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.

2nd word

Well he is finally saying dada as of Saturday! Ryan doesn't have to be jealous and sad anymore haha! He says dada, now that he says it, more than mama but I don't mind that! He is still saying baba the most...which isn't a word...or Ryan thought maybe it meant dada..haha ovbiously not!

He also puts his pacy in his mouth now and I had the handle in my mouth holding it and carrying him and he grabbed it out of my mouth it was the cutest thing ever! I love my little boy!

Osh Kosh is going out of business!! I bought him sooo many clothes I spent $170 dollars between there and carters and got three of the giant bags stuffed full of stuff. Such cute things too! I was so excited!!! It is bad I love to shop for him as much as I love to shop for myself...not a good thing. Ryan told me not to go crazy. I think I might have just a little bit but the way I looked at it is it is saving us money in the long run. Osh Kosh has really good clothes and they normally are not cheap so getting them for that great price was a steal!!! I mean jeans for $4 regular like $20 you can't beat that!

I love this picture...it is such hard work to get my son to smile for the camera. He is such a happy baby..always laughing always smiling..as soon as I get him to smile and bring the camera up to my eye he turns it off...like ummm no I am not smiling for that thing...or he turns his head...It makes me sooo angry!!

He is changing so much lately...definitely developing more of a personality. I think I am pretty sure he is going to be a BIG talker like his mommy. The kid loves to talk...The past three mornings instead of crying when he wakes up, he talks to himself in his bed. It is the sweetest...cutest thing ever..I always wake up with a smile on my face. He has started to say baba...it's not a word but I think maybe we are getting close to dada...who knows...Ryan swears that baba means dada...?!?!? He wants him to be saying da-da so bad! I hope he does soon for Ryan's sake; but, it is kind of funny to see Ryan get so bent out of shape about him saying mama sometimes :) I am mean...I know !

I think I am definitely going to have my hands full with Kale as he gets older...he is already getting into things and he isn't even moving yet. We have a surround sound system on our t.v. stand and its on the bottom shelf...well Kale's favorite new thing to do is roll over there and bang on it. Also if I am eating in front of him or drinking he reaches for my glass, plate, whatever like that looks like a cool toy I will play with that. It's cute but I already tell him no sir!

His newest accomplishment: standing holding on to something. He still is very shaky; but it is so precious. I think soon he will be pulling up to stand all by himself, because he has an obsession with you helping him pull up to stand from sitting. We shall see...