New Looks, First Hair Cuts

On Christmas's afternoon, we decided to give Evan a hair cut. I'd never done it before and this is a photo collection of the process. By the way, he complained the whole time about how much it hurt.


For his stocking I got some fake bling teeth (called rap grillz) at the dollar store. We made good use of them when we were almost done with the hair cut.




The finished product being shown off at the New Year's Eve dance party we attended. I love it when Evan has his hair buzzed. I think it makes him look older and oh so handsome. It was a fun process that is for sure. I definitely hope Kyle has as thick and as curly hair as his gorgeous daddy.

Christmas Day Pictures

We are so blessed to have such a good family in town. Christmas Eve while Evan worked I hung out with the in-laws and Kyle. Then we all spent the night so that in the morning we could be there to open presents and stockings as soon as Zoie, my thirteen year-old sister-in-law woke up.

As you can see here, it was too early for even Kyle. But he looks cute in his little Christmas outfit my mom got him.


This is his Daddy wearing Kyle's first Christmas bib--I don't usually have Kyle wear his bibs because his double chin and very short neck make them look weird....



On Christmas afternoon, I cut Evan's hair. We were going to buzz it to a one, but there was no one attachment, so we just took it all off. I think he looks so handsome when it is cut really short. But this is us singing to Kyle from his pop-up Elmo Songbook. He loves it. Any time that he is sad or upset, we sing or just play the music and he calms right down. His favorite is the ABC song.



Kyle is sleeping with his puppy that my mom sent for Christmas...



Evan has been training Kyle to like being held over the head and to be thrown practically since the day he was born. Evan says that he can't help it, it's daddy instinct. Well, Kyle now laughs when we do it. The first time I did it though, I got a mouth full of baby spit up. That has never happened to Evan, but of course it happened to me about two weeks ago. Here is some video of the happy baby...




We had such a happy Christmas...I have some other pictures of being with friends and family....

Holiday Times

Because we broke our Mac (kind of), a lot of my pictures that I have been wanting to post are being held hostage. I tried to unhostagize--note...I like to make up words--them today, but there are so many that it will take awhile of loading and unloading the jump drive to transfer them all to this computer. Meanwhile, I have some pictures of our holiday festivities.

This is the finished product of Ekitzel and I spending ten hours baking. We made sugar cookies, toffee, winter bark (chocolate and peanuts) and chocolate peppermint cookies dipped in white chocolate. Those final cookies, Ekitzel really made, and although they were time consuming they rocked my world. Alyse baked with us and made peanut butter cookies with the Hershey's kisses on top.


Alyse and I went down to Provo to drop off some goodies. Here we are with Kristen and her little boy Luke. If you're confused...I'm holding Luke and Kristen has Kyle.


This is Evan sitting in our living room after we put all our Christmas lights up. Alyse gave us a little tree and I hung Kyle's toys on it to make up for the fact that I don't really have ornaments here in Utah. Evan hung lights around our windows and I put lights over the bookcase and around Kyle's swing. We like it so much, we are keeping them up until probably February when we move.


We had a chance to go see Chris and Teresa in Provo before they left. I wanted to get a picture of their daughter Halle with Kyle. But as soon as she saw the camera she came right over and started with all sorts of excited noises. Kyle's on the floor in the background. Halle is just so cute, I couldn't help but post this picture. I especially love her whale spout hair-do.



For Christmas Kyle got this overhead gym thing--we didn't wrap it or do any of that, and I used it before Christmas. It was one of my good finds at my new favorite store Kid to Kid. It only cost me $7 and the ears on the butterfly even squeak. He is not the biggest fan yet. But he does love that mirror (or any mirror) which is next to him. He is also wrapped up in the cutest little starfish blanket that Alyse made for us.



There are other pictures of Kyle with Santa, the family, friends with Kyle, baby legs, Kid to Kid finds, the cute outfits we got him for Christmas time, and shaving Evan's hair on Christmas day.
Hopefully when we get into non-Holiday months like August and September I'll finally be able to catch up on blogging with all the pictures I want. :) One can hope.

The Days

The days here have been filled with cough decongestant, antibiotics, aspirin, Tylenol, Excedrin, cough suppressant, and cough syrup. Evan has been sick since the day after Thanksgiving. It's been pretty miserable for all of us. He's still been working both jobs and in his little time off we've done all the normal holiday things--he's a very good husband and father. But with the sickness (Kyle and I've had a few bad days ourselves--today being one of them) and getting Christmas decoration up, cards sent, gifts bought and wrapped, goodies made, and guests hosted, it has left little time to post all of the pictures and stories I've collected. Many pardons.

Then the other day, we had an accident. The computer was bumped off the edge of the coffee table. It has taken several spills without incident. However, this one broke something related to the screen being attached to the computer. I know, I'm real technical. The warranty ran out the 5th of December this year. That's the way it always goes, right? So we will take it to see how much it costs to fix, but it hasn't happened yet in all the Christmas festivities. Luckily, we have my laptop, but the pictures are mostly on the other computer. So I have very few to post, until we get them off the broken Mac.

I would like to share with you the video of Kyle's first really "playing" incident. Notice that at the end, he sees the camera and stops interacting. He just stares at the camera when he knows it's there. Hence, it has been rather difficult to get a good picture of him smiling. At least, I don't have to worry about getting pictures with him looking at the camera. This video has been to China and around. It has caused many smiles and giggles. I could watch it over and over. Please enjoy. Along with our best wishes for the holidays--where ever our friends and family may be.

Date Night

Shortly before Thanksgiving, Mammy (Evan's mom has asked to be referred to by this horrible name--as if we live in the South and sip mint juleps on our veranda every evening in our rockers looking over the fields), asked if we would like a date night. She hadn't watched Kyle since the 1st of November. We agreed.

We had no plans made. But the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we dropped Kyle off and went in search of our friends. We headed to William's and Sonoma at Trolley Square to see if Bri was working. She wasn't, but we did park next to our twin car--we took a picture.


After we wandered around the mall--everything was either under construction or very expensive--we dropped by and saw Bri and John briefly. Then through sheer luck, we were blessed to see Amy's beautiful apartment and new couch and watch Iron Man with her and Elliott. It was a late night, but very pleasant.

When we went to pick up Kyle, he was sound asleep on the floor of Grandfather and Mammy's room, but we heard that the dog had eaten half of one of his burp clothes. Milo, the dog, is very big into the taste of spit up and I've caught her multiple times licking at a used burp cloth or Kyle's clothing. Although, I was suprised that she actually ate this much cloth...



Don't worry Dad found the piece later after it passed through her system--so we know she's okay ; ) He generously offered it back to us--but I was satisfied without it. We have plenty of others.

Sick Dreams

Evan is notorious for being able to comfort me, hold a discussion, or change Kyle's diapers all while asleep. Going along with that is when he talks in his sleep about his dreams. One time after Evan and I had watched the movie, "The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters" about middle-aged men trying to obtain the world record for the old arcade Donkey Kong game, (everyone should see it---so funny) Evan told me he needed to reboot and proceeded to make bee,boo,beep sounds as he rebooted. Priceless two o'clock in the morning interaction.

Evan has been sick now for seventeen days and we have seen the doctor twice with no success. It actually seems to be getting worse. But, back to the point, he is on a lot of medicine, which makes his dreams even more strange and silly.

Last night as I was falling asleep, Evan began to freak out next to me. He started to say, "It's slipping...I can't hold on...Someone help me...they're only a millimeter in size..." I thought maybe he was dreaming about dropping Kyle (which has happened), and I kept asking, "who?"

When he finally answered, it was priceless. Evan finally said, "little baby jazz musicians." I rolled around laughing for several minutes. Then I hear Evan say, "I just heard myself say that." He started to explain and then stopped and said, "No, that doesn't work either." I made sure he was awake and then we both drifted off to sleep with smiles on our faces---little baby jazz musicians. Priceless.

P.S. I could make a Mastercard commercial that involved buying a bed and sheets and such, the husband in the commercial could being having a dream and say little baby jazz musicians. The tag line would be, "Sweet Dreams: Priceless." This is probably ridiculous to everyone else, but very funny to me.

3 Months

My baby is three months today (and for a shout out to Nolan, he's been on his mission for a year). That is right--3 whole months of everyday goodness. He can coo, makes all sorts of noises, smiles, grasps, stand with little support, balance on his tummy by lifting his whole upper and lower body simultaneously, and as of this morning.....(wait for it) rolls over.

I went to put him back down after his 5 o'clock feeding this morning. Lifted my hands off his side and he flipped to his back. As quick as could be. Evan got up and we turned on the lights and tried to get him to re-create the miracle. Alas, no such luck yet.

I have comparison pictures, but iPhoto is being a butt. I have no real good pictures of his smiling because it is so hard to capture, but I do have one of his lower lip pout (iPhoto is holding it hostage--here's a pretty good one). I will try to get video of the roll over once he is being more consistant.

Pretty good picture, if it wasn't blurry. The iPhone sometimes comes in handy...



Look at that lower lip action....



I'm a proud momma....