My dinner date...

So I had to post this because I thought it was so so funny. It was one of those nights where you are trying to get dinner on the table and you have a little one pulling at your apron strings literally! Begging for dinner. Kaden hasn't quite learned the patience thing. So I quickly fixed him a hot dog and some veggies (a 20 month old won't eat ribs...right!?) So he was ravenous and had 3 and 4 pieces of hot dog in his mouth at a time. After I cleaned him up it was almost 7 PM usually Chris is home and tonight he wasn't. I was feeling bummed and thought I better eat the nice meal I made by myself because with the life of a law student you never know when you'll see them...or if they will have time to eat. SO I sat down feeling kind of sad to eat my meal alone.
This is what I see when I get up to find the salt and pepper mind you he's already eaten his own filling dinner. He is picking brocolli off of my plate. His little face kept getting closer and closer and closer. He is eyeing and coughing all over my plate. He finally says bite? I try everything on my plate as he is eyeing the ribs. How was I going to feed him the ribs?

So I turn to get some butter and look over and his face is literally on top of my plate and I see his little tounge licking the corner of my slab of ribs! I cut a bite off for him and pretty soon I am cutting as fast as I can while he is yelling meat, meat, meat!!!

So seeing as I couldn't cut the ribs fast enough he had watched mommy doing it so took matters into his own hands (literally!). The funniest part about it was he probably ate 4 or 5 of them and could get more meat off than I could. Every once and a while you would hear a mmmm! And I would see him pick up the same napkin I was using to wipe off his hands and face, he just thought he had entered adulthood. It was pretty comical for me and one of the most entertaining dates I have had in a while. Isn't it cute how fast they grow!

mmmmmmmmm!

Baby signing...

It is so cute Kaden has learned how to sing. He LOVES to watch baby signing time and signs and sings for it all day long. We watch that now more than BUZZ! (Toystory). I just think it is cute when he sings. I also have started taking Kaden to a mommy & me type singing group. I don't particularly love to sing and really can't sing but I find absolute joy in watching Kaden singing, dancing and cheering all during the class. It is so much fun. The lady who does it is the stake primary president and she is absolutely wonderful and talented. We sing different songs about different themes everyweek. This week was body parts last week was animals. It is just so much fun! She has lots of drums, triangles, morocca's and musical instruments. It is also teaching Kaden how to follow instructions. I will have to take pictures next time because it is really cute to watch...that is if I can get him to sit still long enough to take a picture!

Sorry this is my first time trying to post a video so it is kind of retarted I will get it though.

stroller giveaway

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The sun will come out tommorow...

Yeah the sun came out today! For the past week we have been living in a state of constant fog where you don't see the sun all day long! Everyday I have told myself the sun will come out tommorow. Well it did today it was so nice I took Kaden on a walk. By the time we were home our fingers and toes were both bright red, so maybe it still needs to warm up some but at least the sun is out. The fog did have one cool thing a couple days it was called freezing fog where everything literally freezes. The roads don't appear slippery just wet, but they are slick. And the most beautiful thing is the trees they get this magical frost like coating were they are just like they have all been sprayed with christmas tree flocking. It looks like a winter wonderland everywhere you go without the fresh new layer of snow. It is really beautiful...I didn't take this picture but this is what freezing fog looks like, kind of.

(Picture by DBNN at city-data.com)

Second day!!!

So the first day of me leaving Kaden was ok even though I felt overwhelmed by learning everything a new job has to offer. I picked Kaden up from the sitter and I could tell that he was just ready to go! He kept telling everyone bye bye and reaching for the door. Hewas really clingy that night and acted like he had never eaten before. The second day Chris picked him up when I talked to Chris he was quite upset I knew something was wrong...

The pictures don't quite show what it really looks like but Kaden got bit, another kid wanted a toy that Kaden had so he bit his face!!! As you can imagine I wasn't very happy I was hoping for a smooth transition into this and on the second day I already wan't to quit my job and just stay home with this little loveable guy. The only problem is I know after I have two kids it will be harder to get hours as a nurse practitioner and I think that I still have 600 hours that I still need in the next four years. Yeah I do have a while to get those hours but I think it would be easier now than later. I just wish Grandma lived close. Kaden loved being with my mom and running errands with her when she would watch him.

Adjusting...

So we are back in the swing of things, Chris starts school again this week. He has to take a final that has been hanging over his head for almost a month (they cancelled it due to the snow right before Christmas). So he has been busy studying. As for me I am dealing with the delima of the working mom. I decided I needed to consistently be working as a Nurse Practitioner since that is what I spent so many years of school learning, and because they require that every 5 years you work 1,000 hours. I never thought that this would be difficult for me but it is...mostly due to the fact that it kills me to leave my little boy in a strange place for the whole day for two days of the week. I know most likely that it will be harder on me than him but it just breaks my heart. I love being his mom and spending the whole day playing buzz lightyear and reading the same book over and over and over again. He on the other hand I can tell gets bored and can't wait till anyone (especially dad) walks through the door to play with him. Anyway, I have been really sad about the decision to go back to work because I would die if anything ever happened to him that I could have been around to prevent. Today during sunday school the lesson was on trials, and although to most this would be a small trial but for me it has been seriously weighing me down. However I left church today with a different attitude trying to look for the positive in this trial and realize how ultimately I will be stronger and Kaden will be stronger (I hope). And that while in the beginning it may be tough but like anything it will just be an adjustment and its not forever. Isn't it funny though when we are at home all day bored we get stir crazy to be out and doing something/anything, however when a good opportunity finds us and takes us from our little ones we wish we were home bored again...the grass is always greener on the other side.

Quest for a Jr. Whopper...

So I rarely get any cravings during pregnancy things either sound good or they don't. However the past couple weeks all I want are hamburgers and the little dollar value menu Mc Donald's bun, beef and pickles don't cut it. However you can get a 1$ Jr. Whopper and it is actually like a real hamburger. Well I went to get one the other day (middle of the day) and they were closed (what burger king closed?). I thought its okay I will try again in a couple days, 3 days later we went to a different burger king and what its closed too (due to the snow storms we've been having I am sure). So then a few days later we were out at the beach and I had wanted a Jr. whopper for days (going on weeks) so we pull in and to my suprise they are open YEAH!!! So we go to order and they tell us they are out of meat WHAT!!!? How does a burger king run out of beef??? Well after two weeks of wanting one I found a Burger King in tri-cities that was open and had beef...however after two weeks of wanting one and trying to get one it wasn't as good as I had worked it up to be in my mind. The other funny thing is I was going to have a nice picture of a whopper to go with this post and tried to upload 5 different pictures and it wouldn't let me due to an internal error. I guess whoppers are just hard to come by?

Beach house...

So my camera died before all the festivities of New Years which is okay because this year after moving into the new beach house and being pregnant I think Chris was the only one to stay up. I tried but I couldn't do it maybe next year. We spent three days out at the beach house. It was beautiful and so relaxing. We walked on the beach in the morning and just had the day to do whatever we choose to ( I love those kinds of days). I found five whole sand dollars which is fun because Kaden's room is all ocean and beach theme so I could make a cool framed picture with them. It was a lot of fun...here are some pictures of the house before the chaos of moving. I was sad we didn't get any pictures of us at the beach, however I am sure there will be plenty of time for that.

I didn't even get a picture of the outside or of the great view before my camera died. Isn't it gorgeous though!

Holiday catch ups...

Christmas day at Grandma's. All the kids had jammies that matched and said what santa doesn't bring grandma will. We tried to get a picture with all of them in their pj's but Kaden is one of those early to bed and even earlier to rise types so we had a hard time getting them all awake and wanting to participate.
The boys at the Christmas eve party...

Kaden opening gifts from the Great Grandparents. Chris' family opens all the Gifts from family on Christmas eve, and then Santa gifts on Christmas.

Our small Christmas at home a couple days before we left for Christmas. We already have missing parts to these toys. He is at the age where everything is fun to go in the toliet or garbage so missing parts probably went out with all the wrapping paper...

Holiday catch ups...

Sorry I didn't post most of the holidays. We went to Vancouver to Chris' house and spent the holidays with his family and all the cousins. It was a little trecherous getting there. Our flight was canceled due to the weather so we waited at Discount tire for 4 hours getting new tires, we finally left around 6 PM we started driving to seattle and then down. Right before seattle there is a pass. The weather was awful we were listening to the radio and it was giving road conditions of blizzard like weather. I literally was scared for my life, I was praying we would make it alive. My prayers were answered when I found out the pass was closed. We had to stay in a Best Western in a little town called Cle Elum. It was awesome best bed, best shower, great breakfast, nice pool although no swimsuit and pregnant is not a great combination for swimming. The next morning we got chains and attempted again it was horrible weather and the pass was still closed so we had to back track a couple hours and go through a different pass, well we FINALLY got there and the holidays were great. And although there was a lot of snow in Vancouver/Portland it didn't compare to the 5 feet of snow we came back to in Spokane (all of which fell in the past month!).

So this was our quaint little hotel I was expecting a dive when I knew we had to crash for the night (it was nice though and it beats crashing our car!)