Dear Chasen:

Tonight I held you extra long before I put you to bed, and stared at you even longer.
You are growing and changing way to fast.
I wish you would slow down, although I love to watch you grow and learn.
You are so enthusiastic and smart.
I just wish you would stay a little baby for a little bit longer!
love, mom

we had a great weekend with my mom.
Went to the ped mall
Cherry Hill Pool
Played in our pool


went out to eat a couple times and grilled some amazing jalapeno poppers at home :) Both Grandmas watched Chasen on Sat. night while Ean and I went out with Brad and Abby!

Chasen is crawling really well now and we got the house baby proofed just in time! It seems like the things he will crawl for are the things he cant have.
We set out all kinds of toys for him to crawl after and he went right for the vacuum cord, my mom's camera, or Ean's shoes.
Last night after work he crawled across the entire living room to get to a bottle of sunscreen, bypassing all kinds of cool toys, and the dog, along the way.

He also also started the "I want my mom to hold me all the time" phase. It isn't as bad as it could be but he definitely will cry when I leave the room or if I sit him down. (not all the time yet just sometimes) I really don't like this phase. I did, however, like it when I got to daycare and he crawled over to me and tried to climb up my leg. Its the fact that I cant put him down once we get home with out him screaming that I dont like.
You can really see his tooth now to, and the one next to it is coming in!

my back is still broken, Im getting a deep tissue massage tomorrow. The chiro says that I over used my back muscles during the 1/2 marathon and that my muscles are really tight and overcompensating so every time he adjusts me my muscles pull me back out of allignment. So I hope the massage works!

Crusin'

He crawled.
I cried.
Kevin chewed up his doggy toy

I picked Chasen up from daycare today and they told me " he really crawled today!"

The Return of the Bunny

I'm pretty sure Chasen thinks the bunny is a person, he talks to it like he does other babies and Kevin. He was a little nicer to the bunny this time, unlike last time when he wrestled him!


He does a lot of talking in this video!



Grandma Lori will be here tomorrow through the weekend!! That means Chasen will get to come see me at work on friday:)

Went to the chiro today and I have swollen discs and while running i over extended my back because i have no abs and caused some part of my spine to be irritated and inflamed, my left leg was 1/2 inch shorter then the right.
He adjusted me and told me to ice tonight and tomorrow, no running till I come back on monday. I can walk and do plank abs and stretch. No palates like I was trying to do. lol
Its really sore right now but I think Im recovering.

He is growing so fast

This post is brought to you by:
the letter T, for teething, and the number 1, for first tooth!!
Chasen has popped his first tooth, you can't see it in pictures yet but you can feel it and see it up close. Poor little guy is in a lot of pain though and has had a rough couple days of crying, drooling and chewing.
He talks to a lot of things now. when he sees a baby at the store he starts talking and he talks to kevin the same way.
also this weekend.....

Chasen got to sit on cousin Garin's tractor


and great grandma got to hold both of her boys (notice thatchasen looks about the same size as his 2 1/2 year old cousin!! they wear the same size diapers)
Yesterday morning before work I stooped at Kmart and bought a snap up pool for chasen and I. I put it together last night and filled it with water but the water was freezing and he only sat in it for about 30sec and that's about all the longer I could stand in it. tonight it stormed so we didnt get to try it out my back has been KILLING ME!!! It all started after the 1/2 marathon (of course) then I tried to do palates to strengthen my abs...excuse me, to actually get some abs, and I hurt something, probably due to me trying to do them with chasen crawling all over me (more on crawling later) then after about 2 days it started to feel better and then this sat. we went boating and tubing with some friends and I went flying off the tube and hurt something really bad, so I'm going to the chiro tomorrow at 5:30, but I could hardly move today and had to ice it at work. OUCH!
So about the crawling, he has the sit to crawling positioning down pat, and can turn himself all around, but once he gets on all fours he goes backwards, which I think is funny because he gets all mad that he can't reach what he was going for.. (i know its mean but so funny) He is eating 2nd stage baby food 3xs a day now so we are drinking a little less formula. I still havent gotten around to making his baby food like i wanted. I might this weekend since its the first and last weekend of the summer that we have free.

Happy Fathers Day!!

Happy Fathers day Dad/papa max, we didnt get to talk to you yet today, hopefully tomorrow!!

Ean had a pretty good fathers day, we hung out in north english grilled a lot and then came home to weather out the nasty weather, which has me scared to death, I like storms actually but with chasen its kinda scary!


look at those fat legs!!

doing what dads do


trying to catch some bubbles




chasen made the hat and sign at daycare and I got ean tickets to a hawkeye game so he can take his son (and me) to his first game!

To Grandma's House We Go...err Wen't

So while we were in the sandhills running, floating and getting stuck in the mud, Chasen was at Grandma Bud's house with uncle Jackson. And Uncle Jackson, aka: uncle bubba, aka: "the godfather," taught my son how to scream, or at least he encouraged it. Now Chasen Screams when he is happy, mad, frustrated, hungry, full, tired, awake... I picked him up from daycare yesterday and the girl goes "i think Chasen is tired" as he lays in his crib and screams at himself. Its not a long scream just a short high pitched one, and then he waits for you to echo it like my brother did. here is a video for your viewing pleasure, cause I'm sure you want to hear my kid scream! this was also his 1st time using the sippy cup!



Last night we went out for our 3 year anniversary
and we took Chasen with us, he was really good too! We went to Graze at the ped mall and let Chasen play at the park for a while,


he loved watching all the big kids



and tried to pull himself up on the ladders.


We also went to Capanna for Gelato, I think its the only place in Iowa that has gelato, It's AMAZING and they have the coolest flavors, like wild berry/jalapeno, we taste tested that one and it was spicy, kinda good but I wouldn't want a whole scoop of it. Apparently they have beer flavored gelato, but didn't have any last night. Bummer!

So we follow the anniversary gift thing, and for year 3 it's leather. We mostly follow it because it forces you to be cleaver and its kind of a competition, instead of us just getting each other the "same ol' same ol'" I won this year because I got him leather sandals that have a bottle opener on the bottom. He had no idea what to get me so he got me a gag gift and it was a red leather purse that I will let my daughter (if i have one) use as a toy someday lol. He won the first year though, it was paper and he got me a HUGE poster sized, framed, picture of the bridge where he proposed! and last year we tied because we got each other the same thing!