3 Month Birthday Hike

We HAD to get out and enjoy the nice 65 °F, and we had to get Rohan & the new puppy out for a walk too. What better way than to head out to Thousand Hills and take a 4 mile hike!!! We had to check and see if the new puppy (yet to be named) liked the water, outdoors, etc. So we grabbed some picnic food and headed out. It was a little breezy, and by that I mean 40 MPH gusts, but among the trees it didn't bother us too much.
Rohan was "pass-out bear" for the whole trip while he rode in the front pack with Mara. He's been so much fun with all his smiling and interaction lately. He's been helping Mara at night too by sleeping for 4-5 hours at a stretch so she's been really liking the extra sleep!
The new puppy had a blast outside. He grew up outside at a farm before we got him, and Linus always likes a good hike. Turns out the puppy liked the water as well, and didn't seem to mind getting dirty as well! In the following clip you can see the lack of fear for running on a log in the water. There was a nice water landing followed by a quick water rescue. Contrary to what I said...apparently I will "Fish his @$$ out of the water"...:) Sorry for the wind noise, it gusted right when I started the video.

I should say we were experimenting with names and we were calling him "Geo" for a while to see if we liked it. We didn't...

Here are some pictures from our hike:


Rohan tonight has been such a card. We put some toys in his hands and he hung onto them for 20 minutes, then started to chew on them. He seemed to really like the toys and always likes interaction! Not sure if he even knows he's holding them, but because he's the Smartest Baby Ever, we're pretty sure he knows what he's doing...:) Here are a couple of videos of him with the toys.




His smile has been getting brighter and brighter all the time, so we included a video of that as well. Mara sang him some Itsy Bitsy Spider and he seemed to love that too! :) Enjoy the videos!