One Year

Alot happens in one year....especially if you are a baby.

You go from 7lbs 6 oz

to 22 pounds.

Colicky(but loveable)

to gabby and definitely LOVEABLE.

My favorite word is "this".....I walk around the house saying it ALL the time.

No teeth and the solid GOLD formula

to 10 teeth and eating cheetos (yum, my favorite thanks to Dad)!



Severe torticollis and a helmet

to America's next TOP model.

Sleeping most of the day

to walking, climbing, and getting into everything all day.

HAPPY 1st Birthday Drew!!
October 25, 2008

It was a fun Happy Halloween Birthday Party!

P.S. Thankfully, alot can change for the mommy as well.

Me- October 24, 2007 approx. 10pm

In-labor heading to the hospital....(dilated to a 4 already when get there)
and oops....Jared realizes he never took any pictures of me pregnant! SMILE?!?
(For those of you who said I was a cute pregnant lady...I can now see you were only being kind, but thanks anyway)!!

Me- October 24, 2008

53 lbs LIGHTER(the last 13 were real stubborn, too)!!
FYI - I gained 45 pounds during Drew's pregnancy.
Pretty impressive for someone who was sick for the entire first HALF of her pregnancy. The additional 8 pounds were needed to fit back into MOST (not even all) of my old clothes.
That MATH doesn't make sense to even this ACCOUNTANT!!

When Grandma Comes

It's always fun when Grandma comes, When Grandma comes, hooray!!

My mom came to visit Oct. 8th to the 12th and it was perfect timing!! Isaac LOVED having Grandma here to play with and spoil him. And, it was nice to have some help with the boys and some company since Jared had been working ALL day and HALF of the night (like getting home at 1 am) for weeks in order to make the final tax deadline on October 15th.

We took the boys to the Springs Preserve one afternoon. They had a good time playing in the train and in the sand and water.

Drew....not so sure he likes the sand. What is that on my foot? Why won't it come off???

Interesting.........it is squashy in my hands!!
So, how does it taste???

We also took the boys to the Summerlin Pumpkin Festival on Saturday the 11th. If you can believe it...... it actually snowed and was very cold!! On Wednesday when my mom arrived it was in the 90's and on Saturday the high was in the 50's! That is cold for Vegas!!

We took pictures and picked some pumpkins from their pumpkin patch!

Grandma and the boys

Isaac making his choices...........

How did he do??? Slightly better than last year. He still managed to pick some pretty scared up pumpkins with lots of....hhmmmm...character. And despite my many attempts to pick other less interesting pumpkins; we still ended up with these. But at least they aren't still green (note there were actually no green pumpkins to pick from this year; thus I can only say slightly better than last year).

Isaac playing in the bounce house.

The GIANT pumpkin Grandma bought Isaac this scooter! He loves it! It was really easy for Isaac to talk her into it while we were at the store getting Drew's present for his upcoming birthday. However, that was what I was TRYING to bribe him with while potty training......so now what???
The boys playing outside!!
Grandma also taught Drew how to go down the stairs backwards!! YEAH!! Although he really isn't totally trustworthy so we still have to have the baby gates up...but maybe soon.

And finally on an unrelated note I would like to share my latest amateur photograph. I have titled this work: Death and Taxes

Let me set the scene for you.....It is October 15th and Jared actually got home from work while it was still light (5:15pm). We eat dinner together, get the kids to bed early (7:15 pm) and I am quickly finishing the dishes so we can watch the new movies I just rented.....and here is what I find on the couch SOUND ASLEEP (like DEAD to the world asleep) at 7:30pm. So, I turn off the lights and head upstairs to fold laundry! BUMMER! Maybe tomorrow (the 16th) I will get some company.

P.S. You can also view a similar work entitled: Death, Taxes and Baby here (at the end of the post).

It's official...

It's official.....he is walking!! Drew took his first steps last Thursday (Sept. 18th). He took a couple in the morning while I was sorting laundry. He would walk in between the baskets. Then after dinner he took about 8 steps walking between things. And by bedtime he was walking across our bedroom taking about 20 steps.

I never really got a good snapshot of the steps; but here are the best ones.

(The above picture isn't really that good....but we both that it was interesting because we thought Drew looked a bit like Carter/Colby in it....whereas most of the time Jared is going on and on about how he looks like me or just like my dad. I guess there is some Frost in there somewhere babe!!)
But, here are a couple of videos that turned out pretty good.....

He seems so little walking around! But I guess that is just because there is a big difference between walking at 10 months and 3 weeks versus walking at 19 months (that is when Isaac walked).

Why my 3 1/2 year old still naps!

Lots of people act surprised when I tell them that Isaac still takes afternoon naps; so I thought today's find would help explain why...........

I left Isaac eating some lunch and watching Barney while I quickly went upstairs to feed Drew and put him down for a nap. Upon my return about 10 minutes later this is what I found!!

Growing Up....No. 2

August was also a big month for Drew. On the 25th he turned 10 months old (wow...already)!! We spent the whole month of July trying to entice him to crawl, roll, move somehow....just do anything besides sit and chew on toys all day and then we spent the whole month of August CHASING him ALL around the house as he discovered the joys of being mobile. Here is just a sampling of the many skills he has mastered this past month:

CLIMBING UP & OVER Everything. (the stairs included...we have had a few close calls when the baby gate has been left down).
CRAWLING. He started out alittle shaky the first two days and then suddenly.......

ZOOM...ZOOM....ZOOM! Now he crawls so fast I can barely put him down before he run crawls out of my sight. He especially likes to crawl really fast when chasing Isaac or playing "crawling" with Isaac (as Ike calls it.....Ike gets down and crawls around with baby Drew).

PULLING HIMSELF UP (he could do that for awhile; but since he wasn't mobile; he wouldn't do it very often). Now he pulls himself up on everything he crawls up to....chairs, couch, walls, YOU, etc.And even WALKING behind the walker......

He is getting more daring each day with his cruising and walking with the walker....just today he tried to walk from the ottoman to the couch; so maybe any day we will be posting that he is walking.

Speaking of GROWING; his hair is really getting long. We keep thinking about cutting it since now it often hangs over the top of his ears; but then Jared can't give Drew his favorite hairdo....the soccer rocker! (Besides, we also wonder if it helps hide his head shape).


Also in the past month 3 more teeth popped through....giving him 7 teeth already. Which may explain why he is such a "chewy" kid. His chewiness has added two new nicknames to his repertoire: Chewbacca and Beaver. The "beav" isn't really coming from his relation to uncle Beavis per se but from the pictures below:

HMMM....Hmmmm....hmmmm....what could be causing all those marks on Drew's crib?? Especially all those marks on the rail closest to the door?
Ah HA! Mom caught the culprit in the act one day when she came to get Drew from his morning nap. Over about a week; more and more marks were showing up on his crib. I was pretty sure it was Drew chewing on it and above is a picture of him right after being caught.

So, what did mom and dad do.....lower his crib ALL the way down. Hoping to prevent more crib chewing!!
OH! Looks like it worked.......see Drew can barely even look over the rail by the door! Yeah!

But alas, he just moved over to the other rail.............Nice try Mom and Dad!! Ha, Ha!!
Anyone know the long-term effects of eating varnish??????