Moments in your life

I need to do a better job of documenting stories from your every day life.  Here are a couple current stories:

Yesterday we went to Walmart to grab a few groceries.  When I went up to the front to pay, I loaded all the groceries on the counter.  While I was talking to the clerk, you reached out and grabbed the milk jug and pulled it off the counter.  It hit the floor and broke and milk went e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e.  Including on me.  All the clerks that were nearby grabbed their paper towel rolls from under their tills and came running.  I was MORTIFIED to the point of tears!!  I kept apologizing over and over while I tried to help clean up.  Everyone was really nice but I was so embarrassed that I left without getting a replacement milk because I just wanted to leave. 


Today it took forever to get you down for your nap.  It was past your naptime so I knew you were tired.  You're usually pretty good going down for your nap so I knew we were going to have problems when I laid you in your crib and and you scrambled to stand right back up.  I left anyway, hoping you'd lay back down and go to sleep.  No such luck.  You spent half an hour blabbing and calling out while I watched you from downstairs on the baby cam.  You threw your toy monkeys out of the crib, and eventually you took off your socks and threw those out too.  Then you pushed yourself into the corner by the wall and stretched and stretched until your fingertips could scratch at the tree decal on the wall and you peeled off as much as you could.  Finally I decided to go in and to the bedtime routine over again in hopes that this time it would take.  I took in a warm bottle too as an extra incentive.  You gobbled down your bottle while I rocked you.  Your eyes were closed most of that time so I thought we were good to go, but as soon as I started toward the crib you whimpered "no, no!"  So we sat down again and read a couple books.  You were rubbing your eyes so I decided just to put you down and let you cry it out.  Of course, your mom is kind of a sucker, so when I walked over to the crib and you said "no no!" again I let you just snuggle in my arms while I patted your back.  We stood like that for a few minutes and then you started to point toward the door to say you wanted to go out.  I told you that it was time to go night-night and you pouted and said no, but I gave you a big kiss and said yes, and laid you down.  Thankfully you stayed put although you made sure to pout up at me.  I ruffled your hair and gave you a kiss and your monkees and left, and thankfully you just closed your eyes and eventually fell asleep.  It was all very cute, but only because you finally gave in.  I don't want to fight over naps yet!

18 month update

Nursery this Sunday!! How is my baby old enough to go to nursery??  I'm so proud of you and the little boy you are becoming.  You have temper tantrums several times an hour but in between that you are your same sweet self that you've always been.

Some things about you at 18 months:

*You love Chinese food, especially the soups.  Anytime we've gotten takeout you've planted your hands around the bowl and kept your face in it until you were full. 
*You've discovered the piano.  You're at that age every child reaches eventually where you like to reach up on your tippy-toes and bang down on those bass notes.
*You've figured out the concept of knocking on doors - or banging on doors with both hands rather! You like to use this new talent to bother us when we're in the bathroom.
*You've decided you don't like being fed anymore, you only want to feed yourself.  This makes mealtimes even messier than they were before.  We're getting by okay right now because I let you feed yourself cleaner things and then I sneak the messy foods in your mouth while you're distracted.
*Your favorite game right now is running around blind.  You'll pull a blanket over your head and just start moving.  You think it's hilarious, until you inevitably run into something.  A few days ago Daddy caught you going down the stairs with a blanket over your head.  Terrifying.
*You've discovered that if you go down the stairs on your belly, you can positively fly down them.  It scares me to death but you haven't crashed yet!
*You are very possessive of your toys.  You pretend like you don't mind sharing, but as soon as someone else takes one of your toys you grab it right back.
*You're becoming more and more interested in the bathroom.  Hopefully this is a sign that you're gearing up for pottytraining.  Whenever you hear us go into the bathroom you like to run in and announce "pee-pee!"  You also just figured out on your own how to flush and throw a tantrum whenever we catch you and pull you away.  Yesterday was the first time I heard a flush followed by "uh-oh!"  No idea if something got flushed or not.  So. . .I guess we're at that stage now.
*You've learned how to beckon.  You usually do it when you're trying to get a puppy to follow you.  You'll hold your hand out and open and close your fist.
*New words: Ellie (A-E), apple ("appo"), sit, trash ("tass"), shoes ("sues")

December picture wrap-up

Right now you love playing in forts or tents of any kind!

This picture is so blurry because I had only half a second to take it before  your tower fell over.  I bought you these new wooden block cars and turned around one day to see you carefully stacking them on top of each other.  You had never done anything like this before and I was so excited!

Looking so handsome in your church suit!

Playdate with Jaxon.  I don't know what you were doing hanging over the stair.  Lacee and I were downstairs making goodies and you and Jaxon kept going upstairs to play by yourselves.

Whoa, bedhead!

Desperately in need of a haircut.

You are getting really good at feeding yourself!  We don't let you feed yourself soft things like this often though because it gets way too messy.

Christmas with the puppies, all watching a cartoon together.

One of the only pictures I have of you from Christmas 2012.  It was a pretty laid back day so there wasn't much to photograph.  Aunt Ayisha got you these awesome ball pit balls that you love.

Sick Day

12.18.2012  It was a normal Tuesday playdate with Ellie, but you took an usually long nap (4 hours!) and I even woke you up because I was afraid you wouldn't sleep at night.  When I went to wake you up, I realized immediately why you had slept for so long.  You were sick!  I brought you down and you spent the rest of your playdate just tucked under a blanket on the couch fighting off a fever.  I tried to keep Ellie away from you so she wouldn't get sick too but she insisted on climbing onto the couch to keep you company.  You refused to walk while you were sick and only wanted to sit on the couch or have us snuggle you.  You didn't take a single step on your own until several hours later - such a change from our usual active busybody!

Yummy lemonade

I think we're getting to that point where we can't take you to nicer restaurants and expect you to behave the whole time.  We tried going out to dinner with Pete and Rachel but you couldn't sit still and made a mess of our food.  Toward the end of the meal I was exhausted and made the mistake of letting you have a sip of my newly refilled raspberry lemonade.  Once you had tasted it, you wouldn't let go!  Daddy took this picture after we realized you had drunk half the glass in one long sip.  After you drained my glass, you started on Aunt Rachel's.  And about 10 minutes later, you were WIRED.  You can't hold your sugar, that's for sure!  We never let you have juice (only formula or water) and as far as sugary treats go we might let you have a potty treat gummy bear once every couple days, or a dum-dum in rare occasions as an extra special treat/bribe.  Your tiny body just couldn't handle it and you crashed and went right to sleep when we went home.

Lydia

We started doing babysitting swaps with you and Lydia.  You just love your Lydia, and you are excited that you get to see her all the time now!  You like giving her little kisses on her hands.

Last mommy milk bottle

 We made it a long time with the frozen storage!  We gave you the very last bottle of mommy milk on Christmas morning.  You do great on toddler formula and we're looking at introducing cow's milk soon.