you might think i have gone disneyland crazy...

ever since love day i have been to disneyland at least once a week. like the title says, 'you might think i have gone disneyland crazy' but really i have a reason. in the middle of this month [march] my pass will be blocked out for a couple weeks due to spring breaks. then also at the beginning of june my pass will be blocked out until summer ends so i needed to make sure i get my disneyland fix in. and really it has worked. it has been fun being able to go a lot of just be relaxed there and just have fun not worrying if i don't do a ride of not. that is the best thing about having a pass, you can go just for a couple hours and just have a stress free time.

feb 14. love day. i wrote about this trip here.

feb 19. day after presidents day.

robin, diane and grandpa hiatt all was going to disneyland this day. its a tuesday so i wasn't sure if i was going to go since i have soccer games on that day. but my game was a late game and they didn't want to stay to late. we got there when it opened and went straight to fantasyland. walker hasn't done a couple of the ride there so i wanted to do those with him. we did dumbo, the carousel, peter pan and robin took him on alice. walker has done peter pan before and has liked every time. it was his first time on dumbo, the carousel, and alice. we did dumbo first. when we got on he knew exactly what to do. he went straight for the lever and pushing it up and down. it was cute. he loved the ride. i don't remember going on it since i was a little girl so it was kinda a first for me too. after we did some rides in fantasy land diane and i went to indiana jones while robin and grandpa hiatt went on alice. i havent been on indiana since it has reopened. there were some differences but you probably wouldn't be able to tell if you don't go on it a lot. we then headed to dca. we got some lunch and then went on little mermaid, toy story and racers. I have been on racers in a while and i got to say that it the a great ride! probably the best ride at dca!

carousel. dumbo with grandma and mom. happy boy on a chilly day. preview of oz. driving dumbo

ride home sleeping with birthday mickey

feb 21. a day with friends

my friend brooke and i have been wanting to go to disneyland together and with our little guys. we finally planned a day. we didn't get there right when it opened because we wanted to have the drive be around nap time. we left about 9:30ish. we decided that we should make it a girls day and do things that we normally wouldn't do with our husbands. so when we got there we went to pixie hollow. we got to meet vidia and tinkerbell. i didn't know much about the fairies but since then i have watched all of the pixie hollow movies and loved them. after we went to pixie hollow we went on alice and then to pirates. it was fun being able to relax and take things easy. brooke and i had a good time as well. on our way there i told brooke that i didn't have good spacial awareness.  i was pushing the double stroller that we borrowed from a friend for the day around disneyland and was doing so well at not running into people which i normally do with my own stroller. we decided to go on to the train after pirates to see if the boys would fall asleep. walker fell asleep on pirates so he was already asleep. once we got off the train we decided it was time to head home. walker was still sleeping so i just held him until he woke up but that didnt work to well. as we were getting off the train i ran into a tall guy that was walking in front of me and then a couple seconds later ran into another guy. note that i was trying to keep walker asleep by holding him. maybe that wasnt the best idea. i put him in the stroller since he woke up due to me running into two people seconds from each other. while we were walking out of the park i almost ran into one of the horses that pulls a trolly around main street. needless to say it was getting to the point where i have done. it was probably a funny site to see. 

waiting in line. tink and us. more waiting in line. new buddies. vidia and us. 

feb 28. family day

casey and i decided to go to disneyland as a family the next week. i love being able to just got for the day and spend time with the family. this day we did stay until the parked closed because we haven't done that in a long time. my sister in law and niece, sarah and kaylie, met up with us later in the day. it is always fun being able to see some family as well. kaylie is a blast. she is so cute. we met up with them at the winnie the pooh ride. sarah got walker a mickey mouse shirt and gave it to us. after winnie the pooh we went to toontown to try to take some pictures of walker at disneyland for his birthday party but it was way to crowed to get really good ones. we did go into mickey's house to meet mickey. Casey and I haven't done that yet in all of the times that we have gone. kaylie wanted to go on the roller coaster in toon town so casey and i took her while sarah watched walker. she loves walker and it is so fun to see them play. we then went on other rides as well and watched some of the parade while eating dinner.

about to go on a coaster with kaylie. my boy are matching {green shirt, blue pants/shorts, orange shoes}. in mickeys chair. meeting mickey. crazy boy. driving mickey's car.

i was going to go on march 6 with my friend christy but he son got sick so we had to cancel. we also went on walker's birthday to celebrate him being one. but i will post about that later. 

like i have said you might think i have gone disneyland crazy.. but really why not go when you can when you only live an hour away and you have a pass. i love being able to go and spend the day there. it is always way fun and walker seems to enjoys it even though he wont remember it later. but really disneyland is for all not just for kids. 

♥ The Schroeder

i love love day

for valentines day we kept it low key. we didn't do presents or anything big. in the morning i made breakfast for walker and casey. I gave walker cheerios that i put in a shape of a heart. he didn't notice he just played with them and put them on the ground. and for casey and i, i made toast with a heart egg inside with a half of banana. he had to go to work early that morning so i made sure to have breakfast ready for him when he got out of the shower.

during the day i didn't do much. my visiting teacher came over and we talked and got to know each other. and for the rest of the day i just spent the day with my little valentine. I had two valentines this year. it was fun being able to spend the day with him. somedays i just turn on the tv and let walker watch that while he plays so i can relax or do what i want but this day i made sure i didn't. i played with him. we had a great time.

when casey and i woke up casey told me he had switch shifts with someone and was going to be getting off work earlier than we thought. he said that we were going to disneyland for a date night. we haven't been on a date for a while just him and i and i have been wanting to go to disneyland for a while just him and i. it was fun. for the month of february on thursdays AP holders were able to get to stay until 10pm in DCA.

ready to go on toy story . visiting mickey and walt before we left . hollywood

so we got there at like 730ish due to traffic so we went into DCA and got our wristbands and then we were off. we wanted to make sure we did rides that we couldn't do when we bring walker together. we go to do lugi's tires for the first time. it was okay. i think that it would be better if you had a big group that you went on it all together. we also did soaring and toy story mania. it was fun being able to spend the night just casey and i while robin watched walker for us. we left at 10:30ish due to tiredness. we tried to go racers but got tired and decided that we should head home and be sure to get home safe.

overall it was a great love day! i am glad we kept it simple but yet we still did something fun.

Thanks casey for being the best husband ever! i love you!

♥ The Schroeder

Grandma Carter

My Grandma Carter passed away in January. She has been sick for a while but has been doing better. She then got sick again and that was it. It has hard to say goodbye but I know she is in a better place.

When we moved down to escondido i told casey that i wanted to make sure that walker got to meet grandma. this is because walker got his name from her. walker is her maiden name. i wanted to make sure that he had pictures when he grew up with her so i could tell him her story and how he got his name. we were able to see her numerous times. it was great. she said that walker is such a happy boy and that she loves that we decided to name him after her family. i couldn't imagine naming him anything else and i am glad we decided on walker.

Grandma passed away on january 11. casey and i were going to go up on thursday before we went to disneyland to see her and visit with them for a bit. i called that morning to make sure everything was still a go and i couldn't get ahold of them. i then called my mom and she said that grandma was in the hospital again so it probably wouldn't be a good day to visit. my mom then got the feeling that she should come down and be with my grandma and grandpa. she wanted to make sure that she would be able to say bye to my grandma if it was going to be the last time she sees her for a while. i am glad that she was able to make it down her and spend the last couple days with her.

grandmas funeral was a week after. it was a very simple but really i think that is how it should be done. all of my brothers and sister were able to make it. it was a great time celebrating my grandmas life with my family as well as spending time with them. we all stayed at my brother brad's new home. we spend all friday there and then had the funeral saturday in mission veijo.

the funeral was great. like i said it was very simple. there was a viewing in the morning at the and then a gravesite service and a luncheon for the family. i kinda think that, thats the way to do it. simple yet tasteful. and that really describes my grandma.

my family decided how we were going to remember grandma and show our respect to her is by wearing hot pink at her funeral. hot pink is her favorite color. so we all had something that was hot pink on, even the men. it was great seeing all of this hot pink around.

i love my grandma and miss her tons. I wish i have lived closer to her so i would have gotten to know her more than i did. but i am thankful for all of the memories i do have with her.

cant wait to be with you again grandma. love you!
♥ The Schroeder

Walker Monthly Update - Month Eleven

one more month until little walker is ONE! it is crazy to think that my boy will be ONE in just a month!

oh can i try mommy . baby fohawk . look at what i am doing . we may like movies to much but at least walker has the same love for them . i am stuck . no time for getting dress need to play all the time 

Walker has sure become a hand full. He loves to play and is just full of life. There are days where I wish he would just sit on my lap and lay down with me to take a nap but he knows what he wants and has no problem telling me or letting me know. As you can tell in the picture above he loves to get into things. It always makes me smile when I look around to try and find him and once I do he just look at me like he has done nothing wrong. I have been trying to teach him no even though he might not know what it means yet. But he has such a cute little face that sometimes it is hard to not laugh or just smile when I am trying to teach him the concept of 'no'. It is going to be a challenge but I will be able to do it.

I have been trying new hair styles with walker since he got a hair cut last month. My favorite is the baby fohawk. I think he just looks adorable in it. I only do it every so often but still its my favorite. We are also starting to feed him some 'real' food since he is turning one in a month! He doesn't seem to be a big fan. He usually just spits it out and then plays with it and drops it onto the floor. I guess it will just have to come with time, but i am praying that he isn't a picky eater. he does eat yogurt, sometimes cheese, and he loves treats {thanks to grandma robin}. I think we might have a sweet tooth little boy on our hands.

something that makes me laugh is that walker really doesn't like taking breaks from playing. he can play all day if i would let him. he doesn't make many naps during the day. he is now transitioning to one a day which is sad for me. but sometimes he will only take maybe a 20 minute nap and is good until bedtime at like 8:30 or 9. he doesn't even like getting his diaper changed. I have to make sure that he has a toy to play with while i change his diaper or he will roll over and run off with no diaper. even when i get a diaper on he won't let me put his shirt on or pants on again. it is kinda frustrating but i am getting use to it and usually just take him to our room and change him on the changing table. {it usually is easier, sometimes}

one thing that we have noticed is that walker doesn't like things on his feet. since it has been cold i usually put sock on his feet so they stay warm. probably in the 10 minutes after i put on socks at least one is off, usually the left foot. he is now my 'one sock wonder'.

Since walker will be one soon we are teaching him to hold his own bottle. it has been good so far. he will hold it if we put the handle of his sippy cup on so he can grip onto the handles. he doesn't like drinking from his sippy cup yet he just spills it all over or just chews on it. we will be working on that though. {sidenote} i love about the brand of bottles that we got for walker is that they all go with each other. it has been so nice. i love them. i got the tommie tippie brand and i now swear on it. he didn't have any problems when i needed to feed him with a bottle while breastfeeding him and then only giving him a bottle. he did such a great job. he had no problem. i would recommend them to anyone!

Walker is now getting more interested in things. when i am on my phone or on the computer he wants to see what i am doing or "help" me. it has been fun. he loves to play with the iPad or our phones and just press the home button. He does just little things throughout the day and just makes me smile. I wish that i could know what he is thinking when he does things.

I have been planning walker's birthday first party and i hope that he all turns out. I am doing a mickey mouse theme since he love love mickey mouse. i don't want to do total overly mickey mouse but i am thinking i am starting to get to that but it will be cute. I can't wait to say that I have a one year old. He is just getting so big!

♥ The Schroeder

Walker Monthly Update: Month Ten

Oh my goodness! It was ten months ago that our little Walker was born. I can't believe it. I know I say it a lot but time flys by, especially since it had been the holiday season. Ten months seems like a long time but in reality it isn't. I was thinking about it the other day and I was pregnant with walker for technically ten months. So pretty much walker has been alive for the same amount of time he was inside of me. I just think that is crazy.

in love with bath time . reading a story with grandma . riding on daddy's shoulder while grocery shopping . playing the wii . brushing his teeth/eating his toothbrush . playing with toys . big boy carseat, seems to be comfortable . uh-oh mommy caught me 

This month has been a busy one. Lots have been going on specially since it is the holiday season. The holidays sure doesn't stop walker. He is now all go go go. He loves to get into things that he isn't suppose to get in. I have been trying my hardest to make sure I have an eye on him but hey what can you say, he will find a way to get around me.

Little Walker has now four teeth {two on the top and two on the bottom}. I try to brush his teeth to make sure that they stay healthy but he just likes to eat the toothbrush. hey at least he isn't screaming every time I try to brush his teeth.

It is crazy to think how fast he is growing. For christmas, we got him a bigger carseat because he grew out of his carrier carseat. He loves being able to sit up and see a little better but I bet he would love to face forward and see even more.

We have been trying to set a bedtime routine for walker but it has been a little difficult. We will try again some other time. The one thing that he likes about the bedtime routine is us reading to him. He loves hearing stories. We got a couple of the big disney story collection books on black friday so we have been reading those to his. He doesn't sit through the whole story yet but he sure does tell you when he is done. He will just close the book and then look up at you. It is fun to being able to see his personally come out.

Walker is now just loving life. He is such a happy boy no matter what. He was sick for a bit of this month but you couldn't really tell since he still was happy and all smilies. He was fussy for a couple of days but once we got his some medicine it was like nothing has happened. This might sound funny but when he didn't have meds he would just cuddle with me and lay with me all day and then I gave him his meds and he just wanted to play. I miss being able to have my cuddle bug but it only really happens when he is super tired or when he is sick. So whenever that happens I just soak it all in.

His month walker got his first hair cut. His hair was getting very long in the front as you can see in the picture above. I just cut it myself but was scared out of my pants. I don't do well cutting hair even though I cut Casey's hair but still it makes me nervous. I thought that it was going to be hard to do but Walker was just a good boy and was great! Grandma Robin helped me out a bit to make sure that it turned out good.

first hair cut
before. during. after

Overall I think it turned out good. I almost cried when we were done. I just missed his long hair but it is good that we cut it. He still is the cute little guy that we all know and love. What do you think?

♥ The Schroeder

Walker Monthly Update: Month Nine

{be prepared to read many late post}

I know this is way late but here it is. 

little walker is nine months!

first christmas hat Mickey style .  sleeping baby . christmas jammies . bath time is the best . loving the doctors . swinging is so much fun . eating some Christmas treats . making sure mommy is there . santa's littler helper

Time flys by so fast and I am trying to enjoy every moment I get with my little guy. He is getting so big. It's crazy for me to think that my little walker is growing up so fast.

Everyday he learns something new. It seems like he has a first everyday. He knows how to pull himself up to stand while holding onto furniture. He loves to pulls things off the table. He loves to eat his baby foods and doesn't have any picky habits, just won't eat meat. We are starting to introduce him to other foods like cheese, yogurt, and Cheerios. So far he is loving it. We have given him foods like this before but just a little taste.

A big thing that walker has learned this month is that he is crawling on his hands and knees. He has been "army crawling" for about three months now and one day he just started to go. He still sometimes goes back to "army crawling" but he seems to be getting the hang of it. It has sure been keeping me on my toes and making sure he isn't getting into anything he not suppose to.

Walker still loves Mickey Mouse. Whenever it comes on TV or he hears Mickey he perks up and looks around for him. It is great seeing him develop so much and see what he loves and doesn't. Another thing he loves is baths. He has always loved them since he has been born. Now that is knows how to crawl he is starting to move in the tub and play with his toys more. It can be a little difficult to wash him because all he wants to do is just move around and play with his bath toys and splash in the water.

One thing about Walker that we know is that he thinks that he is bigger than he his. We have a family friend that has a boy that is 2 years old, Chase. Whenever we play with them Chase try's his hardest to keep up with Chase and do everything he does. It is funny to watch but I feel bad because he is trying so hard and just can't keep up. But watch out Chase once walker know how to walk he will be able to.

It has been fun just watching walker grow and learn. Being a mom is the best and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

♥ The Schroeder