Happy Valentines Day! (a few days late)

We had a good valentines day here. We ate lunch at our new fav. restaurant Tucanos and they gave us a rose. My sweetheart already gave me some roses so I gave it to Chase and he couldn't get enough of smelling it.

Then to top the whole day off, Chase got a valentine card in the mail from aunt Debbie. He held onto that thing all day. He was even upset when I took the envelope from him to open it up.

Hope you had a great day too!

Joy of talking

I've been anxiously waiting for Chase to start talking so that I can write down all the funny things he says. When I was growing up, my siblings and I would randomly ask my mom to tell us funny things we said and we loved that she remembered so much.

Chase only has about a 10 word vocabulary but can still crack my up.

For instance:

- He says mmmmm.... whenever he sees something to eat (whether he actually wants to eat it or not). On Sunday, a pregnant lady in our ward was eating some crackers and Chase walks up to her and says mmmmm... When she offered him a cracker he was too scared to take it from her so he just sat where he was and kept saying mmmmm. Finally she got up and started walking towards him holding out the cracker and he ran away as fast as he could.
Also, yesterday I was washing dishes and I heard a random mmmmm. I always feel a little nervous when I hear mmmm and am not expecting it because it means he found something on the floor or some place that he can reach, but when I looked over he was intently watching a pizza hut commercial repeating mmmm.. over and over. Silly kid.

- When he doesn't cooperate with what I want him to do and I let out a loud sigh (sounds a little more like aaaaaahhh under my breath), he growls back (he thinks that I growled at him). It's hard to stay frustrated at that point.

- He knows how to say Uh-oh, and if Daniel or I drop something, he doesn't forget. He will walk past the spot that we dropped something and for the rest of the day say uh-oh when he passes.

- This isn't really him talking, but he started doing this weird thing where he would walk up to Daniel or I and open his mouth as wide as he could. We realized that he was mimiking our yawning when Daniel yawned and Chase did his wide mouth thing.

Tribute to Dee Dee

I was very grateful when we were given this blanket by Dalen and Tiffany because we didn't have many blankets for little Chaser. I just didn't realize at the time how much more it was going to mean to us.

Meet Dee Dee. Chase named it himself and it was one of the first words he said. (Can I call it a word?) Sometimes I think he loves this little blanket more than me.

Chase knows the difference between his Dee Dee and other blankets (even red ones that look similar.) He starts saying Dee Dee immediately when he sees it and continues to say it over and over for a couple minutes. It can calm him down faster than anything when he is upset, even more than Mom or Dad holding him.

If your offended that you gave him a blanket and it didn't become "Dee Dee" don't be. I made him a blanket too.

He's back,....

I might have an angry mother for posting these pictures before she gets back and has a chance to post them, but oh well.

We picked up Brennan at the airport today. His plane wasn't supposed to arrive until 2:00, but Mom called me and 1:10 and told me that his flight was supposed to come in at 1:25. The she called about 5 min. later and said that his plane had arrived. We were still on the other side of town, but thankfully it took a while for them to get through everything and we made it on time.

In fact we made it in enough time for Chase to walk Grandpa around and around and around the terminal.He's pretty much the same ole' Brennan. Still afraid of hugging. He offered mom and I his hand for a handshake .!?!?! Then reluctantly gave into a hug. Check out that awkward face :) Except now he looks eerily like Kyle. Don't you think?

My mom is going to kill me again, but she didn't recognize him when he came out. He walked out and as I picked my camera up, she put hers down and said "nope, not him."


He did come home with some good stories for us, and Chase got to finally meet his uncle Brennan.


For those who are wondering why my pictures look like weird after enlarging: I bet none of you have done anything as stupid as this with your camera. I've done it several times before, changed the setting on my camera and then forgot to change them back when the situation is no longer appropriate for those settings. For instance: Alynn (Daniel's sister) asked me to take their family picture and I took all their pictures on ISO 1600 :{ IN THE BRIGHT SUNLIGHT!!! I realized after we were finished and all the kids were tired and we had to go back and retake all the pictures. I bet she never asks me to do that again! Well I am in another photography class and our homework was to take different file sizes of pictures. I had just finished my small size before we headed out to the airport and forgot to change it back. Just so you know small file size on my camera is 2 MP!!! I shot all those pictures on 2 MP!!! AHHHHHHH! Done ranting!

Pictures

I found this cute place to take pictures and took Chase out there the other day. Unfortunately you can't really see much of the cute place because the pictures that I liked the best didn't show much of the background. This first one you can see a corner of an old wooden door with rusted metal accents, and the whole building is made out of that red rock you can see off the the side there.


It's not really a building because it is open on one side, but it has window openings that were fun to play with.


And it certainly helps having a cute little model to play with. He just doesn't like to cooperate.

Ready for school

I couldn't resist the urge to post these pictures. Chase got this cute backpack and lots of great books from the Cahoon's for Christmas and looks so grown up when he wears it around.


I love this one of him running towards me, which is something he often does when he sees me pull out the camera.

(I can also see I have some work to do when focusing with my f/1.8 lens, especially on this active little guy)