Words to make you cringe with fear when you have a raging 19 month old…

“My 4 year old is throwing a tantrum….” as in “still” not, oh she never does this she must be tired or just in a bad mood. My girlfriend put this on facebook as in she was venting about her 4 year old that was “still” throwing tantrums. I am not sure if she still looks at my blog but if she does, THANKS KRIS FOR MY BLOG SUBJECT ;). The thought that the “from the bottom of the belly” screaming that the tot can make come out of him out of nowhere not being over on his 3^rd birthday (I will give him a year since they are called the “terrible two’s”, and how wonderful is it that he is such the overachiever that he would start early ;)), it makes me want to hide under my comforter. To be honest though, I am pretty sure that although a tantrum no longer includes kicking and rolling on the ground (although with some I don’t think it is completely out of the picture), I am pretty sure I have seen some “BIG KIDS” (adults) throw some pretty good tantrums.. so I guess I just get to learn to “deal” with this little tater tot o’ mine… Lord please give me patience… and Gigi. HAHA!

As much as I point out the fits, he is still hella cute, and still melts my heart with some sweet notion EVERY.DAY. He is a very busy little fella, a lot needs to be seen and done in the hours that his eyelids are peeled back EVERY.DAY. I kinda feel bad because it is so SAHARA DESERT hot here, and he just gets so red cheeked and hot so easy, I feel like I trap him in the house when he loves to be outside. I always explain to him as I carry his twisting, crying, very upset self inside that I know he doesn’t understand, but he just needs to cool down a bit. I saw some teenagers practicing lacrosse at about 2 pm in the afternoon the other weekend and I told Brad, Good God I will be a psycho mom.. runnin’ after him with a water bottle.. ARE YOU HOT BABY, ARE YOU THIRSTY BABY… haha. It’s crazy the heat that these kids play ball in! But, although I will gripe every year, I have lived in Texas EVERY YEAR OF MY LIFE.. and this is just how it is. But I can still run after him :).

ZERBERRRRRT, the room was filled with laughter as I got my slippery beauty out of the bathtub. I was carrying him into his room to get him dressed, when what I think was meant to be the making of practicing to be a vampire, turned into a noise as his lips blew on my skin. A ZERBERT! He quickly became obsessed with doing it again.. and again.. blowing on my collar bone brought the best one and was SOOO FREAKING TICKLISH TO ME. It was very funny, and provided quite the giggles from the two of us.

4^th of July was something of a bummer this year.. it is so SAHARA.DESERT.DRY here, like horribly no rain and scary fire dry. I was really looking forward to taking Brady to see some fireworks but there was only like 2 shows anywhere in the vicinity and the flood of people yearning for what I wanted to see and the way late at night time of the fireworks.. I decided nevermind :(. Next year we will so suffer through the heat, crowds, and whatever else because I think he will absolutely love it, but this year I knew he could probably have cared less. Might I say momma was right, kiddo wanted to go to bed around 7.. can you imagine how miserable he would have been in the heat waiting for fireworks until 9?30?? Oh dear, no thanks.

We did a little hanging out with friends..

Hanging out with the cuz’s

Got a little wet..

And dug in to some taters..

Did some swingin'...

And did some loungin' and sippin'...

Tried a swim outfit swimming with friends, that yeah, not so much haha! Who wants to feel like a turtle?? Not fun, and he wanted no part of it.

Not digging the turtle, stuck on your back floatie!

So much has developed with him, but the best development this past week or so is EEZ? As in PLEASE! We have tried and tried and he would give thank you a shot, but please he would just sit there like “I have no idea what you are saying, nor do I care to give it any attempt or attention”. But now he will make an utter, or a noise “EEEEE” when you ask him to say please before giving him something. We are gettin’ manners by God! His “swatting” seems to be deplinishing more and more, thank God. I will just die if I have a bully kid! It would just be soooo hard for me, I really hope he doesn’t go into the deep dark bully place that so many kids seem to go to.

He does have so much energy which I think is to blame for the yelling out of nowhere for a split second like he wants to throw a fit, but then gets distracted. It’s almost like he just needs to have more stimulation.. or an outlet to run like a wild man. It’s just soooo hot outside, and the kiddo turns hot and pink in .2 seconds. I think I may be way to protective over that with him though and he may just need to run a little and get a little pink and be all good :). I get sooooo red when I run or play sports outdoors so he definitely gets it honest..

Well I better get this post posted before another month goes by :). Until next time!