Elf on the Shelf: Day 8

Shawn wanted to read books in Grandma's bed is morning like Carson does. Grandma's bed is always better, right??

And I'm posting this from my new iPad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm only a little excited .........

Elf on the Shelf: Day 7

Shawn the Elf did a little wrenching last night. He likes to pretend to be Daddy too. :)

Brothers

To say we didn't sleep last night is an understatement. Luckily Carson is great and said he would take quiet time early with us. I put on a movie and they did this all on their own. My mommy heart about exploded. Now it's time to sleep.

Elf on the Shelf: Day 5

Carson has an obsession with plain glazed donuts. He asks for them every single time we go to the store so they have to only come at special times now.

His elf must have listened because he brought Carson donuts for breakfast and made his own little elf-sized ones. :)

Find the chub.

The latest random iPhone and other pics from the last week or so.

As soon as I tell Max I'm going to take a shower he runs right for his little couch and wants to watch Yo Gabba Gabba. He loves it just as much as Carson did at that age. He always wants my pillow and a blanket, but the other day he fell asleep right there before one episode even finished. We're still working on this whole "sleep through the night" thing so he was probably still tired. 

I took the boys to the prairie conservation center by us over the weekend. When we went in the spring we saw the baby chicks in a box and so Carson thought they'd still be there. He wasn't having it when I told him the were grown up so we had to drive down to the farm to find them. That's chickens and one turkey.

Max loves playing hide and seek with Carson. He was wandering around and I realized he was hiding in the towels and thought I was playing with him. Just this sight is enough to make me smile for days!


We took a drive to see the lights at the Capitol on Saturday night.


This photo is no joke and straight out of the camera. Carl was playing out front with the boys the other night and told me I had to come out and see the sky. Man, he wasn't lying! It looked like it was on fire! Can you believe that???

Elf on the Shelf: Day 4

Carson's favorite game to play when he's with me in the office is Connect 4. Like most little kids, he doesn't really play the game, just puts the coins in and then leaves them lying all over for me to step on. We're working on that last part.

Shawn the Elf thought he'd try playing last night with Stuffy the Dog.

Elf on the Shelf: Day 3

This morning we woke up to find that Shawn the Elf had gotten into my jewelry. Carson kept telling him that my jewelry is for girls. LOL

Elf on the Shelf: Day 2

This morning Carson woke up bright and early to find his elf had spent his free time putting all of his puzzles together. He keeps laughing and telling me the elf made such a big mess!

Elf on the Shelf: Day 1

We asked that an Elf on the Shelf come visit us this year and Santa delivered. This is "Shawn the Elf", as named by Carson. Hopefully this stays fun and not ridiculously stressful having to come up with something silly for Shawn to do every night. I mean, I hope it isn't stressful for him.....

We woke up this morning to see that Shawn had set up our Christmas tree. :)
Carson thinks it is so cool and keeps asking adorable questions. "Why can't he talk to me?" "Did you see him move?" "How does he get his magic?"  I love this kid.

Daily Shmaily

For realzies......a daily project is HARD. I'm so done with it. I had a good 5-month run, but I am swamped with real work and I do not do well with a looming feeling of a backlog. I need it to still be fun to keep it up and when I feel behind it doesn't feel fun any more. So back to our regularly randomly scheduled blogging!

A trip to play at Barnes and Noble.

For weeks straight this kid has had bonks on his forehead.

One day last week Carson got an ice cream bar from the freezer and told me it was for me. I didn't want it and told him to put it back. Eventually it was way too quiet and I found that Carson had opened it and left it on the counter where Max could reach it. I literally found this and couldn't come close to being mad. This was one happy Max.

Carson has had this entire week off of preschool AGAIN. After hanging around home Monday and Tuesday they were getting stir crazy by Wednesday. It was literally 70 degrees and gorgeous so we headed to the zoo. Unfortunately all the schools were out so it was packed! We had a lot of fun anyway. We got to the big cats first and they had the tigers in the small glass cages, which is cool because you never get to see them that close up.

The baby leopard is 7 months old now She's almost as big as the mom. When we first saw her she was tiny and only about a month old.


Carson has to pick the giraffe every time now, even though it's one of them that doesn't move. We sort of forgot to do his hair before leaving home...

This is the saddest face while watching brother on the carousel. :(  He got to go with us on the train though.



There was a baby orangutan too! I am a sucker for the zoo babies.

The lost photos: 2011 trip to Utah

Oh my. I went back in my files to try and find this family photo and realized I never ever posted any of these last year! They were all finished and sitting there in a folder, but never made it on the blog. We made a trip out to Utah last year over Labor Day weekend.
Max is soooo little here, only just over two months old!

Keeping Carson busy next to me in the hotel room while I got ready.

Great Grandma Stonehocker loves!

Max was originally due on June 23 and my grandpa's 80th birthday was June 22. We obviously couldn't travel back at that time to celebrate so my grandma set up a big dinner for the weekend we would be there at the Timbermine.

Me, Max, my grandma, Carson, Isabella, Aunt Erma

This was ligitimately the darkest room I've ever tried to take a photo in. I pushed my camera as far as I could and the photos were still so dark and grainy!
Carson used to love wearing Grandpa's reading glasses.

Uncle Bob, Aunt Janet, Aunt Marie, Carl, Carson, Isabella, Nick, Grandma Stonehocker, Me and Max, Grandpa Rick (my dad), Aunt Erma, Uncle Prett, Grandpa Stonehocker

The monsters on the way home. This was not long after we got our van so the TVs were still new and the funnest thing ever.

Days 167-177: A little catch up

11.2.2012 - 11.13.2012

I've been swamped lately and it just dawned on me I haven't blogged anything at all for ten days. I don't have a ton to share other than iPhone pics, but I'll throw them all here!

I've been doing a "thankful" project with others on instagram so many of these photos come from that theme.

Thankful for wet wipes.

Thankful for Skype. Many days with Grandpa and a long talk with Jordan in Okinawa!

Our sunsets have been unreal.

An outing to the pet store.

My sleepy bug.

A new-found love for the vacuum.

Max got sick in the car (and three more times after being home) so I had to strip him out of his outfit in the car. He thought he was pretty cool though.

After the bath and before three more throw up sessions.

Daddy got to come with us to Lollipop Park.

Day 166: The biggest hugs

11.02.2012

Technically Carl had the day off today, but spent the morning in a training class. We went and met him for lunch because Max took an early nap in the crib (yay!) and so we could be out around lunch time. 

Silly and adorable shot of what we call "the biggest hugs". When Carson is being grumpy you just tell him that you don't want the biggest hugs and he turns into a giggling mush ball.

And I only take this photo of Max eating because it is something new for us and a quirk I love. Carson still to this day will not dip anything in anything when eating. He JUST started letting us give him ketchup with a hot dog or corn dog. All the baby books say to give them fun things to dip food into to help them want to eat, but not our child. So I never even thought to offer anything to Max until he started wanting what I had. Now he demands it anytime we eat. I have been making him lunches around being able to give him a dip. He had already eaten at lunch today, but a chicken nugget and ranch made him as happy as ever. You know he's happy when he starts doing kissy lips and offers kisses the whole time he's eating.


Some of my precious bug during his nap today. Normally he naps in the swing or on my lap so I can't take any pics of him.