Quick catch up

Loving on the toy kitchen at the Crossroads Farmer's Market

Beep beep!  Honk honk!  My backseat driver.

He loves this hat!

Hugging on Big Pooh Bear



Bounce!!




His creative way of carrying them all around.




Chanelling his Theodore Roosevelt



Little man of the house- taking care of the yard.




I wouldn't let him chug my water bottle....think we're nearing 2?!



Teddy is in to all kinds of things now.  He can open doors and work locks and even dead bolts.  Today in the grocery store after a total melt down he was able to open a juice bottle cap. 

He is saying two and even three word sentences now.  Sunday night on the way home from church he said "I got it" like 1,000 times.  His other favorite sentence is "Oh dear"....guess he hears that a lot or something!

He actually really likes to put things away and clean.  He loves the vacuum and loves to sweep and "mop."  Except now he likes to make a mess so he has something to really clean up!  Tonight he threw his container of peas off the table on purpose and then squealed with delight when I gave him the broom to clean it up.  My intention was that I was trying to explain why we shouldn't make a mess on purpose, because someone has to clean it up.  He likes to help me in the kitchen too.  I hand him a bowl and spoon and tell him to "mix."  I found a play kitchen at Once Upon a Child a few weeks ago for a steal and am so excited to give that to him for his birthday because he fell in love with one at a toy shop.  I'd do it early but it didn't come with hardly any pieces so we're working on that.

One of his favorite games right now is to hide.  And it's pretty awesome for me too because he'll just hide behind a curtain or in his "fort" (turned over pnp with a blanket draped over it) and I can sit on my butt for a few minutes.

He still likes balls and cars, trains etc.  He's obsessed with big kids and bikes.  I really want to get him a balance bike for Christmas.

He is so affectionate.  He loves to give hugs and kisses, especially during eating.  I think it's his way of saying "Thanks for the food Mom!"  He also has a bunch of animals that he has to love on all the time.  A pooh bear in his room, a spare in the play room.  A blue bear head lovey, a froggie for church.  Oh, and a sheep.  And a hippo.  And they all have to be in the crib with him.  And I have to hug and kiss each one before nap and bed time.  Oy.

Speaking of sleep now he's sleeping 9pm-8:30 am.  And napping at 2/2:30 for 1-2 hours.  It's working pretty decent, it's nice not to have 6 am wake up calls any more!!  And he's doing better at church too.  Part of that is age but part of that is definitely because he's not staying up so excessively late compared to his normal bed time.

His favorite place is definitely the playground, we're both partial to the Dream Come True one.  Love hearing him clap and say "Yay!!  Playground!!" when we pull up.

He's doing pretty good with Doug gone training right now.  He asks about him sometimes but understands that we said bye bye to Daddy and will see him in a few days.  We do skype with him each day, though technology doesn't always favor us and images will be distorted and just not worth staying on for very long. 

Oh and he loves to read books, especially before bed now.  He will finally!! sit on my lap, or next to me, and read!  He loves learning animals and noises, shapes, letters and numbers but seems resistant to colors.  He knows the whole alphabet and can count to 10, sometimes more.  He is starting to connect sounds and words from his cards and computer with the alphabet.  He'll babble to himself all the time.  I can't understand a lot of it but then every once in a while I hear "I, Igloo....six."  Hahaha, I have no idea how that makes sense in his little world! 

Oh, and mega blocks!  Loves them!  Also loves knocking them down.  But he also loves putting them away.  He's just so amazing and so fun!!

Fancy blogs

So I've had this blog for over 2 years and I still clearly don't have enough patience to fully learn how to use it.  And they keep changing things.  I do want to spend some time on it and make it look all purtiful at some point.

I've read some blogs lately.  Some people are quite pretentious.  Their about me page should just say something about themselves but instead it's like they're trying to impart some kind of great and meaningful wisdom that only their fountain of awesomeness can spew on to me, a most needy public.  It's especially fun when it's someone you know in real life, which actually kind of explains more about them and in the end I'm not surprised by it.  Also interesting is when they make 15 blog posts on these awesome things all in one day.  And their posts are all about getting up and taking part in life.  Um, maybe don't date stamp your posts faker, because you just sat at your computer for how long telling me I'm how inadequate.  Granted, they're supposed to be encouraging, but it seems like they never mis a chance to regale us with tales of all their accomplishments even in spite of their more than you-could-possibly-understand obstacles.  Basically, very wordy put downs.  (Don't worry, no one that has followed this blog or I suspect even reads it).

So, this blog is not fancy or pretty.  It serves no greater and amazing design.  I'm not using it to catalog my profound ponderings and thoughts, to scrap book every awesome memory about Teddy.  The first seem to seldom exist these days and the latter would be too numerous for me to do anything.  I try to update when I get around to it, when there's nothing else more important going on.  I'm sure some of the things I post on here I will forget, like his check up stats, his age at a particular stage (like when he started fighting sleep).  There are others that I will remember forever.  I might not have ever experienced labor with him but I will remind him that I had to give up sugar for 3 months and that one night he nursed for 24 hours straight during his 6 week growth spurt. 

So, I'm sorry viewers.  If you need fancy put downs that are supposed to make you feel motivated, I'm not the spot.  If you need profound thoughts or realized truths, not the spot.  But if you want to know a bit more about me and the real me and Teddy too, you found your spot.  Nothing profound or outstanding, just real people living real life.  And because I can't allow that be the final sentence of this post lest it sound profound I will end it with this one instead.