Big boy bed, here we come!

After only a few long nights of trying to put the baby monster to bed and long nights of him waking up every couple hours to find us, Jamison has made the transition from crib dweller. He still takes a little while to get to bed, but he hasn't thrown any big fits like McKinley used to. Thank goodness! Our baby is growing up! He'll only be the baby for a little bit longer. Erica thinks he is still too little to be a big brother. He has a whole three weeks to get big enough! He sure is a cute little kiddo!

He sleeps with The Georges (George 1 and George 2). One on each side (that is important!). See!


They have also made the transition to the big boy bed. They had a much easier time. In fact, the other night I was laying on the floor next to Jamison's bed trying to convince him to go to sleep and Jamison started tucking me in. He put three blankets over me and then set George 1 next to me. He grabbed George 2 and walked all the way around me to carefully place George 2 next to my head on the opposite side of George 1. What a funny kid.

Update

Yes, realize this is two posts in one day. But here is an update:

Big boy bed: 0
Crib: 1

We'll have to buy a new kid proof door knob and try again.

A couple things

So, like the title suggests, I have a couple things to mention here. The first, I'd like to mention, is the fact that I too am multilingual. You'ns thought that just Erica spoke more than one language. Hah, were you wrong. I happen to speak three languages in addition to English, 1) Baby babble, 2) Whinese, and 3) Gruntonese. I didn't have to spend any money on teach yourself CD's or classes or anything like that. I just picked them up from being around my kids. Neat huh!

The other thing that I wanted to mention was the fact that tonight we are upgrading Jamison from crib-dweller to sleeping in a big boy (toddler) bed. I had not even put a sheet on the mattress and he was jumping on it. It should be interesting to see how it goes. I remember locking McKinley in her room and letting her cry until she fell asleep or exhausted herself from throwing stuff at the door! We'll keep you posted. We would appreciate your prayers for the little guy to make the transition easily. Ha ha.

That's all.

My Sister in law requires an update.

I don't know what to write about, but I'll catch up a bit. Christmas was fantastic. Nice and quiet. The kids got lots of stuff, as they always do. Jamison was so enthralled with his new ball that he didn't really care about opening too many presents. He also loved climbing in the bigger boxes. I'll show you the pictures.
Jamison in his box, with his ball. He is so cute!!
Sophie and Morgan gave the kids a camel back for when we go hiking. They were very excited!
Jamison playing with his ball over on the far left.
The kids taking a break from opening presents to read daddy's new kid books, "Traction Man" and "Traction man meets turbo Dog". You should check them out. They are pretty funny!

We also went sledding the Monday after Christmas. It was the last snow we had, and it was slim. The kids had fun though. Only one bad wreck.
McKinley had a blast! She is old enough now that she isn't really interested in riding with Matthew or I. Good thing our second sled will fit 3 people.
Me and the boys. It was all I could do to get my snow pants on!! Jamison had sooo much fun!
Matthew thought this picture was kind of cool. It wasn't intentional at all, but its kinda funny. The very blurry blob in the back is McKinley.
There aren't any good pictures of Matthew. I missed everytime!! Sorry, B.
Sorry its been so long. My house doesn't get clean either. Nor does dinner get cooked. Sorry again, B.

No way is this kid 2!!!

My little guy, who still seems like such a little guy, turned two? When did this happen? I remember his birth! That is saying something as Gavin's is slowly fading.
Jamison is super easy to please. He got a pair of new shoes, a little basketball with a hoop acquired from Matthew's childhood, and some backyardigans' movies. We like the backyardigans. He also got lot of good stuff from his grandparents. Trucks, coloring pages, and games. Good times for a little boy. We kept telling him it was his birthday and he would point back and say "No, you birthday, Mommy!". We aren't super big party people, so it was small and simple. We let him do what he wanted.
Gavin and Jamison are currently obsessed with playing the old school Mario Bros. game online with Matthew. We decided that a mushroom would be a fairly easy cake to make. So, here it is!


I don't even know if he ate any of his cake. None of my kids are big cake eaters. I'm not a big cake eater. Matthew ate some. The rest went to his family. Glad they took care of it.
I realized as I looked at posting Jamison's birthday, that I never posted anything about Gavin's birthday. Poor kid. Middle child syndrome. So, here you have a small tribute to Gavin turning 4. Mostly I just wanted to post a picture of his cake. Obviously I need better food coloring. Who's ever heard of pastel legos? Oh well, he liked it. I try to keep my kids' cakes simple. I'm not super good at decorating. In fact, I think this is the first year that all 3 of them got home made cakes!! (okay, so McKinley's was fruit pizza, but home made none the less. Way better than cake anyway!)


Hope everyone is finding time to Christmas shop! What? Shop for Christmas? My poor husband may not have any presents under the tree. That doesn't mean I don't love him.

Wow!! Time does fly!

So, I realized this weekend why I feel so big and so pregnant.........Because I am!! Fancy that. I was doing the math and asked Matthew, "Did you know I'm 6 months pregnant?". Holy crow!! Six months! Where did the time go? People always ask me how far along I am and I give them a week approximation based on my last Dr. appointment. I get all confused with the weeks and don't really know what month I'm in. Alas, 6 months!! Only 3 months left. That's just crazy.
The real reason I'm posting is to post a picture of our awesome christmas tree we picked up this weekend. We went to Salt Lake Thursday morning to spend Thanksgiving with my family. What a fun time we enjoy when we get together. There are 11 grandkids now and all but Hanna are under the age of 8. They are very noisy and energetic. Best game ever- Just Dance on the Wii.

We left Saturday afternoon in hopes of hitting up a "cut your own Christmas tree farm" in Farr West. We made it before the sun went down and found this beauty!! Not bad for $35.


(obviously, I'm not the family photographer. Matthew was asleep on the couch. I'll have him take a better lighted one when its fully decorated.)
Its called a Scotch Pine. Matthew joked that its called that because you need to drink a few glasses of scotch to be able to enjoy it! I thought it was a very witty comment and laughed very loudly.
For some reason, they all sport the stylin' top you see here.

It reminds me of Hooville trees. The kids think its awesome! That's all that matters. I like it. Its a lot fuller than the Kelly canyon trees that we normally get. Not to say they are bad, they just need their own drinks of scotch. Just kidding!! I really just think that its the going and getting the tree that is the most important part. We weren't able to make it up to Kelly canyon this year due to snow fall. We don't have snow machines. The kids seemed to like looking for the tree at the tree farm despite the cold. And they loved these silly tops.
I'll put a kelly canyon tree here for comparison.



Like I said, both nice, just different. (And I had to go back to Christmas of '05 to find a whole tree shot! How sad is that!)
I'm somewhat excited this year for Christmas. That's saying a lot seeing as how I'm somewhat of a scrooge. (long story) We even went Christmas shopping while in Salt Lake. Outside of a few essential church clothes, we are done! We tried to tone down the toys as my kids are spoiled. Jamison's birthday is on the 11th, so it makes it somewhat difficult to buy Christmas and birthday for the little guy. Anyhoo.....Hope you all have good luck getting your trees. Remember, the true meaning of Christmas is Christ. That's the whole reason we celebrate. I try to remind my kids of that constantly. Alas, they still love the toys!!
Happy holiday season!!

I'm a little late with Halloween!

So, Halloween was pretty run of the mill. Just did the trunk or treat at the church and they had a soup dinner. McKinley dressed as a Rainbow Princess, Gavin as Rafael (ninja turtle), and Jamison was a monkey. They all had a grand time.
I'm mostly posting to show off our awesome pumpkin carving skills. Matthew's dad plants half his garden in pumpkins and then sells them. Matthew brought a load down here and we sold most of them. We had about 20 left. So, we carved them all. Matthew did most of them on a Sunday afternoon while I slept. But, I'm super proud of my Quasimoto pumpkin!! See for yourself. My husband is pretty awesome at carving pumpkins. He's had a lot of practice over the years. I especially like the slashed out eye one in the middle of the bottom picture. Pretty gruesome.






The day after halloween, Gavin really wanted me to go and buy a Mario brothers Mario costume. After much deliberation, I found these blue overalls and red shirt. Matthew came home, drew mustaches on the boys, put his hats on them, and WALLA, two Marios!! Gavin was content. Cute little boys!
I sure do love my kids!! Can they get any cuter?