The Coombs Family

Ronin has rolled over the last three days, once every day. At first I thought it was an accident, and now I think he may know what he's doing. Little guy keeps trying to eat his toes, he rolls to his side, and then squirms his way over to his belly. Then he gets mad, because he hates his belly. But it's so cute! These three little hands mean the world to me. Go team Coombs!

Ronin has started to laugh and it's about the cutest thing ever. He's always been a smiley happy boy, but these past couple of weeks he just laughs at everything. I was just stirring some food up in one had, holding him in the other, and he was busting up. The kids play peek-a-boo with him and he about dies of laughing. I had no idea how obsessed Shelby and Calvin would be with their new baby brother. Everyone said it would wear off, like a new puppy. Nope, not the case. Calvin asks me about 48 times a day if he can hug, kiss, touch or "see his eyes". He always wants Ronin to be awake. And if he's asleep, he doesn't really care and will wake him up. Shelby talks to Ronin in this adorable baby voice and calms him down if he gets fussy. Ronin almost never cries, but if he even makes a whimper, Shelby is right there. "Don't worry Ronin, mom is going to feed you". That's her go-to line. I think she knows where his thought process is at all ti...

The day before Easter we went to the beach and played in the ocean. Caleb hooked up his GoPro camera to Shelby's head and it's hilarious to hear her talk to herself and run around. Calvin played hard and when we went to watch the sunset he started getting sick. After he threw up in the sand four times, he laid next to me and passed out. We packed up and came home, hoping he would get better before Easter. Easter morning Calvin woke up early with a bad cough and still sick. He sat on the couch for an hour just watching cartoons and spacing out. Then he noticed the Easter goodies that were in front of him the whole time and came running to tell us about them. I was up feeding Ronin and Calvin was so excited. He got some new swim snorkel goggles and flippers and some candy. He ate candy for breakfast and waited for Shelby to wake up. Shelby loves to sleep in! She was super excited when she saw her swim gear too, and also had candy for breakfast. We kept the tradition alive and...

Then we took a trip to Palm Desert Hot Springs to see my grandparents. Ronin got to meet them for the first time. It was also Calvin and Shelby's first time to California. I didn't realize how long it had been since we made it down there. 2400 miles of driving. Caleb didn't go, so it was just me trying to juggle these guys in the car. Rhoda's family went and I had help driving on the way down, but not on the way back. Trevor and Logan flew to Texas out of California so they could meet up with Caleb to go hunt pigs. So just Rhoda and I came back in different cars. Thankfully Ronin is a great baby and the other kids love car rides. We swam in the pools every day, ate way too much food, went to the movies, and rode on the tram in Palm Springs. On the way down and back home we stopped around halfway and stayed in a hotel with a pool. The kids couldn't get enough.

It's been awhile since we went with our kids since it's usually the best to go in the summer. But we had such a mild winter and it was really warm, so we went for it. I'm not sure if Ronin saw any animals but Calvin and Shelby pointed out many to him. The baby lion cubs were their favorite. And we were sad to find out one of the giraffes had to be put down that same day we were there.

We made our first trip to Sunriver this year and introduced Ronin to his new vacation getaway. I know I say it all the time, but we love Sunriver. We took two families with us who have not been there before. The weather was freezing so we had to get creative with the activities. We went for bike rides, played in the hot tub, and went ice skating.

We blessed Ronin on Sunday February 8. Caleb's sister Jenny and her family came from Utah just for the blessing. We had a house full of family, lots of activities and a great baby blessing. We started the weekend with some shooting Then we went to Chuck E Cheese Finished the day off by swimming out in Dallas, and then stayed up late playing legos, and then went to bed. In the morning Caleb made breakfast and we ran out the door for 9 am church. Ronin was an angel and didn't cry and let everyone hold him and pass him around. Here's Aunt Jenny reading to the kids So grateful for this family of mine!