Baby Cort Pics

I stole this idea from Mary, a friend of mine. I went to the store and bought white and black fabric and tried to take some pics at home. We are taking the kids in today to Target to get some holiday photos, but who knows if we can get our 20 month old to cooperate. It's hit and miss with him. I figured I would have better luck doing some at home. Creighton was sleeping and Kiley was at school, so I just did Cort. Here are a few:

Big problems at Big lots...

So, Big lots had wrapping paper on sale- $2.00 for 100 sq. ft. Moms you know that is a good deal, and Wii games on sale also. So, I went. I would have never gone, if the sale wasn't so good. In the entrance to the store, customers must form a line and go through one of those security devices that only allows one person to enter at a time, similar to what they do at subway stations or anyplace you have to purchase a ticket and enter one at a time. Now, Big Lots doesn't have great, expensive, lavish things and even if they did, why is this at the entrance to the store...what are they trying to prevent me from bringing in? So, I have Cort in his car seat and Creighton with me. I lift the car seat and I go through, showing Creighton how to do it. He doesn't get it though and he is now stuck on the other side of this thing. Cort loses his pacifier and begins crying...loudly. I spend about a minute trying to talk Creighton thru this contraption. Finally, we both get frustrated and he bends down to crawl under it and I bend down to help him..at which point the fun starts. Keep in mind,that there is a security guard and many, many people standing around that could have offered some assistance during this whole thing. So, I have my keys in my sweatshirt pocket. When I bend down, the car seat hits my keys and sets off my car alarm. At the same time, my purse spills out including the babies bottle and an open bag of M&M's. The M&M's go everywhere. Keep in mind, we are still in the entrance and the floor is all muddy from people coming in. Cort is still crying. I stand up to attempt to turn off the car alarm, while still holding Corts car seat. Creighton is now on his knees eating the dirty M&M's on the other side of this darn device. Since my hands are full with a crying baby and I am using the other one to point my keychain at the window and try to get the alarm shut off, I try to kick the M&M's out of his reach, but that does not work so well. He just starts to crawl away from where I am to get the M&M's. I can't go out of this thing because it only goes one way to let people in. After this whole thing continues for what seems like forever, I finally offer Creighton some juice that was on the shelf right by me. He crawls over, getting his knees all dirty, I reach down, grab Creightons leg, and drag him under this stupid device that serves no purpose other than causing problems for mothers. Of course, he is crying because I have taken him away from where all the M&M's are. My car alarm is still going off but I do not even consider going outside of the store to shut it off and having to re-enter through this thing again.I am sure people now think I am crazy. I admit I did think some very harsh things about Big Lots as this whole thing unplayed. Why did noone help? I would have helped any of them. I am going to call the store and just find out why that thing is there...does it matter if we all enter individually, one at a time, in a straight line. Really, what purpose can this possibly serve...I cant think of even 1 good reason. If I see a store video from their surveillance camera on Americas funniest videos one day, I am claiming the rights to that.

"Crazy Creighty"

I have a new nickname for my 20 month old son, Creighton-"Crazy Creighty". He is hilarious. He has OCD when it comes to shoes and hats. He sets them on our steps and when he comes down in the morning he puts his hat and his shoes on...even before a diaper change. He takes them off at bedtime and places them in the exact spot on the steps. He is also very concerned about making sure that Chad is always wearing shoes and a hat. I wonder why he has this sort of expectation. Today I asked Creighton if he would go get the dog some food while I changed Cort. I didn't notice until we were leaving the house that, in the dogs bowl, was a 1/2 eaten granola bar, Kix cereal, and some potato chips. I just laughed.

Kiley....she is growing up fast.

Kiley turned 8 on Nov. 12. I can't believe how old she is getting. She has had this sweater for a couple of years now, but it just now fits...even though it is only a size 5. She loves to have her picture taken, which is fine with me. I have a large collection of pictures of her since she was just a baby. It seems like each year she gets more beautiful.

Bedroom

Of these two bedrooms, which one do you like the best. I am torn. Keep in mind, all the doors in our bedroom are white, six panel doors and we have a white victorian style fireplace.

I tried to get all three kids in a picture, but one was not cooperating.

I tried to take a nice photo of all three kids. Creighton was not up for it. Eventually, I will get one. O'well.

My little sleeper

I found Creighton sleeping like this one evening. I had put him to bed around 7pm and went to check on him before I went to bed. I thought he was still awake at first, but didn't see any movement for a few minutes. I thought this was so funny. I took the book from him and he didn't move at all. The past couple of weeks, Creighton has been going poop during his afternoon nap. This of course wakes him up and he must have an itchy bottom. He reaches down his pants to scratch his bottom and poo gets on him, his clothes, his bed, etc. My first attempt to remedy the problem was to set up our baby video monitor in his room. I set it up so that it looks directly into his crib and I have the video monitor above our TV in our family room. This makes for pretty good entertainment for the family. I have caught him both times, and spared myself a huge mess. Also, I realized something else. I used to think Creighton was such a good sleeper, going to bed and laying down for naps so well. Turns out, sometimes he doesn't even take a nap. He will lay in his crib and read books and play for 1, even 2 hours without making a peep.