Making Childhood Dreams Come True $25 At a Time

We had a busy day today, busy day but a good day. We started out with lunch with Nan and Chris to celebrate Chris' birthday. We hung there for a few hours and Carson was charming and cute and 2. It was nice to be able to spend some quality time with them.

After lunch we headed to Austin's birthday party. They had the party at the Kelly Inn in Golden Valley. They got a poolside room which was great! I hadn't planned on swimming but  Carson LOVES swimming and I ended up having to go in. The water was SO cold. Carson was shivering and his lips were blue, yet he refused to get out. We were going down the water slide together. Once we finally pulled him out of the water, we had to stay in the hotel room to avoid a further meltdown.

We picked up a 'tent' type thing from Target for Carson. It was $25.00 and Carson just loves it! He can stand up inside it and there is a hole in the top to throw a ball into. I'm curious how going to bed will be tonight. We can't even pull him out of it!

I'm still waiting to hear back from that last interview that I had last week. I'm hoping that they'll call tomorrow or Tuesday. I'm getting anxious. I'll leave you with some pictures of Carson's new tent.

Mamas

Carson has for some reason started adding 's' on the end of weird words. He now calls me Mamas, he says 'uckies' and 'kitties'. He doesn't add a 's' to the end of daddy though, that stays the same. He just started it in the last few days or so. Super goofy but kind of cute also.

I had 2 promising interviews recently with a company that has decided to postpone hiring the position due to the economy. Such a bummer, in the email they sent they said I was a perfect fit which I think sucks even more. I had an interview at United Health Group on Tuesday which also went really well. I should find out about that by the beginning of next week. It's possible that the hours may pose a small problem but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Carson and I have been enjoying our time together at home, trying to keep myself busy in other ways so that I'm not finding myself sitting around too much. My days would get too boring if I let myself do that. We try to run at least one errand a day even if it's small and quick and then I'm continuing to work out 5-6 days a week which also helps get me out of the house, plus I feel WAY less lazy that way.

The cute little place I work out in Albertville is going on a cruise in May. The instructors will be teaching on the ship and all clients get great discounted rates on airfare and the actual cruise. I WISH that I could splurge to go. But without the safety net of a job, I really can't give up that kind of money even if it is a really great deal.

I love 2 years old

I'm not going to apologize for being away...I do that a lot and it doesn't seem to help. Haha, but I have been away for a while again. Sometimes after sitting in front of a computer all day long makes you not want to sit in front of it when you get home. But, luckily? for you guys...un-luckily for me I no longer sit in front of a computer all day long. As most of you know I was laid off from my job a few weeks ago so I should have plenty of time not only to take pictures of Carson but to share them with you all...Although, my updates might be slightly boring now that I have nothing to do with my days! :)

Carson told me to 'shut up' last night. He hears us tell the dogs to shut up so I'm sure he's heard it and also knows what it means. It was so hard not to crack up. Not sure how to handle that one yet. Since I wrote last we've been through both strep throat and pink eye. Good times, fun stuff. Strep was way worse I think because he had the fever and the feeling icky. Pink eye was just nasty eyes and no fun drops.

We also have started swimming lessons at the YMCA near us. Carson loves being in the water but I'm not sure how I feel about the lessons yet. They are really a just get your child comfortable in the water type thing. Carson loves the water and doesn't seem to be afraid at all. But, he does not have the tolerance for the instruction. He just wants to play and blow bubbles. I think we might hold off on the next round until he's a bit older and just take him to play in the water instead of actual lessons.

Back at Christmas time, my friend and I went shopping at the Mall of America, because of the amount of money we spent then (too much) we got a certificate for 2 unlimited ride wristbands at the new Nickelodeon Universe (my head still thinks Camp Snoopy by the way) anyway they expire in March so we took the kids there today to ride on the rides and hang out. Carson had a BLAST. There were a few rides that I looked at that I said 50/50 shot of him crying, he didn't even come close once. Every ride he said 'wheeeeeeee' and once it stopped, he said 'AGAIN!'. I'm glad he enjoyed it. But, because he is still too short, every ride required a chaperone and after about 5 rides I had enough of the going in circles. We took a lunch break and went to Build-a-Bear after. We had a great day and despite the fact that Carson is cutting his molars he was in a great mood and behaved the whole day!

Dave is out of town for work until Wednesday night so now I am home all day, home all night by myself. I think these days will probably drag by without a job to keep me occupied. Love you all and talk to you soon! I'll leave you with a few pictures of today's adventures!

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!