Jared - 1 to 2 Years Old

Jared's Talking! - May 18th, 2005
Jared is learning his words. Just this week, he is saying “milk”…in sign language :) Paul and I are trying to teach him some sign language and the one sign Jared just got is “milk.” Now, whenever he wants his milk, he just signs it. It makes us smile and say “WOW!” He does babble a lot but with sign language, all three of us understand what we’re saying :)

Jared all wrapped up - May 19th, 2005
Jared ready to be packaged and sent up to ND / MN :)

The Bubble Boys :) - May 19th, 2005

Aloha, Jared! Jared at 14 months old - May 24th, 2005

Mom, Dad and Jared at a friend's birthday party - May 29th, 2005

The Carlsons and The Henrys - May 29th, 2005

Jared and friend, Kiefer Watson (7 months old), having lunch at the Chandler Mall food court - June 1st, 2005

Mommies & Kids :)
Maria and Jared Carlson, Leslie and Amy Gonzalez, Farrah, Jonah and Micah Cooper and Elisa and Kiefer Watson - June 1st, 2005

Jared loves to jump in his crib...the little jumping bean :) - June 9th, 2005

Jared making a crazy face - June 9th, 2005

He walks! - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3 - June 9th, 2005

Hi Jared - June 12th, 2005

Pictures of Jared swimming in our pool - June 12th, 2005

Video of Jared walking, waving "Hi" and swimming - June 12, 2005 (10MB in size!)

Happy Dada's Day! - June 19th, 2005

It's summer time! Jared at 15 months old - June 24th, 2005
Jared's 15-month stats: 26 lbs. 0 oz., 33.25 inches long, 19.5 inch head circumference

Jared wearing one of his MANY Bob the Builder outfits :) - June 30th, 2005

Jared ready for bed, clean and in his new shark PJs - July 1st, 2005

Jared in another Bob the Builder outfit :) - July 2nd, 2005

Jared, smiling in his crib - July 5th, 2005

Oh!!! Hello there, Jared :) - July 6th, 2005

Jared is getting more and more independent. Now, he wants to do everything himself :) , including eating.
Pictures of Jared eating with his fork. - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4 - July 6th, 2005
Jared is also talking more, by signing "please" and "all done."

Pictures of Jared eating some yummy morning pancakes, made especially for him by Dad.
They're the perfect toddler size too :) - Pic1, Pic2 - July 17th, 2005

Jared at 16 months old - July 22nd, 2005

Pictures of Jared reading and playing in his room - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3 - July 25th, 2005

Jared has learned how to climb up and sit on the kitchen chairs - Pic1, Pic2 - July 27th, 2005

Jared and his first really bad-looking busted lip :(
Guess that's what you get for doing WWF moves in your crib :) - July 28th, 2005

Jared giving kisses to Bear (Awe!) - August 6th, 2005

Pictures of Jared "playing" with Bear. Bear doesn't look like she is enjoying the play :) - Pic1, Pic2 - August 6th, 2005

Oh, you troublemaker :) ! Jared is into everything, opening up everything and climbing on everything!!
Pictures of Jared climbing across one of our tables - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4 - August 6th, 2005

Luckily, we have baby proofed our home, so there is nothing Jared can grab and pull down...
Ooops! Not everything - Pic1, Pic2 - August 6th, 2005

Jared loves pulling his little Leap Frog Alphabet Bug - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4, Pic5 - August 6th, 2005

We went to Desert Breeze park here in Chandler with our friends, Karen and Grace Murphy. The kids had fun playing on the playground and then we went to play in the park's water area. We all got drenched :)
Here are some pictures of our outing. - August 9th, 2005
Jared and Grace Murphy at the park, getting ready to play
Grace and Jared playing
Jared going up the slide the hard way :) - Pic1, Pic2
Grace going down the slide

Jared wearing his summertime hat - August 11th, 2005

Jared looking funny wearing his sunglasses - August 14th, 2005

Dad and Jared swinging - August 14th, 2005

Jared having fun swinging at our neighborhood park - August 14th, 2005

While the cat is away, the mice will play :) This is what happens when I step away to go check my email.
I thought it was way too quiet out there. Somehow, Jared managed to go from sitting on a kitchen chair to sitting on our kitchen table...and he thought it would be fun to rearrange our tissue box and napkin stack :) - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4 - August 19th, 2005

We spoiled Jared recently by getting him a trike :) We took our first "ride" on it this afternoon - August 21st, 2005

Pictures of Jared at the computer - August 23rd, 2005
HA!! I finally beat Mom to the computer chair
Oh, was I not supposed to get on the computer?? Ooops :)
It's fun pounding on this thing
Okay, all I need to do is click here, then right click there, copy, paste and...
Ooooo! What is under this?

Dad and Jared watching Thomas the Train - Pic1, Pic2 - September 18th, 2005

Jared at 18 months old - Pic1, Pic2 - September 22nd, 2005
Jared's 18-month stats: 27 lbs. 2 oz., 35 inches long, 19.75 inch head circumference

Jared's second trip to Minot, ND - September 22nd, 2005 to September 27th, 2005

Every once and a while, Jared watches a television show on PBS. He needs a Barcalounger to lounge in while watching :) - October 4th, 2005

Jared Playing with Grace Murphy - October 19th, 2005
Ooops. The dolly dropped on the ground but Jared is there to help out. Jared giving Grace her dolly.
Ah, how sweet! Jared sharing his goldfish crackers with Grace.
Jared and Grace playing with some push and pull toys.
Jared watching Grace on the horse.
Grace having fun rocking on the rocking horse.
Jared and Grace playing in Jared's room.

Happy Fall! Our outing to Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek with our friends, Patrick, Karen & Grace Murphy - October 27th, 2005
Jared at Schnepf Farms
Ooooo, a train ride! The dads with the kids :)
Hold on Jared...it might be a bumpy ride
Hi Grace!
Karen and Grace on the train ride
Goats, chickens, cows and sheep in the petting zoo
Carousel time! Mom and Jared
Patrick and Grace having fun
Hi Jared!

Pictures of Jared playing in his new house - Pic1, Pic2 - October 30th, 2005

Jared's new smile! Now, whenever we ask Jared to smile, we get this smiley face :) - October 30th, 2005

Jared and Dad carving our family pumpkin for Halloween - October 30th, 2005

Dad gave Jared the pumpkin lid to play with - October 30th, 2005

Jared "taste testing" the lid :) - October 30th, 2005

Hi Pumpkin! - Pic1, Pic2 (Jared sporting his new smile :) ) - October 30th, 2005

Hey, where's the candy?!?! (Jared, Halloween isn't until tomorrow, silly boy) - October 30th, 2005

Our candy corn carved pumpkin - October 30th, 2005

Happy Halloween! - October 31st, 2005

Pictures of a fun morning at Grandma Guzman's - November 4th, 2005

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Jared's trip to California for Thanksgiving 2005

Has anyone seen my other sock??? - December 7th, 2005

Santa's little helper - December 8th, 2005 - Jared loves pulling out our broom and "sweeping" What a cute little helper!!

Jared's second Christmas - Pictures of how we enjoyed the Christmas season!

Pictures of Jared playing with a puzzle he got from Grammpy and Grammy Carlson for Christmas - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3 - December 28th, 2005

We went to the Phoenix Zoo - December 29th, 2005

Jared loves to read - January 5th, 2006

Jared driving his garbage truck - Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4 - January 29th, 2006

Jared giving us a funny face - February 9th, 2006

Say "Cheese!" Jared and Grace - February 16th, 2006

Jared playing with his teddy bear - reading to Teddy and rocking on the rocking horse with Teddy - February 20th, 2006

Jared and Grace Murphy having fun running around the house - March 5th, 2006

Jared playing on the play set in the backyard - March 8th, 2006
Getting to be too big for this little play set :)

Jared is starting to drink like a big boy now - Cheers!, Yum!, Drinking like this is cool! - March 16th, 2006

We saw some Chandler firefighters at the grocery store the other day. They were nice enough to give Jared a junior firefighter hat. Too cool! - Firefighter Carlson, Being too silly, Ooops! Got the hat on backwards! - March 16th, 2006