This is Trey's first experience eating Spaghetti. He actually didn't eat very much. It was too much fun to play with. :) But what he did eat, he seemed to like.
Kyle got a puzzle of Philadelphia (where he served) from my mom for Christmas. It was a lot of fun to put together. Especially because Kyle knew what everything was and would tell me about it as we made it. We put it together on a Sat. and Sunday. We've decided that we really like puzzles but that we become consumed with them very quickly. (They're addicting) Trey, does not like puzzles! He was so mad at us for not playing with him. Thank goodness Grandma Jan, Grandpa Brad, and Kallie came that Saturday to play with us.
Trey loves to play in the kitchen with bowls, spatulas, pans etc, while I cook. The other day, I turned around and found Trey with the Tomato soup held up to his mouth trying to drink the last drops from the can. He had pulled the can out of the trash. It was pretty funny. (Luckily, there were no sharp edges on the can) He was covered in Tomato soup. Kyle and I got a good laugh. Sorry the picture is blurry. :(
Kyle and I have been involved in 3 different intramural sports this semester. We played on a Co-ed soccer team together. I was super nervous since I haven't played on a team since I was 10, but it turned out to be fine (besides the pulling of the quad). 
This is how Trey helps me with the Laundry. He loves to play in the big pile of unfolded clothes. He also loves to attack my piles of FOLDED clothes. He's such a big helper! :)
I played Walleyball, which is the picture above. It's really posed sorry, it was hard to get anything clear in action. My team actually won the Division 1 championships yesterday. So we won the coveted BYU Intramural Champions shirt. That was exciting.
Lastly, Kyle is playing on a basketball team. They are in tournament right now and have gone undefeated for the season. Kyle loves basketball! Not a day goes by that we don't talk about, watch or play basketball. :)
This is how Trey helps me with the Laundry. He loves to play in the big pile of unfolded clothes. He also loves to attack my piles of FOLDED clothes. He's such a big helper! :)
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Hi! Cute pictures! Trey just looks so much like his dad! Seems like Trey and Clara have a few shared interests - playing with spaghetti, kitchen equipment and folded clothes. =)
To your questions... Right now Clara's sleep is wonderful. She sleeps 12 h every night (or 11,5 but she is in her bed for 12 h) and about 1,5 h during the day. But it has NOT always been like that. We had serious problems with her waking up all the time and not being able to fall asleep by herself. From when she was about 7 months until she was almost 12 months he sleep (or lack of it) was a huge problem. But now we have finally taught her how to feel safe in her bed and to be able to fall asleep by herself. She loves her bed now and we never have any problems during the nights anymore. It is so wonderful to finally know that you are going to get your sleep every night... How is it going with Trey?
We are moving in less than two weeks! I don't remember the exact address right now so I'll e-mail it to you when I've looked it up.
Yes, we are updating our blog quite frequently. Since we live so far away from our families we use it to help them stay updated about Clara. We are saving it on the computer and the web hotel (is that how you say it in English?) but I've always wanted to some how get it out in print. A book sounds so cool! How many posts can it include? =P Can you give me the name/s of the company/ies so I can look into it?
So you are already thinking about grandkids, haha.. I have hardly started thinking about baby number 2! Have you? =)
Puss och kram!
/Stina
(P.S. Your longest comment so far?) =)
Trey is a cutie. I can't believe how big he is already. Too fun. And congrats on your big win!!
thanks for the comments! and thanks ahead for the craft! there are some parties we have gone to that have had elmo cakes for boys 1st bday....what theme are you thinking? its usually good to choose a theme and then go from there. whether its just certain colors or characters...that helps a lot.
dont worry..our dog doesnt bite. not like that at all. lucy is much better at just hurting herself then an actual animal doing something. she does get knocked down quite a bit by the dog though. its hilarious. she gets over it quick though.
p.s. are you having trouble with trey and sleeping? at 10 months Lucy JUST started to sleep better for us...she was teething like crazy and sick all before that so she didnt sleep well until then. we did the same thing as your friend in the first comment.
Well with lucy it was a sick/teething thing forever it seemed like. we never really knew if it was just teething, a combo, or just sick. We gave her tylenol every once in a while at night...that really seemed to help. We just turned the monitor off and turned a fan on to drain out the crying and just let her cry it out and it didnt take a long...a night or maybe two of that. We even still do it if she cries now. We will go in and give her her pacifier like once, but if she continues we just let her cry. It seems mean...but as long as she is ok and not sick she really needs to just get herself back to sleep.
speaking of sick, she is sick right now! bleh! its REALLY hard when you have months and months of good sleep and then you have to wake up again every hour when they cant breathe, etc. BLEH!
We used a method called "Sova hela natten-kuren" that a Swedish "child expert" has developed. You can read about it on her website www.annawahlgren.com. The book she has written is available in English, but maybe you just want to look around a bit at her website first. I don't know how much is translated into English, but you do speak Swedish som you'll be okay. =) The method is not the crying method where you let the baby cry and then go and check on it every five minutes. You do leave the baby but you are always near by and you have a special ramsa... hmm..what's the word in English..like a special phrase that you say and those words will soon be familiar to the baby so he will be able to feel safe when he hears them and they will reasure to him that mom and dad are near and "keeping watch" and eventually they will help him to fall asleep and go back to sleep all by himself. So when he wakes up at night, to say this ramsa will be everything you have to do. (In the very beginning you will also have to calm the baby before you give him the ramsa, but you're supposed to calm the baby in his bed so you show him that it is a safe place to be and he doesn't have to be rescued.) I know this must sound kind of weird, I can't explain it really well. Anyway, there is a lot more to it. But this is something that has actually worked for us, and I have never felt like I have done something "cruel" to Clara. We saw results within the first week of "kuren" but it took us about a month to get it perfect. But it is so worth it... So look around on her website and see what you think and just ask me if you have any questions. Maybe I should add that I don't agree with everything this woman says about everything, but this has really been good for Clara and for me and Mattias!! So good luck, and let me know what you think about it if you do take the time to read about it.
Love!
Just a short extra comment.. The thing is not only that the baby will go back to sleep only by hearing some special words, but the baby will actually stop waking up during the night. =) The first night we started "kuren" Clara woke up 16 times. But she started listening to "ramsan" already the first night, and not too long after starting we where down to zero!
Hi again! I agree with you that it probably isn't making things better to rock him to sleep. That's one of the things "kuren" is about - to learn the baby fall asleep by itself. And in the beginning you probably have to rock the baby to get him calm, but when he is just about to fall asleep you have to stop so that he does the last part by himself. And after a while you don't have to calm or rock the baby at all, 'cause it won't be necessary. I also agree with you on that it's not very good to take a the baby up while he is screaming. If it was too hard to calm Clara in her bed when she was screaming I would do something to get her attention so that she at least would be quiet a couple of seconds before I picked her up. But this was before kuren, when we started it we could always calm her in her bed.
Clara is sick now by the way =( She has thrown up five times tonight, poor thing. And we were going to move tomorrow... We'll have to do it next weekend.
Kram!
Congrats on the t-shirt! That is a major accompoishment!
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