Category: Chase

I haven’t been blogging because I feel like there is too much to blog about! Overwhelming. So I decided that I will just post some recent photos with captions and that will be good enough!

Well Rachel is casually dating this guy (note the arms). Chase is fond of him as well:

Scenario– I’m in the bathroom fixing my hair before going somewhere. Chase is sitting on the toilet watching me.

Chase: “Know what, Mommy?”

Joy: “What, Chase?”

Chase: “Your hair looks really nice.”

I almost died it was so cute! I am very proud of our big talker, and relieved that he can express himself so thoroughly these days! Go Chase! (After this little scenario, he proceeded to ask me if he could brush my hair, and he did a good job– each side of my hair getting equal attention)! 🙂

Pop some popcorn, grab some ice cream or candy. This one is good. Big thanks to Gino for mixing his video files from our CA trip. Gino always seemed to have his camera out at the right time, except when Chase lifted me in the tractor.

Sons are so cool, you can picture them being you when you’re old, they follow you around and want to act like you, and the try to wear your clothes. I came down one morning to find Joy and Chase eating, Joy in her pink robe and Chase in my blue robe. It was very cute.

I just love my family they rock. We had some of my co-workers over yesterday for a BBQ, thanks Ryan for the awesome pulled pork, and Chase was so funny walking around "helping" the "baby" who was actually only a few months younger than Chase. I can’t wait to see how he treats his younger brother when he gets here. 🙂 We also dumped $5 worth of mulch in our backyard, it looks really nice, and prob will for about a month. smells like poop though.. we’re still trying to figure out what to do with the one section of our yard. concrete, or just leave it or lotsa mulch… we’ll see. And finally some more pics to wrap up this update.

Oh and there are new McVideos

Gino posted some cute videos of Chase on his blog, check em out, and some pics in a picasa album

This is Chase, it’s my birfday and I wanted you all to have a place to say your things to me since I’m in CA and not available via my normal phone and video chat. 1, 2, 3, Blastoff!

I must always check on Chase shortly after he falls asleep for bed or for a nap. Why, you ask? Well, to give me peace of mind, and to keep him alive. This may sound a little dramatic, but read on to believe.

— A few days ago, he fell asleep with the side of his face against the edge of the bed. When I moved him, he had a huge dent in the side of his face that looked deep and painful. But that’s not the worst one, so read on…

–Yesterday it was very difficult to get him down for his nap, and I had to put him back in his bed approximately 50 times before he went to sleep. That last time he demanded to stay on the floor rather than the bed, and I let him do so because I was past the point of caring. So he didn’t fall asleep in his bed; he fell asleep across the floor vent with his head partly on a board book and partly on the wood floor. Imagine the lines he had on his face and arms…

— Then today, I checked on him about 20 minutes into his nap, and he was lying sideways across the bed, with a thick blanket wrapped around his head. I was relieved to find that he was somehow still breathing!

All in all a little disturbing, but I’m always glad when he actually DOES get some sleep!

That was the word of the day today, because Chase and I went with Rachel (and the 3 kids she’s watching for the weekend) to “Jumpin’ Jacks,” a dirty yet fun place near our local Wal Mart. I have been looking for some place like this for a while now for our energetic child, because these dreary winter days are not very conducive to playing outside (unless you love to be freezing cold). Since both the mall play areas are currently non-existent, we have been wondering how to let all Chase’s energy out– always a big task. But I think we succeeded today, because he was exhausted after two hours at this place full of inflatable slides and bouncy toys!

Overall, I had a good time bouncing around with him. I wasn’t very happy those two times when some rowdy kids trampled little Chase, but we “bounced back” quickly (haha). I also had to try to ignore the yuckiness of all the jumpy toys, especially after I saw a loogie on something we were climbing– yeesh! Chase was afraid to go on the medium-sized slides at first, but then all of a sudden, in a burst of courage, he informed me that we were going to slide. So we went on the medium slides twice!

The cost to get into this place was reasonable; I think it was 5 bucks per person, and I had coupons per usual, so it was 6 bucks for the two of us! Hooray. Now let’s cross our fingers and hope we don’t catch any of the sicknesses that may have been lurking in this place. Check out McVideos sometime in the near future to see if we’ve posted the exciting “jumpy videos!”