Happy Birthday Car Car!

So it is your birthday and you are finally three. You do a great job at holding up three fingers. It took a lot of practice. Today was an eventful day. You went to breakfast with Nana and got the robot dinosaur you have been asking for. However, it was not the correct color and you were sure to tell Nana so. Then you went with Daddy to the Utah basketball game wearing ALL your Utah apparel. Except for the new sweatshirt he bought for you. Next, Grandma and Grandpa watched Max while we went to Fat Cats with Sara and Will. After eating pizza and playing bowling (skeet ball is your kind of bowling which is great because it is only 25 cents) we went and got ice cream.

You are so funny at times, often very sweet when you tell me you love me out of nowhere, and can be a GRUMPY three year old at times. We have grown so much the past year and I am happy to say many wonderful things about you!

Every morning when you wake up, you say "Is is wake-up time?" You love to cuddle with mommy and sometimes I sneak into your bed when Max gets up VERY early in the morning. If I go into your bed, you usually fall back to sleep and Max does too!

You sometimes hesitate to go to school but always tell me how much you love school when I pick you up. You can say the whole Pledge of Allegiance and can count to twenty. You know your vowels, most of your letter names, and a lot of the letter sounds. I visited your class last week and you are a VERY good listener (for your teachers) I was very impressed. My favorite thing you do lately is tell me words that "start the same". Usually they are rhyming words.

Dora is getting old and you would rather cut with scissors or write. You do like to watch one show before nap time and always try not to go potty before getting in your bed. Your first missed nap was this week and it is not something we will do again anytime soon.

Every time Daddy comes home from work you ask if I am going to the grocery store. You like to "run errands" with me.

You have been the most amazing eater your whole life. You are always up for trying new foods and your favorite food is SUSHI. Yep. It gets expensive when we take you with us! At your three year appointment, you were in the 100%tile for height and 75%tile for weight. You wear a size 5T in most clothes and a 10.5 in shoes.

You can be so sweet to Maxwell but you can also tease him to tears. He loves to chase you around the house and you can make him giggle like nobody else. He cries every time you get out of the car to go to school and seems lost while you are there. He squeals with excitement and kicks his legs when we pick you up!

You are patiently waiting for all the snow to melt so you can play outside more and I am looking forward to it even more. I am excited to see you become even more athletic and try new things this summer.

I love my brown eyed, skinny bean, funny little guy. Happy third birthday. I watched you sleep for a few minutes tonight and want you know you are one of my best friends and I cherish EVERY minute spent with you. I hope you had a happy birthday and have MANY more to come!

Much love,
Mommy

Spring Fever

I looked at the boys after getting them dressed this morning and realized I am really trying to rush springtime. Who isn't? I am done with ear infections and booger noses. I must admit, I do feel a kiss of spring in the sunshine every day. It will be welcomed. I am sooooooo excited for swimming pools, open back doors in the evening, morning walks, park days, getting in the car without taking 10 minutes to get socks, shoes, coats, and hats. Not to mention getting the carseat around all that.

BriNG it On! I want SUNSHINE!

Surprise, Surprise.

So I thought I was the one with the great surprise for Valentimes day. My honey surprised me last night. I went to get in bed and found a new laptop with a message typed on the screen. He is so romantic and so good at always waiting to the last minute to bust out the surprise. For those of you that have seen my old laptop, I must say I am VERY excited to have a new one with all the keys. This does not mean my posts will be any better than what they are now but it does mean it will take a lot less time.

Thanks HONEY! What a fun Valentimes day. You are my favorite. I LOVE YOU!!!!

I love my little guys too but yesterday was a bust with the kids. Carden was not himself and I finally realized why. After giving up on delivering all our valentimes and seeing Dr. Witt (ONCE AGIAN!) both kids have ear infections. That explains Carden's behavior and now I do not seem to be as frustrated with him anymore. I guess I am more compassionate when I know why he acts the way he acts. Much love to my little ones and even more to my wonderful hubby.

Happy ValentiMes Day!

My Dad has always called this day of love Valentime’s Day. It has caught on with our family and so it will stay.

For those of you receiving valentines from Carden, get ready because he is feeling very generous this year. While driving the other day he told me the following, “Mommy, I need to get some valentine CREDIT cards for all my friends. Then I have to run really fast.” He kills me.

We are so happy to have soooo many people to love and who love us. We are very blessed and happy to share this day with all of those we love and adore. Here is Carden’s big list. Sorry for those that did not make the list and congrats to those who did (including the dogs) and some people even made it twice!

Amber
Baby Parker
Libby (Demmings’ Dog)
Justin
Nicole
Owen
Parker
Amber
Nicole
Jonah and Jacob
Marcus and Austin
Montana (Rogers’ dog)
Will
Just everybody mommy!

Finally, a HUGE thank you to everybody involved in Alan’s Valentimes gift. I actually surprised him! He is very giddy and I am happy he had no idea it was coming. Thanks again to Jeff Metcalf, Alan’s parents, his sisters, his brother, Mike and Sara Rogers. NO THANKS GOES OUT TO THE WEATHER THAT REALLY PUT A GLINCH IN THE PLANS!

SO MUCH LOVE

Carden's Birthday wishlist, so far.

A new robot, dinosaur
A really really big surprise
A new toy train with a track
A new Utah sweatshirt
A frog toy that sweaks
A grape magnet
Red Utah Shoes
Light up shoes (I swore I would never let my kids wear these, Oh well)
A new Spiderman toy (He has no idea who Spiderman is)
A Spiderman lunch box (When I asked him what he would do with it he said "Take it wherever I go." He also looked at me like that was the dumbest question I have ever asked.)
A head lamp

Apparantly he would like most of these things "New", not used.

I LOVE YOU CARDEN!