tagged....7 weird things about me

So I decided that I would enlist in some help on this blog. I know that the things other people think are weird, would most likely be normal to me. So Jeremy wrote this.


1. I sleep with my legs crossed. I lay on my back, one leg with foot on bed, knee up, and the other leg crossed over, like a guy sits when they are sitting, not sleeping.

2. Having too many windows open on the computer stresses me out. If people leave with windows open, I always have to go find them and ask if I can close their windows before I can do anything.

3. Ever since I was little, my mom has fed me pickles, smothered in cream cheese, wrapped in ham. I can't stress enough how dang tasty these things are. I ate A LOT of them when I was pregnant with Kasen. Don't knock it, til you've tried it!

4. I can't ever just sit with my feet flat on the floor. I either have to be sitting on one leg/foot or have my legs crossed. But I CANNOT have BOTH feet flat on the floor. That's like breaking some sort of leg rule or something.

5. I don't like to be downstairs by myself after everyone has gone to bed. It freaks me out. If Jeremy is going to bed, and I am not tired, I will still go to bed with him because I don't want to be downstairs alone.

6. When I was pregnant with Kasen, I was standing in my bathroom after getting out of the shower and caught a man staring at me through my bathroom window (I lived in apartments). Ever since then I always feel like people are staring at me through the windows. (#5 and #6 might have something to do with each other)

7. I have massive age issues. I annoys me to no other when people tell me "you're young", or "you're still a baby", or when they say "try being my age" This issue might have something to do with being the youngest of 10 kids. I bet you half my brothers and sisters don't realize I am 27, and still think I am 12. GRR!! Just writing about it gets me all riled up.

That's it. 7 weird things about me.

I TAG:

1. Nichole
2. Autumn
3. Crystal
4. Sarah

Like Father, Like Son...

Enough said.

3 year check up!

Kasen had his 3 year check up on Monday with his new doctor. I still can't believe he is 3, by the way.

The nurse asked a bunch of questions to make sure he was doing the things he was supposed to be as a 3 year old. He checked out on all of them. Although she did ask if he crawled and walked on time. Both of which are a NO. Oh well, he walks now. Isn't that whats important!? lol...

The Dr. came in started talking to Kasen immediately. It was really nice. He was great with Kasen. I am so glad we don't have Kaiser anymore. The Dr said that at age 3 only 50% of their speech is understandable and 60% by age 4. I was really surprised by that. Kasen is not 100% understandable by any means, but I do think he is more than 50%. I think MOST 3 year olds are more than 50%. Does anyone DISAGREE?

The Dr also told me to start putting sunscreen on him yer round. He is too fair of skin to go without. Looks like I will be keeping banana boat in business from now on.

His stats were 41 inches and 38lbs. I wasn't surprised by the 41 inches since I knew he was tall enough to go on Space Mtn which is 40in. but I was really surprised by the 38 lbs. I got home and weighed him and he was only 36lbs. So I am going to go with 37lbs. Only 3 more lbs and then he can go in a booster carseat. The law in Cali is 40in and 40lbs. Anyway, he was in the 95% for height and weight. That's my boy. Tall like his mommy!

All of the celebrations...

On Kasen's birthday our playgroup went to Chuck E Cheese just to have something for Kasen to do. I made little cupcakes decorated like Mickey Mouse and the kids loved them!

NEXT:

We celebrated with my mom and dad on Wednesday night (his actual birthday). Kasen waited until 8:30 at night until my dad got home from work to open all his presents. He was so patient and SO willing to wait because he knew my dad wanted to see him open presents. How sweet!

THEN:

We had Kasen's birthday party on Saturday. He had so much fun! He was really cranky though because he was tired, but we managed, all I have to say is...I'm GLAD it's over! :)

A tribute to Kasen

Kasen is such a miracle to me. I still look back on everything Jeremy and I went through to get him here and can't believe he IS here. He is such a blessing. Everyday. The Lord blessed us. I am reminded of that all the time. He makes me laugh, cry from joy, cry from heartache, he makes me so grateful.

Some of the things I love most about him:

1. For those of you who know me, know that I like to scrapbook, therefore I go to the scrapbook store...no matter how often I emphasize the S in scrapbook, Kasen still calls it the "crap it store" Jeremy is quite proud.

2. I give Kasen warning before we are going to leave the park, or before he goes to bed, or before we do something. I hold up my hand or tell him 5 minutes. I then tell him 1 minute to give him fair warning that we really are leaving. Well lately, Kasen has started to bargain with me. He has a LOT of practicing and mastering to do. I give him his 5 minute warning and he things he's being so smart with coming back and saying "no mommy! 1 minute!" We say ok, and all is well. Can't argue with that!

3. Kasen learned a long time ago the colors of the stop light. Red means stop and green means go. I never really taught him yellow. We just talked about red and green. Til one day, I ran a yellow light and Kasen said "yellow light mommy! GO GO GO!!" I started laughing and asked him where he learned that from!? "daddy" of course! How did I not know that? Red=stop, green=go, yellow=go go go!

4. Kasen called Mcdonalds "Old Mcdonalds" because he knows the song Old McDonald, it must be the same right?

5. Until about 3 weeks ago, Kasen called Carl's Jr. "twinkle little star" now he was moved up and calls it "Carls June-ger"

6. A lot of times Kasen sits with me while I put my make up on on the floor in front of the closet door mirror. The other day I was curling my eyelashes. He asked me"mommy, what's that" my response..."its an eyelash curler, it makes mommys eyelashes that are straight, curl" his response? He starts whining saying "owie! It hurts mommy! OW!" "it hurt's YOU when I am the one curling MY eyelashes?" "yeah it hurts mommy! stop!" I still don't get it...lol

7. A week or so ago, Kasen was with my parents while Jeremy and I were out. They were all up in my parents room. Kasen was playing around pressing buttons on the phone. My mom finally heard all the beeps and walked over and asked Kasen what he was doing. "Im texing somebody"

My 3 year old texts? I need to stop texting so much!

8. Kasen likes to announce when he farts. I don't know where he got it from. He just does it. I try to tell him that he DOESN'T need to tell us. Just do it silently and go about your business. Well some how this escalated. He now tells us "mommy! I farted! It came from my bum! I farted in my bum" hmm...

This sweet boy of mine is everything to me. He is my miracle. I love him to death. I don't ever want to imagine my life without him in it. Becasause of him, I am a mother!

I love you Kasen Jered Bruce! You are precious!

Happy 3rd Birthday Kasen!

Kasen has been talking about his birthday for a month now. He knew that mommy's birthday was first, then his. So ever since my birthday ended, he thinks its his birthday everyday. Well today, he is finally right! My sweet boy turned 3 today. At this time 3 years ago I was in labor and had no idea how much of a blessing my little boy was about to be in my life. We will get into mushy stuff later.


Last night I decided to decorate Kasen's room. I put Kasen to bed in my bed and let him watch a movie. He was so happy to fall asleep to Cars. After Jeremy got home from basketball we went up and decorated his room. Streamers EVERYWHERE. Balloons EVERYWHERE. On the floor, in the ceiling. We wanted to make it special since this year he actually understood what was going on. We were sneaky and quiet and after we were done, we moved Kasen from our bed to his own bed. Jeremy has ninja like skills and was able to move him without him waking or opening his eyes.



After Jeremy brought Kasen in, we spread the balloons all over the floor.



He was so happy, he decided to show off a little shoulder. Woo!


When I woke up this morning, I woke up to Kasen singing himself "Happy Birthday to Kasen! Happy Birthday to ME!" It was so cute. I grabbed my camera and ran in there to take pictures of his reaction of his room. This is what I got...

Bruises...

Ever since Kasen was a little baby. Well 9 months at least....he has been pretty clutzy. He takes after his mommy. I think my parents thought that I beat my kid or something until...last weekend they were there to witness his latest crash.

He was twirling around a pole with only one arm, and I told him to stop. I asked him to stop. I was firm with him to stop. He didn't, and about 5 seconds later his hand slipped off the pole, he fell to the ground, and hit forehead first, and then nose. We gave him tylenol as soon as we got home. My parent's (well my dad) said, "well I guess we can't tease you about Kasen's bruises anymore" ...sad.

Here are some pictures of my poor kid. Really. He has done these all on his own! lol....

Notice that a majority of them are all on the same place on his forehead too. I think after hitting that place so many times that its permanently swollen and just sticks out farther so when he falls, it's the first thing to hit. Poor baby.

So I realize some of these pictures aren't the most flattering. But really he just hit his head, eyebrow, nose, mouth, cheek! Would you be wanting to pose and smile?