Blog Award

I have received a blog award from one of my dearest friends.

Here is the translation to the saying:

“This blog invests and believes, in ‘proximity’ [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' - being close through proxy] "They are all charming blogs, and the majority of them aim to show the marvels of friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate?"Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to eight bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text.”

Thank you Allison! I love you, hoe!

Pumpkin Patch 2008

We decided to take the boys to a pumpkin patch today. There were lots of things to do there, but we did not do them all. The first thing we did was go through the hay bale maze, and shortly after entering Jaden realized he was tired. Jaden kept saying, "All done, all done." I took Jaden up the HUGE tower of hay bales after Chris and Jaden were done with the hay bale maze. Jaden was all about climbing up to the top. When we got to the top he wanted nothing to do with it, so I brought him down. When we got on the hay ride, to go to the actual pumpkin patch, Jaden started screaming, "Oww! Oww!" He says oww when he doesn't want to do something, or doesn't want you to do something to him (like clean his face after he's done eating). Once the hay ride started moving he was just fine. He had so much fun in the pumpkin patch. He picked out so many pumpkins, but we only took 4 home with us. After we were back to the main part of the farm I tried to take some pictures in the area with some pretty big pumpkins. Jaden just didn't want to stay still to have his picture taken, so we went home.

















Here's the short, bumpy video I took on the hay ride back to the main part of the farm. The guy next to me was asking Jaden all sorts of questions.

Tag, I'm it!

I have been tagged for two different memes. This first meme asks that the person tagged has to post the 6th picture in their album. Well, I have over 50 albums, so it was a hard decision to make. I finally chose one of my Jaden albums. This was the 6th picture I took after getting my new camera for Christmas 2007. It was Jaden's 1st birthday party. I can't believe yet another year has almost come and gone already. Jaden will be 2 years old this coming December! My how time flies! This is a picture of his birthday cake. It was HUGE. I actually had the same cake on my 1st birthday. My grandma made it, and it was soooooo yummy!

Now I must tag some people and pass it on!
1. Aimee
2. Bethany
3. Jessica
4. Nicole
5. Will

Now onto meme number 2. I have to post 7 things that are weird and random about me. I also have to post 6 things that nobody knows about me. I don't know that nobody knows, but I can assure you some people probably don't.

~Weird and Random~

1. Sprite is my favorite lemon-lime drink. I can drink 7-up and Sierra Mist, but they just aren't the same. I would much rather have a Sprite.
2. I have to wear socks to bed. I don't know why, but I just do.
3. I hate cleaning, but when I get around to doing it don't help me. As much as I would like the help, you would not put stuff away "correctly."
4. I dress my kids everyday. Lots of parents just keep sleepers of some sort on their newborns for a few months, but not my kids - they are dressed in pants and a shirt (or onesie) every single day...even if we aren't going anywhere.
5. I also like my kids to have shoes on when we go out. I'm just not the biggest fan of having them wear only socks. Jaden's old enough now that there's no way I would let him go anywhere without shoes, as he has to walk everywhere, but when he was a baby he wore shoes when we went out, and so does Carson.
6. I LOVE Harry Potter. I'm actually really upset that they pushed the release of the 6th movie into theaters back to the first weekend of July 2009 instead of next month! That's a really long time to wait!
7. I am deathly afraid of spiders. I have finally gotten up to the point where I can kill one the size of an ant, but if it's any bigger than that, I just can't push myself to get close enough to be able to kill it - I freeze.

~Things nobody knows~

1. Placement is everything. I have never been diagnosed, but I'm toally OCPD (the "P" stands for perfectionism). Pictures have to perfect on my wall - perfectly spaced and straight. I won't go into anymore details, because I would be typing forever, lol.
2. I'm scared to turn 30. I just had my 29th birthday a few weeks ago, so 30 is creaping up really fast. I will no longer be in my 20s, so therefore I will be "old."
3. I secretly (not so secret anymore, ha!) want to keep having kids. I don't want to have them throughout my 30s, and I won't, but the joy the two kids I already have brought to my life makes me want to have more. Three is our limit, though.
4. When I was 22 I got arrested. Don't worry, I didn't go to jail, or anything, but I did get searched, cuffed, and put into the back of a police car for questioning (yep, got read my rights, too). No, I didn't do anything wrong (except be in the same car as the two other people who were doing something illeagal).
5. I'm afraid my kids will grow up to hate me. I don't know why I have that fear - I just do.
6. I am disgusted with how I look. I vow that after I have my 3rd, and final, kid I will get my body back to where it once was.

Now I must tag some people and pass it on!
1. Aimee
2. Bethany
3. Jessica
4. Nicole
5. Will

There's a thief among us

In an earlier blog I posted that we got a Bumbo seat for Carson. Jaden thinks it's his. While Carson is hating his new seat Jaden is loving it. No matter how many times we tell Jaden it's not his, not to sit in it, or to get out of it, he's always doing just that. I had Carson up on the couch, right next to me, but took him out, because he got fussy in it. Jaden seized that opportunity and got up onto the couch and into the Bumbo, as he thinks it is his new toy, lol. I took the opportunity to take a couple pictures, but he just wasn't letting me. Every time he saw the camera he got up out of the seat. Here are the only two good pictures I got. And yes, he's wearing his infamous "hat."


He wears this basket on his head all day, everyday, I swear. This is the first picture I ever took of him wearing his "hat." He gets it, puts it on his head, and says over and over until I acknowledge him, "Hat, hat, hat." On this particular day he just had to have his "hat" on in order to finish eating his lunch.

Carson loves music and laughing for Daddy

Here are some videos of Carson. Sorry the last two are a bit dark - it was night time when I took them. The third video is so short, because my memory card ran out of room. In the first two you can obviously hear Jaden in the background.

Here's the picture I took right after I got done filming the above video.

Brothers

Sunday morning, when Jaden came into our room to "wake us up" he asked, "Up?" I was finishing feeding Carson, so Chris got Jaden up onto the bed. Jaden loves his little brother so much, he just wanted to play with him. Here are the pictures we took that morning.

Carson's new toy

Carson now hates his bouncy seat. I don't know why, but he does. I don't want to put him in his swing all the time, because 1) he falls asleep when I start it, and 2) I don't want him used to being in the swing all the time. I do have a playtime mat thing, but he only lasts on that for a little while before getting fussy. I also don't want him just laying on the couch all the time, either, so we got him a Bumbo seat. This seat is supposed to help them learn to sit. I don't know if it will; that's not why I got it. I got it so he could do something other than lay on his tummy or back. So far he hates it, lol. He does really well in it, but he gets mad a few minutes later. Hopefully he'll start to like it.

Poor guy was really tired and fell asleep in it. Of course when I got off the couch to take the picture the cushion moved a little causing him to wake a little, so that's why you see a little bit of his eyes opening. How he fell asleep looked so uncomfortable, so I after I took the picture I took him out of it, where he proceeded to sleep on me for awhile later.

2 month check-up

Carson had his 2 month check-up on Monday. He is perfect, as I suspected. He is 12 lbs 3 oz and 22.5 inches long. I'm not too sure why he's only grown one inch in two months. Either he got measured wrong at the hospital, or he just hasn't grown much, length-wise. (I'm going for being measured wrong at the hospital, as his head was a bit elongated right after he came out.) I remeasured him today, and sure enough, he was only 22.5 inches long. He can still fit into SOME 0-3M clothes, but he's mostly in 3-6M. The long sleeve onesies I got him had to be 6-9M (must be the brand). I don't get how he's only 22.5 inches long and in 6M clothes. Oh well, lol. Here are some pictures of him just because!

2 months

Carson is two months old today. I can't believe it! How fast time flies. I mean, in 10 short months he'll be a year old already! He is getting some chunk going on. He's so tall it's taken awhile for the chunk to show. He's just growing up so fast. I don't ever want my babies to grow up. That means I'm getting older, too. Here are the pictures I took of him today. He's getting so big!

All smiles

So finally, at 8 weeks old, I got it on camera! Everytime Carson smiles I whip out the camera, but as soon as Carson sees the camera he stops smiling. Well, I finally snuck up on him, and captured it! I just love the dimples on his cheek bones. They are so cute!



And here are a couple random pictures from yesterday. He was a VERY happy baby all day yesterday!