Garrett's feelings

Garrett crawled up next to me yesterday and stuck his foot right in front of my face.  "Owie on my foot" he said.  I looked at his foot and it seemed to be just fine, so I asked him where it hurt. 

"My feelings hurt" he told me. 

Ice Crackers

Afton, Kensi, Garrett and I went out to lunch with my parents the other day.  We went to a Mexican restraunt and I thought, "this will be good, at least Garrett will eat the chips!" 

When we got there I tried to offer him chips and he wouldn't take them, he kept insisting on "crackers".  There were no crackers around, so I kept pushing the chips.  Finally he reached into Kensi's glass and took a handful of ice and started eating it. 

Then he grinned and said, "ice crackers, see?"

Happy 2nd birthday, Garrett!

We love you, Garrett!  Happy Birthday, baby!

Kids fall pictures

 Kaiden

 

 Nicolas

 

 Luke

 

 Afton

 

 Makensi

 

Garrett

baby and dog

We love our dog, Cassadi. She is so good natured, especially with the kids. Garrett LOVES her. He follows her around, tries to ride her, pulls her tail and barks at her. And she lets him. These two are inseparable!

Garrett's hair cut

Garrett's hair never freaked out after his surgery like Kensi's did, so it has just been growing, and growing, and growing. I was constantly pushing it out of his eyes and I could twirl the back around my fingers. Both of those things mean - TIME FOR A HAIRCUT! He did better than I expected a one year old to do for a hair cut. Here are before and after pictures. It took us a few days to get used to his new look. But we love it.

Garrett learning to walk!

Garrett has been trying to walk. Every now and then he gets ambitious. Instead of balancing on furniture and then taking off walking, like most kids; Garrett likes to just stand up in the middle of the floor and take off. This seems to work okay for him. He kept doing that, but stopped as soon as we tried to take pictures. We did get a few, but we had to encourage him to walk for them. Every time he would walk we would clap and cheer and make a big deal about it. After a while, he would just sit down and start clapping for himself...even before he would walk. It was hilarious!

Garrett's 1st Birthday!!!

Garrett's birthday came on one of the days that Marshyl was at Woodbadge. So it was pretty low key. I hate to say that over a baby's 1ST BIRTHDAY, but he still had a good time. Of course he doesn't even know what a birthday is, so he didn't care. We waited for dad to get back from Woodbadge and had cake on Sunday night instead of on Friday. Grandma Morris was here to celebrate with us, and Amy. We had strawberry cheesecake and it was YUMMY!

"Uh, Mom...why is my cake on fire???"

Cute baby Garrett! 11 months old.

Garrett is 11 months old now...or he was when we took these pictures! He's a cutie. The girls like putting headbands on him. And Grandpa Morris had to let him try his cowboy hat!

Cute boy!

My cute little baby is 10 months old now! I can't believe it. He is over 20 lbs. now and almost ready to walk!

So funny...

This picture cracks me up every time I see it. It is my desktop back ground and I laugh all day!
Enjoy...

A Garrett-head pumpkin

Our neighbor grows pumpkins and when she was cleaning out her garden she found this forgotten pumpkin trapped between the planter box and the fence. It had been trapped there all year and hadn't had the room to grow round. When she picked it she immediately knew that we had to have it because it looked just like Garrett's head before his surgery---long and narrow! We all had a great laugh over this poor flat pumpkin.

He looks so GREAT!

It has been 3 weeks today since his surgery and he looks SO GREAT!

Mommy's best boy!

Garrett's New Head

Here are pictures of Garrett's new head! Surgery was Friday and all went really well. We just got home from the hospital yesterday (Monday). He is seeming more like himself every day. He has even been smiling at us again.

at the hospital before surgery...happy even though he was starving.

cute hospital jammies

top shot before surgery...the front of his head is to the bottom of the picture in both of these. The Dr. told us that he took 2 inches off of the length of his head!

top shot after surgery. They do the zig zag incision so that the scar will heal small and you can't see it through the hair after it is all healed.

profile before

profile after. the big tube of blood is the drain that they put in to drain out a lot of the fluid, so he didn't swell so much in the back. I know it is gross....sorry.

DAY 1: right after surgery in the PICU.

DAY 2:...the swelling has started.

DAY 3: Sunday. This was max swelling. Both of his eyes were swollen shut. It was really sad. He just slept most of the day. Through all of this he maintained his easy-going personality and was so great about it all.

DAY 4: This was yesterday when we got home. The swelling was going down and so only one eye was swollen shut again. He laid with that side down, so all of the fluid collected there. You can see that he was happy to be home. The kids were all happy to see him, but they wondered if we brought home the wrong baby because they said that this didn't look like their Garrett.

DAY 5: Today he looks a lot better. Most of the swelling is down. He is still a little puffy, but all of that should be gone in 1-2 more days. He looks GREAT!

more cute pics of Garrett

I know that you all LOVE pictures of Garrett...so here are some more!