Cason Tidbits

On Thursday we went to take Kelly to the airport and instead of airlining to another city to his plane, they had a plane sitting for him at our airport.  So for the first time, I got to see what his airplane looks like and go in it.  Cason LOVED this and we could barely drag him out of the co-pilot seat.  Unfortunately, we didn't think to bring the camera so these pictures are from Kelly's cell phone and not great quality.

Cason has been doing some cute/funny things lately so I thought I would put them on here.  I realize that they're probably only cute and funny to us but my blog is just a journal for myself to look back on someday and show Cason when he's older.  So you can either suffer through reading them or just skip this post:)

- Ever since two weeks ago when Kelly did some yard work for the first time this year, Cason has been obsessed with the lawnmower and the edger.  He is constantly talking about them.  For a few days there, all I heard, ALL day long was "mow-mow.... off.  eyer... off"  (lawnmower.. off.  Edger.... off).  Now, whenever we leave the house, he has to go touch the lawnmower and edger before he gets in the car.  Then as we are backing out of the driveway and the garage door is shutting, he says "mow-mow... bye.   eyer... bye."  And when we are on our way home, as we get close to the house, he starts chatting about them too and has to see them when we get back.  At least he's getting over the fire hydrant!

- One of his other new things is to sit on the floor or couch and pat the floor or couch next to him and say "sit!"  It's hard to resist that so we go sit next to him and he gets so excited.

- I also somehow taught him to say "see ya!"  When we tell him to say bye to someone, he usually says "bye.... see ya!"  It was particularly funny one day when he was eating breakfast and I was running some stuff out to the car.  I opened the door and started to walk out and he yelled "see ya!"

- He also started saying "noooooo" in a really funny tone when he knows something is wrong.  Like he will do one of his puzzles and put the piece in the right spot, then pick it up and put it in a wrong spot and say "nooooooo" while shaking his head.  Or he will be playing with something right before bed or nap and will go throw it in his crib and say "nooooooo" and laugh because we don't let him have toys in his crib. 

- It's allergy season here for me so I've been sneezing a lot lately.  I almost always follow up by saying "excuse me".  Cason caught onto that and will say it after me.  One day last week, I was in the bathroom and sneezed.  He came running in saying "scuze me!"  

- One of his other new sayings is "touch it?"  He often will point something out, either in the house or out in public, and then ask "touch it?"

And here's two things he does now that I'm not proud of AT ALL!

- Unfortunately, he knows what McDonalds is.  He and I will drive through once or twice a month when Kelly is out of town so he knows the golden arches.  Whenever he sees the yellow M, he'll say "M!  Donalds!"  Ugh.  At least he's not asking for it yet, just pointing it out.  

- I also have to be careful of what I say when I'm driving.  Anytime I get impatient with another driver I say "Go!", which he repeats.  One day I said "Go!  Seriously!"  And my little parrot in the back seat said "Go!  Seesly!"  

Yup, it's no accident that his sunglasses, shirt, and shoes all match.  I'm such a dork!  Maybe someday he'll actually keep the sunglasses on his face!

Bryce's room -- Pics

Bryce's room is DONE.  

Here is the corner, with the poison arrow frogs hanging out in the tree:

A closer look at the sign:

Two poison arrow frogs peeking out:

The crib bedding was stolen by Cason.  I am selling Cason's fish bedding since it no longer matches his room.  Bryce's crib bedding was a perfect match in there so Cason's going to borrow it for awhile.  Bryce only really needs a sheet anyway.  I won't put the bumper in until he's about 6 months old or so.

I don't know what I was thinking.  With this many pictures, there are ALWAYS several crooked frames.

I guess it's not totally done.  We are still working on these two leaf shaped shelves.  I designed these and Kelly cut them out using his jigsaw.  We just need a router to make some keyhole slots on the "stems" so we can paint them green and hang them on the wall.  They will go to the right of the crib, near the window.  I have some more red eyed tree frogs to put on the shelves.  

What I have been up to

I don't make New Year's resolutions but this year I decided I was behind in some areas and needed to make some goals to get caught up.  One of the big ones was Cason's baby book.  I had an okay start on it but haven't really touched it in the past year.  Another huge thing I was behind on was my photos.  I faithfully uploaded pictures to iphoto on my computer but that is where it stopped.  I edited some if I wanted to put them on my blog or send them to family but most were left untouched.  I also NEVER printed them out.  I had a few photos of his first month or so and a few more around 6 months but that's it.  

So I undertook the huge task of getting caught up on Cason's baby book and editing, printing, and organizing my photos.  I have no idea how many hours this took, let's just say it took a lot of nap times (Cason's nap time that is).  I edited hundreds of photos and uploaded them to Snapfish.  When they arrived, I sorted them in chronological order (thank goodness for iphoto to keep track of dates for me) and arranged them in photo albums.  I am also proud to say that I am DONE with his baby book. It is filled with photos and every page is filled out except some pages like "what was going on the year I was born".  I'm bad at that stuff, he can google it when he's older if he's curious.  So here you see the baby book, two photo albums for snapshots, one photo album for professional 5x7 pictures, and one photo album for professional 4x6 pictures.  Now my goal is to stay caught up by editing and printing my photos every 3 or 4 months.

I also made a growth chart for Bryce.  It is identical in shape, size, and design to the one I made Cason last November.  I just used different scrapbook papers to match his room and make it his.  The hardest part was finding paper that I liked, that took forever.  

And finally, I made Bryce this night light.  I wanted something that could sit on his bookcase and have a long cord to plug into the outlet so the boys leave it alone.  It also had to be really dim because I don't like bright night lights.  After a few failure ideas, I came up with this.  It's just a small shadowbox.  I frosted the glass with spray and drilled a hole in the back for the light.  Then put some frog stickers on.  It's very simple but I am happy with it.  

Daddy... airplane!

Last week, Cason and I were coming home from church on Sunday night.  It was dark already and I couldn't see him in the mirror.  All of the sudden, he said "Daddy".  I said "Daddy?  Daddy's at work.".  He replied "airplane".  I said "that's right, Daddy flies airplanes.  Good job!".  Then he said "Daddy, daddy, daddy".  I said "Daddy what?".  He said, "Daddy.... airplane!".  It was so cute, but probably just because I'm his mom:)  We take Kelly to the airport and pick him up so we can save $45 a week on parking.  So when I say "Let's go get Daddy", he gets really excited and says "airport... airplane!"  There are always lots of planes in the air to see when we go to the airport.

I can't believe how much he talks now.  He was quiet for so long I thought he may never talk.  Now he says over 100 words and adds new ones all the time.  Some of his newer words are "thank you" (gotta love manners!) and he says "pick up, pick up" as he picks up his toys or puts his markers away.  

Another thing he has been doing a lot lately is spinning in circles.  I started it one day by doing Ring Around the Rosie with him.  Now he will just spin in circles by himself and laugh.  He still loves letters and knows, points out, and can say 20 of them.  He also knows all the basic shapes, a couple of numbers, and the colors blue and pink.  It's my fault he likes pink.  I only give him one or two bathtub crayons at a time and I gave him pink first because it's my least favorite color and I wanted to get it out of the way first.  Kelly says that the Law of Primacy means that he'll always remember pink:(  

He still isn't a big fan of toys but he loves puzzles and can do some of his peg puzzles by himself.  He also loves blocks.  His current favorite thing to do is the classic toddler game of stacking the blocks up, knocking them over, and yelling "whoa!"  Too funny.  He is also really good at zippers and can unscrew almost any lid.  We used to let him play with all kinds of random stuff like travel shampoo bottles, his toothpaste, empty milk cartons, etc.  But now that he can unscrew lids, we can only let him have empty containers that have been washed out.  

He also does what I call the "uh-oh siren".  It started out cute but now it's rather annoying.  If anything is knocked over or not completely up and down he will say "uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh...." repeatedly until it is fixed.  Today we were leaving the house and I put Kielers (the dog) in her room and shut the door.  He said "uh-oh!" and opened the door back up.  There was a dog toy laying on it's side.  He put it back the right way and shut the door, satisfied.  I somehow blame Kelly for this obsessiveness to order.

This is what my silly boy does with stickers: