Andrew turns 1!

Andrew turned one on New Years Eve 2011. We had a little party for him with our closest friends. He seemed to have a great time! And I made some Brazilian hors' deuvres and they were delicious!

 

 

 

Happy first birthday to our little monkey! He did not walk yet but was really good at crawling! My favorite part was that he was sleeping through the night and he's just always been such a sweetheart. Love you Andrew!

Christmas 2011

It's been a while since I last updated anything on here, so I'll be writing everything from my awful memory that I have.
We spent Christmas in Kentucky in 2011, and we had Grandma and Grandpa Caswell come to have Christmas with us. It was a lot of fun! Tons of presents, good food and good company. We were happy they were able to come to spend it with us so it didn't have to be so lonely.

 

Thanksgiving 2011!

We had the privilege to have a visit from the Leggetts for Thanksgiving. They were so fun to hang out with! We had yummy food and lots of good times!

And Andrew turned 11 months! He got some teeth, and started crawling really good. He is growing so fast :)

Halloween 2011

Little Andrew turned 10 months today. The little peanut (who isn't very little anymore) has two bottom teeth, learned to army crawl, and pull himself up to his knees along the furniture. He is officially EVERYWHERE, now. His favorite things are playing with cables and touching the fireplace. Why, oh why, do babies not play with their toys? Anyway. Since he turned 10 months old today, he was also in his "costume". Not much of a costume because he was in bed at 7pm. So the onesie that says "This IS my costume" was his costume for this year. Next year he'll get something special and he gets to go trick-or-treating with daddy and brother Jacen.

This year Jacen went as Yoda. He even got a light saber to go with his outfit. He returned with a whole bunch of candy... and we only had 2 trick-or-treaters knock on our door, so we have a ton of candy left over. UGH!!!

This past saturday, we took a day trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. It took us 1 1/2 hrs to get there, and let me tell ya... What a BEAUTIFUL city! I LOVE big cities and tall buildings. It looked just like what I had seen in movies. We were going to the Duke Energy Children's Museum but Jacen had (still has) a cough, so we ended up just walking around downtown. It was chilly, but wow! I was in love! I even took time to take a picture of the Tiffany and Co. store. Had never seen one before.

We'll be going back around Christmas time as we were told that they have lots of things for kids to do up there.

In other news, I was accepted to the University of Louisville. Now I just have to pick a different major since mine from the University of Utah doesn't exist here. That's a MAJOR setback for me. It doesn't help I'm having a rough time adjusting here. Good thing we've made wonderful friends that keep us occupied on the weekends, but during the week it's really rough as we still are down to one car and I'm stuck at home during the weekdays. Hopefully going back to school will change that. January can't come soon enough.

9 months old!

Ahhh... Finally. Our house is coming together. We had this white loaner fridge for 4 weeks before Whirlpool decided to hurry up and send us our real fridge. We got our fridge put in place and now our kitchen is mostly done! I still need a few decorations that show the kitchen has some red, but other than that, it's all good.

The boys are really becoming way good friends. Jacen loves to plaster kisses on Andrew's forehead whenever he gets the chance. Jacen makes Andrew laugh so hard- especially in the car. It's pretty funny. I cursed about the fact that I had gotten pregnant with Andrew last year, but I can actually see it isn't bad- they keep each other entertained, and that's one less thing mommy needs to do.

Then last week, the moms in my ward had a playdate at Gallrein Farms. You all know I'm not an outdoor person, let alone a farm person. I have set foot in a farm maybe 2-3 times prior to this one in my life? Anyway. I figured it would give me a chance to get out of the house and let Jacen look at something besides the TV screen. I very much enjoyed chit chatting with the moms in our ward. I'm so thankful for their friendship!

Jacen was a little scared of feeding the goat (ram?!), but with a little encouragement in the form of shoving, he finally let go of the carrot right as the goat slurped it up with its tongue. He thought that was so cool.

But what he thought was the coolest were the chickens. He was fascinated by them. He thought chickens ate pieces of grass, so he decided to keep throwing little tiny pieces of grass into the coop, hoping they would come running to eat them... it didn't happen. But Jacen sure had a good time looking at them.

And big boy Andrew! We found a FANTASTIC pediatrician (thanks to a friend in the ward). I thought no one would outdo Dr. Witt, but this new doctor, Dr. Donovan, is absolutely amazing. He held Andrew for most of the appointment- Dr. Witt had never done that with either one of the kids. But anyway. Andrew weighs 20.5lbs and measures 28 inches long. In the last month, his two front bottom incisors broke through, he decided sliding across the floors instead of crawling would be a great form of transportation, and just tonight, he waved "Bye-bye" for the first time! Daddy is really upset about him growing up, but that's life. Andrew is sleeping all night for the most part and that makes me very happy!

In other news, I started a job working as a Unit Secretary, Nurse Assistant, and Monitor Tech at Baptist Hospital East. I'm still in orientation and will be for at least until end of next week.

So far, so good...