I passed!

I took the test today to get my Amateur Radio License. And I passed! I have to wait until I get my call sign (Wednesday or Thursday) before I can actually start transmitting but I don't have a Ham Radio yet so that won't be a problem :)  I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to do with my license. There are a lot of different avenues I could go... contesting, trafficking, emergency response, morse code competitions, etc. I don't think I want to do this just for fun. I want to use it for a purpose, so I'm leaning towards emergency response. I still have to look into how to do that, but regardless of all of this, I'm really excited that I passed!!

Post Edit: I got my call sign! KF7IJL. Aunt Beth says it stands for "I just lied" Mom says it stands for "I'm just lucky."   Regardless, I won't ever forget my sign again!  :)

Crasher

After yesterday's post being a tribute to Brayden, I couldn't let today slip away without talking about my Asher. I knew I wanted to do this so I've spent a lot of my day thinking about him and the joy that he brings to my life.

Asher is adorable. He has the most precious smile...the kind the pierces through to your heart and injects a little bit of joy. He loves to dance. Clap. Sing. Laugh.

Scream. He loves to scream. When he's happy, sad, upset. He especially loves to scream when the room echoes. Just ask Courtney :)

He is such a little adventurer. And curious. He knows how to push a chair anywhere to get whatever he wants. 

His vocabulary is constantly growing. But even without words, he knows how to communicate. 

I realized today that he has more teeth than I thought. I thought he only had 6. 4 on top, 2 on bottom. But it turns out He has 2 molars as well. And he is cutting his bottom tooth just right of center today too. 

Asher is a tank. Still. He eats. and eats. and eats.  And he throws his food. And likes to smear peanut butter and jelly on the walls, chairs, couch and carpet. 

Asher's favorite toys are balls and cars. Mostly balls. He loves to throw them, but his favorite thing is to watch his dad "guggle". Sean was playing with the boys one day and decided to juggle for them. Ever since then, Asher will go gather 3 balls (usually all different sizes) and bring them to Sean and say "uh! uh! guggle!" It's pretty adorable.

He has been going down for naps like a champ lately. He still grabs his ear and sucks on the back of his other hand when he's tired. When that happens I say "Asher, go grab your blankie!" and he perks up and goes "huh?" (cutest sound ever!) and wanders to go find it. Then he brings it to me and hugs me. I carry him up the stairs where I stand by his crib in an attempt to cuddle him before I place him in it. He throws his body back leaving his chin as the only place left for me to kiss. I kiss the very bottom of his chin and lay him back. He looks up at me in anticipation as I lay his blanket completely over his body. He lifts up his arms and throws the blanket off his face. Then says "yu you" while waving His "I love you sign." (which misses the pinky so it's him waving an "L".) He then rolls over and goes to sleep. How blessed am I?

It are these little moments that I cherish. The ones that make being a mom all worth it. There are definitely hard days, but I wouldn't trade these kids for anything. They are my absolute reason for breathing!

Brayden

K, so I officially SUCK at blogging. In all reality though, there hasn't really been much to blog about. 

I lie. My kids have been SO adorable lately. I really really should be blogging more about them as well as taking more pictures. I don't think I've picked up my camera in a month, unfortunately. They're so dang cute I could just squeeze them but then I don't ever get the camera out. I'm a horrible mom.

Anyway, Brayden is a full grown little boy now. He can talk in full sentences and get his point across clearly. He is so so so adorable lately it makes me giddy. He's my little side kick. He loves to "tickle mommy's feet" and "fix mommy's hair." He loves to hold Asher and he still loves to read.

Today we were driving in the car and he sneezed. He said "Um Mommy! Wipe!" I grabbed a tissue and wiped his nose. Then I said "blow." And he said "Mommy, I don't need to blow. I did last night."

We went to the library tonight and he found a book called "Norman's Ark." There were a couple panda bears on the front and he loved it. He carried that book around the entire library and insisted he carry it to the car. We read it when we got home and I think he even took it to bed with him. Apparently my son likes Panda bears!

He is getting much more patient lately. He understands the concept of "wait" which is SO nice! He'll be frustrated because Asher is playing with something that he wants and I'll say "Can you wait until Asher is done playing with it?" And he'll say "Uhhhmmm...sure!" and go find something else. Oh how sweet that day was when "wait" clicked in. I thank sign language. I'm not sure how but once I taught him the sign it clicked in his head. It was heavenly.

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This isn't funny...

and I most definitely shouldn't be laughing.

But,

I am.

So I'm going to post this.

Brayden was just in the kitchen. There was a bag of raisins on the counter that he wanted so he pushed a chair in there so he could reach them. He stood up on the chair and picked up the raisins but they were heavier than he was expecting so they slipped out of his hands and onto the floor.

His reaction?

"Oh Crap."

My reaction?

I kept my back turned and pretended to not hear and chuckled silently to myself. I think I need to adjust my vocabulary.

Dad? I hope you aren't reading this.

Valentine's Dance

For Valentine's Day we went to a dance that was at my sister's stake center in Marysville. It was fun but dances are always so much more fun when you know more than 2 people :) Anyway, here are a couple pictures from it. (I'm so bummed I didn't think to put my red heels on for the picture! So dumb.)

What Asher currently looks like...