Random Pictures 9.75 months

Jayden is growing up so fast...

He likes to open the fridge and see what trouble he can get into.



He is STANDING up all the time! He balances very well and just laughs when he falls down... then gets right back up on his feet.



Daddy just relaxes now since Jayden prefers to hold his own bottle. (He says ba ba now, too!)



Jayden has always loved bath time... and still does. He plays with his toys and hates when bath time is over. He often crawls into the bathroom and just stands there holding on to the tub. ha







Jayden loves cheerios, puffs, and all kinds of foods! He eats all stage 2 and some stage 3 fruits and veggies!



Check out these teeth! He now has another one on the bottom. This guy has a lot of teeth now!



Happy boy!!


Sponge Bob PJs





He loves to make messes. And pull down everything he possibly can!

top teeth at 9 months

It is not an easy task for us to look at Jayden's top teeth because he does not like us to lift up his top lips! But we managed to get a couple quick pictures yesterday so we could see all the action going on up there!

The top gums have been swollen for a long time now and we have been able to feel the sharpness poking trough, but now we can see all these teeth coming in at the same time! Poor guy...I am sure it doesn't feel that great to have so many teeth coming in at the same time...






PS. He pulls up on EVERYTHING and even lets go and stands alone for several seconds. Here he is about to take down my picture frame! :)

Cheerios and Purina Share

I had to post this because I think it is so funny....

Jayden and Fred like to share...
Jayden gives Fred cheerios and Fred gives Jayden dog food.

I'm serious.... Jayden sits in his highchair and drops cheerios on the floor for Fred. Fred's head is always right there at Jayden's feet waiting for some to drop!

Fred eats his dog food by getting a mouthful of food, but only eating some of it. He drops several pieces of his tasty Purina onto the floor for Jayden to pick up!

Jayden is very fast these days and gets to it in the blink of an eye. I have taken 2 soggy pieces of Purina from Jayden's mouth. (FYI- he has never actually EATEN it-- just put it in his mouth!!!)




Thankfully, Fred is such an easy going dog. Jayden pulls on Fred's ears and hair and Fred just lays there. Just a few minutes ago, I looked over at Fred who was sleeping peacefully on the sofa and Jayden was sticking his pointer finger up Fred's nostrils. Fred didn't even move.... hahaha Jayden was laughing hysterically.

I am going to have a fun summer... lol

First Haircut!

Jayden is 9 months old with his Daddy's hair! lol

Jared has been bugging me to cut Jayden's "earmuffs" for a while now. So I gave Jayden his first haircut! Just a few snips of the front and a couple snips around hs ears and ta da! He looks like a handsome little boy! Thank you, Nana, for helping hold him while I gave my first haircut! :)

Norm's 24th!

Last weekend, we celebrated Norm's 24th Birthday! We had a fun time at Kabuto for a late lunch. The food was yummy!

Happy Birthday, Norm! We love you!!!

family photo

Thanks, Stacy, for taking a picture of the 4 of us!!!
I love it!

so much to update!

We sure do have a lot to update on this blog. So much has happened recently and I have not updated any of it on here! I actually don’t even know where to start. Let’s see… I wil start with some BIG news!!!

Jared was promoted to a STL (Store Team Leader) of Target! He was offered to remain at his current store location, which means it was finally time to buy a house. We have been living in an apartment for years now, but have been waiting patiently for our time to buy a house. Jared has always been into internet searching houses and cars. I mean, when I get the computer, I am checking email, or facebook, or my blog. Not Jared. He never checks email (with the exception of work email!), refuses to get a facebook account, or blog. Any time he has the computer, he prefers to search houses and cars, or to look up fishing docks. Haha

My point is house searching switched into full gear. We found an awesome realtor who took us to several houses. When we saw this one on the listing, we knew we had to see it. We fell in love with it and knew it was the perfect house for us. It has EVERYTHING we wanted (and more!!) We put an offer on it and it and now it is ours…… WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This house is in F'burg about 10 minutes from where we are now. It is 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, living room, office, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, garage, LOTS of big closets, garage, unfinished basement, wrap around front porch, huge back deck w/ gazebo tent, stone patio under deck, nice fenced in back yard for Fred, swingset for Jayden, cement driveway, CUL-DE-SAC, nice neighborhood, and so much more. It has so many nice touches to it… Like lights on the stairs of the deck, alarm system, beautiful landscaping, crown molding, picture molding, nice windows…

We are beyond lucky to have found this house. It seriously had EVERY single thing on our “Must Have” “Would Like to Have” and “BONUS” Lists we made when searching for a house. We can’t find anything we don’t like about it. Of course, there are things we want to do and we have so many plans for this house!!!
Yes, this all happened so fast! We could not be happier! We close at the end of June. Perfect! I will be on summer break and we can take our time painting, cleaning, and taking stuff over bits at a time since we have our apartment until August.

The family we are buying the house from built it in 2004 and have taken such great care of the house. There is so much more I could say, but here are some pictures. The first two are pictures of the 3 of us in front of the house, then you will see pictures from the listing.

YAY!!!
























:) Lowe's and Home Depot, Here we Come!!! :)