Life in the Northwest

Things Bekah says.

2009-08-04T06:05:00.000-07:00

So at Bethy's midwife appointment Bekah always takes her stethoscope and tries to listen to Ethan's heartbeat while our midwife is trying to find it. This last time when Ethan's heartbeat came over the speaker Bekah said, "Efens dancing."

Bethy was out of town this past weekend with some girls from the youth group at our church, so it was just Bekah and Daddy. Whenever I said we were going to do anything Bekah made sure that I knew it was, "Just Bekah and Daddy, without Mommy."

I asked Bekah if she could say Rebekah Jayne Fleshman. Her response was, "Sure."

I was putting some pop in the fridge the other day and Bekah asked me, " Are you putting the pop in the fridge?" I said "yep" and her response was, "That's fun."

Whenever Bethy or I give her her food or a toy lately, she say "Oooh Thaaank you Daddy, (or Mommy)."

Bethy was talking to Bekah about Ethan the other day and Bekah informed Bethy that, "Efan is stuck in Mommy's tummy."

If we ever bring up Ethan while we are in Bekah's room she lets us know that, "Efan will sleep in he's crib while Bekah is sleeping in her new bed." (Their beds are in the same room, so this excites Bekah.)

That's all I can think of for now. I'll try to post more up here later.

2009-07-08T18:03:00.000-07:00

So we finally decided to update this again. So here are some pictures for everyone.

Christmas Videos

2008-12-26T19:11:00.000-08:00

Here's a bunch of videos from Christmas. Some are Bekah and opening presents and a video of a Quick family tradition that no one knows why we do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_m1KXs1tFg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilUGg1oCkfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35svWrYnDZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGvWkPoFvA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYuzhtCm54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJeks-61OA

CHRISTMAS!!!

2008-12-26T17:14:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

She still has the Zoolander face.

Spaghetti is wonderful!!!

Bekah asked to have her picture taken.

Then said "Smile" and this is what Bethy got.

Her favorite Christmas present.

Here's Some Good, Clean Fun!

2008-11-17T14:34:00.001-08:00

Here's some good bathtime fun!!

Look at her eyes in this one!

Gotta love the mohawk

We're teaching her how to smile and this is what we usually get.

I think she looks kind of frightening in this picture!

This is probably the funniest video we've ever had!

Baby Dedication

2008-11-14T11:33:00.000-08:00

We got Bekah dedicated on November 2nd and because of numerous very frightening threats, we video taped it so those that could not be there could still see the dedication. There is also a hilarious video of Bekah during worship, most definately not singing the songs!!! :)

Recently she has decided that Joseph is her favorite person in the world, so that's who she's talking to and playing with. She calls him Jo-Jo.

She wanted to play the piano the whole time we were up there.

So there ya go, Anna Lynn. I finally got the dang dedication up. Will you be my friend again?

Happy Halloween!

2008-11-13T20:01:00.001-08:00

Sorry this took me awhile to get up. Bekah was a ballerina for Halloween this year. We sang a song so I could get her to spin in circles like a ballerina!! She was very cute. :)

"Ring Around The Rosies" is one of her favorite songs right now!

Hawaii #4- Waimea Canyon and Wailua Falls

2008-11-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

Our flight didn't leave until 10 pm, so we had a full day of sightseeing on our last day. We went to Waimea Canyon, which is on the west side of the island, first. It was pretty amazing. The drive wasn't so fun. It was all windy and really narrow. I started feeling car sick on the way back down.

I think this picture is cool.

This is my favorite.

Here's the picture random stranger took of us.

After Waimea Canyon, we went to Wailua Falls which is on the east side of Kauai. (It's a small island, so it wasn't too bad driving from one side to the other.) The waterfall was pretty, but not as impressive as Snoqualmie Falls, so we weren't that excited about it. Of course we took some pictures though. Darren took like 50 of me at the waterfall. Don't worry, I won't post them all on here, as they are pretty ridiculous.

That is pure beauty is it not?

This is where I punched Darren in the face because he wouldn't stop taking pictures of me!!

Did I mention our car was a Mustang Convertible?

Darren was ballin' driving the Mustang. :)

After our fun day of seeing things, we went out to dinner and hung out on the beach until it was time to go to the airport. We were of course missing Bekah like crazy, but we also weren't ready to leave our beach paradise. We had so much fun and wanted someone to fly Bekah down to see us, so we didn't have to go home. :)

Hawaii #3- Spouting Horn

2008-11-06T11:42:00.000-08:00

On our 3rd day, we went snorkeling. We left our underwater camera at home. We have had that camera since our honeymoon and still have never used it. :) We also went to the Spouting Horn which is kind of like Old Faithful. It's a bunch of rocks and when the waves come in the water shoots up through a hole in the rocks. It was pretty cool. Here are a few pictures.

Darren always made me pose for pictures.

Look how pretty it is.

Hawaii #2- Kalalau Trail

2008-11-06T11:10:00.001-08:00

Sorry it took me so long to finish this. Here are the pictures from our hike. It was incredibly muddy as you should be able to see from a couple of the pictures. This trail was on the north side of Kauai. It took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there and 1 hour to make it back. It was incredible. The waves were amazing and the pictures don't do them justice. There were high surf warnings and you couldn't go in the water. The beach that was 2 miles down the trail, you couldn't go on at all. We had to sit on the rocks because it was too dangerous. It was awesome though and we were so glad we did it, even though we were pretty nasty by the time we finished!!!

Posing on the beach before we started the hike. :)

Along the trail

This is the halfway point muddiness.

Don't we look beautiful? The ocean is behind us, but you can't see it in this picture at all!

The awesome waves....ahhh I want to go back.

On our way back.

We're almost there.

If you zoom in on this picture, you can see even more mud.

We survived the hike and then of course forgot to take a picture at the end. Oh well.

Hawaii- Installment #1

2008-10-24T15:01:00.000-07:00

Hello all, we've been home for about a week, so I figured I should put some pictures up. I'll do it in multiple installments, so it's not overwhelming. Today is the luau. Enjoy!!

This guy is eating fire.

This is the fire guy. He was hilarious!!

One of our favorite pictures of the

beach!! It was so beautiful!

See the rainbow? It's pretty awesome!

Look What I Can Say

2008-09-09T20:09:00.000-07:00

I can't think of a Title

2008-09-09T19:46:00.000-07:00

Here are the most recent pictures of Rebekah. The first ones she is just playing around in her room. And the last ones, we had to clean our car to sell it and Bekah wanted to help.

Dress-up

2008-08-25T13:43:00.001-07:00

This is my favorite picture of the moment

Look at that smile!!

2008-08-13T18:39:00.001-07:00

This is her new smile!

If you want to see the best video ever, go to the link below. It's too big to fit on our blog, so we had to put it on YouTube. She played this game for almost 2 hours one Saturday morning. Enjoy the cutest baby ever!! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTHIMsHTL2E

More pictures

2008-07-30T21:22:00.000-07:00

So there were still some things we didn't post last time and we've taken more pictures since our last post. So here you go.

Random Pictures

2008-07-23T07:42:00.000-07:00

Look at that Face!!! She's a butterfly

New Suns Outfit: All the Volleyball girls have this headband.

Rebekah and her Cousin: Dancing

On top of the Space Needle: At the Zoo.

2008-07-23T07:12:00.000-07:00

Birthday cake time.

One of her new toys.

This is when she was first walking, I'll try to get a video of how fast she is now.

It has been awhile

2008-07-22T17:55:00.000-07:00

So I looked at our blog today and it has been February since our last post. We are sorry! We have been super busy, but I know you all want to see Bekah. I am going to put it in more than one blog cause there are alot of pictures.
Here are pictures from her Birthday and when her Grandparents were in Seattle, enjoy.

Day at the Park.

2008-02-18T22:23:00.000-08:00

So it has been somewhat nice in Seattle so we have been getting Bekah outside alittle more. She has a very cute winter coat and hat and mittens.

Her facial features are starting to show more and more.

The latest family photo.

She is not afraid she is actually having fun.

She is ready to go outside.

Her first time swinging.

It sure looks like she is planning something evil.

Look at that smile.

Not a whole lot going on in this. I was just proving to you guys she was having fun on the T-Rex.

Another picture from the Park

Picture of the Naval base in Everett.

Well thats all for now. Hope to hear from all of you who look at this soon.

Darren, Bethy, and Rebekah

Crawling everywhere!!

2008-01-27T10:46:00.000-08:00

For some reason we couldn't put this video on the last blog. We just wanted to show you all how fast Bekah has become!!!

"Look what I can do!"

2008-01-26T20:53:00.000-08:00

So Bekah can now do alot of new things since the last time we have posted. Also alot of you have been asking me to put new things up here so here you go. Hope you all get a kick out of this like Bethy and I did.

Darren

She's standing by herself!!

Brown Bear is her favorite book and she gets really excited everytime we read it.

It's Been Awhile!

2007-12-26T13:15:00.000-08:00

Sorry we haven't put anything up here in awhile! We have all kinds of new developments. Bekah is crawling all over the place. She is everywhere all the time. She's faster than me! We went to Missouri for Thanksgiving to visit Darren's family and went to my parents house for Christmas. It was so fun to celebrate the holidays with Bekah. She, of course, doesn't know anything different except that there are a lot more people around all the time! Here are some pictures from yesterday of Bekah playing the piano and just hanging out at my parents house. We hope you all had an awesome Christmas! I'll try and put some more pictures on here soon. We have lots that haven't been posted yet.

Who can resist this baby?

2007-10-26T13:03:00.001-07:00

At Caleb and Danielle's for family dinner

Check out this mohawk!

She wants to crawl so badly...but she keeps falling on her face!

Hanging out with Daddy who loves to make her smile!!

What happened to my clothes?

A cute video of her trying to get the camera. She is so mobile these days!

Dr. Appointment

2007-10-04T17:23:00.001-07:00

We had Bekah's four month appointment on Monday even though she's actually 4 1/2 months. They were all really impressed with her development. She totally performed for them and rolled over and grabbed at everything! She even sat up for a little while. When she was laying on the table she kept kicking and kicking because the paper on it was making all kinds of noises!! She was very cute. She weighed 12 lb. 7 oz which is in the 18th percentile and is 25 1/2 inches long which is in the 82nd percentile!!! We knew she was long and skinny, but now we have proof. She is becoming more and more mobile these days. The doctor told us we need to start baby proofing our house already. We need to move all the cleaning supplies up and start getting in the habit of shutting the bathroom doors. He said that every couple years he goes to the funeral of a 9-month-old who drowned in the toilet! So basically, we need to start paying better attention to all of that kind of stuff. Babies are supposed to start crawling between 7-10 months and we think she is going to be on the early side of that. She wants to crawl so bad already!!! She's really trying and I know once she figures it out we are in a world of trouble because she is going to be everywhere at once!!! She also had to get shots which isn't fun, but she did really well. At her 2 month appointment she screamed when she got her shots, so I made Darren go with me this time and she only cried for a little bit. That is not fair!!! I'm glad she didn't cry very much, but why couldn't she have done that with me???? All of that to say, things are going well and she is doing wonderful!!

Here are some more pictures, just for fun!

Hey Hey!

She's modeling already.

She loves her baths!!!

She's getting her fingernails clipped which is not so much fun

So...Bekah has discovered that she has a tongue and loves to lick everything!!! Here she is licking her playpen!!!

Bekah's new favorite thing

2007-09-26T11:57:00.000-07:00

Bekah's new favorite thing to do these days is eat absolutely everything. Anything, anywhere near her goes directly to her mouth. She is getting so much better at controlling her hands and so she is able to put everything in her mouth. I read in one article that if your baby is interested in your food and tries to grab it, than they're probably ready to start trying solid foods. This confuses me because Bekah is interested in putting all kinds of things in her mouth, so I don't think I really believe that. She's interested in my coffee, so does that mean it's time for her to have her first latte?? I don't think so. Anyway...here are some pictures of her eating random things!!

Doesn't it look like she's picking her nose with her toe?

Check out her mohawk!!

Here's a video of her eating her feet. I'm sure lots of you have already seen this, but it seems relevant to the post, so I'm putting it on here too!!

Well that's all for now!! One of these days I'm going to put some pictures from when we went to California on here, but I forgot our digital camera, so I have to actually take the camera and get the pictures developed!! Crazy how lazy the digital age has made me!! :)

Mariners Game

2007-09-13T12:44:00.001-07:00

We took Bekah to her first Mariners game Monday night. That's quite a lot of action for an almost 4 month old!! She did pretty well. Darren had to walk around with her for awhile. He ended up walking back to the car to get the pacifier because she wouldn't go to sleep with all the noise!! We went with our friends Garin and Stacia. It was kind of a lame-o game. The Mariners lost 9-3 to Oakland. The A's had 2 grand slams! That is just ridiculous! Anyway...here are a few pictures from the game. The ones of Bekah are kind of blurry, so that's sad. Oh yeah...this old guy that worked at the field gave Bekah her first baseball card!! It's a Jeff Kent Opening Day 2006 card. Kind of random, I thought. He doesn't even play for the Mariners!!!

Anyway...here are the pictures.

Garin and Stacia with Bekah

Look how empty it is!!

Ahhh...Ichiro

Well that's all for now.

Condo Pics finally

2007-08-20T00:07:00.000-07:00

So I now am finally letting everone that can't see, see our condo. So here you go.

So all the painting we did ourselves with the help of some friends. The Crown molding was done by us with alot of help. And Bekah's room the peg board was done by us with little help. We like how it turned out alot. There are a few things that need done but we got busy for some reason. Hope you all like the pics. You can comment and tell Bethy how much you like her decorations if you want. See ya.

Darren

Camping in the middle of nowhere

2007-08-11T00:18:00.000-07:00

So we went on a camping trip on July 31st thru Aug. 5th. We went up to a place called Bonaparte Lake resort. I don't know why they call it a resort. We slept in cabins that only had refrigerators in them. Nothing else! The bathrooms were a shared bathroom for about 10 cabins. I kind of felt like I was at NYR. We were right along a lake and it was beautiful. We had a canoe that we had an electric motor on and that is how we got around the lake to go fishing. And I caught nothing neither did Bethy. That sucked. I didn't get there until Thursday night cause I still had to work. By Friday night Bekah was ready to leave. When we got home Sunday Bekah slept for 9 and 1/2 hours. that is crazy considering she normally only sleeps for about 6-8 hours at night. Here are some pictures of our trip.

Catching up

2007-07-30T18:19:00.000-07:00

So just to catch everyone up who doesn't know. Bethy and I now have a little baby girl. Her name is Rebekah Jayne Fleshman and is over 11 lbs. and over 23 inches long. She has started smiling alot and moves all over the place. Not crawling yet but Bethy and I joke that she will start walking before she craws because all she wants to do is stand on our lap. I am still working for a company called Sales Northwest Inc. I've been doing it for over a year and a half now and don't plan on quiting anytime soon. Bethy is able to stay home with Bekah, which is awesome we wouldn't have it any other way. We are going to be in Mo. in November for Thanksgiving so if anyone from Mo. is going to be around we would love to see you. You can also email either one of us anytime you feel like. Bethy's email is bethyf@comcast.net and mine is darrenf@salesnorthwest.net. Now enjoy some pics of the most beautiful girl in the world.