First Time in the Crib

We got the crib all set up in my room today. It was ready and waiting for little Cameron. I however, was not sure I was ready.

Cameron has been sleeping in his rock and play for months. If you don't know what a rock and play is...you should. It is the best of the best in baby gear. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but if you have a baby with reflux, GO GET ONE. It is like a bassinet/seat/rocker thing. It is amazing. It it tall (like the height of your bed) and puts them at the perfect angle so they are not puking/having acid come up their throats all night. It really it that awesome.

Went off on a tangent there didn't I?

Anyway, I felt like Cameron was getting ready to move to the crib. I just didn't really want to move him because I don't want to admit he is growing up at all, and also I was afraid he would hate it or scream or something.

(Not sure why I thought that...it's not like the kid ever cares about anything. He could be the most easy going baby on the planet)

As the pictures show...he loved it. He didn't have one bit of a problem. He went right to sleep and seemed pretty darn comfortable.

I'm still not loving having a baby in my room, but we'll make it work for now. If I can just get Ryan to be quiet and quit waking him up it will be fine.

I think he looks very much like Uncle B.J. Except for the elf ears. I don't know were he gets those. I'll blame it on Ryan :)

Picnic Weather

I am enjoying the mild winter weather enormously! It has been wonderful. It was so nice this morning that the kids played outside barefoot.

They also asked for a picnic, and I was happy to oblige.

Can you even believe it is January in Utah? We sure can't.

Sword Fighting

Griffin loves to fight. The other day I noticed him doing the funniest thing. He would hit with the sword a few times and then yell "DEAD," and fall to the ground very dramatically. It was hilarious.

G has many swords. Most of them are soft. The ones they are using here are not soft. Ask me how I know that? (Ouch, ouch, ouch. That kid hits hard).

DEAD!

Bunkbeds

The dreaded day has come. The girls and I took apart the crib. We've known it was coming, but still, who wants Griffin out of his cage?

Seriously though, Mok and Pok got the boys a set of new bunkbeds for Christmas this year. Griffin was getting ready to be out of the crib, and Cam is getting ready to use it, so we knew they were a necessity.

We set them up about a month ago and still had the crib set up too. I wanted G-man to get used to them before he actually had to sleep in them. A few days ago he started jumping out of his crib. It was pretty funny and we laughed, but he only did it after a nap. This morning however, Ryan and I were awakened at 6:30 by a cute little two year old standing next to our bed saying, "I get out...I stay up."

And with that, Griffin is done with the crib.

He likes his new bed. He has napped in it a few times and done well. Hopefully that will hold true for night time too. I can't imagine all the destruction he could cause if he escaped at night and we didn't know.

(And no, I don't think a gate at the door will work...this is Griffin we're talking about people. A gate is child's play for him:)

The boys room is pretty small, but it seems really big with the crib out of the room. (It is going into our room for Cameron...Unless someone wants to come and finish our basement :)

Right now we just have an old dresser and random blankets on the beds. I think we will decorate this spring. I'm thinking a matching dresser, some bean bags for a reading area, a rug to play toys on, matching blankets, and of course, paint.

That's a project for another day though.

I love my little trouble maker!

Sunny's New Blog

Sunny has a new song writing blog that she wants to share with everyone. It is super cute!

www.sunnymaewritessonggs.blogspot.com

She Wrote a Song

This is too cute not to document. Also, when she makes it big this could be extremely valuable :)

Sunny has been obsessed with Taylor Swift for a long time now. I'm sure you all knew that already. She is also obsessed with teaching herself to play the piano, play the guitar, and becoming a song writer. She writes songs all the time, I find them in the garbage, on tiny pieces of paper, mixed in with her homework, etc. She is very selective about what she wants me to see and she rarely shows me her songs herself.

Today, I found this piece of paper and she actually wanted me to read it. They only thing she said was that it isn't finished because she hasn't written the music yet...she does however have the tune in her head. (I know...can you tell she watches the 1 hour show about the life and career of Taylor over and over and over.) Also, note the format of the song. She has really picked up on how there are verses and the chorus and the bridge and the ending. She's pretty observant.

So, the background on this song is that a couple months ago an anonymous girl wrote Sunny a mean note at school and left it on her desk. Sunny was heartbroken. She was pretty sure she knew who wrote it and she asked the girl. The girls lied and said it wasn't her. The teacher got involved, it was the girl Sunny suspected. There was an "I'm sorry, please be my friend" note written to Sunny, and all was forgiven. She says this song is based on that experience, but it is not exactly about what happened.


So, for your reading (and one day listening) pleasure:

Mean Girl
By: Sunny Blair (age 7)

Yeah, oh, oh, yeah, oh

You dragging me down the road
You wrote me a mean note

Yeah, Yeah

So after lunch I read it
I showed it to you
But I knew you were pretending
that you didn't write it
that you didn't write it

Oh, Oh

Chorus: You're the one who did this to me
I won't forget, I don't even care

Yeah, yeah, oh, oh

I think you lost your mind
I think you were just kidding, right?
You got mad at me over something
I still don't even care
I forgot you and you're so far away

Here it goes

Chorus:

You're the one who did this to me
I won't forget and I don't even care

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

You're the one who did the to me
I won't forget and I don't even care

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You changed my name
You forgot about me

Me, me, me

Yeah!

First Time in the Jumper

He liked it!