Then... and Now

What I am about to show you below is kinda crazy..I am always trying to take pictures that look like pictures that I love just so I can compare and just so I have that shot again. So tonight when JJ went to take a bath I tried my hardest to get the first shot again. Did not work all that well BUT you get the point that I was getting at. I am not to sure if other kids grow like this but look at this.. He was 8 months old in the first picture (LOVED this picture and that little butt) but he isnt even up to the top of the cabinet and now he at 21 months a little over one year later. Is almost a whole HEAD above the cabinet(probably would be if his knees weren't bent). IT IS NUTS!?!? Now do you believe me that he is growing TOOO MUCH!!!

Project 365... and a Scrapbook Page

Sept 2, 09 - The reason I can not get Jaemen to let go of the passie... Cause I am thinking we have probably taken out stock in Playtex. He finds them everywhere. But this is a common sight in our household one in his mouth and him playing with two-four others...

Sept 3

Sept 4thThen... I think I have fallen in love with 8.5 x 11 pages.. Which isnt cool since I just bought his 12 x12 album. But I think I am just going to inter-mix them since the smaller ones fit too.. Tell me what you think?? And dont you just miss that little face??

Until next time

Karidan

While the cats away...

the mouse will play.. haha yeah right..

Well with Sherrow here... that usually means I scrap a lot more because we are not watching tv together or just spending a little quiet time with each other. This time has been no different. Although I have not got a whole bunch done I plan to! Thanks to my Dad and Maryanne, I was able to get a lot of supplies from one of my favorite scrappin stores and here are just a few pages I have made from them so far.

I LOVE this page!! It is soo cute and I know I said I was done with his baby book but I will probably forever add to it.

And this is one of those pages I will talk about that doesnt have a home.

I also have a now a couple of pages waiting for a home since I do not have an album for Jaemen's pages from 1-->2 years old. Yes now it is really setting in that I am about a year behind BUT I got a whole book done, a whole year accomplished. And I am soo happy for that since I have never finished a book yet. But this wont be for long since I ordered THIS and it should be on its way. These albums are going to help me be able to display them on a shelf in the living room or something so that I am not the only one. I am getting the same books as this picture and I love the look of this for display(although mine are leather not fabric). I am hoping to get every color of these albums and two in each since I hope someday that I get so many layouts that I can fill more then one. But for right now just one in every color a different year in each color.

I know that I have not posted Jaemen's halloween experiences BUT he has an awesome costume and NOBODY better steal it.. Haha just joking. But for real I am just waiting for a little closer plus I didnt get the best of pictures of him. He has another escapade here on Oct. 3rd... So we will see..

Lastly, I am going to do my darnest to bring back the Project 365... I know I have not been taking any pictures and honestly I think it is a little much for some one that works. Maybe great for someone that is a stay at home momma like Jennifer... She has done awesome for two years in a row... Go check out her blog it is awsome and I would love to have those results but I am thinking next year Project 52... A picture a week...

And to prove it here is September 1st's Picture.. This is a picture of the AWESOME lamps I got today at Target thanks to my mom for my Bday. I got two for each side now we just got to get the bed off the floor with a frame and a bracket for the tv to put on the wall and two nightstands and the room with be complete. Oh I also need to take a picture for the wall behind the door that I have been wanting to take.

Until Later

-Karidan

OH MY GOODNESS..

He is going to be TWO here in just a few short months. I can't believe it... even though you know he is going to be because he is starting the terrible two's way to early. But I finally got some good pictures of him when he was out camping last weekend and 'trick or treating'. ( I know way to early but that story will be later once the colder weather hits OH WAIT that is right my computer is telling me it is 61 degrees right now!! ) Anyways... The only problem with the pictures is he is in the wrong teams sweatshirt!! I will have to find him a Michigan one SOON football is here!!! More update later.. HEY it is my birthday I dont need to be spending my time on the computer so I will be back later.

Sneak Peak..

So I have had a couple of shoots in the past week. But I believe this little one has stolen the show!!! He was haming it up for the camera for a couple of minutes and then the 3 year old came out and he is "done". As he kept on saying... But here is a little sneak peak for his Momma. You will probably recognize him from about a year ago I took pictures of him. Thanks for looking... I will have pictures up of my little one here soon.

Summer fun...

So we have been finally having summer weather here in good ol' Michigan and Jaemen has been loving it. He can finally play in all the water that he wants to. Every night when we come home he has gotten on his swimsuit and went right out to the pool... He loves playing in the hose and drinking all the water he can choke down.

Oh and as you can see one thing he loves to do is use his slid like a waterslide and he goes down feet first on his belly. He is nuts.

Other then playing in the pool last Sunday we took him to the Splash Pad in Grand Blanc and he LOVED that. Well at least until some big kid knocked him down and he took a pretty big knock to the head... THank god the ground was the real soft rubber flooring so he bounced but I am sure it hurt at least it looked like it hurt. After the fall, he got back out there but then he wanted us to go where ever he went so it was about time to go. He just drank all the water there too haha...

Here is a scrapbook page that I just threw together today after seeing a layout like it in a gallery that I look through almost daily. I loved it and it was for a mothers girl so I just knew I needed to make it for a "mama's boy" since everyone knows that is what my little man is.

Lastly, before I get out of here. I am sorry I have taken so long to get back about my medical scare. I am ok.... The doctor told me that it is due to the fact that my nerves run accross my body down my leg and are getting blocked by the scar tissue of my incision. Because of this the nerves are coiling around each other. There was a name for it but I cant find it online and dont know how to pronounce it... So anyways that is why there is a lot of pain since it is all nerve endings. Solution: I have to have steriod injections into the coil and hopefully this will reduce the pain and after a coupld injections do something to the nerves that I didnt understand haha... I was very relieved but the next day I was in about the same pain so I am upset that it didnt really work.

Well to end this, our lives are just consisting getting ready for Sherrow to leave on the 21st. And I think while daddy is gone we are going to switch Jaemen to a Big Boy bed... and start potty training... I was going to try and get rid of the pacifer but I think the two above things is enough for the little guy.. We will work on the pacifer later!!!

Until then

Karidan

U @ 20 Months..

A new layout I did of Jaemen... Hopefully I will be able to get all these pages I have been doing lately printed out soon.. about to upload them to the print lab and see how much!! Of course I missed the 99 cent a page sale.. agh..

Should be back tomorrow to update everyone on my medical problems which you should be happy to know aren't that big of problems actually... Yea!!

Until then... Karidan