Wednesday, August 29, 2012
H2O
In an attempt to stay busy during our stay in St. George and to give everyone a break, we've tried to find daily activities to keep us amused. When you're dealing with temps in the triple digits, our efforts usually involve water..............
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Breaking Routine
The boys and I were getting on each other's nerves this evening so I decided to mix things up a bit. We skipped bath time all together, bagged story time and went for a walk instead. I really should try and do stuff like this more often. Sometimes I think I'm too rigid with our "routine". I just love bedtime so much that I get wrapped up into putting the little gremlins to bed. I kick into auto pilot with a Take No Prisoners kind of attitude. It's Bedtime or Bust before Mama loses her mind.
Reality check: being so rigid makes me miss moments like this...........
Reality check: being so rigid makes me miss moments like this...........
Friday, August 17, 2012
Photo Shoot
Back in early July, when I booked our airline tickets to fly to Utah, I decided to try and book a photo session with the same photographer we used last summer. To my surprise, she had availability so I went for it.
The timing ended up working out perfectly. Our appointment was scheduled after things calmed down a bit so we decided not to cancel. The only draw back was the time of day. In order to beat the heat and hit the Magic Hour for lighting, our session wasn't until 7pm. This is smack dab during our normal bedtime battle but to my surprise, the boys managed to cooperate (for the most part). I owe much of that to the photographer. Chelsy is amazing and a natural with kids. It helps that she is a mom herself and understands the quick changing moods of antsy kiddos.
Back when I booked our session, my only request was that I wanted it to be outdoors again. I left it up to Chelsy on where that would be. To my delight, she chose Red Cliffs Recreation Area. A place very near and dear to my heart. This was the spot where Mark and I camped together for the first time. It was many moons ago when we were dating and I was trying to impress him :). That is a whole other blog post but let's just say that I almost severely injured both of us while showing off and trying to woo him. I think he learned then what he was getting himself into by sticking around with the likes of me. Luckily, the crazy guy chose not to leave me on a cliff and saved me from an early demise.
This is what that camping trip eventually produced over a decade later.
The timing ended up working out perfectly. Our appointment was scheduled after things calmed down a bit so we decided not to cancel. The only draw back was the time of day. In order to beat the heat and hit the Magic Hour for lighting, our session wasn't until 7pm. This is smack dab during our normal bedtime battle but to my surprise, the boys managed to cooperate (for the most part). I owe much of that to the photographer. Chelsy is amazing and a natural with kids. It helps that she is a mom herself and understands the quick changing moods of antsy kiddos.
Back when I booked our session, my only request was that I wanted it to be outdoors again. I left it up to Chelsy on where that would be. To my delight, she chose Red Cliffs Recreation Area. A place very near and dear to my heart. This was the spot where Mark and I camped together for the first time. It was many moons ago when we were dating and I was trying to impress him :). That is a whole other blog post but let's just say that I almost severely injured both of us while showing off and trying to woo him. I think he learned then what he was getting himself into by sticking around with the likes of me. Luckily, the crazy guy chose not to leave me on a cliff and saved me from an early demise.
This is what that camping trip eventually produced over a decade later.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
2!
It's been over a week since our littlest C turned 2! I decided I must take a moment to jot down a few things to remind us what it was like living with Cruz The Two Year Old........
~Cruz loves to dance and anyone who is around him for any time at all learns that pretty quickly. He really only has one signature move which involves slight movement from his waste up and a Night at The Roxbury Head Bob with an occasional head sway. He just recently started to move his feet a bit which can best be described as a white man's shuffle. He also makes the cutest little Dance Face which is an image I hope never escapes from my memory. Some of his favorite songs include; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old McDonald (aka. E, I, E, I, Ooooooooohhhhh) and Move it!
~Cruz is a little parrot. He can pretty much repeat anything you ask him to which can be quite fun. I love his signature spin that he puts on words. We play the "word game" for entertainment and also as a distraction when needed. I love to make him say words like 'Mississippi', 'Hippopotamus' or 'Fibbety Floo'. The words don't even have to make sense. It just never gets old.
~Cruz has a new favorite question; 'What doing Mommy?'. He asks it all.the.time. I do my best to always answer him and include a 'what are you doing?' in return. For whatever reason, his answer always involves one of two people; Poopah (Cooper) or Bumpah (Grandpa). No matter what he happens to be doing it's a 50/50 shot of what his answer will be.
~Cruz knows how to count but only to 2. I realized this a couple of months ago and it donned on me that he was imitating the "threat" count that I do to Coop. Since my threat counting still seems to be working, I rarely make it to 3. Once I realized this, I've tried and tried to get him to count beyond 2. No such luck (yet).
~We've been working on colors with Cruz lately. For some time now, every color is yellow. In fact, I think to him the word "color" is yellow. When he wants to color, he asks to 'yewhoa'.
I could go on and on for days but that would make for a very long blog post. To sum it up, there is so much I hope I never forget about living with Cruz The Two Year Old.
There is one thing that I hope fades away soon. Almost to the day of his 2nd birthday, Cruz has learned to hit and throw (read: chuck) items at people. Time Out doesn't seem to work very well at all and he definitely doesn't understand the concept of consequences yet. It can be trying at times and I hope it doesn't get out of hand. I don't remember the issue of hitting being this bad with Coop at this age. This right here emphasizes the point of my entire post. We want to remember all the cute stuff but when it comes to the not so cute stuff.......ehhhhh, we can just forgot about all that.
It's a good thing the cute stuff outweighs the not so cute stuff.........This kid is pretty damn cute!
~Cruz loves to dance and anyone who is around him for any time at all learns that pretty quickly. He really only has one signature move which involves slight movement from his waste up and a Night at The Roxbury Head Bob with an occasional head sway. He just recently started to move his feet a bit which can best be described as a white man's shuffle. He also makes the cutest little Dance Face which is an image I hope never escapes from my memory. Some of his favorite songs include; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old McDonald (aka. E, I, E, I, Ooooooooohhhhh) and Move it!
~Cruz is a little parrot. He can pretty much repeat anything you ask him to which can be quite fun. I love his signature spin that he puts on words. We play the "word game" for entertainment and also as a distraction when needed. I love to make him say words like 'Mississippi', 'Hippopotamus' or 'Fibbety Floo'. The words don't even have to make sense. It just never gets old.
~Cruz has a new favorite question; 'What doing Mommy?'. He asks it all.the.time. I do my best to always answer him and include a 'what are you doing?' in return. For whatever reason, his answer always involves one of two people; Poopah (Cooper) or Bumpah (Grandpa). No matter what he happens to be doing it's a 50/50 shot of what his answer will be.
~Cruz knows how to count but only to 2. I realized this a couple of months ago and it donned on me that he was imitating the "threat" count that I do to Coop. Since my threat counting still seems to be working, I rarely make it to 3. Once I realized this, I've tried and tried to get him to count beyond 2. No such luck (yet).
~We've been working on colors with Cruz lately. For some time now, every color is yellow. In fact, I think to him the word "color" is yellow. When he wants to color, he asks to 'yewhoa'.
I could go on and on for days but that would make for a very long blog post. To sum it up, there is so much I hope I never forget about living with Cruz The Two Year Old.
There is one thing that I hope fades away soon. Almost to the day of his 2nd birthday, Cruz has learned to hit and throw (read: chuck) items at people. Time Out doesn't seem to work very well at all and he definitely doesn't understand the concept of consequences yet. It can be trying at times and I hope it doesn't get out of hand. I don't remember the issue of hitting being this bad with Coop at this age. This right here emphasizes the point of my entire post. We want to remember all the cute stuff but when it comes to the not so cute stuff.......ehhhhh, we can just forgot about all that.
It's a good thing the cute stuff outweighs the not so cute stuff.........This kid is pretty damn cute!
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Fair (again)
The boys and I hit the Washington County Fair again this year. We saw a lot of the same stuff as last year but found a few new things to try as well. A couple of hours was all we could endure before we started to melt. It was HOT. My car thermometer read 106 when we slithered into the car to head home.
Highlights: baby chicks and Zorbing!!
Highlights: baby chicks and Zorbing!!
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