Skater boy

I was having Jaden and Carson play in Jaden's room this morning to keep them out of the way of Chris and Chris's dad, who are remodeling our bathroom. Jaden found his skates and wanted to go skating. I put his skates, knee pads, and helmet on, and he was ready to go. The way I got him to keep his helmet on was me telling him I wanted to take a picture. In the first picture he's not very happy, because I put the helmet on.

I was helping Carson along, so I let go of Jaden's hand and let him go by himself. Don't worry, I was right behind him, and he wasn't going fast.

He wanted me to take another picture. The thing he's doing with his right hand? He's "clicking" his imaginary camera, lol. He says, "Say cheese, Mommy." I then say, "Cheese," and he says, "Click" while "clicking" his camera.

"I'm o.k."

Helmet fun

Jaden got up at 6:25 a.m. today, so I made him come in bed with me so he could fall back asleep (Chris was already at work). When Carson woke up, an hour later, he kept going to my bedroom (his favorite place these days). I kept running after him so he wouldn't wake up Jaden. I put Carson in Jaden's room to see if he'd play with some toys, and this is what he came out with. He walked all the way down the hall with the helmet on his head (and his hands keeping it there). He had a ball playing with it.

Look! His hair is finally coming in!

He was trying to put his foot into it.

Yep - back on his way to my bedroom.

Carson and his dancing

Here are a couple videos of Carson dancing to The Fresh Beat Band. Both boys love the music.

Fair 2009

We finally were able to go to the fair on Saturday, and Jaden had a fun time! Carson had a fun time, too, but all he got to do was have all the snacks he wanted in the wagon, lol.

Here is Jaden getting ready to pet a horse.

The horse was very friendly.

It liked Jaden's hair.

He wanted to ride in the strawberries.

Then he wanted to ride in the "parachutes." He was very upset we didn't get in the number 1.

Becoming okay with being in the number 5.

After the ride was over, he didn't want to get off.

The boys just chillin'

Jaden absolutely loved the rabbit!

We walked past this duck, and Jaden asks it, "Are you a duck?"

Cool looking pigeon.

Our HUGE elephant ear.

Carson was loving the elephant ear.

Jaden didn't want anything to do with the elephant ear until he saw that Carson liked it. Jaden ended up asking for more.

All tuckered out. Jaden didn't get a nap on Saturday, and it was WAY past Carson's afternoon nap.

My morning this morning

Jaden woke up at 6:30am today. I made Chris get up with him. I heard Carson wake up a minute later, because Jaden started talking, but luckily Carson went back to sleep. I got to sleep for another hour until Carson woke up again. I expected Jaden and Chris to be in the living room watching TV, but I couldn't find them. I finally looked, again, in Jaden's room, and this is what I saw.

It is very hard to keep Carson from going down the hall and into Jaden's room, so I decided it was time for breakfast. I let him feed himself the yogurt, because he was screaming for it, and I didn't want to wake Chris and Jaden up.

While Carson was continuing to make a mess, and I was done making pancake batter, I checked on Chris and Jaden again.

Jaden saw that I had the camera on the table, and he wanted to take some pictures. I showed him where to put his hand, and what button to press, and these are the pictures he took. These are his first pictures ever!

Put the two pictures together, and you might have almost one full picture, lol.

Garbage can part duex

Yesterday morning Jaden begged me to make his garbage can again. After throwing all his garbage away (the numbers) he begged me even more to put him in the garbage can. I put him in it and "closed" it (put the zero on top). He has a hay-day in there!

Carson was trying to climb it, but he never let me get a picture of him doing so.

Today, Jaden begged, again, for me to make him his garbage can.

This time he actually stood up in it.

He kept saying, "Say cheese, Mommy!"

He also kept asking me to take more pictures,

so I took a video.

Elmo

For quite awhile now Jaden has been refusing to eat dinner. The only dinner he'll eat is homemade macaroni and cheese. Last night, though, he ate less than half of what I gave him. Instead, he fed it to Elmo.

I told him to say cheese. I think the red-eye flash was too bright for him.

I finally got one with his eyes open...most of the way, lol.

He also got a hair cut yesterday. It's a little shorter than I asked for, but oh well. It will be back to a mop before Christmas and his birthday. =) His hair this short just makes him look older than he is. =(