Hogle Zoo

On Friday August 13, 2010 We went to the Hogle Zoo

We saw "nature's nightmares"

as you can see Cache is clinging to Steve

Looking at Piranhas.

Cache thought they were the coolest think ever. He kept making us go back to them.

Cache LOVED the merry-go-round!

When we were waiting in the queue line he started getting a bit impatient.

Then it was finally our turn. Cache sat on his lion and was happy....he had no idea it got better.

Soon he was going around and up and down. He loved it.

I am so happy I took him first because the second time, once he was on he animal, he knew he was supposed to be moving. 

Yup, I could hear him on the other side of the merry go round "encouraging" them to hurry up.

Then it stopped...

Cache was quite upset. We had to hurry and get his mind off of it (then we made sure we avoided the merry go round the rest of our zoo visit).

So across the way, to the elephants we went.

Baby Elephant (the day before her b-day)

Then to the rhinos...man they STINK

This picture was take of Cache at the bird show. It also just so happens to be right before he got in trouble with the zoo worker. Cache decided the show was boring, so he ran over to the grassy area as they were releasing some dangerous hawk. The zoo worker came up to him (right as Steve was standing up to get him) and said, "little boy, you need to go sit down." Cache looked at her like, who the heck are you? Then he sat on the grass and she said," you need to go sit over there." Steve held out his arms and Cache walked over looking slightly confused about at what just happened. Props to him for listening though.

We saw Melman/ the Giraffes

Cache was going crazy shouting, "Mom! Mom" at every animal window. He was fascinated.

This is a classic Cache face which stands for, "this is pretty cool, huh."

Here is Cache deciding if this is "Mom!" worthy (he says Mom! when he is excited)

It is Mom! worthy so here he goes with he deep pitched repetive, "Mom! Mom!"

Look at this Gorilla, just chillin. I had to throw this in ;)

CUTE!!

Notice the monkey leash is no more in this picture. Cache was freed. He was running and galloping all over the place.

Cache was freaked out by this statue. He was cool with it until it made a loud noise and sprayed water at him. So taking a picture with this elephant, didn't turn out the way I'd hoped. But, the moment was captured.

Mandi and Grandma Jamie were there with us!! Even though it got a little bit hot ;)

Notice the hat Mandi is wearing....it is MAGICAL!!! This hat got Mandi to stop complaining and enjoy her zoo trip. Pretty amazing, no?

Gofer Cache

Mandi was really caught in a web. Don't worry, I saved her life.

Turtle

We are in an egg.

We are not sure what we are doing in the egg.

Playing on the playground

How better to end the zoo trip then to play in the cool fountain.

Cache fell asleep in the car pretty quickly. He had so much energy the whole time at the zoo he was zonked. 

We all had so much fun! Definitely will be going again!!

Cache's First Movie Theatre Experience

August 11, 2010

We went to Toy Story 3

Cache loved the characters right away

He loved his popcorn and drink even more

He sat on Steve's lap until his popcorn was gone and then....

Well, he was kind of over it. Except for the occasional,

"MOM! Mom! Mom!" which he says when he sees something that really excites him and I have to look

and

"Woah"

He really like watching the movie on the stairs and he loved to wave at the characters and sometimes he would let us hold him.

He did good in that movie (which I did not realize was so long... although very cute).

Summer has come and gone...

and it's always a little bit sad.
We LOVE summer. We love being outdoors, swimming, parties, bbq's, family time, late nights and the celebrations. There is just something about summer that makes life not so stressful. Not just because I'm a teacher, I really think everyone relaxes just a little bit more than usual.

This summer we have had fun at the pool!! Pretty much everyday. I would show pictures but since it was usually just Cache and I,  I didn't take any. But summer isn't over yet, maybe I'll get some in. But I tell ya, taking cache is a handful. He thinks he is big and wants to go play in the deep end with the kids. But, his all time FAVORITE part of swimming is taking a hot shower by the pool. He'll jump out and run to the showers and point saying, "Mom. Mom. Please."

We clean and organized our home. And it has stayed CLEAN!! There is so much you can do when you don't have to work. I promised I wouldn't waste my "stay-home mommy time" and I didn't.

We had fun photo shoots.
We took naps.
I read lots of books for the upcoming school year.
We went to fun baseball games.
Stayed up late with family.
Visited friends.
Visited family.
Vegas.
St. George.

Cache and I read books and learned words, had dance parties. We watched "Chuggington" and "Yo-Gabba-Gabba". We decided we weren't watching Yo-Gabba, that guy freaked the both of us out.

Cache learned to gallop and he got to spend more time with his best friend Gwenie.

I'm always sad to see summer go...

For our last "Hoorah" we went to the zoo. Cache LOVED it.

More summer pictures to come.

♥
Krista

Future member of Nitro Circus.

=(.

Cache is a daredevil.

He right now, is jumping off of the couch. He thinks he can jump off of anything.

At the pool he thinks he can jump right in without me. He tries to push me out of the way so he can swim in the deep end with the big kids. I think it hurts his pride a little when I plop him in his floatie.

Back to the couch launching.
We have put many pillows to try and help the landing.
I do not know how this game came to be.
Now, he isn't jumping. He is diving. If you count falling face forward diving.

I shall send all of you then video if you'd like.

oh my goodness...

Last night, 10:30 p.m, Cache is still awake. The play hard, laughing, no time to rest, type of awake.

I come out of the bathroom with one of those Biore' nose strippy things, and Cache is playing with that "wonderful" toy that makes all that noise.

You know the one, long blue handle that attaches to the ball that has balls inside and it goes,

"pop, pop, pop, pop, pop" when it is wheeled around.

Anyways, Cache looks up at me and looks so concerned. He points at my nose and, since he doesn't have the words for it, starts grunting at my nose.

I sit on the floor to be at his level, and he really doesn't want to come by me, but out of love he does. He takes both of my hands in his and tries to throw them up to my nose. 

Steve and I were laughing so hard.

11:30 p.m, Steve is tired, I'm tired, Cache won't go to bed. So what do we do? Turn off all the lights. Sure enough we hear a 

....pop......pop...pop. Cache slowly enters our room climbs up on the bed. He cuddles up right in between us and five minutes later I hear a 

...pop.....................pop.

Lucky us. Cache decided to bring his toy to bed.

5 minutes later I think he is asleep, I attempt to get that toy out of our bed. Nope. Cache had a tight grip.

He was right next to me, half asleep still popping his toy.

Silence................silence.............silence.........pop, pop,pop.

I don't know what time it was that I was able to pry that toy out of Cache's hands.

Then,

Today I find out that Cache is lonely.

I was sitting on the balcony, feeding Cache some yogurt, when he gets up and leaves. I hear his footsteps quickly returning and he has....a baby doll. He places the baby doll on my left knee and then places himself on my right. He was talking to the baby, he made sure the baby had some yogurt and then he tried to play catch with the baby.

So I took him out.

We went to the library (SCARY), do not go there alone with baby.

After that enlightening experience we went to feed the ducks.

Not so easy. I took my camera but only took one picture of Cache running away.

He tried to swim with the ducks.

He chased the duck that was biting the other ducks... seriously this duck was on a duck choking it. I thought it was going to attack Cache next.

Then,

He got the hang of feeding the ducks and he loved it.

The ducks would come out of the water and he would get SO excited.

One duck ran into a big bush, so what does Cache do? Yeah, I had to climb into a bush in a dress to get him out.

Then we ended the day with a nice run.

Run meaning I was chasing my son in my wedges while he chased some guys dogs. All while saying, "Doggie, doggie!!"

Then we went to Auntie Terri's house and guess what!

Gwenie was there oh man Cache was thrilled!

 This just cracks me up!!

Thanks Gwenie for still being Cache's BFF

After our adventurous day, Cache was beat.

This was taken at the Center Street on ramp going south...

I say that because my short arms are not long enough to reach back there and fix his poor little head.

I wanted to reach back there and fix it so bad, but that might have resulted in a crash.

That always drives me crazy!!

Cache's Photoshoot

Click the picture to see more ;)

Slide Party 2010

Cute Cousins

Cache's Cousins

Our family from Idaho came down for a visit and to meet lil' Cache.

Cache just loves them

Charles

This is Charles.
Cache's first ever pet, and boy, did he love the little bug.

Charles came to us via toilet seat. That is right. I lifted up the toilet cover and there he was. I didn't realize it was a lady bug, I just saw a thing crawling on the toilet...so of course I had to scream.

Steve caught Charles from the toilet paper roll and I found him a home.

Cache LOVED watching Charles crawl around. Cache would trace the little bugs steps with his fingers.

Well...we had to let Charles go (hence the last picture)
Cache was pretty distraught. But I felt bad for the little bug when Cache got bored of just watching and decided to start shaking.

Thanks Charles for being our first family pet. We had a great 40 minutes together. This post is dedicated to Charles.

Wherever he may be.

Guess What

Dee and Seamus asked me to take more pictures of them.

This time I was more daring, I went to two new locations that I have never shot at before and I played with the sunlight.

Shout out to my lil' sister, Kami, and Seth for being my assistants.

Here is one of several pictures, I would love for you to see the others. Just go to my photography bliggity-blog and you can see them :)

Next photo shoot I am focusing on my lil' man, Cacherz.

oh, and teenagers, as that is the next photo contest. 

Fun stuff.

Mommy ♥'s Cache

Summer is already going by so fast.
I have loved every second being with Cache, I'm learning a lot.
I think working full time has helped me smile through the times when Cache breaks something, grabs his poop, pees on me...etc. because to put it simply, I'm just happy to be home with him.

Two weeks ago we went to Cache's 15 month check up.

They were pretty impressed that Cache could walk backwards, and had been for about a month.

He is 32" long and weighs 23 pounds

(Length 91%tile Weight 18%tile)

Cache is a very observant little guy

Here he is sitting in my chair.

He opened up my vanity,

turned it on,

grabbed my make-up brushes and started putting it on.

Many eyeshadows have been crumbled (yes, even a MAC one).

Cache sees me stick bobby pins in my hair all the time, and I usually have some above my ear...

Now I have to hide them from Cache because he tries to stick them in his ear.

He love to copy everything his dad does.

He even works out with him (cutest thing ever).

He loves moving and he is fast.

If it was possible for us to fly, Cache would be doing that already.

He loves dancing, running, spinning and anything that keeps him going.

In Vegas he would run down the hallway so stinkin' fast,

If Mandi or Kami jumped he would stop and raise his hands in the air, thinking he had jumped.

He tries to do cartwheels with me

AND

he is

ALWAYS

on the 

GO...

He also is a very reverent prayer participant.

He will fold his arms and wait patiently until we are done. 

Cache loves helping around the house,

he vacuums, "sweeps", dusts and "helps" me with laundry.

He even helps me wipe his poopy bum. 

(SO funny)

Words:

Mama

Daddy (perfectly said...lucky Steve)

Doggy: Dah-ee

Bottle (ba-ba)...but the bottle is gone for good!

Woah! (I guess I'll count that as a word)

Thank You (Tay-oo)

Please(Pley...we are working on it, he doesn't say this one too much)

Mandi (Mah-ee)

He jibber-jabbers all the time, I love to hear it.

Possible Phrases We Are pretty sure we heard:

Bath time (Ba ime): We are pretty positive on this one

I want that: Steve and I both think we heard it and Cache was pointing at his sippy, but I hope we can get him to say it in a not so bratty way.

Cache has SIX teeth coming in right now!!

SIX!!

Including a molar  

You wouldn't know it because nothing slows this kid down.

Not even Strep throat.

My little baby isn't a baby anymore. 

Being with him through out the day has made me realize that even more. 

If I ask him to take something to Steve he'll do it.

If I ask him if he wants to read a book, he'll lead me to the bookshelf.

If I say bath time or if he says it, he'll run to the bathroom while trying to undress himself.

If I say, No Cache, he will look at me and smile and stop (usually)

If I say, clean up time, he will start putting things away.

He tries to feed himself with spoon.

He loves to play catch.

If I say, time to go, he will run to the gate and tippy-toe to try and unlatch it. 

He does the actions to twinkle-twinkle and 5 little monkeys...

I don't know when all of this happened.

But, I do know/have realized that no matter what things will come up and I need to make sure I take time to write down everything that is going on.

Because someday, this is all I will have to remember these little toddler moments.

Even if I have to stay up til' 2:00 am to do it.

Title Pic

Hellooo!!
I know, I need to blog about more important matters, but I am busy at the moment.
But, I did want to share what I have been working on in the wee hours of the morning when the hubs and babe are sleeping...

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