Life

There's nothing monumentally huge happening in our life, but everyday milestones are so much fun!  Jayden is discovering new stuff every day and is learning motor skills which is so much fun to watch.  He's a very serious, thinking child so you can see the wheels turning and the light bulb go off when he learns something new.  He's still partially-bald but I guess his brain is taking all the proteins right now.  We figure he's going to be smart because of sheer noggin size!

I'm afraid he's more like his mom.  We recently went to a kid's birthday party and he did not like being in the throng, but was fine once we sat in a corner and he could watch.  He's more of a wallflower than a life of the party person.  Maybe he'll swing more to his dad's side and be more social as he gets older.  Who knows.  It'd be a shame to keep those dimples in the corner.

But as you can see, he is just as adorable as ever and we are having such fun being parents.  Everyday moments are extraordinary when you have a little one!

TEETHING!

We are currently in the trenches of teething. Jayden's been a little out of sorts since we got home from California. But the drooling started over a month ago. Sunday morning his little tooth bud was visible. This morning, you can feel it. Any day now it will break gums and emerge. Hard to believe he's already there! Talk about time flying! I feel like I want to hit the rewind button. I'm enjoying all these new stages, don't get me wrong, but wish there was even more time to savor each one.

Let's just hope he doesn't become a biter of people or dogs. Things...fine. People or dogs, not so fine!

Return from Cali

Be sure to check out the antlers coming from Paw Paw's head! Couldn't have planned that if we tried!

Jayden travels like a pro!

So the holidays are over. Hard to believe they came and went so fast. I'm not sure that we really had them. It all seems to be a blur. This year we went to California to stay at my parentals' house for the holidays. Nothing says Christmas like surf and sand. Although the comment may sound sarcastic, that's the Christmas I grew up with. So it seems like Christmas to me. Jeremy, on the other hand, was missing a white Christmas since that's what he grew up with. We did come home to a night of freezing temps (it was only 27 degrees this morning when I made my first Wal-Mart run of the new year).

It was a great couple of weeks. We sat around and watched movies, ate, went to In-N-Out, Del Taco and other favorites. With the holidays and a baby, we didn't get around near as much as we would have liked to, but we did make it to Ruby's on the Huntington Beach pier. It was cold and windy, but it was great. We even had an appearance by the local pelican and the seagull with only 1 1/2 legs. We had a party and got to see long-time friends and family. It's always fun to have a reunion! We just wish we could have made the rounds to visit with more people! It's hard to scratch the surface in two weeks when you've grown up in an area!

Jayden is a great little traveller. He was a hit with all the women on the planes and we got several comments on the fact that they couldn't even tell there was a baby on the plane because he was so good. Pretty impressive, even as his mother I must say, considering he was in the throws of teething on our return flight. I'm so proud!

We had a great time and made some great memories. But we wish we could have seen more people and spent some more time with others.

We hope that we get back out there sometime sooner than later, but with Jeremy's schedule, we have no idea when the next time will be. (But Grandma's coming out in April to get her baby-fix!)

Santa's a Hit!

I'm sure we're not the first "first-time parents" to ever wonder what their child's first encounter with Santa will be. Fortunately, Jayden's first time was at our church Christmas party where we also happened to be the live nativity family. A very kind brother in our ward made an awesome Santa, so today when we went to have his picture professionally done, we had hopes of getting at least a stare out of him rather than tears. Lately Jayden has only wanted either mom or dad...while endearing, a habit we're trying to break. Fortuately, today he was totally unaware that some stranger was holding him. Who knows? Maybe Santa resembles someone he may have known from the life before. Whatever the case, we got a really cute picture out of him today! It was a fun day at the mall...not too crowded, got a lot of errands completed & we even had some decent Chinese fast food! Can't complain!

The Holidays are Upon Us!

It's amazing how fast this year has gone! Christmas is quicly approaching and we'll be lucky to get any sort of Christmas card or newsletter out! We have been so wrapped up in "Buggy" (that's what we call him) that we just barely put away our Halloween porch decoration last week. Because we're going to California for Christmas we hadn't planned to decorate. We're going to put out our smaller tree with all the "fun" ornaments we've collected. But we're not putting out the "pretty" tree this year with the uniform decorations.

Buggy's talking up a storm these days. Granted, we have no idea what he's saying but he's sure trying his hardest to communicate. As I type this right now he's talking to his little Pooh bear snuggly. Last night he discovered his toes. He just sat and stared at them and watched himself wiggle them. Then he started reaching for them. It was so fun to watch. Yes, we're easily entertained, but you would be too in our shoes! :)

Life is great! The business is slowly but surely growing. Still not where we'd like it, but growing nonetheless. Jayden is happy and healthy. We're happy and trying to ensure we stay healthy.

We hope that everyone is enjoying this holiday season and we look forward to seeing our friends and family in good ol' sunny Southern California!