Just Kidding

Welcome April! I've lost track of all Blog Time...it seems like we went out with our friends and I've been trying to catch up ever since! We actually went out and had a great time, stayed up way too late and then have spent the last month (?!?!) making up for it! Haha!

We had a pretty laid back weekend...My parents came over for the Wild game on Friday night, my sister came over on Saturday and Dave's birthday was on Sunday. The Wild won on Friday!!!! We stayed up WAY too late on Saturday with Jess playing 'Sorry' and 'Phase 10' I lost miserably at EVERY game we played too...suck. Then on Sunday we just hung around...taking naps here and there.

Carson has been doing great. He's still teething so he's still been kind of...well we can call it *spunky* haha. He's been just a little crabbier than usual. He's sleeping at night just fine though which is good, I don't know what I would do if he wasn't sleeping. But he's been hitting and screaming just to hear himself scream. I'm so ready for all the teething to be done!

The Wild have been doing awesome in the playoffs...Game 4 tonight!! Too bad it doesn't start until 9:00. I had a hard enough time watching last night's game which also started late and I've been paying for it today. I'm not sure I'll make it through tonight's game at all.

Well, I'll leave you with a clip of SNL that we watched when Jess was over on Saturday. I don't know if it's just that it was like 1:30 when we were watching this (DVRd) or what but I was laughing so hard I was pretty much crying. Random I know...but please enjoy! :)

Addiction

I've gone over the deep end. I am addicted to Goldfish crackers. SERIOUS! Cant.Stop.Eating.Them. I go through weird food phases...it's kind of OCD. I'll be stuck on something for a few weeks (stuck to the point that if I don't have whatever it is, it's all I think about) and then it passes and I move onto something else. The last few weeks it has been Reese's mini peanut butter cups...now it's Goldfish. I suppose Goldfish are a little healthier but still. I worry about myself! I mean, I'm even taking pictures of them!! :)

Carson is getting more teeth. I think I mentioned already here that he had a new one pop through a few weeks ago, but seriously it feels like all of his gums are swollen. I was feeling around in there tonight and I can feel a little one poking through on top, it might be a molar even for where it's located. Exciting stuff. I'm for sure ready for the teething to be done!

We have a very exciting weekend coming up...We're going out to dinner with Dave's Mom, Aunt and Brother!! WOOT! They are taking us to Northland Inn for seafood buffet which most of you know is a total favorite of mine. The food, the desserts, EVERYTHING is fantastic! After dinner, my parents are taking Carson overnight and we're actually going OUT! I got to go out drinking once in September right before Kate had Lydia but Dave couldn't come, so it will be nice to get out and get to bring him along! Exciting stuff!

There is a hockey game on tonight...actually it already started but Dave isn't home so it's recording and we'll catch up once he's home. I'm really hoping we win tonight. Monday's game was pitiful!

OK!! I need opinions, of the two pictures below, which do you prefer? Color or the B&W. Please be honest! I'll give my opinion in the next entry. I'm curious to get some unbiased feedback! Thanks All!

Nifty!

I woke up this morning severely irritated with the weather. I'm DONE, so over and beyond winter it's not even funny. It will be nice on Friday when it is OFFICIALLY spring! Yay!

Bits got out of her fenced in area today. This is the second time that it's happened and the second time I am amazed that there is not one mess anywhere. I even checked under furniture, everywhere that I could think of! Nothing. She waited about 10 minutes after I got home to whine to go out (pretty typical) and did her thang so I'm fairly positive I'm not missing anything. She really doesn't have accidents unless they are our fault. Like she whines to go out but we don't take her in time or there was a time that I was giving Carson a bath and she was whining to go out. I very obviously couldn't do anything about that one so I had a mess to clean up but I couldn't really blame her for that one.

I ordered some stuff from a girl who was hosting a PartyLite party a few weeks ago. I couldn't go to the party but I needed some tea lights. I ended up buying more than I wanted to but I think what I got is pretty cool. Is it worth the $75.00 **cringe** I don't know quite yet. But time will tell! :) Carson had a new tooth break through over the weekend. That is #7 and the first in a long time! I think he's working on about 3 more though because he's been completely clingy/crabby the past 2 or 3 weeks. He's over his "I hate Mom" phase for the time being at least. I must say that gets to be tough to take even though I know he doesn't do it on purpose!

Well, speaking of clingy/crabby...Blues Clues isn't keeping him occupied anymore!

Snow Way!

I saw flurries outside today....GRRRRR! I'm so very not ready for winter. I've been in denial that it's coming up but that's not doing me much good. I now have less than a month until Carson's 1st birthday. Can anyone actually believe it? I sure can't. The year has flown by so quick. My little baby is growing up into a little boy. How scary!

Dave and I had a great weekend. We were in Iowa for an awards conference for the Navy recruiters in his District. It was a good time. I didn't work on Friday and we got on the road around 1:00ish after dropping Carson off with my parents. We got to the hotel at around 3:30-4:00ish. After we had checked in and had a quick gathering with all who were there, we were off for the night. I had a blast. I met a ton of people that Dave works with and all of their wives. Most were in the same boat we were, leaving their baby for the weekend for the first time. It was nice that everyone was kind of in the same situation.

We had a lot to do on Saturday. Dave had some trainings to attend and there were things for the wives to attend. So we didn't see much of each other until the awards and banquet on Saturday night. It was pretty low-key since most people were partied-out from the night before. After the dinner, we just went back to our room and watched some hockey and then a movie...we ordered pizza kind of late and then went to bed. We peeked out at the bar to make sure we weren't being un-social but nobody was out and about either. Everyone was laying low. Sunday morning we left around 8:00 and got back to pick Carson up from my parents around 11:30. We missed him!

Carson got two more teeth this weekend while we were gone. He only had one night of bad sleep so that was good for my parents. I would've felt terrible if he were a crabby baby all weekend. But only Friday night. He has 6 teeth now, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. The two front teeth on top have such a big gap between them right now, it's super cute!

I think I'm coming down with a cold, I'm hoping that it's just from the long weekend. I slept so much yesterday and ended up going to bed at like 9:00PM. I had a terrible time getting up this morning and felt like I could've slept all day long. Today at work has been tough. It's hard to concentrate when I'm feeling so sleepy and icky. I don't feel as bad as I did yesterday but I sure don't feel good. Here's to hoping that tomorrow I feel better. I don't mind terribly being sick, but I just don't want Carson to get sick. And it's not like we can really avoid contact at all! If only, right!?

I know some of you know Bethany, she got a job at my company. They offered it to her on Friday. She starts on the 19th. She's super excited. It's a long, LONG back-story but her and I have quite a bit of history. Some of it is not-so-great. I've really moved past it all and I just hope that things remain good while she's working here. Bonus for me, I get a $1,500.00 referral bonus if she's here for 90 days. Dang, I could use that for sure! Well, I should get back to work, after having Friday off I'm plenty busy but just can't focus today. Hopefully I'll be feeling better by tomorrow.

Before I go, here's a picture from 10/28 at my parents. I just like the way it turned out.

Have a Great Weekend!

We're getting ready to leave for the weekend. I'm not working today and we're dropping Carson off with my mom around 12:00. Carson wouldn't sleep for anything for some reason last night. I couldn't figure out what was up. He woke up this morning at 7:30 right about usual time and it's not even 9:00 and he's down for a nap. Poor kid. I hope that he sleeps really well this weekend. I'd hate to leave him with other people and have him be naughty. I think maybe he had a tummy ache or something. I don't think it was his teeth but it could've been I guess.

We only had about 20 or so trick-or-treaters on Wednesday night. They didn't start until after 6:30 and only came by until 8:00. We turned our outside lights off around 8:30 after a group of high-school age kids came by. It was getting a little late and those punks didn't even have costumes. Just pillow cases. My awesome pumpkin that I carved on Sunday wilted away by Wednesday. I went outside to light it and noticed that the carved part had kind of imploded on itself. It was pretty sad. I lit the candle anyways and I had about 6 smart-ass kids ask me "what is that supposed to be?" I was pretty sad. Haha At least I know that at one time it looked pretty dang awesome.

We watched the Wild lose again last night...rawr.

Well, I do have to get going. I have to finish getting my stuff together. I put all of Carson's together last night. It's hard packing up a baby for the weekend. They need like 7 times the amount of stuff as a normal person. Hope everyone has a great weekend, Dave and I send our love from Iowa! :)

Something Sweet

Ok, I promise this will be less hate-filled! Haha. Sorry I was just super irritated about that whole Ebay thing. So how about some terribly sad news? My hair lady is moving to Chicago in January. The lady that has been doing my hair for almost 10 years...10 YEARS PEOPLE! I wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety. Who is going to cut and color my hair? How am I going to afford it? No one can replace my "Christmas Carol"....*tears* My mom is having a melt-down as well. We both have been seing Carol for about as long as we can remember and it's been wonderful. I used to work for Carol, so she's not just my "hair lady" she's been a friend for a really long time as well. She came to my baby shower (if anyone can remember that). Gah, I have to stop talking about it, I'll have a panic attack.

How about we talk about Carson? I think that sounds good. That kid is just the most adorable thing, I swear. He was super fun all weekend. He has two teeth coming through though so he's been like a poo machine. I swear I changed 15 dirty diapers this weekend. Poor little hinder. We had to have plenty of diaper-free time this weekend to dry his little tush out. I'm looking forward to his teeth being in...I'm sick of teething! :) We heavily invested in baby gates this weekend. Life Saver! Our living areas are so open that it was hard to get him closed in without spending a small fortune! I like to call it....Baby Prison
There was a Wild game on Saturday night. It wasn't on FSN or 45 like they usually are, so we were checking out all the high number cable channels and found it on some random Sports Indemand chanel. I called the cable company to ask if we could buy the game like you buy movies? They said that you can't buy one game but, if we'd like to buy the entire season for the one-time low price of $150.00 we sure could. I laughed at the guy so hard and was like "are you crazy?" There are only like 5 games a season that aren't on normal cable that we already pay for...so we didn't get to watch the game. Instead we got "Blades of Glory" off of the OnDemand menu. Lol

Well, I should do some work. I'm terribly busy but with less motivation than I should have. Talk to you all soon!

BTW, I feel like Carson looks like Mandie in this picture? Like Mandie as a baby? Is it just me?

Flu Shots and Icky Lunches

We're watching the Wild/Anaheim game right now...I swear, Dave will probably have an aneurysm before this game is over. We've already seen a few really good fights, this game is huge for us so hopefully we can pull off a win!

I took the day off of work on Friday. Carson had to get his flu shot in the morning and our doctor's office is in Golden Valley. By the time I drive from Alberville to Golden Valley and then back to Albertville to drop Carson off at daycare, driving back to Eden Prairie ends up wasting half of my day. So I took a day off instead. **QUICK BREAK Wild are up 1-0!!** Carson was a STUD for his shot, not a whimper, no crying...seriously I had to ask the nurse if she even gave him the shot. He had absolutely NO reaction. That was a nice relief for me though, I swear I stress more about his shots then he probably ever will.

Kate, Austin and Lydia came over on Friday after Carson and I got back from his flu shot. There is an apple orchard about 15 minutes away from our house right in St. Michael so we thought we'd go check it out. We're all about going to an apple orchard in the middle of the week when there aren't a million people around...we also like the smaller more "cutsie" places instead of a place like Ahmedts which is always super busy. Anyways, this place was a little bit too little for us. It honestly was a tiny little building in the middle of some apple trees and all they sold was apples, no honey sticks or pies. They didn't even take cards, only check or cash and this lady had like a calculator and a notepad and that was it. We bought some cookie cutters to be nice but we only stayed for about 3 minutes. Austin was pretty mad. Haha. After our unfortunate apple experience, we just headed back to our house and I took some new pictures of Austin and Lydia, just for fun. Can anyone guess where the picture of Austin was taken? It's in my house...but where?!

We spent some time up at the cabin on Saturday with my mom and Steve watching the Vikings. We had this awesome feast of tacos, enchiladas, rice and re fried beans. We were all stuffed and enjoyed the game. We were pleasantly surprised that the Vikings actually won...next week is the Patriots though so that should be fun to watch...Haha, massacre. Carson refused to nap at all during the day, at least he wasn't crabby. He showed off all his mad crawling skillz. His 2nd top tooth also FINALLY came in!! Yay! He won't be "Hillbilly Deluxe" much longer. **QUICK BREAK Wild are up 2-0!!** SA-WEET

I think we officially have to have naked baby meal times now. Carson is pretty much eating anything he can get his hands on and most of that stuff is just gross. He absolutely ruined everything he was wearing on Friday...I mean, check this out: EEEEWWWWWW! So we're doing stripped down meals and I think that will work much better. At least I can just hose him down in the bath if needed, rather than having to change all of his nasty clothes. He's not much for wanting to be changed lately, he's too independent for that these days.

Well I better get back to watching the game, still a period and a half left!! Woot!

Look-alike?!

WOW!! Really...I totally thought this would be pointed more at Dave!! I'm totally surprised that it fell equally! Dave's mom just told me she's sending us some of Dave's baby pictures. I'm totally excited to see them I can't wait to compare Carson's pictures to both mine and Dave's, it will be interesting for sure!

So Carson has realized that his teeth make this *awesome* sound if he grinds them together. Oh My GOD, it makes me want to puke. I don't know how to make him stop. I feel bad because I'll hear it and jump and say "no" probably a little louder than usual because it freaks me out so bad and the poor baby ends up crying but I honestly have a really hard time handling the noise. It's really hard to even talk about...really I get sick to my stomach just talking about it. I have the same issue with just thinking about someone wearing socks to bed. Dave told me yesterday that if Carson was wearing socks in bed and then ground his teeth that I'd probably drop dead. He's probably right! Haha.

As terrible as it sounds, I was dreading picking Carson up from Daycare today because I didn't think that I could handle the noise. Luckily I found ways to keep him occupied...eating puffs while playing on the floor, a bottle of juice and his pacifier kept him from the unspeakable. Haha.

Who's a Star?

I bet you can guess the answer to that one!! What an improvement from the weekend. Carson has *hopefully* gotten over the worst of this teething phase. The teeth are starting to do that peek in and out thing but they'll be through soon and he's been in such a good mood compared to last weekend. It's been a complete 180!

He has however started to throw a fit when we take him out of the bath. He has always enjoyed baths but never got angry when they were over. That is no longer the case. He screams and kicks and arches his back and when he's wet it makes it quite difficult to feel like I'm not going to drop him. He's not exactly a light baby.

How is everyone feeling about the fall premiers. We have that new DVR which I believe is the best invention EVER as I can rewind something I missed due to a temper tantrum or bedtime or something. The only show I'm really excited for is The Office I've been addicted since the first season and I'm just DYING to see what happens with Jim and Pam. Call me a nerd but I'm hopelessly invested. Other than that, there's nothing that I *need* to watch. Most of it is crap anyways.

I'm excited for the CTX pumpkin get together thing on Saturday. Kate, Austin and Lydia are going to join us and I think it will be a great time. I'm just hoping the weather is nice. I'm loving the cooler weather. I'm not quite ready for really cold weather but the 60s are nice. I love not having to use the air conditioning or the heat...what a happy medium!

Well I'll leave you all with some pictures. I'm afraid I don't have much interesting to update, I've been swamped at work and coming home and just zoning after Carson goes to bed. But everyone can always use pictures!!

We Survived

Carson and I survived Dave being gone...barely. He had a temp of 102 most of the weekend. I can't believe how much worse the top teeth have been compared to his first two. Thursday night, I think we slept for a about 3 hours total. I was on zombie-mode during work on Friday. Luckily he's seemed to feel better as the weekend went on and is sleeping as I type this. Bliss.

The weekend just flew by. Dave didn't get home until late on Friday night, I was already in bed (mostly because I was still recovering from Thursday night) so I hardly acknowledged him coming home. Saturday we met up with Dave's mom and brother to take his senior pictures. We went to the Arboretum in Chanhassen. Ok, TOTALLY didn't know that was there. My dumb butt thought that Dave's mom was talking about the Conservatory at the Como Zoo. It was beautiful there and the weather was fantastic. I think the pictures turned out really nice. I just hope Tim is happy with them. As we were leaving the Arboretum, we saw a terrible accident...it looks like when the two cars hit one caught on fire. It was quite an ordeal and traffic was being re-routed, so it took longer to get out of there than it should have.

Today I went to a baby shower for Kate...the people that she works with threw her a really nice shower. Carson was really tired through the whole thing and was refusing to nap with so much going on around us. We spent a little time after the shower at Kate and Erik's place, Dave had gone out there to watch the game with Erik. I got a chance to take a few pictures of Lydia and Austin for Kate but crabby babies kept me from taking more than just a few. I still have to get on and see what they look like. I'm hoping that they turned out good.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Tired This Week

I'm on overload at work right now. Right now I'm keeping files for 6 doctors and in the process of getting medical licenses for 3 of them (47 licenses in total!) and someone just quit and they've asked me to kind of "clean up" the mess that was left behind. I know they're asking me because they trust my work and I really feel good about it...but I look up at the clock and it's time to go before I even know it. I'm hoping to get moved up a level soon so that I can get a laptop and do some work from home on the days that I feel a bit overwhelmed.

Carson's top tooth finally popped through for good. It was playing peek for a little while...and the poor baby was so miserable. He's been in a much better mood the past few days but I know it's just a matter of time before that second top tooth starts, you can already see a bit of swolleness. He's *almost* fully crawling. He'll get up on his hands and knees and start forward. He'll take about about 3 "steps" forward but only if you put something really good in front of him like the remote or your cell phone lol. But as soon as he gets close to it, he flops back down on his belly and starts the army crawl and the roll/scoot moves. He definately can get to where he wants to go some way or another.

Dave has to drive to either Iowa or South Dakota tomorrow night so I'll be home alone. I hate that. I've tried to bring Carson into bed with me the times that Dave is gone but he wakes up at like 2:00 and realizes that he's with me and then he just wants to play. It doesn't work so well. We have a security system but I'm one of those who gets irrationally afraid of everything but loves to watch true crime television. So I'll be watching like Forensic Files or Cold Case Files and I'll be convinced that the garage door is open and that someone is in there, but I can't check because I'll have to turn off the alarm to open the door and then the bad guy will jump out because he *knows* that the alarm will be off and that's his prime opportunity. Gah, I guess I gotta stop watching the murder shows.

Carson has been dinking around in his crib for the last 45 minutes...he wasn't crying or fussing so I tend to let him go for a while before I go in and lay him back down and cover him up. I just went in to check him and he was sitting up in his crib his paci, blanket and lovie were all on the floor and he was just happily playing with the bumper strings. They are double knotted so he can't get them untied but they sure are fun. He's such a goof. It amazes me how crabby and tired he'll be through his bed-time bottle but then he'll dink around for 2 hours if you let him!

Well Dave is bringing home LeeAnn Chin yummmmmm!! Talk to you all soon!

Socks Make Happy Babies

...at least at my house they sure do! So far this week has been a little trying. With such a generally happy baby, teething can literally make a monster! One of Carson's top teeth is *thiiiisclose* to coming through. Hopefully it's not much longer.
I have two girlfriends who are due to have babies this week. Most of you know Kate, she was due on Monday and our other friend Erica, who is due today. Erica is being induced today and I've been on the edge of my seat just dying to hear back from her. Both Kate and Erica are having girls so Carson will have some potential girlfriends in a few years! I think it will just be nice to have close friends who have babies too. Kate has a 4 year old but it's not exactly the same anymore as he is pretty independent. I'm so excited for them both! And now I don't have to be in BabyLand by myself!

Yesterday I got in a fight with our cable company. When we first moved into our house last year, they weren't offering phone service, just internet and cable. Now that they offer phones we have decided to switch providers to save money by "bundling". I just don't know why it has to be such an ordeal to get the techs out to your house. Why does it always seem that something goes wrong?

Our appt was originally scheduled for Tues between 1:00-5:00PM *eyeroll*, so I need to take a 1/2 day from work. When the guy shows up, he has only come to install the phones, not the DVR (like TiVo) that also comes with our upgrade. He tells me I will need to schedule another time for someone to come out. I said that is really not ideal as I don't work anywhere near home and I had asked them to do both installs at the same time. I called customer service and they assured me that another tech would come out the same day before 5:00PM. I had to pick Carson up at daycare before 4:30 so I called Charter back to make sure I wouldn't miss the tech while I stepped away for 15 minutes...well it turns out that they never put in the order for someone to come back!! I was very upset and I think the poor guy could tell. He assured me someone would be out before 6:00. The tech did eventually show up but I still had to sit on the phone with Charter customer service for almost another hour that night because the new box wasn't working correctly.

I'm getting all riled up just writing about it!! Haha! Well, at least it's all taken care of now. I really like the DVR and it will come in handy for Dave since he works such late nights. Now we can record The Office and watch it together instead of me trying to fill him in on Pam and Jim

I've got a hungry baby so I'm off for the evening!