An Up to Date Update

Wow, I am behind. I figure I might as well just cut my loses and start updating current events on here as well as the ones from this summer. So what's going on at the Warden household? Here's some of the most recent things in random order.

About two weeks ago (I can't believe it's already been that long) my mom went home after visiting with us for almost 3 weeks, because airfare was so dirt cheap. It was awesome and we miss her already.I made an executive decision posting this picture because my mom say she didn't like it BUT I think its so super cute. My mom has got her cheeser smile going on and Davie just looks cute and silly.

We now own the Blue's Clues chair from Ikea and it is awesome. I love the red!

Before the election I volunteered for the Romney campaign, I haven't ever done that before so it was really cool to get involved. And like many of you out there election night was super stressful and the results was tough. But we are all moving on. My mom joined me making calls for the Romney campaign.

Davie, Man he is nuts! SOOOOOOO, soooo, soooo, sooooooooOOOOO BUSY! He HATES cuddling, like with a passion. In order to give him some grief, because lets face it he definitely dishes it out to us, we will pick him up and hug him tight while talking in a baby-talk voice. His immediate reaction is to start crying and pull away with all his strength. Then when we let loose he almost falls out of our arms. Haha it's fun to do it at night because you can gauge how tired he is by how quickly it takes him to start pulling away when you try to hug/ cuddle him. It's really funny but also really sad :( as a Mom I can't wait until he decides he loves me enough to let me cuddle with him.

She tried to cuddle him.

 How dare he be so soft, cute and available and NOT want to cuddle!!! Should be illegal. 

Look at him, he's rivited.

However, Davie will sit and watch Blue's Clues for a good 10 minutes at a time sometimes. I know they say not to let your babies watch TV but keep reading this post and you will know why I have to. On a more random note I watched Pocahontas the other day and, WOW reverse racism. I'm not sure I can handle watching it anymore, which is sad because I loved that show as a little girl. Stupid adults and their politically correct agendas.

While my mom was here we all got to head south and visit her family so that was fun.

For Halloween Davie was not Davey Crocket because I could not find an appropriate outfit for him that was the right size, everything was too big. So next year. Instead he was a teddy bear, I was a baby and David was the "sandman". I say "sandman" because all he really agreed to do was dress up in pajamas and a robe, haha. 

I am almost done with my third semester at school and I am in the process of testing out of an additional 6 credits. When I met with my school counselor and she realized I hadn't taken English II yet she was floored. Apparently the classes I have been taking are 300 level classes and so she told me I should just test out, uh yes please! The other class I am working on testing out of is a special education class. My counselor said the experience I had being a substitute aid was great work place application so I am testing out. I never thought I would have been able to take 30 CLEP test credits and then test out of more afterwards. One more way to save time AND the $moooo-lah$$

David has finished his third rotation and he earned a high pass. His next rotation is surgery which has me all nervous and excited for him. Surgery is the rotation he is looking forward to the most so it's a big deal! There are only two rotations that take 10 weeks instead of 5, surgery and internal medicine (David did internal medicine first). Thankfully he gets Thanksgiving off and he also gets two weeks off for Christmas/ winter break. We will be celebrating Christmas in Idaho for the first time since 2009 with ALL of David's siblings and all of my family, we are so EXCITED!

As of May I had lost all of my baby weight (27 pounds) and at the end of August I lost the last 10 pounds I have been struggling to get rid of ever since we moved to Ohio. I was honestly starting to think I would never weigh under 130 again but it is sooooo great! I feel best at 120 pounds, all of my clothes fit and some are even too big! David has also recently lost 16 pounds and we are working on being healthier. Not the best picture, but to be honest there wasn't another one that only I was in all by myself haha Davie dominates both of my cameras these days. Also ignore the mess I was experimenting with outfits and hair stuff for our new family picutres.

This is another Davie update. This kid, I seriously cannot figure out all the time sometimes. For example he isn't cuddly or clingy to me when other people are around, which is great I want him to be super social and he is. BUT when I am at home with him and I leave the room to switch out laundry, set up his lunch, get a burp blanket, go potty (alone!), the kid just loses it. Not all the time but most of the time, he is such a boob! It drives me nuts because he literally wants me to sit with him all day. The only solution I have, and it doesn't always work, is Blue's Clues. I would love to sit with him all day but I have chores and homework too. So I either end up with one eye twitching by the end of the day from all the crying, like yesterday, or nothing gets done and guilt slowly eats away my insides. 

This was yesterday. Just one look at this picture makes me sad. Some of you are thinking, yeesh Kari how long did you leave him alone in there?! Technically no longer than 10 min because I was in the kitchen and I kept checking back in on him to make sure he didn't have an aneurism.

Another thing I can't figure out is EVERY morning when I go into his room to get him and I lay him down to change him he cries. Every. Morning. Some mornings he cries more than others but at least half the time he cries so hard he turns purple. This is not new! He's been doing it since he was tiny and I just don't get it. And I have tried every trick in the book, being super happy, singing, toys, blah, blah, blah. He does it after nap too. Its a work in progress always but man I hate feeling like I am being mean to him when I let him fuss but I kind of lose either way. Crying.... Accomplish nothing... all day those are my choices. I keep thinking it will get better but I have decided he is a bit of a high needs baby from that perspective. Sorry about the venting but I had to say it on the off chance any one of you ladies have had a similar problem or have any ideas for me! No matter what though I love him and he is the cutest little toe head around.

The only other thing I can think of is I joined a group of ladies and we got together to make a quiet book. Wow, that was time consuming thank goodness for my Mom's help! Pictures of it later. That's all folks!