Just Rolling Around

Yes I'm incredibly behind blogging by about a year and a half. Since my computer had viruses last spring and took forever to fix, half my pictures are now on Jason's netbook and half of them are on this computer. So it makes me feel all out of whack when I want to continue blogging in order. But I do plan this weekend on getting those organized and posting some pics from the last year so everyone can see how our boys have grown! For now, enjoy Jacksen. He loves just rolling around on a blanket. But he's kind of timid about rolling all the way over. He abhors being on his stomach for any amount of time. So he spends a great amount of time on his side.

Introducing...

Jacksen Thomas
Born 9.27.10 3:19 pm
6 lbs 7 0z
18.5 in. long
and cute as ever!

More posts to come. It's been really hard to find a few minutes of "me" time to blog, take a nap, eat, shower, etc. But I will try to be better!

Time For Updates

So obviously I really need to update this blog! It just has been the last thing on my mind with all the stress and craziness that life has brought lately. I have tons of pictures to post of Chase and all the things we've been doing to keep him busy and having lots of fun. But here's our biggest news/events/happenings/going-ons, etc.:

-We found out this baby growing inside of me is another boy! When I spotted his male part on the ultrasound screen I had a single tear roll down my face-totally unexpected, I really didn't feel that sad it was a boy but I guess deep down I was really hoping for a girl. But I am soo excited Chase gets a little buddy who will hopefully become his best friend. And let's face it, we make cute boys-I just really pray this next boy will eat and talk!!

-Chase is 75% potty trained-and this kid decided to do it all on his own. At least he's not so difficult with everything because trying to understand this kid talk and trying to feed him food is all the difficulty I can handle right now! He keeps his diapers dry all throughout the day and night. We only wear underwear after he gets his #2 out for the day-I'm not cleaning up that mess in his pants! We still have to conquer the fear of letting his poop out in the toilet and sitting on the big toilet. It's a little hard to get out of the house for long periods of time when he won't use a big potty. I love though when he comes in our bedroom first thing in the morning shouting "YAY!!! PEE PEE POTTY!!! NEW TAR!!!" (he gets a new car when he pees or a piece of candy, his choice)

-Chase's vocab has just exploded and he is using 3 word sentences most of the time. His biggest problem now: TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HIM!!! He has therapy classes 3 days a week through most of the summer so we will be very busy with that!

-Our house was sold and then the the sale failed-thank goodness!!! The buyers backed out and I couldn't be happier, I won't go into the dirty details but let's just say they were not nice people at all. We have new buyers who are very nice and I'm glad they will be moving into the neighborhood. But all throughout the month of May I kept thinking we were moving so I was stressed with packing then we didn't move so I took a break and now who knows what weekend we will end up moving. Sometime at the end of the month. I have a feeling it will be 4th of July weekend, we always move during a holiday!

-I am now 23 weeks pregnant, my back hurts most of the time and I toss and turn all night. But it's worth it and I am in no way complaining. Jason and I are trying to come up with a name for this kid-it is next to impossible. Jason likes the names Xavier, Jefferson, Kingston, Anderson, blah blah blah. What am I supposed to do with those names? He did mention one that I kind of like but I can't share it with you yet!

Check back soon (well sooner than 6 months) for some pictures of all our activities!

Chase's Birthday Cake-Would you hire us?

Today Chase turns 2 (more on that later). I just wanted to post some pictures of Jason's masterpiece. We were up till past 2 in the morning finishing up Chase's cake. We are doing a Toy Story-themed party since that is Chase's absolute favorite movie. Every time I ask him what he wants to watch, he replies "Bu" meaning Buzz. Or he will bring me the remote and ask for "Bu". So we made a Mr. Potato Head cake, are decorating with Buzz decorations (if we can find any-the party is in a few hours and I still have no Buzz party favors), have an Etch a Sketch that Jason is going to write Happy Birthday on, have a Buzz and Woody poster to decorate with and that's about it. So the question is, how are our cake making (it's a chocolate cake with caramel frosting) and cake decorating skills (courtesy of Jason)?

Chase's Photo Shoot

A few weeks ago Jason and I took Chase to a local park to play around with our camera and get some shots of him. I didn't want to waste any money paying a photographer since Chase won't sit still for anything! Jason and I together took around 500 pictures-out of those 500 pictures Chase is only looking in 20 of them! The rest of the time he's running around exploring. We have plenty of the back of his head!

Anyway, these shots are my favorites. There's about 20-some odd pictures here.












This boy loves smelling flowers! Every time we go to the grocery store, he has to stop and sniff all the flowers



We were looking at a helicopter.

Of course he fell and slid down a hill that was mostly dirt and got his pants filthy. I would have been surprised if we left that park with a clean boy

This picture cracks me up-it reminds me of my brother who always used to run around with his arms stretched behind him

Love this one where he's running to his daddy

No More Cowlick!

Chase went in for a haircut today and it is the shortest its ever been cut! He looks so funny to me. His cowlick is gone for now but it will be sticking back up in just a few short weeks!

Chase Loves the Gym!

Back in August I signed Chase up for a little mom and me gym class. I wanted him to be in some kind of class so he could get his energy out, be around a big group of kids his age and hopefully pick up some language from them so he will start talking! He absolutely loves it. He does a lot of happy squealing during the class and claps his hands. Hopefully we can do it during the long boring winter too! It's a little expensive (like a couple hundred dollars!) but totally worth it!

Here are some pictures of Chase during his gym class. It was fun today because Jason was able to stop by and join us! The gym is actually just right up the road from where he works. Chase's favorite is at the end when the teacher pulls out a basketball hoop and a ton of balls. He loves shooting hoops! I think I know what to get him for his birthday coming up...



Walking the beam-he's getting the hang of it, just a few weeks ago all he would was jump off it!

His cute little friend wanted to be in the picture! Chase plays quite a bit with this little boy during class

Swinging like a monkey! He loves to do this! He'll do it over and over. He is going to have some strong abs.


Hanging from the high bar! He kept wanting to hang from it and his little face would get so red from trying to hang on! He loved letting go and having dad catch him!