Thursday, February 25, 2010

11 months, a little late

Weight: 18lbs. 12 oz
Height: 29 1/2" that was a while ago, and he keeps being able to reach more and more on the bathroom counter top
Likes: throwing footballs, basketballs, baseballs, he has really enjoyed playing with Matt's volleyball. He also enjoys throwing pillows around and then he will climb on top of a big pile of them. Closing the dryer door (although he pinched his fingers last night)
New skills: we've learned to successfully go up and down the stairs. It's just funny how he puts a death grip on the carpet when he goes up. We've also introduced milk in his sippy cup. Instead of an afternoon bottle, he now gets milk, which he does really well with. I even gave him about 1/3 full cup with dinner last night and he finished it all!

Aren't babies supposed to sleep better the older they get? Kane has not. He has been torturing Matt and I all week. We left him at Grandma and Grandpa Aupperle's over the weekend to go up to Chicago and join Casey and the gang for "Train Crawl." We had a really good time and Kane slept alright. He was in a great mood when we picked him up. When we got home, he changed. He was whining and clingy all night on Sunday. Sunday night was horrible. He woke up at least 5 times. We even brought him in bed thinking that maybe he would sleep a little better. Ehh. Wednesday night he got up around 2:30, and I tried to put him back to sleep, well after letting him "cry it out" for 40 minutes I had had enough. I went and rocked him to sleep and finally at 3:30 he was sleeping. Last night was even worse.
He woke up at 2:20 and Beth (our sitter) had told us how she would tell him to lay down at nap time when he stood up. I tried that and he would lay back down and be quiet. I would wait and a few minutes later he would get back up, we did this about 4 different times and I went back to bed. Well no sooner had I gotten to bed then he started to whine again. This time Matt went in there. After about 10 minutes Kane was quiet. Matt came back to bed. And guess who woke up again!?!?! So I thought I'd let him cry it out again. Well at 4am I went in there and he was still whining and had a dirty diaper. I quickly changed him and rocked him for about 5 minutes and he was out. I think he's trying to kill us or be an only child.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Lets play ball!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Latest adventure

The last few weeks Kane has really taken to climbing the stairs and opening and closing doors. My favorite is when he shuts the door to the point where it latches. I'm just waiting for the day when he goes into the laundry room without us knowing and shuts himself in for a while. I forgot you can't turn the camera on its side, but I realize not that long through.


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day!


This really happened by luck, but oh well. Maybe someday I will master the art of espresso foam

Look, no hands!

Every once in a while Kane will stand on his own. The other day he stood up on the bed all by himself.
and then he'll slowly go down.


This is just a funny picture.

Crazy boy


Kane gets really excited sometimes.


Look at how big I am.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Snow Day.

That would be rice up our nose form dinner
So why are we home today, especially when tomorrow is supposed to be worse because of the wind? I can't say that I don't appreciate snow days, but when you have to make it up, it's really not worth it. Now we have to go back after Memorial day. Here is what we've accomplished so far.

  1. Played in the snow
  2. Cleaned Kane's room (and then proceeded to mess it up again)
  3. Cleaned out Kane's dresser and closet (this is a never ending process. I haven't grown in the past 8 years and I have to go through Kane's clothes every other month)
  4. Napped!
I can't say that I don't appreciate snow days, becuase at least I get to hang out more with Kane (and Maggie because we are dog sitting)
Those are sock on our hands because Mom hasn't bought me gloves.

And those are socks on our feet over our shoes. Why buy snow pants, when this is the only time we've been out in the snow and we only lasted 5 minutes.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Flashback


This was taken on July 2, 7 months ago. Can't believe how much Kane has changed in that short amount of time.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Random shots!

Samantha with Sidney and Elijah at the "Girls night in." So big! More like Sooooo Messy!
Kane really enjoys playing with balls.
Here's a three ring circus.


Play me a song

I went to a conference on Friday and bought a few new instruments for my classroom. I thought I would like Kane check them out and he absolutely loved it!