Skinner Family: April 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Happy Birthday to my Baby!!

Dane Ryan Skinner

THEN

- 5 days old

-3 weeks old

-1 month old baby

-Dane on the day of his blessing.

NOW

Dane giving a big cheesy smile right before his birthday party began.

He has been saying he is 2 since he was 1 but now he can almost show how old he is with his fingers. We figured by the time he understood he was 1 NOT 2 he would be 2 so we didn't bother to teach him his real age.

The birthday boy got his wish. "baball upcakes" My friend and I decorated his cupcakes as baseballs, basketballs, footballs, and worms in dirt. It was fun and Dane was so excited when he saw them.

Dane and Caleb had a joint birthday party at the park and loved blowing out their candles. It was quite the efffort to get a picture of both of them with both of their candles lit at the same time:)

I guess he didn't want to get his hands dirty...

...so instead he spent the rest of his party with a frosting mustache and flavor saver. YUM!

Terrible Twos???!! No way!

:)

Dane LOVES his dad! He loves to wear his shoes, drag his backpack throughout the house, and wear his hat when Ryan wears one. (He is trying to hold up two fingers to show how old he is going to be on his birthday)

Wondering what to do with himself once Ryan left for school.

I wanted to see if the little headband/beanie I crocheted looked cute on an actual person so I tried it out on the cutest model ever! YEP!- Dad was at school and doesn't check the blog so I hopefully won't be getting in any trouble:)

Dane LOVES stacking things up right now. He loves to see how tall me can make his block, juice cups, and yes- his cars. He honestly was so proud of this "tower" but then when I got the camera he was too into his show to pose.

AND....drumroll please.....

35 weeks pregnant... Almost there...!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Just trying to keep busy...

Ryan has been a busy man studying for classes and boards so I have had to figure out things to do with my time when Dane is down for the night. I have started a couple of projects but have only finished this so far. I learned how to crochet when I was probably 12 and haven't tried it since so I was actually impressed that I remembered how to do it. I wanted a cute headband/ ear-warmer thingy for the winters (in utah of course not AZ). I did the headband pretty easy but wanted something else so I somehow made up a flower pattern and think that it turned out pretty cute. Hopefully I can get some use out of it this Christmas:)

Now I need to decide if I am going to leave the "ear-warmer" like this...

Or if I'm going to tuck the petals under so the flower is not as big. What do you think??

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Ok, so I have been really bad at blogging/ checking up on blogs and have noticed that a couple of my friends have gone private without me knowing. Also I missed the boat on getting them my email before they went private. For all of those girls- PLEASE ADD ME, I will be better at checking on blogs from now on I swear. My email is carlieweston@yahoo.com.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Baby Update.

Yesterday I had my 32 week Dr. appointment. I got a 3D ultrasound and they measured the little guy to be almost 5lbs (which is in the 75-90%) and they told me he has lots of hair already, SHOCKER! I have a feeling he is going to look like his big brother. I also talked my Dr. into setting up a date for my induction!! yea! I am due May 31st but he doesn't want me to go til my due date since Dane was a big baby and made my recovery worse than it needed to be. I was able to talk him into inducing me May 21st which is the day of Ryan's last final, my Grandpa Weston's birthday, and my mom's birthday. As soon as Ryan wraps up with his last final we will head to the hospital where our Dr. said Ryan will get to deliver our little boy.