This morning Gideon and I played and played! He was giggling and talking away. I put him up on my shoulders and he made the biggest mess of my hair. It was pretty drenched in drool and filled with unknown bits of his morning snack. He's getting to have so much personality and is just so much fun. But, apparently we played too hard because now he's taken what could quite possibly be his longest nap EVER! Which means I got to get everything done I needed to! Yay for a great day!

So I read Hill's comment about how sometimes you just have to let them cry and go get yourself ready. Well, since I really needed to shower after last nights game, I decided to just lay Gid in his crib, let him cry, and jump in the shower. I thought for sure when I got out he would have fallen asleep, because I didn't even hurry...I took my time. As soon as I turned off the water I could hear him yelling. So I go in there, give him his pacifier and a kiss and tell him it's nap time. He then pulls himself up on the bars, looks straight at me, gives me the lip and screams. So I pick him up, and walk about two steps, and he's passed out in my arms...lol..funny how things work sometimes, I wish he would have just fallen asleep in my arms to begin with! Would have saved him a lot of tears, poor guy.

Apparently this is how the Doan boys sleep...with their hands above their head. And he does, ALOT.

Oh, peace and quiet. It's nice to have every now and again.

Gid's first real ride on the rockin' motorcycle Grandpa Doan built for him! It's basically the coolest thing EVER. That's the newest pictures I have though. I'm slacking. But I'll jut give a quick update on Gid. He really mastered the crawling thing about a week and a half ago, but he decided last week that since he's figured out crawling, why not just stand up and walk?! If I turn my head for two seconds he's pulled himself up against something (like the laundry basket at this exact moment!!) and scoots around it and tries to walk. This new ability has lead to lots of falls and bonks on the head. I try to keep telling him that he's much too little to start walking. He doesn't seem to understand and despite all the goose eggs he's gotten, he still keeps on pulling himself up on everything. The one that poses the most problem is the washing machine, because once he gets himself standing up against it, there's nothing to hold on to. So, I just have to keep sitting him back down... I'll take pictures of him today as proof and put those up later tonight. He's definitely his father's son....*sigh*

I don't really know what they're doing here...They were trying to distract all of us because they were cheating TERRIBLY. It's okay, as usual...I owned all. Jake still has never seen me lose at poker...I like to keep it that way. Anyways, it was a lot of fun and we must have listened to 'Party Like A Rockstar' about 14 times in a row...."Ta-ta-ta-totally duuude."
Gid, Gid the Cheerio Kid! He was perfectly happy just eating them, Zach thought it would be much more fun to stick them to his forehead. We all had a good laugh about it though!
This is how the canopy/tent/crazy pillar thing that we did turned out at Josh & Amanda's reception. I just thought it was a cool picture.

Hello All!

I've had quite few people worried since I haven't blogged for like 2 weeks, I'm really okay. First I had that nasty bout with the whole dehydration thing that kicked my butt for a good 5 days. And then I've been reorganizing things and cleaning and going to baby check-ups and enjoying outside. It hasn't been as hot this week, so I've sort of been avoiding the computer and the television and decided to spend my free time laying in the hammock reading with Gid instead of blogging. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry and I promise to have more exciting pictures and fun things to blog about soon! Love you all!

I'm pretty sure we found this WAY more exciting than Gid. He could have cared less that there were sparks flying around his head. He didn't even hardly look at the sparklers, he just stared off into space! I'm not quite sure why he didn't have any pants on. I must have been being lazy. He was happy though. It continues to surprise me just how mellow he is. Not a whole lot phases him unless he thinks someone is being mean to him...then he'll wail. But the usual things like really loud booms, things on fire, or falling over don't seem to bug him at all. It's got to be a boy thing.

Anyways, I spent the evening cooped up inside motivating Jake to finish his 47 chapters of homework that were due. The whole homework thing really stresses him out so he had already opted not to go up to his Mom & Dads for dinner and by the time he was done with all of it I literally had to lure him outside with the fact that there was a snake in the window well and that I would give him a popsicle. But, we started a fire and roasted some hotdogs. My Mom & Dad and the boys joined us and we had a really great time. Mom has some much cuter pictures of the evening up on her blog, so you should check it out HERE! For some reason I just wasn't really feeling like taking a bunch of pictures last night.

Some adorable shots of my boys after church. Gideon is so not right. He must have got that from his Dad... :o) Anyways, he thought this hat was the coolest thing. He wore it for a good hour. I don't know why he liked this one and hates the other baseball cap I tried to put on him... Anyways, he's chubby and adorable and Jake was looking very GQ with his beard that he actually trimmed instead of just let grow out of control. I love my boys!