The Dishwasher and Sitting Funny

Judson has discovered the wonder that is the dishwasher. Anytime it opens, he comes crawling. Last night, he finally conquered it!

Totally took me back to the time Paul David was all about the dishwasher, too:

Different dishwasher, though. Judson only got to stay for the pictures...don't want that door broken, too!

Then, he was crawling around and sitting up, and I noticed how he was sitting:

Funny Boy!

ZZZZZZZZZ

Poor Sleepy Paul David had a fun, tiring day. About 7:30, he climbed on the couch, and I heard him sucking his thumb. I finally got over to check on him and found him sound asleep!

Paul just scooped him up, put his PJ's on, and put him to bed. He slept ALL night...poor baby was tuckered OUT!

How sweet are they when they're sleeping? So peaceful!

While Big Brother's Away...

Little Brother will Play!

I'd like to title this one

"Ooooh, he's gonna be MAD at you!"

But he doesn't care in the least!

Then, this was the first time he pulled up on the couch...Mimi had just said that morning that it wouldn't be long until he was trying to get Paul David's Power Rangers on the couch...wasn't even 6 hours later, and I found this:

Hey, I can reach it!

The TONGUE AGAIN!

I got it, I got it, and no one is yelling at me!

Victory For Little Brother!

He even "cruised" down the couch some...slowly, but cruising none the less!

Ear Infections...BE GONE!

We're still kicking here, but we're plagued with ear infections. One week, it's Judson, the next Paul David, and at the moment, we're back to Judson! Poor baby feels so bad, but he's getting an antibiotic injection everyday for 3 days. We're hoping this provides some relief! Needless to say, I've becoming quite aquainted with our Dr. Hassel (that Paul David calls "Dr. Castle!")

Paul David's even been pretending to be Dr. Castle. He got a doctor's kit for Christmas, and he got it out this weekend. He goes in the hall, shuts the door, then knocks like the Dr. Hassel does in real life! He has the stethescope draped around his neck like her...he listens to your heart, then goes and get the medicine dropper. He tells you to "open your mouth," then squirts the medicine in. Sometimes, he takes your blood pressure, too! It's really adorable and shows that we've been to the doctor way too much in the last month!

So, I've been clocking many hours of rocking and cuddle time with my babies. It's so sweet to just sit with them...especially when they fall asleep on you.

Judson's been keeping me on my toes, too! He started crawling, then pulling up on the tables and couch, then slowly cruising along...all within a WEEKS TIME! Crazy! Anyway, we're in that phase where you if it gets quiet, you must go investigate and the tables must be child-proofed! I just can't believe he's doing all this, but I think it's about the same time as Paul David!

We've been working on "How Big Is Judson?" "SOOOO BIG!" He's raised his hands in the air a couple of times for us, but the cutest thing is that if he's in my lap, he'll grab my hands, then pull them up. That's how I started doing it when we were trying to teach him. It's so cute!

Paul David is still being Paul David. He is completely POTTY TRAINED! It's awesome. He started going to the potty all by himself to go #1 a couple of weeks ago, but this last week, he's even started going by himself to go #2! It's the BEST! He did have one accident at Mimi's the other day, but we're not sure what was going on with that! He still wears a pull-up at night, but it's usually dry in the morning. We've been doing without the Pull-Up during his occasional naps, and yesterday, he came out after about an hour to go potty, but looked like he'd been sleeping! I guess it woke him up...YAY or not I guess depending on if he needed more sleep! He only takes a nap every few days or so! He does pretty well without it, and I've found that an earlier bed time is sometimes better anyway:) On the days he does take a nap, it's usually a pain to get him to go to bed, and he's still awake at 10:30...luckily, he's just laying in there and not disturbing anything, but still!

So, I've rambled enough...this is mostly just to document all this stuff. Hopefully, I'll have some new pictures up soon!

My Blog Book

I've been looking for awhile for a site that would print my blog into a book. I tried one site...blurb.com, I think, but when I created the book, I wasn't very happy with what I saw. The pictures were all to one side, so the captions were no where near the picture. I figured out how to fix it, but it would have taken me years to get it all done.

So, a couple of weeks ago, I saw on another blog that they'd had their blog put into a book (I totally don't remember where I saw it). I went over and tried it out. I'm not kidding that it took 5 minutes to create the book. The layout was so much better...not all the captions are with the pictures, but I was really happy with it. I showed it to Paul, and he agreed that it was worth a shot.

Our book is 220 pages with August 2007-December 2008---I only blogged about 2 months in 2007 and then didn't start back up until March 2008...roughly a year. It cost $94.95 for our book (I'm not sure, but I think that's based on the number of pages). It's 8 1/2 X 11 inches with a hard cover.

You get to pick a color or design for the cover. You also get to write a forward, and there's a table of contents. You can go through and delete posts if you'd like and include comments. I didn't delete any or include comments in ours.

Here's the cover...I chose the first picture from my first blog post...Paul David and his fangs:

The inside:

The pictures are about 1 1/2 X2 1/2 inches...I guess...I'm not really good at eyeballing that kind of thing! The quality isn't great, but we decided that was due to uploading it to the internet.

The back cover...I chose a picture from Christmas 2008 since that was one of the last things I blogged about.

I am VERY happy with the book...the quality and price were great and so was the ease of creating it!

So the biggest question...where did it come from:

Blog 2 Print

Why????

Why do you feel the need to "taste" everything???

Why is it that you can't talk yet, but sometimes, I know exactly what you're saying???

Why do you constantly pull at my heart strings with your adorable smile???

Why does it feel so good to hold you against me, yet make me tear up thinking about when you'll be too big for me to hold you???

Why is that you can make everyone feel so blessed???

Why, Why, Why???

You're very special, Judson Lane...that's why!

8 Months with Hampton

He's not smiling in this one, but the tongue is so him right now!

His "Mens"

We got Paul David a set of UT Football Players for his birthday, and he still plays with them all the time!

When he first started playing with them, he only played with the linemen.

Now, though, he has other favorites. He puts the ones he doesn't want to play with behind the couch, and then lines the others up all over the floor and field. The "tunnel" is always at the entrance to the hall. There's also a white car that hangs around the green grass, too. Not sure what that's about, though.

When, he plays with the "mens" in the white jerseys, he's playing the Baylor Bears (which he calls the "Bowling Bears")

When he plays with the Orange Mens, he's playing the Buffaloes...the Colorado Buffaloes!

He also has started wanting to wear his white jersey, therefore he needed some white shoes. The mens wear white shoes with the white jerseys, and the mens wear black shoes with the orange jerseys. Luckily, I found the white shoes for $2 at the Baby Daze sale!

Football is still going at our house!
Baseball Season's getting close though!

The Tongue

I noticed that Judson has been doing this sideways thing with his tongue!

At first, I thought it was because he was teething, and it may still be. It seems though that he does it most when he's playing and concentrating...you know how some people stick out their tongues when they're concentrating.

I finally was able to catch some pictures of him doing this:

I can't even make my tongue do this!

Sorry about all the snot...does anyone know how I can get their noses to stop running so much???

Look Who's...

Thursday: Started pulling up using my fingers
Saturday: Pulled up on Mimi and Paw Paw's Fireplace (it's a low one)
Sunday: Pulled up on the Activity Table
Monday: Pulled up on the Train Table

Yes...he's pulling up and STANDING!

(Please ignore the outfit...I was being lazy:)

Then, Brother got in on the picture action, and well, this one CRACKS ME UP!

Awww...a sweet one:

Does anyone have a pallet of bricks that I could borrow to put on his head to SLOW HIM DOWN with the whole growing thing??????

More Valentine Goodness!

Paul David had his Valentine Party at school last Thursday, and here are all his goodies. He at ALL of it in one sitting, and well, I let him because that's just the kind of not-paying-much-attention because I'm trying to keep the 8 month old baby from eating all the teeny tiny pieces of paper off the floor kind of mom I am!

On Wednesdays, we go to Bible Study. Paul David calls it "Bubble Study." So cute!

When I picked each of them up from the nursery, they had both made Valentines!

Judson's First Craft:)

On Valentine's Night, I made Paul a Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza...YUM!

Tonight, he's making me Steak. Valentine's is celebrated all year around here!

The Walker

Guess who I can't keep out of the Walker----


He even got out, went and got these letters off the fridge, put them on the tray, and got back in. I asked what he was doing, and he said, "I went to get me some toys to play with!" Dude, if you can say all that, do you really need to be in the walker???

I asked him to act like a baby:

Then, when Judson did get a turn, Paul David jumped on, too! This resulted in some Judson cries...I think he may have pinched him when he was trying to tickle him.