A tale of two Cities

When we went to Houston for Spring Break we were so excited to be home. We talked and decided to move to Houston at the end of May. Now we are thinking we shouldn't. We are not really sure now. David has a good job here and there are a lot of more opportunities here for him. He could also switch to production, which he wouldn't travel and be home more. I was planning on coming to Houston on Friday for a job fair. I even bought my ticket, I think I will wait though. So pray that we make the right decision for our family.

Sleep

I have to brag on Hayden a bit. When we went for his four month check up the doctor said that sometimes that breast fed babies can take up to 8 months before they sleep through the night. Twice this week Hayden has slept through the night. I am so excited! What makes this even better is he goes to sleep on his own. We lay him in his crib and he falls asleep after about 10 minutes. Going to daycare has really helped him on this. I ask his teachers to let him fall asleep on his own instead of rocking him. It is weird thought because I find myself getting up to check on him. Which makes me not sleep because I am waiting for him to wake up. He is doing much better. I think soon Hayden will have teeth. He is drooling like crazy we go through 2-3 bibs a day. He is chewing on everything. He loves his thumb. During the night he will suck his thumb to fall asleep, it is so cute!

New Church

David and I have decided to look for a new church. We have been going to a Baptist church here in Midland. The preacher preaches what David calls " a feel good message". So we are going to start visiting other churches here. The one thing I liked about the church was the worship. I hope we find a good church that we both like and also good nursery workers for Hayden. So pray that we find a church home. Anyways Hayden is doing a lot better. He has been waking up during the night. I think it is because he is learning a lot of new things. He is rolling around in his crib and sometimes get stuck. I think tonight we have decided that we aren't going to go pick him up unless he cries. Most of the time he talks or plays then falls back asleep on his own.

I've got a tongue

Hayden has discovered his tongue. He sticks it out and then pulls it back in and laughs the whole time. It is really cute. At first we thought it was kind of strange but it is hilarious. I am not sure if he thinks it is funny since we laugh. Well all is good here. David is going to Van Horn at 2 in the morning. He has a frac job there this week. I am hoping he will be able to come home at night instead of staying in a hotel. We will see, the new engineer is doing the job tomorrow. I hope he doesn't screw up. David is teaching me how to load pictures on to the website. We got a really neat Cannon printer. It has a place for our memory card. The best thing about the printer is that is uses a network. Since we don't use our desktop, we can print and manage the pictures using our laptops. Its really pretty neat and user friendly, which I need. I have also added Easter and a few more Houston pictures. I am trying to figure out how to change the slide show. I guess I will try again later this week.

Home at Last

We are home. Hayden did pretty good on the flight home. He was hungry. He ate 3 times in 2 hours. The security people made me throw out his bottle water that was warm. He ended up taking a room temperature bottle. Hayden has been going through this phase were he cries/screams bloody murder. I have finally figured out that he is hungry sometimes tired. I think he is going through a growth spurt. He has been eating every 2 hours any where from 4-6 ounces. Tonight, I fed him at 7:30 6 ounces and then 6 more at 8:30. I hope that he does well at daycare. He has been spoiled this week. He has been held and loved a lot. I hope he doesn't have a hard time adjusting. Aunt Marcelle sent Hayden an Easter outfit. He wore it to church this morning. He looked really cute. We will load some pictures up soon. David also got a new boss while on vacation so we will see how that turns out.

Welcome to 2000-something

Living in Midland we have no family around and that is really the reason we started this blog. Once Hayden was born everyone was wanting constant updates and new pictures and email was just not working out very well. The blog helps get the information out to everyone but we also use another web tool called skype. Skype is an internet telephone service (VOIP) and it allows you to transmit video. We hooked up an old computer to our plasma tv and now we can video chat with anyone wanting to check on Hayden's status. The picture above gives you an idea of how it works for us. If you want our skype user name just drop us an email huntersintxATATgmailDOTDOTcom the ATAT = @ and the DOTDOT = . putting the address in the blog like that helps prevent us from receiving spam. If that makes no sense and it probably doesn't just give us a call.

-david

Time to update

We have been taking so many pictures since we have been in Houston. David will add them once we get back to Midland. I am hoping to dress Hayden in his Easter outfit tomorrow and take pictures. It will be really cute, because he is smiling and sitting up now. We are also going to attempt to color Easter eggs. I hope it all turns out. We will be leaving on Friday. We have enjoyed our visit. I am hoping that David and I can go out for lunch on Friday. We haven't had a "date" since Hayden was born. Anyways, Hayden is doing good and enjoying all the attention he has been receiving. I am also very surprised how well he has been sleeping. He likes his own bed and I thought it would be crazy, but its not. He is only getting up once to eat and then goes back to sleep. He is even sleeping late until 6:30-7:00.