Tyson: 2 months

Now at 2 months already!  And just fun fun fun!  And work too, but so fun.  Here's what's been going on for the last month:

• Week 5 - Started smiling socially at us and others
• Moving eyes and head to others/toys or noises
• Talking and cooing a little more by Week 6 but still opens his mouth like he wants to say something and can't get it out
• Ty's got lots of acne popping up from day to day
• Week 5 Mom worked from home and took care of Tyson, crazy!
• Week 5 - 6 We started working on sleep and letting him fall asleep on his own, but didn't do so well after the first few fluke days.  We still don't have it down yet but you do well at night (and that's the essential part!)
• We've tried to focus on sleep and naps A LOT since he doesn't like naps and would rather be up with us, but that's why he'd get so fussy at night I think
• Uncle Eric & Aunt Amanda visited us (Tyson) and helped us:
• Experienced first outing in Moby Wrap mini golfing
• First blow out into his car seat while at Target
• First visit to downtown and conference center/temple
• Uncle Eric was on binky duty and caring the car seat
• First General Conference!  Loved being on Dad's belly, Week 8
• First park outing at Murray Park, Week 8
• Has laughed with Dad a few times while playing
• Night sleeping has increased for a couple of 7, usually 5-6 hour stretches
• Week 8, beginning of October we all got sick with the cold for more than a week, we visited the doctor, bought a humidifier, and luckily Tyson got it the least
• Did several shoppings with mom for the blessing outfit and party afterwards

And here's our Tyson...

 2 months pictures below, 10/9/13

 Naw, we don't take enough pictures do we?!

Visitors for Tyson

Tyson had lots of visitors over the last few months...  Here are the beginnings from right after the hospital to a month or so into him being with us.  We are grateful for everyone who was excited to have him join our family with us.  Maybe it's just us, but we have the cutest kid!  But everyone who meets him says the same thing, so guess it's not just us ;)

All the Clarks came the day we came home from the hospital, see below.  And the special visitors were Jon & Annie, Sam and Sophie from Texas!  They were planning to come end of August but plans changed and they were able to see Tyson just a day or so old.  I wasn't a good entertainer at the time, and they had lots of people to visit so we didn't hang out much, but they were such a blessing even just the few times we saw them.  One of the first days home I was a little weepy (yeah those hormones are killer!) and I was upset because I couldn't get to the store and Tyson needed PJ's (the ones we had were too big) and some pants (all we had were infant tops, weird!) - and immediately Jon left to Target while Annie stayed and chatted.  They are such a great family to have as our family :)

The rest of the Clarks came too, and yep, there's a lot of them, course!

My mom came to visit on Tyson's 2nd week.  We were lucky to have her around to do shopping and laundry for us.  Tyson was happy to have her hold him too :)  She stayed for a week and we had her all to ourselves since the Evans/Speirs were on a cruise.

And we also were lucky to have Eric & Amanda come visit mid September!  They came Thurs - Sunday and hung out with me (since D was at school most of the time) and got a little view into what their lives will soon be like (yay here comes baby girl Everts soon!).  I heard that Eric wasn't a big baby lover, but by the end of the trip he was making faces and in charge of the binky for Ty.  He's going to have a lot to learn when he's a dad, but will do just fine.  Amanda is a cute pregnant girl and going to be a great mom.  Tyson was very good and slept as needed during the day while we all tried to do a few things rather than stay at home - we golfed one night, visited the Conference Center/Temple Square, and ran a few errands for me since I have a hard time by myself.  We made pizza and just hung out chatting and watching Tyson.  They also gave me the Moby Wrap which we absolutely LOVE, and it has been such a blessing to have hands free while running around with Ty by myself.  Thank you guys for visiting!  We love you!