Not my Child! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


I am not super inconsistant with Not Me! Mondays, nope not me! Which is why I decided to do Not My Child! Monday, because let's face it.. I have nothing that I wouldn't be embarassed to tell you about.
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The last ten times that we have been outside, my sweet clean child has not proceeded to stick his finger in, or better yet, just plain pick up dog poo. All the while, he tells us about how gross it is "ewww, gross!". Nope, he would not ever do something so discusting.
And for the record, the dog poop is always picked up right away to prevent such a problem.


While out to dinner last night, my child did not out-eat all of us. I did not let him eat half of my salad, half of his dinner of chicken tenders and green beans, half of my pork sandwich, most of Gamma's birthday ice-cream sunday, and finish it off with an oreo. We did not come home and let him eat more cake and ice-cream. He definitely has self control and surely his eyes aren't bigger than his stomach. Who says a good eater is a bad thing?


We did not buy a new toddler bed that still sits in our garage, I am not scared to switch Cayden out of his crib, and I'm definitely not just waiting for the right time. I surely trust that he will transition very easily and I wont have to fight with him.


It is not my child that sits on the potty chair while we sing the ABCs, then stands up just to pee on the floor. Nope, he already gets the idea of where you are supposed to go potty.


Happy Monday, here's to another week!

Another day at the zoo

After the family reunion a couple of weekends ago, Jay, Jenni and Keira stayed the night here in the Springs at a hotel. They got up bright and early the next day and came over and made us breakfast then we were off to the zoo. Dad and Kele decided to ditch us and went on a mountain bike ride instead, but we had fun without them..

Who knew?

That a hose could provide hours of endless fun?
Just stay inside or else you might get wet!

One more reason..

Why I love this little guy...

I never know

what I'm going to find

on my camera when I turn it on.

One year ago today

This was when my sweetie was just almost 10 months old... Oh, how the time flies.

Twenty-two

Today is my 22nd Birthday. That sounds old to me, but I know when I get older I will look back and think it was so young. When I was little I remember riding in the backseat of the car and looking at people driving and just wishing and praying that I could hurry up and be a grown up. How come when we are little we just can't wait to grow up? What I wouldn't give to be seven years old again.
And isn't it funny that when you were little it felt like it took foooooorever for your Birthday (and Christmas) to come around every year, and now it feels like I just celebrated.

I got spoiled today and got to take the day easy (even was given the chance to sleep in! Too bad I couldn't sleep). We had dinner at Chili's last night (with my parents) and Texas Roadhouse tonight with Kele, Cayden, Katie, Laura and her boys, Blake and Logan. Laura is an excellent cake decorator and made me my own little cake along with some cupcakes! She is already hired to make Cayden's birthday cake!

De-Ja-Vu

The other day, I think it really hit me that I am not going back to California. Weird, I know, since I've been back for over four months and all. I do feel settled here and I know this is our home. But I haven't given much thought beyond that.

We were driving over to Kele's brother's house for my nephew's birthday party. The road that leads to his house is the road that my Dad always drives to the airport, the back way, if you want to call it that. I had a de-ja-vu of when my Dad was speeding and he turned a corner pretty fast and Cayden said "gee!"- this was when he had just barely learned to talk. Then on the same ride, he went over a train-track with some speed and I know we literally got some air. (Sorry Dad). But it was a weird feeling I got, sort of hard to explain. I hated the feeling of driving to the airport to fly back home, I am so bad at goodbyes and those were no exception. My thought was that I was never going to have that feeling again! It was refreshing and made me really happy.

There are a few things I do miss about California, surprisingly. I miss our few and far between trips to Vegas to stay with my Uncle Jim and Aunt Lisa. They were always such good hosts and I miss getting to see the whole family. I wish we would've taken advantage of that more!
I miss the thrill I got when we actually got to go off base. Shopping at the outlets in Barstow was a lot of fun, followed by lunch at Chilis. I loved the feeling when I got to drive to Ontario and pick up my Mom and Sister from the airport, or when we would plan their flight back just so we could spend the day shopping before they left. Oh how I loved Ontario! We got to go to Super Target on a very rare occassion, and they had thee best Super Target I have ever been to there! Even their shopping carts were cooler!
I miss our weekly Starbucks dates, those were the best!!!! I miss going to the track with Chelsea. I miss the MOPS group. I miss the so un-crowded commissary and parking lots! And the cheap veternarian!

See, there are plently of things I miss about it.. but not enough to want to get on a plane and go back =)

Little artist baby

Cayden's first experience with paint! He loved it. Don't you love how he sucks on his top lip while he's concentrating?

Huh?

The other day, Cayden took a pair of his swimtrunks outside. For some reason, he wanted to hang them by the liner on the handle-bar of his trike. He tried and tried and tried for about 15 minutes before he finally hooked them on. Then, he was finished and just left them there and went onto the next thing. What a goof!

Piano player