Documenting life...: Chase is ONE

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chase is ONE

Sweet baby Chase Rockwell. What would we have done with out you in our family? It was such a hard decision for us to make, having another babes. I can't say too many times how glad I am I listened to my heart and spirit. He's been an absolute JOY. His big cheesy, teethy grins, the way he lays his forehead on your face letting you know he loves you, the way he plays with his own hair while he nurses, or his little tongue always hanging out while he attempts something, the new mamamama and dad speaking, his constant fascination with cupboards and drawers-pulling out everything in them. We love love love you-

more than you will ever know.

8 comments:

Emily said...: I love him too. The pictures turned out absolutely perfect! I love, love, love them. I love how his legs are spread out. So, so, so adorable!

(I usually see so much Tanner in him, but that bathtub pic - the serious one, is so Jaren. You two make the cutest kids!); March 17, 2010 at 2:15 PM
Brian and Kim said...: I agree, he does look like Jaren. Very cute!!; March 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Annette Larsen said...: Look at that GRIN! He's so cute. And he looks so much like Jaren in those pics.; March 17, 2010 at 2:57 PM
Bryndie said...: He is absolutely darling! Where did the time go? I feel like you were just taking Burklie's newborn pictures the other day.; March 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Tanya said...: Happy 1st Birthday Chase! Gorgeous pics of your darling little boy Jen... can't believe he's one already!

L. Tan xo; March 17, 2010 at 8:49 PM
C'est La Vie said...: he's identical to Jaren, all your kids are identical. and they look JUST like you.; March 18, 2010 at 8:12 AM
Jana said...: He's so yummy! OH I just love his faces!!
I pretty much can't say enough how cute these pictures are. BRILL idea!; March 21, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Erica said...: Well beautiful girl-those genetics can't lie. He's gorgeous.; March 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.