Happy 2nd Birthday Casen!!

Well, 2 years ago today I was blessed with a beautiful baby boy that we named Casen Michael Cramblit. I cannot believe that he is 2 today!! 2! Time just really gets away from you once you have kids! I went into the hospital on a Monday night, was induced at 5am Tue and had him at 2:15 pm on WED. (yes two days later). He weighed in at 7 lbs. 12 oz and was 19 inches long! I will spare you all of my labor war stories like that I had 2 epidurals that only seemed to make my bellybutton numb (Can somebody please take this baby out of my bellybutton?) or that I threw up while pushing and Michael so wonderfully caught my puke in a cup...only to spill it back onto my face...it's funny..now ;) or that the reason I was even induced was bc I was allergic to the poor kid!
Anyway, over the past two years he has come to be quite the character. Casen is not a shy or timid person by any means of the imagination! He is stubborn, incredibly smart, witty, hilarious, a jokester, loving, and just a complete ball of fire and fun!! He really keeps everyone in our house on their toes! I am not sure of his height and weight bc we haven't had his 2 yr apt yet but I'm pretty sure he is about 37lbs and about 3 ft. tall. We all know that his build is not that of a slender person but more like that of a bull! God has truly blessed our life with this little boy and we thank Him everyday for this sweet and spunky blessing that we know as Casen!!
At 2 years old he can:
Pretty much do anything except potty in the toilet!
He can put his clothes on, talks in sentences, plays jokes on people, talk back, whips himself :/. My favorite things he says right now are " Luy u", "Cool dude", "Okay" (not no), and just anything when he is goofing off!

Here are some of my favorite pics of him from the past 2 years!





































This is him eating his breakfast this morning! On your bday you can pick what you want and so his favorite is biscuits and choc gravy on his Blues Clues plate with choc. milk! Love him!!!

Gardening 101

Earlier I told y'all that we were going to attempt to garden this year and I would keep you posted. Well, we are in full swing now in our attempt to "garden". Last week I drove my Granny around in TN from Co-op to store to somebodys backyard literally in the middle of nowhere (when I say it's in the middle of nowhere you know it really is) to compare prices on tomato plants. In case you didn't know, $2.99 for a tomato plant is absolutely the most ridiculous price that has ever been given to anything. $1.99 per plant is not much better. We finally settled for 6 plants for $1.99. Apparantley this is where my "cheap bargain" genes come from.
Well, we planted everything last weekend. Granny had a bucket of fertilize water and plastic cups for the boys. This kept them pretty busy (she has apparantly done this before). Michael dug the holes and pretty much did all the work. I took pictures and occasionally helped cover plants up and Granny supervised. Ole Dollar Tree (the cat) even came up to check things out when we were finished. Now if the boys just don't go back and dig everything back up we will be good!

Cramblit Kitchen II

So I thought that I would post another pic of events that take place in our kitchen. It is not unusual for suppertime to not be complete until somebody falls out of their chair, jumps out of their chair or gets their arms stuck in their chair. With Trever, you know this has happened to him because he suddenly will get a look of complete panic on his face. That's my cue to just get up and go over there bc I know what has happened at this point. (This is not the first time or the last time this has and will happen)

Cramblit Kitchen!

Ok, so I used to live off of Ramen noodles and secretly prayed that Chef Boyardee would somehow adopt me as a grandchild because I could not cook. Not only could I not cook but I really wasn't even interested in it. In my family this kind of person is known as a weirdo. :) After I got married I realized that one of us was going to have to learn how to fix something other than taco soup and cavattini. I also realized why everyone gives you recipes as wedding presents...bc you will need them! So here I am today with a house of 3 boys which means that cooking is like breathing around here. I have come to love to cook and even tivo many cooking shows. Everyone in everyone's family is good at cooking that one thing that they are known for. My Momma happens to make these chocolate chip cookies that you could kill someone with your bare hands for. I found myself really wanting some of these last night. Michael and Trever had gone to t-ball practice so it was just me and the little man. (He can't go to tball anything bc he lays on the ground and screams and kicks bc he can't play with Bubba) Anyway, so I called my Momma and got the recipe and I thought that this would be a good thing for me and Casen to cook together. "Should be fun" I thought. Normally, I pay severely for thoughts like this but this time was different. We did have fun and Casen really was a big help! My cookies turned out horrible which ticked me off honestly. I think I put too much butter in it. See, Paula Deen is my idol and I watch her nearly everyday so I didn't think you could add too much butter to anything. That was the only thing I couldn't measure bc I didn't have "sticks of butter" only tub butter. I have sticks of butter on my grocery list but this is one of those things that I don't pay for. I get them for free every 3 or 4 weeks when they go on sale + my coupons so I just eye balled what I thought was the right amount of butter. My cookies batter was too thin and my cookies too crispy. Oh well. I will know better next time! I still had fun attempting to make cookies with Casen and he had so many choc. chips that he didn't notice we never ate cookies!

Aquarium!

I wish I knew what they were looking at bc Trever looks a little concerned!







Casen is only smiling in this pic bc he was planning to make a run for it!











I completely forgot to write and share pics of when we went to the aquarium a few weeks ago during Trever's Spring Break! We left out on a Friday morning and after forgetting several things and getting on the "road" late we managed to get there pretty close to lunch time. (this was not my plan by the way) This was our very first trip anywhere with kids... out of state (not counting mexican in Fayetteville ;) and over-night...we were being brave! I like to have the mind set of "If the Duggars can do it so can we" HA! We ate lunch and made it through the aquarium without many incidents...for us this is unusual! I think this was because it was naptime by the time we got out of there and Casen was in a semi-coma. We also learned very early on that he would have to remain in the stroller...buckled. He is a "mad-dasher". He waits for just the right time, yanks his hand out of yours and that little guy is haulin'! He really doesn't care or know where he is going, he is just going! The aquarium was really, really crowded on this day and I am germaphobic and afraid someone is going to kidnap my kids so I would have paid $100 for a Xanax. Next time I will know. ;) The boys really enjoyed all of the fish and of course the shark! I think Trever enjoyed it the most! We were able to touch a Stingray and some other kind of fish. That was neat to everyone except Casen....texture issues.





Casen coloring on the rocks :/




After we left, we headed to Knoxville to visit my Great Aunt and Uncle. They are retired, live in a nice, quiet, gated community and their house is clean...we were ducks out of water. Just kidding! They do have a beautiful place. I think we all realized very quickly that the nice coy fish pond lined with beautiful rocks was and was not kid friendly all at the same time! Rocks, water and frogs.. what is there not to love (boys view)?! A busted open head, wet clothes and rocks that don't belong in the pond suddenly relocated to the pond, that's what was not to love (my view)! It is always good to see and catch up with family that you don't get to see very often. We had a great time there! I think Aunt Daphne could have used a Xanax too about the time that Casen flipped head first over the chair at supper but Uncle Harry seemed to have been impressed! Trever was wonderful as usual. Casen was Casen. I am quite certain that we caught terrible two's while we were on this trip. (this is something that you "catch" because he surely cannot be genetically wired for this) I was pretty sure that this had happened when a lady in Cracker Barrel confirmed it for us...without us asking :/ I'm not sure if it was because he kept yelling or throwing food or that my whipping him in public at this point was not even phasing him. It possibly could have been that he jumped out of his chair (mad-dash mode) only to run a circle through the place. I'm not really sure why she thought she needed to tell us that that he was going through "terrible two's". She must have thought that I just didn't notice as I carried him over my shoulder back to the table while he was kicking and screaming. Not real sure. :/ Anyway, we made the trip and made it back home safely!

I do have to say that we had not used Crayola Color Wonder Markers before this trip and they are truly wonderful!

Glimpse into the future?

I know my last post was about the boys riding their John Deeres but I couldn't help to share these pics. I just couldn't help but to think about this being a car in several more years. My kids are growing up way too fast! The last pic. was both of them being rebels...Casen is standing up and Trever is driving with no hands and his eyes closed. I hope they up the driving age to like 20!