Rock N Roll

Hyrum is obsessed with Rock n Roll music lately.

Well, I haven't quite figured out what type of music he considers Rock n Roll just yet, but if you ask him, he will tell you how much he loves it.

He has lots of shirts with guitars and stars on them. They have all been deemed his 'Rock N Roll' shirts.

He has a Paper Jamz Guitar, as well as Paper Jamz drums. He loves them, and plays with them at some point every day... I think that the songs that are played on these 'instruments' he considers his Rock n Roll songs.

One of his best friends also has a little first act drum set, so I'm sure he plays with it while he is over there.

Any way... He Loves music. You can find many posts throughout my blogging history about Hyrum and his love for music.

I just went back and looked at them all :)  so I really shouldn't be surprised about his new found 'Rock N Roll' phase(?) that is going on right now. Maybe it's not a phase. I will let you decide when you get done checking out this blog post. :)

He loves to sing.. There are some car commercials on TV with catchy tunes that he has memorized and will sing around the house... he also made his own little rap/song and has been singing it every day for maybe two weeks. Maybe someone helped him come up with it.. I don't know.. I am finding myself surprised a LOT these days with Hyrum and the new things I hear come out of his mouth. I sometimes feel like a bad mother for not knowing where he is doing his learning.

Any way, there isn't much to his 'song' but it's really catchy and I will start singing it with him at times.. it goes like this

"Who loves rock n roll, who loves rock n rolll? ME. I love rock n roll, I love rock n roll"

I will have to video it some day soon.

Before I leave you to look at all of the pictures and videos of my life long music man, I must say how much he is growing up. Kind of makes me a little sad.

Being a big brother is really changing him. For about two weeks now I have been talking to him about getting his hair cut. He would always say "no thanks, I don't need a hair cut... daddy needs hair cut."

Tonight we went out to eat. While eating I decided that it would be a good night to get his hair cut so after dinner we headed to the salon to chop his hair off.

When we first pulled up, him and I got out of the car alone and went inside while Ricky finished up a phone call. When we went in there was only one person inside who's hair cut was being finished up so we didn't have a wait.

I gave Hyrums name and the lady looked at Hyrum and asked him if he was ready. Hyrum jumped up and ran as fast as he could back to one of the stations with much excitment. The lady placed a booster down for him to sit on and he climbed into the seat and excitedly told the lady "I love Rock n roll, this is my rock n roll shirt."

Ricky came in and told the lady how to cut Hyrum's hair, then we were sent to sit down and wait because Hyrum didn't need us. :(

He smiled the entire time. Every few minutes he would look over to Rick and I and call out to us. Once we would look up at him, he'd flash us a huge, forced, happy smile because he was a big boy, getting a big boy hair cut all on his own and NOT crying. He didn't make a peep. First hair cut in 3yrs that he hasn't cried or fussed or complained..

His hair cut was topped off with some extra special red colored hair gel. Because he was such a big boy, we purchased a tube of red spiking gel just for him and his big-boy-ness. He's really proud of it and can't wait to wear it in his hair again tomorrow.

Any way, here is evidence and proof of Hyrum's long time love for music. I hope you all enjoy and much as much fun as I have! maybe he will be famous some day.

(his haircut and his 'rock n roll' shirt)

 (he loved this piano. I actually really liked the tunes it played as well)

 (pot drummin)

 (drums at EMP)

 (playin with mom-mom's sticks)

 (his first live performance!)

(this band was taking a break and Hyrum made his way on stage to play the drums)

(!rock star!)

Soooo... should we start with drum, piano, or guitar lessons first..? or a hip hop dance class for tots??

 

!!I LOVE MY ROCKER!! 

Easter?

We tend to make our plans last minute. It's 12:30pm on Friday the 6th I don't know what we will be doing to 'celebrate' other than the fact that we will wake up and go to church.

While my mom was here a couple weeks ago, she bought Hyrum the new movie 'Hop.'

He loves it. I can't count how many times that it has been played in our home since the day it was purchased.

This will be the first Easter that Hyrum actualy realizes what is going on, though he only understands the whole Easter Bunny and eggs part of it.

Not it's true meaning, yet.

All week Hyrum has been walking around the house telling me "mom mom, the Easter Bunny is going to bring me a chocolate bunny and a Star Wars candy."

My thoughts.... "Oh really?"

I remember my siblings and I always being excited for our Easter baskets, and the egg hunt. Because of Hop, Hyrum understands all of this part of Easter, and it's fun for kiddos, so looks like I need to get busy and plan and get something put together!

We will have sunshine on and off during the day Sunday with only the slightest chance of tiny scattered showers. So, looks like I should get some eggs together for Hyrum to hunt.

We went to the SuperMall this week and the Easter Bunny was there. Hyurm kept asking him "where are yours eggs?" but sadly... the Easter Bunny doesn't speek. He only shrugs his shoulders and gives high-fives and hugs.

Hyrum still wants to know where his eggs were.

I suppose I need to go hunt down a Star Wars candy and a chocolate Easter Bunny..

Worn Out

I think that all of the baby prep going on around here has worn Hyrum out.

Hyrum has NEVER done this before... just fallen asleep somewhere when it wasn't bed time, and someplace other than his bed, or our room..

Have had people knocking on the door, phone calls, and Ricky even told him that he was going byebye... He stayed fast asleep here on the floor.

He's actualy still asleep and slightly snoring. kinda cute. :)

He had a pretty easy day today so I'm not sure why he konked out. I was the busy one cleaning out my closet and putting baby things away and I'm not tired!

I have a rush of energy today and dont feel sick.. It's a really strange feeling because I haven't felt like this in MONTHS. During all of this cleaning and moving around today, I keep thinking I'm going to go into labor or something.

MawMaw & Things

First off, yes, it has been more than 2months since my last post. No, I'm not going to pretend like I am going to 'catch up' on previous 'should have' posts.

I will however start from a little over a week ago.

MawMaw (mom) came to visit and help us get things ready for Baby A's arrival.

We did shopping, cleaning, organizing. She kept our laundry cleaned all week and did some projects for me that I found and wanted done. (Thanks to Pinterest.com and the creative people that post on there.)

This is a baby sling that I plan to use to carry baby A in...

this is the site that was used to make the sling. http://www.mykarmababy.com/pages/BabySlingPattern.php

my mom also looked up an additional video tutorial.

This next crafty project (will take pic once it is hung on the wall to show) is a Book Sling.

I found this on pinterest.com as well and loved the idea, plus it's basicaly a space saver for book storage in our apartment. My mom made two, four foot slings.

Here is a link to the tutorial and pics of what the finished product looks like.

http://www.domesticadventure.com/2010/12/nursery-book-slings/

Last, my mother came across this parretn and tutorial on her own and made it in TX, before coming up to WA. It's a car seat cover. These things have gotten really popular over the last year or so.

The sides have velcro. I can undo the velcro and pull back the fabric if i don't want baby totaly covered.

I don't know which tutorial she used, but here is are links to two tutorials that I found on pinterest.com if you are interested in making one yourself!

http://www.make-it-do.com/sew-it/baby-car-seat-cover-tutorial/

http://cally-cruze.blogspot.com/2009/10/infant-carseat-blanket.html

Other things that went on while MawMaw was here, was my baby shower.

It was probably one of the yummiest showers I've attended, thanks to the chocolate covered strawberrys, fresh strawberry lemonade with tons of fresh cut strawberrys, and Ricky making the ham and cheese deliciousness that nobody can name.

Today we took MawMaw to the Airport to go home for a few weeks. Afterwards, Hyrum and I went to Round Table Pizza and sat the for an hour and a half, ate pizza, salad, drank lemonade, and Hyrum danced...

I'm sure that if you go through old blog posts, there are several of Hyrum and music, and dancing/singing type stuff..

If music is on, and it's dancible, his body starts twitching... slowly and eventualy he gets up and breaks out in full on dance mode.

So, beware where you decide to take the little guy to eat, because he is sure to bust a move if he's feeling the music!

 

After pizza, I took Hyrum to SuperCuts to get his hair cut. I've been wanting it cut for a couple of weeks but refused to take him back to his 'usual' kids cuts place because the last two times, after telling the lady what we wanted, she grabbed some clippers, put on a guard, and just shaved his head all the same length (practicaly bald), and went back to the back of the shop to do whatever else that was more fun and appealing to her at the time, while leaving the other worker to finish with us and check us out.

 If you're going to cut hair... don't go to work when you're in a bad mood and take it out on little kids and their parents... maybe you need a new job!

I figured I'd give SuperCuts a try because for as long as I can remember, I always had my hair cut at Super Cuts in Baytown by Target growing up and they never ruined me.

We were in luck!! FINALLY, somebody could cut my boys hair the way I asked!

He sure looks handsome if you ask me!

and to top it all off... He sported his new kicks MawMaw got him from Kohls for just $8 after she used her special shopping coupons she always gets.





First Purchases

Ricky had the day off on Monday for the New Year holiday.

We ate lunch with the Voellgers, met our boss to pick up our pay checks, shopped at Beehive Books,

Costco, Heaven Sent, and Babies/Toys R Us.

I finally made my very first little girl purchases!

At Heaven Sent consignment shop I got these 4 'outfits' for $13.

The black and white kitty one has black pants with it that have ruffles on the butt and ankles. You can kind of see them in the pic if you look hard enough.

At Babies R Us, I bought these 4packs of recieving blankets for 'buy one get one half off,' some new born Tommee Tippee pacis and 2 paci holder/clips.

We also bought the little trash bag container that will go in our future diaper bag. These little trash bags smell good and come in handy when you have to change a diaper at someones home or the doc's office and don't want to smell the place up. Plus, you aren't allowed to throw away dirty diapers in the doctors office any way, so this way you have a bag to stick the dirty diaper in until you get to somewhere where you can throw it away.

I had to get the monkey set. I LOVE pink and brown together.

I will sew some of these recieving blankets together to make thicker/two sided blankets.

Soo. This is what we have so far.. I'm not in a huge rush to buy lots of stuff, so as of now, when baby A is born, she will have a couple outfits, 2 paci's, and some blankets.  :)