Father's Day Pics

As many of you may or may not know my Dad is a huge Redsox fan, so for father's I got the whole family together in their Redsox gear and we went down to Dad's favorite little league park to take pictures, these are a few of them.


I have to say that my child definately has the sweetest smile ever I guess though I might be a little bias.


This is what you call a grandbaby circus, look at the difference in size between Derek's Cousin Annistyn and him. She is only about 3 months older than him.




Some of these pictures even have my sibling's boyfriend/girlfriend in them, we would be okay if both of them became permanent members of our family.





Sorry there isn't much written but well I wanted to get these at least.

Tag I'm it

Just in case anybody ever wants to know I hate these things, but I will do it for Carol!!! LOL
Thanks alot Carol!!! The rules are: list (3) joys; (3) fears; (3) goals; (3) current obsessions/collections; (3) random surprising facts about yourself. Then you tag five more unsuspecting people at the end of your blog by leaving their names at the end.

3 Joys: Derek, Corey and the rest of my family
3 fears: Becoming a single mom, snakes, and heights
3 goals: one day get to the point where I can be a stay at home mom, my son grows up with a strong testimony of the gospel, and always let Corey know how much I love him
3 current obsessions/collections: Blogging, making Derek smile, having a clean house(although this doesn't always happen)
3 random surprising facts about yourself: I really don't know the answer to this question

But I won't tag anyone!

Bath Time Fun

Derek is starting to like bath time, and he is really starting to love getting lotion rubbed on him. Lately as we go to rub lotion on him he just goes pretty limp and just acts like anybody who is getting a massage. I have found this to be helpful on days where he is really cranky. I guess I can't blame him because I would love it too if every time I took a bath I got a massage and rubbed down with lotion so that my skin was completely smooth. As you can tell Derek has found his toes and just like his thumbs he loves to suck on those too, just as often as he can.

Happy Father's Day

Yesterday was Father's Day! It was Corey's first father's day as a Dad, it definately brings a different meaning to the day when you are actually a parent. We spent the day at my parent's house where we made a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings, plus chocolate cake. We just spent the day talking and having fun with all the family. It was nice to have everybody there, family and not quite yet family but might as well be. The picture above is a typical stroller ride for Derek. He loves going out for stroller rides and walks with his Dad. Corey absolutely loves being a dad and loves being with his baby. He always gets so excited when he is the one who gets to pick him up from the babysitter (aka Grandma Hatch) but he just loves having his one on one time and keeps talking about he can't wait until he can teach him to fish, hunt, and all of the rest of those manly things.

So I have decidesd that I have lost the battle of the thumb at least for now. When I decided that I was going to attempt to stop this little habit of his, He started not sleeping as well, however, it took me a while to realize what was going on. Derek used to only wake up once a night and after the war started he was waking up several times a night. I was bewildered by this but now understand that the thumb was the way that he would soothe and keep himself asleep. So I have surrendered until July 1st when he has a doctor's appointment and we can see what the Doc thinks. I just have to be able to sleep some, I'm definately not on maternity leave anymore. So if anyone has any great ideas feel free to let me know. Because I'm lost and well I guess I am giving up but I don't know what else to do.

Corey has moved job sites he is now at BYU which is great because he is nice and close to home. His company currently has most of there job sites in Ogden, UT which is about 2 hours away from our house. so we are just lucky that they are still keeping him close to the house. We pray that this job drags out long enough for another job site to open up. Keep us in your prayers for this because well we can't afford that long of a commute at over $4 a gallon.

Rolling Over

So this is Derek's new toy, Grandma and Grandpa Hatch saw Derek playing in his cousins' Annistyn toy, and well they decided that He needed one to because he was having way to much fun with it.

Last week we went with my family to go and see Stomp up in Salt Lake City. It was so much fun and I absolutely loved it. We had so much fun spending time together as a family, minus the babies.

So lately Derek has started rolling over, but nobody has actually seen him do it. We just go in to check on him as he wakes up from his nap, only to find him on his tummy. This is honestly a little scary to me but yet exciting. Honestly Derek is becoming so funny and I'm loving watching his personality develop. Derek is quite laid back and easily amused, however don't scare him or get him completely ticked off, cause he will let you know.

The Tale of the Thumb Sucker

Recently Derek has found his thumb and he likes it a lot, for quite a while I would just pull it out of his mouth everytime I saw him sucking it, and then the real challenge happened. I started hearing him sucking on it through the monitor in the middle of the night. I kept trying and trying all I could to keep it out of his mouth but somehow it seemed it only made it worse. I had gotten to the point mentally that I had decided that it was a lost cause and I would worry about it when he got older. Then I decided something had to change because he was sucking on his thumb so hard he was starting to develop sores on his thumbs and hands. I honestly didn’t know that it was possible for a 3 month old to do such a thing. I decided that I had to enlist some help so I called the nurse to see what I could put on his hands to help them heal faster. She told me that all that I could do was bandage up his hands and keep socks or gloves on his hands. Oh sad, it is summer time and my son is in shorts and socks up to his elbows. I still haven’t taken pictures of it yet but don’t worry we will.