MMM... CHOCOLATE AND PIGGIES

We love us some book time at night!! I can't remember when we officially started with introducing books but I think it was a few months old. What started with a beautiful stare at this piece of cardboard that mom puts in front of me as I have my last bottle of the night, has become a fun time with all 3 of us snuggling up in his bed to read the night to a close. JUST HOW I WISHED IT WOULD BE! He has this book-

Oh he loves him some WHOA! WHOA! ( That is " round and round" in tot language). He will sing with us and quite honestly I think we make a heck of a trio. He gets it honest because Brad and I put on a heck of a show with our duet we would sing for him when this nightly concert first began :). He loves to sing and pitches in so sweetly!

Then there is this book which has taken a close second in the last couple of weeks-

He is really taking an interest to counting and loves doing just that with this book. He is really wanting to count with his fingers so we are working on accomplishing holding up 1 & 2 and not having 3 & 4 pop too :).  I will usually tap on the animals while I am counting and count as I am tapping. He will now copy me and count 1...2...(and skip the numbers in between)... 8,9,10 :) Or it is 1... 90 (yes, ninety :))..10 :).

Saying help and bringing it to you- He is doing really good about asking for help. He really took on to it quickly instead of throwing a fit when something wasn't going your Majesty's way. He will get ticked off and I will calmly and quietly tell him to show momma and he will do just that and let the tirade come to an end! We here it a lot now though :), HEP! HEP! HEP! But I will take hearing that beckoning rather than a squeal and screaming of my ticked off tot.

Well it happened :( the time I have been scared of since we took the wooden cage apart and started to big boy bed world.. He fell out of bed. He rolled off of the end of the bed and luckily the comforter was on the floor so he didn't have a horrible landing. But sheesh I can not imagine that abrupt awakening! Poor little guy!

And there goes the diaper! Well you can't let the little guy walk around in just a diaper that is for sure! Our little Chippendale in training has accomplished "takin' it all off", not good.  I will pull out the duct tape and get gigi some too if need be :). The other night I went in to tuck him in before I went to bed and I walk in to see a naked bootie up in the air! He had taken off his PJ pants, and his PANTIES :)! I was like OH MY!! He had himself covered with a pillow so you couldn't see in the video monitor, and I mean who wouldn't! I can imagine those little "cheeks" got quite chilly :). Heavens..

My tot has been letting on to have some kind of allergy somethin' or other. Started noticing in December that "somethin" was going on but wasn't sure that it was anything more than allergies since I am pretty sure we leave in the middle of allergy irritants. Brad has them pretty bad so I am not shocked that he picked up something since uh they are twins on the outside, might as well be matching on the inside too :). Well the runny nose with the "clear substance" has come and gone along with the dry cough, but this past week has been different. His cough sounded croupy and I was scared it had grown into something else. That and I really wanted to take him in to make sure that nothing was going on with an ear infection or in his lungs or chest. So I took him in Friday before last and my THIRTY-THREE POUNDER is just fine as far as chest and ears go. They gave us a prescription of Nasonex so we will see how that goes. I really hope we don't have to do allergy testing and all that jazz.

EEEEMOOOO! He finally says ELMO! Lol.. I have always wondered what was taking him so long to say it! :) I mean come on, momma has shoved Elmo down your throat and deemed him your favorite!! Ya gotta say his name!! Lol. But now we do so all can rest in peace!

What syringe? We are guuuuhhhhrownin' over here! Guess who doesn't need a medical dispensing syringe ( like how I clarified that we aren't slingin' drugs over here hahaha). With the daily dose of Clairitin, we now take it right out of the dosage cup!! I am excited immensely about this :). He has always been great about taking medicine, sadly because of having to take reflux meds his first year of life I am sure. But he has added it to his list of aggravations that he has and every once in a while gives me a struggle. To be able to hand him the little cup and him down that sucka!! Its a beautiful thing!!

Simple Pleasures XOXO..

PICTURE PERFECTSSSSS

rAINY dAY fUN :)

What are you doing oh love of mine.. NUTTIN' JUST EATIN' MY PIGGIES..

We love us some CHOCOOOOOLATE Pudding! ALOOOOOOOOT of CHOCOOOOOLLAAAAATE PWEASE :).

HAAANNNNDDDSSS! It is quite possibly one of the cutest things ever when he says that to me!

Grammy and Man gave us this indoor bouncey!! What a lifesaver for the rainy days!!

AHHHHH GET MY LADAAAYS OFF MY BOUNCEY!!! :)

We also busted out the Elefun which I am 99.9% positive that momma and daddy had a blast playing this more then Bub! He did love watching us :)

But why run around like a fool with a net when you can just dump them out.. mom and dad do it the hard way :).

Blessed be the patience of the basset hound as he gets head butted :).

He loves playing in the sink and is infatuated with pouring things in and out, in and out.. it makes for another great babysitter on a rainy day!

He looooves electronics, much to the drama it brings to those trying to use it :).

Last weekend we had sleet and snow!! I swear although I have lived in Texas all of my life, never will the weather fail to amaze me. Like I told Brad, we were in beanies with snow and sleet on Sunday and had on bikinis (not literally) on Tuesday with a high near 80! Just crazy I tell ya.

My beautiful rock star :).

Notice the twinklies in the background? I am officially obsessed with Christmas lights and the warm and fuzzies they give me :). I have decided to make them a member of the family all year long :).

This girl is the best baby sitter ever! Sweet Mikayla and little Jackson!

 

YUUUHHH YOUUUUUU

Wow, it has been too long since I just wrote a normal blog without holidays/ birthdays being the reason for the season :).

Well, there is about oh nothing that we aren’t “up to” these days :). One thing that he is up to is 30 lbs. at his 2 year appt. which I totally didn’t put on any past blog posts.

This kiddo is UUUHHHHHMAAAZZZIINNNGGG :). As much as there are so many OOOOHHHH MY GOD GOSH (Momma needs to work on that, my little pete and repeat is a big occurance and he has picked up on saying OMG! Not hot under God’s roof on Mondays and Wednesdays I am sure!!) moments, there are so many that also leave me melted on the floor, a melted pot of love that is.

For example, although there are many times I have to beg for a LOVE YOU outta the kid, do you know that last night as I was laying him down that after I told him good night that he said, yuuuhhh youuuuu. SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU JUST DIDN’T DO THAT TO MOMMA!! Give me a heart attack out of being absolutely so in love with him! We spell trouble though, big T.R.O.U.B.L.E. 99.9% of the time, some is funny, some YEA NOT SO MUCH. He has simmered down a bit though, seems to be getting ahold of those emotions that go pouring through these little fellas that they have no idea what to do with. Still has to get a few alligator roll fits in a day, but not near as many. He really does well when I ask him to please show me when he is upset and I don’t understand what he is saying. That has to be so aggravating for him, you know? He will settle down when I ask him and walk over to what has his feathers ruffled which can be a blanket that is taking too long to pull off his bed because it is too big :), to a wheel on his grocery cart that just won’t clear the door jamb to come out. Very big catastrophies you know?? :)

We still eat like the pits though.. Well he does, still has to have some crunchy breading for the dinner main course. I am really trying to think along the lines of, fine then you aren’t going to eat if he throws a fit if I don’t put something breaded infront of him.. but it is HARD! There have been a couple of times that he snacked a lot and I knew he just wasn’t hungry that I let him down and he is like HALLELUJAH, BROTHA IS FREEEEEEE! He doesn’t care one bit or get upset…. Me, I am just scared my sweet little anorexic baby is gonna starve :). I really hope he stops doing it, although I am also high on the hopes that he will be easier to bargain with when he gets older. You know, the good ol’ dessert bribery?? :)

We are outside if the weather allows and his little eyes are open!! He loves the outside so much, I am glad! I can’t lie and say that sometimes I don’t wish he could get entranced in a movie and just simma sometimes but for his well being, I am glad that he loves to run and play and take in the outdoors that is around him. We “fluffed” our backyard a bit too with this sweet piece of metal, and Santa brought him a bouncy house too!

I am soooo glad we got those things because I was starting to feel like he was just walking around the backyard like, oh, this rock is still here.. oh, yay the same green ball.. It just seemed boring to me, although he sure didn’t want to come inside either so it must not have been so bad.

He has already mastered climbing the slide in like the first day and now can get on the see saw most of the time by himself as well.

Everything about him, from his physical attributes to his skills is changing so quickly! He is really communicating well, still have what I like to call an Indian/ Hawaiian chant sound to his language sometimes but slowly by surely I am picking up that, HOW IN THE HECK DID YOU KNOW THAT THEY SAID THAT, skill that has always baffled me about mothers that could understand their child when I was left baffled at what they said. I swear it is the weirdest “education” I have ever felt running through me, you have know idea where you even get your knowledge :). I wonder what else is embedded in my brain by the sweet guy upstairs that I have no idea is there :).

This past week he had quite a runny nose and a lot of coughing so we did some sauna hang outs in the bathroom to try to keep him from getting any infection. To keep him entertained I would sit him on the counter and turn on the water so he could play in it for a few minutes. He started looking up at me every once in a while and rub his hands together and say, HAANDS, like he wanted me to do it too! Well I think he is saying to wash my hands while he is washing his hands! I hate that I can’t film everything they do at school and watch it because I wish I knew every little thing they taught him! I can only assume that they wash their hands for lunch and after play time outside. Well then at bath time I bought some new bath soap with a pump and when he saw me pump it into my hands to wash him he immediately got excited and stuck his hands under the pump and said HAAANNDSS! So cute.. if I put some in his hands he will either try to eat it ;0) or most of the time he will rub his hands together and rub it on his face or body like he is bathing himself :). Just growin’ and growin’ way too quick!

The other night at story time we were reading Good Night Moon and he was pointing at the star, saying STAAA. All of a sudden this little George Strait starts singing Twinkle, twinkle, little star, THE ENTIRE THING. Of course the words aren’t clear just yet but you can tell by the rhythm and the tone. It’s the sweetest thing ever! I tried to get him rev’d up last night to do it but of course if I pull out the good ol’ Canon he gets deer in the headlights look :). He loves him some singin’ and most of the time that he is playing and being good he has a good tune coming out of his mouth as well. He likes ‘IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT’ too and is soooo cute! He will even stick his little fingers in his dimples on the “YOU’RE FACE WILL SURELY SHOW IT” if you are lucky and that, well that can make you just want to eat him up it’s so stinking cute. He hums along with his glow worm as it plays his song that he has been listening to since his wee months old. He will sing to the Elmo DVD that plays in the car.. he just makes my world a better place I tell ya. Hearing him singing I can’t help but smile which then just makes me a happier person. The last time that our family got together for a dinner Payton was singing Happy Birthday over and over, it was sooo cute, and guess who thinks their cousin is the coolest and tries to sing the same thing! So cute! He walks around constantly saying HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY… I think trying to sing “If you’re happy and you know it” by himself. WHO COULDN’T GET A SMILE with your sweet baby walking around singing that :).
We haven’t taken on potty training yet, honestly, I am freaking scared!! Hahaha! He has started taking off his own clothes, or I should say helping a lot at bath time so that is a good sign. He asked a couple of times to sit on the big potty last week and then would stare between his legs haha… but nothing happened. Let’s just say, I am keeping my fingers crossed that he doesn’t go straight for the big potty because heavens my arms are going to be NUUUUMMBBBBUUUHHHH holding him up and waiting haha! We shall see how it all goes though!! I have tons of pictures, so heeeeeere we go!!
I have a very eager helper when it comes time to unload the dishwasher! He will hear it open, take for instance this day that he was outside (hence the beanie, we really don't keep our house that cold :)) and ran inside when he heard it open!

Granted, it does end up looking like this, but the efforts are appreciated :).

I am quite positive that daddy is excited for him to be able to take up his man chore.

All boy, and looooves playing with a stick of any kind!

Is this not the cutest snottiest face ever! Don't worry, momma was equipped with a charmin roll in her back pocket to grab this never ending faucet, but I had to snap a pic. first :).

Peepin' tom!

My sweet Grandad turned 90 this year! The family and dear friends were able to get together after years of never seeing each other! It was so neat! And the kiddos were so cute playing together!

The Cake! So Neat!

Look at this guy trying to be all crazy and WALK down the stairs not holding on.. my gray hair overfloweth.



My grammy and Aunt Donna at the bday party!

Just like his momma, we gots toooo much to do so let's multi-task and carry too much at one time :).

Jackson and Brady

Exactly when does the teething stop?

My 2nd cousin, Topper.

Pay Pay!

OK, I seriously think that this picture is the cutest ever, they look like a bunch of old men standing around haha!

It was crazy to me how so many years ago it was all of us playing in this backyard and now, IT'S OUR JUNIORS!! I really did take a second to totally soak that all in, it's very surreal when I was sitting outside just watching them run around and play.

Addison sitting with her Gigi, soon enough lovey you will be tearin' up the grass with the others!

Pappy playing with Jackson and Topper

Grandad's new birthday present!! Juuuuuust kiddin', my cousin is cooooool with this huffy of his ;)!

We went to our friends ranch in Floresville for New Years which Brady just adored and really made us want one!! As much as that kid loves to roam, he was in heaven outside here!

I love the sun in this picture <3

We love pointing out some planes!

This is Kyle and Jennifer's little guy Kyle!

He is soooo stinking cute, and so sweet!

Their oldest Ashley, Kyle, and Brady bouncin' :)

HAHA, I love this picture.. we were working on kisses here.

Still tryin' to love, not tryin' to eat his head lol.

His puppy friend!

First water hole, yep we found it.

Another good ol' plane sighting :).

Cheeeeeese.

Just another good ol' day on the farm!

Last but not least, you know when it's quiet that he is doing something ooooohhhh so very wrong. This little magician made this POOF! and happen in only a couple of minutes! HOLY QTIPS!!

WHERE WERE WE ONE YEAR AGO?

WHAT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO??

MY HEART OVERFLOWETH..