Smile Pictures

What a handsome boy...already melting the hearts of the ladies!








Tanner smiling at Grandpa!

We have SMILES!

Yay! Tanner is finally smiling for real, not just when he's sleeping or about to go poop. I've gotten him to smile at me a handful of times today. *sigh* What a sweet boy he is. Sure makes up for those multiple poopy diaper changes earlier (which by the way have gotten much better...only 2 big poopies today) Now if we could just convince him to sleep through the night and to eat every 3 hours instead of 2! I know, I'm such a picky mommy aren't I? Um, I think I just realized where Lana gets her pickiness...oops!

Happy New Year!

What would New Years be without fireworks? Some years we had legal ones, sometimes not so legal ones...but the point is, we had fireworks. This year was no exception, but for the record they were all legal. (There are some advantages for living out in the sticks.)


We got together with some friends, ate food and played games. Unfortunately we started the fireworks late (okay let me clarify...late for a sleep deprived person being 8:30pm) and didn't get to light them all. Next year we must remember to start earlier! Anyway, here is a picture of the kids front row seats.




This is Lana being protective of her chair. She couldn't make up her mind whether she wanted to sit by me or by all the other kids and kept dragging her chair in between. She wouldn't even let it go to hold a sparkler.






The funniest part of the evening was the request for "Jumping Paul's" fireworks. Every time Paul lit off the jumping jack fireworks, he'd start jumping around and the kids thought he was hilarious. It was quite the sight, I wish we'd had a video camera.

All in all, it was an excellent holiday. I am sad that it will be a while before we get another excuse to light off fireworks.

What a champ...

So I forgot to enhance Paul's ego 2 Sundays ago when I was asked to play the piano in Sacrament meeting. Normally when I do that I can go up and down off the stand in between songs. Except this Sunday (the Sunday before Christmas) I had to accompany the primary kids songs so essentially I was stuck on the stand the entire meeting. Well, Paul, (the champ that he is) translated the meeting into Spanish for one of our new memebers, kept Lana quiet and occupied throughout the whole meeting and kept Tanner asleep by rocking him in the car seat and keeping the paci in his mouth. It was awsome! So BIG kudos to Paul for being so talented!

My 2 year old and a cheeseball

One Judson family holiday food is a homemade cheeseball. I never would've thought that would turn out to be Lana's favorite food. When she woke up this morning, I asked her what she wanted to eat for breakfast. First she said candy, after I said no she said cheeseball! I made her a compromise and we had it for lunch.

Paul's favorite gift...

I needed a good laugh and Paul was nice enough to humor me while I snapped pics.

Christmas

Okay, so Paul thought that him and Lana would sleep in front of the Christmas tree this year on Christmas Eve. That seemed to work out fine until (according to him since I was sleeping in my comfy bed) at 4am she woke up and started arguing with him about whose pillow was whose. Paul told her he wasn't going to argue with her at 4am and put her in her own bed. Still, she woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed at 7:30am very excited to "open toys".



This is the extent of Tanner's excitement this year.










Thankfully this year Lana did not take 3 days to open her gifts (like last year). I think we opened the last present around 1:30pm.





Definately wish I could nap like this little guy. Anytime, anywhere.

The Poo Insanity (warning...tmi ahead)

Tanner is what I refer to as a "super pooper" because every time I turn around the kid is poopy and needs a change. And sometimes while I'm changing him or have just finished changing him he needs to be changed AGAIN. I just need some reassurance that this poo insanity will end one day. I know it somewhere deep in the recesses of my memory (where I buried Lana's poo insanity days) that it will end, but until then I find myself changing way too many poopy diapers. Oh, and whoever told me that boys were easier to clean (down there) than girls, their boy must not have had as many crevices as mine. (Sorry Tanner, mommy loves you!)

Poor Lana...

1st Christmas. No tears. Things looking okay.










2nd Christmas. The picture says it all.






3rd Christmas. We tried to entice her with candy (which is her favorite food right now), not even candy worked. I honestly only torture her (i.e. make her sit on Santa's lap) because it makes good pictures.

Tanner's 2 weeks Dr. Appointment

First of all, I cannot believe 2 weeks have passed already. Time seems to fly even faster when you have two kids and are sleep deprived. We went to Tanner's 2 week appointment yesterday and I have two things to vent about:

First, the nurse told me to come in at 10:30am. We got there 10:15 thinking I needed to fill out paperwork. They give me the paper work, I'm done by 10:25. After 45 minutes of waiting in the waiting room, with a two week old and a two year old surrounded by kids coughing and hacking, I finally go up to the receptionist desk and ask if everything's okay and that we hadn't been forgotten. The nurse then tells me that my appointment was actually for 11:15am. What?!! You (the dr.'s office) think it's going to take me 45 minutes to fill out 2 pages of paperwork? And you want me to sit in a germ filled waiting room with a newborn? If we had this problem with Lana I would seriously consider changing Dr.'s offices, but luckily with Lana we've been able to get in and get out in a timely manner. Hopefully this will not happen again or else I will be on the hunt for a new pediatrician. (Okay first vent over.)

Second vent, I was thinking about getting Lana a flu shot this year until I got to the Dr.'s office and saw how much they were charging. $48.00 for a stinking flu shot. What a rip off. (Second vent over.)

Okay, now to Tanner. He weighed in at 9lbs. 7oz. and 22 1/4" long. Other than being stripped naked and made to freeze while waiting for the Dr. to come in (thankfully I thought to bring a fleece blanket even though it was 80 degrees here yesterday), he handled his first Dr.'s appt. better than I did.

Diggin for gold?

As I was going through pictures to post on the blog, I asked Lana if she wanted me to put up this pic and she said "yep". I just wanted to keep the record straight so when she gets older and asks why I put it on, I can say "because you said so!".

Merry Christmas!

Posing for pictures

Giving kisses








Lana's favorite saying..."Tanner, soft. Cute!!!"

The best big sister

Lana has been an excellent big sister. She loves baby Tanner and especially loves to feel how soft his hair is. Saturday night, Tanner was sitting in his bouncy seat and Lana came up and crouched next to him. She was talking to him about what she saw on the tv and then when he started to fuss, she shushed him and patted him softly on the head. When that didn't work she tried the paci. I wish I'd had the video camera it was such a sweet moment between the two of them. Now, just to clarify, the transition has not been perfect, and Lana has had her moments, but they seem to be minor. How blessed we are to have 2 great kids.

Check out these dimples!