Happy Birthday [BIG kid]

Today is a day that he's been waiting for!

HaPpY BiRtHdAy, we love you!

Little tid-bits about Easton:

*He is always a happy boy... even when he's not.

*He still is LOVING music, when he listens to songs he can name if it's a boy or a girl singing, and can identify if drums, guitar, piano, trumpets or violins are being played. He also recently discovered HSM, and really loved it.

*The other day he told me that I was his best friend... MELTED my heart.

*Right now his favorite toys are his "mack" trucks for his cars, coloring on his white board, reading library books, and guns (even though we don't have any...) Also- he is begging for "little legos with the yellow guys".

*Potty training is going really well, not 100% quite yet, but we can be out all day and I keep him in his undies.

*He still talks about going to school, and can't wait for the day to come.

*He can't wait for his baby brother to come so he can show him all of the "baby toys" that we have.

{IMAGINE}

Easton is at such a fun stage right now! I love how happy he is, and how he makes every situation fun and playful. Especially in the last couple of weeks, Easton has developed quite the ImAgInATioN! He is always imagining that he is making a big bowl of soup when he takes a bath, or that he has spiders in his teeth when we brush them.

We were shopping a couple of weeks ago at Target, and he had an imaginary friend jump in the cart! Of course he had us promptly buckle his friend up so he wouldn't fall out and run away... and he has been with us ever since. His friend is named George and he is a monkey, so I imagine that he looks a little bit like this:

George eats every meal with us, and he especially loves to ride in the car with us, too! Sometimes he accidentally gets left in in the car and we have to go back to get him.

For a side note- Easton loves reading books! Lately his favorite book to read before bed is Max's Bedtime... So, I wasn't too surprised when Max and his sister Ruby showed up one day not too much later.

Along with his clan of "special friends", Easton is usually never himself either. He is usually Spiderman, or Lightning McQueen, or a frog... today he is a blue bird. It's actually quite cute, because he tells me that I have a baby bird in my tummy (or baby spiderman or whatever he is for the day) .

I have a feeling that I will be quite sad when his pretending slows down and his "friends go home"... I am already sad for that day!

{You know things are crazy when I NEVER blog}

It's true- between being busy with family & holidays, this new hobby of ours, and the fact that each of us have had at least 1 round of the stomach flu and some type of "cold" that seems to come and go every other week, and me just having the normal pregnancy fatigue- our blog has been sorely neglected! But, I must be getting to the point in my pregnancy that I feel the need to have EVERYTHING in order, finished, caught-up, etc. because I have been feeling such "mom guilt" over not blogging and a mile-long list of everything else (including halloween costumes & Christmas shopping) that I NEED to get done before our next little guy comes! :) SO- Here I am getting caught up so I can once again sleep at night and not have lists going through my head of things that need to be crossed off.

For now I am just going to post a funny converstation that I had with Easton today while in the car running errands:

Easton: "Mom look at those sprays! There's 2 of them!"

Me: realizing that he was looking at sprinklers- and acting just as excited "Oh, are they getting the grass wet?"

Easton: "Yea! The grass is dirty!"

Me: "No, it's not dirty. The grass is thirsty and wanted a drink of water. Trees and grass and flowers like to drink water!"

Easton: "Oh- And rocks like to drink MILK!"

Posts coming soon:

Dan's Birthday

Our weekend in St. George

Forth of JULY

Pictures that we took of Easton back in June

(I haven't even edited them yet!)

And the [winner] is...

I had a doctor appointment today, and I asked the doctor if he would do our ultrasound early for us- and he did! We are so excited to have a little brother for Easton!

Quiz ------------>

We are going to find out on June 29th if we are having a girl or a boy! So... until then, we thought it would be fun to set up a poll to get everyone's input!

Are we going to be buying this CUTE outfit?

Or this CUTE one?

{I am in love with both of them!}

We're still here:

I haven't taken much time to post what has been going on with us lately. Mostly because there hasn't been much to post about, but also because I have kept myself pretty busy with this photography stuff. It has been fun, and definitely a learning experience! I love that it is something that Dan and I can do together, that has made it extra special! But I think that it has kept me so busy because on top of taking the time out to take and edit pictures for people, I am taking just as much (or more) time out trying to learn how to do that! :)

I also have to CONGRATULATE and brag about Dan for now being NICET level 2 certified! He has been working for 2 years to certify, and he is already scheduled to take the level 3 test in August! This isn't an easy thing, and there are only a handful of people in the state that has this type of certification. Not only has he studied on his own, but for the past 2 years, he has gone into work extra early every Wednesday to teach a class on it. So, he really has worked hard, and has done so well!

And what is a post without pictures of EASTON?? I really need to do better about posting the cute things that he says and does. It doesn't seem that I could ever forget him at this stage, but I think that I do more quickly than I realize. Right now he loves to sing, he will sing and hum all day long! He loves singing nursery songs, but it's funny because he won't even attempt it while he's at church. He's getting so grown up and has to do EVERYTHING by himself. And he just ADORES his Daddy and will stick up for him. Yesterday Easton and I picked Dan up from work to take him to lunch, and we were waiting in the car for him to be ready. I told Easton that Daddy was being slow, and he got so defensive and almost hurt that I would say such a crazy thing, and said "NO WAY, Daddy is FAST!".

I could probably go on all day about that kid. He is so funny. But here are some pictures that Dan took a couple of weeks ago when it was so rainy out.