July 27th

Woot Woot, we had our first sleepover at Arlene's house last night with Rachel and Jill and Christian fell asleep on the way there and slept in his pack and play all night long. We had fun!

We saw X files today while grandma and sarah came to visit.

Then tonight Christian went to sleep in his big boy Thomas bed all by himself. yayayayay
So good, he barely cried at all. He had a long day though.
I'm pooped.

Lots of new 08

Ok its been too long since I've posted, sorry.
I've started working contract work and now he has an in home baby sitter which is working out very well. Christian is doing all sorts of new things now, he is talking a ton, making sentences and pretty much is being a little boy. no more baby.... :(
He loves trains still and has his train table up in his blue room now. For the past few months we have just been going crazy with work work work. He loved to go to the zoo with friends, and recently we went to Dolly Wood and had a good time. This month I lost my hard drive and a lot got lost so hopefully that will come back and be fixed soon. Christian pretty much eats anything now, but is mostly a vegetarian. hahah...not sure why. he likes chicken though. He likes to eat with a fork and spoon yay.

This month he learned to say "Where Am I" while covering his eyes. then he says "I not know!!" hahaha. He likes to play with his train tracks in the tub. :) he is not finally out of his little blue bath tub, and in the big boy bath tub. He is sooo cute.

Lots I need to update soon when I get my pics back. I hope.

April 08 stuff

So this week I got a stroke of luck and found day care the first day I went out. I'm planning on going back to work this month. It's not my favorite day care but it's just temporary. Christian seemed to want to get down and play there so I figured he'd tell me if he liked it or not.
I'm sad but I think he needs the other kids. Yesterday we had another spill down the stairs.
Sam tripped and dropped C upside down on his head on the stair below where he was standing. It was carpeted so it was ok. just scary. we took him in and he was fine. I took him to Bearden hill later that afternoon with my friend Michael and his baby and we got Ice cream at Ben and Jerry's and went Bead shopping at Lillie's bead box and green earth emporium. then we came home and ate lunch and later went out again to Michael's craft store to look for jewelry making supplies. so we had a big day yesterday, but it turned out ok. Grandma is supposed to visit today with Sarah. C is excited.

Early 08

God it's been a while since I've last posted. not much has been going on since last post.
We've been sick and not sick, sick and not sick. Sick sick sick....but better finally.
We've avoided play group for weeks. We went to our neighbor's birthday party two weeks ago and got sick again after that. We went to the mall to see the easter bunny with Michael and his friend. That was pretty fun for an outing. We got our new roof this month too which was really stressful. but it worked out great. Chrisitan is eating us out of house and home now, which keeps me pretty busy.

We've gone to the park a bunch this spring so far. We did an easter Egg hunt with the mom's club that was kinda dumb. it was inside and crowded into this little room. But he had fun I think.
hmmm what else. He's on total whole milk now and Toddler formula which is great. This happened when we both were sick and couldn't eat anything for days. We went to the zoo again last weekend and had fun with Michael and his wife amanda, Dave and carrie, and some of our other friends. Got some good pics.
He's pretty much sleeping thru the night now which is good. Now I just need to sleep.
We are trying to get him into day care now, so I can go back to work. I'm sad but it is time.
he will do fine I think.

this week

so Sam and i were sick this week, and C is doing better. today we went to tour a Montessori school for C, and it went very well. She was very happy to see how much he knows, and Christian had loads of fun playing with the other kids and learning some new stuff the teacher was showing him. She said he had great concentration, and said he had good hand eye skills already. so that was good. Still like Tate's school though. But this week he's been playing with grandma since Sam has been so sick. no fun. Every day C is doing really cool stuff. He went to the Dr. yesterday and pointed out and said all the colors on the floor squares. pretty funny.
and always points out circles in the office. The doc nearly lost it when he said "sticker" when i took his train sticker. he's just a sponge head. :)

January 08

ok so this month has been kind of boring. we have been sick for like a month, and we have not done much around the house. Christian keeps growing and growing though. Every day he does something new and funny. This past week we put away the high chair and he is now sitting at his own little ikea table and chairs to eat. he loves it. This weekend he even ate in a booster seat at ruby Tuesdays in the mall. it was very nice not to hear crying every 3 seconds.
but mostly a bit fat lame month. it was cold, we didn't see any snow, just wet and cold.
we are working on putting the new Thomas the train bed together for C. but he's not quite ready for it. He was sick all month so his sleep has been messed up. Mine too. He is kind of sleeping thru the night again, which is good, but now i'm sick and I can't sleep again. yay
hopeing to get some house stuff done next month. but who knows. i'll keep you posted.
C still loves Trains, or should I say "TrainAhs" as he says. hah
he's obsessed.

The end of 07 Recap!

Ok its been a fun year, and C has grown so much. He's doing all sorts of cool things now. and he just turned 15 months. So he's a freaking nut, he can name all his Thomas the train engines from his books. He carries them around with him all day long. He knows the names just by looking at the faces and colors in the books. pretty funny. his favorites are Gordon and Percey.

He just learned some new sign language this month. He finally understands it.
He can sign Train, More, Eat, Daddy, Mommy, Fly or airplane, and Dog, and a few more I can't remember.....
But he can pretty much repeat anything you say to him now, or he tries at least. My favorite one is Avocado. He says Ca Ca for that. but he knows the sound.

so here is my calendar recap of the month of Dec. its crazy

Dec. 6 Sam was sick for the JTV Christmas party, but we went anyways. We saw santa, and got some cool toys. my prize this year was some Rose Quarts Coasters. I had never even seen those before. :D we didn't stay too long since Sam had to go to the ER after....pretty fun.

We had a gift exchange at Laura's house on Dec 11, and the Mom's club Kids party on Dec 14, and the ornament exchange on Dec 6th as well. I made like 5 dozen gingerbread cookies for that.
The kids party was fun though. we saw yet another Santa. and got pictures of that.
How many Santas are too many??? who cares, he loved santa this year. He even called him Clause. he could only say that so far. but it was cute.

hmmm, we went to do our 15 month checkup at Yens on Dec 19. It was ok. He still measured small. We went to Sprout several times this month, because he freakin loves it.
I'm going to get a memebership soon.

We had Christmas at our house on Dec 22, a Saturday with Sam's family. His grandparents, sister and mom came. It was nice. kinda hectic. but he got a lot of cool stuff, and sam got a WII.
The TMX elmo is put away until he is older. It's too nuts for him, but he loved the other stuff.
Tons of books, and lots of electronic toys. I made my first turkey, and it turned out great. It was an Allysons from earth fare. no guts included. I highly recommend. :D

I think one night at the end of Dec. we went to see the Farragut christmas lights. It was pretty lame. They had like 5 lights. You had to wait in line for an hour in the freezing cold in a park, for a 5 min trip around a small track on a horse trailer. That was fun, but the lights were not impressive. After all that he lost his stride rite shoe. Sam went back to find it but it was gone....
but thats ok his foot grew again this month, and he's either in a 5.5 wide or 6 wide now.

but this year we had a real Christmas tree. I went and picked it out down the street at a Horn of Plenty, and they were so nice they delivered it for me. It was a great tree, i'm sad to see it go.
But that's all I can think of now. But oooo this week Christian finally learned how to sleep thru the night. with no rocking or nursing. I got two nights rest in a row.

well happy new year to ya.