Cyrus and Kyah

Cyrus has his first girlfriend. Doesn't it look like a prom picture? :)

It's a New Year.

Well, it's a new year which means new goals. We let Cyrus demonstrate a few of our basic family goals for us.

Eat at home more, and eat more healthy foods. We learned eating with chopsticks makes you eat slower and less, and we let Cyrus try it with us. He couldn't get it to work with his food, so...

Try new things. If that means reading your book while sitting in a laundry basket then so be it.

Read more books. Cyrus doesn't think daddy reads his books correctly (he doesn't, he likes to make up his own words) so he gets a little confused and annoyed. :)

Be more helpful.


Make more time to play and have some fun!

Stay positive and keep smiling (even when its freezing outside and your mom bundles you up so much you can barely walk!)

We're looking forward to 2010 and all the great things that are going to come with it!

Christmas!

Our Christmas this year was so fun! We were able to spend a weekend in Salt Lake with the Hobbs where we saw the lights, visited Cabellas, did some shopping, saw santa, had some good tasty food and swam in the hotel pool. All the kids loved it and it was so fun to get out for the weekend. Funny that just being in Salt Lake felt like a vacation. :)

We also got to spend a lot of time with my family. We saw the lights and had my grandma's big party. Cyrus got to open his first christmas present of the year and he was having so much fun playing it was hard to get him to sit still long enough to open it. He loves playing with all the kids in my family, but his favorite is Jodi. She's close to 16 I think and they just have a ball together.

He loved everything he got for Christmas from Santa. We were all pretty spoiled this year. We love Christmas!

Quirky!

Cyrus is almost 21 months old! I can't believe it! Just for fun I thought I'd post some of the quirkier things he does now. He loves to have his picture taken and loves to say "cheese!" with a big scrunched up face.

He likes to have his bed filled with blankets and stuffed animals. I don't quite understand it although Trav says he'd do it if he could. "think how warm and cozy it would be!" Whatever.

Cyrus was really sick for awhile. He had an ear infection and bronchitis which turned to tracheitis and he couldn't breathe. Poor kid. He loves his blankets so much and was so tired he'd lay down on them wherever he could find a spot. Even the kitchen floor.

His favorite snack is chips. One day trav left a bag of his favorite chips downstairs and after a few minutes of too much quiet I peeked in at him and found this. Asleep with his hand in the chips.

Like I said he loves his blankets. He puts them over his head in the car too sleep.

I don't have a picture for it, but he loves dip. Mostly ketchup, but he's not too picky as long as he can dip his food. He spent almost 30 minutes after we were done eating spearing each kernel of corn on his fork and dipping it in his ketchup. I don't know where he came from, I hate ketchup!

And who knew this is what you were supposed to do with stickers! We love our silly little guy! He definitely keeps us entertained!