Vote for Tristan!

Hi Everyone,

Tristan's picture made it as a finalist in this blog contest. Now I need your help in getting votes for him! You can vote for Tristan here http://www.5minutesformom.com/5489/horsing-around-photo-contest-finalists/. He is #3 under the name Canny Lanny.

Thanks a bunch and Happy Valentine's Day!

Impatient

Chad and I are both very impatient about gifts. It's not that we don't like surprising eachother, because we love it, but we both get so excited to give our gifts to eachother that we rarely can hold out until the actual holiday. That being said, we exchanged our Valentine gifts February 13. Chad maybe gave me the all time coolest present ever. I really enjoy making homemade pizza, and Chad loves it. He usually gets me to make it about once a week. I've tried and tried to perfect my dough, but something just hasn't been right. Well, until now....Chad got me a pizza stone and a pizza peel. I'm so excited to see how my pizza will turn out now! Oh and I love making homemade bread too, so it will be great for that. Thanks for the awesome and so very thoughtful present, Chad. You are the abolute best. Happy Valentine's Day

A new excuse.

Last night we had put Devan down to bed, and a little while later he came out of the room. I asked him, "What are you doing Devan?" He replied nonchalantly, "Checking my e-mail." And preceded to play with his toys. Chad and I thought we must have misheard him, so we asked him again, and sure enough his new excuse for getting out of bed is, "I'm checking my e-mail." hmmmmm.....I wonder who he got that one from.

Yum!

Devan is so silly sometimes. Today we were eating our lunch (leftover lasagna from last night) and he pulled and Elf. He grabbed the syrup that for some reason was still on the table from breakfast and began pouring it on his lasagna! I thought it looked pretty gross, but he ate it, so it must not have been to bad.He then took Chad's cell phone and proceded to call his good buddies Skarloey and James (characters from the Thomas and friends series). I told him to give Dad the phone and eat his food. He was obedient and did so, but only after saying, "Goodbye James, I love you!" It was very cute.

Devan

Devan has been making great leaps with his talking lately. He is speaking more clear, making more sentences, and using new words all the time now. The last couple times I've taken Chad into work he's been super cute. Like today for example Chad gave me a kiss goodbye and then Tristan, Devan saw this and said, "I want a kiss too, daddy!" It made Chad feel so good. If you have kids who talk a lot, it probably doesn't sound like much, but until recently Devan hasn't been very big on talking, so this was super special.

He has just been a ton of fun to be around lately. It's nice to have someone to talk to during that day, that I know can understand me. It's so cute how I find he talks like Chad and I. For example, I just realized how much I say, mmmhm and uh-huh in response to people. Devan says it almost after everything now. He's so good about saying thank you to. The other day I gave him a sticker for going potty on the toilet and he goes, "A sticker! Thank you mommy, thank you, Thank you for the sticker mommy, oh thank you." It was so funny, he just went on and on. He's also really good at saying , "Bless you," after you sneeze.

Tonight we went to a new restaurant called Ohana's. It was soooo good. It's just across the highway from us and we had been wanting to go ever since it opened. It was kind of pricey, but it's fun to have a treat like that every once in awhile. It is kind of like a Benihana's. You sit at a grill and the chef puts on a show and cooks in front of you. Devan and Tristan were pretty captivated by it. Chad's mom and stepdad are coming down in March and we're hoping to go again then!