Compare and Contrast

So as I mentioned before, I LOVE my new birthday gift. So now you all will be flooded with videos of Carson, I'm sure you're all extremely disappointed. Haha! :) Not too much new has been going on at our house. Still nothing on the job search. I can't believe how bad it is. It's just frustrating. I didn't go to any college which, until this point, has never been an issue. Now I'm finding I can't even submit an application for a job without a 2yr degree. UGH!

So for now I have been focusing on organizing Pampered Chef and seeing how I can make that successful for me. I have 2 shows in March which I'm looking forward to, my goal is to have 5 shows in March. We'll see if I can get there! I've temporarily made my kitchen table into a desk but the clutter/mess is starting to drive me nuts so it needs to be able to be put away daily. I think I almost have everything organized enough to make that happen!

My old company started the move into the new building today. I think that's the one thing I'm most upset about, I did a lot of work prepping to move and worked for 2 years in a really crappy building just waiting for the move. And I don't get to work in the new building. But I keep reminding myself that this is not my loss and that the company seriously does not care about it's employees. I am sure of this seeing as how the week after the layoffs in January the executives received some really nice bonuses. Some to the tune of $50,000.00!!!! If the cared at all, they would've taken pay cuts, cut bonuses etc. But no, they do not care and I do not want to work for a company like that.

Carson and I have been getting along great. The only time he wants nothing to do with me is bedtime. Usually Dave is home and Carson will fight me but allow Dave to do bedtime stuff (brush teeth, change clothes). If it's just me and him there is no fighting. Only if Dave is home. It makes me laugh.

We had a 24 flu bug come through the house Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. Dave had it Sunday/Monday I had it Monday/Tuesday. Either Carson brought it home (he threw up once on Friday but that was it) or he hasn't been affected by it. It was completely miserable and I'm so glad that if Carson did have it on Friday it wasn't to the extent that Dave and I had it. I didn't sleep at all on Monday night and Tuesday could hardly leave the couch with body aches and fatigue. I'm for sure glad to be done with that noise!!

Well I'll leave you with a few pictures of my new Flip! This will give you a good idea of exactly how small it is!! Also, I'll leave you with a great video of Carson doing animal sounds and being a bit silly!

Cheese Please

Carson is so big. I want to cry! Haha, on Saturday I walked into Carson's room to get him up from his nap and he was attempting to climb out of his crib. A few hours later, we converted his crib to a toddler bed. *cries* My little boy is all grown up. I can't believe how well he has done. He has not gotten up once in the night and even when he took his nap he stayed in bed. He gets all excited to crawl into bed too. He's so big now.

He was so excited to 'cheese' while posing in his new bed. I think I want to buy him new bedding for his birthday so we can pack the 'baby' stuff away. At least for a little while.

I'm excited for Carson's birthday party. We decided to do it at the Maple Grove community center. It will be great to let the kids run around and play and get all crazy. It will be nice to let the kids get all crazy and have them not be at my house!! Haha, alternate motives. :) Can you blame me though? 

Carson has gotten really great at saying new words. He's getting much better at stringing together 2 and 3 word sentences. He gets a bit confused still though. The other day I was cutting cheese for him and he wante

d some. I prompted him to say 'cheese please' which he did quite well and kept asking so nicely. The next day he was asking for something completely different (maybe help getting up onto the couch) I asked him 'What do you say?' fully expecting him to say 'help please' which he says quite often as well...but nope, he says 'cheese please'. Haha, that's almost the default one he falls back on, cheese please!

It Was Bound to Happen....

My poor baby!! Carson fell yesterday right after we got home from daycare. He hit the edge of the coffee table. Luckily he let me put ice on it right away but man, did he cry and cry. I felt so awful all night. I know he's 14 months old, and that's what happens but man, it still sucks! He seems to be doing fine today. It's much less swollen than it was when he woke up so that's good. I'll just have to keep documenting all the different colors it turns!

We've been having a blast with Bits. I can't believe how well behaved she is and how smart she is! I taught her 'sit' today and she totally got it after 3 tries. Seriously, it took the pugs WEEKS!! Haha. She's also already good at letting us know when she has to go potty. I think she's only had one accident since we brought her home which is amazing! Even when I had to tend to Carson yesterday with his eye, she went on her little pad! I really can't believe the difference a breed makes!

Work has continued to be super busy for me. I have my review coming up in a week or two so I'm pretty excited about that. I'm also about to be given another doctor's files so that always makes for a busy few weeks. But I welcome the work...I really like what I do which is such a nice thing!

We've got a busy weekend coming up. We have Austin's 5th birthday party on Saturday afternoon, Nan and Chris coming over on Sunday for fajitas and then we're goinig to my parents Sunday afternoon/evening. So we're totally booked! We haven't had a super busy weekend for a while though so it's ok. We've been able to veg out and just hang the last few weekends.

Well, I will talk to you all soon!

Happy Birthday Carson!

Wow, can you believe it? Carson is a year old today. In one year from this:To this:It's crazy! Carson's party went better than I thought it would. We only had about 1/2 the turn out because of the weather but what can you do? Carson still had a great time. The stupid grocery store made us the wrong cake. It was supposed to be Baby Einstein but ended up being a generic birthday cake. I got it for 1/2 off but I still cried the whole way home. Then, once I got home and was unloading the car...I accidentally spilled the cake onto the garage floor. Luckily there was very minor damage otherwise I probably would've cancelled the whole day! :) I realize now that the cake wasn't as big of a deal as I made it out to be originally but I still think it was important. I will be speaking with the manager at the grocery store some time this week. The nice thing was, we got a free mini-cake for Carson to dig into. He had a extremely messy blast!

On Sunday, we had our family Christmas party. Carson was so tired from the night before...so he was kind of antsy and irritable and we didn't end up staying too long. Carson got to see Santa for the first time. It was funny because there was an 11 month old that sat on Santa's lap before Carson and he cried and cried so I thought Carson would have a similar reaction...but no! I guess my kid just has no fear of strangers at this point. I guess that's a good thing for now. He was smiling while sitting there! Super cute. We didn't get too many good pictures because I didn't set the camera right for Dave to take pictures...dang. Oh well, I might just have to take him to see a mall Santa to get a good picture.

After the family party, we went to my parents house for another MN sports day. We watched both the Vikings and the Wild win again! Yay! It was a good time. As the day went on though, I started losing my voice. I've been feeling under the weather and my throat has been sore but now my voice is completely gone. I took the afternoon off from work and came home and slept for a few hours before I had to pick Carson up from daycare. He got sent home with some great new toys from the daycare lady and then the mom of the little girl that goes there. I love that it's such a small daycare, I really feel like Carson is loved by everyone there.

Dave and I are supposed to go to the Wild game on Wednesday night. I hope that I'm feeling better by then. Otherwise I might have to send him onto the game with my sister or something. I can't imagine going with no voice. It would be the most frustrating thing EVER. It would be like getting to order any dessert you'd ever want but not being able to eat them. Haha.

We got some good video from Carson's party of him devouring his cake. I'll post that as soon as I get it uploaded to the computer. Probably sometime tomorrow night. I'm sooo tired and we're totally going to bed early tonight. Dave has got the sore throat too but he's still got his voice. Carson is the one that got us sickly but he seems to be feeling better for the most part.

See ya later! Can you believe how big he looks?!

DANG!

DANG! I was really hoping that November would be my month to break out of the "8 entries-per-month" funk. I was so on the right track too! I haven't had much extra time lately. We've all been a bit under the weather at the Walgrave home. Carson is finally pulling out of it, I don't have to wipe his nose every 30 seconds anymore. Thank Goodness too! He sure hates that. I've been falling asleep on the couch after Carson goes to bed until Dave gets home when we eat, clean up and then go straight back to sleep. Haha, no time to get on an update. I actually have about 50 pictures on my camera that I haven't taken off yet either. I shot them in RAW so I can only pull them off with a certain program. I downloaded a free 30 day trial to see if I want to buy it...not sure yet. I haven't had any time really to play with it.

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful! Nice and low-key. We swang by the Walgrave's on the way to the Theisen's and even got in a few naps during the day! We had gone to the Wild/Canucks game the night before so we were exhausted. We had a great time at the game, even though we lost. We have another game coming up on 12/5 and hopefully we'll win that one! We can't go to 2 losing games...that's just depressing!

As most of you know, we're having Carson's 1st Birthday Party this weekend. I can't believe I just typed that out! I ordered him a cake yesterday. It just blows my mind how fast the time has gone. It's ridiculous! We're keeping the celebrations low-key...there's no need at his age to go over the top. We'll just do a small family get together and leave it at that.

Work has been swamped beyond belief. Everything is a *RUSH* right now. Serious, just like that. 3 out of every 5 emails I get during the day the last 2 weeks have *RUSH* in the subject line. I'm getting very sick of the word! I guess it's a good thing, job security. My friend Kate's co-worker asked if I would take their family pictures. It makes me so nervous I want to throw up, but at the same time I'm super excited.

Well, I do actually have to finish working today. I'm gonna do my best to get my pictures off my camera and break the 8 per month streak!! :) Talk to you all soon