Super Baby!

 Gideon is infamous for his talent at spitting up. It comes in an abundance and he has quite a range. As a result, we've become accustomed to putting bibs on him to help save his clothes and the clothes of whoever is holding him.

Well, he's now become such a wiggler that the bib is often more of a cape. In fact, he rolls over a lot now even though its a new skill for him.  It's so new he doesn't recognize he is in control of the roll. Often once he gets to his tummy he yells angrily about being there, since tummy time is not his favorite. Just today, however, he completed his first full roll, going from back to front and back again. He's a quick learner and sure cute to watch in the process!

A Little About Us

Hi and welcome to my new blog!  I've never blogged before, so bear with me. My name is Julie Duran. I've been married to my wonderful husband Trevor for 3 1/2 years now and we have an adorable 4-month-old son, Gideon. Together we have many merry adventures and this blog is a record of said adventures. Just like Nephi in the LDS Book of Mormon, I think it's important to record your adventures because you never know where they may lead and you can learn so much looking back on them. 

A little more background on us. I'm from Pleasant Grove, UT. I graduated from Brigham Young University with my bachelor's in business management and worked for Enterprise Rent-a-Car for 3 years.  By the time I "retired" to become a stay-at-home mom in December 2012 I was a branch manager at their largest location in Utah County. 

Trevor is a computer wizard. He is currently working on his bachelors in Information Technology at Brigham Young University and has one year left until he graduates. He's a wonderful father and definitely likes to think outside the box. In the pic, little Gideon is less than a month old and fast asleep as he's about to get eaten by the ancient crocodile in BYU's Museum of Paleontology (it's free!). This summer, he's been hired on as an intern for Amazon.com. We've moved up to Seattle, WA (just got here 2 days ago in fact). 

Gideon is a well traveled little fellow. We had a funeral down in Tucson, AZ last Monday for Trevor's grandfather, "Tata" Juan Manuel Duran, then drove back to UT Tuesday and drove to Seattle Friday and Saturday. We were in 6 states in 5 days and he overall took it very well. In the last week, he's started rolling over, which is fun to see. He's grabbing on to anything within reach and trying to taste most anything. Fortunately, he doesn't have very good hand-eye coordination yet so he tends to miss his mouth. 

Funny story: so on our way up to Seattle, we stayed in a hotel in Caldwell, ID. (Sidenote, the Best Western there is AWESOME and if you book on bestwestern.com you can get FABULOUS rates). Anyway, we played in the pool with Gideon and after we'd played for a while, I was holding him and I kissed his cheek. He turned his head and to my surprise started licking my face. Pretty soon, we noticed he would lick anything that came close to his mouth. He must have liked the taste of the chlorinated water!  We got out pretty soon after that, but despite showering off, he spent the rest of the night trying to lick us.