5/18/2010 Casper gets into. . .

Tuesday
I walked down the hallway, and happened to glance into the main bathroom to find this:

Clean up will take place after pictures are taken. . .

kids can be so cute while they cause trouble!

5/13/2010 Casper on the trampoline

3/2/2010 Brushing teeth

Tuesday
This is just too cute! My big little boy!

1/29/2010 Casper and the green marker

Friday

You know the book series "Harold and the Purple Crayon"?
Well, this is nothing like that book!
Needless to say, Sunday Casper still had a green tint when we headed out for meeting.


Anyway, today was actually the day Bryan and I celebrated our birthdays. We left the kids with Sean and Carol (Thank you!) and we went out to dinner at El Gaucho's. We were dressed up nice, so we should have taken a picture--bummer. Anyway, it was a delicious dinner. However, we decided that since we get our beef from Nebraska, (and it is amazing beef), that really steak restaurants don't impress us so much--we can do just as good at home! I can't decide if my favorite was the banana's foster, or the cheese/fruit/nut platter that night.

Happy Birthday to us! I am 33 and Bryan is 32. We have a 1 year and 16 day age difference.

1/19/2010 Casper in pink Cowgirl boots

Tuesday

Looks like we need to get him a pair of his own!
For some reason he doesn't have an pink outfits that they would match!

1/12/2010 It looked worse before I picked some of it up

Tuesday

I guess Casper decided I didn't have enough to do today. While I took my shower, he managed to pull out all our art supplies, and preschool project bags and dump them on the ground. I was NOT happy. He hid under the table while I cleaned it up, cuz I kept glaring at him. Then we hugged when it was all done.
Unfortunately, the picture was taken after I had cleaned a bunch of it up. But I think it portrays a pretty accurate picture of a total pile of a mess! (To top it off, a lot of the art pieces were small items like beady eyes, etc.--so it was a lot of picking up and sorting!)

Casper and Accessories

November 24, 2009 Tuesday
Casper looked so fancy, I had to quickly grab the camera--This is exactly the type of picture we will need to be able to access when he is a big tough teenager!

Bryan's old Rocking Horse -- Cheyenne

November 23, 2009 Monday
As we now live in a safety conscious society, it is quite evident that really none of us should have ever survived our childhood! grin! Nothing makes this more obvious, then when our kids get to play on some of our old toys!
For example: We ended up getting Cheyenne--Candy and Steve were kind enough to bring her out when they moved out here! We searched around the house and found the nuts and bolts we had been given at an earlier date to put her together with. She was very well loved by Bry and his siblings, and now is very well loved by Mircea and Casper. Other horses, that are newer, just don't have the same experience that Cheyenne can offer. All of her springs are exposed, some of the bars to climb on aren't fixed in, so they make climbing aboard that much adventurous, and the potential to fly over the handle bars is quite high (Bry says we just need a bean bag chair to land in). I have to say, I believe that she is probably one of the favorite toys in the house!

Handsome is as Handsome does

November 1, 2009 Sunday
Check out the hottie!

Deer Call

October 17, 2009 Saturday

Just a funny video of Casper and a Deer call. . . Bry is working on getting the kids interested in hunting at an early age! Mircea already thinks that when she is 5 and can start school that also means she can go hunting with dad. We shall see. . .

Casper antics

September 24th Thursday
Bry was grilling on the deck, I was with Cea. I hear Bryan shout, "Come quick! Bring the Camera!"
It appears that Casper wasn't supervised. . . so he went on a climb. . .

Casper Broke his arm

This is in the ER, when the splint has just been put on. What a great kid!

August 15 Saturday
We were at our annual church convention. The first meeting of the day was at 10am, so it was around 9:45 am and we were getting ready to head into the meeting tent. (Bry was getting Casper out of our tent (where we were staying) and as he pulled Casper out, Casper grabbed onto the tent door flap which twisted his body around and well he broke his arm. (More specifically there was a small buckle on his ulna bone.) So we took him to the ER where he got it x-rayed and then they splinted it. Poor dude!!

Our church convention ended Sunday, and Monday we had an appointment at Children's where they said to keep it splinted (as it was too swollen to cast) and to come back when we got back from our 10 trip to Alaska.

We got back from Alaska and we headed back to Children's where they re-x-rayed it, and said that he had awesome bone growth and he did not need a cast and that they hoped to not see us again! :) Hooray for Casper's bones!!!

Thankgoodness Casper was already walking--cuz while he crawled using his fist, it just wasn't all that comfortable with a splint, so he exclusively walks--no crawling at all for him. (Speaking of him walking (he started at 10 months), he is bow-legged like his Daddy.)

Anyway, Casper was quite brave during this whole experience. He cried when they touched it in the ER (obviously), he cried during all his x-rays, and he screamed angry at them when they tried to take the splint off at Children's the first time we visited--which caused them to decide to just x-ray it through the splint. Other than that, he was cool!

We were quite glad he was just in a splint--especially when he puked on it!--cuz then we could take it off and wash it--otherwise he would have been one smelly kid!

Well, he is as good as new and happy as a clam.

Yum!! . . . Dirt!!

August 11th
While Bryan and Cea watered the plants on the deck, Casper tested out the dirt to see if it was okay! The little stinker!

Who likes popsicles?

YUM!!!

We are really liking these mini popsicles--they are virtually no mess, easy to hold on to and quite good. Thank goodness there are a lot in a box!

Helping around the house!

Wednesday July 1st

A couple days ago I took a nap, and when Bry woke me, he said that when I went out of the room I would see "a trail of Casper". The following is an example!
I went grocery shopping today. Mircea was babysitting Grandpa--or was he babysitting her? I will have to think about it, and maybe call Grandma to find out! Anyway, I carried Casper on my back through the store, and ended up spending an insane amount on groceries--though considering I hadn't been in a while, maybe it wasn't an insane amount! It was a LONG trip though, and the cart was heaping with stuff. Well, I take it home to start putting it away, and well it seems that Casper decided that I needed some help. . .

I had already picked up some of the items he had knocked down and spilled before I took this picture--but then as I noticed how proud he was, I stopped and took a picture!

My BIG Boy!

Just a quick update on Casper. He loves to crawl around! It is quite funny, as he much of the time uses his fist instead of an open hand to crawl! (That is what Bry has to do due to his injury--so when Bry watched him do it, he said, "Did this suddenly become genetic?)

Casper also likes to pull himself up onto his feet. (He is quite strong!) Yesterday, June 9th, he was standing on his feet, and he let go of what he was holding on to, and reached for me! Of course he tipped over (grin), but it was still cool!

Casper has also become totally interested in solid food. He is a carnivore! The other day we had nachos, and he ate the ground beef and black beans. He also has eaten sausage, chicken and a hotdog. Meat is Yummy! Oh, and he will eat other food as well--but he likes the meat!

I will say that one of our favorite things is his big belly laugh! It is awesome!

Oh, and did I mention that he now has 4 teeth. (and they are sharp!) He might be growing a 5th one as well. . .

Naughty Boy!!

This is another example, of why you should not leave your kids unattended.! We were trying to get ready for meeting. . . Casper was all ready to go; so we left him playing happily on the floor while we were getting Cea ready, getting our books, etc. We go to pick up Casper to take him to the car. . . and well, you get the picture! Thank goodness the pen marks wiped off easily with diaper wipes! No wonder he was so quiet and happy!

Teleporting and other things Casper does. . .

Casper has been working hard lately. . .
He is growing 2 teeth; still not really eating food, but getting the teeth regardless!

Casper also seems to be quite the mover! We are a bit uncertain to how he moves, because he will be one place, you look away, and then he is in another. Maybe he crawls, maybe he rolls, maybe he scoots, but at the moment we are considering that maybe he teleports!--he is quite the quick little bugger!

We are also enjoying all the giggles that come from the back seat of the car--He finds Cea to be hilarious!

While Casper is quite a big boy, he is rather flexible and still enjoys eating his feet! I no longer question if I get an odd number of socks from the dryer--i now know the match is probably being digested in Casper's tummy!