Coletons 11 months!!

Time is still flying by....
He has such a little personality, he loves to explore and make his own discoveriesand everyday, i look forward to see what he will do!He is scooting everywhere and breaks into rooms, drawers, cupboards, and learning that toilet water is just as fun as a bath!These past two weeks we have made some big milestones!! After a few fussy days, we are proud to finally have one little tooth!!!

With only one tooth it allows him to eat more things like on Saturday morning he sat and watched TV while he was eating a waffle!
And though he can stand for multiple minutes, he is starting to walk!!!

I know i know that is not the best recording of him walking but we realized that its kind of hard to record when there is only two of you!! He is just getting so big and i am starting to realize hes not a little baby anymore!

If only he was a girl!!

I do love having a little boy! He is getting to the age where he will play with his cars and make the noices like them, likes to play outside, and enjoys wrestling with his dad but these are the times i wish he were a little girl.... I have now cut Coletons hair four times!! By the time his hair reaches this length i think to myself that if i had a little girl i could but her hair a pony tail, pig tails, or maybe even some little curls.. but since hes little man we keep his hair short and clean cut! Hopefully the next one will be a little girl that i can take advantage of her hair growing long!!

Cute Moments!

As i read other peoples blogs on the cute things that their kids say i look forward to the day when i will be able to write about what Coleton says but until then i will just have to settle with how cute he looks...The other day we went to get him up from his nap and we found him like this. He normally lays on his back he was trying to pull up the sheet on his crib but he had fallen asleep while doing it!It was one of those moments that Brandon and i just stood there and watched him sleep, it was precious. Then you get those moments that are not so precious like this one.... I guess you just take what you get!! Non the less we love this little guy!

Warm day at the park!

Finally it happened! The snow has all melted and we could take Coleton to the park two houses down from our house! Since he is starting to walk we thought it would be a good chance to get him some practice with shoes so on they went and we walked to the park to play.We went down the slides climbed up some stairs, But after a few minutes he was finished wearing his shoes and wanted them off!

He was a little angry that when i took off his shoes like he wanted i would not let him walk in his while socks so to cheer him up we made a phone call and let him talk for a little while (he loves to talk on the phone! All in all it was a fun day in the park. We hope soon to be able to go back and let Coleton run around but for now this was good enough for him!

Family in town!

Thought we would just say how lucky we are to have family close! This past presidents day weekend we had a chance to be part of our new neices blessing. Candices family came from California to have Kate Marie Heaton blessed and were able to spend time with them and the Heaton family. While we were able to be with Candice and her family we realized that this might not be happening as often as we would like pretty soon. There little family is heading to New Orleans for pediatric dentistry schooling and our little family may be moving some where with in the next few months so who knows how often we will be able to get together but it is a ton of fun spending time with them anyway. When things start to change like that it is such a comfort to know that families are together forever!

Home interview!

We had another event on our journey to becoming a seminary teacher. On Labor day had a chance to have Brother Ringer (He works with the church interviewing prospective teachers at there homes) he came at 10am for the interview. I spent the three days prior to cleaning and scrubing every room in my house to make sure that if for some reason he walked throught it would be spotless (he didnt but you can never be sure!) We sent Coleton to the brandons parents, since they didnt want childrent to be there and he came and talked with us of about an hour and fifteen minutes. It was so intense and i was so nervous! He has papers that had list of questions and he went through and asked us questions and as we answered them he would right down what we had told him. I was thinking that he would ask us things like "where did you guys meet?" "what are some of your hobbies" "what do you like to do as a family?" I was quessing more fun questions but they were more serious like "what is your greatest accomplishment" "why is this your 2nd option for a job?" " why would you choose this if you could make more money with your family business?" I quess i was not expecting that! Well who knows how it really went it didnt go horrible but nothing fantastic but our next step is an interview with a general attority so we are hoping to get a phone call with a date soon but we can only hope!

Valentines Vacation to Egypt!!!

We had such a great Valentines day weekend!! It started off with a chance to have a date on friday night. Brandons parents watched Coleton and we went to Wingers for dinner and then went over to our stakes Disco dance. We were a little unsure about the dance because we didnt wear disco ourfits but we decided to go anyway and we were shocked when we got there! There were quite a few people there ranging from ages 18 to around 80 and alot of them were wearing there cloths that they really did wear back when it was crazy and everyone was dancing like they did in saturday night fever, it was priceless!!

Then on saturday is when Brandon really got in to Valentines day! When Brandon and i were married we were in the middle of a semester at school so we were unable to go on a honey moon. I have always regreted that and am constantly telling Brandon that i want to got to a theme room hotel for a weekend. But since we really dont have the finances to go on a little vacation and we cant really leave Coleton for more then a few hours we are uable to go. So Brandon thought since we couldnt go to a themed room he would make one in our bedroom! He spent hours on getting it prepared. He got real egypian art from another teacher and made some artwork and head board for the special even here is a video of what it looked like....



I was so amazed at how good it looked he spent alot of time and effort for me and i loved it. I gave him a gift card for a few props for class and had a special dinner of appetizers for us to eat on our "vacation". I love that Brandon i creative enough to make things fun and exciting even when we cant go on a real weekend vacation!

He is 10 months!

Its been 10 months now! Our little guy is getting so active and Brandon and i are loving it!
He is climbing on everything, here he is climbing on Brandons new baracade and loving it.

He is a talker, he loves to talk on the phone, if no one is on the line. When some one really calls he is so confused who is talking to him that he goes silent but we are working on it.

Brandons gift to be when we found out we were pregnant has finally come to good use! He loves the bear and loves to climb up him when i bring him out!Its kind of nice to have him poking at someone other then me and Brandons face.

He is a big, big noodle fan! I can feed him most of the meals we eat now but i have to make sure they are in pretty small peices.Since my ten monther still has No teeth! I just cant believe it when most six monthers are getting teeth he just seems to be falling behind in that area but no need to worry, he is still quite the eater.

And of course we have the beginnings of tantrums. He sure knows what he wants and if he doesnt get it he just kind of looses it here is a mild episode that we had.

Well our little guy is growing so big he is starting to attempt standing on his own, throwing things from his crib, and definately scooting around as fast as he can, its crazy to think how much he has grown and i am just so excited for the newxt few months!

We are joining the fun!

With all of the Cheney family getting online on saturday nights to play mario cart we decided we had to join in on the fun!!
With a little help we were able to get a wii console and play with our family. Brandon is pretty good at playing mario cart but man am i bad!!We are not big gamers but when we are playing with all of our siblings and there spouses(about 12 of us) and with everyone talking trash on speaker phone you cant help but have fun.Coleton loves the wheels and thinks he is driving a car and makes the noice as if he is driving, he loves it and as funny as it sounds Brandon and coleton get some good old bonding time!!

Loving music!

Here is just a little update! Brandon and i have come to realize that we are not one of those couples that are so busy they have no time, we have to much time!! I know there is always house work, lessons to be worked on, and many other odds and ends but we have decided to take up some hobbies. For Brandon he is getting back to playing the guitar like he did before we got married. He use to play in Nashville nights at BYUI almost every semester but since i came along he has kind of stopped. the other day he got it our of the case as decide to sing Coleton a bedtime songand Coleton loved it!! He was not quite sure what he was holding but he loves music so he watched intently. Brandon is really good and has a really nice voice and we hope that his bedtime songs continue as for me and a hobby, it might be a while for me to find one!