Smokey the Bear and More

I am a big fan of Smokey the Bear. Tanner loves when I sing this song to him. His Aunt Rachel supplied him with the perfect size bear to hold. I think it is adorable!






On another note...
This is Tanner's favorite position to sleep...


I think he gets sick of all our kisses...


We're also pretty sure he's sick of the camera in his face. We just can't help it, he is so stinkin' cute!
NO MORE PICTURES PLEASE!

Cute Fall Pictures

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Tanner's Blessing

How wonderful is my son? We blessed Tanner yesterday and he was an angel. The men in the circle said that the during the blessing Tanner just stared at his daddy. No crying! He was held and loved by many yesterday and just stayed asleep most of the time!

It was a great blessing, Clayton did a great job! We are so lucky to have Tanner in our family.

So Long

Goodbye Avalon. Clayton will miss you terribly. You were the car that he learned to drive in, that he went the fastest in and that he took on many memorable trips with friends.

We now have another car to drive. Its miles and the miles on our other car combined are still less that what the Avalon had when we sold it!

More Late Night Conversations

Anyone see what time I made this post? (This is Michelle.) Yeah, thats right 3 in the AM. I couldn't go back to sleep until I sent this little story out into cyberspace.
Tanner has had an ear infection. We feel pretty bad for him. However, he is such a good baby that we didn't know he was sick. On Thursday morning, I woke up at 5 overjoyed, because we had put Tanner to bed at 10 and he was still asleep! Then minutes later, I had a screaming baby throwing up bile. He was sick enough to be sleeping through his hunger.
So, we have been setting our alarms to wake up and check on him to see if he needs food because the medicine we have him on makes him extra sleepy and I can't handle watching him throw up bile again.
Here's what happened tonight:

12:00 AM
Michelle's alarm goes off...
Michelle: Clayton, do you think he needs food?
Clayton gets out of bed and walks over to Tanner.
Clayton: When was the last time we fed him?
Michelle: 8
Clayton: He's a cheerleader.
Michelle: Go to bed.

3:00 AM
Michelle's alarm goes off... She shoves Clayton
Michelle: I think I'll change his diaper and see if he acts hungry.
Clayton: I'll go start a bottle for him.
Michelle: Thanks
Clayton comes back in the room and helps me change him.
Michelle gives Tanner to Clayton and he starts to feed him.
Michelle: Do you know what you did at 12?
Clayton: No
Michelle tells him...
Clayton: Man, I'm sorry. Did we charge him down?
Michelle: WHAT?
Clayton: Wait, did we write him off?
Michelle: Are you freaking kidding me?
Clayton: No, in the bank when we have a loan, we say we charge it down to the collateral value and write it off.
Michelle: cuss words and shoving
Clayton: laughing oh man


Michelle is still awake making sure that Tanner is actually fed and taken care of.

Ha! Just barely, he admitted that "his mind may not have been fully awake."