Night-Night

So a few months ago when David started struggling with the whole going to bed concept we started talking with him about everybody going night-night. When I would lay him in his crib we would start to talk about mama going night-night, Dada goes night-night, Ga goes night-night, and so on. It started turning into a nightly routine where David would talk about all of his family, friends and pets going night-night. Over the past week he has started incorporating things that have occurred during the day going night-night. The other night it was "imagination movers go night-night, shoes go night-night, socks go night-night, bye-bye go night-night, purse go night-night, Katie house go night-night (along with everyone in their family going night-night), pool go night-night, night-night!" Basically, we got up watched imagination movers, put on socks and shoes, grabbed mommy's purse and went to our friends house to swim! It is so funny to me what he recalls during the day. We make a habit to talk about our day every night at dinner, but now it seems like he is grasping that night-night time concludes the day. Looks like we our going to have to make some extra time in our nightly routine for his lengthy night-night list!

Only in Texas...

Easter 2010

We had a wonderful Easter, just the three of us. David woke up that morning with a horrible diaper rash which did put a little dent in our planned activities. We were unable to capture pictures of him discovering what the Easter bunny left behind because he needed a little air before we headed off to church! After service we enjoyed a beautiful brunch at Three Olives, difficult at times but yummy. The Easter bunny had to hide the eggs in our front yard this year due to construction in the back, which worked out okay because the Easter bunny had more places to hide them and David had a blast! We were a little worried that he would not be interested in hunting eggs because over the past few weeks we have tried "practicing" and even attended our play group's Easter Egg Hunt/Spring Party and he was not impressed. My guess is it being in HIS front yard made the difference. He really enjoyed running around finding all the eggs and even knew to put them in his basket as he collected them!

On the hunt...

Our silly bunny...

My Easter flowers that Daddy got for the table that weekend, aren't they beautiful? Ranunculas are my favorite; we actually had several in our wedding and rarely see them in stores.

Happy Easter!

2 Years Old

We had David's two year appointment last week and I wanted to document his current stats....

Height: 35 inches; 75th percentile
Weight: 29 lbs; 50-75th percentile
FOC: 51 1/2 cm; Upper 97th percentile

Heehee..he has a big head like his daddy! So, I was completely thrown off guard when they led us straight to the normal scale and wall measurement! It was such a big, but sad moment all in one. It really made me realize that he is not a baby anymore; he's two. Which he'll tell you if your lucky and if he is in the mood!

Here are a few other things that have been going on in our little two year old's world;

• He completely knows every letter of the alphabet and can even sing you the song!

• He can count to twenty, gets a little mumbled after 16 but he understands where he is going with it.

• We have been on a good streak ever since his birthday....less tantrums and so sweet! For the most part he will help out when asked, listen and do as told, and if a heated moment shall arise the word "timeout" will put a stop to it! We'll see how long this lasts.

• He has started putting his words together to make sentences. We mostly hear I want pretzel, cracker, elmo, etc. A few others are; "I'm okay", "You okay Elmo?", followed by "Elmo fall off chair," and then "Elmo's okay" (this is all heard in order after he throws elmo off a couch, chair, you name it....poor elmo). Oh and my favorite, "hey mama!"

• He says "hi" in this sweet flirty voice accompanied by a wave from his hand to EVERYONE we come across at the store, on a walk, you name it! It's like his social skills just randomly kicked in, but don't be fooled because if he doesn't like you or the situation he will not hesitate to scream at you!

• I finally figured out that he was cutting a two year molar when he screamed from the shot at his two year appointment! It is so hard figuring out what is going on in there, but I had a feeling between the behavior and the runny nose that we were dealing with teething issues, ugh! We have our first dentist appointment scheduled in a few weeks, so stay tuned! btw...it was not just one but two molars....he gave me his giddy grin at dinner tonight and I saw another one coming in; this explains alot!