Haircut & Fruit Ninja

Baby's First Haircut

All that thick, dark baby hair has fallen out....waaaahhhh! It wouldn't have been so bad if his hair would have all fallen out evenly, but instead he was left with a bald spot in the back and a long, stringy island of bangs. It was getting so long Cannon was looking very homely.

Now Cannon has a nice "swoop" bang kind of thing going on. :) And we kept his first lock of baby hair in a silver box that Oma gave him.

 Fruit Ninja

And here are the "fruits" of Daddy's teaching labors. Cannon loves playing Fruit Ninja on the iPad. And he's actually pretty good at it...until he decides he wants to eat the iPad instead of swipe at it. 

Meeting Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt LoLo and Cousin Liam

The weekend of August 17th-20th my Dad, Step-mom, baby sister Laurel, and her little boy, Liam, flew out to Idaho to come visit us and meet Cannon for the first time! We had so much fun.

Friday the fam flew in and we went out for brunch. That afternoon we went to Bear World per the request o birthday girl, Laurel. It was time for her to return to her bear family that she met about 4 years ago when she came out to Rexburg to visit us for a week. Bear World was fun. The petting zoo was fun for the little boys. Dad and Nancy were also pretty happy to see a magpie, a "life bird" to mark off their birding list.

 

On Saturday we celebrated Laurel's 19th birthday by doing a day trip to Yellowstone. It was Cannon's first roadtrip and he did pretty well...especially considering he was cutting his first two teeth that weekend. We patiently awaited the magnificent eruption of Old Faithful.

Dad looked like an anxious and excited little boy watching and waiting for the geyser to go off. The most exciting part of the trip though was the matching coonskin hats that Grandpa bought for the boys. He had wanted one as a little boy, but sadly, never got one. So he insisted on spoiling the grandsons with a coonskin cap of their own, complete with a real raccoon tail. :) Lol!

I wonder if they realized that they wore matching clothes all weekend? Ha ha!

Sunday was a nice, relaxing day. After church the Mommies (and Dad) hung out with babies at home while Grandma and Grandpa had a chance to go out birding. We had a lot of fun letting the boys play together...even though Liam seemed pretty intent on wanting to poke Cannon's eyes out.

It was so precious to watch Grandpa having so much fun loving on his Grandsons. It's moments like these that make you realize what life is really all about...Family.

4 months!

15.5 lbs (62nd percentile)

16.25" long (83rd percentile)

16.25" head (25th percentile)

Four months hit and all of a sudden Cannon pulled some new tricks out his sleeve. It's like he was just waiting to actually turn 4 months old and then within days he had mastered blowing raspberries and standing up. 

 
In the past Cannon has blown raspberries, but it was exclusively when he was upset and/or frustrated. Now he does it for entertainment and likes to mimic Daddy doing it. He's so drooly right now (because he's teething) that when he does it spit goes flying! He ends up soaked in saliva but thinks its hilarious.

Lil Man also likes standing up now. When we hold him in our laps he likes standing, legs locked and bending forward to drool on your face. Ha ha!

At four months old Cannon is still a chatterbox. His "vocabulary" of noises and sounds continues to expand.
He gurgles and gargles and still let's out a high pitched squeal when he doesn't like something. He's quite the communicator and very expressive. We love how he has conversations with us and takes turns going back and forth talking.

Sadly, Lil Man's hair continues to fall out. The front "island" (as Anthony likes to call it) stayed long and stringy as the rest was rubbing off short or just all together falling out. We finally decided it was time for a haircut. We just trimmed the top so that we can still spike it in the front. His first haircut curl is now safely tucked away in a silver box marked "first curl" that Oma gave us.

Feae waking Up displaced
Pushes off with his feet

15 Weeks- accomplished in the last week

7/28 this morning I watched a video of cousin Ramona when she was 15 weeks old (I like to see if the cousins at the same stages). Cannon was nursing while I watched Ramona jabbering in her high chair. Cannon would stop nursing and look at my Phn and shoot dirty looks as if to say "hey! Who's interrupting my breakfast?!" I showed him the screen and told him it was. cousin Ramona. He raised a curious eyebrow (he has such an expressive face) and watched the rest of the video with me then contentedly went back to finishing his morning meal.

For whatever reason Cannon has started putting his hand on his face all the time. We were worried that maybe he had an earache or something, but over time it seems to just be a preference.


Cannon is becoming curious about food. He likes to watch us eat. And looks very inquisitive about what we are doing. He's really good with a bottle and recognizes what it means when he sees Anthony holding one. When we drink water bottles C gets a little miffed because he thinks it's his "ba ba" we are guzzling down.

Lil Man no longer gets cold and frustrates with baths, rather he loves the bath now.