The good ol' days

I found a bunch of pictures from high school, a few from junior high, and like 3 from 6th grade. I posted them on facebook if you want to take a look. They are pretty entertaining. Here are a few just to give you an idea...

Sayings

Collin often says really funny things, most of the time I don't have any idea where he picked it up. My two favorite things he says right now are:
1- when he wants me to pick him up he says "I hold you?"
2- a few days ago he drew on the walls (darn those bath crayons...) so I put him in time out. When I went back to get him a minute later he gave me a hug and said "I'm sorry for drawing on the wall mom." For real? It was so cute. Then when we walked past the wall on the way to our room he said it again. He is growing up so fast and learning so much. Its crazy.

Pictures

Red and blue for the 4th
















Here are the pictures. The two of the boys in their matching pj's I took about 2 weeks ago. They are SOOO stinkin cute. I am one lucky mom :)

internet

We are trying to get pictures uploaded on here, but our internet is being weird at our new house, so as soon as I can I will upload pictures. His cast is blue wth a red strip for the 4th of July. My sister Kim suggested it. Its cute.

ER

Hanging out at the ER right now. About 20 minutes after we got home we heard a crash and chase ran down and a few minutes later yelled "Collin broke his arm!" I asked how he know and pointed to his arm which was gross. I pretty much almost passed out. I don't do good with those things. We came down to the ER and are just waiting now for them to come set it. Thankgoodnes both boys are asleep. Happy Fathers Day Chase : )

Title

I'm trying to come up with a new title for my blog...

Landon talks (or moans sweetly...) a lot. Its super cute. He laughs all the time, we will have him laying on the bed while we get Collin ready for bed and he'll just start laughing and talking to himself. Its been so nice that he has been so much more mellow then Collin every was, or is. Its a good thing Collin is so funny...

I said I would give an update on things I won on the site- we have acquired:

1- a big slide, like the plastic ones on play sets

2-a desk to put in Collins room for him to draw on

3-two stools, one for him to sit on at his desk and the other for the bathroom

4-a toy table

5- two GPS systems, one for us and one for my mom

6-a TV

Some of these we got off of KSL and the others we got on the auction site. Most of them were between $10 and $15.

We found a song that has a little kid kind of singing Twinkle twinkle little star and now Collin sings it all the time.

Landon has decided that he is big enough to sit up. Which leads to lots of falling over. But he's actually doing pretty good. He's such a stud.

Collin always helps me make cookies now. He's really good at pouring stuff in.

Goal

Goal for the summer:
1- Stop more often for kids selling lemonade. Usually I just drive by thinking- I really ought to stop. I will make a goal to stop the next 4 times I see a lemonade stand.

The pros and cons of buying online

So since Chase and I have been looking for some new things now that we will be living somewhere that has more then one room we have hit up KSL like crazy. I have also been looking on auction sites trying to get some good deals on TV's and such. Here are my issue's with online buying-

KSL is fantastic. You can find the best stuff there IF people keep it up to date and if you make it before anyone else does. One pet peeve is when someone has listed something and then even though its sold has not gone online to take it off. Even though its been sold for like 5 days.

These auction sites are great except I get caught up in the bidding. Even though I have set a price for myself I see that someone has outbid me by $2, so I go up $2 which actually takes me up by $4 above my "set limit". I think, $4 more isn't that much, its still a great deal....$20 or more later I'm still trying to outbid the other person. I don't handle disappointment very well...

I will let you know if I actually win or buy anything.

200th post, 2nd birthday

Here are a few things we are working on with Collin:
Instead of screeching NO, we have taught him to say No, thank you. So he screeches NO THANK YOU.
He has gone to the potty twice. We have tried probably 5 or 6 times, usually we are just too late. We need to get a little seat so he doesn't fall in...
I have learned from the No to No, thank you that I have some power over what he says. We are starting to work on the word "mine" and not saying it so much. I think this one is going to be much harder.
Yesterday was Collins 2nd birthday. It was actually a pretty good day considering the fact that he didn't get a nap. We change from 1:00 to 9:00 next week (the singles ward that meets in the building has decided they don't have enough time to mingle after they're meetings get over so they are taking the 1:00 time slot back.) so when he doesn't fall asleep by 12:30 it won't matter so much.
We made a train cake and had a train balloon. His favorite toy is a little toy train that goes choo-choo and rolls by itself. He also got this awesome rocking elephant. Its really funny to watch him rock on it and yell Yee Haw!

He didn't get this bike for his birthday, its Aidens old bike and he just gets to use it until he figures out how to pedel. Then he can use his bike.

But he sure does love riding around like the big kids. He will do this for hours if I let him.

By the way, I am taking orders for pinata's :) Just kidding. I made this elephant pinata for his birthday, and even though it is 90% duck tape and missing a leg, the kids still enjoyed it. I don't think I'll ever make another one though...

Tall kids

So we had the boy's check ups today. Collin gained weight, so he's doing better. Landon is a big fatty, but we weren't worried about that. The thing that surprised me the most was their percents in length. Collin is in the 92% and Landon is in the 78%, which is where Collin was at Landon's age. I guess they got my dad's genes...

Both got shots, but Collin did good so he got a sucker. Sadly Landon couldn't have a treat and has been struggling this afternoon. I just feel bad for him, I can tell he's trying to sleep but can't. He just sits there (when he isn't crying) and scowls. Poor kid.

Crafty :)

Our apartment is a mess. Not only was it too small to fit all our stuff that we already had, now that we are moving with my mom to her new house down the street in 3 weeks I have started getting stuff to decorate the boys room. On top of that I have decided to become crafty and have pretty much bought Joann's out of felt. Chase and I are going to make a quiet book for Collin and Landon some day, and I'm making some animal things to put up in the boys room. Poor Chase, he is drowning in his school work and at the MTC, and then he has to come home to my "craft room" which is pretty much our whole apartment. I think he's going to love the outcome though.

Today for Collins birthday we took Collin and his two cousins to Kangaroo Zoo, a big warehouse full of blowup castles and slides and such. Collin was TOTALLY freaked out. We would put him on one of them to jump or run around and he would just back up as fast as possible and run back to us. I finally had to go pay and take him on all the slides. The last one he actually went on by himself, so we made progress. We were really surprised that he was so scared, especially with Trina and Aiden there. Even when I went with him he would say NONONONO the whole way up the ladder (which are not made for a mom to carry a 2 year old up them so we fell a lot. I'm pretty sure we entertained Stu and Chase more then the kids...) but then when we went down the slide he thought it was fun.
I can't believe he will be two next week. That is so crazy.

Videos of Landon

Landon is smiling and "laughing"- although you don't really hear a good laugh in either of these videos. He is growing so fast, its so much fun.

Big bed

Got Collin a toddler bed today. We actually got two because I found one after we bought the first that came with a mattress. So now we have a bed for Landon. Just no mattress.

Anyway. First night in the toddler bed is going a little slow. He's been in his room for an hour and thinks he has to get in bed by climbing over the little side rail instead of the open part. But he is laying on the bed, playing with his teddy. So this is a good sign. We decided to go ahead and get him a bigger bed for 2 reasons- he does not fit in his play pen anymore. 2- we will be moving with my mom next month and felt like we needed to have him in a bigger bed when we move.

All in all, I think things are going well :)

Family pictures

Love it

Thank you to Steph again for taking some pictures of us even though Collin was being totally out of control (how do kids know when we really want them to be good?)

Too many

This last weekend Chase and I found a great deal on a 16 gb flash drive. I told him we should buy it and use it to back up all our pictures. Little did I know we'd fill that up with only about 40% of all the pictures we have. So, we got a much bigger drive (500 gb) and I have been working on backing up all our pictures. Its been so much fun going through old pictures from when Chase and I were dating and engaged, birthdays, pictures from when I was little. I also realized that just like any other parent I have way more pictures of Collin then I do of Landon to this point. And that I loved Collin's outfits when he was 9-12 months old :) He had some really cute clothes...
Anyway, I feel much much better now knowing that all our pictures are off my computer and on a drive that we keep by our door for easy access. I've learned that I stink at labeling my pictures- I need to save the pictures under "Collin 6 months old" instead of "Collin". Not super helpful, especially when he looks the same at 6 months and 8 months.