Karston is 2!!!

Well it has happened. My baby turned 2 this last week. I can't believe how quickly time flies. It truly does not feel like he should be 2 already. Karston is starting into his terrible two's which to be honest hasn't been all that horrible yet. He has his moments, but for the most part he is still a VERY good boy. Here are some facts about this 2 year old:
1. He still loves to play with your ears except he only does this now when he is tired.
2. He loves to help mom clean or really help with whatever she is doing.
3. He loves to dance.
4. He loves to learn. He is now doing sign language and gets very proud of himself when he learns a new sign.
5. He loves to build with blocks.
6. He is my little professor always studying and trying to figure out how EVERYTHING works. Much like his dad!
7. He has the cutest smile, and the sweetest little giggle.
8. He loves to eat especially healthy stuff that both mom and dad don't like. He will walk around with a stalk of lettuce in his mouth for his afternoon snack. Nothing on it just plain lettuce! He especially LOVES his chocolate milk in the morning.
9. He loves doing things with his dad and grandpa's. Especially when it comes to doing outside stuff like mowing the lawn, using an air compressor or whatever!
10. He likes to snuggle at night.
11. He always looks out for his mom. Especially when I am not feeling well. He brings me a garbage can and imitates what you do in it (even though I am not puky sick), rubs my back
and my feet, and tells me he loves me all the time!
12. He loves electronics, and puzzles, and he LOVES LOVES LOVES doing his ABC'S and 123's.
13. I can't even begin to describe his love and passion for 1 thing and that would be MICKEY MOUSE! We would be lost without the infamous Mickey Mouse, which brings us to his birthday party!

These were our decorations. My friend Erin helped me make the poster Mickey Mouse heads because I can't draw at all! So Thank you Erin I appreciate your help! We wrote a poem that went along with his pictures from the past year which said:
"When I was 1 I had lots of fun! I played in the sand, talked on the phone, I played in my puddle, and LOVED family huddles! I played in the leaves... I camped in the trees. I fell in the Tub, MAN I am a stud! I played in the snow with mom and dad. I hope no one finds out how much fun I had. I watched Mickey Mouse and played in the park. I destroyed the house from noon until dark! Who knew this life could be SOOOOOO fun... LOOK OUT 2 cause HERE I COME! If you could see the picture the words went to it would make a lot more sense. Just know that what we said described each picture VERY well!

All of my cute friends minus Brooklyn, and Brody who weren't too interested in being photographed! There was Nina, Tippy, Kaecen, Karston enjoying a yummy Mickey Mouse cup cake!

Karston's personal cake! Thanks Erin and Kelli for your help on that! I as always was running a little behind so they helped frost the cake! I did however put the candles on if that counts!!!

All my mickey mouse cupcakes! We had chocolate, white, and purple cake!!!Purple was supposed to be red actually, but ended up with purple so oh well!

It was a great party and Karston had A LOT of fun! We just have to work on sharing the new toys now!!! We love you so much Karston. Our lives have been richly blessed since you became a part of it. I am so grateful to be able to stay home with you every day and see every new thing you do or discover. You bring such a sweet spirit to our home and we miss you so much when for some reason or another your not there. Thanks for always taking such good care of your momma. I love you with all my heart and can't wait to see what new adventures your 2nd year will bring for you, me, daddy and Baby Jayden!!!!! Love you baby boy! I hope you had a very HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

KARSTON'S 2 YEAR OLD STATS:

Head: 48.75

Weight: 25.6

Height: 34.5

I forgot to write down what percentage he is in but he is growing just fine!!!

FIRE STATION EGG HUNT!

Kaesen and Tippy's dad invited us to come out to the Fire Station Easter Egg Hunt! It was so fun. They had eggs everywhere. Karston cracked me up. He was into it all until he realized that there was candy inside then he just wanted the candy. They had the Easter Bunny there but he left before we had a chance to see him. So we looked around at the Fire Trucks and Ambulance. Karston just wanted to open all the doors to them. Wasn't interested in being inside! Hopefully it stays that way!!! It was a lot of fun and SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL outside! Thank you Pitcher's for inviting us!
Brody just wanted to do his own thing! Which did not include getting a picture taken. He liked picking the flowers more then the eggs!

Karston didn't think this kid had enough eggs so he was finding them for him and sharing.

Look mom I found the CANDY! YUMMMMMM!

My Almost 2 Year OLD!!!!

I can't believe my baby is going to be 2 years old this month. He is truly such a good baby (I mean Big Boy)! These are I guess you could say Pre-2 year old pics. We wanted to do them outside, but the weather wasn't cooperating so we decided to do a few in her studio and then when I go do my maternity pics we will do the rest of his 2 year old pics outside (Fingers Crossed) So here is a little preview! My ALL Time favorites are probably this first one and the 3rd to the last! Oh that face how I love it!!! I feel bad because this was the one day he wasn't running a fever, but you can tell he still wasn't feeling his greatest. They still are cute but then again I am biased!!!

Room in progress, Park, Sick Bug!!!

We have been pretty busy lately! So I am a little behind on posting. This month I guess the "Nesting Bug" has hit! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when it does! I made my list of things to get done before our little man arrives and I am almost done with it! One of them was to fix the kids room. This is a picture of what it looked like before: Cute huh! Well Karston and his little buddies picked off all the animals and by doing so the red paint behind it also came off. So I had to think of something new because it was bugging me seeing all the holes where paint/animals used to be. This red paint is impossible to match so I had to think of something totally different. So this is what we came up with. We painted a blue stripe around the room and then a dear friend of mine is going to be printing out some cute little western decals with her Criquet they will be a horse shoe, A star, and a cowboy hat. I was looking around his room and his pictures are all those old western photos that I LOVE so I figured why not go with that theme! I am going to try and figure out how to make a cute curtain for his little window, and maybe one for the BIG window we will see about that! Then under Karston's name will be the new baby's name. So I can't have more than 2 kids here because there isn't room for any more names on the wall! Anyway so this is what is done so far!

It was fairly decent one day a few weeks ago, and I had no kiddos to watch so Karston and I had a mommy son date at the park. We went to eat at Arctic Circle, played there for a little while, then we went to a park and soaked in some fresh air! Karston LOVED it and so did I! Towards the end it got a little breezy so we didn't get to be out very long, but it was still so nice!

Karston would hang on to the slide bar and tease me. He would go "Ready mom, Set mom, G.... No no." and he would laugh and laugh! Little tease!

He like to play peek-a-boo around the pole from the stairs! Silly baby, but I got a cute picture!

This is how you watch T.V. broom, bucket and all! I have been going through every bin, cupboard, etc. Karston is making good use of the empty buckets! Amazing how much more room you have when you throw bunches of stuff away! I LOVE that feeling!

This picture I came across and it made me giggle so I had to post it! He has always LOVED helping mom with the chores! That little face makes me soo happy! I love him!

This past week Karston has been sick. He has had a fever of 103-104 with the lowest on medicine being between 99 or 101. The week before Doug was sick with Strep so I thought for sure Karston got it, but no. I took him in Monday, and he had a double ear infection. Tuesday we went back in and he had Croup. Saturday Doug and I took him in because he still sounded a little croupy and still had his high fever. Well everything checked out on his ears, and throat so then they decided to see if maybe he had a UTI that was TRAUMATIC both for Karston and Mom. He is a STRONG little bugger. Takes after the Purcell side I guess even the nurses were amazed at his strength. Got that done nothing. So then they decided to do some blood work. We took him over to the hospital Doug has a hard time with needles, blood and stuff so I got to be the lucky one to take him in. I was so nervous the entire time. Kept saying a little prayer hoping that they would find a good vein and they would only have to do 1 poke! I took Karston back and Karston saw the needle and looked at me and said "OHHH NO NO NO" I could not stop laughing it was so cute. He actually did REALLY good. He helped them disinfect his little arm. He cried when they held his arm down and did the little poke, but once that was done he just watched. I wish I would have taken a picture of his little bandaged arm, but I forgot. Anyway it showed some infection somewhere, but they don't know where yet, and they won't know for about 5 days. So in the meantime he has been on a strong antibiotic which seems to have found whatever it was causing the fevers! HOORAY!!!

This picture is so old, but it is so cute. This was taken when Karston wasn't even 1 yet and had a fever.

He is much better and back to his curious little self!

St. Patty's and other stuff!

This is all out of order but oh well! Karston's new favorite thing to do with anyone is to have them write letters on his little doodle pad so that he can tell you what they are! He LOVES to pick out letters. The other day when we went to BIG LOTS he would not let me get him out of his seat until he said EVERY letter. He was is gets so proud of himself, and I would have to say that I as well am VERY VERY proud of him to! So Doug and Karston were having "bonding" time locked in Karston's room doing his letters. It was soo cute. Sorry about the glare though I was looking through the glass doors trying to get a picture! I was cleaning the back half of my house the other day when I came out I found Karston passed out on the bunny. Apparently eating Fruit Loops and singing his hymns while trying to do up the zipper on his jacket just plain wore the boy out. Silly baby!

So Karston had a little St. Patricks day party with some of his best friends. We had Kaecen, Brodey, Kevin, Tippy, and (so tippy wasn't the ONLY girl) we invited Raegan to come over. It was fun. CRAZY but lots of fun!

All of the kiddos eating their green lunch!

Beautiful decorations colored by Tippy and Raegan. These were all around the living room but I didn't want to bore you with the same pics.

Our Fabulous lunch which consisted of Green pancakes in the shape of a Leprechaun, the other one was supposed to be a gold coin, but I didn't realize I didn't have yellow food coloring so it ended up being a green coin! Golden coin eggs, and a very VERY Yummy pear! All but one kid thought the green stuff was delicious and fun! Kaecen however had a hard time with the green!

Karston's little girl friend gets to come over every once in awhile to hang out and play. They loved the little bike. Nina likes to drive it and I think Mr. Karston just likes to hang on to Nina! :) They are to stinkin cute! I love them!

So that is what we have kind of been up to lately! Sorry it is SOOOOOO late!

I was carded!

So I have to write and tell you of my funny experience tonight! If you already read it on facebook sorry I am going to repeat it again! So I went to my swim aerobics and on my way home I stopped at the grocery store to get some milk. I put my milk up there and the guy said "Before I can let you purchase this I need to see your ID." I then said " I think I am old enough to purchase 2 gallons of milk, but whatever." The man then felt very dumb, but I did show him my ID and found out that YES I am legal to purchase milk!!!! To be fair though I have to say that there were 3 younger people ahead of me that were purchasing alcohol so really I think he was just on a roll! Oh well gave me a good laugh!!!!

My silly silly Baby... oh I mean BIG BOY!!!

As I have said before Karston D. Purcell is my PRIDE and Joy! He ALWAYS makes me laugh. And NEVER ceases to amaze me with his amazingness. He is 23 months knows his ABC's, he even can point out the letter and tell you what it is! He can count to 13 and is saying little phrases here and there. He is starting to throw 2 year old temper tantrums which you know are my personal favorite :P but all in all he is just an overall good tempered, kind hearted little boy! He takes good care of his momma too! He loves to help me clean, set the table, unload the dishwasher, draw pretty pictures on my white cabinets, and LOVES to push the clothes into the dryer that I set on the door! Here are some pics Doug found and sent to me and I just couldn't not post them! I love this silly baby! Okay I know he is growing up, but he is and always will be my silly little baby!

Helping Grandma Purcell out with some cleaning! To bad it really doesn't work huh! Gotta love the fact he is cleaning in Dad's shoes as well!

You may be thinking that mom did this, but NO dad did! They were cooking so dad made sure he had an apron on!

Apparently Karston got in trouble with dad because he was playing behind the T.V. Karston I guess (I wasn't home) sulked and went into his room. Doug hadn't heard anything coming out of his room so he peeked and this is what he found. Doug said it made him feel bad, but look how cute this picture is! I remember when he was so tiny you could barely see him in that swing!

Karston obviously had a bath and while I was getting his clothes he wanted dad to put on his cool safety glasses. We couldn't stop laughing! Silly kid!

Loves those safety glasses! Got my PJ'S on, got my coat, my hat AND my safety glasses! Let's roll!

Of coloring and walls!!!

Okay so I know you all thought that with the title of my post you probably assumed that Karston colored all over the walls right! Well I am happy to report that this is not the case! Karston is now REALLY into coloring especially when it comes to tracing his hands and stuff. He thinks its so fun to have you trace one finger then lift it up so he can see what it looks like. Needless to say I find LOTS of little hand print pictures all over which I LOVE LOVE LOVE! He has colored on my couch, table, or counter a couple times (luckily I have magic potion to get it all out) but other than that he pretty much knows and is getting better that you only color on paper!

One of Karston's very favorite things to do is to throw a blanket over his head and act like a ghost. He will walk up to us reveal his face and yell BOO! Pretty cute really, but the other night he was doing this and tripped over his blanket and BAM hit the wall! Doug and I for sure thought he would have some sort of concussion or bruise, or blood from his lip because after he hit the wall he hit the baseboard heater. Well I am happy to report none of that happened. The blanket must have protected his little face! Anyway then after we calmed down Doug and I looked at the wall only to find this lovely little mark. Karston had dented our wall with his head. He did this and there is no battle wound on his face to prove it! Which I am in no way complaining, but how can you do this and not have a single mark on your head to show for it? So needless to say Karston definitely has a HARD head!

The mark is in the middle kind of looks like a guitar pick!

Oh Karston you keep our lives so exciting!!!!