GiRl !!

Today we found out we were having a girl, in the pictures Brett nor I were fully convinced but I had never really seen any pics of the girls so I came hope and put the two side by side and sure enough they are different. I am really excited and trying to control my urge to plan and start doing things, at least for a lil while we still have 21 weeks but its so hard. I already know her name which is .. Sadáe (not sure on the middle). I want her room to be light and bright pinks with light yellow. Brett is going crazy already because my wheels are just a spinning on all the things I want, but this is easier cause I can focus on a handful of things where with Degan I needed and wanted EVERYTHING!

2010

I dont know why , but my blogging has really been lacking the end of 2009. So my new years resolution is to blog better and more frequently in 2010. So we had a wonderful Christmas , New Years and Degan turned 1. Wow.. I really dont understand how once you become a parent the time just goes so fast. We really haven't been to busy just chillin and enjoying each others company. Most of you should know this but we are going to have a baby this year. #2's due date is July 4th, but im hoping the end of June, but the 4th would be a cool birthday you would always have fireworks and a parade how much better can it get? We should find out this month what we are having and to be completely honest I kind of want to let it be a surprise even though I HATE Surprises.. but Brett wont let me , he says that is silly and we have to find out. Here are some pictures from October to January...

Slacker

I have been slacking big time on my blogging responsibilities.. I have not even been that busy I'm always on the computer I just haven't uploaded and posted. So here we go lets play catch up..
We did the pumpkin patch around the first on October and that was way fun.. Degan wasn't sure what to think about it he didn't like to touch them. I really enjoyed it and we decided to make it a tradition so that's a fun thing.

Degan has learned to walk, he is still Frankenstein but its okay.. and everyday he gets better and better, Its so fun watching him learn and do it all on his own, I just don't want him to start running away from us that will not be fun. He had been standing up walking on furniture since he was about 7 or 8 mths so I thought he would of started walking sooner but that's just fine with us he is busy as it is. He just plays all day with his "titty" that's how he says kitty its so cute, they are just the best of friends, she is way nice to him I'm surprised.

Along with his walking he LOVES to push his fire truck around and stand on it to reach things, and he climbs on the stove I have never heard of this before, but Im so glad we have a lock on ours its so nice.

This past weekend we went to the Heritage Livestock festival, aka the sheep parade, I knew Degan would love to watch the parade and see all the sheep, he was so intrigued the whole time you could hardly get his attention. My mom came up so hang out and we had a lot of fun, watched the parade, then played some games, then went to the tractor pulls and walked around and then went to watch the sheep dogs.



Degan was kind of weird at the rest of it, he LOVES steering wheels and so we thought he would love to sit on some tractors but we were so wrong he cried and I have never seen him be so shy.
Yesterday was the first snow fall luckily we were in STG so I thought we missed it but boy was I wrong, we woke up to about 3 inches and so we went out to play in it but without the proper clothes we couldn't stay out too long.

Bedtime Habits

My sweet little boy has NEVER been a good sleeper, but I am told neither was I so its just payback. Well.. yes im guilty he has always slept with us, I nursed him so it was so easy and I HATE getting woken up at night so life was good baby slept and so did I. Well now that he is 9 mths old and tosses and turns in the bed Brett and I decided it was past time to get him in his own crib, that I made such a fuss about getting. I had him a on great schedule before Brett got home from his last detail on the New Harmony Fire, and then I went to Salt Lake with the fam and he WILL not sleep alone anymore. So after LOTS of sleepless nights and crying for HOURS ( no joke he cried for 4 hours one night) and time spent in the crib with him showing him it was ok and safe we had no such luck. We were both just so exhausted and fed up, weren't quite sure what to do, but we knew we had to be strong and ONE day it would pay off. Well for now we have decided he hates his crib, he is sleeping in his pack n play in our room but not our bed, two nights ago he cried for 40 min, the next night we stayed in StG a lil nervous if we would make progress but we did. Only screaming for 15 min and tonight he only cried for 5.. WOO WOO! now if we can just get him in his own room this story would be complete.
This picture was suppose to be of Brett and Degan in his crib but when I ran to get the camera Brett jumped out so this is just Degan with a huge smile and tears, because he wasn't alone. Man I love this kid, can you see why we had a hard time saying NO!