But not to worry, I am updating it today with a lot of pictures
Sorry I haven't written in a while, things are quite busy at work.
On Snapfish, there are photos from the "boy trip" to NJ, our trip to AZ and I think some other random photos.
In AZ, I took Kyan and Foster to a Christmas parade in Tempe while Brian worked. I was telling Kyan about Christmas and Santa. And if you are good, you get presents from Santa. Well as you know, we bribed him when he was potty training with "presents" each time he pooped on the potty. So after I explain to him a few times that Santa brings presents, I told him on Christmas morning you get presents, and he responds with, "I gotta poop for presents?" I told him, no, you need to be good for presents. It was the funniest thing, then he says "Oh, I be good for presents, don't have to poop for presents" It was very funny
Another funny thing, when we were driving home, yes 8.5 hours later... near Palm Springs where all the WindMills are, it was dark out and we couldn't really tell if Kyan was asleep or not, he kinda looked it fro him body posture and I know he was getting tired. But all the sudden, we hear in his cute little excited voice, "I see WINDMILLLLLLLLLS" I turned to Brian as he turned to me, we both said, I don't think he is asleep. Then Kyan would go on to say I see more windmills
Halloween was fun, Kyan had to warm up to the idea of going to houses and saying trick or treat. We went to Alice's and then Brian took Kyan to her neighbors house, well Kyan wanted Brian to go up and say trick or treat, while he stayed on the drive way. Well teh lady met them half way.
Then we hung out at Alice's for a while. Then went next door, they had no candy :-( then we went to some other houses on our street that had the lights on, pretty much all of them had candy or something for Kyan except one house, didn't have candy. We got playdough at one house, black and green.
So then we went to the church that we pass going to school everyday that said they were having a halloween festival, with a bouncy house, and games, and food. So we went there, again it took Kyan a little while to warm up to it but then he had fun. He was crazy in the bouncy house. They let a certain number of kids in, then they go up the step to the slide and slide out , that was the exit. Well by the end, there were bigger kids doing sommersaults down there, so by the end of Kyan's night, he was going down head first on his belly and then rolling. He was one sewaty looking kid, but he had fun.
Also, Grammy got Kyan a chair that won't tip over so much, apparently it is quite comfy, or he was that tired. I will let you figure out what picture or 2 I am referring too. Kyan also got his "haircut like dad's" He is totally cute. Last night, he was eating Doritos with no shirt on and jeans on, what a little hottie
The parade at school was very cute, kinda total mayhem. There are pictures from that. Some pictures are of random things.
Foster is doing good, he has had green beans, sweet potatoes, bananas and cereal so far. He likes them all as far as we can tell.
My first week back to work was fine, everyone told me how much they missed me and am glad I am back, that is always nice to hear.
We just came back from Foster's 4 month doctor appt.
He got his shots and did great. He is 25 1/4" long and 13lbs 11ounces
and the exciting news is we get to start rice cereal with him, so after he wakes up and eats, then he can try some rice cereal then if he likes it, after 4 days, we can try veggies and then fruit with him
Also, tomorrow, Brian, Foster and myself are going to Santa Anita race track to watch the horse named after Brian run its first race. One of the guys Brian knows from UCLA was looking into buying a horse to race a few years back and bought one and told Brian he would name it after him. So the horse's name is Dohnster. I am taking my camera so hopefully we get to go to the paddock area and we can get some photos of Dohnster with the Dohnster
We have a few things to report. Foster is getting big, he just started rolling over. He has been very close, but Sunday night, I put him in bed and when I went to check on him, cause he was making noise, he was on his belly with his face in the mattress. That kinda made me nervous, so I flipped him over and couldn't really sleep that night cause I kept checking on him to make sure his face wasn't flat on the mattress. He did fine and when I checked on him in the morning, he was back on his belly with his little tushy up in the air, and his face resting on his hands, it was really cute.
He goes to the dr on the 21st for his 4 month visit, so we think we will be able to start him on cereal, I think he will gobble that all up.
Kyan is doing good. Sunday, after Brian's big soccer win, oh and by the way, Brian scored a GOALASOOOOOOOOO, on a crossing ball that he headed into to ground.Of course I was taking pictures and decided to sit down and I am not even lying, maybe 30 seconds after that, he scored, grrrrrrr
But anyways, after the game, we went to the farm when we pick fruit, to go to Wild West Day there, it was fun. We got pumpkins, did a corn maze, grammy, foster and I beat kyan and brian, brian tries to tell us he let kyan lead for the first while, uh huh.....So the picture you will see in the photos in the middle of long healthy corn stalks is them trying to get to the big haystack we where standing on in the middle. We probably beat them by 15 minutes, although, the maze was huge and this year, you couldn't see the haystack to see when you had to go.
We got a new camera so it might take longer for photos to upload but I am gonna try to condense them so it goes quicker(to upload).
OK here are a lot of photos, it is gonna take a while to go through them
ok change of plans, I am uploading them to snapfish so you can go through them, where as the place I usually do it , makes them kinda like a montage and you can't stop and start again, I think you would have to go through the whole list again
Blue blue blue blue who is wearing blue today, look at me and you will say, who is wearing blue today, blue blue blue blue who is wearing blue today????
Someone posted this that they got this email from their girlfriend, it is quite funny
Subject: Potty Training My little guy, Cade, is quite a talker. He loves to communicate and does it quite well. He talks to people constantly, whether we're in the library, the grocery store or at a drive-thru window. People often comment on how clearly he speaks for a just-turned- 3-year-old. And you never have to ask him to turn up the volume. It's always fully cranked. There have been several embarrassing times that I've wished the meaning of his words would have been masked by a not-so-audible voice, but never have I wished this more than last week at Costco.
Halfway through our shopping trip, nature called, so I took Cade with me into the restroom. If you'd been one of the ladies in the restroom that evening, this is what you would have heard coming from the second to the last stall: ''Mommy , are you gonna go potty? Oh! Why are you putting toiwet paper on the potty, Mommy? Oh! You gonna sit down on da toiwet paper now? Mommy, what are you doing? Mommy, are you gonna go stinkies on the potty?'
At this point I started mentally counting how many women had been in the bathroom when I walked in. Several stalls were full ... 4? 5?
Maybe we could wait until they all left before I had to make my debut out of this stall and reveal my identity. Cade continued:
'Mommy, you ARE going stinkies aren't you? Oh, dats a good girl, Mommy! Are you gonna get some candy for going stinkies on the potty? Let me see doze stinkies, Mommy! Oh ... Mommy! I'm trying to see in dere. Oh! I see dem. Dat is a very good girl, Mommy. You are gonna get some candy!'
I heard a few faint chuckles coming from the stalls on either side of me. Where is a screaming newborn when you need her? Good grief. This was really getting embarrassing. I was definitely waiting a long time before exiting. Trying to divert him, I said, 'Why don't you look in Mommy's purse and see if you can find some candy. We'll both have some.
'No, I'm trying to see doze more stinkies. Oh! Mommy!'
He started to gag at this point. 'Uh - oh, Mommy. I fink I'm gonna frow up. Mommy, doze stinkies are making me frow up!! Dat is so gross!!'
As the gags became louder, so did the chuckles outside my stall. I quickly flushed the toilet in hopes of changing the subject. I began to reason with myself: OK. There are four other toilets. If I count four flushes, I can be reasonably assured that those who overheard this embarrassing monologue will be long gone.
'Mommy! Would you get off the potty, now? I want you to be done going stinkies! Get up! Get up!' He grunted as he tried to pull me off. Now I could hear full-blown laughter. I bent down to count the feet outside my door.
'Oh, are you wooking under dere, Mommy? You wooking under da door? What were you wooking at? Mommy? You wooking at the wady's feet?'
More laughter. I stood inside the locked door and tried to assess the situation.
'Mommy, it's time to wash our hands, now. We have to go out now, Mommy.' He started pounding on the door. 'Mommy, don't you want to wash your hands? I want to go out!!'
I saw that my 'wait 'em out' plan was unraveling. I sheepishly opened the door, and found standing outside my stall, twenty to thirty ladies crowded around the stall, all smiling and starting to applaud.
My first thought was complete embarrassment, then I thought, 'Where's the fine print on the 'motherhood contract' where I signed away every bit of my dignity and privacy?' But as my little boy gave me a big, cheeky grin while he rubbed bubbly soap between his chubby little hands, I thought, I'd sign it all away again, just to be known as Mommy to this little fellow.
