Walker Texas Ranger

Kangaroo Dad

Joel walked into the room I was in the other day with Oskar in his kangaroo pouch.  It made me LOL.

My little ray of sunshine

GP Christmas

Before we left to go to the airport Oskar wanted to try out the motorcycle.  Hopefully he enjoyed it ... but not too much, I don't want any motorcyle riders in my family.  I stress out way too much with fairly normal things I don't think I could handle that.  But he sure looks cute!

Both flights coming to GP and leaving GP were actually really good. Oskar fell asleep almost as soon as the plane started the engine and slept all but about 20 minutes at the end.  We even brought a Baby Einstein movie to distract him with but we didn't need to use it.  It was good though because the movie we thought was grabbed was Baby Enstein but it ended up being The Happiest Baby on the Block, which probably would have had the same effect on Oskar but more boring for me.

We didn't take hardly any pictures this Christmas.  I'm pretty sure my thinking was that I could just get pictures from Keri or Mom's camera since theirs are way nicer and were better at remembering to take the pictures.  Naya and Mari did such a good job staying away from Oskar while they were sick, especially Mari because she was the really sick one and I'm sure it must have been hard.  But they did great and Oskar didn't come out any worse off even when Jared and his kids came and the germs multipled.

Oskar had a really great time playing with his cousins, I'm sure he enjoyed playing with them more than they did.  He is a little energetic when it comes to other kids and especially babies.  He tried on multiple times to gouge out Kora and Lia's eyes because they were just so big and beautiful and shiny and he can't hold himself back.  After a while they learned to get away from him when they saw him coming their way.  He had no problem getting in with all the big kid fun.  During fishing he kept grabbing people's fishing poles and eventually got a whack or two on the head from Elijah, who, by the way, also thought Oskar was a she and called him Buster.  It was really cute.  And when Naya got a hula hoop from Santa, Oskar wanted to play with it too and had such a strong grip when they were trying to get it back from him ended up dragging him around.  He loved it.

Granny sewed Oskar a cozy pair of PJs that are so cute on him that are perfect for our drafty apartment!  He also kept trying to pull Granny's earings out of her ears and chew on her necklace.  She was a great sport about it.  I have a real fear of Oskar grabbing a pair of my earrings and ripping them through my ears.  Consequently I haven't worn earrings for months and probably won't be able to for a while.

It was so fun to be at home for Christmas!  My favorite parts were Just Dance and playing Ticket to Ride every night.  Even though I didn't win one single game.  The closest I got was second place to Jamie Dunn on the second game she ever played.  Joel said his favorite part was spending time with family but I told him he needed to be more specific, and then he said church but I told him that wasn't true and he had to think of something else, so he said playing ticket to ride but that was my answer and besides he didn't even play but one game, so then he mentioned root beer floats and I realized that was his answer.  He had probably a dozen RBFs while we were there, he was really living the dream. 

LA Christmas

We've been able to do a few Christmasy things so far while we've still been in LA.  First we went and looked at the Christmas lights.  It was a lot colder than I thought it would be so I ended up wearing Oskar in the carrier which turned out well because it kept both of us warm.

This is the house with the huge creepy Santa.

Then we had a Christmas party at our apartment that was a lot of fun.  We decorated it with decorations we scrounged up from various people and Joel made his special eggnog.  It was a lot of fun!

 

Lastly we had a ward Christmas party where Santa came!  Oskar wasn't too scared.  The Primary did a live nativity that I helped with and Joel was the narrator.  Our ward goes all out for ward events and this was no exception.  The food was amazing and the decorations looked professional, it probably was professional now that I think about it.  It's been so fun having Oskar's first Christmas and we're excitd that it has only begun.  Oregon, here we come!

BuhKACK

Birthday and Shenanigans

This is the only picture we got that has anything to do with my birthday.  I had to work on my birthday so Joel made me breakfast that morning and got me some books.  One of the books he got me is The Story of the Chinaman's Hat.  It was one of the books Grandma had that I loved.  Now I can read it to Oskar even though it's too long and he can't sit still.  Anway, my friend Halley sent me that giant chocolate bar for my birthday and we set it up next to our gifts of the Magi display.

This has nothing to do with my birthday, it's more of a shenanigan.  One week Joel and I were fighting what seemed like every night and so one night I told him he made me mad and he needed to fix it, and this is what he did.  It totally worked.  Every time I look at this picture I start laughing.  His theory is that mermaids are fish on the bottom and human on the top but mermen are the opposite, fish on the top and human on the bottom.  Hilarious.

I've done two crafts recently, both done hastily without detail or patience.  I like doing crafts a lot but I can't seem to care too much about how they come out.  The first was this done after the likeness of Kelsey's  wreath.  I didn't end up buying enough ornaments and I didn't want to go get more so this had to work.  It's just a little lopsided.  But Oskar likes it and thinks he can plug the glue gun into it, I have no idea where he got that idea.

The second craft was these blasted curtains.  This project was terrible.  I hate sewing.  HATE IT!  I don't have the patience for it.  I wanted to stab the sewing machine with the scissors over and over.  I was so mad I about peed my pants in anger.  I eventually got them done but by the end I was so fed up I didn't care what they looked like so it's a good thing the picture is far enough away or else you could see the terrible workmanship.  But now that they're done and hung up I like the affect they have in our  room, it definitely brightens it up and adds some much needed color.  The fabric actually reminds me of something my Barbie wore, which isn't necessarily a good thing, just something I remembered that you probably don't care about.

And here a few pics of The Precious just for good measure.  His hair looks reddish here but I assure you, it's not.  I think it's just the warm reflection off of his scalp.

Thank goodness he's feeling better!

 

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we planning on going to Grandma and Grandpa B.'s in Arizona.  We were going to leave Wednesday night and drive all through the night so Oskar could sleep.  But that morning Oskar woke up with a cold that he must have gotten from another baby he was around earlier in the week.  So we all decided it was probably a good idea to stay home and not risk getting G&G sick.  But it was really disappointing.  So for the second year in a row we stayed in LA for Thanksgiving.  This year we went to a park and had a picnic lunch complete with turkey sandwiches (we splurged and got the expensive and delicious Tillamook cheese), baby oranges, and crackers and cheese.  We were invited to Thanksgiving dinner by some friends but we didn't want to get anybody sick.  We did end up going to our friends' place for a little while to have pie.  Hopefully next year we can at least make it out of the city.

I love this picture.  It looks like Oskar is trying to be funny.

Then a week later Oskar got infected again!  This time with a much much MUCH worse sickness.  It was complete with diarrhea, vomiting, lethargy, not eating, sleepless nights, and a visit to the ER.  It was so terrible.  And about halfway through the disease week Joel came down too and he couldn't help me take care of Oskar.  After about a week and much much worrying (I think I called Jared four or five times (he's going to get annoyed sooner or later)) he started to feel better.  And then another couple of days later he was back to normal.  It was preeeeetty rough though.  After all that just dealing with his normal eating issues are a piece of cake.
We are the stripe family, the Starburst stripe family.

He was not feeling well.  It was very sad.

But he feels better now!  And loves to take baths.