Is it too early?

I have been thinking about getting jace one of these, a toddler bed. My question to you is, is it too early? When did you put your kids in a toddler bed or normal bed. Or when are you planning on doing it? I want to do it, I am just scared of how he'll do with it. He does fine in his crib, and puts himself to sleep. I am just scared this all might change once he's put in a bed. Insight would be great.

Feliz Navidad

Christmas this year was one of my favorites! For very simple reasons. We spent a lot of December doing fun family activities. We watched all our Christmas movies, went sledding and played in the snow, had way too much hot chocolate (I love that stuff) and just enjoyed the holiday season with family and friends.
And there's just something so fun about having a little boy running around being excited about all the new things to see and do. It was awesome.
And it's been fun to see everyone's pics and stories from Christmas. Glad to see it was great for you too!

Joe and Jace playing in the snow.
The snowman we built (That fell down 5 mins after we went inside).


Presents from Santa.
Checking out the stocking.

Jace's Elmo Pajamas he got from Grandma Stubbs and his new Elmo slippers. At first he didn't quite know how to feel about Elmo being on his feet, but now I think he likes them :)

Opening presents.
Yay! Thank you Santa!
And a new bike from Grandpa Walker. He loves it! He rides it up and down the hall everyday.

Thank you to all our family and friends who took part in making this an awesome Christmas season. Love you all :)

18 Months. . . Oh my. . .

So Jace doesn't technically turn 18 months til Christmas day, but I know it's going to just get crazier and if I don't do it now, I probably won't get to it.

Anyway. . .Man, how time pasts! I know everyone heard this as a kid from older people, and didn't like it, but I have to say it cause it's true. . . I can't believe how big he's gotten and how much he has changed. It all has happened so fast for me. I think in my mind he's always 6 months younger than he really is. Like I picture him 12 months old right now, but he's not, my baby is going to be 18 months next week! Crazy! I sat down to see what things have changed since I posted when he was 12 months, and he is growing up and has changed so much! I love to see him learn and that he's developing, but I don't like to see him grow. I want him to stay my baby :( Anyway...

Jace is the funnest little boy around. I LOVE HIM TO DEATH! I am soooo Glad he is part of our family. I love him more everyday and love to see his personality come out. The things he likes and dislikes.

1. He is a great eater! He eats almost (underline almost) everything we give him (when we are at home, he doesn't eat as well at restaurants or others houses, I think it's all the distractions and fun people around) . He eats all his vegetables except sometimes he doesn't like green beans or lettuce, depends on the day and on the way they are prepared.

2. He is attached to 3 main things... 2 particular blankets (kind of a 3rd one) and his bear.

3. He's starting to be more interested in TV. I know, you parents who don't let their kids watch tv, I'm probably horrible, but I have found a couple of shows helps a lot in me getting things done around the house in the morning. Magical stuff. His favorite shows are Blues Clues, Barney, Elmo, Winnie the Pooh and sometimes Dora (totally a girly show, but oh well). :)

4.He is a pretty good talker too. He said around 8 words when he was 12 months old and now says at least over 100. He's even starting to link two words together at time, ( key word "starting") Like today he said, "Daddy work?" meaning "Is daddy at work?" or "juice please" and my favorite, "Luv you" Anyway, yeah, we are enjoying his little words and phrases. He has been cracking us up lately with the way he says things.

5. He has started learning colors (key word "started again") He knows the color blue the best. We have this puzzle with colors and he just points to them and says their colors (sometimes right and sometimes wrong :) Blue, Pink, Green and Red are usually right, others half the time are right or aren't right at all, like the color brown.

6. He's a very happy boy and likes to make friends with those around him of all ages, and gives some good hugs.


7. He loves his aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins. He is continually saying their names randomly through out the day. In fact, as I am writing this he is playing with a toy and singing his aunt susan's name.

8. He just started going to nursery, however I haven't left him there yet, we'll see how that goes. But with me there he is doing fine and enjoying it.

9. He loves animals! I'm pretty sure it's the walker side of him :) dogs don't scare him a bit. Even big ones. One time we passed this great dane and he just walked right up to it saying "horse! horse!" ha

10. He doesn't like contention. If we are bunting heads about something and he can feel/hear the tension in my voice, after about 5 mins he runs to me, hugs me and says "mommy! mommy!"

11. Something that was exciting this week was that he finally learned how to ride this sit and ride toy we got from my mom at Easter. He always would just sit on it, but now he finally gets that you push with your feet to go foward. you have no idea how many times I have tried to explain this concept. haha. I'm glad he figured it out.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of anything right now. But yeah! That's our fun loving Jace. He is the best. We are so glad he is part of our family. Without him our lives wouldn't mean as much. It's crazy, cause I really haven't felt a love like this before. It's my greatest fear to think of something bad happening to him. I am so grateful Heavenly Father let me be his mom. :)

Figured it out

Hey all,
Thanks for your comments on how much you would pay for our dear bookmarks haha. No really, it was appreciated and I feel like I got a feel of how much to sell them for. So they are for sale $5.00 a piece. If you would like to check them out, here is the blog that we made for them. We were originally going to sell them at the tree-for-all this weekend, but we aren't able to make it, so we just decided to let people know about them this way. Anyway, yeah, thank you!

Here's the Blog

walkerbookmarks.blogspot.com

In Need of Your Opinion. . .

Alright, so i'm about to reveal what Joe and I have been up to in our spare hours lately, but first I want to tell how it all came about. So ever since Joe and I got married we have been really into reading. Whenever we can it's so much fun for us to get in bed early, turn on our lamps, and read. I wasn't much of a reader before I got married, but now I love it. Anyway, one day as we were reading I turned over to Joe and said wouldn't it be cool to go buy a nice bookmark, that we use with all of our books. It just sounded fun to have a really nice book mark, instead of using a reciept or something else laying around that we always used. He agreed and so we set out on our search. We went to a few different book stores, and honestly couldn't find any that we really liked that was worth the money. So we looked online and up came this idea from a website. They were these really cool bookmarks, and the more Joe studied them the more he realized that with the right tools (thanks to his grandpa's work shop) he could make them. Well it took a lot of trial and error, but we think we finally got it down. And here they are:

They are made out of copper metal (like the penny) and are flattened in the curving area if you can't tell from the picture. I'm not the best photographer

How they set in a book.

So we have made a few here and there and decided we would sell them for fun. And that's the question I am wanting to ask, if you were to come across these bookmarks how much would you pay for one? Honestly. We don't know what others would consider a fair and good price.

And if you would never buy one, it's okay, you dont have to comment :) haha

We got it!

So the past 2 months or so Jace has been more active. Climbing on everything, including the table, the couch, a shelf, balancing on our bench. So I finally started making forts, creations, whatever you want to call them for him to play on, go through and under. But it wasn't keeping him off the things that I didn't want him to climb on, and he wasn't getting out his energy. So... We finally started taking him to this one park about a mile and a half away as often as we could. Which helped with letting his energy out. THEN the cold hits! And Jace can't stand to be outside longer than 15 mins which wasn't long enough to get his energy out. So we finally caved and got him this!

We decided it would be his main christmas present that came early. I did my research and it is the perfect fit. It fits in our house and Jace loves it! He climbs on it and under it. The slide is just long enough to be fun but not too long, it's sturdy. Perfect!! AND it gets his energy out! At least so far. We have only had it for a day and a half.

So this is Jace before. . (my beautiful creations I made for him)

And this is Jace After


He also enjoyed the box, almost as much as the climber.

Happy Boy = Happy Mom

Elmo says Trick or Treat

So Jace LOVES elmo. One of his first words was "melmo" So we decided if he had a choice that's what he would want to be. So here he is, our little elmo. When I put the costume on him for the first time he just laughed and kept pointing to himself saying, "Melmo! Melmo!" So funny.

They had this thing where you could go down main street and do trick or treating from all the business's. Our neighbors invited us to go. So this is Jace and Corben in the wagon after getting their treats.

The ward Trunk or Treat. (me and my boy)

My sister came with us. She wanted to see jace in his costume.

They were doing that game where you try to eat the donut off the string with your mouth. Well Jace just grabbed at it and ate it. Haha. Probably more efficient anyway.

Fishing at the fish pond.

Joe was one of the judges for the pumpkin carving contest.

Jace and Daddy ready to go around and get candy. They had to do it inside because it was raining.

There they go. And he actually did say "trick- treat" I didn't think he would.

And afterwards we came home and watched the Charlie Brown Holloween movie "the great pumpkin" It was perfect length for jace to go to bed in time and he loved it. He actually sat and watched the whole thing. Which doesn't usually happen with movies.

It really was a Happy and Fun Halloween. We all really enoyed it this year, especially Jace (even though he's not smiling in any of the pictures. haha )