All about Milo

Milo:
20 months old
Likes:
      Dinosaurs
       Ice Age 3(He could watch it all day long if we let him)
      Horses
      Cowboy Hat (or "Bampa Hat" as he calls it since Grandpa wears one and gave him his.)
      Horses
      Trucks
     Daddy
     Playing outside when possible
     His "ah ha ha" (toothbrush)
     Elmo
     Reading books
     Fisher

Dislikes:
       Clothes
       Sharing
       Being told "No"
       Fisher


Milo is at such a fun age right now.  He is really starting to talk  and communicate, even if Cody and I  are the only ones who understand.  He is obsessed with dinosaurs right now and it is so cute.  He stomps around the house with his arms up roaring.  He doesn't say no but he can say "uh uh" with more attitude than you can believe. He also says "yeah!" with fierce enthusiasm, even when answering the simplest of questions.  He has gotten to the point where we have to discipline him which isn't very fun. Our designated time-out spot is the top stair and he is actually doing really well with time-outs.  This kid has a lot of attitude and is quite stubborn at times. Cody is convinced it comes from me which is probably true, I still have issues with admitting when I'm wrong and my mom says I would never apologize  when I was little.  But he can also be the sweetest thing ever. When he will actually hold still long enough to cuddle him it is the best thing in the world.  Every time he says, "Tank to, mama" (Thank you, mama) it melts my heart.

    

Christmas Day

We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. We were able to spend time with our family's and relax. (Although we did miss the Welker's this year.)

Milo was so much fun this Christmas. He was able to unwrap all of his own presents and was so excited about everything he got. When we woke up on Christmas I handed Milo a present from under the tree to open. He opened it and was so excited. I handed him another one and he handed it back to me and said with a very serious look, "No mama, back."  We had been telling him all month not to open the presents and leave them under the tree so he was a little confused!

 

Milo got this cute tractor from Aunt Arian on Christmas Eve and kept piling all of his other toys onto the trailer.

Luckily Santa brought him this dump truck that they could all fit in!

 

This is Milo's favorite hat, the dog bowl. Yes his hair does smell like dog breath.

 

Arian, our own personal Santa. She spoiled me with a new snowboard jacket, gloves, hat and a shirt. And Cody got new ski's. Now if we could just get out and use them!

 

The day after Christmas Milo woke up and we told him to go play with his toys, he went into his room and came out with all of his old toys!

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

Halloween

Grandma Cheryl had her annual Halloween Party complete with witches fingers breadsticks, witches brew to drink, creepy jello and caramel apples. The kids loved it of course.

 

Milo was not excited about getting his costume on, he hated it at first. As soon as he was on  his bike he didn't care anymore.

 

 

We went to about 5 houses trick-or-treating.

When  we got home from trick-or-treating and were passing out candy, Milo kept dumping out the candy bowl.  Neither Cody or I realised he had stolen a whole bunch of pixy stix and eaten them until it was too late! He was up with a tummy ache half the night.

MOAB

Anniversary and Colorado

5 Years!! Cody and I have been married for 5 years! I know it is crazy. Where does the time go? Our anniversary was the 25th of September and I had school orientation that same day. As I was getting ready that morning Cody came to say goodbye I said "And?" (I was waiting for him to wish me good luck at school) he smiled and said "Happy Anniversary." I looked at him and said "That's better." Even though I had totally forgotten that it was our anniversary! So yes ladies you should be jealous, my husband remembers anniversaries, which is a good thing since I dont!


As soon as I got done at orientation that day we packed up the car and left for Colorado. We went to spend my last weekend of freedom for the next 20 months with our friends Court and Jen and their sweet little baby who we hadn't met yet.
It was such a beautiful drive through the canyons with the colors changing. We spent the first day in Estes Park, where the hotel from "The Shining" is. The next day we went to Boulder and hung out. It was such a fun and relaxing trip. We hung out at Court and Jen's each night and played with the kids.

 

 

 

 

Nickels and San Diego

Last Thursday Amber and Todd went to New York City for their anniversary so my mom went to San Diego to babysit. She decided at the last minute she wanted me and Milo to come along and bought us plane tickets for Saturday morning. Friday night I was getting everything ready for our trip. I could hear Cody and Milo playing on the deck. Cody yelled to me inside, "Milo just swallowed a nickel!" "Well is he okay?" I replied. Turns out he wasn't. Cody brought him inside and he was crying ( a good thing, he was breathing) and throwing up (a bad thing. Not only scary but I was afraid he might throw up the nickel and it would get stuck higher). So I did what I always do in an emergency, I called Hayley. I then called the pediatrician and they told me if he was having a hard time swallowing we needed to take him to the emergency room. We decided that would be best and headed to the E.R. We had to wait only a few minutes and they got us back for a chest x-ray. There it was.....stuck. Then the waiting game began. We had to wait for them to call in the ENT (ear, nose and throat specialist) and the anesthesiologist. Over an hour later they arrived and they took my baby to the operating room to be put to sleep so that they could use a scope to go down his throat and retrieve the nickel. He was then taken up to pediatrics to recover for a couple of hours.

We got home around 1:30 and had to wake up at 7:00. Milo's poor little throat was hurting him. He had popsicles for breakfast and we headed for the airport. We got on I 2-15 and they had it closed down to 1 lane. WE MISSED OUR FLIGHT! Luckily they had room on the next flight.

Don't worry, our weekend got a lot better from there.
We spent our time hanging out with the kids and relaxing. Milo loved the beach! He loved everything about it. The water, sand, splashing and running.