Bad Advertising

Are these people really pro's? Did they even go to college?

You all know how I feel about Sara Lee advertising. I don't wanna watch people stuff their face/crumbs all over their face. sick. I don't want to eat anything now.

But here's another company that's gone way way WAY too far:



CHARMIN.
pieces left behind?? um, shut up.



Yes, yes I WOULD like to go a day without watching a bear take a squat every day on TV.

(Now would be a bad time to say, we use charmin. Its the softest and Josh is a TP snob. It would be the cheapest stuff, if it were up to me. Ya happy, Charmin? You just got the best advertisment, for free.)

Next up, General Mills Check Mark Dog Grooming commercial



Her hand gets a lot closer to her dogs....beeeehind.
Josh informed me that its normal for people to show their dogs that way at a dog show.
You know what I say to that?
I. Don't. Care.
Seeing a woman rub her dog's butt doesn't make me want to go eat cereal. Let alone General Mills.

Want to know my opinion on who DOES advertise well?


aaand for some reason I cant find any pictures from a few years back when they had lots of desserts like ice cream, cup cakes in place of diet dr. pepper...

Anyway, I'm not crazy about Dr. Pepper, but that picture makes me want to take a drink of that drink. They just show the product when it is in best form, with ice and the cool condensation running down the glass...

I think basically I don't like advertisements with people in them.

Kaius Turned One!!!!!!

This is super late, but we're lucky we even got any pictures at all, methinks. I had morning sickness and didn't do much of anything around that time.
Well, cake eating was anti-climactic.
He reached for the whole cake at first...thinking we would totally stop him.

But when we didn't stop him, he was just so upset that his hands were dirty.



All he wanted to do was cuddle his daddy to make him feel better.



Then, mommy took him on the grass to give mauling the cake another try.



Same thing, not happy.



Just wanted to cuddle.
But I didn't mind :)

Stats:
This chunker, being in the 90th percentile for both height and weight most of his life...was only 20th percentile at his 12 month appt. He stayed 20 lbs for like 5 months straight. He's just lengthening out now. His chubbiness is disappearing and as soon as i see pics like this one, its crazy how much is gone.


Updates:

Every day he's understanding more and more what we're saying to him. If we ask him to give us something he doesn't want to give up, he shakes his head from side to side.

He points at object and says "whats that??!" but it is pronounced "whathhhaaaaa?"

When I say "ready, set" he says "doow"

He has 7 teeth with one more on the way...yippieee.

When he sees someone he knows he says "Hi" to them, about 4-5 times. so cute.

If he hears any kind of music at all, he is bouncing up and down and waving his arms. He loves any and all music. Heavy metal, hip hop, classical...

I'm starting to try to potty train him. It would be awesome to have him out of diapers at 18 months when this baby comes (hey, supposedly Josh did it at that age! And Kaius is just a little CARBON COPY of Josh)

He loves kissing a hugging his stuffed animals. He has about 10-15 of them but I think his favorite is a big super soft Froggy that Katie got him at my shower. He loves kissing and hugging mommy and daddy too. A few weeks ago at church one of his little friends his age, Kellan, was playing with him and Kaius just leaned in and gave him a hug. Kellan's reaction was so funny, like "Uh...I like hugs but not from a DUDE" it was really funny. His mom Rachel and I are partners as Den mothers for the Bears. and they were both sitting in their strollers, side by side, holding hands. Now that I am typing it out it sounds a little weird, but at the time it was really cute. Anyway! He went in to kiss my mom a few weeks ago (sometimes they're opened mouthed, haha) and she thought he was going to bite her chin. But all he wanted was some grandma loves :)

He has been walking really well the last couple of weeks, getting pretty fast now and is almost running!

I can't think of anything else right now, but I would just like to state on record that I think this here baby on the way is a girl. The pregnancy has just been different. Im still kinda sick if I dont eat and that didn't happen with Kaius.

Epic Deer Watcher

We went to Steamboat Springs, CO for a getaway with some friends (which was amazing, and deserves its own post) and we were driving back this morning at 6 am. It was still dark and Josh was on full deer patrol. He is pretty amazing at pointing them out, I even informed the couple that was riding with us. Well, it was the girls and Kaius in the back (and we were all asleep), and the boys in the front chatting. We were going 70 and came up over a hill...to find THIS waiting for us.

But, pretend they are lined up across the highway, not grass.
No Joke, there were this many.
And as soon as humanly possible, Josh had the brake pedal to the floor and the tires screeeeeeeeched against the pavement, which immediately got the deers' attention (and the backseat passengers). They all started to dart right, except the one on the far left. He darted left. Which gave us a tiny gap, that I was sure our car wouldn't fit through. Josh swerved last second and made the teeny gap (which was probably on the opposite direction of traffic, luckily there were no cars) And as soon as we were in the clear, we all broke out the praises.
"That was AMAZING, Josh!"
"Wow, good job, Josh, I wouldn't have known what to do. I would have gone straight into them."
"me too. How did you do that???"
"Good thing we said a prayer before we left"
"Dude, that was like, video game good."
"Josh, I am thoroughly impressed. that was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed."

You get the idea. He's irreplaceable.

Kaius' Current Obsession

This iPad commercial.

On time he was sleeping on Josh's lap and this commercial came on and he immediately shot up (eyes still closed) and started dancing, swaying back and forth. Josh started laughing really hard, cuz it was hilarious, and Kaius slowly opened his eyes. After the commercial was over he went back to sleep.
I finally found it on youtube because I couldnt remember if it was ipod, ipad, droid, whatever. Its been on repeat for a while...and he's not getting sick of it yet.

Giving Birth Analogy

Pregnancy...you pee on the stick, you find out the gender. Its all so exciting. The weeks tick by...and you know when you get to around 40 weeks...in order to get your baby, you're gunna have to go down a dark alley

and meet a big scary guy and he is going to punch you in the face. You don't want to get punched in the face, but it just has to happen to get the baby out.

Just because this is my second child, and I have experienced pushing for 2 hours, and a c-section once, doesn't mean that when it happens again with this next baby that its less scary. I still have to go meet the man, and he's still gunna have to punch me in the face.

I think I'm actually more scared this time around, cuz my uterus has been cut open before! The risks! VBAC or another C-section? Im not even deciding until the end. But either way will leave a mark! ah!

Addicted to Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers

For about 2 weeks I have been feeling the baby move around. But within the last few days, he/she has been poking out of my belly!
According to the internet, the baby is only about 3 inches long, so it must be the whole body sticking out! It happens when I go to Zumba and when I lay down to sleep at night. Today I am 13 weeks. That's crazy early to be feeling what I am, right? I know you can feel the baby earlier and earlier with each pregnancy, but first time I felt Kaius move, I was 17 weeks!

That's pretty much all I have to report. My morning sickness was done at 12 weeks, so I had to have my girl Cammie & her husband Malan over for the famous p-dub steak sandwiches. I can cook again!!!