So sorry it has been forever since I blogged! I'm finding it hard to find time for this with watching Ian and my two boys part time, two families I babysit for on the side, spending quality time with Victor (it's been sparse lately), keeping my house somewhat clean and livable, having a social life and oh yeah, closing on a house! We are SOO GRATEFUL that Victor's parents are helping us achieve the goal of securing a house!! It is so perfectly ideal for what we want/need in a house and the location is perfect for me being able to keep and watch my boys as well! I have a feeling the next month is going to be very busy!! We have to pack, clean and move out of this house, while also, fixing, painting, cleaning, prepping and moving into the new house! Not to mention Ian's b-day is right at the end of January... it's going to be a a little crazy, but Victor is the one who will be working the hardest. My Mr. Fix it. Right now, my friend Andrea is in town so I'll be occupied having fun with her :) We're headed up to our friend David's cabin to try and find some snow with her.
What has Ian been up to these last few months?? Well, he has finally been going poopie on the potty again, it's not every time, but it's pretty often. He's also learned the colors yellow, green, pink, red, blue, orange, and white. He can recognize the letters A,B and C. He loves to sing songs! He absolutely flips every time he sees Christmas lights! He calls them Christmas tress... I never even taught him what a Christmas tree was! We pulled up to a store one day that had some in their window and he yelled "Christmas Tree!" So weird, but now he knows what snowmen and Santa Claus are too... We took away the binky almost a month ago. He doesn't ask for it anymore, but he sure takes much longer to fall asleep than he used to. Mommy misses it more than he does I think.
My sister, brother in-law and niece came out for Thanksgiving! That was a great visit and I'm happy Ian got to spend some good time with his cousin. I was finally able to talk about my sister's next baby on the way, because she told my parents once she flew out! I'm hoping for a girl!!
Anyhow, I will be posting some picture of Ian and the family from the last month or two in the next week!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Awesome Giveaways!!
Okay so I have to tell you guys about 2 awesome giveaways over at ThriftyNWMom.
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The first giveaway is for a chance to win one of 3 $50 safeway giftcards! To enter go HERE.
The second giveaway is for a chance to win a $100 giftcard to the new amazon fresh! To enter go HERE.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Pumpkin Patch
This last Monday Victor and I decided to take Ian to the pumpkin patch by our house. We were told by our neighbor it was fun and had a free petting zoo, so we went to check it out and have a little family time doing something to celebrate the fall season. It was pretty cold, Ian had a red nose most of the time.
I told Ian that morning that we were going to go to the pumpkin patch with Daddy that night and ALL day he kept saying "pumpkie patch" wherever we went and screamed "pumpkin!" every time he saw one. (which there are pumpkins almost everywhere, so he basically screamed pumpkins all day long lol) Needless to say when it was really time to go, he was pretty excited!
When we were actually walking around the pumpkin patch, he didn't really know what to do. I got him to hold one and tried to get him to pick one for himself, but he just kept pointing to all of them and then got bored and wanted to watch the tractors. After we picked a small 2 pounder for him, we headed over to the petting zoo. He really liked it until one of the pigs we were petting tried to eat the rubber handle on his rain boot. He screamed and freaked out a bit, but still went to finish petting the other animals. After that we let him go climb on the hay bales for a while and then we bought his pumpkin and headed home. Enjoy the pics!
I told Ian that morning that we were going to go to the pumpkin patch with Daddy that night and ALL day he kept saying "pumpkie patch" wherever we went and screamed "pumpkin!" every time he saw one. (which there are pumpkins almost everywhere, so he basically screamed pumpkins all day long lol) Needless to say when it was really time to go, he was pretty excited!
When we were actually walking around the pumpkin patch, he didn't really know what to do. I got him to hold one and tried to get him to pick one for himself, but he just kept pointing to all of them and then got bored and wanted to watch the tractors. After we picked a small 2 pounder for him, we headed over to the petting zoo. He really liked it until one of the pigs we were petting tried to eat the rubber handle on his rain boot. He screamed and freaked out a bit, but still went to finish petting the other animals. After that we let him go climb on the hay bales for a while and then we bought his pumpkin and headed home. Enjoy the pics!
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| Pumpkin Patch |
Thursday, October 1, 2009
"CHEESE!" Face
I had to post these pictures! Every time Ian sees me with a camera now, he automatically says "cheese!" and makes this face...
He looks like he's in pain in some of them... These cracked me up and I had to post them.
He looks like he's in pain in some of them... These cracked me up and I had to post them.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Orca's!
This last Friday, Victor and I decided to go on an overnighter on the boat (before fall and all the rain comes). We launched at Nisqually kind of late so we headed straight to our overnight destination before the sunlight was gone. About 20 min after we took off I noticed a huge fin come out of the water. I instantly thought "shark!", then came to my senses and said no the fin's to tall... "dolphin!". Then I heard them spray water out of their blowhole and I freaked and and screamed "whales!". We were close enough that you could see the black and white on their skin. I rushed to pull out our camera and got them on camera for a few seconds. I was so excited I started shrieking and made Victor chase them for a little bit. ( Even though we were losing daylight) It's pretty rare to find them this far south in the Puget Sound. They migrate south every year, but you have to be in the right place at just the right time. The funniest part to me is that on Memorial Day weekend we went all the way up to the San Juans in hopes to see some Orca's and we end up finding them right here in Lacey. (I say that in the video too lol) I'm horrible at editing, so here's the whole video uncut. The orca's are only in the first 15-20 seconds and the rest is me babbling... Enjoy!
Friday, September 25, 2009
A New Computer! I'm Back!
Sorry for the last couple months of barely any posts. We've had computer troubles (again) so I was basically computerless until the evenings when Victor would bring home his work laptop. So, I finally coninced Victor that we needed to invest in a new, reliable computer. It took a month or two, but he was nice enough to see why we (especially I) needed one.
Since Becky's gone home, we haven't been up to too much. We've taken the occassional boat trip here and there, but that's about it. We were going to try and do the puyallup fair before it ended this weekend, but I don't think that's going to happen, we've been too busy! My new schedules between Oliver and Maika has taken some adjusting, but I think I'm pretty used to it now.
Ian has been growing in leap and bounds!! On top of his very high vocabulary for his age, he has been going poopie and pee pee on the potty occassionally! I definitely didn't think we'd get an early start on this since he was having so many poopie problems and absolutely hated the idea of being moved or touched when he went to the bathroom. But, he started wanting to sit on the potty like his girlfriend Gabi and his pal Jacob. Since then, he's only been doing better and better. He used to only go pee pee and only when I would ask him if he wanted to use the potty, but one day he got "the look" and I hurried him to the potty to try and poop and he did! He saw how very excited I was (plus he got chocolate milk) and decided this was a good thing. Needless to say, this week has been the biggest success since all 4 of his last bowel movement have been on the potty and the last 3 he has told me before he starts going that he needs to go poopie on the potty! I'm definitely not trying to fully potty train him yet(he's only 20 months), but we're sure on the right road. I'm so proud of him and can't believe how fast he's growing and how smart he's becoming.
Along with all the great things that are coming with him growing up, there are also A LOT more tantrums these days. He has been testing me in almost every way possible some days. This is definitely a challenge for me and my patience, but we are getting through it.
Here are some random pictures from the last month or so. I promise it won't be a month until the next post!
Since Becky's gone home, we haven't been up to too much. We've taken the occassional boat trip here and there, but that's about it. We were going to try and do the puyallup fair before it ended this weekend, but I don't think that's going to happen, we've been too busy! My new schedules between Oliver and Maika has taken some adjusting, but I think I'm pretty used to it now.
Ian has been growing in leap and bounds!! On top of his very high vocabulary for his age, he has been going poopie and pee pee on the potty occassionally! I definitely didn't think we'd get an early start on this since he was having so many poopie problems and absolutely hated the idea of being moved or touched when he went to the bathroom. But, he started wanting to sit on the potty like his girlfriend Gabi and his pal Jacob. Since then, he's only been doing better and better. He used to only go pee pee and only when I would ask him if he wanted to use the potty, but one day he got "the look" and I hurried him to the potty to try and poop and he did! He saw how very excited I was (plus he got chocolate milk) and decided this was a good thing. Needless to say, this week has been the biggest success since all 4 of his last bowel movement have been on the potty and the last 3 he has told me before he starts going that he needs to go poopie on the potty! I'm definitely not trying to fully potty train him yet(he's only 20 months), but we're sure on the right road. I'm so proud of him and can't believe how fast he's growing and how smart he's becoming.
Along with all the great things that are coming with him growing up, there are also A LOT more tantrums these days. He has been testing me in almost every way possible some days. This is definitely a challenge for me and my patience, but we are getting through it.
Here are some random pictures from the last month or so. I promise it won't be a month until the next post!
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| September |
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Our Summer, Thus Far
So, it's been well over a month since my last post! Sorry! Things have been a little crazy around here. I started watching a 2nd little boy part time in the house and his schedule is a little longer hours and I don't find out his schedule until pretty last minute. Becky came out for a visit in July, we've been boating whenever we have a free weekend, and we finally took Ian on his first zoo trip! Oh yeah, on top of that our computer broke, AC went out (right before a heat wave in the 100's) and my phone broke a few weeks ago and I lost all of my contacts... I can laugh now, but it wasn't so funny when they all kept breaking back to back.
Ian just got over a pretty bad case of croup, he had to get chest x-rays, medications, the whole ten yards. But, he is definitely back to his healthy tantrum throwing self. He still goes back this Thursday to get his lungs checked again.
It's been a busy but fun Summer! Here's some pictures of the last couple months.
Ian just got over a pretty bad case of croup, he had to get chest x-rays, medications, the whole ten yards. But, he is definitely back to his healthy tantrum throwing self. He still goes back this Thursday to get his lungs checked again.
It's been a busy but fun Summer! Here's some pictures of the last couple months.
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| Summer '09 |
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