Copy Cat

Kids pick up on the littlest things sometimes.

Erik will grab my glasses case, which yes looks like mommy's purse, and head to the back door to go outside. I know it's not very manly, but I think it's soo cute that he copies me! He's so observant to know that I always take my purse when we leave the house.

This is Erik's "CHEESE" face. We've gotten in the habbit of telling him, "Say cheese!" before we take a picture.

Pawly showed Erik how to put money in his Teddy Bear Bank one day, he picked up on it sooo fast. Now every time he see's change or the Bear Bank he wants to put the coins in.

We really took this picture because Erik kept his Easter hat on longer than 3 seconds, we're so proud!

Erik's also copying most of our words! Lately he's been saying, "Oopsie" but it kinda sounds more like "boobie" Yeah that was really funny to hear yesterday in Sacrament meeting at church. Pawly and I had the hardest time keeping our laughter under control.

*Note: Erik's lip is doing well. He really isn't playing with it much and I don't think it's causing him anymore pain. Thanks for all your comments on that :)

Erik's 1st Trip to.....

.....the Emergency Room!!!

Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for our family. At around 11am Erik fell off a chair at home and cut hip lip open, yuck, it was not pretty. But his Daddy was excellent at stopping the bleeding with ice cream, amazingly Erik stopped crying once the ice cream came out. :) Then they headed for my work to show me the sad face and I walked them over to the ER to check in. After a little while I checked in with them and the verdict from the Dr was he needed stitches. And to get those stitches in, Erik needed to be sedated, which meant he needed and IV. This is where things got really sad. As the nurses and I tried to restrain Erik to get the IV in he kept screaming and yelling, "NO!" and "Hold you!" which is what he says when he wants you to pick him up. I felt so bad for him. I was so sad that he was in pain and that we needed to cause more pain to fix his lip.

Here's a BEFORE shot of Erik cuddling with his daddy.

It gets worse. The Dr. and nurses explained that the sedation medication would knock Erik out while they stitched him up but one of the side effects are nightmares!!! "So he might wake up screaming." they told us. WHAT?!?!? Anyone else feel the guilt and tears piling up?


My husband is a wonderful bearer of the priesthood and had the clarity to remember to give Erik a blessing before the procedure began. I was so happy that the staff were willing and welcoming of that. I think it gave everyone in the room comfort and calmed us all down.


Erik woke up very calm to mom and dad leaning over his bed, what a blessing! We tried to keep him calm by singing him primary songs, I really think it helped.


After many tears, from mom, dad and Erik, he made it out of the ER with 4-5 stitches in his upper lip that will stay in till next week. He'll probably have a scar, which I was feeling bad about, but ya know, guys think scars are pretty cool, so I think it'll be ok. :)

This is Erik today. Such a happy boy.

I think he's gotten used to having stitches in his lip now because he's not playing with them as much as he was yesterday. So hopefully he won't pull them out with his teeth, the Dr. was concerned about that.

I really never thought I'd be so sad to see my child hurting, but it just killed me yesterday! All I wanted to do was take the pain away and hold my baby.

I Never Thought I'd say this...

...my baby's so BIG!!! Good grief! I realized that in a few months, Erik will be 2! What?!?!?! Didn't I just bring this kid home from the hospital? Where are the days where he fell asleep in my arms, oh how I miss that sometimes. WOW I'm such a MOM!!! I guess it's official now, once you obsess about how FAST your kid grows you become the mom (I) never wanted to be. Oh well there's a good side to this. Erik's learning to do more every day and that includes talking. It seems he's in a copycat stage right now and it's so amazing to see how easily he picks things up!

OK, moving on to pictures now:

This was Erik being a "big help" to Daddy doing Laundry, my husbands so sweet to do this, love him! Notice the nice pine cone Erik has in his hand. He's loved to pick these up around the front yard area and throw them or just hold on to them as little keepsakes, it's so cute! And I'm so glad it's not bugs or worms, but I know that day will come :(

Another great Laundry help. Erik LOVES climbing into the dryer! He'll play peek-a-boo with us with the door, it's so cute! Normally he gets in when the clothes are all out, but I guess he wanted to get in really bad and couldn't wait. :)


This photo Erik took himself. He loves playing with the camera, yeah my favorite too...NOT. But I let him do this one closely supervised. After we take a picture of him he always says, "See!" so then we show him the picture.
This is a quiet book Erik loves to play with, esp at church. I'm really amazed at how it keeps his attention, it totally rocks!



Funny face after dinner one night. I love this kid. He can make me laugh every day!

Daddy's lil sport!

This picture wasn't the best look of Paul, but Erik looked the best in it. Paul put those gloves on him and Erik just started to beam! It was so cute!

*note I think I just used "so cute" at least three times, sorry if that got annoying

More 18 Month Picture...Can you believe it?

A lot of people have commented that Erik makes a lot of different faces.

This has been the case since the day he was born.

We caught a few good one's that we can't help but laugh at, because we know that this is exactly how our son is.

We may see some frowns or smiles and we love em all.

He was chewing on some candy in these last two.

But he can still make the darndest faces, don't you think?

More 18 Month Pictures

Erik had so many good looking pictures we couldn't fit them in one post. Enjoy!


He's so versitile. He can be serious and happy at the same time.

He smiles like Aunt Jamie. Where are your eyes?

Deep in thought.

Role your hands.

What a cute kid!!!

18 Month Pictures

Erik is growing up so quickly so we are glad we have someone like his aunt Carrie to take pictures of him.
He is so good at looking at the camera and smiling.

Erik threw a rock in the water and thought it was soooo cool.

Cheeeeeeeeeese!

Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful.

It looks like he's trying to hold his smile in. But he just can't help it.