Saturday, July 27, 2013
Syndergaard family fun time
Well a few weeks ago we were able to get together up in Idaho Falls with all the Syndergaards. We spent our time doing so many fun things but most of all just seeing everyone was so great.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
So the past few weeks have been filled with lots of new adventures and good times. I started a baby swim class with Reed and its been a lot of fun. I thought that it's never to young to start loving the water and so even though the class said for 6 months and older I enrolled us anyways. He has loved being in the water, even with it being a cool 82 degrees he hasn't cried about it. We started off by learning how to get in the water with your infant and then the proper ways to carry your baby. The teacher gave us toys to give to the babies, well everyone else is over the age of 1 so I can only really call Reed a baby, so they will associate good things with the water. Reed liked the water from the first minute and loved sucking on his toy while floating in my arms. The second day of class our teacher had us work on submersions, ya you heard me right. Andrew was able to take his lunch break and come over to the pool and watch as I purposefully dunked our four and a half month old in the pool. We thought for sure we would have a screaming baby once he surfaced, but he surprised us both with only frowny faces and a few cries. He really is a great and happy baby that tolerates his mom even dunking him. Andrew and I had a lot of fun watching the other parents dunk their kids and the different techniques they used. You can tell a lot about how a person parents just by watching them in a baby swim class, you see those that are very cautious and nervous and even after the teacher says to work on submersions they say they can't and their child is too nervous( well actually the parent was too nervous in this case) and then there were the parents who jumped right in and went under with their little ones to show them how it works. We had a great time and I look forward to finishing the class next week and letting him get use to the water more.
Reed and my daily chores consist of taking out the dog for regular bathroom breaks, watering and weeding the garden each morning and usually 30-60 mins of stroller time for Reed with me either jogging or roller bladding behind it. He loves the Chariot and I am so grateful for this because we use it a lot and I'm hoping he will continue to love it when we pull him behind our bikes in the future.
Here is our latest venture, a 2002 Honda Metropolitan II. We picked it up off of KSL and are so excited to get 115 mpg. Andrew will be using it to drive to work and then we both will probably use it to run errands to the store or back and forth from our storage garage. It currently tops out at less than 30 miles per hour, but I've been doing some research online and found out how we can get it to go faster with a few modifications. I'm excited to work on it with my brother Damon and get it to go hopefully at least 40 miles per hour, that way were not going to be run off the road cause were going so slow.
Once my maternity leave ended at the end of April we decided I wouldn't go back to work at the ED, but would continue to work one weekend night a week with AirMed. It's hard for me to leave, even if it is just one night a week, but it helps us save a little money and gives Andrew some good one on one time with Reed and that's just precious.
For Father's day Andrew went fishing and took little Reed with him, it didn't matter that Reed slept for most of the fishing trip the point is that he's under 5 months and has already been fishing twice. Andrew likes getting him started young and is hoping to help Reed love fishing, because his mom really isn't that fond of it.
Reed and my daily chores consist of taking out the dog for regular bathroom breaks, watering and weeding the garden each morning and usually 30-60 mins of stroller time for Reed with me either jogging or roller bladding behind it. He loves the Chariot and I am so grateful for this because we use it a lot and I'm hoping he will continue to love it when we pull him behind our bikes in the future.
Here is our latest venture, a 2002 Honda Metropolitan II. We picked it up off of KSL and are so excited to get 115 mpg. Andrew will be using it to drive to work and then we both will probably use it to run errands to the store or back and forth from our storage garage. It currently tops out at less than 30 miles per hour, but I've been doing some research online and found out how we can get it to go faster with a few modifications. I'm excited to work on it with my brother Damon and get it to go hopefully at least 40 miles per hour, that way were not going to be run off the road cause were going so slow.
Once my maternity leave ended at the end of April we decided I wouldn't go back to work at the ED, but would continue to work one weekend night a week with AirMed. It's hard for me to leave, even if it is just one night a week, but it helps us save a little money and gives Andrew some good one on one time with Reed and that's just precious.
For Father's day Andrew went fishing and took little Reed with him, it didn't matter that Reed slept for most of the fishing trip the point is that he's under 5 months and has already been fishing twice. Andrew likes getting him started young and is hoping to help Reed love fishing, because his mom really isn't that fond of it.
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