The Big 2

Happy Birthday Jarom! We love you!!!


We have had a fun filled beginning of the birthday with going to speech, picking out a cookie at The Cake Lady and skyping with our cute Oregon cousins!

Cute Things About Jarom

Jarom is such a cute kid! He does such cute things and so I can remember I want to make a list on here:

1. He ALWAYS says please, ALWAYS
2. He loves Elmo
3. Everyday he asks "Where's Daddy?"
4. He loves Paisley very much
5. If I don't understand what he is talking about then he will take me and show me what he is saying
6. He loves to snuggle with me every night before bed, in the rocking chair.
7. When I am holding him on my shoulder he will pat my back, rub my back and give me little squeezes.
8. He can climb into his crib on his own but he can't get out (YET!)
9. He knows the "Thingamagiger" song from Cat in the Hat.
10. He takes very good care of all our baby dolls.
11. When I whisper "I love you" to him he whispers it back.

He is a handful, but he is SO cute!! I love that kid!

Work Bench

Where all the important tools get hung up!

Busted!

Jarom thinks the world is his canvas, but it isn't! He got busted today and had to scrub a couple walls. This kid LOVES to color just like Paisley, but he doesn't keep in on paper like paisley is now trained to do. I tried to find the picture of Paisley also scrubbing walls with a magic eraser, but I couldn't find it. Good news though, Jarom loves to scrub walls, so I see a very good cleaning buddy in my future!

Presents and Cake

Jarom loves opening presents! He loves his new hippo. It is a scooter and it has some blocks that go with it and it picks them up as he scoots over them.

Here is the cake! I made it during nap time, and it will soon be devoured!! Jarom seemed excited when he saw it. Paisley was very impressed! I thought it turned out great for my first crack and a shaped cake!

Happy Birthday Jarom!!!

Happy Birthday Jarom

How in the world did we go from this:

To this:

SO FAST?!?! Yesterday I was pretty emotional about my baby turning 1! Today we are having a blast! We have been singing Happy Birthday to him all morning and he loves to be sung to! At lunch he gets to open presents! Then tonight he'll get to dig into his firetruck cake! We'll keep posting with each new activity! Happy Birthday Jarom you big, big boy!!

Jarom's New Toy

Jarom's New Trick

For Traditions Sake

If you recall when Paisley was almost 1 month old we spent our first Thanksgiving alone. as we were getting the turkey ready we noticed that she was smaller than our turkey so we got a picture. Now as we have another baby near Thanksgiving we thought we should compare Jarom to our turkey this year. He is definitely bigger than our bird! Happy Thanksgiving!!

What's New?

Here is Paisley in her new tap shoes. Today she signed up for a ballet and tap dance class. She is very excited! She's been playing dance class with Daddy and Jarom since we got home from registering. She will have a blast especially since her best friends are in her class with her. Dance starts September 22!

Jarom is a big boy wearing 3 month old clothes now!! We weren't prepared to start putting his clothes away in tubs to be stored for later use. He is sure snugly in his towel jammies (that's what we call them, I don't know their official name) He is also a very smiley boy. He now knows what the camera is and starts to smile when he notices it being pointed at him! These two cute kids are growing up fast!

Sunday

We have two very grown up, very cute kids. It looks as though Paisley is no longer a toddler but a little lady. Jarom is a very handsome boy in his cute Sunday clothes!

Growing Up

Jarom wasn't always the biggest baby in our home, but he sure is now!!

This picture was taken June 21.

This picture was taken August 21.

We love our cute, growing boy!!

Hot Date

The other day Nicole and I went visiting teaching and Jarom and Maddie had a good time in the backseat together. They are so cute and will be great friends when they start to realize the other is there!

2 Months

These past two months have flown by, but at the same time it seems like we have had Jarom forever. He is such a sweet little boy. He loves to watch his big sister dance. He loves to try and sing along when you sing to him. He is very smiley (although he has his fair share of crying time).We are working on him becoming a better sleeper. He is also a big traveler like Paisley was. He has been to 6 states in his short life! We love you Jarom!

Epiphone

Last night as we weren't sleeping at all because of a crying baby boy, it hit me! The reason that boys don't tend to cry much as they get older is because when they were babies they cried enough for a lifetime! The reason girls tend to not stop crying when they hit puberty is because they didn't cry much as babies. At least in my case, this is what is ringing true.

Thank Heaven for Nursing!

Today was my joyous six week appointment (you can probably sense the sarcasm, since most of you know how much I love taking my pants off for anyone!) The first dreadful thing on the list of things that happen at your six week appointment is getting weighed. Obviously I am down some weight... at least 7 pounds 10 ounces of weight. I got on the scale and to my joyful surprise I'm down 20 pounds!!! YAY! I gained 28 pounds so only 8 to go for normal and more for a bonus! That was the happy news before I was violated and as Jason says "got my deck swabbed" (he thinks he's funny, but if it happened to him he wouldn't be laughing I bet!)

I also am lucky enough to have a bladder infect, although just minor, peeing makes me want to cry. My doctor called me in a perscription but we weren't on top of things and didn't get to the Walmart pharmacy until 30 minutes AFTER they closed. I was almost in tears knowing I'd have to go another night in pain (although I've had this for almost 3 weeks so you'd think I be used to it). Anyway, yay for nursing, the best diet around. When I get home from vacation next week I plan to resume my workout that died when I started my morning sickness. I'm actually pretty excited to get into it.

This next week is my family reunion and I plan to stuff myself silly, and hopefully Jarom will survive. He doesn't handle chocolate well, so it's not going to be a pleasant week for him. I have been off chocolate for about a month with only having a tiny bite of it 4 times in the past month. That is INCREDIBLE for me, but next week I'm not going to be so nice. Mylicon city here we come! :)

I got a Whopper!

Yesterday we had to stop by the doctor's office to get a look at a rash he has. While we were there they needed to weigh Jarom. Boy have we caught a whopper! He is now a big 9 pounds 10 oz. I can't believe how big our baby is!

Enjoy the Pretty Colors!

(The title of this post is more funny if you are big King of Queen fans like myself.) It has been 5 years since I graduated from college. I now have a jumbled mess of knowledge about Marriage, Family and Human Development swirling around in my head and being made into new "facts" (that is, who knows what is real and just from my head anymore) So one thing I may or may not remember is that babies can see black, white and red. I decided to make Jarom some pictures to look at while he is getting his diaper changed and clothes changed so before he starts to scream he has the option to be entertained first. So far he has seemed to enjoy them. He also is coordinated enough to scream and look at them at the same time (boy, did that backfired on me.)

In other news we have been experiencing ch ch ch changes (is that a song or something?) We have been comparing Jarom to a new car a lot lately. For example, when Jarom came home from the hospital we said he "lost his new car smell" really his baby smell just adapted from the hospital soap and lotion smell to our soap and lotion and laundry detergent smell. He does still smell like a delicious baby, just different from the beginning. Then last week Jarom "got his license plates"... his cord fell off (with the help of some force from the doctor since it was hanging on by a thread) If he were a car when his cord fell off it would have been the temporary tags expired and the permanent license plate was there to stay. Notice in the top picture you can see his cute outtie belly button. We love our cute Jarom who is sadly and more quickly than we want becoming a not-so-new baby!!

2 Weeks

I'm not sure how two weeks have flown by but our super cute Jarom is two weeks old! He is so fun to be with. His favorite activities include throwing up, pooping and peeing all over everything. Paisley loves to hold him and kiss him. She doesn't like it when she has to leave him alone when he's sleeping. We have loved the last two weeks and wish we could push pause on his life.

Happy Father's Day Daddy

Jarom wishes you a Happy Father's Day by letting you take a nap with him!!

We've been dying to line up Jarom with all of Paisley's babies and see where he fits in!

I was so lucky to catch a couple of his super cute smiles this morning while me and him were relaxing at home and everyone else was a church. He is a sweetheart!