Family Pictures

We took some family pictures back in November. First ones since Jarret was born. They turned out great!

 And here are Darci's 3 year pictures and Jarret's 1 year pictures. I'm pretty sure I never posted any of them.

All Pictures taken by Capri Bird Photography

Christmas

I have been so horrible with my blog posting. Not sure when I started putting these pictures up, but here I am finally posting it.
We had a good Christmas, Darci and Jarret opened one present on Christmas Eve, they got new pj's, of course! ;)

Here they are waiting to open their pj's.

Darci helped make some cookies to leave for Santa, with some milk of course. And she likes to write him a little note to remind him what she asked for.

Our tree after Mommy and Daddy, and Santa left our gifts for the kids. The big bear is for Darci from Daddy!

Her magic wand from Grandma and Grandpa Larsen

New puzzle

After we had Christmas morning at our house, we headed over to my Mom and Dads to open gifts from them. As we were leaving Jarret went running down the hall with a toy and fell, hitting his head on the drawer handle at the end of the hall. Being the horrible mother that I am, I didn't notice that he had split his head open until after I put him in the car, and then came back to give him something and saw that he had blood dripping down his head. Here is a picture after it was all cleaned up.

In hopes of getting my little "head splitting, teething, grumpy little boy" in a better mood, we let him start the present opening right away, by opening this gift from Grandma and Grandpa Bird. He was pretty excited.
If only that lasted. He wasn't too interested in opening any more presents...

Just drinking his milk and sitting with Grandma or Grandpa.

It was great to have everyone together, opening presents with little kids is the best, Darci and Wyatt ripped right into their gifts, Easton went very slowly. And Jarret just wasn't interested, but I think he enjoyed watching the other kids as much as the rest of us, ;)

Most of what I captured of Christmas was video, and unfortunately I can not upload any of them to the blog, not sure why.

We also spent Christmas Eve at my parents house, eating a yummy dinner, and my mom got these glasses for the kids.

 A picture of the kids, just for fun. It's near impossible to get a pic of them both smiling and looking at the camera without hands in faces and hair. We got close, but not quite.

 

Love Jarret's face on the bottom left. ;)

Halloween

 We had a fun Halloween. The Kids were pretty excited about their costumes. 

Here is Jarret trying his on after we got it. He thought he was pretty cool.

 Our pumpkins. Merrill carved the one in the middle, I carved the other 2. Darci sure was excited about her Mickey Mouse pumpkin, that took Mommy Forever to carve. ;)

Darci was so excited to be Minnie for Halloween, she told everyone about it. My mom made her this little figure out of clay, of her as Minne Mouse.

 

We went to the church for a little party and trunk or treat.

They had lots of games and things for kids, here is Darci getting her face painted.

Wyatt tossing the bean sacks, trying to make it in the holes to win some candy.

Eastons turn

Now Darci, she made one in the hole! That's my girl!

Cupcake time!

Wyatt trying to eat the donut from the string, he had a hard time not using his hands. Darci wouldn't even try.

Time to get candy!

After the party we came straight home to pass out candy and Darci and I went around our neighborhood to a few houses. Let her get the experience of "real" trick or treating.

She was a little unsure about this house. She really didn't want to go through there. And then a zombie answered the door. She was real brave and didn't let it scare her too much.

She sure was a pro!

Jarret's Birthday

I am way behind on this post, better late than never, I guess.
Jarret turned 1 year on Sept 19th. We had his party on the Saturday after, while Kelly and Reagan were here. And of course the party is mostly for everyone else, since he doesn't know what's going on. Ok, lets be completely honest here, it was mostly for me. My little boy turning one, beside the fact that I can't believe how fast time went by, was pretty fun and exciting for his Mommy!
I found this cute little cake pan on amazon

My intention was for his cake to look like that one, but since I am horrible at cake decorating, the frosting didn't go on as well, so I sprayed it with blue food color spray, to try and hide the flaws. ;)

"Happy Birthday to you!"

He was a little unsure at first...

But then he dove right in.

 

His "cheese" smile, or as he says, "chee"

Opening presents, the cards were his favorite part. ;)

All the other little kids tried to get in there and help him, and of course they all wanted to play with his new toys!

Cool Camo boots! Thanks Aunt Kelly

Jarret sat on the grass and put his head down to fuss and discovered that the grass tickled his face and thought it was pretty funny. So he kept doing it...

 

 I tried to upload videos of him eating his cake, but for some reason I can rarely upload most videos. 

He had his 1 year Doctors visit. First of all he did amazing with his shots. The nurse was very impressed with how much he didn't cry. She said that he's pretty much the toughest 1 year old she's seen, he barely cried at all.

His stats:

Weight- 20lbs 4 oz  just above 10% (I had to look at that multiple times, I'm just not sure that I believe it) ;)

Height- 29.5 in  just under 50%

Head- 18.5 in  about 70%

And of course to compare to Darci ;)

She was also 29.5 in long, but weighed 21lbs 15oz (63%) and this is why I'm shocked that Jarret is only 10%  ;)

Jarret's is such a smart little boy. I am amazed how fast he learns things. I taught him how to sign please and he caught on in like 2 minutes and that's all it took. He wants something and if he doesn't sign right away I say "what do you say?" he signs please and says "pea". He signs "all done and says "ah da".
He also says "chee" when getting his picture taken, usually only when Darci says "cheese".
He says Momma and Dadda or Ma and Da.
He says uh oh! and Ni-nigh (night-night) and  na na na (no no no) while shaking his finger.
He tries to copy things we say, he does pretty good.
 He climbs on everything. He loves to dance. And he loves to cuddle, he'll cuddle up to almost anyone, But definitely has his favorites.

And he loves to brush his teeth. What a big boy!