Splash Splash Splash!!

This video is from November but I couldn't ever get it to load til now. I love these 2!! Keith is usually the one to give Carsen a bath at night while I clean up and get his bed time stuff set out so we can do our little bid time routine together. Plus it gives them a little time just them which I think Carsen loves! He loves his daddy and has so much fun with him.

FHE finger painting!

Don't worry....It is pudding!!! We thought he would have a blast finger painting in the tub for a fun FHE activity....... We were wrong! I think he liked it for about 30 seconds when he tasted the first bite and then didn't understand that it was supposed to be fun. :) ha ha. This is about the only picture we got of him before he was sobbing :( I guess we will try it again when he is a little older!

This picture was taken feb 7th 2011

Carsen at 18 months

Where do I begin on what Carsen is doing these days.......Everything! That should start it :) He is such a blessing in our lives and a joy to have in our home. He is just the sweetest little boy and has a way of making you smile all the time!! I love this little man so much, It is hard to believe but I love him more every day! It is crazy to me that just when I think there is no way to love him any more than I already do he learns something new and I love how he does those new things too!

Carsen has been growing like a weed these days... His newest stats are:
Height: 33 inches ~ 71 %
Weight: 27.5 lbs ~ 72%

I always think that I need to write more of the things tha he does and says down but I get to busy and forget. So, I will try to put most of what I can think of right now and then I am sure I will have some other things trickle in on my other posts to come.

He always wants to be part of everthing that is going on. Our stake had a valentine's dance that we went to and Carsen thought that it was great and that everyone was there just to watch him dance and cheer him on. He even got his little friend Makyla to dance with him. So funny! His dancing is more like squats and jumps but so dang cute. He will go "round in a circle" and pivot on one foot, cracks me up!
He is saying so many words that I would be here writing all night. He will repeat ANYTHING you say!! He is so silly! He says most everything really fast, probably my fault ;) He also says "it's a" before a lot of things. :)

Some of his words and new words are:
~Hungee (Hungry)
~Backet ball (basket ball)
~sucker
~Shaew (share) which he usually yells it!
~arseel (Cereal)
~ahsee (sorry)
~tanku (thank you- he says it so fast it crack me up)
~hoop
~shoot
~Oh shoot! (my fault again!)
~Big Ball
~Big truck
~Buzz (for is buzz lightyear ride on toy)
~HAPPY (love this!!)
~Banoon (Balloon)
~Jesus
~Buzzah (Bunny chocolate milk)
~Peety (pretty)
~Woahm (warm)
~ Pop poke (popcorn)
~Hot gog (hot dog)
~Side (outside)
~OOOH, side (slide)
~wing (swing)
~Hug
~ump (jump)
~Snow! He yells it!! Not much for volume control :)
~teet (treat)
~star
~boodoo (the letter W)
~Moon (He loves to call for the moon, it is so cute!! He started doing that when we were outside at 2 and 3 in the morning trying to help his croup)
~Nainey (Laini)
~Ama (Grandma)
~boppa (Grandpa)
~Bubba (Brinsen)
~Way (away)
~Color, color color ( he loves to color with his bath tub crayons and then he will wash it off with a cloth and say clean clean clean!)
~Ephant (Elephant)
~MerKat (MeerKat)
~Neen (Green)
~Coool (cool)
~doos (shoes)
~Lizard
~Ahfoo (Flower)
~Temple
~Oh no
~Paz (Spaz)
~tomp (stomp)
~eck (egg)
~toat (toast)
~Vitamin
~Booo (Blue)
~Elmo
~Big bird
~Cookie
~Pidow (Pillow)
~Bert
~Opit (Open)
~Heart
~Nahngle (Triangle
~buh bye
~Whoa
~edo (yellow)
~Turtle
~Pider (Spider)
~help
~did it
~Sippy
~chicken
~play
~all done
~more
~seeba (Zebra)
~raff (Giraffe)
~snuggle
~thanks
~Scout
~seat
~cheese
~Watoo (Water)
~Binky
~Anin (Again)
~One more (he uses this for everything even if he rally wants 5 more!!)
~ Nice shot!
~Batoo (Vacuum) He is obsessed with the vacuum!!!

Some of the things Carsen LOVES these days:

~He loves to get out and run. He is getting so fast.
~He loves to be outside, cries at the door to be outside all the time
~He always asks for your hand when he goes down stairs now
~He LOVES letters and has known his alphabet since he was about 17 months old. He will look for letters everywhere we go and search to find them till he sees them and yells them out!! so funny!!
~He is so sweet to give hugs and squeezes and kisses!! He gives the picture of Jesus in his room and love and a head butt every night before bed.
~He loves his daddy. As soon as we get into the church he yells DA DAAA and has to go up say hi to him every Sunday up on the stand! Thank goodness we live in a really patient and sweet ward! He also likes to communicate with Keith by blinking hard at him during church and Keith will blink back. Pretty cute!
~He loves Maci!! Maci is such a sweet girl and he just loves his cousin so much that every little girls that we see he yells MACI, in hopes that it is her!!
~He loves animals and could look at and play with them all day long!
~He loves to sing and do actions to his favorite songs: Itsy bitsy spider, If you're happy and you know it, Head shoulders knees and toes, Ring around the rosies and of course the Meerkat
~He loves books, it is so cute to find him sitting up in his chair with a book on his lap.
~He loves to learn new things.
~He loves to go see family and will run up to them and give hugs! I love it!
~ He LOVES to vacuum!! He could vacuum 5 times a day and be so happy!!!
~He LOVES Any kind of Ball! He especially loves basket ball! funny because he has never seen anyone play really!

We love you bug a boo!! Thanks for making our lives so much fun!

Pictures by: Melissa Rackham (my sister) Isn't she great!! Thanks Miss!!!

Hardware Ranch!

We went with some good friends (thanks Tim and Brandi) up to Hardware Ranch the first Saturday in February. It was really cloudy and the inversion was awful down in Logan and then we drove right up the canyon and out of the yuck and into such a beautiful day!! It was so much fun! We saw about 300-400 elk! This is a place where hundreds of wild elk hang out in the winter. You can go on a sleigh ride through the field and be just hundreds of feet away from a TON of elk. Carsen thought it was awesome! He loved seeing the horses that were pulling us.
It was also Carsen's real first time getting to play in the snow and he sort of liked it :)

Story Time

January is one of my least favorite months.....School starts again, the holidays are over and it is just plain cold and yucky outside! We didn't do much, just tried to keep busy and not get too stir crazy.
A friend told us about and invited us to this cute little library story time. (Thanks Allison) They do it Tues, Wed, Thurs mornings. The lady who does it is so sweet and she always has an activity like coloring after and a little treat. Carsen loves it, he loves to sit on the little colored pillows....well for maybe a minute because you know how long he likes to sit still! ha ha!! His very favorite part is to "color, color, color!" He loves to look at the books. He is such a book boy. He doesn't like the long ones because he can't sit still for very long but I guess I shouldn't expect anything else :)
We try to make it to story time about once a week, and have a play group, mom and kids institute or some other activity during the week. It is so nice to have these fun little things that break up the long winter days. It is fun to have Carsen this age where he is learning and enjoying so much!! What a sweet boy he is!! love you bug!!!


Woo Hoo!! I am into the new year!! yay!!

Christmas Eve and Christmas

We don't have many pictures of Christmas eve or day really, we were so caught up in cleaning up puke and other accidents and doing laundry from said accidents because Carsen had an ear infection and some other bug we think and he was pretty sick. poor boy!! We ended up at the Dr. office on Christmas eve morning to find out that he had an ear infection. He seemed to be doing better by the afternoon so we decided that it would be OK for him to go to grandma and grandpa's for the annual Christmas eve fun of making reindeer food and cookies for Santa and his reindeer. It is so cute and I took some pics of the cousins and the kids doing their fun little crafts, but they were all on my mom's camera and I will have to get them later. It was rally good for Carsen to get out of the house and be around family that he didn't even seem sick at all!!
We all had a great time and came back home for the night and put our reindeer food and cookies out! Carsen loved shaking it all over the front porch! So cute!!
Also, on a little side note, Santa usually counts noses on Christmas eve morning but since Carsen was so sick that morning with fever and everything else we decided to let Santa know that it would be better if he could count Carsen's nose on Christmas morning.






After a long night of fevers and big messes and jammie changes tubbies and medicine..... Santa Came!!!!! yay!!
He did come and he counted all our noses! I guess we were all good and poor little Carsen was such a good sport through everything being sick that he definitely deserved presents from Santa. (Counting noses is when Santa comes and marks your nose with soot on Christmas eve morning if you have been good all year so to let you know that he will be coming the next night to bring you presents....such a cute little tradition that Keith grew up with!! Love it!!)
We did the tradition that I have grown up with that my parents put a sheet up to cover the doorway to the room with the tree and presents. It was really fun and so fun to have Carsen understanding it all a little more this year. He obviously wasn't feeling great so it took a little coaxing to get him to pull the sheet off but he did good and we didn't do many pics that morning just a little video since it seemed that between every present that he opened we had to clean up puke or change a bum and jammies. Poor little guy was such a good sport and just wanted to lay down so we drug Christmas way out and just hung out most of the day and then went to visit family later. We stayed down with family and did Keith's family's Christmas the next day. Despite it all, it was still a really great Christmas and we enjoyed spending time with family and all together. So glad that he got better by new years!!

Meeting Santa!

Just a few days before Christmas we realized that Carsen hadn't gone to meet Santa and tell him what he would like, so we went to the mall and he sat on his lap and said "hi" and got a "Treat" aka candy cane from Santa. He actually did pretty well but didn't want to hang out there for more than about a minute! At least I got a picture!! First time meeting Santa.....Success!!!!