I found a promotional code to get 100 free Christmas cards, woo hoo! And of course I found out about it on Friday afternoon and it expired tonight so we took some impromptu pictures of Jace for the cards this afternoon, haha! I'm not going to post the pics we chose for the card, but here are some funny ones from the day. You can still get 50 free cards through the end of this month, and you get to design them yourself so let me know if you want to know the website and promo code and you have time to snap some pictures before the end of the month (or I guess you could use old ones haha) :-)




Can you imagine sleeping like this?! My leg is falling asleep just looking at the picture!

Well, I got so excited about Halloween that I forgot to mention that Jace is walking now! He had been teasing us taking a couple of steps here or there for a couple of weeks but right before Halloween he started to get a little more daring and he's been flying solo for about a week and a half now! Every day he gets a little more sturdy and confident. By confident I mean faster! There was this magical period of time right around 5.5 months where Jace had learned to sit, but wasn't really mobile yet so he could be put in one place and would play without going anywhere. It only lasted a few weeks before he started to scoot around but I find myself thinking fondly of those days :-) You know how celebrities always say that they keep their figure by running around after their children all day? Well I used to think it was a load of bull but now I believe it. If I want any kind of break from running around the house I have to lock Jace in one of two rooms filled with his toys so he can't escape. And he has about a 30 minute time limit in jail before he tries to open the doors and break out. He's about 1/100th of an inch away from being able to reach the door handle if he stands on his tippie toes :-)

We went to the park today and Jace had a run in with a bad little boy that I almost punched in the face! Jace and another little boy were playing by some giant plastic flower and the bad boy jumped on the flower and kicked Jace's friend and slapped Jace in the face! He hit them both hard enough to knock them on their bottoms. He then proceeded to run over to the butterfly and pull a little girl off of it by her hair!! And what is the Mom doing? Oh, talking on her cell phone not even paying attention! Grrrrr! But Jace was a real trooper and he didn't even cry! Poor guy, I still feel so bad. But if nothing else, I was reminded that no matter how young or old you are, there are always bad apples in every crowd. I guess as you get older you get better at finding and avoiding them!

The video below is from October 28th...Jace's first documented steps! I'll post some more tomorrow but for whatever reason I can't ever upload more than one video at a time and this is the first one :-)

Warning!

If you do not like reading about poop or vomit, just skip to the pictures!

My evening: Anthony and I trade off every night giving Jace baths. He loves the bath, but he is darn near impossible to control in there so I think it's safe to say that neither of us really love the task. Jace was a real monster today, trying to grab the shower curtain, trying to step onto the ledge, looking up the spout, and dancing around! So I get him all clean (I am soaking wet by this time) and I'm letting him play for a minute and he lets out a giant fart. Gross, but he starts laughing and so do I. Then his face gets really really red and his expression becomes very serious. I know this face! He's pooping! My reaction is not to let him poo in the tub, so I grab the cup we use to rinse his hair and I catch his poo! Yes, gross, but I did what I had to do! Anthony has had this cup FOREVER and it has a giant poo in it! I get Jace out of the bath, put him on the bed, wipe his bum, and then let him sit there while I reach for the diaper. In that nanosecond, he pukes...all over his private parts because I haven't had time to put his diaper on yet. UGH!! I clean up the puke, get him dressed, walk into his room to look for a bib and he pukes again...all over my arm and all over his jammies. Long story short - he had a bath tonight, but I don't really think he ended up clean at all! Oh, and last thing...tonight was Ant's night to give Jace a bath!!!!

Halloween seems boring compared to tonight, but here are some pics! We went over to Kevin and Margaret's house and had a really good time. Jace looked so cute in his costume, even though it was too small for him! I thought he would be scared of everyone in their costumes but he didn't seem to be phased by it at all :-) The next day we went to the state fair which was pretty fun too. We checked out all the stinky animals and Jace had a little run in with a sheep which resulted in a few tears. Stupid sheep! Earlier in the week we went to the park down the street and watched people feed the ducks. Jace LOVED it! And those ducks get so crazy! I'm glad there is a dock they can't get on, otherwise I have a feeling they would have been climbing all over us!

Oh, one more story! The park that has the ducks also has a little playground area with sand. Jace is too little for the playground equipment but he sat in the sand and played for a while. I was so careful not to let him get too crazy in the sand because I knew it would be everywhere. Before we got in the car, I tried to clean all the sand off of him and I thought I did a really good job. So we get home, and we are playing in the den and Jace keeps grabbing his diaper and wiggling his butt around. I felt his diaper and he wasn't wet, but he kept doing it so I took him to the bedroom and lo and behold, I find about 3 tons of sand in this poor kids diaper! I was so careful with the darn sand!! Not careful enough I guess! If he didn't like it so much, I'd make a house rule to stay away from sandboxes, haha