Catching Up Again: Christmas Tree & Thanksgiving

Last Sunday our friends Kristen and Weston invited us to go cut down Christmas trees on Weston's family's property. We had so much fun and Easton loved it! He found a stick and just kept dipping it into the snow and licking it off.

Easton got carried most of the time. It was some treacherous terrain! We were glad we left Callan with Grandma Page!
We both found such cute trees!

Turns out the trees are a lot taller than they look in the wild! We had to cut quite a bit off, but we finally got it together!

Also this week, in preparation for the Christmas tree, I took down this brown book case...

And turned it into some white shelves.

It's not really done yet, I have some other ideas. But it's good for now.

Thursday we drove to Oakley, ID for Thanksgiving. It was great to see the family on my mom's side. Since my great grandma passed away a few months ago, the great aunts wanted all of us younger girls to do a fashion show with all of great grandma's old clothes. We were really surprised at how fashionable she was! My sisters desperately wanted to keep some of the clothes to actually wear. I didn't get any pictures, but I'll get them from someone and post them for memory's sake.

Grandma & Grandpa Cook and the boys

Easton with his cousins Aspen, Bricelyn, and Deryk

As usual we had a talent show and Easton did a great job showing off some of his gymnastics moves including his forward roll.

And I'm sure you could have guessed Callan LOVED Thanksgiving. The kid loves to eat! He was so good for the whole trip. Here he is eating some pie with Aunt Kate and loving every minute of it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

9 Months!

(10/24/2011)

Callan turned 9 months old last month! It's taken me a while to post this...he's nearly 10 months now! I can't believe it. He's growing so fast. He is still my little sweetheart. My mom calls him her little puppy dog. He'll just follow you around and climb up your legs and he is usually carrying something around in his teeth. He's so cute. He stands up on everything. He is always standing in his crib now when I go to get him after a nap or in the morning. He especially loves to stand up in the bathtub and if Easton is bathing he crawls in there as fast as he can and stands up by the tub so he can see him. He is still my little cuddle bug and I gotta say... he loves me more than anyone else:)

Here are his stats at 9 months 10 days.

Weight: 19.05 lbs (22.2%ile)

Length: 27.75 in (27.46%ile)

Head Circumference: 17.5 in (22.66%ile)

Let's see, what else... He has 6 teeth - 4 on top and 2 on bottom - and is working on a 7th on top. He doesn't handle teething well! That's ok though because it really is rare for him to be unhappy.

He and Easton both wake up between 5 and 5:30 every morning. It's so early that Easton started saying, "I'd like some chocolate milk this night" instead of "this morning" because it's so dark! Ridiculous. But I can get a lot accomplished before 8AM! And Callan usually naps pretty well. As long as his teeth don't get involved.

Callan and Easton got to go to their well checks together this time. So here are Easton's stats, too.

Weight: 31.31 lbs (46.73%ile)

"Stature" (haha): 37.2 in (45.13%ile)

BMI: 15.9 (45.88%ile)

We're having so much fun getting ready for the holidays! Hopefully it won't be too long before my next post.

(PS I have been a TERRIBLE commentor lately and I am SO sorry! I still read all your blogs, but I have to use Tyson's computer to pick up the neighbor's wireless signal and his doesn't let me comment! It's so weird and I can't figure it out. Even though I'm logged in and everything it says I'm not authorized to comment? Very weird. And I am sincerely sorry :)

We Like to Party

Easton's birthday party all started with a cute girl in my mom's ward giving me a pirate party kit that she had. It was very darling and I knew right away that I would have to throw a pirate party. I wanted to invite a some kids from the ward so he could get to know them and maybe have them over for play dates, but it was hard to know who to invite! I didn't want to leave anyone out and there are like 30 kids his age in the ward! We ended up inviting 10 kids and they all came!

There only 8 invites in the party kit so I decided to make my own... why do things always end up taking way longer than I expect? Burning the edges takes forever!

We rolled them up and put them in plastic bottles with sand, seashells, corks, and twine.

The kit came with a darling banner (which I just realized we didn't get a picture of!) and it had paper treasure chests that we filled with chocolate coins. We had a big bucket full of sand for the kids to dig in. For some reason I thought they would all take turns with the shovel digging and seeing what they could find in the bucket IN MY LIVING ROOM. But no... it was pretty much a sand slinging free for all.

So we took things outside. It was a little chilly, but I don't think they cared. We cut strips of fabric for headbands and they each got an eye patch from the kit. It was impossible to make all 11 of them be in the picture.

They opened presents - and when I say they I mean everyone was literally tearing up presents and throwing them around the room. It was a little crazy. They ate cupcakes on the kitchen floor. Most of the cupcakes ended up on the floor, then on their shoes, then everywhere else. It was fun, but next time I'll listen to my mom's advice that 2 hours is way too long for a 3 year old party!

We had a family party Sunday night. And Easton got spoiled again.

Here he is with his loot the next morning - looking so irritated that I'm bothering him while he's watching TV. Thanks for the gifts everyone! He loves them all!

So far the 3 year old has been a little challenging:) He's so dang stubborn and now he really thinks he knows everything. I can't wait for the teenage years - oh man. Like a few hours ago I told him to go out in the garage and wait for me to load him up, but don't go in the street. To which he replied...

"Are you kidding me mom?!! I can go in the street! I'm big enough!"

I said no.... you're not. I'm just gonna grab Cal's bottle and I'll be out. I walked out to see him standing right smack in the middle of the road. Just waiting for me to come out. I started yelling at him and he said, "heh heh." Such a stinker. I told him it wasn't safe and yada yada yada and not to ever do it again.

And he said, "Fine. I'll just find somewhere else to live." Oh he's opinionated!

But he is fun. And I love him dearly. I've been trying to think of some things to fill our time lately. I thought we would paint his hand with acrylic paint and make turkeys. He HATED that. He doesn't really like to get dirty. All he wants to do is poke holes in boxes with sharp knives and scissors. Do I let him? Sometimes. It's all I can do sometimes for 5 minutes of quiet so I can accomplish something like the dishes!

Some of the many funny words he's picked up on lately are "suddenly" and "brilliant."

ie:

"I was just walking up the stairs and suddenly I tripped and stubbed my toe!"

"I was just sitting on the couch and suddenly I had a brilliant idea!"

Good thing he's so dang funny.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday baby boy! We can't believe you're three!!! We sure love you!