Eric's and Preston's balancing act

There is a mirror hanging on the wall and Preston can't help but check himself out

We took a trip to Gozientep for a day with some friends. It is about a 2 hour drive east from us. Preston was a star! Everyone loved him. They were even taking pictures of him with their phones. It was great when we went out to eat because they would just take Preston from us and keep him entertained while we ate. But some of the Turks were scolding us for having Preston in the sun. (What bad parents we are.) The picture below is at the zoo. I thought it was not going to be a well kept zoo for the animals (it is Turkey) but it was really nice.

Off to the war

We got this really cool copper plate that was carved by hand. The video below shows how they carve the plates.

Preston was so tired he fell asleep in his swing/jump-up

We took Preston swimming for the first time. It didn't know what to think of it, but he wasn't cryng.

Preston and I went for a walk one morning and took pictures while he was in a good mood and a clean outfit.

Beautiful blue eyes

Preston is siting upall by himself. (At lest for a few seconds)

I was giving Preston a bath the other day and he has found his manhood. He was tugging and squeezing. I was waiting for him to hurt himself but he never did. Now he always wants to grab down there. I thought it was funny and had to share it with the rest of you.

I was finally able to get a video on my blog. The internet here is terrible. I once left a video downloading for almost a whole day and it still didn't work. I'm glad this one worked because it is so cute. He just can't figure out how to get it in his mouth, but I'm sure he is also wondering what keeps hitting him in the face.

I was sitting outside with Preston on a blanket and got lots of cute pictures of him. He loves to be outside and stare up at the polm trees when the wind blows. It lookes like he is holding the camera to take a picture of himself.

Don't mind my face, but I love the adorable look on Preston's face.

Preston had to find something to suck on and Eric's toe worked great. Good thing they didn't stink!

I guess Eric was to boring for Preston.

I was out for a walk one day and was curious if Preston would like or even be able to sit in a swing. He really likes it. His favorite one is leaning forward in the swing. I guess it is the most comfortable for him. Eric has not come with us yet, but I think if he did he might scare Preston. I can just see him now wanting to swing him really high.

4 months old

It's a miracle! This is the first time Preston finally took his pacifier. He started to find his thumb and I don't want him to be a thumb sucker. He doesn't always take his pacifier but when he does I shout for joy. It makes it easyer on the both of us.

This is how Eric watches Preston while I am away.

What a happy baby!

Just wanted to show you how we travel with Preston.

We got to go see snow in Turkey. We went up to a ski resort that is about 4 hours away. The bad news was that it was awful weather. It was blowing so hard that they had to shut down the ski lifts. Eric did get one run in, but the wind was so bad that he was going so slow down the mountain. This is the only picture that we got. It is the view out of our hotel.

This was an amazing acrhced wall that went on for at least 1 mile.

kaya kiliseleri

We went on a hike, and Preston wanted to do a little rock climbing. He's pretty good for as little as he is.

We found this amazing place while coming back from snowboarding. First off it is in a valley that is just beautiful. It looks like they had the temple on one side and the community on the other. These pictures do not give it justice.

These two pictures are inside of the temple. It was very well intact. If you look closely you can see Eric and Preston right in the middle of the first one.



This is the front of the temple. It lookes like the movie of Indiana Jones that they show of the temple etched into the rock.




This is on the other side of the valley. All of the holes are where the people once lived. We couldn't get a good enough picture, but we could see stairs etched into the rock leading way up to the top of the rock. It looked very dangerous to climb.

He is getting so big!

Preston after getting his bath

Preston can sleep anywhere

What you don't see in this picture is a vacume right

next to Preston. We couldn't get him to go to sleep

so when we turn the vacume on he went right to sleep

We were getting ready to leave for church and Preston was asleep so we had to wake him up to put him in his car seat. We sat him up for a second and he started to fall back a sleep. He slowly slid down to his stomach for a more comfortable position to keep sleeping. we were laughing at him! He satarted to glare up at us with a look that told us how dare we be so noisy while he was sleeping.