Updates...sort of

I finally updated some things on the blog, as you can tell. In case you didn't notice, I changed the video of Craig at the bottom of the page. I also took off some old pictures and put on some new ones. He's changed so much in just a few months. Last Wednesday he was 12 weeks old. We made it through the fourth trimester! To celebrate I made some cookies that looked like watermelon slices. If you want the recipe, let me know (just colored sugar cookie dough, chocolate chips for seeds, and green sugar for rind...pretty cute). He also went to the doctor on Thursday for his first immunizations. :( It was a rough day for the little guy. He weighed in at 17 lbs., 24 in. He's in the 95th percentile for height and weight, but the 50th for his head, which is unusual for an Olson offspring, but which I was grateful for during the delivery. :) Robert's been pretty busy with work. They've had a lot of events lately. Things are picking up for me, too. Our Relief Society is doing a program this summer for the Young women. They let the Young Women choose from a list of skills (music, cake decorating, scrapbooking, etc.) that they would like to learn over the summer, then they teamed them up with sisters in the ward that specialize in those things. Then at Enrichment next month the girls will present what they've been working on. I've been helping four girls with music and singing. It's been a lot of fun. I'll try to remember to record their performance and post it. They are doing really well. So, I've been busy with that. I don't think there's much else going on. We had the same big hale storm here that Scott and Lani had in South Dakota. I took some pictures and a video of it and will get them downloaded soon. Well, gotta go!

Summertime!

I have been wanting to take post pictures of the scenery around our home and down our road a little and I finally got to it. There were some beautiful flowers during the short spring that we had and a few have lingered through the summer. I try to go for walks a few times a week and pick some new flowers. The very first bouquet I picked during the spring is the one pictured below. I love how the mountains are close, but sad that I can't really go on too many hikes yet. I have to wait until Craig is old enough to sit in a backpack carrier. He's beginning to prefer sitting up when being held than to lay back. He's cooing a lot and is his happiest, most smiling, most talkative self first thing in the morning. Sometimes I wake up to him squirming slightly next to me and when I look down, he's staring at me wide-eyed and smiling as if to say, "You're finally awake!" He's also showing signs of becoming somewhat clingy. When he's perfectly happy, he's happy with anyone, but if he's the slightest bit tired, hot, or gassy, he wants Mommy, or sometimes Daddy will do. :) It's cute, but sometimes a little difficult to deal with. I'm sure he'll grow out of it, though. For now, we are enjoying his cuddliness and watching him grow and learn.