No diaper

Tonight I was on my own.

Stephen was playing golf while I had the little ones by my lonesome.

It was bath night.

I hate bath time by myself.  Maycee always wants to be in the bath at the same time as Cooper.  Basically she just wants to be in the water as long as I will let her.

Not happening.

After Maycee's bath I laid her on the ground and put lotion on her.  Maycee decided that she was done half way through...so she jumped up, ran away from me, hopped on her bed and began to jump.  After 2 seconds of jumping she stopped and peed.  Of course I hadn't put her diaper on yet.

GGGRRRRRR!!!!!!

I JUST BATHED YOU KID!!...AND NOW I HAVE TO STRIP DOWN YOUR BED!!!!!

And she thought it was all fun and games.

Bedtime was a little later than normal.

Our Redneck Weekend

We went to the farm this last weekend.  We haven't been to the farm since Christmas.  It's been awhile.  BUT.  We had SO much fun!  Mom and Dad always host a great party weekend.

We got up on Saturday morning and enjoyed crapes with strawberries and whipped cream.  Maycee sure enjoyed them.  You can see that all she really ate was the whipped cream.  That girl knows how to have breakfast. ...Hi Karli!...

When Stephen asked what we would be doing on the farm, I told his that we were riding motorcycles and having a hot dog roast.  My mom and dad totally have a fire pit in their yard.

I forget that Stephen still doesn't really understand farm life.  Every time we go I feel like he gets a new introduction.  Rule number one: NEVER wear your good clothes on the farm.  Bad things happen.  Stephen ripped a hole in his only surviving pair of jeans.

Maycee was so cute on the motorcycles.  She spent most of Saturday riding on them.  I also found out that she spent most of the time with Grandpa.  According to my dad Maycee was "in her element".  She rode the motorcycle with Grandpa to fix the water pumps.  She went to help put together a GPS for one of the tractors.  Apparently she is a very good farmer side kick.  Who would'a thunk?!

Stephen also learned what it means to ride motorcycles on the farm in the spring.

Water time.

Stephen and Krystal and Shane rode all over the farm unplugging the nozzles on the pivot sprinklers.  They all came back a muddy, wet mess.  I'm pretty sure Stephen ate it all up.

Here is Stephen's face after unplugging nozzles that only he could reach.  Lucky to be so tall.

Here we are at the hot dog roast!  I think Maycee only ate potato chips.  ...She's spoiled.

Grandma Call snuck over to watch us eat.  It took her a while to let me get a good picture of her.  She finally acquiesced when she realized I wasn't leaving until I got a picture of her smiling.

Krystal started a water fight.  I didn't get any good pictures.  Technically the water fight was only between Stephen and Krystal.  That girl likes to pick fights.

The day was finished off sitting in lawn chairs in the middle of the road while Maycee played in the water in her diaper.  Seriously.  It was SO fun.

Sometimes I miss being in the middle of nowhere.

Then I remember it takes me two minutes to get to church.

AND I can go the the grocery store across the street when I forget something.

Honestly though, I love going to the farm.  The open space and peace and quiet are very inviting.

Sunday, the reason the we came to the farm, was my cousin, Calvin's, homecoming talk.  He come home from his mission in Missouri.  You could tell from his demeanor that he was a great missionary.

It was really good to see all of my extended family and watch people fight over who got to hold Cooper or play with Maycee.

Great weekend.

The Garbage Can

Maycee has an infatuation with the garbage can.

We started using that infatuation to our benefit as she became our little garbage disposal for all diapers.  We didn't realize what a problem we had created until things started coming up missing.

Yesterday morning, I found Maycee's tennis shoes and about 6 of her little Mickey Mouse books in the garbage can. ... The garbage can now has a permanent home on the top of the counter.  It totally looks redneck.  BUT I would so much rather look redneck that loose a nice pair of tennis shoes and some books.

FYI...we have been missing the TV remote and the baby finger nail clippers for about three weeks.  We finally replaced the finger nail clippers.  We have assumed that the TV remote has gone to a better place with all of the other trash.

Oh bother.

So funny...

Stephen does this thing.

It's really hard to tell you about the experience unless you are able to be the butt of it yourself.

Let me give you a dialogue:

S: Do you ever feel like a candle in a hurricane?
K: ...What?
S: Or just like a picture with a broken frame?
K: What are you talking about!?
S: Alone and helpless, like you've lost your fight?

At this point in time I knew what he was doing.

Stephen loves to have a conversation using song lyrics.

Just to see how far he can go before you figure it out.

The dumb part is that I could not even figure out what song he was using.

Apparently Stephen likes Rascal Flatts more than me.  And he says that he doesn't like country.

Swan Falls

We went to Swan Falls today!  We have been planing on going for a few weeks now, but the weather has been so cold that we haven't wanted to brave it.  Today was really no difference, but we decided to go anyway.  Despite the freezing cold.

Here is Stephen and Maycee above the river before we went down and a view from the car.

Wow.

It really was cold when we got there.  The wind was blowing like crazy and the other few people that decided to brave the wind had winter coats on.  We decided to go along with the trend.  After the first few pictures we went to get our coats.

Maycee loved the water.  We decided to go and check out another spot and she thought we were leaving.  She flipped.  She was not going to get in that car and leave her mud and water.  Little did she know that there were much better things on the other side.

This is what Cooper did the entire time.

I figured we needed to document that he was actually present at this family event.

Maycee finally found the spot of her dreams.

She was in hog heaven throwing mud and playing in the gross water.

I remember when I thought that was fun.

Actually, I still think playing in gross water is fun...you should see where I grew up.

Here is the evidence of her partying.

All in all Swan Falls was really fun!  We froze our tails off, but I'm glad we went.  However, I never saw a "falls".  I hate it when they do that!  The name does not indicate the place.

Date Night with Cooper

Stephen and I went on our very first date night since we had Cooper.  Maycee stayed at a friends house while Cooper got to go.

Stephen planned our date night and we went to the Discovery Center of Idaho.  It was really cool!  We were there for an hour and probably only looked at 15% of the things there.  The entire building was full of really cool science projects that you could experience.

There were two disks placed like this one on opposite sides of the room.  When two people sat in the seats in from of them you could have a conversation while whispering.  It was SO cool!

 

Aren't they SO CUTE!!!

After the herd of kids left Stephen and I finally got to play on the chair.  You could lift yourself up in it.  We really didn't pay any attention to the science part of it, but it was sure a lot of fun to play on!

Thank you, Stephen, for planning such a great date night!

What we know about Cooper.

I have read a lot of books about....well anything baby.  I was so paranoid.  I didn't know anything about babies.  Reading books was the closest thing I could get to learning.

In my studies I learned quite a bit.

I learned that normally babies eat about 15-20 minutes on each breast, while breastfeeding.  Maycee was fairly regular in this regard.

Cooper can do in 4-6 minutes what normal babies can do in 15-20.

In the beginning I was really nervous that Cooper wasn't getting enough to eat.  BUT he was gaining weight a lot quicker than Maycee did.  We figure that he is just a fast eater...

Maybe he'll be fast at everything.

Maybe he'll be a track star.

Eat, Cooper!  Eat!

Another fun little fact that we have learned about Cooper will probably be something he will not be super thrilled about when he reads this in 15 years...but it is so stinkin' funny that I have to write it.

In one of my papers I received at Cooper's first doctor's appointment, it talked about baby bowel movements.  I learned that babies have bowel movements as little as once a week or as much as 10+ times per day.  Cooper is a 10+er.  Between Stephen and I we have only changed one diaper that has not had poo.

Cooper is destined for great things.

I can tell.

Cooper is also scared of Maycee.

He knows when she is coming and you can see his blood pressure rise the closer she gets.  He gets more and more fidgety as she comes near.  As she leaves he starts to relax.

Maycee kind of tends to maul her little brother.

She loves him...to death.

Introductions are in order.

I am about to introduce you to a new person.

This is awake Cooper.

Not many people have seen this Cooper, as he mostly has his eyes closed.

I'm sure that we will more frequently see this new side of him.

...Well Hello Cooper!

This is angry Cooper.

This is tummy time Cooper.

...And this is Maycee and Cooper when Maycee sees that there is a baby on the ground within reach AND a photo shoot going on to boot!

With my own kids I can't really tell "which parent" they look like.  One thing I know for sure, though, is that they definitely look like siblings.

White Shirts

Oh my goodness...

We just bought Stephen a new white shirt.

I have never "opened" one of those things until tonight.

It took me 5 minutes to open it.

Seriously.  I'm not kidding.

There are so many pins, plastic, and cardboard encasing this thing that there is no wonder it costs so much.

Whoever made the decision to put those things together like that should be shot.

Sleepy Head

While...

1. Maycee was screaming her head off and running around the house,
2. Mom was vacuuming,
3. AND Maycee was throwing dirt on him...

This is what Cooper was doing.

I'm sure that he is a bear lying in slumber waiting for the right moment to come out of hibernation.