First haircut

My little guy was in desperate need of a haircut. He probably could have used one the day he was born, but he is just so darn cute with the shaggy hair and the curls, I just couldn't bring myself to cut them off. I finally had to give in and cut it. The poor little guy. His hair was always hanging in his eyes...not to mention the nice tail in the back. Ha! So, here are the before and after pictures:

WOW!


What a handsome boy!!

I still had to leave it kind of shaggy just cause its so cute on him.

MMM Bananas!

So last night I gave Drey some bananas, his first try with babyfood. Of course, I had to post the classic baby food faces. It was hilarious. He did not like it one bit! We didn't get much in him because he kept gagging. Poor guy! You'll like it someday.

Also, just a cute pic. Jena loves to lay on the floor by Drey. She always talks to him "Hi Dreyson! You love me??" So, here they are playing together and Jena was trying to kiss him.

My little kiddos and Superman

So the other day I said something to Jena about "my two little kiddos" and she thought that was pretty funny. She now keeps saying it back to me. "Mom, you have two kiddos?"

One day last week I was helping Jena go in the bathroom so she could go potty. I had Drey in my arm and Jena kept getting mad at me and telling me to put him down. I held him in one arm and lifted Jena on to the potty with the other. She still kept telling me to put him down. I jokingly told her, "Its ok Jena. I can do both because I'm super mom!" This was her response, "You're superman?" Now everytime we're in the bathroom, I hear, "Mom, you're superman? You can do both?"

She makes me laugh at all the things she remembers.

Go Cougars!

Kevin has taught Jena the BYU Fight Song. It is so cute to hear her sing it. She was sitting at the table eating dinner and I had left the room for a little bit and when I came back she was singing " Rah Rah, Rah Rah Rah...GO COUGARS!!" She had taken some of the plants out of my centerpiece and was using them as pom poms!

Lost Binkys

I am really bad with losing things. I lost 2 binkys in 2 weeks and I thought I had lost another one last night. One Sunday, we were getting ready for church and Kevin tossed Drey's binky in the diaper bag. On the way out the door, Drey started to fuss, so I grabbed the binky and put it in his mouth. Well, when we got to church, it wasn't there. Kevin kept insisting that he had put it in the diaper bag and I told him that I had taken it out to give to Drey. We checked in his car sear (where it usually is.)We looked all over and under our church bench. I even walked home between meetings to see if it had fallen out on the sidewalk or in the parking lot, or even in our kitchen or garage. I ended up just grabbing another one I had upstairs. About a week later, I lost that one too! I don't even have a story for that one. One minute he was sitting in his bouncy chair with it, and then I run upstairs to do something, and then I come back it was gone. I looked under our recliner and couch, and all over where he was sitting. Never found that one either.

Well, last night, I was trying to get Drey to sleep and Kevin was ready to go to bed. So, I sat Drey in his bouncy chair (with the binky in his mouth) and turned to say prayers with Kev so he could go to sleep. When we were done, I picked Drey back up and went to get his binky and it was gone!! I really thought I was loosing it. I kept thinking " I know he just had it cause he had it when I set him down" and then I kept second guessing myself... "wait, did he? or did I leave it downstairs? or is it by the computer?" I really thought I was loosing my mind. I searched all over my house for it, even though I was almost positive it was somewhere in my bedroom where I had set him down.

Finally, I just thought "Well, he's going to have to go to sleep with out one I guess, because I don't have anymore here." I layed him down on the floor for a minute while I did something (I can't remember what I was doing) and when he rolled over I heard a noise, like kind of a creaking sound. So I picked him up and I realized it was in his pajamas! Somehow it had gone inside his pajamas and got all the way down underneath his arm. Whew! I sure was happy that I found it and that I really wasn't going crazy!

Utah State Fair

Monday night we went to the Utah State Fair with Kevin's parents, his brother and his fam. It is a tradition in Kevin's family. They go every year. I love going to the fair. It is so much fun to me. Jena loved seeing all the animals. She even got to pet a bunny. She thought that was pretty cool.

They had all these cute cut out things were you could put your faces so we had to do it with Jena and cousin Mary.
Jena and I rode the Big Yellow Slide. (Its kind of hard to see, but we are standing in front of the slide) I always loved it growing up (well, I still do) and I was really excited for Jena to go on it with me because I thought for sure she would love it. You should have seen her face when she got off...I think she was scared to death! It did go faster than I remembered...
We always have to have a treat. The Cowley's tradition is to get a Carmel Apple, but Jena, Kevin, and I had ice cream.

Drey was so good at the fair, considering I left his binky in the car! I was so worried he was going to be really fussy, but he ended up falling asleep twice...even without the binky. I was so proud of him. It almost made me want to get rid of his binky all together....Almost.

Nana and Papa got Brian, Mary, and Jena cowboy hats at the fair. Jena loves it! I didn't really think she would care much about it, but she has worn it all over the place since she got it. She even had to wear it to the grocery store.

A couple of firsts...

Drey tried cereal for the first time this weekend. I have been wanting to give it to him for a while, but have been waiting till Kevin was home with me so he could take pictures. I just couldn't do it without getting some pictures. They make the funniest faces. Drey did pretty well. He didn't really know what to do, like even how to open his mouth when the spoon came. He'll get the hang of it eventually.

I also got out the exersaucer and cleaned it all up for him. He LOVED it! Jena used to love this thing when she was a baby. She could bounce in it all day long. I hope Drey will enjoy it as much as Jena did.

What the...?

This morning when I went to get Drey out of bed, this is what I found.... Don't ask me how he got his PJ pants off. He's only 5 months old! He must have kicked and wriggled enough to get them off. Silly guy!

Labor Day

For Labor Day, we went over to my parents for a BBQ. Jena was running around inside at my parents house and tripped and hit her head right above her eye on the ottoman of my parents rocking chair. Now she's got somewhat of a black eye. (except its only on her eyelid.)

Anniversary

I have been meaning to post this forever, but I just hadn't gotten around to doing it yet. Things have been kind of crazy around our house for a couple of weeks. Kevin and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary a couple weeks ago. It doesn't seem like its been that long already. Kevin's sister took the kids for us while we went to dinner. Then 3 days later, Kevin got his tonsils out. I had heard that it was really awful for an adult to get their tonsils out, but I didn't really think of how hard it would be. Not only how much pain he would be in, but I didn't realize that Kevin wouldn't be able to talk because it hurt too much, or how much he would rely on his pain medication that he took every 3 hours (even in the night), which he had to take with food or else it made him sick. So that meant that he was up in the night, cooking himself some Ramen so he could take his pain pill. Poor guy! I would have gotten up with him the night, but he never woke me up. Luckily, he is feeling much better now. Kevin also started school last week. That was kind of tricky. He still could hardly talk and he couldn't drive because of his medication. So, we had to figure out how he was going to get to and from school. Things are starting to get back to normal.