The Boy and The Girl

are as different as night and day. I mean seriously, you hear people say it all the time and you (at least I do/did) think 'really? I mean it's is a baby/toddler/kid how different can they be???
OH. MY. WORD.
Where should I start? He eats more, he's louder, he makes bigger messes, he throws more, he gets dirtier... I'm sure there are more things I could list but he's only 14 months old!
The Boy is not a night owl like his sister, for that we are grateful; thankfully he is also not an extremely early bird. he generally will wake between 8-9:30am and he wakes up HAPPY!!!! He wakes up and plays w/ the stuff in his crib and talks and makes noises for quite a while, he hardly ever wakes up crying. The Girl on the other hand she used to wake up crying every. single. day. Now she wakes up and and whines and boo hoos and asks Where's Daddy? if he isn't home then there are tears, but if he is then at least there aren't any tears (yet).
He is ALL BOY! He LOVES balls and cars and trucks. He can already climb up onto the trampoline by himself (that was learned on accident). He LOVES the trampoline (so does his sister though...) At 14 months The Girl was totally into Sesame Street (and probably some other shows that I seemed to have blocked from my memory) but this kid couldn't care less about what shows up on the screen. He'll clap and smile for the theme song of Little Einsteins but that's about it. He will watch "the God" movie more than any other video but even that doesn't hold his interest anymore. Have I mentioned the climbing??? He is a stinking MONKEY!
He's super fun and has a great laugh and he's even signing... a little later than The Girl did, but in his defense we weren't really pushing/teaching it like we did with her.
He wants so badly to be a big kid and gets super upset when he can't do something that the others are doing.

So bottom line is that these guys are keeping me on my toes!!!

I scrapped....

and now I have the bug to do more scrapping... with pictures! This is the few pages I did for a new Circle Journal that I am in.

First of all, I haven't scrapped in way over a year AND I haven't bought anything new in that long either. I'm super "rusty" and most of my inks/markers/pens have dried up. :(

I have no idea why the pictures are sideways.... especially since I didn't take them that way and they do not show up that way on my computer other than when I look at the blog page. WEIRD!!!

1st Haircut!

Ok, so a before pic would be good, but you can see the "before" in his bday pics. :)
I was dreading this momentous occasion for a couple of reasons, 1) the 1st haircut seems to take away the look 'baby-ness' and I just wasn't ready for him to be a toddler yet and 2) b/c he is a squirmy-wormy and I was afraid he'd get his ear cut off or something. ;)
I was super worried about him being still b/c well, he's NEVER still; but he did SO GOOD! We went to this place that is geared for kids, instead of regular barber chairs they had a fighter jet, a jeep, a motorcycle and something pink but I can't remember what it was. The Boy was PERFECT. He sat still like a statue and the lady was real quick so it worked out beautifully.













and for the finished product... for now you'll have to just wait... unless you saw my pix on fb. :)

We had a party!

The Boy had is birthday bash on Saturday. It didn't wind up being quite as large as The Girl's 1st birthday party, but it was still very nice. Aunt D and Uncle R and their 2 doggers came up for the weekend too. So that was super nice, we haven't seen them in a couple of months. Aunt D made The Boy a quilt (his 1st official one, he's been using The Girl's) it is WAY COOL!!!
He wasn't all that interested in the cake, I finally had to poke my finger in it and put some in his mouth. He then tried to do it a little bit on his own, but really wasn't into it. He did manage to throw the whole thing on the floor though... no pic of that, I had to scoop it up before the dogs got to it.
The cakes were made by a friend of mine and she did and AMAZING job!!! She copied the graphic that was on the plates and stuff. So totally cool and yummy too! :)
The Girl didn't make it into many pictures b/c she was outside on the trampoline all day. It was the first day that she's been able to get out there in like 2 weeks, plus she had friends to play on it with her! :)

Just got The Boy's hair cut and had some pix taken too! So here comes a whole bunch of pictures! :)
























Gonna have to do the haircut pix later.... The Boy wants some (all) of my attention now.

Holy cow it has been a year already???

The Boy is one year old today. I really can't believe it. I mean I know it goes fast, but this year seemed to go faster than The Girl's first year.
I'm super disappointed in myself. I had MAJOR second baby syndrome. :( I didn't do 1/2 the stuff in his first year that I did in hers and even his bday party will be smaller. :( The walls have a zillion pictures of The Girl on them and there are 2 of The Boy up. I have a few pages of The Girl scrapbooked and ZERO of The Boy!!! :( I'd really like to do something about that before his party on Saturday, but I don't even have pictures of him PRINTED!!! That's how bad my 'syndrome' is. I have MAJOR mommy guilt about it too.

Here he is day 1:


and now at day 365:


This is his million dollar face, we say "cha-ching" whenever he makes it; now, he almost does it on command. :)



Seriously, he's super duper cute!!! It's a good thing too, b/c this "I want Mommy all the time" bit is getting on my nerves!

Coming soon: birthday party pictures! yay!