Saturday, February 4, 2012

21 Months

I was really good about writing a post every month of Anson's first year and then I fell off the wagon. Well, I'm back and here are some things about Anson's 21st month of life that I don't want to forget!



He loves to play dress up in his hat drawer.  Every morning he comes out of his room in a different hat-- it's too funny.  He plays pretend with utensils and dishes like he's eating a delicious meal.  He likes playing with his blocks and train set, wrestling and jumping on the couch and our bed.  He knows how to navigate an ipad like we've trained him or something.  He gets on his Dad's and goes straight to netflix and starts his favorite show, it's crazy!  And of course in traditional boy fashion, he loves to destroy everything in his path especially when he's grumpy.


He likes snuggling on occasion and when he does, he takes the hair of the person he's snuggling and rubs it on his nose while he sucks on his binky. This is something he's done for quite some time, but I think it's the sweetest thing ever.  He's even gone as far as taking individual hairs out of my brush and rubbing them on his face. A little background on that hair fetish: when I nursed him as a baby, I would rub my hair across his face while he ate and obviously it stuck with him.  The kid likes hair.  He is such a loving little boy.  He loves to give kisses and hugs and it's enough to break our hearts right in half!

Holy cow, does this kid love to dance!  "The dogs days are over" by Florence + the Machine is our all time fave, so much so that Anson knows right when the song is going to get funkier.  Observe:

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He has lots of words and a few phrases, but here are a few faves: Mama, Dad, Papa, Nana (banana), oh no, what's that, truck, car, hi, please, go, baby, night night, more, book, ball and every parent's favorite: mine.  His signs(most have become words): bath, all done, eat, outside, binky and dance.



Anson used to be the greatest eater with a wide variety of fruit and veggies in his diet, but as of the last month he has become picky, picky, picky!  He won't go near things that he used to love.  Enter stage left: Jessica Seinfeld and her cookbook "Deceptively Delicious."  This has been a life changer!  It teaches how to hide fruit and veggies in food by pureeing them and all the recipes truly are delicious, just ask anson!  The best part is that Our guy (and Taylor) is getting the nutrient rich fruit and veggies he needs without even knowing it.

We love our little boy to pieces! He is fiercely independent, super sweet boy with some major attitude and he's all ours!  Not to mention that he's the cutest kid in the world!  He makes our lives so much brighter. Happy 21 months cutie!!

As far as trucker Husbands/Fathers go


I'm fairly certain that mine is number one.  Here he is teaching Anson the ropes.  Cuties.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Christmas in North Dakota 2011

We just moved this month to Minot North Dakota.  Doesn't that sound fun?  Don't you just want to pack up and move here yourself?!  It's FREEZING, but Minot really isn't that bad.  I will say that it's full of a bunch of Scrooges, because we called EVERYWHERE to try and volunteer on Christmas Eve and Day and no one would even let us come sing Carols!  BOO!!

We weren't exactly motivated  to get a tree up after all the unpacking and I felt so lame and sad.  Our friend Spencer saved the day and got a free tree, gold garland, some ornaments, a tree stand and tree skirt for $2.50 at the thrift store!!  Way to save the day Spencer!  He was pretty proud of himself.  He topped it off by making a star out of foil. I think it made us all feel a bit more cheerful.



Our Holiday was pretty basic, but we had a good time and who says it needs to be fancy?  Spencer helped me cook a big Turkey dinner with all the trimmings and it was just delicious!  We played Jenga, built a gingerbread house (Spencer and I did anyway), drank eggnog, watched lots of Christmas movies (mainly Polar Express) and had a big Christmas breakfast. We even hung our stockings up on a broom and set it on stools like I did growing up.  We can't forget that Anson had a colorful sweater vest to wear on both days--what a stud!



We opened one gift up on Christmas Eve and though Anson wasn't sure why he was all of the sudden allowed to rip paper, he wasn't asking questions!

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Anson was spoiled by all of course and Taylor, Spencer and I ended the day content as can be with gifts a plenty.  Thanks to all! We missed our families very much, but all in all, it was a great Christmas!!

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Eat your heart out Cindy Crawford.


'Cause you ain't got nothin on me!

Saturday, December 10, 2011