September 7, 2009

Bubby hit another milestone today. Today he got to ride in the jogging stroller while Daddy went running. Now Daddy can say he has taken all the kids on runs with him in the jogging stroller.

September 6, 2009

I know, I know, this is totally a picture only a mom with her first child would take, but hey...what's a girl to do?

As you all know by now, Church is not Bubby's favorite thing, in fact he is making it somewhat a non-favorite for his Mommy too. He semi survived Sacrament Meeting and Sunday school, but he wasn't having the last hour of church. I finally gave up, and let him just crawl himself silly in the halls. I figured if he crawled around enough, he would wear himself out and then take a really good nap when we got home.

We "crawled" the halls for quite awhile. While we were in the halls I ran into our neighbor who is the Nursery Coordinator for our ward. She invited Keric to snack time and singing time in the Nursery. I know he is still a little young, but I figured what the heck, he's only about 3 months off. So we went to Nursery for about a half hour. He LOVED it!

He sat so nicely up at the table in his big boy chair and waited very nicely for his snack. He of course ate all of his snack and then some! He did have a little trouble with the cup of water they gave him to drink, he dumped it all down the front of himself, but hey...what do you expect when all you've really had is a sippy cup or a bottle to drink from. Guess we'll have to work on drinking from the "real" cups before November rolls around.

He also played with the kids, which he has always loved doing. He is not at all shy around other kids! Adults, sometimes, kids, never! I was actually a little surprised at how well he was keeping up with all of them, despite the fact that he was the only one still crawling! After they picked up toys then they got to color a picture while they waited for their mom's and dad's to come. We had a little trouble keeping the crayons out of his mouth, but he colored his picture all by himself, and dare I say, I'm fairly confident he's a lefty! Score one for mommy!

Here he is after church with his picture, and yes, I proudly hung it on the fridge too.

September 5, 2009

So remember our garden that we planted like WAY late in the summer? We pretty much thought it was a bust, because the snails and grasshoppers did a pretty good number on it, but actually we have seen a few little surviving things here and there that are actually growing.

I wanted to plant cucumbers, because I had this vision in my mind of canning pickles like my grandma makes. Well...we only had about one cucumber plant survive, and a few days ago there were a couple little tiny cucumbers on the vine. Being the experienced gardeners that we are, we hadn't checked on them in quite awhile, that is until tonight.

Chris came bringing in two HUGE cucumbers, yes, that IS a cucumber! Obviously they will not be made into pickles, because I don't know where I would find a jar that big! I guess it's a good thing Chris and Mae like to eat them.

September 4, 2009

Today for about the 57th time, I went over to get Keric out of the CD and DVD cupboard and I had to kind of laugh to myself.

He was holding a CD that I truly have no idea where it came from. I don't know if it was one I had a long time ago, or one Chris had, but it's just a CD without a case that apparently has been floating around in the cupboard and Keric has found it.

If you look closely the title of the CD is "Drive me Crazy". All I can say is truer words have never been spoken!

September 3, 2009

Keric LOVES the trampoline! I don't like him to get on it when the kids are jumping for obvious reasons, but he would love it if I would. He stands at the back door and looks out the window and knocks on the window while they are jumping. It's so sad, but I just get too scared that something will happen to him while they are all three on there.

Tonight Chris took Keric out on the Trampoline by himself. Of course Chompie had to be there too to be Bubby's body guard. Keric had a GREAT time "jumping". We let him be on the tramp all by himself and he was trying SO HARD to stand up and "jump". It was so cute. It won't be long and he'll be out there jumping with the rest of them.

My baby boy is just WAY too big!

September 2, 2009

We have now moved from the kitchen chair, to the little walker we've had for him for what seems like forever! It's a little more kid friendly than the kitchen chair. He can see OVER the walker and it also helps that the walker is MUCH better for my walls than the kitchen chair was. :)

The little walker has wheels on it, and it gets going pretty fast on the laminate floor, which didn't make Bubby too happy at first, but he is getting the hang of it and has gotten a lot better at walking faster!

I was laughing at him, because he doesn't quite know how to steer the little walker yet, and so he kept running into things. Every time he would run into something he would say "uh-oh", and then he would get mad because he couldn't back it out and keep walking so I would have to go and fix it.

He's at such a funny age right now, I feel like my stomach muscles get a work out every day just from laughing so hard at all the crazy things he does!

September 1, 2009

Well...it really won't be long now! I'm guessing by the end of the month, Keric will be walking! As my mother would say..."Parish the thought!"

After dinner Cam said "Nati, look at what Bubby is doing with the chairs." I looked, and he was pushing the big huge kitchen chair and walking behind it! I still don't know how he got it out from the table and turned around!

He walked up and down the path from the kitchen to the living room back and forth, a hundred times! We tried once using a laundry basket to help him "walk" but he wanted nothing to do with it. Guess because it wasn't a chair!? How was I supposed to know he preferred a chair!