6 months old!

Josiah is already a half-a-year old! Where has the time gone? Josiah and I traveled to Minnesota for a few days this last week (sorry to all of you we didn't get a chance to see) and since we have been home Brett has been constantly saying how big Josiah looks and how much more alert he is in just a few days time. I guess I haven't noticed as much but that's probably because I am with him as he grows each day so it's not so drastic of a change.

6 month old stats:

18lbs - 70th percentile
28in. - 96th percentile

we have a very tall little boy which means that if he continues to grow as much as he has every month we will be buying a new car seat by the end of the month. Crazy! Our doctor was showing us what his percentile stats look like if you combine his weight and height and because he is so tall his actual percentile for his weight is around 30%. You would not be able to guess that if you take a look at his cheeks, they are still has huge as ever!

I will post some 6 month pictures soon.

p.s. I found out today that we will probably be able to get internet at our place in 2 to 3 weeks (they are almost finished doing all the digging). I can't wait!

Camping with a baby!

We packed up the minivan or as Brett calls it, "the man-van" and headed off to the beautiful state of Montana early last Sunday morning. We were able to spend 5 days/4 nights in beautiful Glacier National Park. Neither of us had ever been there and we were both blown away with God's beautiful creation. I love, love, love the mountains!

Josiah did so well with all the traveling and staying in a tent! What a blessing! It was quite cold the first few days so he had to be bundled up a lot and was not a huge fan of having so many clothes on but he was such a little champ about it. The first night went really well bundling him all up and putting him in his car seat for the night and he slept right through the night just like he does at home. The second night on the other hand was a bit more interesting. We were up at Two Medicine Lake and had set up camp and gosh was the wind just howling with the temp in about the 40's. Before I was about to feed him his last meal before bed we decided it was just too cold and windy to sleep in the tent so we took everything out of the van and put it in the tent and set up camp in the van for the night. Not exactly roughing it I know but we were sure glad we did it as the night continued to get colder and windier. We packed up the next morning and decided to go to the other side of the mountain to see if the weather would be a little better there and sure enough it was. We took the most beautiful road I have ever been on to get there. Right in the middle of Glacier is a road that goes right through the mountains. I believe it is called Road to the Sun or something like that and my goodness it was beautiful. That night it was beautiful out and we were able to enjoy once again a night in the tent. We headed out of Glacier on Wed. and headed south to Bozeman. We ended up deciding we wanted to end the vacation with a night in a hotel. We ordered in our favorite pizza from McKenzie River Pizza Co. (amazing!) and took Josiah swimming in the pool for his first time swimming which he loved!

To make a long story short camping with a baby is not as difficult as it seems. My only recommendation is to go camping when it's a bit warmer so that during the day they wouldn't have to be so bundled up as well. But seriously any of you lovers of camping should take your babies...what an adventure!

p.s. I was having trouble getting the pictures to upload on here so if you want to see molre pictures check out my facebook page I will try and get them up on there asap.