Growing boy

Well I'm trying to find time to write in this at least once a week, but between a new job, tons of freelance projects and our busy life I just haven't made the time. Alas here is Talmadge's first time rolling over and eating baby food, first sippy cup and Talmadge and mommy in the pool.

Can you belive it he's almost 8 months! I for one love him growing and growing and can't wait till I can do "guy stuff with him" I've got to say that we have probably one of the easiest babies ever, not that I have much to go off of but Talmadge just really seems to have a mellow attitude.

Anyways we miss all of you enjoy!

My first 4th of July

Well it wasn't the Fort Vancouver display and KFC at the park and the good ole "Old Navy" 4th of July shirts that Dad tends to forget we should only wear on that day! :) but we had a great time.

In the afternoon we went to Target to take our first family portraits. We decided to do a nice family picture and then some individuals of Talmadge. All in all I think it went well we would have liked to have more variety of shots and wished the photographer would have taken a bit more shots of the same pose, but we found some we liked and ordered them. After that we went over to Kim's mom's house and met the whole family for a barbeque. After dinner a few of us went to a park down near the Boise River. Kim strapped Talmadge in the Baby Bjorn and together Talmadge went down his first slide. Talmadge really likes the outdoors he is never fussy and always has his eyes open trying to soak everything up. I really hope he stays like that cause we'll have a lot of fun as a family camping, biking and doing a lot of outdoor things.

We came back to the house and by that time is was dark enough and the kids were feeling restless so they wanted to light off fireworks. It seriously was about 9:30-10:00 at that time and much to our surprise Talmadge was up and wasn't fussy at all. When the fireworks started we were amazed at Talmadge's fascination with the light. I shot a bunch of pictures and took the video shown below to show how enthralled he was with this event. Talmadge from day one has always been attracted to light, maybe this is with all babies, but Talamadge especially. At this point I was feeling really tired at this point so I stayed back with Talmadge while Kim and a few others from the family went to a field behind Dianna's house to see the fireworks. Maybe I'm just a lame duck but after awhile fireworks get old for me, and I really dont like sitting outside with all the bugs just to enjoy fireworks, I think it comes from me being a doer and always on the go, but with this new job I hope to learn to relax a bit more, anways Talmadge fell asleep on me and we had a nice little nap. We drove home and went to bed, next year is going to be so much fun!


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The joys of laughter

Came home from work today and found a little green tennis ball underneath the couch, I decided to squeeze it and throw it on the ground and play with Maximus for a bit. Much to our surprise Talmadge thought it was the funniest thing ever and couldn't stop laughing.

It truly is amazing the growth of a child. I'm amazed every day at the new things that he does and can honestly say that being a Dad never gets old. Talmadge is full of so much energy I'm anxious to see what he'll do next.

Enjoy the video!

Our "Little Superman"

We can't believe how much fun Talmadge is, and how much we love smiling at him, and how much he has grown. We have alot to catch up on so I'll try to list as much as I can. One day I came in the living room while Talmadge was on the floor, as I came in I noticed Talmadge had his arm up for no apparent reason. He would just leave his arm up there for a long time smiling the whole time.

Talmadge hasn't done this as much but for the longest time he was doing this all the time, we called him our "Little Superman"

The Stevens are moving up!

We'll since I live in web design and a lot has happened in our life I figured I should take time to start a family blog. We'll post more later, but we're excited to start posting pictures and video of Talmadge for everyone to see.

Let's get this started

Well alot has happened in our family, and is going to happen soon. We moved to Boise after living in Vancouver Washington for 7 years and are loving every minute of it. We bought a house over a year ago and are enjoying having a place to call home. Matt works as a Creative Director for the Idaho Steelheads Hockey team and Boise Burn Arena Football team. He is responsible for all aspects of the Creative Direction in Print, Animation, Video and Web, and it's a very busy job, but with a lot of fun perks, and he finally gets to do what he loves! Kim is about ready to have our first baby Talmadge and recently finished working as an Office Manager for an MRI clinic, and is now relived to be done with work and focus on being a mom.

At this point in our life the Lord has blessed us greatly with jobs, house, health and for finally getting pregnant! We realize the Lords hand in our life and am thankful for his blessings. Kim's about 38 weeks right now and soon we'll have our new son Talmadge Lonnie Stevens. We are so excited to welcome Talmadge into our family and into this world, 9 months has flown by and we're learning all there is to know about being parents, and let me tell you we have alot to learn. Things are good right now, let's just get this baby outta here!