shiny and slippery

I was on the computer this morning, thinking Kort was having fun playing in his room, opening and closing the door. UNTIL...he came walking out to me only to have BAG BALM all over his face, hands, and clothes. I knew instantly that the damage would be great. He got gobs all over the carpet, toys, the door and handle, and boxes. I threw off his clothes and hopped in the shower. Then off for his nap. Good thing. Hopefully I got it all cleaned up, but man, is it a pain! Lesson learned. Even when you think something is out of his reach, it never is unless it's only in my reach.

1 year

I wanted to document this before Kort got any older. 

Here's his 1 year stats:

Weight: 21 lbs. 4 oz. = 25th percentile

Height: 30 inches = 75th percentile

Head circumference: 18.5 inches = 75th percentile

Still LONG and LEAN!

Here's what most of our days look like.

6:30-7:00 wake up cranky for us to come get him 

7:00  8 oz. bottle of whole milk!

8:00  usually yogurt, cream of wheat, kix, pancakes, or just whatever we have

9:00 to 9:30  down for nap

half hour later...(still takes those darn 30 minute naps)

10:00 - 12:00  run errands, play, exercise, whatever I need to do

12:00 to 12:30 lunch composing of 8 oz. whole milk, bananas, applesauce, mixed veggies, 

mac n cheese, leftover dinner, whatever we have :) 

1:00 another 30 minute nap

1:30 - 4:00 run errands, laundry, play, keep Kort happy (really, there's only so much you can do in a hotel room)

4:00 or 4:30ish - 30 minute nap - sometimes he won't go down so I hold him to fall asleep and just watch The Ellen Show :)

5:30 dinner - once again, whatever we have - mostly veggies, some sort of meat, dairy, 

8 oz. whole milk

7:00ish get him ready for bed - change diaper, jammies, finish bottle, read stories, 

lay him in bed

...and it all starts over the next day :)

Kort has come a long way on his sleeping. Up until about 7 months, we were still holding/rocking/bouncing him to sleep. As mentioned in previous posts, we learned about the book Good Night, Sleep Tight. Miracle worker. Ever since that started working, Kort has been sleeping through the night! His loves...

Biting

Any type of food

Sticking his tongue out

Cords

Laundry Basket

Dishwasher

Looking at himself in a mirror or pictures

Graham crackers

Playing on the bed

New big boy car seat

Remote control

Drawers

Opening/Closing the fridge or any type of door

Jabbering

Walking
Climbing stairs
The vacuum
Clapping on demand

I still can't tell if he knows certain words or not, but it sounds like he's always saying dada, sometimes mama, yes and hi. I'm sure his words will start to become more pronounced eventually.

I can't wait to see him grow this year! Can't believe our baby is now a toddler. 

Where does time go?!

We love you, Kort!

kort's 1st birthday

i can't believe i have a one year old. it was so weird new year's eve this year, not being in a hospital. celebrating the holidays with family and not stuck at home. i recently have become addicted to looking for huge party ideas. i love the feeling of going all out with food, decorations, everything you can think of. i tried my best with what resources i had - most was in storage or back in MN. but i loved planning kort's party. here's some pics to show how it turned out!

The Cake!

Kort's first haircut!!!

The Guests

It was a great day to celebrate!

christmas 2011

this was the first year we've been away from our own "home" (right now it's a hotel) to celebrate Christmas. So, we opened our big presents before we flew to Idaho. This is our Goodwill tree, which was so nicely decorated already for us :)

 Kort enjoyed ripping the paper, just as long as we took it away from him so he wouldn't eat it and he could continue ripping the rest apart to find his presents! We got him some new toys and nana got him some new clothes and a choo choo train. he loves that thing!

we flew to salt lake, got in late, but tyler and quinn picked us up. grabbed some cold, crappy little caesar's pizza, got to tyler and caeli's place, talked, waited for caeli to get home from work. went to bed. woke up the next morning to drive to rexburg. of course, had to make a stop at smith and edwards for some stocking stuffers :)

clay worked on a new cabinet for mom and dad fenton while kort enjoyed the laundry basket and all the toys waiting for him from previous gifts left at grandma's :)

christmas eve was the steiner Christmas party. it was great catching up with everyone, seeing 3 new baby boys, all born within 3 months (kristin's, alecia's, and nicky's). we really didn't do much else that night other than talk and eat. go figure. ha ha

christmas morning was grand. i love that feeling you get walking out to the living room and seeing all the stockings and presents under the tree! kort caught on a little more opening presents. next year will be awesome for him. 

i got clay some new smith hudson sunglasses since he left his in our rental car back in vegas. he got a new site for his rifle. back in MN i got him some new work pants/slacks, workout clothes, and new computer mouse for work. he got me a huge jewelry box/storage, and a sewing machine! woo hoo! finally :) now i can put those pinterest projects to work! he also got me a video hand held camcorder!!! hence, there's not many pictures from christmas day because i was filming everything :)

we were to handmake our presents for siblings. i crocheted caeli a headband and gave a taipan trading gift card. clay made brandon a book with a hidden secret. ok, so we glued every single page together and cut out the middle so he could hide things in there. 

it was way rad. 

tyler and caeli came later that night. so glad they could make it for christmas! we did miss barb, brandon and leland though. 

it was a wonderful day. i'm so glad we got to go to church, too. i wish i would have paid more attention. i was so tired! ha ha kort has been teething so he was up and also trying to get used to mountain standard time :) christmas was amazing! i can't wait until kort is able to understand more and we can get into the spirit more and do things together. i've got so much planned for the years to come!

boarding at grand targhee

i have not been snowboarding for 4 years, and that was right after clay and i got married and i didn't have a good experience. i think it was due to my crazy hormones :) ha ha so i was hoping to have a better time at an actual ski resort! turns out, i had a blast! the main lift big lift, dream catcher, didn't open until 30 minutes before our half day was over, but we still got a good run in. it was like i started where i last ended and was getting "some" air, being a little brave and going off jumps. :) 

 i think my mouth was so cold, this was the most smile i could get out.

look at the view!

late night snow machining to mesa falls

clay and the guys were going snow machining tuesday, so monday night the snow machines arrived. we had to "break" them in so the guys took their dates/wives/fiance for a late night trip to mesa falls! after someone mentioned that we should make lots of noise while walking down to the lookout so we would keep the bears away, i freaked! ha ha there probably weren't any around that area, but i was on constant lookout all through the night. i loved taking flash pictures and catching everyone off guard :)

top left is dale and his date, clay and then quinn's date.

bryce and jodi, and bottom right is quinn's date, katelyn, and you know the rest :)

thanks to grandmacita and grandpa for being at home while kort was sleeping!

assisted walking machine

kort loves to walk now...if he's holding or pushing something. still hasn't gone 

for the whole she-bang yet.