months Randy weighed 13 lbs. and 12 oz. Saturday we weighed Wyatt and know he weighs at least 13 lbs, but the scale didn't show ounces.

Sleep Stories

I have posts to update and pics to upload...I just need time to do it! This one, however, is worth sharing with no photos.

I have gotten more sleep in the past two nights than I have since well before Wyatt was born. It's LOVELY. Wednesday night Wyatt slept longer than Randy and woke up at 10 till 6 for his first feeding. Then this morning he slept till 7 AM!!! All this after a week of getting up to pop the binki in his mouth 5-7 times a night and dealing with fussy naptimes. And you know what the solution is? My son has finally found and basically committed to...his thumb. We would have preferred the binki...you can take a binki away eventually. But Wyatt has willfully chosen his thumb. A couple of times over the last month we have removed his thumb from his mouth and popped the binki in. He has spit out the binki and promptly popped his thumb back in.

He's been playing with his fist, his fingers, and his thumb for the last couple of weeks, but I think he's finally found and really figured out the thumb.

Ahhhh....blissful sleep!

MMMM...cake

Wyatt got to attend his own baby shower last week, and I must say, I think it's more fun that way! Randy's office through us a shower, and one of his co-workers made a beautiful cake. She even used fondant! Impressive. They also blessed us with a gift card to Target for the next big item...the next carseat when it's time.

Speaking of new things...we're trying new dipes. We have 26 bumgenius dipes with velcro, which I've heard can wear out toward the end of the first year (thankfully, there's a way to replace it with snaps). Fuzzibunz released their one-size dipe around the time Wyatt was born, and there's a lot of buzz around it. These have snaps and adjust with elastic. We got four last week, and I'm just not convinced yet. There are six snaps to figure out every time I put on a dipe. Needless to say, I'm not using these at the 4 am feedings.

Oh, and Wyatt slept till 5 AM this morning. Glorious.

Birthdays & Rooster Tails

Tuesday was Randy's birthday. He has now hit the mid-30s, which seems to be much worse than 30 actually was for him. He got an impact driver and a Kathie Girst cake. MMMMmmm...

Wednesday night we went out to the farm for dinner with his parents. Wyatt went sporting this...

The rooster tail is a little hard to see against the chair. That afternoon Wyatt got a bath (from which I walked away wet - that boy loves to splash!) and then went down for a nap. When he woke up he had his dad's rooster tail and his grandpa's curl. Grammie said Daddy had it coming after all the times she tried to get his rooster tail to lay down. Now he just cuts it off!

We came home that night with the produce section from the grocery store! Mom and Dad Regehr's garden is much larger than ours and doing better than ours this year. They sent broccoli, cabbage, anaheim peppers, zucchini, and summer squash.

We also brought home a pan of Mom's super secret frozen chocolate marshmallow dessert and several pieces of Randy's birthday cake - a double chocolate peanut butter rich chunk of yumminess. Add that to the Kathie Girst cake and the leftover cupcakes and we have a sugar overload in our house!

Wyatt Likes Cake

Wyatt definitely looks like a part of our family in this picture! No, I didn't really give him cake, just smeared him with a little chocolate! I was making cupcakes during his nap and he spit out his binki. Without realizing that my fingers were covered in chocolate, I picked up his binki and tucked it between his adorable lips. The next time he spit it out, this is the sight I saw...my 11 week old son with chocolate cupcake batter all over his face! I'm sure it's only the first of many times I'll see this sight...only he'll be a little older.


Wyatt likes his naps. That's a happy thing for his mommy and daddy. He'll fuss and cry letting you know he's tired. The moment you lay him in his crib and swaddle him up, he grins in a thank you for letting him nap. Sometimes he smiles so much he won't hold his binki in, and then he's out like a light.

Today is Randy's birthday, so we'll have more pictures later!