3 year photo shoot

This morning the weather was nice and cloudy, so I decided to go ahead and take Corbin's 3 year pictures. We went to a park nearby, and to bribe Corbin for nice smiles I let him feed some of the ducks while we were there. I am really happy with how the pictures turned out. I can't believe my little guy is getting so big!

3 years old!

Corbin just celebrated his 3rd birthday! Lately, when asked his age, Corbin would respond, "I'm two and a half" So on his birthday, we were telling Corbin that now he could tell people that he is three years old. Corbin said, "okay. I'm three and a half!" He's having a hard time letting go of that "half" :)

Here are a few things about Corbin at age three:

* weighs 28 lbs, and is 37 inches tall

* is still deathly afraid of doctors. He screamed through his entire well-check appointment, poor kid.

* loves transportation toys, especially trains, cars and trucks.

* his favorite tv shows continue to be "Word World" and "Wonder Pets." However "Bob the Builder" is also becoming a big favorite.

* Corbin loves going to the library each week. He always picks out transportation books.

* loves camping and hiking. Basically he just loves being outside.

* Corbin loves gum. It has become a great bribery tool/reward.

* loves eating corn on the cob, any kind of berry, pretzels, fruit snacks. He hates crunchy bread (toast), rice, and mashed potatoes.

* and he melts my heart when he says, "I sure do love you Mom/Dad"

Here are pictures and a video from Corbin's day.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Look how excited he is to see the cake.

Clark baked the cake, I frosted it, and Corbin did the decorating. It was a true group effort.

Summer fun

Our backyard is tiny, but we sure do love going outside to play during the summer. I can't wait for the day when we have a big yard with a large sandbox, so Corbin can flood it and build sandcastles. He really loves playing in the sand. And that makes me happy, because I have such wonderful memories of playing in the sandbox when I was a kid.

4th of July vacation

We had a nice long vacation for the 4th of July weekend. We started it out by camping at Silver Jack Reservoir, which is about 5 or so hours from our house. It was a really beautiful place to camp.

Silver Jack Reservoir

Hiking

I think Corbin's favorite part of the whole vacation was throwing rocks in the river. He could have done it all day long.

Corbin also loved playing in the dirt with his trucks.

Here is a picture of our campsite resident deer. We saw the deer at least once every day we were there. It was pretty fun. This picture was taken right by our campfire.

Clark wins husband/dad/camper of the year. We woke up to rain the first morning. It was really cold, and Corbin came and watched a movie in the car shortly after this picture was taken, so that he could warm up. Clark cooked us breakfast in the rain. Then the weather cleared up and we were able to go fishing. Unfortunately, we didn't catch anything. I'm sure Corbin's rock throwing didn't help much in that department, but we sure had fun trying. As we finished up fishing it started raining again, so Clark won the prize again by getting a fire started with damp wood, and sitting in the rain to roast our hot dogs for dinner.

Here Corbin is fishing with a little stick pole that we made. This is at Rowdy Lake.

After 2 nights of camping we loaded up the car again and headed further south to meet up with some of Clark's family in Durango, CO. Here is a picture of the whole gang. It was really fun to see some family and to hang out together.

Is it just me, or do Corbin and Grandpa G have the same smile?

Waiting for fireworks. Corbin was sooo excited to watch them, but he was so tired that he lost interest pretty soon after they started.

On Monday, we drove to Silverton, an old mining town. They have a train that goes from Durango to Silverton, but because of the high cost, and the fact that it would be a 9 hour affair, we decided just to drive in our cars to get there. Once we got there, they were kind enough to let us check out the train, which Corbin LOVED doing. In the picture above, Corbin is blowing his new train whistle.

This conductor was really nice. He showed us the fire in the engine, and where the coal is stored. It was really cool. They also were nice enough to let Corbin walk around the empty train. He was in train heaven. All in all, it was a really fun vacation, that went by much to quickly.

This is a video of Corbin on the train. He starts out by singing his favorite song from "The Polar Express," the "Hot Chocolate" song.

Trying to fish at Rowdy Lake with his stick fishing pole.

A comparison

Baby Girl

Corbin's Ultrasound

Cement truck

The cement truck came today to fix the big crack in our driveway. Corbin has been so excited for this day! They have been doing other driveways in our neighborhood, and he would ask everyday when the cement truck was going to come to our house. At 7 this morning he came running into my room, "Mommy! The trucks are here! Hurry, hurry, come see!" And we spend the morning watching them tear out the section of driveway, prep it for cement, and finally we got to see the cement truck come! Corbin loved every second of it.

Ultrasound pics

Here are a few of the ultrasound pictures from yesterday. I'm glad we didn't take Corbin along. When we got home, Clark said, "Corbin come see the pictures of your baby sister." And Corbin started getting scared, "No! I don't want to go to doctor!" But, he was happy to glance at them once we told him he could look at the pictures at home, and that he didn't have to come to the doctor's office to see them.

It's a...

Girl!

Clark and Corbin knew it all along. I, however, was pretty shocked that it wasn't a boy.

Blue or Pink?

In one week (on Monday, June 21), we will hopefully be able to find out the gender of baby 2. Please feel free to cast your vote before that time. I vote boy. Clark votes girl, and Corbin votes he will have a baby sister.

The poll is posted on blog. So if your are using Google reader, then you will have to jump over to my blog to vote.

No more sassy

I am really proud of Corbin. He is officially pacifier free. For the last couple of months, Clark would occasionally ask Corbin if he wanted to throw his paci away. Corbin would always respond with great distress, and say things like, "but I love my sassy!" Well, a couple of weeks ago Clark asked him again, and this time Corbin said yes. And he ran up to his bed, got his paci, and then threw it in the garbage can. In the meantime, Clark and I are both stumbling over our words, and saying things like, "Are you sure about this?" "You can't get the paci back once it goes in the garbage. It will be gone forever." "No more paci" We were both quite sure that Corbin would have a really hard time going to sleep that night. And we were right. As soon as Corbin got in bed, he started begging for his sassy. It got to the point to where he was nearly hysterical. So I dug out the last pacifier in the house. It was one that he hated, and I cut the end off (which I had previously also done with the favorite, but now thrown away pacifier, but the cut had not effected his love for that one in the slightest). Anyways, seeing that pacifier calmed him down enough that he finally went to sleep.

We have had a couple of weeks of rough sleep (especially at first). But last night Corbin informed me that it was now his Teddy Bear's sassy, and he carefully made sure that Teddy Bear had the pacifier right by it's mouth for bedtime.