for the past few weeks chet's favorite word has been NO. and it has been so frustrating.
but a couple days ago we finally convinced him that YES is a really great word too.
and life has gotten just a little bit nicer as a result. 

chet's vocabulary is growing everyday. he copies just about everything we say to him.
it is so funny. we can't get over how quickly he is changing these days. 

this is a list of chet's best words for now:

no. yes. tank. mom. dad. hi. bye. baby.

cheese. please. water. banana. blankey.

uh oh. sheep. shoe. woof woof. mine.
Jesus. two. three. weee! woohoo! ow.


not too shabby, huh?
we are trying to teach him how to say his name. but it is a pretty tricky word.


some other new facts about chet are:

- he loves to read books, especially with his grandma leavitt.

- thanks to me, chet loves to make toys kiss each other.

he could be playing with toy cars and he will still make then kiss. mmmwah!

- he likes to 'sing' and dance when music is on.

- matt really wants chet to sit and watch a movie with him but, unfortunately,

chet just isn't there yet. those boys have started many movies together

but chet never lasts more then a few minutes. that doesn't stop matt from

watching the entire movie though. matt has watched babe, horton hears a who,

and monsters inc. all by himself!

- chet also hasn't realized how awesome coloring is. i'm not very sad about the

fact that chet doesn't appreciate the TV yet, but it breaks my heart that he

doesn't like to color. when ever i give him a crayon he just tries to eat it...

and then throws it on the floor.

- he is still the best sleeper EVER.

- we bribe him with french fries more then we should.

- he just started making this super goofy smile when we ask him to smile.

we are hoping he will eventually outgrow it, but for now we think it's precious :)

 sweet pj's, huh?
we think they make him look like an old man.

i have been just terrible at taking pictures lately. but i haven't posted pictures of halloween
yet, so i might as well throw those up on here.
chet was still too young for halloween this year, but we took him out for a little bit anyways.
he followed a few of his leavitt cousins around, but didn't last very long.

this is chet trick or treating at his very first house ever:

and this was about 10 minutes later:

he didn't collect a lot of candy on his own, but his cousins were more then willing to
give him all the lolipops that they didn't want.


in case you were wondering, matt and i are doing good too!

we can't believe how fast our time her in calgary is going by. we are looking forward to
getting back to rexburg, but we sure are going to miss our family when we leave.
have i mentioned that we have the sweetest and most supportive family ever?
cause we do. we aren't sure why we are so blessed, but we are sooo grateful.
thank you!

we were having lunch at the mall this afternoon when chet took his worst fall yet.

and i feel like a rotten mom because it was kind of my fault.

you see, i hate public highchairs.

i wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things. obviously, because i wouldn't fit. but also because i find them rather icky.

even if i wipe them to death, i still fell like chet is getting contaminated with something nasty when he sits in one.

so, at lunch today, i decided that chet would be just fine sitting in a normal chair.

but he refused to sit.

so he stood.

and then he fell.

we honestly hadn't been sitting for 10 seconds and chet hit the floor. and a few other things on the way down.

there was so much blood.

i swear it was coming from like 50 different places on chet's head.

i am so grateful that matt was there because i didn't handle the situation very well:

pam "i don't know what to do"

matt "get me some wipes".

pam "i don't know what to do".

matt "just pass me some wipes".

pam "i don't know what to do".

matt "pam, wipes!"

pam "ok".

chet survived.

we took him right over to see my sister, who is a nurse, and turns out all he needed was a popsicle.

but i hope he never gets hurt again :(