I made this blog layout. It was fun. It's a little bright, but I love the summer look. I learned how from here.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Flipping Out
I contemplated not even creating this post, but I just have to. Flipping Out is my new favoritest show ever!! I watched it last night and laughed my face off. I don't think it's supposed to solely be a comedy, but the people are funny. The main guy, Jeff is cynical, rude, self-involved and thinks he's the greatest thing ever. He's what makes the show so great! He is a real-estate flipper, but with the down market he has to focus on remodels right now. The show is on Bravo and I know a lot of people don't get Bravo, but if you ever have the chance to watch this show DO IT!!! You'll thank me!! There are videos of the cast on BravoTv.com. Anyway, I just love this show. It makes me smile
Monday, August 17, 2009
Judson 2-year Photos
Our friend Jenny took Judson's 2-year photos this last week. I think they turned out great! You can see them HERE.
I can't believe Judson in nearly 2. I guess he's still one for 12 more days, but still. Time really has flown. I'm so happy and lucky to be the mom of such a great baby. We have our fights (I know, me fighting with a one year old. Lame, but true) but I just love him so much!! He's alot of fun and I am learning a lot right along with him. He is getting smarter and smarter each day. I just think he's the best little boy ever!! That's my impartial opinion. (I'm sure!)
I can't believe Judson in nearly 2. I guess he's still one for 12 more days, but still. Time really has flown. I'm so happy and lucky to be the mom of such a great baby. We have our fights (I know, me fighting with a one year old. Lame, but true) but I just love him so much!! He's alot of fun and I am learning a lot right along with him. He is getting smarter and smarter each day. I just think he's the best little boy ever!! That's my impartial opinion. (I'm sure!)
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Where did the hair go?
I asked Darren to get a picture of Judson with his hair cut. Lately it's been a little difficult getting a picture of Judson actually looking at the camera. He's just not a big fan at the moment. He knows to say "cheese", so he'll say it over and over but never look at the camera. This is what a photo session looks like with him. I'm nervous because we're having his 2-year photos taken next week. Hopefully we'll have a better choice than these. He sure is cute whether he's looking at the camera or not, though.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Judson Update
**Warning: LONG POST
~Mostly for my journaling benefit, but read on to find out a whole bunch about Judson! I promise to post a picture soon.
I haven't written solely about Judson in such a long time. It's so crazy how much he has grown. We buzzed his hair on Saturday and he looks like a little boy, not my little baby. He also turns 2 at the end of the month. Time flies!!! Anyway, I want to make a list of a lot of the things he can do and say. He is a talker. Any moment he's awake, he's talking. It's fun/annoying, but I'm glad he's learning and growing.
Talking:
~He says "where did ---- go?"/ "---- where are you?" for every name he knows.
~He knows all his cousins and aunts and uncles names.
~Shut the door, open the door. (he often mixes up the shut and open)
~Again
~All Done
~"go to the new house?" We just keep calling it the new house. It's easier, that way he knows exactly where we're going.
~He knows a lot of animals and their sounds. We've always quizzed him on the sounds, but I've recently started reversing it and I say the sound and see if he knows the animal. He can get most of them.
~He knows a lot of body parts: head, hair, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth, tongue, nose, arm, elbow, hand, fingers, belly, belly button, leg, knee, feet, toes.
~He knows shirt, pants, shorts, diaper, socks, shoes and PJ's.
~He's finally catching onto "please"
~We're working on "thank you"
~He says spaghetti, "figelli". It's so cute!!
~He can ask for almost anything: "drink, food, cracker, cookie, cheese, figelli, milk, fill-up, elmo, dora, wiggles, max & ruby, backyardigans, wonder pets, blues clues"
~Names all the Sesame Street Characters.
~He loves to sing songs. The songs he knows are: I am a Child of God, I Love to see the Temple, Popcorn Popping, Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, Twinkle, twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABC, There was an Old Lady that swallowed a Fly, Old MacDonald, 5 Little Monkeys, C is for Cookie, How Do You Know from Enchanted, Rubber Duckie, Themes to Dora, Elmo's World, Wiggles, Blues Clues and Wonder Pets. (The wonder pets boggles my mind. I've tried to get him to watch it and he's really not interested. However yesterday he not only asked to watch wonder pets, he started singing the theme song.) I'm sure there are more songs that I'm not thinking of right now. He just loves to sing!
~I let him sit on my lap and turn the steering wheel once. Big mistake!! Now every time I pull in anywhere he asks "drivin' the car?" With a huge grin on his face.
~He says music as, "mikick"
~He loves swimming in his little pool and says: "swimmin' in the water"
~He loves taking baths. "ki a bath?"
~He says take as, "ki"
~Everything he says comes out as a question. I'm guessing that because everything I say is a question. (ie... Say please? Say I love you? Say bye, bye?...)
~A lot of what he says he sounds surprised. He'll look around, find a toy and say, "Oh, my golf ball" like it's the first time he's seen it in forever. It's super cute!!
~He will hug a toy and say "i love you, I love you, I love you" He hugged me yesterday and said that too. It was the best!!
~"Daddy at work, yeah? Daddy at work?"
~"Grandma and Grandpa Stoke" (Stoke is always said as he pulls his chin to his chest in low growl-ish voice) "Grandma and Grandpa Farr"
~ He can count to 20, well, sort of. He counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (deleven), 12, 14, 14, 16, then I prompt 19 and he yells 20"
~He loves his blanket and I'm trying to only let him have it when he goes to sleep so he often says, "oh, where's my blank?"
Things he does:
~runs, jumps, climbs
~feeds himself quite well with a spoon or fork. He loves to poke the food and gets really frustrated if it doesn't stick on the fork.
~takes off his shoes
~opens doors. Our doors kind of stick in the new house, so there aren't many he can open. That's good in my book.
~starting to go up and down stairs walking without holding the railing. This gives me a heart attack every time I watch him do it. But he hasn't fallen much and if he feels unstable he'll usually grab the wall or sit down, so he's good about that.
~Turn the tv off and on and change it from Video 3 to all the different video settings.
~Turn the light switches he can reach on and off. He will also move his dump truck so he can stand in it and reach a light switch. Why the dump truck and not the stable chair sitting right next to it? I don't know.
~He cleans up his toys when prompted, most of the time.
I'm sure right after I post this there will be a bunch of things I remember to add. But this is a good list of all the things Judson can do and say now. He's growing bigger everyday and we just love him so much. He's a wonderful blessing to us and I'm so grateful he's ours!!
~Mostly for my journaling benefit, but read on to find out a whole bunch about Judson! I promise to post a picture soon.
I haven't written solely about Judson in such a long time. It's so crazy how much he has grown. We buzzed his hair on Saturday and he looks like a little boy, not my little baby. He also turns 2 at the end of the month. Time flies!!! Anyway, I want to make a list of a lot of the things he can do and say. He is a talker. Any moment he's awake, he's talking. It's fun/annoying, but I'm glad he's learning and growing.
Talking:
~He says "where did ---- go?"/ "---- where are you?" for every name he knows.
~He knows all his cousins and aunts and uncles names.
~Shut the door, open the door. (he often mixes up the shut and open)
~Again
~All Done
~"go to the new house?" We just keep calling it the new house. It's easier, that way he knows exactly where we're going.
~He knows a lot of animals and their sounds. We've always quizzed him on the sounds, but I've recently started reversing it and I say the sound and see if he knows the animal. He can get most of them.
~He knows a lot of body parts: head, hair, ears, eyes, mouth, teeth, tongue, nose, arm, elbow, hand, fingers, belly, belly button, leg, knee, feet, toes.
~He knows shirt, pants, shorts, diaper, socks, shoes and PJ's.
~He's finally catching onto "please"
~We're working on "thank you"
~He says spaghetti, "figelli". It's so cute!!
~He can ask for almost anything: "drink, food, cracker, cookie, cheese, figelli, milk, fill-up, elmo, dora, wiggles, max & ruby, backyardigans, wonder pets, blues clues"
~Names all the Sesame Street Characters.
~He loves to sing songs. The songs he knows are: I am a Child of God, I Love to see the Temple, Popcorn Popping, Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, Twinkle, twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, ABC, There was an Old Lady that swallowed a Fly, Old MacDonald, 5 Little Monkeys, C is for Cookie, How Do You Know from Enchanted, Rubber Duckie, Themes to Dora, Elmo's World, Wiggles, Blues Clues and Wonder Pets. (The wonder pets boggles my mind. I've tried to get him to watch it and he's really not interested. However yesterday he not only asked to watch wonder pets, he started singing the theme song.) I'm sure there are more songs that I'm not thinking of right now. He just loves to sing!
~I let him sit on my lap and turn the steering wheel once. Big mistake!! Now every time I pull in anywhere he asks "drivin' the car?" With a huge grin on his face.
~He says music as, "mikick"
~He loves swimming in his little pool and says: "swimmin' in the water"
~He loves taking baths. "ki a bath?"
~He says take as, "ki"
~Everything he says comes out as a question. I'm guessing that because everything I say is a question. (ie... Say please? Say I love you? Say bye, bye?...)
~A lot of what he says he sounds surprised. He'll look around, find a toy and say, "Oh, my golf ball" like it's the first time he's seen it in forever. It's super cute!!
~He will hug a toy and say "i love you, I love you, I love you" He hugged me yesterday and said that too. It was the best!!
~"Daddy at work, yeah? Daddy at work?"
~"Grandma and Grandpa Stoke" (Stoke is always said as he pulls his chin to his chest in low growl-ish voice) "Grandma and Grandpa Farr"
~ He can count to 20, well, sort of. He counts, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (deleven), 12, 14, 14, 16, then I prompt 19 and he yells 20"
~He loves his blanket and I'm trying to only let him have it when he goes to sleep so he often says, "oh, where's my blank?"
Things he does:
~runs, jumps, climbs
~feeds himself quite well with a spoon or fork. He loves to poke the food and gets really frustrated if it doesn't stick on the fork.
~takes off his shoes
~opens doors. Our doors kind of stick in the new house, so there aren't many he can open. That's good in my book.
~starting to go up and down stairs walking without holding the railing. This gives me a heart attack every time I watch him do it. But he hasn't fallen much and if he feels unstable he'll usually grab the wall or sit down, so he's good about that.
~Turn the tv off and on and change it from Video 3 to all the different video settings.
~Turn the light switches he can reach on and off. He will also move his dump truck so he can stand in it and reach a light switch. Why the dump truck and not the stable chair sitting right next to it? I don't know.
~He cleans up his toys when prompted, most of the time.
I'm sure right after I post this there will be a bunch of things I remember to add. But this is a good list of all the things Judson can do and say now. He's growing bigger everyday and we just love him so much. He's a wonderful blessing to us and I'm so grateful he's ours!!
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