It's been a while....

OK, so I really don't have a good excuse, but I was pretty sure the weekly thing wouldn't happen. Anyways, life is busy-as usual. School started on the 25th of August and I have 28 students in my class this year. It's really different compared to my 19 I had most of last year. They are really cute though. I do love teaching third graders. I would include a picture, but I think it is illegal or something....

This is a picture of Curt and his cousin Lini reading a book together. Curt loves reading time. He will go get a book and bring it over and then back up until he is placed in my lap...
Curt has been so adorable lately. He waves bye-bye to everything and everyone. Before he goes to bed at night he waves bye-bye to the fish, Jackie and anything else that is close to living. He knows and uses the signs for all done, more, sorry(it's not correct, but it works), and he folds his arms to pray by bringing his fists up to his chin. When I tell him to fold his arms for a prayer, he will start to say his own little prayer which I'm sure only Heavenly Father can understand. It's really sweet.

He has also taken up cleaning lately. He found the broom and dust pan and got really excited. He started sweeping the floor and then he would grab the dust pan and scrape it along the floor. It is really amazing to me what he learns. He is totally a little sponge.



We go on walks with Eli and Helena and here is Curt patiently or impatiently waiting for me to start the walk. Then after the walk he showed Eli the really cool balloon he got on our anniversary. Miguel told me he bought flowers for me, but the balloon was for Curt.










This is Curt playing with his favorite new toy. His dad put together this car track with a gas station and ticket counter.

To sum it all up, life is great for us, busy, but great. Curt is the cutest person I have ever met. It makes me sad to leave him in the morning to go to work. Especially now that he will come out and wave at me and want a few more hugs before I go. I think this is my favorite age of Curt so far. He is just so much fun to watch and be around. Today we went to a barbeque with Miguel's friend and some cats wandered into his house and Curt was in heaven. We spent the evening chasing the cats, one at a cricket while we were following it, the other climbed a tree. There were dandilions in the yard that were big and white and seedy. I taught Curt how to blow the seeds to make more dandylions, I think he may have actually put the dandylion in his mouth before he blew, but it was a learning experience for both of us.
I will attempt to update this blog more often-notice how there are no promises, but I will do my best. Love you all!
Shannon

Curt's Update

Last time I added a picture of Miguel's family to the blog, so this time I decided to show off my family. This was taken at our Folkersen family reunion this summer. My sisters are totally awesome. I love to spend time with my family playing games, rock band, making salsa or chocolate, whatever, they are my best friends.










So Curt is doing lots of cute things now. He waves bye-bye like it's going out of style and he blows kisses, but doesn't take his hand off his mouth so he really just blows on his hand. Here's a picture.









It also really cracks me up how he loves to stop and smell the flowers. Sometimes it slows us down, but it is really, really cute. My sister Kirsten took this picture and has it hanging in her bathroom.


















Curt and I went to Gardener Village last week with our friends Eli and Helena. The boys love playing together. Especially when there are animals involved. We saw some geese and Curt obviously opted to climb on top of the wall. He seems to always be drawn to the dangerous situations... I think he gets that from his dad. I have always been such a fraidy cat. I think Curt's favorite animals right now are our turtles. He opens their cage and takes them out. I think the pull their bodies inside their shells when they hear his voice. He also loves to feed the fish. All day, everyday he tries to feed the fish. He grabs the fish food and carries it around the house trying to get me to help him feed the fish. He is so stinking cute. He is also babbling a lot. He always ends his babble with an inflection like he's asking a question.


Curt just loves to read. He found this book at Sam's Club and when I tried to put it back he was heartbroken. He just wouldn't stop crying, so his Aunt Kirsten bought it for him. He has played with the book everyday. It stresses him out because the pages have pieces that pop out and he needs to have them all out. I usually end up giving the book a 'time out' or losing it somewhere so that he will stop stressing out about it. He really does love it though.

I am also going to add a little about Miguel and I.

We realized that it is going to be our 4th anniversary on the 14th. It doesn't seem like we've been married that long, but then again it also seems like we've always been together. I am so lucky to have a supportive husband. I think he feels the panic I have as summer comes to a close. I know I am running out of time to get all of my projects finished, so I just keep pushing. He just built a shelf in our storage room for me (it took us both all day yesterday) and a few weeks ago he tiled our bathroom. It looks pretty good.

Just Getting Started

This is my first attempt at blogging. I am going to try and update the blog every week. We'll see how that goes.

I wanted to add some of my favorite pictures of Curt. I am starting with our first family photo. This was taken when we got home from the hospital. Notice how Jackie made sure she wasn't left out....













This is Miguel's family that we went to visit in 2006. It was really nice to finally meet everyone! Chile was amazing... except for the sea lion bite!








I can't believe how fast he is growing! This other picture is his 2 month old photo.





My friend Heidi took this and it is one of my favorite pictures of Curt.

















He is running everywhere now. He tries so hard to make people laugh. He has a funny, super cheesy grin he likes to share when he's eating. He likes to do lots of silly things to make us laugh. I think when he grows up he will be the class clown. This picture (above) is of Curt and Miguel at the Vancouver Aquarium. It was pretty cool. We got to see the new baby whale that was only 30 days old. Curt just loved running in front of people and then when he would fall down they would have to try not to trip over him. It was really exciting....Except for the looks the other people gave us. They must not have a one year old who recently discovered his new freedom through walking.
His favorite food is black beans. Here's a picture of him after he's had some.

As you can imagine, we do plenty of laundry...









This is a great picture of our two party animals at Curt's first birthday party. I think the hat was Jackie's favorite part of the night.














Curt loves going to the park. He likes to climb up to the top of the playground and go down the slide head first. He's totally fearless. I'm pretty sure we'll end up in the emergency room eventually.... When we went to the park with Miguel he showed him the water fountain and Curt just loved it. I don't think he got much to drink, but he was soaked by the time we left.

O.K., so it was a really long first blog, but hopefully I can give more details on fewer things next time...