Baby Love

Ever since he was about 18 months old, Christian loooves babies.  It was sometime before we moved to the student apartments when he would come to me everyday and say “Mom, I want a baby sister.”  Really slowly and seriously.  I would ask him if he wanted a baby brother and he would say “No, baby sisters are best!”  I was really shocked that he didn’t want a baby brother but ever since we moved to our new ward with lots of babies—it really is the girl babies that he has more interest in.  I have no idea why.

So in March I pulled out his “water baby” that I bought him at 18 months that he hadn’t played with forever and suggested that it be his baby brother or sister.  He gave me this look like “duh” and said “Well it has to be a girl” and then he explained the anatomy to me.

He loves his baby and is incredibly attached to it at home especially.  He has gotten both his grandma who sews to make an outfit and the grandma who crochets to make little booties.  We have to dress the baby in clothes every morning and in pajamas every night.  The baby also takes baths with Christian and participates in our family dinners together besides most family activities….we even have to wait for Christian to buckle the baby in the car (he is really mad we don’t have a car seat for it yet).

Christian woke up with a fever last night and he’s been laying on the couch with the baby all morning and he keeps telling me that even though he’s sick he still needs to be a good big brother and take care of his baby. 

I’m really glad Christian likes babies but we’ll see what he thinks of them when we get a real one at our house for keeps.

Letter Crazy!

For Christian’s birthday his aunt Megan who’s a Usborne book consultant gave him this abc sticker book: He absolutely LOVES this book.  Each page has a section for a letter and there are separate sticker sheets with things that start with the various letters.  We used to do a letter or two a day and just put one sticker per letter so that we could talk about the sounds each letter makes numerous times (and make it last longer).  Then at the last page is a page to make the alphabet with letter stickers.  On this page I only let Christian put the letter down if he can remember without prompting what it should be.

 

Thus, Christian is learning his letters pretty well.  Yesterday, while I was working on a project, I suggested that he color or draw.  He didn’t want to but he did want to write letters.

 

When he drew his L backwards he turned it into a design instead.

Doctor Visit

This morning we dropped off Christian to play with his cousin Lilly which he has been looking forward to all week.  I’m so glad that he loves his cousin.  There’s something so special about cousins that it’s hard not to love them (sometimes more than siblings).

My doctor’s office has been moved to across the street (literally) from my sister’s house so it is incredibly convenient to drop Christian off at when I go to see my doctor (thanks Julie for being willing!).

Hear are my doctor’s findings as to why I’ve been so crabby and sick lately!  Thanks Jake for helping me to get this up!

The due date is set for January 7, 2010.  Can you believe it’s almost half-way to 2010?

Ward Dance Party!

This past Saturday our ward hosted a dance.  It had great decorations and delicious cookies and a real D.J..  Sadly it was not very well attended.  I guess this is proof that summer is in full swing…at least as far as college students are concerned!  They even had a little photo booth set up.  If you can tell anything from the pictures…Christian decided since he was the only kid in the nursery that was provided to join us for part of the date!

Zoo Days

For the past three months or so, Christian and I have frequented the zoo a lot.  Our most recent trip was with our cousins from New Jersey which was actually on the 15th of May.  Before then we went every week and sometimes more than that.  Christian keeps telling me things he wants to do someday.  Right now it’s be a zoo keeper.  Here are some of the cutest pictures I have from our visits.

 

  Here is Christian and his friend Jaron from our previous ward.  Sitting on the tiger statue.

I wonder if this counts for Christian when he told me “I want to ride on an elephant someday!”

The gorgeous tiger that they have at the zoo…getting restless.  I really can’t blame him.

I think Christian was a little more motivated to eat his lunch that day and take a nap so that he could at least reach the same height as a gorilla.

Here is Christian riding on the Bald Eagle on the Carrousel.  He has been very interested in these birds since he noticed grandma Jaydene’s bald eagle statue.

I think this is the closest that he should ever attempt to ride a rhino!  

Here are Christian and our cousins; Gabby is hanging on the Rhino’s back, Samantha is holding the ear, and Katherine and her dad Alan, my first cousin, are on the right.

 

 

 

 

Here is Samantha on the train next to Alan and Gabby in the seat up front of him.

   

Here is a picture I took on 5/17/09 the night before they left.

Left to right: Jessica, Alan, Katherine, Gabby and Samantha giving bunny ears.

Christian keeps telling me “I love my new cousins, I love Samantha, I love Gabby, I love Katherine too”  I guess we’ll have to try to make it back east someday and see them again.

New exciting gift!

Yesterday was Jared's birthday celebration at my parents house. I was shocked amazed and excited at the gift that combined gift my parents gave Jared and I to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. It was a newly refurbished camcorder/camera!!!

I am so excited! I was mentioning a while ago how I was wishing we had a camcorder but I really had no idea where to begin looking and price wise it was a little out of range for quite a while (if not years). I am so excited that now I have a way to remember Christian as he grows. I have some sparse video footage from family members since he was born but other than that, I am really forgetting how he looked as a baby. Thanks mom and dad!

My little Chef

Every time I cook I try to let Christian help. I remember being little and wanting to help and my mother would tell me to "watch until I learn" how to cook. It was really frustrating for me and after a while I had absolutely no interest in cooking. Isn't it interesting that we can quench someone's thirst to help just by not letting them? Anyway, so I decided when I made Jared's Birthday cake when Christian was 15 months or so that he was big enough to help stir with some help and supervision. He loved it and ever since then I've tried to let Christian help me with at least a portion of every meal when I'm doing something that does not involve knives or heat. He knows that the oven is too hot and that knives are dangerous so he doesn't even ask when it comes to those tasks. He loves to help out. On Sunday, Jared was saying that "Mommy's a good cook" and Christian looked at him and said "Yeah but I'm the best chef!" Today he was trying to think of culinary masterpieces for breakfast. My favorite idea was "I have a great idea! Lets put chocolate sauce on yogurt! Yogurt is healthy!!!" I vetoed that one and said that he could have the yogurt alone.