Officially waiting...

Just relaxing

Not too sure about this sitting up business

Positive it's not fun anymore!

Ahhh, this is better...

Sitting in the Bebe Pod


Chase and I were playing outside with water balloons the other day (hence the wet shirt) and he was getting into the Halloween spirit and running around the corner then popping out to "scare" me. This is him mid-BOO!


Playing with Landon in his crib


Landon enjoying some of Chase's cars

I finally did it. I completed my nursing school application and got everything into the nursing director. Now I am officially on the waiting list. Yipee! I'm glad that this first step is done, but I know the road ahead will not be an easy one in many many ways. I am positive the outcome will be marvelous though.

In other news, Kyle just finished his first class with an A! Way to go honey! We are so proud of him and the hard work he puts in. He's really had his plate full lately, working from 6am to 3pm, diligently serving in his church callings, training for his races, taking classes, and still donating his liquid gold *sigh*. He ran the Nike Human Race (10k) yesterday and felt like he did pretty well. We here on the home front think he's pretty awesome.

As far as the boys go, Chase just cracks us up everyday. He says the funniest things, albeit slightly snotty at times. He has started to sleep in a big boy bed (a twin mattress on the floor of his room). Even though he's perfectly capable of getting out of bed in the morning and after naps, he calls to me when he can hear me up and about and yells,"MOMMY, I HEEEAAARRR YOOOUUU!" until I come and get him or call for him to come out. I can't complain though, because it's really nice to sleep in a bit until I hear him playing or calling out.

Chase is very into hugging and loving and showing affection lately (he gets it from Barney). We went to the WIC office a couple weeks ago and as we were getting ready to leave the worker said goodbye to Chase to which he replied, "buh bye, love you!" she said ,"awww, I love you too!" I thought it was sweet.

Let me give you a little background information before I tell you this next story that happened also at this same appointment. Chase didn't use to like wearing hats or sunglasses. So to keep him from taking them off when we'd put them on him, we made up this little song and dance to the tune of "Ice Ice Baby" that goes something like this, "Cool cool Chasers nanana nanana nana na-na, he's a cool little baby, nanana..." Whenever he sees someone wearing glasses or a hat he sings this song to them. So we were sitting in the WIC office and Chase peeks around at the computer while the worker is typing and he spots a bunch of rubber duckies on top of the monitor, all wearing various outfits and accessories. He sees one of the ducks is wearing sunglasses and yells at the top of his lungs, "COOL COOL DUCK!" We all got a good laugh out of it.

Landon is doing wonderfully. The only complaint I have for him is that he's growing up way too fast. Landon is my dream come true. He is so easy, sweet, and happy! He gives THE best smiles, he eats great, and sleeps like a dream. He'll go down for bed at about 7 or 7:30pm and doesn't wake up until about 7:30am, then he takes 2 2-3 hour long naps during the day. He's super squishy and cuddly and he melts my heart with his charming smiles. He rolls over front to back and vice versa now and is starting to sit up pretty well. He loves to talk and play with toys and look at himself in mirrors. Whenever we drive somewhere he sighs and jabbers in the backseat pretty much the entire time. So cute! We feel very lucky to have him in our family. Here are some new pictures...