A New Adventure: September 2015

We are so busy and time is just flying by. I wondered if this pregnancy would seem to go by faster or not and it sure has. I am 25 weeks now and getting ready for baby everyday! Jeffrey talks to the baby and talks about the baby. We ate cupcakes after dinner last night and he asked if I had finished mine. I said, "Yep, it's in my big belly," and he said, "The baby is eating your cupcake." It's kind of amazing that he gets that much of it, and funny to think what he thinks that is like in there. My favorite memories from recent days I think will be the three of us, laying in Jeffrey's bed, reading and singing before saying goodnight. Only 3 more months of just the 3 of us. I love every minute of it.

"I love Lacey. I LOVE her!"
"I love mama. I LOVE her!"
Now uses ours, her, his, mine
He asks about Daddy being at work and lot and is SO excited when he gets home. He frequently asks Brant, "Are you home?," after he gets home. I don't think he wants him to go back to work!
A little boy was sliding down the slide after Jeffrey and it made a sound. Very loudly, Jeffrey said, "That boy TOOTED!" All the moms heard him and laughed. It was hilarious.
Jeffrey saw Brant's company billboard while riding in the car. I guess he recognized the logo/emblem from a work shirt Brant wears because he said, "That's Daddy's work." I was impressed!
When Brant went hunting and wasn't going to be back in time for dinner, I said, "What do you want to eat for dinner?" He said, "Birds," I said, "What?," he said, "Daddy's bringin' birds."
Aza gave him a color-changing Lightning McQueen and he runs back and forth from a cup with ice water in the kitchen to the sink in the bathroom changing his colors, yelling, "I painted this guy!"
Last night we were laying in bed reading and I looked over at him. He said, "I'm pickin' my nose. I have no boogers. I ate them all." Niiiice.

Continued love of Cars...

Library Toddler Time

Park before library

Ready for 2 more boys to play with at Gigi's house!

The new children's museum

Amazing on this big-kid playground, definitely has Daddy's athletic skillz.

A little shopping-he made friends with the dog at the store I kept going to for chalk paint. "Where's Drako!?"

Opened a little prize after using the potty-Fillmore!

Playing while Mama paints

Library Toddler Time

First corn on the cob-he was great at it!

Library Toddler Time

We read about sharing cupcakes in a book and J asked if we could make some. Yes!!!

He chose Dinoco blue for the icing color

Alice, Jeffrey and I drove to visit Jenni in The Woodlands

Jeffrey loved being with Jenni and Leslie's big kids

Kallie Ann loved Aza just like Jeffrey does!

Half a birthday cake for Jeffrey's half birthday!

This cutie pie is 2 1/2 already! He is becoming incredibly articulate, surprising us all the time with his complex thoughts, questions and sentences. I can take him anywhere and we make it work as he learns how the world works. So much fun.
He moved to a big boy bed in plenty of time to be ready for baby. The very first thing he did after we "revealed" the new room and Cars poster above his bed was move all his stuffed animals from his little bed to the big bed. It took several trips back and forth. There were a few rough naps and bedtimes, wanting to be back in his, "little bed," but now he's doing great in his new room.
For some reason, this morning we talked about how Lightening McQueen was on his birthday cake. He told me he wants Mater on his next birthday cake. Then I realized that today is his half birthday and because I LOVE a new cake recipe I've been making, (and because I am eating for 4,) I am making him a birthday cake as he naps! I'm pretty sure Brant is enjoying all the cookies, cakes and new dinner recipes I am making.

Some funny things I want to remember from the past couple of weeks:

Anytime we see a Jeep on the road, he says, "Look, there's Sarge!"
Often at dinner, "this is YUMMY, Mama!" or "This is SO GOOD!" Brant tells him to keep it up, that he knows how to work it!
"Do a song of it"-I put lots of things to songs, some educational, some not... his favorites are a song for each "Cars" character.
While looking at books, "I'm reading about ___, Mama."
He lost some little cars and looks around the house saying, "Where all those guys are?"
He misses Daddy during the day and out-of-the-blue states, "I miss Daddy," and "Daddy's a work." We talk about why Daddy is at work and it may be sinking in. One day I said, "Why does Daddy go to work?" He said, "To bring money for us."
When eating watermelon with the deer on the front porch, one of the deer snorted. Jeffrey said, "Bless you, deer!"
He got a pretty horrible hair cut and we called him Lloyd Christmas for a few days. Turns out the barber has been at that same shop for 30 years and Uncle John used to avoid him. Bo also goes there and sometimes gets that guy, but tries not too. Ha. We'll be going back to our Margo next month!
He says "Clifford the Red Big Dog" EVERY time
He got up too early a few times during the bed transition and argued whether or not it was "mornin'" and if the sun was up. He also argues that Bo is not in school during the day because he really wants him to come play.
He LOVES his stuffed animals. I tell him he may grow up to be a veterinarian like Doc. He says, "Doc Hudson?" whenever I talk about Doc. So abstract for him. Sad for me.
"I love (insert stuffed animal here.) He's SO soft!"
He went through a while when he was asked "What's it made of?" when talking about clothes, the wall, anything!
"What's that truck carrying?" in the car, talking about an 18-wheeler
"What's that sign mean?" He asks this one a LOT. I guess he's realizing that letters make words and words have meaning!
"When the baby come out?"
"Are you doing up downs?" That's what we call squats.
"Are you doing yoga?" Whenever I'm stretching, usually
Women were training with a trainer in the neighborhood park, "Look! They're doing yoga!"

New "big boy bed!"

A special Saturday night. Brant made burgers on the grill and we ate in the living room on TV trays while watching football. He loved it!

Lunch with Gigi after church

Jeffrey walked into the kitchen as I was making breakfast and had a bloody nose. You can't tell, but the blood was everywhere and it didn't bother him at all. He just kept wiping it away, so by the time I saw him, it was on his hands, clothes, dripped on the floor....