Biting My Tongue

I'll admit that aside from being busy with school, Davie, David and life another one of the reasons why I haven't been blogging too much lately is I have felt really negative. Not all the time but a couple of times a week I almost literally find myself wallowing in all of my frustrations, past and present, and something else that I hate to admit- jealousy. I have struggled a TON with jealousy over the last couple of years for countless reasons and in just about every situation and it's really quite embarrassing even to admit! 

A couple of months ago I literally found myself, in the span of 15 minutes, being jealous of a friend who recently graduated from her graduate program (she has no kids) and another who had just found out she was having another baby.... wow, really Kari? To begin with I hope that shows how ridiculous I feel and how silly my jealousy can be at times because having babies and graduate school don't typically go hand in hand. And I was really bothered by both, which just gets me even more upset with myself. Haha and then all the ladies wonder why I don't do pinterest.

 Not to mention the weather here about this time of year makes me so... just... bleh, claustrophobic, lazy, grumpy etc!The picture above was my house on Monday at 8 am... I had to keep the lights on all day. It's dark and cloudy almost everyday and the rare sunny days that are few and far between the sun doesn't even typically come out for the entire day either. That is one thing I have learned about myself, I can handle the cold NO problem but cold without the sun? No way! Lets just say that I am ready for Spring. Days like today and the ones that have been happening make me DESPERATELY wish I was closer to friends and family, living away from friendly faces can be so disheartening at times. So yea... that's how it's been and in attempt to not use my blog as "Negativity-ville" I have avoided it entirely, but like all of us who miss the sun when it comes back life will get better.

Losing My Marbles

Do you ever feel like something in your life is missing? Like the last time you reached for the brush it was mysteriously gone? Well it's not you and you are not losing your marbles. For those of you with small children I think you know what I mean. 

One of Davie's favorite things of mine is a black cricket brush with a red rubber handle. Every other time I go to reach for it it's magically no where to be found, this can be quite frustrating when I am in a rush to get ready. I would like to mention it's one of my favorite brushes too. Then the other day David looked and looked and LOOKED for Davie's little sneakers, he only has one pair that we really like and that I would consider real shoes, but David could not find them. 

Later that night Davie was playing with the diaper genie again and when he opened it up I realized I could see one of his white sneakers inside the bag with his used diapers. The boy is a camera nightmare getting a good picture of him is most likely with my phone camera but it's also not as good of quality because the shutter speed is just NOT fast enough. In a way he is kind of like bigfoot.

This is what I saw...

Can you see the shoe??

Lovely, at least we only put wet diapers in that can. 

David admitted to me that he helped teach Davie to put his dirty diapers in the can a few days ago. Knowledge is power. I had seen him trying to put his shoe in the can a couple of times but he never even got close to actually doing it so I hadn't been worried.

Why do little boys like things like bathrooms and garbages so much!? The boy is like mysteriously and or magnetically attracted to both and it's so gross! I now know that my fear of him putting my brush in the garbage can is completely rational, which is a scary thought.

Not only did we find BOTH of his shoes but a third, scotch tape and a spoon... lunch anyone?

It Pays to Fly

This is a small update. When we flew in December to Idaho for Christmas I lost Davie's bag, or rather the airlines did. I handed the lady at the check in counter both of my bags, she took both of them and put them on the conveyer belt... but apparently she didn't bother to tag the one that had Davie's things in it. This really wouldn't have been THAT sad except for the part where I had ALL of Davie's brand new clothes in that suitcase! UGH! Seriously, I had just spent about $50 at Old Navy on some of the CUTEST stuff ever (I know lots of caps in this paragraph just stick with me), but the tricky part was all of his new clothes were on like SUPER clearance (like $1 for pants etc). Also he had finally started to fit into some of the really cool clothes I had been slowly picking up at our local second hand store. I was also completely convinced that Davie's brand coat, Toledo Rockets hat and gloves, and monster hat were all in his suitcase as well.  

Dino pajamas- gone

cute monster hat- gone

I can barely move my arms!

He is pouty in this picture because he did NOT like wearing his coat :(

The super cute Ralph Lauren puff vest was like $3 or something there was no way I could replace it for that!

So when I got to sit down and write out the report for his luggage I wrote out what his clothes were worth I wrote down the cost of his clothes originally because I knew there was no way I would replace them for what I had paid. When I initially started searching for my bag the lady who worked for SouthWest told me that technically it wasn't their fault that my bag was lost because it wasn't tagged... WHAT!? I laughed but only because I was ready to strangle her, which would have been unfortunate because she was being helpful and was pretty nice. It was just frustrating to be told that the airlines may not have been "technically responsible" when their employee was the reason for my bag not being tagged. 

no more polar bear outfit 

This candy cane stripped outfit was one I was more upset about! It was soooo cute and I figured there was no reason why I couldn't put a girl in it as well because it was so adorable. I liked the hoodie outfits at Old Navy as you can see below and they just happened to ALL be on sale. 

David's mom and I spent the evening picking up clothes for Davie in the likely event that Davie's bag was not found. Initially they said that both of my bags were gone, but VERY thankfully I got mine within the same day and from that moment on I decided to accept the fact that I would never see Davie's bag again. That way if it came it would be a pleasant surprise and if not I wouldn't be anymore disappointed than I already was. When I got my suitcase lo and behold there was Davie's coat! This is the second time that I randomly packed something important in a suitcase that was not left or lost somewhere else. The first time Davie's blessing outfit was packed in David's suitcase, so the outfit had not gotten left behind in Detroit with the rest of Davie's stuff. This is where my spastic packing skills comes in handy ;)

Grandmas sent these fuzzy jammies and he wore them like twice before we packed them for the trip. The Long story short is about a week and a half ago I got a letter in the mail from Southwest that said they had received my claim and were (get this) actually planning on sending me money to reimburse me!!! I got the actual check this week, so even though I was irritated at Southwest they took care of my problem pretty quickly for it being the holiday season and all that jazz.

 I was soooooo happy! So even though we had already basically replaced Davie's entire suitcase it was ok because this meant I was getting paid for the stuff we had to buy... again. And Davie lived clothed happily ever after :)

Davie Turns One

I wish I had written more of Davie's stats down for this one year post. Even though this post is being posted over 6 months late I know his grandparents are still dying to see these pictures because they are adorable :) 

At one Davie has no teeth. Just look at that gummy smile! Because of Davie's excessive spitting up his first year I easily made it to a year nursing him. 

It was one of the only forms of nutrition that I knew he would always take and it was everything he needed. I thought I would feel more inclined to stop after his birthday but I didn't. I was determined to make sure he could get as much food as he could. 

He can walk like a pro, he could have been walking around 9 months but every time we made him try he would fall to his bottom on purpose as a sign of rebellion. 

Look at him go!

The few days leading up to his birthday we pushed super hard to get him to put his 1 little finger up so maybe he would do it the day of his birthday when we got his pictures done. 

And of course he didn't really do it the whole photo session... ok he did it ONCE. But maybe he was going for the "only once" theme for his first birthday. 

You can see the mischief in his eyes in this picture "what? I'm just bending my pointer finger" He did this a million times during the session which of course got us excited every time that he might actually show us his whole pointer. 

Such a stinker. I know he likes to wind me up.

 Davie is still not attached to anyone (well except for Daddy) or anything. This is both good and bad. He got the ring stacker for Christmas and he plays with it pretty good. I love that I had the same toy when I was little.

  He has no favorite blanket or toy, the closest to attachment he gets is focusing on new toys for the first week after he gets them (that's not to say he gets new toys every week). 

He also LOVES to carry around David's reflex hammer and pound on anyone he can.

He is a true Warden and loves him some Diet A&W. 

Wrong side buddy.

I love these one! I was going to pick out my favorites and send them out to family as Valentines day cards, but it didn't happen.

He pondered the hearts for like two seconds...

Then all he wanted to do was drop them on the ground.

Here he is looking up after dropping the heart.

Whoops!

He's leaning over to see if he can reach it.

Davie is actually on our kitchen table in these two but the light from behind turned out so good.

Here is Davie in some of his BYU apparel he got for Christmas. I was so sad because the hat was so CUTE but it was already on the small side. It said 12 months but I think it should have said 6-12.

Baby Pucker

Another one of his ADORABLE all gum smiles.

And of course him being cute but also trying to take off the hat. It took me a good 10 minutes to distract him enough to leave the hat on just so we could take pictures.

The photographer brought this really cute plane with her and Davie was so excited by it.

And last but not least there were a couple of us together. I really wish David could have been in them too but he has had a busy school schedule all year. 

Actually letting me cuddle him a little.

Davie does great with picture poses like these because he loves being put up high.

That is Davie's one year photo shoot!

ONE YEAR!

My baby turned a year old today! And I can't believe it. 

Obviously he loved the birthday hat (sarcasm sign). I couldn't get him to wear it without breaking down like a crazy baby or ripping it off his head, he is so determined! I like the three pictures below because they are in sequential order and he was being adorable. He LOVED eating that cake. He didn't end up going to bed until like 10pm due to talking on the phone with various family members, so I'm sure the extra sugar helped with that.

Davie had a great first birthday! I bought an ice cream cake because David doesn't like cake (mostly the frosting) and I wasn't about to finish off the rest of a cake, the other 5 of 6 cupcakes or even the other 3 of a 4 pack of cupcakes. The only time Davie didn't enjoy his cake was at the very end when his hands started getting too cold, haha then he was like hey! my hands are numb I'm done!

Earlier in the day we went to the dollar store and got a bunch of balloons for him since they are inexpensive and hours of fun for the little guy. 

Haha and I tied them to his stacking rings because he kept losing them to the ceiling.

Davie waiting for the gal at the bakery to write happy birthday on his cake, which she did a GREAT job and fit a lot onto such a small cake! I was so very pleased. I watched my friend's little girl for the evening until about dinner time so Davie had someone to play with on his birthday.  

We only got him two presents since he already has so many toys that he doesn't really play with. A set of old school alphabet blocks and a brand new rubber ducky. His last ducky started to get water trapped in it so I just chucked it, this time I put a little bit of hot glue on the hole at the bottom of the ducky so hopefully this time we won't get a moldy duck. yick!

He obviously had no idea what was going on but I did and it was so crazy to be celebrating his first birthday already. We love him so much and he brings so much joy and happiness to our lives. We love you little Davie Royal Warden the 5th!