Hey Mr. Sandman

My mom gave this strange sand thing to my dad for Christmas. It's a frame with liquid and sand in it that you flip over and create different "pictures" as the sand falls to the bottom of the frame. Kaden and I went to visit them tonight. As Dad and I were playing cribbage, Mom was "painting pictures." She showed this one off to us and Dad and I instantly saw a face in the right corner of the frame. She didn't believe us and thought that we were pulling her leg when we told her to grab her camera and take a picture of the face. You can see the guy's eyes, nose (fairly sizable), mouth, mustache, beard, and billowy hair.

There's another face that's in the middle of the frame. You can make out an ear, nose, eyebrow ridge, lips/mouth and even a neck if you look at it just right.

Does this mean if we say it's Jesus that we can sell it on EBay for a few million? We'd put in fine print that there's no guarantee the picture won't change when it ships.

Anticipation Crushed

I was running a little short on time getting ready to go to work this morning so I opted to skip breakfast at home for some yummy biscuits and gravy at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC).  You know how you anticipate ordering something and how good it would taste?  Imagine my diappointment when I found that they are no longer offering biscuits and gravy.  :0(  The next best looking thing was 2 plain cake donuts that didn't taste good at all since my anticipation of the "better" breakfast was completely ruined.  Karma sucks sometimes.

Almost Done

My home computer has been out of commission since before Thanksgiving (I think).  It's really great to work at WSU because staff and students can get their computers fixed for free.  We had to order a new hard drive, which we got a really good deal on.  It's also 70 gigs more than our old one.  I'm excited to get it back (which should be sometime this week) so I don't have to fight Ryan over the laptop.

We measured Kaden today.  He's a whopping 25 inches long.  That's five inches that he's grown since birth!  We'll weigh him tomorrow and give an update soon.  Ryan also took some really cute videos of Kaden.  One was Kaden trying to play with a toy that makes sound when you spin a ball and the other is Kaden feeding himself.  I'll post them as soon as I figure out how to post the videos.

My "Little" Monkey

My little monkey is in bed. I swear that he's growing by the day. We had to buy him size 3 diapers which fits 16 to 28 pounds. :0( My friend Jenn's daughter Lauren is a year older than Kaden and is wearing the same size diapers. He's going to be a very big boy!

He's starting to develop really good sleep cycles too. The size of pjs that he's wearing right now is 6 to 9 months. Kaden is only 3 1/2 months. It's just another realization that he's growing up (even though he's still mommy's little boy).

Confirm This!

I was looking at some information about Google Sites this afternoon.  My boss was looking at that for something and came over to my office to chat about something else.  I signed up for an account, but they give you one of those weird words or letters that you have to type in to make sure you're a human creating things and not a random robot.  I'm not making this up at all, but here is what it wanted me to type in:

Two for two, fingers crossed

Usually Kaden gets a bottle somewhere between 8 and 11 pm. For the past two nights I've been able to put him down after Ryan leaves for work at 8:30. He slept all last night and didn't start fussing until about 6 or 6:15. I'm so excited that he's starting to settle into a good sleep pattern and not to mention a bedtime.

This reminds me of when I was little, my mom said that I would occassionally put myself to bed. She said I would say "I go to bed now!" or "I go to my room!" and march down the hall to bed. I have a feeling that Kaden is kind of doing that. I'll take what I can get.

On a side note, I was over at my mom's house Saturday and we weighed Kaden. According to her house scale Kaden is a whopping 17 pounds!

A little slice of Heaven

I had two good things happen already this morning:

1. Our ice maker has been temperamental for the past month or two (maybe 3).  Translation: we've been without ice for that long.  I was afraid that we'd have to have someone come out and look at it and possible replace it.  I had a eureka moment last night and pushed the on switch a couple of times.  The switch, for whatever reason, doesn't feel like it sticks in the on position, but I figured it was worth a shot.  This morning when I was in the kitchen and I heard the wonderful noise of ice being dumped into the ice bin and water refilling the trays.  Of course that made me want a glass of ice water!  It's so refreshing to be thankful for something as small as ice.

2. After the above happen, I had to share my ice water with Ryan.  He was sleeping but obliged me in sitting up and taking a few sips.  (He was almost as excited as I was about the ice maker working again. )  He laid back down in bed and I gave him a hug.  I got the second slice of Heaven in the following conversation:

Me: Do you know how much I love you?

Ryan: Yes. (light chuckle)

Me: Well, I just want to make sure you know!

Ryan: The feeling is mutual.

First Post of the Year

Happy New Year! Unfortunately I have to go back to work tomorrow. I've been off since before Christmas and it's been wonderful spending the extra time with my husband and son. Kaden got a monkey for Christmas and he's starting to hug it (and suck on its nose, tail and ears).

We also got him a Bumbo for Christmas and was able to sit up and watch us take down all the decorations on New Years Day.

We used our Christmas money to get cabinents for our laundry room. Ryan was able to put them all together and up mostly by himself. We only had one minor setback. One of the screws to secure the cabinent to the wall drilled all the way through a water pipe. Thankfully Lowe's was still opened and Ryan's dad helped him pick out the parts to fix it in only a few minutes. The flood was averted and we now have quite a bit more storage in our house.