Snow Days and Hair Cuts

Haydn getting ready to go out and play in the snow. We've had snow before, but it wasn't enough to play in. Walking out the door to play in the snow! Haydn had a bit of trouble walking since he was so bundled up...he has on 2 shirts, a pair of pants, 2 pairs of socks, gloves, snow suit, and coat. I would find it difficult to walk with all that on too!
First time touching snow!Haydn fell face first into that big pile of snow, then fell backwards onto his butt, and then on over to hit is head. Lets just say he wasn't fond of the snow after that. Haydn sporting a new shirt from Uncle Eric and Aunt Liz (I must say, he looks mighty fine in it!) and his new hair cut!

I gave Adam and Haydn hair cuts yesterday. Adam's turned out fine...looked like normal. Haydn's was little to be desired. So, I trimmed it up tonight (and he sat still a little better this time) and this is how it turned out. I'm pretty pleased with it. He looks like a different kid to me, and his hair looks so BLONDE!

Graduation

Being the mother to a toddler, I try not to 'push' my child into doing too many things. However, he's showing just about all the signs indicating that I need to start potty training him. This would be fabulous! I LOVE the idea of a potty trained child. I know, he's really young. You do need to take the child into consideration, and like I said before he is ready.

I've read where you need to time potty training and bed transitions together. Why potty train a child when he's in a crib and can't get out to use the restroom? So, Haydn has graduated from a crib to a toddler bed. Last night was the first night he slept in it, and it was a success! He actually went to bed awake and wanted to go to sleep in his bed. We're so thrilled that he made it through the night without falling out of bed. I shouldn't be so surprised, as he has taken naps on the couch and doesn't fall off.

Now, we begin the saga most parents call "Potty Training." Wish us luck!

Beautiful Homes

Ever since Adam and I started dating, we would go and look at the most beautiful homes in the town we were in. The longer we are together, the bigger the homes we go looking for. I love architecture and more specifically the architecture for homes. I'm always amazed at how big some of these 'pieces of stone' can be and how different each one is. Many times than not, no detail is cheapened or forgotten. Adam's job takes him to many of these amazing homes. So, Adam continues to 'spoil' me with driving tours of the most beautiful neighborhoods I have ever laid my eyes on. I am not kidding, THE most beautiful. I would say the top of the price range of the homes we had seen were around the million dollar mark. We drove by a 10,000 + square foot house that is currently for sale (3.35 million if anyone is looking). This house comes with land too! It has a gorgeous view (if you like the natural, landscape view). These homes always start the same conversation..."I wonder what they do for a living" The answers very...but they range from ex-sports professionals, managers for singers and sports professionals, and then there are the lucky few who are children of the said professionals. We doubt that they are the only occupations, but that's what we've come up with.

I realized that this love for architecture started as a child. When many kids are playing things like 'house', 'school', or whatever part of life we play make-believe, my sisters and sometimes brothers would play "architects". Strange...I know, but that's what we'd play. I have vivid memories of sitting in my 'office' (or on my bed) with a little green desk and drawing up my plans for the next mansion my client(s) requested. I even had a little yellow briefcase (I believe it held pretend, plastic makeup and accessories at one time) with a few sharpened pencils, a ruler and a stack of paper. With this in mind... I'm surprised that none of us went to college for architecture or drafting. Hmmm...Mark came the closest with Engineering or did Liz with Humanities?

I may not ever live in one of these amazing houses, but I will get to 'dwell' in a house that is equal to them materially and superior to them spiritually by going to the temple. I look forward to when my family gets to go to the temple for ME. I look forward to getting to spend time in something so special and meaningful. So, living in an enormous home really doesn't measure up to getting to go to the temple. Getting to dwell in the temple is something people of all income levels and occupations can do. Never will I question what an individual's occupation is when they dwell in the temple.

Deadliest Catch

Adam loves to watch the show "Deadliest Catch". I think he secretly would like to go out on one of the ships for a season (ok, maybe just a couple days) and see what it's like in person. Anyhow, I think Adam's love for the show is wearing off on Haydn. (Don't mind the Santa slippers...he will wear those wherever we will let him. Thanks Aunt Sarah!) He even blows his stomach out like the guys on the show (unfortunately for the guys on the show, I don't think they're blowing their stomachs out!).

This picture is just a cute one of Haydn running with his ball (and decked out in his awesome Santa slippers). He is all boy and loves sports already! He knows how to dribble a soccer ball and is starting to learn how to catch. He's been throwing for some time now.

Nightmares

Last night Haydn was acting tired around 7:30, which is about an hour too early for him to go to sleep. I've heard parents say that their child can go to bed anytime and they will wake up at the same time they always do the next morning. This is not so with mine. If he goes to bed an hour early then he wakes up an hour early. It doesn't stop there either! He then needs to take a nap an hour early, eat his meals an hour early and then goes to sleep another hour earlier. It's a mess! He also gets into the grumpiest moods when he does this. So, I tried to keep him up until at least 8pm. I guess I made the evening too fun, because the rest of the evening was a nightmare! We went through many charades of getting Haydn to go to sleep. When we thought we had the battle won, Haydn proved us wrong and jumped up and climbed onto his wooden rocking horse (the same horse he always wants help climbing onto). He started giggling and having the best time! So, I let him stay up as late as he wanted. I didn't think that I'd be going to bed around midnight. The last few moments before he fell asleep, he tried to walk around his room but was too tired to stand up. He started crying because he couldn't. I picked him up and he went to sleep rather quickly. Finally, I had tamed the beast.

The best part of Haydn going to sleep so late was that I got to sleep in. Adam had to get up and go to work at his normal time, but Haydn and I slept until about 10 am! This is perfect because his first nap of the day will be when he usually takes his 2nd nap and the 2nd nap will be when he goes to bed for the night! Hallelujah! At least I won't have to fight him again for a while again. Honestly, Haydn usually is not this hard to get to sleep when we are at home. When we're visiting family...that's a whole different story!

Redecorating and Giggles

Today, Haydn and I cleaned the house. Not the every day kind of clean, but major deep cleaning, the kind where you move furniture to vacuum where you haven't vacuumed in a long time (this is important if you are going to have a hairy dog). We kind of 'redecorated' too! Haydn was pulling on my legs as I was washing some dishes. He so desperately wanted to be a part of what I was doing. So, I put him on the counter so he could watch what I was doing. He thought it was the greatest thing in the world that Mommy was playing with the dishes in a bubble bath in the sink. He also helped out a little by splashing some water. After we cleaned and redecorated, Haydn let me know that he approved of the changes.

This weekend Adam is away, working with his brother-in-law. It stinks that he's away over night and makes parenting a little tough. I won't get the reprieve that I normally do when Adam comes home. After our long day of cleaning and Haydn realized that Daddy wasn't going to be home anytime soon, he decided that he wanted to play with Mommy. This isn't normal for Haydn as he loves to play by himself. If you play with him then he'll play, but it is rare that Haydn will persuade you to play with him. Anyhow, he wanted to play a tickle game. After some time of tickling he realized that he could flip backwards off my lap and onto the floor, with some help of course. So we flipped and tickled. After he was tired of that he climbs behind me and proceeds to pull me so I squish him between myself and the chair. When I thought he was finished, I stopped and tried to play something else. Each time I pulled him out from behind me, he would crawl back and make me squish him again and giggle his sweet little giggle. I guess the day was fulfilling for him, because he brought me a blanket, climbed into my lap and went to sleep. He really is an awesome kid!