Playing

Last week we were playing in Tanner's room (something we do a lot since we don't have an area rug in our living room) and he couldn't stop playing with this glow worm that his great aunt got him for Christmas. He found it quite interesting especially when he found himself in it.

Well, who is this handsome little guy?
Kisses?

mmmmwwwwaaaaaaa!

He definitely discovered himself!

When he actually starts crawling he can start chasing it around.

Tanner's First Hair Cut

Oh, yes I did!

Jeff has been bugging me for months to cut it and for some reason I couldn't bring myself to do it. I feel some kind of attachment to his hair and he is so young for a hair cut. Well, I took Jackson yesterday for a hair cut and asked the lady if she would do it and she said yes and then changed her mind and told me to wait. Me! Wait? Hahahahah.....

If you know me, that just isn't in my vocab! Once I want something I have to have it now!

So here is the before picture of our hot mess!

(You've all seen the FB posts with his morning Mo Hawks!)

Ta Da!
Luckily, he still has curls!!!! YAY, this was one thing I was worried about as well. I know a ton of people who have cut their kids curls off and they are completely gone. Not Tanner's!
Here is the little pile of curls! Yes, I saved them and they will be put in his baby book.
I will get a better picture of him. All of our camera batteries were dead last night! So, I used my phone camera.
He looks like a big boy:(

Tanner Is 6.5 Months

HaHaHa! I couldn't resist posting all of these pictures of him! We were having some fun this morning while he was eating his puffs and I was eating my cheerios. I had to grab the camera and take some pictures of him making his funny faces. The only bad thing is that they are kind of blurry and when I tried to do the manual setting on my camera, I forgot to switch the lens to manual! I'm such a dork. I will try another time and see what I come out with!

I can't believe that he is 6.5 months old. He is getting so big and loving his food! I think he's grown so much in the last couple of weeks. He's definitely put on some weight! lol

I have been putting him in the highchair whenever we eat and I will either give him some baby food or some sweet potato puffs. When I give him the sweet potato puffs, we crack up at how many don't make it in to his mouth and how many Bella ends up getting! It is so amazing to watch him and watch him interact with us! We just love him so much!

Sorry there are so many pictures I couldn't help myself! Besides, I know you all don't mind!

Raspberries

Almost
Trying to pick up his puffs
So tired

Sweet boy!

I love this one! Wish it wasn't so blurry.

My happy boy!

I will try it again and see what happens! So hard to get good pictures when they move around so much!

Christmas 2010

I don't know about you, but we had an awesome Christmas this year! Lots of Xbox Kinect fun and boy was it fun for Jackson this year!

I think I was more excited for him to open his gifts then anything. Tanner is just way to young for it this year, but he was definitely cute sitting next to the tree!

On Christmas eve, Jeff and I were laying in bed talking about Christmas's when we were kids. He had asked me what was my favorite Christmas as a child? I had to think about it for a while because I couldn't remember a favorite Christmas other then one and it was with my dad. I spent Christmas Eve with my dad and Christmas Day with my mom and her side of the family. The one Christmas I remember the most was when my dad surprised me with a 4 wheeler. We had so much fun riding that day and I thought that was the best day ever! As a child we never got to get out of bed and open gifts. With my dad I got to do that, but at my moms we had to wait all day until everyone got there. Sometimes that wasn't until 4 or 5 in the evening! So lame and probably the worst thing ever. Till this day that's how it is.

So now that I am married and we have our own family, I so look forward to getting up and opening gifts in our PJ's. These are the best Christmas's and there are many more to come.

On the other hand, Jeff said he had many favorites! His stories of their Christmas's would make anyone want to spend it with the Blaufuss Family! He said his mom Kathy was the best at hiding gifts and till this day he still kind of believes in Santa! lol

One of his favorites was when he got a new stereo with the 4' speakers. He wanted that so bad and when he got up he didn't see it until he was told to go outside! So Kathy, if you are reading this, you did an awesome job playing Santa!

However, Jackson was way into Santa this year and making sure he got his list right. He first started out wanting a dirt bike and a drum set. Then it turned in to a toy truck with a boat and trailer like papas. He also wanted an Iron Man hand. After he finally figured out what he wanted we went to tell Santa! Boy was he excited and he made sure the BIG guy got it right! I think he told him 3 times what he wanted!

When the big day was near the only thing he wanted to leave out were carrots for the reindeer. I had to remind him that Santa needed some cookies to give him some energy for his long night! lol So we left out some oreos and a little bit of milk.

He are the letters that Santa sent for the boys this year. Jackson must be on Santa's good list because he has gotten one of these every year now!
Here is our Christmas tree this year. I wanted to get a picture of it before all the opening started the next morning.
Then I started to play around with the tripod and the night options. Not to sure how to work my fancy camera, but I thought this turned out pretty good. I think it looks pretty!
Tanner's first Christmas and his very first gift! Thank you grandma Kathy!!!

The one thing that Jackson has been and really wanting this year was a flight suit just like Jeffrey's. We ordered it in November and we couldn't wait to give it to him! He doesn't look very excited about it, but he was. He just didn't want to take a picture!

Papa and Tanner watching Jackson open all of his gifts! I think papa needed to go back to bed! lol

Jackson checking out all of his cool little gifts in his stocking.

Jackson getting ready to tear in to the gifts, but before he could we managed to get him before we made a mess!

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Safe and Happy New Year!

Love,

Jeff, Cindy, Jackson & Tanner.....

2010 Santa Picture

Happy Holidays and.....

Merry Christmas from The Blaufuss Family

6 Months Old

I can't believe it and it makes me so sad to think that he is 6 months old! HALF A YEAR!!!!!!

I just can't believe it. I feel like I just had him.

I do know that life is getting easier with two kiddos. I feel like I can do anything and I have the routine down patt!

This month we started solids. He has tried squash, sweet potatoes, green beans and now he just started carrots. Not to sure about them, but he gets them down.

He's rolling over from tummy to back and back to tummy. Starting to move around way more, might have to keep an eye on him in a few days while having floor time.

He just started making this funny movement with his mouth. It's kind of like he is an old man and open and closes his mouth. Kind of like you were going to click your tongue. Since he started that the babbles have started and it sounds like dada and all kinds of little baby words. I called my mom this morning so she could hear him and she thought it was Jackson just being a goof ball, but nope it was Mr. Tanner. She was so surprised to hear him talking like that. Let's just hope he's quieter then Jt! lol

When I weighed him at my moms last week he was 20lbs. He has his 6 month MD visit on Monday so we shall see how much he has grown.

He still wakes up once a night for a feeding, but every once in a while he'll surprise me and sleep all night. I really like those nights. Wish there were more.

He also has great motor skills. Grabbing and able to put his pacifier in his mouth if he holds it correctly.

This month has been a blast. I just love his easy going personality, but he does get a little upset when I leave the room. What can I say, he loves his mama!

Still has those baby blues! I hope they stay. Cross your fingers! Who doesn't love a brown hair boy with blue eyes!

Sooooooooooooo Cute!

Jackson's School Christmas Party

In preparation for Jackson's Christmas Party for school, I baked and iced cookies all day! Well, not all day, but most of the day! I ended up sending a plate with Jeff for all of his comrades at work so I wouldn't eat them!

Another mom brought some great cupcakes though, there is a picture below just to show you how cute those little reindeer were!

Jackson was enjoying his lunch. Each mom brought something for the kids to eat. There were sandwiches, carrots, celery, fruit and chip. Then there were so many goodies, like brownies, cookies and cupcakes.

They also has to bring a book and each of them exchanged books. we read it tonight and I really liked it. I will be reading that more often. Thanks to Giada for spicing up our book selection! lol
Here are those super cute cupcakes! I will have to try and make these sometime!
I had to include this picture! Jackson was student of the week this week! I can't believe how big he is getting and he's almost 4 to top it off! It's hard to believe that we have a 4 year old. It just seems like he's always going to be 2 or 3 to me.

Here is my precious little BIG man standing by his Christmas tree at school.
He is learning so much from his teacher and I aslo like that he is learning about religion. Something I don't know much about and I am so glad he is able to learn it from a great religious teacher who is very spiritual and loves these kids dearly. She has been such a great help with our struggles with Jackson and she seems to really calm him down. I love her and I am so glad he is in her class.

Merry Christmas from Jackson!

Building A House!

So we figured that you definitely need a good foundation to build a home, a gingerbread home that is!

I have never build one or even had the desire to do one, but a friend of mine came over and said, "we bought you something!" Oh yay! Oh nay!" Not my idea of a thing to buy someone! lol

I have OCD when it comes to doing things like this and it really doesn't make it fun for others. I have to clean as I go and make sure it's perfect. I had to let go a little and let Jt have the fun.

Despite some broken pieces, we frosted the corners and made sure we had it together pretty good. I even made sure we had enough of the frosting in the inside of the house.
Next we slapped on the roof and as we waited for the frosting to set, we thought it was looking pretty good. I told Jt that we needed to wait 30 minutes for the frosting to dry. So he watched some Batman and I started some laundry.

30 minutes passed and we decorated and can you believe that I let him do it all! With a little of my, "stop eating that and stop getting that frosting everywhere," we did pretty good. I didn't do any of the fondant for him. I just kept it simple. Maybe next year I'll get a little more in to it.

This is what we ended up with!

After we finished we headed out to get some lunch and this is what we came home to!

LMAO

So in the trash it went!

At least we tried and had fun doing it!!!

What We've Been Up Toooooo.....

So far this month has been crazy and super busy! I had a boutique party and made it a girls night (didn't take any photos) and boy was it fun! Lots of champagne and laughing! I think I forgot about spending money too! There were some good vendors and some cute things! That weekend we had our nieces stay the night and we made it a movie night. Talk about a girls weekend, topped off with the Eclipse movie!

(Going to collaborate on each picture)

The next day I gave my mom a birthday brunch. That was crazy trying to rally the kids and get the food cooked. These are the only pictures I took! Thank you April for Typing up the menus. I loved that I was home to give her this brunch. She is always giving to others and this was a way for me to say thank you to her! I think it turned out pretty good! We followed up her day with some XBOX 360 Kinect! Talk about fun and way better then the wii! Good times!

Close up!
Just playing around with the camera and taking some pictures of Tanner. I seem to never take pictures with my camera anymore. I always grab my phone and then post pictures on Facebook. Most of you see those. So here are his cute little feet that I could just eat!
Here's the hot mess! lol
We are always combing his hair. It has a mind of it's own!
I just love him to pieces. I have been having the baby blues this week. I just can't get over how easy and precious he is! I just wish I was guarantied a girl. Maybe in a few years we'll try again!

This is when we went to pick out a Christmas tree. They have a little carnival thing that was like the pumpkin patch that I took Jackson to. He really likes riding the horses! Yes, the is a miniature horse not a pony! I was corrected by the man in charge! lol

Sliding down the giant slide! Another favorite of Jackson's. We went down it so many times that the guy stopped charging us!Another picture of Tanner. These pictures are a little out of order.

Sweet baby boy!

Ever since Halloween Jackson has not taken off his Iron Man costume.

The boys!

We started giving the boys baths together. Tanner is a little wiggle worn and splashes water every where!

Jackson pushing and pulling Tanner on the couch

=static hair for Tanner!

Jackson is really in to Curious George books these days and one of the little boys had a birthday at school and gave these as party favors with a book.

Doesn't he make a cute monkey?

Sorry, this is so short. I am so behind on posts and feel this is the easiest way to show you all whats been going on! There is more to come!