catch up

i think i say this every blog post but my goodness time goes too fast. i cant seem to find as much time to sit and blog with 2 kiddos. we have been pretty busy this last month and a half. 

we made a quick trip over to idaho falls valentines weekend. kyle and carissa welcomed their 2nd little dude, Brant, on february 1. my parents were in rexburg to see him, so we took that opportunity to bless brooklynn at jared's parents house in idaho falls. brooklynn is kinda of named after aunt stacey (stacey's middle name is lynn) so we used her baby blessing dress to bless brooklynn in. 

parker had so much fun running around with all of his cousins all weekend

the rucks cousins

trying hard to get all the kids to look at the camera and smile at the same time

that face.....

the allred cousins with grandma and grandpa

it's crazy what 3 months can do to a baby

other than our trip to idaho falls, we havent been doing anything too exciting. but we somehow stay busy everyday. though it can sometimes be very mundane, i really do enjoy being home with these two and watching them interact. parker still very much loves brooklynn, and i think for now the feeling is mutual. 

oh these two.... you cant hardly tell they are related can you? :)

i try to give brooklynn tummy time multiple times a day, but she rolls over to her back almost instantly these days. 

brooklynn is now 4 months old. is that just crazy or what? at her 4 month well check she tipped the scale at 13 pounds. she was one stinkin mad girl when she got her shots, and had a pretty rough day the next day. shots have been harder on her than they were on parker. but dont worry, we survived!

i dont know if it was a first parent thing, and the excitement of our baby trying something new, but i remember the day parker turned 4 months old we gave him some rice cereal. this time around i thought we'd just wait a little longer. well for about the last week or so brooklynn has started staring us down when we eat and smacking her lips together... she was so ready to start some food.

getting ready! parker was so excited when i told him we were going to feed her some cereal.

not the best picture, but of course she had that look of "what the heck is this stuff?" but i think overall she really enjoyed her new food.

of course he had to help feed her. which he loved doing.

and last but not least! spring is finally starting to come around! today was a beautiful day. we spent a good majority of it outside playing. last summer, grandpa rucks bought a balance bike for all the grandkids to use. since parker was the only one who could ride it at the time, we got to use it all summer. and he LOVED it. well now marcus is big enough to use it so we had to return it. we knew we wanted to get parker his own for the summer. we finally picked one up for him the other day and he rode that thing for almost 2 hours outside today.

it's going to be a FUN summer!