Toddlers

AHHH... What a terrible day. I knew it was coming. Yet, when he reached 2 without so much as trying I thought it would be a while off still. Then today it happened. Adam took his first head-first dive out of his crib. It happened in slow motion as I watched, but it was all too fast to catch him. I thought for sure the landing was gonna break his neck. But he tucked and rolled like a pro. It is certainly lucky that babies are so pliable; he came out of the incident totally unscathed.
After I placed him back in bed for his nap--with strict instructions to stay put-- I began my search for the pieces to alter his crib into a toddler bed. Such a miniscule mile stone, but I'm so sad. I have loved being a two baby person. Now I'm moving on to one baby and one toddler. That, quite frankly, scares me a little bit. It's a slippery slope from toddler to child to tween to teenager. The next thing I know he'll be going on a mission (fingers crossed) and getting married. I'm just not ready for my little boy to grow up.
All this, you wonder, from a crib dive? I know it may seem a little melodramatic, but the last two years with him have flown by in a matter of seconds. Won't the next few as well? I've already missed videotapping his first steps and when he learned to say his ABCs. I figured there was time. He would stay just as cute and small forever. Now he runs like the devil's chasing him and no one can get him to stop talking. Ah, I miss my baby. A terrible two toddler has replaced him and there is no going back.

Let Them Eat Cake!

Both of my boys' birthdays are in October. On our most recent JCPenney picture trip we laid down a clear shower curtain and let them go to town on a personal sized cake. I don't really have many of Adam alone. It was more for Caleb who turned 1 this year. They had alot of fun. They shared and Adam shoved cake in Caleb's mouth. Then wouldn't you know but Adam took his grubby cake hands and placed them right on the portrait studio's white backdrop. They were very nice about the whole thing, but I felt bad knowing that it had to be cleaned before any other families could use white. Oops!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I make no apology for the amount of pictures posted, particularily of my boys in their Halloween outfits. For this reason was this blog created; to keep out of town family up to date. Plus... I love all these pictures and coulnd't pick and choose between them!

Another Halloween Party

Me and the boys went to another halloween party on Tuesday. I was at my parents' ward. We had alot of fun dressing up. If you recognize any of the costumes, don't tell on us! It is very strange being a blogger, you know. My blog says that I have zero followers. Am I talking to myself? Can anyone hear me? Does anyone even care what goes on here? And yet, even if it's just me out here... I don't mind! I guess I like talking to myself. Does that make a loony?
Every lion needs a sippy cup full of milk I think...

People in this picture are (from left) mom as a cat, Emily--snowflake(the snowflake ballerinas from the Nutcracker, specifically), Eva--monkey, Sydney--snowflake, Adam--lion, Lance--Cowboy, Ashley--snowflake, Peyton--Giraffe, Me--snowflake, Caleb--zebra, Madison--Little Red Riding hood.

My happy zebra. Check out those fatty cheeks. Who can honestly say they don't wanna take a bite out of those suckers?

This is my ma as a cat. I did her make up. It was so fun! I hope she doesn't mind that I put this picture of her up, but she was my favorite. And of course, every cat needs a bottle of milk...

Ward Party

This was at our ward on Friday. The boys had fun playing games and trunk or treating... Kyle and I had a great time running after them
This is at the end of the night. Caleb and Kyle are making Indian noises. You can tell by Kyle's face he's ready to go home, but we hadn't trunk or treated yet.

Adam sucked on a lollypop while waiting for his turn to go bowling. He was really bad at it. You're supposed to throw a gourd at some soda cans and knock them over. We had to scoot till we were only about 2 feet away before he could knock them over.

Ahh, Caleb. What can I say? He's the cutest Zebra I think I've ever seen. Kind of a cheeser.

This is when he got his second wind and started enjoying himself again.

Our new blog

We just took a bunch of pictures at JCPenney. I figured they are as good a place as any to start my blog.

Adam found this duck halfway through the picture sitting. After he found it he would not put it down. He cried everytime I tried to take it away so eventually we just took pictures with the dumb thing.

My sweet Caleb is finally a walker!

Check out that spiky hair.

By this last picture both boys were at their wits end! I think you can tell neither one of them is thrilled to be taking pictures still.

So, I had a blog for about three days once... Then I got bored and took it down. Now I look around and I see that all of my friends and their families have blogs. The world has gone technology crazy! I've lost track of so many people and just recently found them on Facebook and on blogs. I'm not really sure I even know how to work this thing so if anyone is reading this, be patient with me.