Crazy Hair

This is our son Kallen...he has some long crazy hair.  

Well, actually he had long crazy hair about 3 months ago, but I never got around to posting these and I had to because I thought they were so funny.  I don't think Kallen thinks much of his crazy hair either.

But he is much better now because he got a haircut.  However, now that it has been 3 months, I think he needs another haircut. 

Hi Everyone.  Sorry I haven't posted for 2 months, but I will soon.  I just need to get our pictures downloaded.  In the mean time, you can enjoy this video.  Kallen and I have really enjoyed this music video by Jon Schmidt, so we thought you would too.  Kallen loves it and keeps asking, "last time, last time".  We've already seen it 4 times this morning.  He thinks the Piano is singing.

Weston Update

Weston is now over 2 months old.  Where did those two months go?  With Kallen I felt like each day just dragged by at the beginning, but with Weston they've flown.  It still seems weird for me to think that I'm a mother of two boys now.  Sometimes when I sit back and think about life, I realize that at times, I still think of myself as this young college student who doesn't have any responsiblities...and definitely no kids.  So it seems weird to think that I have two kids. Then again, when I think about life without them it seems even weirder.  It's crazy to think that two months ago, there wasn't a Weston in our lives.  Funny how short two months can seem, but at the same time how long it can be too.  I can't imagine our lives without Weston anymore.  It is almost as if we've always had him with us.  In just a short two months, this little boy has definitely become part of our family and I love him very much. 

Okay, now for the updates:  I took Weston to his two-month appointment last week and the doctor thought he was looking at a 6-month-old.  He joked at how crazy it was that Weston doubled his weight since birth...from 8 pounds to 16 pounds!  Can you imagine doubling your weight in only two months?  He also said that since Weston was so large, its obvious that he isn't needing tons of food, so he told me that we could start to try and have him sleep through the night.  Crazy huh?  I kind of feel bad making the poor kid cry it out at 2-months-old, so we decided to drop his feeding at 2:00 and see if he would go to bed a little earlier.  Then we could slowly try to get him to drop his last feeding.  So far, it has been going pretty good.  He goes to bed by 9:30 or 10:00 now and usually only wakes up around 3:30 or 4:00.  And the good news is, last night the little guy slept until 5:45!  Can you believe it?  I kept waking up every half an hour thinking he'd be waking up, but he just kept sleeping.   I'm really hoping this will be a common routine of his and not just a one-time fluke.

Our little Chunky Monkey is so large!  Like I said, they weighed him and he was over 16 pounds and 4 ounces.  He wasn't even on the charts but hovering far above the 100 % line.  So silly.  The good news is his head and height are pretty standard...well, they are in the 90th percentile, but that is better than his weight.  I figure just like Kallen, the little guy will continue to be chunky for the first year and then just stop gaining any weight the following year. I was curious to see how Weston compared to Kallen at this age, so I looked up Kallen's weight at 2 months.  He only weighed 14 pounds, so Weston is even bigger than Kallen was.  Crazy little monkey.

Little Wes has also been smiling for the past month, but I've never been able to get a picture of him.  So today, while Tyson was home for lunch, I got some.  Weston loves to smile for his Daddy.

He has also discovered his hands this past week.  I don't know if he realizes they are hands, but he has started chewing on them.  I think its pretty cute.

A picture of his chunkiness in all his 16 pound glory.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Did any of you know that March 2nd is Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss'sBirthday? 

I always thought that it would be cool to be the type of Mom who celebrates crazy holiday's with her kids.  And isn't this the perfect holiday?  I love to read, and so does Kallen. Perfect.  Plus, Kallen loves his Dr. Seuss books, so maybe we'll read some of his favorites today.  

I also think it would be fun to do some special Dr. Seuss activites with him and also have fun with dinner tonight.  

I'm thinking Green Eggs and Ham...then again, we might just have green eggs and no ham.  I don't really like Ham very much and second...we don't have any Ham right now.  So we'll just be sticking to the green eggs.  Sounds kind of fun though huh?  

A great website that I found is www.seussville.com.  There are all sorts of things to do.  Just go to the Playground section.  I think the activity book you can print off seems super cool.  Kallen is too little to get a lot out of it, but I figure he'll like looking at it and coloring some of the pages anyway.  So we'll be doing that later.  

I hope you all can get in the spirit of Dr. Seuss.  Go and have some fun!

Some New Pictures of Weston

I didn't have any new pictures of Weston up, so I thought I'd post some.  Look at what a little chunk he has become!  He is now only 8 weeks old, and weighs over 13 pounds.  I think he stores all those pounds in his cheeks.  What do you think?

He is getting so big and strong.  He now can hold up his head like a pro. 

Snugging with Daddy.
He has started smiling during the past 2 weeks, however, I can never get him to smile when I try to take a picture.  This was as close as I could get.  

The Joys of Having a Two-Year-Old

It is such a wonderful thing to have a two-year-old in the house.  Not only have the tantrums increased and Kallen's use of the word "no" and "bye bye", but our little toddler has also increased the amount of messes he makes around the house.  For instance.  Check out the pictures below.

Can you tell what this picture is of?  No?  Well, it is a picture of our laundry closet's door. Kallen has so craftily put his own mark on the doors with a blue coloring crayon.  

Here he is with a big cheesy smile on his face.  He was so proud of his artwork.

I thought it was pretty cute too, until I tried washing the stuff off and realized that crayons don't come off walls or doors very easily.  Hmmm, now I understand why this a bad thing. Well...I guess we won't be getting back our deposit when we move.  Let's hope they don't notice.  :)

Here is another example of the messes Kallen has been making lately.  I should have known the little guy was up to something when I couldn't hear him for a few minutes.  That always means he's up to something he shouldn't be. 

At least all that toilet paper didn't go to waste.  We've all had colds for a few weeks now, so Kallen decided to use the extra toilet paper to blow his nose. Silly squirt.

Tyson's Officially A Lawyer

I was looking through some of our old pictures today, and realized that I never posted these from Tyson's swearing in.  He is now officially a lawyer in the state of Washington.  He was sworn in on November 6th, 2008.

I'm so proud of him.  He has done so much to get to where he is today.  He worked hard to get into law school at UW and did great these past three years.  He then studied super hard to pass the Washington State Bar.  Now he is a clerk at the Washington State Supreme Court and loves who he works with and what he does.  

It was a very special day when Kallen and I got to attend his swearing in at the Washington State Supreme Court.  It was nice because the swearing in was just for the law clerks at the court and a few other special people related to some of the Justices.  It was also very nice to hear his Judge, Justice Johnson, say a few words about him and all that he has accomplished.  

Here he is getting sworn in by the Chief Justice.  He's in the middle in the back row.  Sorry the pictures are blurry and a bit dark.  I was stuck way in the back row of the courtroom and my camera doesn't have a great zoom.  

This is Justice Johnson introducing Tyson to everyone.

I wanted to include a picture of our State's Capital and the Temple of Justice, so you all know where this took place and where Tyson works.  I think that they are both pretty cool looking buildings.  Don't you think?

Here is Tyson with his Judge, Justice Jim Johnson, after the ceremony.

Here we are...Me, Kallen and Tyson. 

And here is Kallen hanging out at the court.  He was such a good little trooper through the whole thing and stayed very quiet.  I think he was the only little squirt there...so you can imagine how quiet it was.

Christmas and Snow

These are kind of old, but I wanted to make our Christmas post and snow post anyway.

Since I was due with Weston around Christmas, we decided not to go too far, but still went up to my parents for Christmas since it is only an hour away.  It was a good thing too, because as you all know, that is where we ended up having Weston.  

This December was filled with snow too, so Christmas was even more special because of it.  We got two feet down in Olympia and Kallen loved every moment of it.  Every day, he would say "snow, snow" over and over until we would bundle him all up and take him out.  He wouldn't

 actually play in the snow, but he loved taking walks out in it.

This picture makes me laugh, because he looks so miserable...but he actually wasn't.  He locd being out there the whole time...even when he got soaked through and got cold from being out in the snow, he never wanted to come in and he would cry anytime we made him come inside. He just loves the white stuff.  In fact, even though the snow is all gone now, he still mentions it to me.These are from Christmas.  The pictures aren't great, but they do show the snow outside and all the presents we got.  I loved that it was snowing on Christmas.  We don't get that a lot up here in Washington and it made it so much fun.

Kallen got a rocking chair from Grandma and Grandpa and he loved finding it on Christmas morning.  It was pretty much the only gift he paid any attention to that morning.  I was hoping that this year Kallen would enjoy getting his presents more...however, that still was a bust. His favorite thing to do was play with the ribbons from all the gifts.  What a silly kid.  I'm hoping next year he will enjoy what is in the ribbons and paper and not just the packaging.