A baby no more

I guess Hayden is really a toddler, since he is now in a toddler bed! His crib came with a toddler bar, so a few months ago we took the front off of the crib and put on the toddler bar. I was wanting to wait a little longer, but I have to wake him up most mornings, and lift his 25ish pound self up, and bending over the crib rail was killing my back. I figured there was no sense in continuing to hurt myself when he is perfectly capable of getting out of bed himself :)


He crawled right up in it with no problem.

And right back down to show me his pillow. I had never given him a pillow before so he was pretty excited about it.

I think he likes it!!

Then he decided his monkey would probably like it too.

And then exactly what I was afraid of he began his acrobatics and giving mommy a heart attack.

of course, he just thought it was hilarious.
All in all, I think he was pretty excited!

This is how I found him the next morning. I just know he is going to roll out sooner or later!

I thought pulling out a new blanket would be appropriate for his new bed, and since cold weather would be coming. So I gave him this teddy bear angel blanket, and he loves it. Tim and I bought a baby blanket in Mexico every year we went since we were dating. This is the one we bought on the 2004 Christmas trip when we were engaged.

Hayden loves to grab books or a toy and climb up in his bed.

We have had very little problem with him getting out of bed, thank goodness because I was prepared to be getting on to him most the night every night for getting out, but he does so good!

At first he just sat up and would call me till I came and got him, now he will play till I come, or I will crack his door and he will come out and get me. I know that eventually I will have a struggle getting him to stay in bed, but for now it is going great, and he hasn't fallen out yet!! My baby boy is just getting so big!! :)

Where a "Kid" can be a kid

Since the day (okay, maybe the week) I told my father I was pregnant he couldn't wait to have Hayden's First birthday at Chuck E Cheese. This is the man who would take most of our tokens when I was a child and park it at a skeet ball machine for most of the time. However, to his great diassapointment I didn't think Hayden was quite ready at one for all that excitement. This spring my father starts sending Hayden subliminal messages, by telling him we are having his 2nd bday party at Chuck E Cheese, again to my dad's great dissapointment, I told him it isn't going to happen, but maybe for his 3rd birthday. So my dad decided to forget the birthday and we will just go anyway! So a few weeks ago we headed to Chuch E Cheese, Where A Kid Can Be A Kid. Of course we had to eat and get up some energy.

And, of course, the first thing Hayden headed for was BALLS!

There were so many things to do and he loved all the lights and sounds.

He spent a lot of time doing this. Staring up the chutes in the skee ball machine, where is paw paw was playing, looking for the balls....just waiting for them to come out.

So that he could do this...... That is right, straight for the mouth! uugggg!!

He was really excited when we got tickets and wanted to take them out of the machine.

He was so mad when daddy was playing with the balls and wouldn't let him haved them.

Then he found this ball, so Tim held him up on the machine and let him shoot at it, and he actually made it several times!!!! I think we may have a future star on our hands!! :) I was honestly shocked. I mean just look at that form.

And that arch

Swoosh!

Then there was this FUN and easy game. Not sure when Chuch E Cheese became more like a casino? ha ha, but I guess a lot of there games are like gambling, especially now with all the electronic stuff. My brother and I were like, where is the Bozo bucket toss, where you throw the ping pong balls in the buckets, ha! Anyway, Pull the big lever.

Then you push the big red button to see how many tickets you get. Daniel actually hit the 100 on this one. I got 60 0n the stacker game and Tim was so mad cause he tried to do that so many times he he! But he got that many or more on another game.

He had to have everyone help him push the button.

When it lands on something it makes a really loud noise and lights all crazy and Hayden just loved it!! He would get so excited!

Wasn't to crazy about the riding toys.

Then paw paw took him down to the stage to watch the anamitronic chuck e, and dog and bird and the purple thing? and the pizza guy, he wasn't too sure about them.

but he warmed up quick and was dancing to their music and waving and saying HI!

Somewhere around close to 500 tokens later it was time to claim Hayden's prizes. It isn't too bad when you got five adults getting tickets for you! So a little over 1700 tickets later we ended up with, of course, a ball!! A chuck e doll, stickers, frisbee, and metal lunch box

Little Man was completely tuckered out and slept most the way home. A FUN time was had by all!! :)

Woo Pig Sooie

I am back for the moment..... Tim kicked the laptop off the couch so it is out of commision at the moment, but wonderful bro. Kevin should be able to revive it soon. :)

In the meantime, It's game day......So Get Your Game Face On!!!!!
Hayden is ready to call some HOGS!

I recently attended a baby shower for my very best child hood friend. We don't see each other much, so I was really excited to attend her baby shower, for TWINS!!!!

My good friend Robin will appreciate this if no one else does:) These tiny plastic babies were frozed in the ice cubes and the first baby to be "born" won the game. I had never seen this before and thought it was so funny.

It was a Noah theme and the cake was so cute.

Here is the two burp cloths I made with initial J and L for Jasper and Liam, and their names on the coordinating wipe case.

I added them to the diaper cake I made for her. I thought it turned out so cute. If you look really close you can see that I stamped their names on the diapers across the top.

And their diaper bag tag. Can't wait to met these two.

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