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So my life has been pretty busy and really I just got bored with blogging so I quit. I was reading this girl Kelly's blog. I don't know much about her except that she is a WONDERFUL role model. She is a wonderful christian woman! I was reading her blog and she was talking about why blog. One of her reasons was to remember your child's life and she had me there. It is so true. There are so many things that I can remember now but I could soon forget and using this I could always have something to look back on.

Update on Kale:
Kale turned one in February and was walking before his first birthday. The kid runs now! He is such a busy little boy. Sometimes it is hard to keep up with his energy. He is into everything barely sits down for a second! However, as tiring as he can be I would not trade it for anything in the world. He is very curious. He says "dat" and points when he wants to know what something is OR when he is trying to be cute and wants to have something that he is not really allowed to have like soda. It is amazing to see how much he learns each day. I have to say that I am pretty sure (knock on wood) that I am going to have a very intelligent child. The kid LOVES books. I wonder if there are other kids out there like him? He will grab a book off his book shelf, or out of his toy box and bring it to you to read him. Today, I pretended to ignore him (to see what he would do) he grabbed my hand, opened it, placed the book in my hand and sat in my lap. The only down fall to his love of reading is he will expect you to read to him until he gets tired of this, that is not the bad part, the bad part is he expects you to read him the same book over and over and over and over. I think I have a few of his books memorized. There have been days lately where he has sat in my lap and I have read him five books. I love that my little boy loves books. I love books; I always have. I just recently finished a danielle steel book a 400 page book in two days. Ryan loves books as well so I think it hopefully will be inevitable for Kale to love to read too! Another cute thing Kale does is dance. The kid loves to dance in his car seat he will dance and at home when certain music comes on. It is the cutest thing EVER! The boy definitely has an attitude though. We are working on it. I feel bad because he has been getting in trouble a lot lately, but I feel like he is testing his limits and I want him to know that Ryan and I don't put up with nonsense. I came from a strict family and I plan to run a tight ship myself. I do not want to be as crazy strict on him as my parents were; but, he will mind! Lately he does this unhhh screaming thing when he gets in trouble. So when he does this he gets popped again. He also has not fully grasped or chooses not to grasp the concept of NO. You tell him no and he looks at you and does it anyway. This is being put to an end too!

I am finally done with school and getting to stay at home and enjoy time with him and I love it! He is such a happy, wonderful baby. Hopefully it is sunny tomorrow and I will be able to take him outside. The kid loves to be outside!

bath time

Gosh I feel like I haven't written in forever. I really just have not felt like it nor really had the time. Kale is growing so fast it is hard to believe that next monday he will be 9 months old. I had him 9 months ago. I really feel like I had him just yesterday. It's like I want to go back in time and enjoy everything all over again. I enjoy the age he is at now. I love how he interacts and laughs at some of the most random things, loves to rough house with daddy, and everything else he does; but, I feel like I didn't get to enjoy him as a little baby enough. It is true what everyone says enjoy it while you can because it will be gone in the blink of an eye. I feel like I just blinked and he was saying dada and mama and baba and ga and duh and all of these little cute words and now is on his way to becoming a little man. Now on to what I was going to blog about. I probably haven't given Kale a bath in about a week and a half. Not that he hasn't bathed :) haha. Daddy has just been the one to give the bath because his bath sometimes falls at the time when I am cooking dinner. Well the past two nights it has worked out where I have been the one to give him a bath. I LOVE to give Kale a bath. The kid LOVES the bath. I mean he would stay in there for hours if I let him. He reminds me of Jayden because when I get him out and start to get him dressed he cries. I think my baby likes to be naked! He has a bunch of toys in his bath now, most of them are ducks. He will play with one throw it down and grab another....he has to play with them all. The kid loves his toys now...bath toys or play time toys...he LOVES THEM!!! and has to touch everyone that is out for him. Well that night I gave him his bath he had played with all his ducks, jets, and trucks while I was washing his hair and bathing him. Well as soon as I put the wash cloth in his tub because I was finished with bathing him and just going to watch him play he went diving for it!!! It was so funny...well then he would sit there and say da in this weird voice and he would sit very straight and then he would start splashing and going nuts....water was going everywhere all in his face coming out of the bath tub....all over me....but I couldn't stop him he was having so much fun!!! He would stop say da in that weird voice and straighten up and start splashing again. I think I had to fill up his bath twice because of how much he was splashing! well because of all of his comotion he made bubbles and once he saw these he stopped splashing and wanted to grab them so fast. He kept trying to pick them up and grab them between his two fingers but he couldn't...so he would splash some more and try again. I love how interactive he is and it is so amazing to be able to be home with him and see him learn something new everyday! He is so amazing!!! The kid also loves the water facet!!! when I was refilling his bath he dived toward the water facet and was holding his arm underneath it and trying to grab the water. He was just too precious!!!

standing boy

Yesterday I was playing with Kale in the floor. My sister gave us this new toy that Jayden had grown out of. It is a little green chair and it has gadgets for him to play with. Well yesterday he was sitting in it playing with the gadgets and watching his t.v. show when what does he do? Stand up!!! He completely BLEW MY MIND!!! I so was not expecting that. He would fall back into his seat and stand right back up. It was soo awesome. I love seeing him overcome a milestone. It just makes me so proud...:) I am trying to enjoy them as much as I can...seeing how I am going to start school back in the spring (hopefully) and it will be Ryan with him during the day and Ryan who gets to see all these milestones...that makes me sad :(

my moving little boy

I haven't written in a while, but to be honest not too much has been going on. Kale is growing so fast. It makes me so sad. I am always telling Ryan I am ready to have another one; however, I am not. This weekend we went home to see the Kings of Leon concert, which just happened to be my very first concert. It was pretty awesome. I enjoyed it alot; however, I would have to say I think Ivy enjoyed it more :) She was jamming out the whole concert! Saturday morning we went over to my sisters new house to help move in. I was so exhausted I didn't do much but just sit around. I don't know what was wrong with me but I was worthless. Ryan sat Kale down on the floor and he got up on his hands and knees and took his first crawl step..:) He didn't go far but he did go somewhere. Mostly he just "humped" the air...meaning his hips moved back and forth. My sister said thats something they do right before they start crawling. SO EXCITING!!! I know he wants to move so bad!! I think he is just sick of tired of being still and wants to do his own thing...a.k.a. get into everything! I can already tell I am going to have my hands full with this little guy. When he is in the kitchen in his walker he has found the trash can and tries to grap the trashbag. I tell him NO very sternly and move him to the other side of the kitchen...what does he do...goes right back to the trash can. He is a little stubborn boy :) I will teach him though! The kid can move in his walker..in the kitchen he moves every where and steers that thing pretty dang good!

First two teeth

Well I must say that I was blessed with a good teether (knock on wood) , I definitely don't want to jinx myself. Maybe I should re-state that. I was blessed with a baby who cut his first two teeth with not too much trouble. I will say that Ryan and I have been blessed with probably the best little baby boy ever (again knock on wood). Everytime we go out we constantly get comments on his blue eyes (that's a given...he will definitely woo the girls with his piercing eyes) but we also almost ALWAYS get compliments on how well behaved and what a happy baby we have. A mom yesterday at pets mart was talking about how good he was being in his stroller and how most babies especially hers would start to fuss if the stroller wasn't moving but he was just sitting there looking around. Don't get me wrong my child has his moments just like any other; but, really all around Ryan and I were blessed with such a happy baby. Well about a week ago we noticed he was whining more than normal. Rarely ever does Kale just whine unless he is hungry or wants to move on to a new toy. Well he had started to just whine at times and nothing pleased him. I didn't know what was going on, but I didn't think about the possibility of him cutting a tooth. He wasn't ridiculously fussy at all. I had noticed that he had increased drool and was chewing on his toys ALOT so one day I just happened to stick my finger in his mouth to check out his gums and low and behold he had cut his first tooth. My hand grazed over his gums and in the front got caught on his first tooth :) I was such a happy mommy. I looked and there it was sticking out of the gum. Ryan and I were so happy and praised him on cutting his first tooth and what a big boy he was. Well I have always heard once they break through the gum it no longer hurts the baby; but he was still being fussy and acting like his gums were bothering him. My mom told me that teeth normally come in pairs so he was probably trying to cut another one. So when he acted like he was in pain I gave him some teething tablets, and at night I would give him tylenol to help him sleep through the night without waking up with his teeth bothering him. Well yesterday I checked his gums to see if another tooth had popped up and sure enough he has now cut his front two bottom teeth :)

Nap time in bed

Gosh, I have not blogged in what seems like FOREVER! Things have been kind of hectic in the Metty household! Ryan has an ORI going on, on base. They are getting a grade to see how well they could go in if something bad was happening in the world and be ready to deploy..He has been working twelve hour shifts for what seems like FOREVER getting them ready for this ORI. I will be so glad when it is over. Hopefully, there will not be anymore excercises for a while. I have been busy studying for my GACE test in October. I swear studying for this makes me really un-easy about starting back school. Studying and being a mommy and keeping the house clean and having dinner ready is hard work. Ryan said me going back to school would take a lot of effort from the both of us; but he knew we could do it. I know we can do it. I think I am just going to be a zombie once I start back. I mean I don't think I will be getting very much sleep. So that is pretty much what has been going on around our household now on to what I intended on blogging about.

Since Kale has been born I have always let him take naps in his bouncer. They have been short little cat naps, probably because I end up waking him up but he takes a fair share of naps during the day. Well yesterday he was fussing away. I put him in his bouncer to bounce him so he would take a nap and he still fussed. I ended up getting really annoyed because I could tell he was tired he just would not go to sleep in his bouncer. I started getting frusturated at him so I put him in his bed and decided I would let him whine a little bit in his bed and he could just take a nap in his bed. It ended up working out perfectly. I could do things around the house without being worried about waking him up. I had a little bit of me time I felt like where I could do what I wanted instead of just sitting beside him trying to be as quiet and as mouse. Not to mention he took a longer nap then he normally would. Right then and there I thought about it and decided that I was going to make him take naps in his bed from now on. It just makes sense because I mean even when he gets to be two I still want him to take at least one nap. I think that kids that age still need naps. Well at that age there is no way he can fit in his bouncer or at least I can't bounce him in it. Not to mention that I am sure during the terrible two stage he will be a little rebellious. Well when it is nap time it is nap time and if I teach him now that when I lay him down in his bed he needs to take a nap then as he gets older I can lay him down in his bed, he can fuss a little bit but eventually take a nap. And I don't think he will be growing out of his crib anytime soon :) Everything I thought of was a positive to laying him in his crib for naps. I did it this morning too and he whined for a few mintues and went right to sleep :) and he has been sleeping for about 30 minutes now maybe even a little more. I am definitely going to start doing this!!!

My Relationship with God

I had seen this blog on a friends blog (that sounds confusing.) And I started to read it. My friend had asked everyone who read her blog to pray for this family. I looked at the blog and started to read. This family, had two boys and the third one from what I read was born a little early. I didn't read the blog from the beginning, so I don't know if the baby was born premature or maybe the problems were going on and they had to induce. Needless to say the baby was born with heart and kidney problems. He lived for I think 4 weeks and then ended up going up to the Lord. This family had such a strong relationship with God. I have never seen a couple like them. Even in this hard situation they were praying to God for strength and thanking him for the time they got to spend with their son. I was just in awe and amazed with their relationship with God and their faith.

I almost feel like God directed me to their blog. Lately, I have not had the best relationship with God. I mean yes, I am a Christian however, I have not read my bible in a very long time. Also, when I came down here for college I tried finding a church that I liked and after trying a couple I just couldn't find one I liked so I just kind of gave up...Not cool!! About a month ago Ryan and I had run into a rocky point in our marriage I felt like we needed to start going back to church and just really needed the Lord to enter our life and help us heal our marriage...we needed to have a good Christian marriage and we had lost sight of that. We both decided we needed to start going to church; however, we didn't.

After reading this family's blog I started weeping. I wanted to have that faith, that relationship I used to have with God before I came to college. I talked to Ryan and we plan on starting back church. I think it is very important for Kale to be a child who knows God and grows up in church having a good relationship with the Lord.

I just really wanted to blog about this because it was heavy on my heart. I think God is always watching out for us and trying to send us signs guiding us back to him when we fall wayside.