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Here I am, beginning the final year of my twenties and still feeling and acting (and apparently looking) like I’m about 18. When will I grow up!?? haha

I had the. best. day. ever. Thanks to Air beginning his vacation from work on this day. We started the day out by working on our en suite reno and facetime-ing with my parents. Lovely.

After Ames’ nap we headed out to Air’s Dr appointment, where Ames and I found a nice little trail to walk up and down (while we waited for Air to talk to the endocrinologist about his MRI results. Yikes). It was a pretty nice day.

 

↓↓↓there’s a cute little squirrel with an orange tail looking at us in the center of this photo↓↓↓

From there we went to the mall for lunch and played at a little baby play area. Then we went to Target and bought my gift (yay!).

We had dinner with Tam and Jadey at Cafe Del Sol and forgot to take a picture… Dang.

Then the whole family came over for some cake!

    

↓↓↓Ames mooched and mooched↓↓↓

  

Thank you to everyone who sent cards and gifts and everyone who wrote nice messages on facebook and etc. It made the day that much more special.

My parents gave me an awesome kitchen timer (I loooove it) and a nice kitchen knife too. Air’s parent’s gave me a candle and chocolate (perfect).

Air gave me this bench:

…and I am in love.

.gusa gram

 

Here we are, still in the Canadian snow and ice, with no warmer temperatures anywhere in the forecast. And somehow we seem to be doing better than ever. Things have been really good for us here in the house of Gusa. Not a lot has changed, we are just happy to be alive and together. We have so many blessings… too many to list.

Air is loving his new job these days and I got ANOTHER new calling. Goodbye cubs, hello Relief Society 2nd counselor. Also, it’s my birthday this week and Air has work off from Wednesday to Tuesday!! WOOHOO!

Things are looking up for us.

Here are the latest grams and etc:

↓↓↓I’ve spent hours scraping ice off our driveway and this huge slab was so cool to pick up all at once//Ames has a drinking problem↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓poor sleepy boy has to go everywhere with his busy momma//the cake toppers I made for Air’s bday↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓I purchased a flight to Utah for Ames and I! Can’t wait til June!//Cutest passport photos ever↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Ames got immunized, nbd//Inventor of the cheese stick phone↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓Petland on Valentines Day//Ames is obsessed with animals↓↓↓

 

↓↓↓We all love to play dress up with our baby//Don’t worry Ames, soon Tam will have a baby and you won’t have to deal with all of this↓↓↓

 

And here are some videos:

↓↓↓He is getting more and more brave in the bath and now he thinks its hilarious to "blow bubbles" in the water (until he accidentally breathes in and chokes!)↓↓↓


↓↓↓The funniest thing Ames does these days is run and dive into his tent... I finally got it on camera here↓↓↓


↓↓↓He loves just wandering around being silly while I work. Gosh I love this boy.↓↓↓

.V Day VI

We love Valentines Day around here. No matter what we do it always ends up being an extra special and happy day for us. Sorry (this is mostly for our own record), but here is a play by play of our day:

6:45 Air left to work (busy day for him)

7(freaking)o’clock: Ames woke up early and I forced him to stay in bed with me for another 20 minutes until I could no longer contain him

7:30 Feed Ames bananas and oatmeal for breakfast. Pour myself cereal

9:00 Ames stops playing for long enough to eat a snack

9:45 Put the tired boy down for a nap (way earlier than usual)

10:00 Read my scriptures, pass out for 30 minutes, shower and get ready

12:35 Woke Ames up from his nap

12:45 Air pulled up on his lunch break to bring us the car

12:50 Drop Air back off at his office and rush over to Ames’ Dr appt….

1:05 I apparently mis-scheduled Ames’ appointment since they told me it wasn’t scheduled for exactly one month from that day. On Friday March 14th (Weird that his 18 month checkup wouldn’t be until he is 19 months old)

1:10 Feeling pretty annoyed with this fact. Like maybe I’m not the one who made a mistake?

1:15 Stop at home for a quick lunch

1:45 Ames and I went shopping (yay!) and to the pet store (yay!)

3:45 We got home and I gave Ames a Valentines gift:

 

4:15 A lady shows up at our house to buy something I had on kijiji. I was in the middle of changing Ames’ (really sore) bum so I put the naked boy in his crib to answer the door.

5:10 Pick Air up from work and go straight to dinner. Sushi!

 

6:30-8:00 Back at home to play play play giggle giggle giggle:

8:15 Put Ames to bed and we started really cheesy and lame chick-flick that nobody’s ever heard of. I don’t even know what it was called… ?

Who even cares what movie we’re watching when we’re snuggling like this!?? It honestly could have been anything, I wouldn't have minded. I have the cutest valentine in all the land.

Also! Thanks to my Momma for sending us these adorable valentines once again this year! She said she made approx 1 billion valentines for people this year. She is truly the queen of paper crafts. Also quilting... and just sewing in general.

.18 month old little buddy

This Ames of ours has grown and grown and grown. You know, just as all babies do, but it really seems to us like he’s grown at an elevated speed. He is so much bigger and heavier than all the other babies we know around his age... (for the record, he's 97th percentile for ht. (33 3/4") and 75th for wt. (27lbs))

Ames talks and talks all the day long and he repeats anything and everything that he feels like. Some of his favorite phrases right now are “stop eet”, “pweees”, “tank-oo da-da”, “nack?”, "check eet" (meaning he wants to check if the windows are cold by gently placing the back of his hand on the glass)… I could go on. He likes to tell jokes too. He’ll just start jibber-jabbering then yell “funny!” and he throws his head back laughing.

He points out all the animals and their sounds all day. He calls bugs “buggy” for some reason. Whenever we’re outside he looks at the sky for “tweet-tweet’s”, airplanes, and he can always spot the moon somehow. Sometimes we’re out there in the middle of the day and he looks up and yells “MOON!” I chuckle that he thinks he sees the moon, and then I look up and there it is. This kid knows his stuff and I want to know who taught him all of this??

His favorite toys change day by day. He usually rotates around between his current favorites though. His matchbox dinosaur car set, toy hammer, his horse and cow figurines, cars, the balloons left over from Air’s birthday, his play house, an old basketball player figurine we all lovingly call “Pippen”, and my iphone of course.

 

Out of no where one day last month Ames became obsessed with his binki for the first time in his life. I let him have it for a few days because it was so weird to hear him asking for it. I thought it would be a short phase, but here we are, still hearing him ask “beekee?” throughout the day. So weird.

We have had so much fun lately introducing Ames to some of the movies we grew up with. He is a HUGE fan of Lion King, Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, “Hop Hop” (Looney Tunes), Oliver and Company, and pretty much anything animal themed. haha

At the end of the day we have jammie time, we brush teeth (he hates brushing his teeth and just cries “all done?” the whole time), we have family kisses, and then it is the simplest thing to put Ames to bed. I take him to his room and rock him while he reaches around my neck and pulls himself real close and falls asleep so fast. He is such a good boy, he sleeps 12 whole hours most every night.

Air’s dad asked what we did to deserve such a good little guy… I really can’t think of anything, but Heavenly Father knew we needed some help, and we have been so blessed by him giving us Ames.

Air and I are constantly talking about how much FUN he is. Life could not be more fun than this time right now. Could it?