Dane and Grandma Skinner

Dane wanted to say a little something to his favorite grandma's for Mother's Day.

- 5 days old

-3 weeks old
-1 month old baby

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.

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??

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.

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.

Last week my mom came into town and it was so fun to spend some time with her. He headed out to Gilbert to hang out with my sister and her family too which was fun. We spent pretty much all day every day by the pool which was great. Every afternoon Dane would wake up from his nap and would eat his lunch at this little table with his "bowboy" hat on. He then would be so excited to swim in the hot tub. He didn't use his floaties once while we were there. He would jump straight in the middle of the hot tub and open his eyes to find my hands and pull himself to the stairs. He might be swimming by himself before too long!

Steph's kids decided to have a lemonade/bake sale one of the days and caught sneaky little theives stealing their doughnuts and airheads when they weren't looking. Dane and his 2 1/2 year old cousin made off with lots of goods before the other kids even noticed which was so hilarious to watch.

Finals Week is over!!! Woo HOoo!! Only one semester left!

Every morning Dane sees Ryan put his backpack on, grab his keys, and then slip his sunglasses on before he goes to school. Lately Dane has been coming to me with his backpack saying "backpack school"and makes me put it on him. Then he heads for the door and says (in a very high pitched voice) "See ya mom!" This particular morning he grabbed his backpack and then sunglasses. After he got them on he made me get him a set of keys so he could go to "school". Maybe next time he will remember to put on some pants first.
Dane and I packed a lunch and picked Ryan up from school last week so we could go have a picnic. The weather has been sooo nice lately so we went to the park. After lunch Ryan and Dane had a friendly game of soccer until Dane decided he wanted to play basketball and went and stole a ball from some 10 year olds that were already playing.
Dane and I also got to hang out with our good friends Heidi and Jamie who came over to visit. We never get to see them anymore so it was fun catching up- even though Dane and Jamie could care less that the other was there.

At the beginning of the month I went to Idaho to visit my mom and dad for almost 2 week! It was really fun to see them and work on little projects while I was there. My sister picked me up from the airport and we made the drive with 4 little kids in the back. The whole week that my sister was there was really fun for Dane because he had a 5 year old to follow around and who he thought was the funniest kid ever, a little girl 6 days older than him to bully, and brand new baby to hold and give kisses to.

All the kids helped my mom make some fresh bread and Dane was so proud of his mini loaf of bread that she made for him.

Last week was Ryan's birthday (Jan 17th) and my friend, Sara, was so nice to watch Dane while I took Ry out on the town. It was nice getting out for an evening with no kid and no school talk. Dinner was yummy too! A couple of days later we had a combined birthday (for Ryan and Rhett) get together with yummy dessert. Man these boys are getting old :)

The other day Dane and I were walking down our stairs and then he started counting with each step. I had NO clue he knew how to count. Now he counts everything...

This is his version:
(he skips one and starts with 2)
do
we
bow
bie
tik
weben
(no 8- i still need to convince him that there is an 8 in between 7 and 9)
nine
den!

We went to the Phoenix Wildlife Zoo during Christmas break and it was AWESOME! I wasn't quite sure if Dane would enjoy being at the zoo but he LOVED it! He loved all of the animals and especially loved the petting zoo. We taped Dane while he was in the petting zoo area and are so glad that we did. I thought he was be too chicken to go near the animals but he got right in there and tried even picking up one of the pygmy goats. We condensed the video that we got to show family but it is still pretty long. Enjoy Gma's and Gpa's!