Heggy Blog

I said that I would post soon…not so soon, but at least I’m doing it.

Here are some pictures and updates of our lives over the last couple of months:

Cash at 2 1/2 weeks. Andrew’s sister Jeni took these and did an amazing job…as always.

To keep James entertained, my parents brought over a couple of growing dinosaurs for James to take care of. They grew to six times their size in three days. Pretty fascinating. James thought so.

Here he is playing with his new pets…until he accidentally ripped the head off of the yellow one. Oops.

Andrew worked long and hard refinishing James’s bed. I think it turned out so good. I think it’s a step up from the mattress on the floor .

And I also just love his quilt. I looked and looked for just the right thing and I couldn’t be happier with what we decided on. Cute, eh? I’m pretty much in love with his bed.

O.K. I’m totally embarrassed to admit this, but we FINALLY got rid of the binky…the beloved binky. We had gotten rid of it when James was 14 months old for two whole weeks, but then James got pretty sick and that was the only thing that would give him comfort and us some sanity. While he only had it primarily at naps and nighttime for the last year and a half, we couldn’t find a good time to get rid of it…with our two moves, the potty training (which took priority), and the baby. So, no more excuses…it was time to say good-bye.

James loved cutting it up. I didn’t know why wasn’t more emotional about it, until we were all done and he said “now let’s fix it!”. I kind of felt bad when I told him it was now garbage. It was like I tricked him into destroying it so we’d have to throw it away. We had talked for weeks about giving his binki to the garbage truck and he was excited about that…even if he didn’t know it meant he would never see it again. We went to the store the next day and picked out a new car and a Buzz Lightyear toy as his prize…which kind of made up for it.

Adieu.

We visited the Pleasant Grove Fire Department at a breakfast fundraiser they held one Saturday morning…mostly to support a friend who’s a firefighter in that department. James loved the firetrucks until some kid honked one while he was in back and scared him.

Blessed Cash June 6th. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful blessing.

Naps are almost non-existent these days…for all of us but Cash. It’s all gone downhill now that James doesn’t have his little friend (the binky). He still isn’t ready to go without them, even though he won’t take them. So, I’ll often find him sleeping in strange places.

Poor tired guy.

And here’s Cash getting bigger and bigger! What a sweet little face.

Until next time.

That’s what little boys are made of.

Or in this case, monkey tails… Sometime last month James became obsessed with Andrew’s belt. One morning I woke up and James was trying desperately to tear Andrew’s belt away from him. Andrew was trying to put it on so he could go to work, but James was using all of his weight to pull it away from him. James won. The entire day he dragged the belt around behind him, eventually having us stick one end into his pants so that he could have a “tail.” He has been our little monkey ever since. He runs around the house with his tail and has even slept with it many nights.

Yesterday, he would not rest until I had a tail too. So I went upstairs and found one of my belts and stuck into the back of my pants. We spent the morning being monkeys together. It’s so fun to be a little kid again!

James making his monkey noises

It’s actually been done for almost three weeks now and we’ve been living here for two, but I just now found the camera (didn’t know Andrew was keeping it in the coat closet). Here are pictures of the place on moving day.

garage.

family room for now. we plan on this being our living room after we finish the basement (soon-ish, we hope).

kitchen.

kitchen again.

half bath on main floor.

a view from the entry way.

master bedroom.

view from master bedroom.

master bath.

other half of master bath.

James’s room.

office.

upstairs bathroom.

view from the stairs.

There you have it…our new home! We love it so far! I am amazed that at one time all of our stuff actually fit into our little apartment. I don’t know how we did it! I’m enjoying the space.

I am so grateful for my cute little guy. My last post was more of an update on events and happenings but I wanted to write more about James, in honor of his second birthday. He has changed so much, even in just the last six months, and it makes me sad and happy all at the same time. It makes me sad to think that it’s getting harder and harder to remember him as a baby. But one day I’ll be saying that about the stage he’s in now…and I don’t ever want to forget it. So here are some of the things I love most about him right now:

1. He is OBSESSED with the moon, or “moom” as he calls it. He talks about it almost all day. He can’t go to bed without going into the front yard to sit on the grass and stare at the moon. Then he has to have a long, drawn-out goodbye to the “moom.”

2. He is OBSESSED with “Cars” the movie and books. He got “Cars” books for his birthday from his Aunt Kellie and was so in love with them that I decided to put the movie on for him. He’d seen it before but it had been a while. Every day for the last week he’s woken up and saying, “Queen! Cars! Trucks!” which really just means he wants to watch “Cars.”

3. He loves to jump. It’s so cute to watch him try to jump as far as he can. He squats really low and then springs up into the air saying “Jump!”

4. He loves ketchup (and most sauces). One time we went to Burger Supreme and gave him some fries and a little paper cup of ketchup to dip his fries in. He just dipped the fries in and licked the ketchup off. Eventually he bagged the fries and was dipping his hands in. Then, when he decided that wasn’t enough, he started drinking it. We were all busy eating our food and looked over after a minute and saw him chewing. I grabbed the cup away from him and noticed that half of it was gone. He had eaten half of the paper cup–because the ketchup tasted that good. mmmm….

5. He, like his daddy and grandpa, loves pickles.

6. He has to have his toy cars lined up perfectly. As you can see in the picture below:

7. He likes to click his tongue. I know where he is by the sound of his tongue.

8. The way he says choo-choo train: “choo choo treen”; and how he says “choo choo” in a really high-pitched voice. Love it!

9. Something newly discovered: He will not eat a banana if it’s broken. He tries to put it back together and after realizing he can’t, he gets mad and hits the banana. Really frustrating…(for both of us).

10. He said “I wuh you” (I love you) for the first time last Friday and I just love hearing him say it.

I could make this list insanely long, but I won’t. I just never want to forget some of the things that make James so funny and lovable. I’m pretty sure he’ll stop doing all of these things at some point. Maybe I’m wrong…Maybe he’ll never eat a banana unless it’s in one piece, and maybe he’ll always love ketchup so much that he would eat it with anything.  He may always love pickles like his daddy and grandpa. And maybe one day he’ll be an astronaut and fly to the moon. But just in case these he doesn’t do any of these things, I’ll remember that at one time he did. I just love him!

James is TWO!!!

July 15th was his birthday. I can’t believe it’s been two years since he joined our little family, but I also can’t really remember life without him. We took him to The Kangaroo Zoo with his best friends, and cousins, Lily and Owen (“owey, Wiwwy”) as James says. We’re not sure if he knows they have separate names yet; he always says their names together. James is obsessed with jumping and is constantly testing his limits of what he can jump on and off of, so a place full of places to jump and slide was perfect for him. We came back home to and sing and open presents. He was so tired by the time he opened his gifts around 9. The poor guy had to go to bed about fifteen minutes later, but was a happy boy in the morning when he saw that he still had his new toys.

I made homemade Oreos because he loves Oreos!

The boy is still obsessed with cars…and that was definitely the theme of his presents.

Driving away!

Not as new, but still exciting: James got his first haircut last month! I held onto his baby hair for as long as I could, only giving him a few small trims from the time he was born. Something needed to be done. I let Andrew do the honors…

His new hair! This is James a few days after the cut. You can tell from his birthday pictures that it has already grown quite a bit.

Other news…

We bought a townhouse at the beginning of June! We are so excited to have our own place! It’s still being built so here are some pictures showing the progress that has been made since June.

Beginning of June.

(two-car garage on the left)

Windows in family room

Staircase from entryway.

Kitchen from family room.

Master bedroom

We had pictures from a visit in between here…but I can’t find them anywhere. We go about every two weeks to take pictures so these next pictures are about four weeks later.

Kitchen from family room.

Master bedroom

staircase from family room

July 28th visit (two weeks later)

Stairs from entryway.

Entry

Kitchen from family room.

Family room from kitchen.

Staircase from family room.

Master bedroom

Upstairs hallway bathroom

It’s fun for me to see the progress. I didn’t post any pictures of the two other bedrooms or bathrooms because I was trying to make this short-ish (kinda too late for that). We’re so close!