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!

Some Updated Pictures

Carson and I went to the park in Otsego today and took a walk and played on the playground. It was nice to get outside, it wasn't too cold and Carson had a blast. We took a few pictures.

Just Testing...

I'm just playing around with my 30 day trial of Adobe Lightroom2. I feel like I might need it! So far I LOVE it!

Spot The Raccoon

Can you spot the raccoon in the picture? How about I zoom in a bit for you...
Dave got the scare of a lifetime when he went to let Bits out this morning after we woke up, Dave was trying to hook her up on the leash when the raccoon popped out from the hose reel and hissed and lunged at them. Good thing it was just a baby and more scared of them than anything, otherwise it could've really injured on or both of them. I was going to call animal control to have them take it away but the neighbors shooed it away with a broom. We will for sure double check tomorrow morning before we take Bits out. If its back we will call then.

Talk about a scare!

Not What I'm Used To

My friend Kate and I were discussing going to the apple orchard this fall. We'd like to go to Apple Jack Orchards in Delano. Kate and I went there quite a few years ago and had a blast. We told everyone we were visiting from Kansas and that they didn't have apples in Kansas. I'm sure everyone looked at us like we were stupid 18 year olds but we had a good time anywas...I digress. The point was we were planning on going during the middle of the week so it wasn't so busy but Kate called me about 2 days later with an epiphany, her son Austin was now in kindergarten and we couldn't go in the middle of the week. Geez, not what we're used to.

Looks like we'll have to save our family fun for the weekends like everyone else!

I was grabbing a Dove candy out of my candy dish and found one that looked like the wrapper had not been put on correctly. Instead there were 2 candies with perfect teeth marks in them. Carson can reach just about everything, and he knows what chocolate is. I'm guessing he didn't like the taste of the wrapper! Not what I'm used to! Too funny though.

Carson was dancing around the other day, he was so cute and I was laughing so hard that I started tearing up from just laughing. Carson mistook it for me crying and immediately stopped dancing and came over to comfort me. It was the cutest thing. He's growing up, understanding emotions, not what I'm used to!

Carson will mimic anything you say or do, if he's around a 'big kid' he will follow them around and act just like them. It's pretty cute.
Those are perfect little boy bites!! Haha!

Mail Time!!

I was just wondering how cute is my kid?! Haha, He kept singing the song, we'd rewind Blues Clues over and over and he just kept singing the song...so naturally I had to pull out the video camera. 9 times out of 10 he'll stop being cute when I pull out the camera but this time he kept hamming it up. Gotta love it.

I know I lied in my last post when I said I'd be back soon. I'm hanging my head in shame I assure you. Haha, we've kept ourselves busy. It seems Carson has turned 2 without asking me first. He picked up this horrible attitude problem recently which I have to admit is not so awesome. Everything is 'No' and he wants nothing to do with women, whether it be me or my mom or even grandmas. He only wants Dave and my dad and my grandpa and even someone we had over this weekend that he had never met. Too funny.

Carson had his first trip to the State Fair this year. He couldn't get enough of all the animals, the cows and goats and everything he could touch he wanted to touch. It didn't go so well in the Miracle of Birth Barn though, I wanted a picture of him with a baby pig and he had a meltdown instead. I have to scan the picture to show but it was so funny.

Well, I will be back with more!!

I know, I know

It's been entirely too long since I've updated. It's summer time and we've been busy. I suppose that is the only excuse I really have. Haha!

Pale white, soft baby skin has given way to baby-tan, bruised knees and dirty toes. Every 2 or 3 day bath time has turned into every day, and one word here and there has turned into 2 and 3 word "sentences". Carson is growing up so fast. I mean, in 4 months he will be 2!!! 2 years old. Gah, I can't believe it.

Dave and I went and saw a movie in the theater for the first time in almost 2 years. We saw Pineapple Express. It was "meh" I've never smoked weed in my life so "stoner" humor is kind of lost on me I guess. It's like some of the stuff was really funny...but at the same time really stupid. I guess that's probably the point...but oh well. It was OK anyways.

Work has been good. I finally got the promotion I had been hoping for so that's awesome. It's been busy and that's always nice as well it makes the days go by so fast.

Well, here are a few pictures to catch you guys up and I'll be back soon!

Look-alike Meter Round 2

I wanted to see if this has changed now that Carson is older.  It has changed a bit...before it was 50/50 between me and Dave now it says he looks a bit more like me!  I love it!

Did Everyone Enjoy the 4th?

We had a great 4th! We hope everyone else did too! Thursday night we got asked to go out with Dave's boss and girlfriend. We went downtown to the Steve Miller Band concert at the Target Center. We had a great time and even got our own suite for a while! It was a blast. We took a cab to a bar that my girlfriend was working at and closed the bar down. We don't do that terribly often so it was fun. My sister and my parents watched Carson overnight for us so that was wonderfully nice especially since going out was completely last minute.

We went to Melby's for the 4th...like every year. It is always so much fun. I was curious to see how Carson did in the pool. At first he was a bit scared. He even has issues getting his hair wet in the bath right now, but as soon as he figured out he could go up and down the stairs of the pool he was good and soon enough he was having a blast with Dave and I. He even jumped off the edge to one of us in the pool. I'm glad he did so well. We could not keep him out of the pool once he figured out how much he loved it!

We came home and crashed pretty much immediately. We had been up so late and so busy yesterday so we were all ready for bed right away. Today my sister is coming over to hang with us and tomorrow we're going over to my parent's house for lunch and to hang out in the afternoon and then Monday is my 1st Pampered Chef show ever. Cue the panic. My sister is coming over today and we're cooking the recipe again today just so I can be sure I'm comfortable with it. I'm sure it will be fine.

Well, here are some of my favorite pictures from yesterday. Enjoy!

Bad Blogger

I've been too busy to blog. I know, I know...I'm terrible but what can ya do? It's officially summer, we've been enjoying the weather and getting out and about as much as possible.

I bought roller blades a few weekends ago and the first time I put them on was like torture...today wasn't so bad. Carson and I went about a 1/2 mile after he ate dinner. He loves being pushed in the stroller while someone is pushing him with roller blades and to be honest it helps me keep my balance to have something to hang on to. We went around a few blocks before I felt like I might die and headed home. Haha.

I still am trying to book a Pampered Chef show in July. I have a few people who have given me the "well let me know if you start to get desperate" lol. Hopefully I won't have to rely on them. Regular work has been going good...except busy. I had a few weeks of sort of down time and that is out the window. Now, I'll leave work an all the sudden I'm starving and I'll realize that I haven't gotten up from my desk all day to either eat or pee. Haha, I guess it makes the days fly by.

I don't have any new pictures of Carson at the moment, but I should have a bunch from the 4th. We're going to the Melby's like usual and I'm really excited to see how Carson does with the pool. I guess at Daycare today he went in their pool and didn't love it but we'll see how it goes. For now, I'll leave you with a picture of my FAVORITE flower. It's blooming right now and will look awesome for a few weeks. I swear the months of it just looking like a strange green plant are totally worth how it looks when it's blooming. Reminds me of a tropical flower or something!