The latest bloody lip-when I just left him in his crib trying to force a nap. I think it came from trying to crawl out.

 

A cute thing Cannon has been up to is trying to get a drink as the tub fills for his bath, its hilarious! I know this isn't the best pic but you can see his tongue and lip and I love his little farmer tan. (Side note-when you see that tile remember our house was built in the 80's and there's a lot of things about the 80's you just have to shake your head and smile about)
Not so cute that he's been up to is throwing food he doesn't like or even that he does like but doesn't want right at that second-little stinker.
Here he is rearranging the drawers in the office for coach, he's a big time helper this guy! He learned the candy bar in mouth trick at Grama Frei's 

I've been messing around on Shutterfly working on a baby book for him (so fun...possibly a time vacuum) Anyway so looking through a lot of pictures. I was surprised I didn't have any with his silky in his mouth-quite miraculous considering it is ALWAYS in his mouth. Silly kid, so this pic is just for documentation of Cannon's version of a binky. It's always all slobbed up and gross like that too. I do my best to keep them clean, seriously so many batches of laundry get started because of the need for a clean silky. Whatever it takes right?

Driving the neighbors Skid Steer...there's a long story that goes with this but not today...the good news is my boys were having fun in this pic. Cannon's reaching for the keys.

We drove Grampa's tractor (confession-its a toss up as to which one of us was having more fun, I hadn't been on it since I was a kid and being the real driver was a blast.)

Friday Cannon took his first few steps-trying to get to his dad :) Grama and Grampa came up and he was the perfect little show off, he dunked, he hit off the tee, he drove his CAT truck, and he took a few more steps.
Saturday Isaac and the scouts finished up their roofing project and we went to the neighborhood party. It was fun. Here's Isaac luring him on to the tramp. At first they went on in the stroller, Isaac thought it was fun and smooth, Cannon didn't!

 

And how could I forget! Isaac's goats made the front page of the paper Saturday!

Oh man, they've switched up the blog'n tools on me, we'll see how I do. As a general rule, change and I are not best friends.

Last Friday we met at the park by our house with the cousins and walked up to feed the goats. It was pretty fun.

Here's what I got as far as goat noise movies, the one he turned to look at me, then the next time he was on to my tricks and not about to turn for the camera.


We took the goats down to Burton's to eat off a nanny that's babies needed weened anyway, it works when there are enough human's around (I stay out of this one) to MAKE it work. Cann and I still took bottles down a few times a day but it worked out, its only a 4 or 5 block walk or we go when we're on our way somewhere and it really is a lot better place to have goats! Then all the sudden they were back-we had 3 not 2 at our house but  now once again-they're back at Burton's. Who knows.

Goats Goats Goats we do a lot of goat stuff around here-part of the problem is I'm really much to soft to be an animal person. When Cannon sees a bottle he makes his goat noise...he even got a turn feeding them, then Sunday he tried to feed Chip's dogs a bottle...the poor kid's confused.

Anyway we also hit the park a couple of times with Lilah this week. I think the kids had fun, I know Nichole and I did!

I threw batting practice for the softball kids. I feel bad for them, they are terrible and lose all of the time so I was just trying to help,  HOLY COW was I sore!!! It was good to get out and throw a little bit, I think I'll do it again this week. 
Friday got a little-or a lot-scary. Grampa Frei (my grandpa, not my dad) was burning weeds and such and driving his four wheeler on a bank when the bank gave way, the four wheeler rolled and pinned him. Luckily my brother was there, it's quite a story but the good news is he's home (checked himself out of the hospital and among other things told the nurse "if she didn't take that S.o.B'n thing out of his arm [he] was going to do it himself" classic grampa.) The hospital was actually an awful experience Plus no food, no sleep, and no T.V. yikes, that's the recipe for disaster without the wreck or hospital. I think everyone (family, him, the nurses too) is pretty glad he's home. We got to check in on him Sunday afternoon and he's seemed pretty darn good all things considered. He and Bubba even ate push ups together :)
Saturday we got the first swim of the season in, Cann wasn't sold at first -top pics- but ended up deciding it was pretty fun -bottom pics-

Cann's been patt'n my back when I give him hugs, oh I love that. Still not walking but getting better and better at standing and balancing, and more and more effective with that silly knee walking thing he does. I'm sure there's more but I'll have to add it in when I think of it.

Just helping dad make popcorn.

 

 And taking the goats for a walk...as if that's normal...they stayed right by us though :)

Easter Goats

So sometimes I think I document things on the blog so I won't forget them, foolishly thinking that someday when things are 'normal' I'll look back on this and laugh. I'm afraid I'm going to have to come to grips with the fact this is our version of normal -and keep documenting of course-I can still look back and laugh.

Friday we went and watched Trey play baseball it was pretty fun, we'd looked forward to it all week. It was a little windy but other than that it was perfect. Cannon was outside, found a ball, and Trey's grandparents even had their dog there, he was in heaven! Friday night Isaac called me to come see his Bee's. I went down there and he caught this Bee (below) as was all ready to sting me with it. (I know it looks tiny the pic is through the car window-door locked- but in real life it looked super gross and insect-y with its moving little legs and stinger, Yuck)
Ya see, a bee sting is going to be the cure for my sore shoulder...its not that sore! It was disgusting, and Mr. Thoughtful was all disappointed he didn't get to sting me with one of his Bee's. "I thought that's why you came down here." he said, oh brother! Saturday-deep breath-might have been an uneventful day for us. Hallelujah. Cannon got in on giving dad a hair cut, and helping dad work on things. He loves helping. He also got to ride the horse with Grampa while Isaac was messing around with the plasma cutter and I was at basketball. Then we helped get ready for the Easter Picnic. That night I stayed up way late because I was determined to at least have a couple of quiet book pages done for Cannon. Seriously I've been "working" on this project since January. I left the eyelets in his room though and he was asleep I thought it would be fine without them. WRONG. Sunday at church he ripped the pages right out. Bummer. Back to square one on that.
He does this cute little thing when he gets excited where he bounces up and down and kind of walks, but on his knees. I love it. He does it when he needs both hands too-for holding the big basketballs.
Sunday morning is when things got interesting (aka normal for around here) Cannon was digging through his Easter basket and we were getting about ready to head to church when Burton called. One of the Momma goats that just had babies died, which means Cannon and I each got a baby goat for Easter and we're bottle feeding them, with one of Cannon's bottles that I modified. They are kind of cute little suckers though. They make my boys pretty happy.
Cannon makes the cutest little goat noise. He'll say "woof woof" and I say "No, that's what a dog says, what does a goat say?" and he'll go "eh eh eh" its so funny. I'm going to try and get a video. He likes the goats! All 3 of them (Cannon and the 2 goats) know the screech of our back door opening means the goats get a bottle.
They keep us busy. (Notice we had to make use of the Nativity scene to trap them in. Stable...its fitting)
The other funny thing this week was Isaac "lotioning" Cannon down with "the new lotion" NOPE it was diaper rash cream. It was hilarious, all of Cannon and Isaac's hands were covered in white. Too Funny.
I love watching Cannon discover things. He got some animal shaped magnets for Easter, I showed him they stick to the fridge, he discovered they also stick to the side of it, then I watched him put them up to the cupboard door and fall, he looked a little confused, it was too cute.

The dunking thing was so cute, I should have waited 2 days to film it because by then he could pull himself right up, oh well. It was a little less cute when he was picking (clean folded...) clothes out of our dresser and "dunking" them into the dirty clothes hamper. The little toad was supposed to be asleep, but I guess it was still pretty cute.

Friday we had a fun day, we had a little birthday party for Grampa Chip. Isaac...well the goats... I don't remember how much I wrote last weekend but he's back at the goat thing. I want to hate it but when I see how stink'n happy the goats make him I can't really hate it. Friday he got home at 11:15 and set his alarm for 1:00am to head north to get the goats-exhausted????? Not a chance, he was nothing but excited. He drove through the night and did the goat thing ALL DAY Saturday...until like 10:00 or later. He's always so tired, not when there's goat jobs to worry about. I'm telling you-its crazy! I don't get it. BUT, its really good to see him happy. He says he loves the "economics" of goats, its a business idea to him (mind you we made ZERO $$ last year for all the time and $$ he put into it...an investment he calls it...hmmm) but anyway He is seriously SO HAPPY when he's dink'n around with these goat projects. Its the pits that he's never around when he's enthralled in the goat world, but Cannon and I just went with him one night looking around for junk for the trailer for the goats, it was just what we had to do if we wanted to see him that night. Another night he was "basically on his way" so I got dinner ready then I got this picture message.
That's 5 little baby goats on the floor mat of the truck, their mom's are in the back. I turned dinner off and Cannon and I walked down to meet him at Burton's where he was taking them. So sometimes if we want to actually SEE HIM its goats for us too. I'll admit The baby goats were pretty stink'n cute.

Conference was great, I loved it! Loved the emphasis on the family!

Tuesday night was enrichment night (additional RS meeting--whatever) apparently my 3 cases of Ramen and 3 cases of Powerade in the garage are insufficient food storage, bummer. The lesson was a good one on preparedness of all types. I have some work to do! I've started by keeping track of what I made for dinner-so I'll know what we use in a month-and can kind of go from there. Really, I cook like 5 things total-it shouldn't be hard. We really do have some food storage but...organization here I come (Don't believe it, until it happens.)

I'm working on the quiet book-its so stink'n cute in my mind, that might be where the cuteness ends though. Anyway so one of the pages is a garden-I've mentioned that before-I wanted pictures of Cannon at the garden on the next page so its part interactive and part...well...scrapbooky...not really...but him seeing pictures of places and things he recognizes. Anyway so another page is "Plant flowers at the temple" so my little stroke of genius was to let him play on the temple lawn while I took pictures. Poor kid has no say-his dad never would have let me get away such and truth is-he wasn't exactly thrilled either but I did take bubbles, I had that going for me. So in the end I have these
for 11 months pictures and I thought they were fun and worth it. My goal was Easter for the quiet book...so maybe his quiet book will only have 2 pages. Oh well.

We were going to head to Emery County and spend Easter with Grandma and Grandpa Ison but that got vetoed that when the opportunity to get 2 hives of bees arose. WHAT??? Yeah, I don't generally ask 'what next?' I'm scared of the answers. Goats and Bees all in one week. Once again, he's so excited. He just loves it, they do a good thing (pollinate the flowers) while making a good thing (honey) what could be better than that?-can't you just hear him trying to sell me on this idea? ...side note, Isaac doesn't even really like honey... So Happy Easter Grandma and Grandpa Ison-sorry we missed ya!

Cannon's been up to sucking his bottom lip in when I try to get him to give me kisses-its darling -but the not so good news is it seems in the last week he has developed a bit of an attitude, what the heck? He's not a teenager yet! But if he's not getting his way, we are quickly made aware-little stinker and he's been ultra clingy and whiny, I think he might be work'n on some teeth so I think don't think he feels real great but still, yikes! Those poor young women that were in the nursery Tuesday. We sure love him though! I hope its just not feeling good that is the culprit and that he gets feeling better soon!!