My Favorite Father's Day!

This year's Father's Day was the BEST!

The day started out with Tim waking up at 6:15 with the baby while I was able to sleep in.

When I woke up, I headed downstairs and Tim had made a waffle breakfast!

The rest of the day went well...

We went to church...

Came home because Arlo was not on his best behavior.

I went back to church, while Tim stayed home with the baby...

came back home...

And Tim had made me dinner!

What a day!  I wish everyday was Father's Day!

BUT...

The person who made it all possible is the person who the day was really for.

My husband, my best friend, my love,

My Timmy!

Baby, I love you!  Thank you for all that you do for me!

Happy LATE Father's Day!

Talkin about...

So Tim and I were talking the other day about how super uber smart our son is.  I know most parents say that about their children... and I mean it in no other way.  But we were also talking about how smart babies are in general.  To think that Arlo has only been in the world almost 14 months and all you have to do is watch him for a few minutes and you will see all the amazing things he can do.  He watches us all the time even when we don't think he is paying attention because the next thing we know... he is doing it all by himself.  Babies are amazing!!!!

Talkin about talking... Arlo is talking nonstop these days.  Now just before I give you my brag list I want you to know that even though he says these words, you might not understand them, but I can since I am around him all the time.

outside
ball
rock
upstairs
bottle
bubbles
up
bite
all done
please
Bronco (our dog)
uh-oh
light
thank you
night-night
bye-bye
hello

You might be looking over this list and see that he does not say mama or dada... well he does, but everything else in the world that is not the things listed above are mama and dada so I do not count them.
I can also add to this list many other words that he will copy from what his father and I say, but once again he just hears words and says them but does not know what they mean just quite yet... so I won't count those either.

But now you can agree with me that Arlo is the smartest baby on the earth!!!!  :-)

On a more serious side, I am just so grateful to my wonderful Heavenly Father who has blessed me with such a fabulous little boy.  He has made me smile more than anything else in this world.  He is healthy, happy, and so, so, so, so good!  I am also blessed with a wonderful husband who I love more than anything because he puts up with me and loves me no matter what.  I am also so blessed to be having another baby boy in November!  Our little family is about as perfect as they come... and I could not be happier!

I'm in a hurry!

For those of you who do not yet know... I am now a stay at home mom!  That's right, Tim and I decided that this will be my last year teaching. (At least until my babies are grown and in school.)  Yesterday I finally finished cleaning out my room.  I have been working on it since last friday and today I finally finished putting it in storage (Thanks Tallona!)  So, life is what I call perfect right now.  One of the greatest pleasures I was looking forward to about being a stay at home mom was going shopping in the middle of the day!  I kept thinking of how horrible it is to go shopping on the weekend, or how bad I felt every time I sent Tim to the store at 10:00 at night and I just couldn't wait to go when the store was empty.  So today I lived out my dream of the perfect shopping trip and...

 well...


 IT WAS BAD IN A WAY I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT OF!


I pulled into the first parking spot in the parking lot (which was also in the shade) and I got out of the car, put Arlo in the cart and I took off.  But as soon as I walked in the store, there was an old woman talking with the door greeter, blocking the entrance.  And that about explains my trip.  Old, slow people scattered perfectly throughout the store to make my 20 minute shopping trip turn into 45 minutes!  Then to top it all off, there was only one check out lane open!

So my happy dreams of shopping during the day, turned out to be a bust.

Oh well, at least I am home with my babe!  That will keep me happy!

Memorial Day

I know memorial day is tomorrow but we decided to go with the family today.  We brought our camera and well Arlo was just so cute, we took many more pictures than expected and we got a few cute ones.

(No he is not eating me, these are his wonderful kisses!)

Look at that drippy popsicle!

Look at the mess!

Hope you enjoyed the picture post!

House Cleaner for Hire

My name is Arlo Jaxton Gooch  I have been vacuuming since I was one year old.

I learned to love cleaning since my mom is always vacuuming up after our dog Bronco.

If you're anything like me, I used to be afraid of the vacuum, 

but then after a while I realized it wasn't so bad.

Then one day I decided I give vacuuming a try, and well I love it so much it is all I want to do now.

So my mom said I should start a business, and so I am giving it a try.

My hours are 7 am to 7 pm (but I take two naps, so we will have to work around those.)

The investment...

I am asking 50$ an hour.

I know I am expensive but dad says I have to pay for college one day.

Here are some pictures of my vacuuming skills.

If these have not convinced you to hire me, then this next picture will.  This is what I look like when mom tells me it is time to stop vacuuming and put it away.

I don't know what else to tell you except for... I LOVE to vacuum!!!!!

Thanks for your time,

Arlo

Goodnight Kisses!

Okay, so I know my life revolves around Arlo, but he is just to cute!  And to prove it, here is another cute story...

We have had a bedtime routine in place practically since he was born.  We start with a tubby, get ready for bed, bottle, read a book, rock, kiss then bed time.  Now, when I rock him it is usually just for about 20-30 seconds because I have a rule.  If he is not settling down I do not continue to rock him because if I did it would take me an hour to get him to sleep, where if I just lay him down in his crib he falls asleep in 5 minutes.  The main way he shows me that he is not going to settle down is when he lays down on my shoulder for his rocking time and then after a few seconds he will pick up his head look straight at me and then give me a HUGE smile and then put his head back down on my shoulder.  Once he does it a time or two I stop rocking and I give him his goodnight kiss and put him in his crib.

Tonight was the same story... but different.

The whole routine was very normal and then I started rocking him.  Arlo stayed down on my shoulder for longer than normal and I started thinking, Oooh yeah!  I get to rock my boy to sleep tonight!  But then he started to pick up his head.  (Not unusual)  This is where my story changes tonight.  Arlo picks up his head looks at me but there is no smile.  Instead he looks at me and then opens his mouth up wide.  (This is how he gives his kisses!)  It was too cute so I went ahead and gave him a kiss and then he put his head back down.  Now, like I said before, I only let Arlo pick his head up a few times before I lay him down.  About a half minute later he picks his head up again and looks at me and opens up wide for another kiss.  I could not help but to continue to rock him!  What kind of mom would I be to deny my baby kisses?  So we continued this for another 3 times before he started to really play.

5 KISSES!!!  That is what I got from my baby tonight.   I am such a lucky mom!

First Haircut

I have been getting comments about Arlo's hair lately and how it is looking a little bit scraggly.  The thing that these people do not know is... believe it or not, my 'mom goggles' are actually not as high powered as I ordered them and I have known that my son's hair has been scraggly for months.  I have actually spent the last few months trying to convince my husband and my mother that Arlo needs a haircut.  So today I won and Arlo got his very first haircut!!!!  (I know... this is exciting news!)

Take a close look at his before picture...

This is what the poor girl had to go through the whole entire cut.  Luckily she was wonderful and FAST! Arlo was only in the chair for a 5 minutes and she was done.  Arlo was happy the entire time!  It helped that he was surrounded by mirrors!  He kept turning to the mirror behind him and waving and then looking in front of him and waving at himself in that mirror, and then he would take a few seconds and drive his car. 

Here are the after shots!  And mom I know that there are no shots of him smiling... and I said that he was happy the whole time but I only brought my phone with me and all the pictures that I took where he was smiling were blurry because he was being so wiggly. 

But...

Look at his hair, it is even and handsome and everything but scraggly!

The place I got his haircut is called cool cuts and they gave me a little certificate with a baggie holding a few strands of his hair and a place for a picture.  How cute is that?  Now I just wish I brought my camera with to get a good picture of the BIG moment (haha;-)).