Spring!

It's looking like spring!! Check out our gorgeous tree!! Chris and I have been weeding and trimming our gigantic flower beds. They look great, but man it's a lot of work.

Deep In The Heart Of Texas...

So we headed back to Austin for a family wedding this past weekend. About 8 hours in the car with a 3 year old and a 4 month old had disaster written all over it. But, they did great! A few stops, but mostly just rode, chatted, sang, colored, and slept. We really loved reminiscing about our old favorite spots. We only got to visit a few this time, but oh so good! We saw some old friends and visited with lots of family at the wedding. Great Weekend!!

Mexican Martini's at Trudy's

Adam inventing a new game of golf at the wedding. Entertained himself!!

Caleb at the wedding

Breakfast Tacos at Rudy's!!! So good!!

Caleb only came for the sauce!!

Sick-O

I forgot to post this last week. Adam actually got sick (throwing up) for the first time. Of course he's been sick before, but never threw up. Now he's in the club with honors. Anyway, he looked so pitiful and cute that I snapped a shot of him with his bowl and Pedialite, watching a movie.

My Favorite Part Of The Day...NAPTIME!!

I'm wiped out. It is yet again a dreary, grey day here in Baton Rouge and we've spent the day indoors. We had a morning at the library for story time and spent some time with some of our favorite things...books. We also rented the DVD, The Velveteen Rabbit from the library and came home to watch that together. Then, we played Super-Heroes! Adam was Batman with the complete outfit. Caleb was Super-Baby and kept throwing "stink-bombs" at us. Finally, lunch and naps. Well, Adam woke up after about an hour from a bad dream I think and then fell asleep again on the couch. I was so happy!!

p.s. We got Adam some rain boots after all this awful weather this winter and it just so happened that his Speech Therapist has a raincoat that one of her own boys had grown out of about 4 years ago. She had it in the give away pile and brought it for Adam and it matched perfect and fit great!! He was so excited!!

"I Have The Power!"

I've debated for about 2 weeks now as to whether I should put this out there into blog world...I think mostly because I wanted to deny it happening. Let's go back a ways.

My 3 year old son got some foam swords and shields for Christmas...instant hit.
My husband has collected 3/4 seasons of the original He-Man on DVD from his childhood.
They watch these episodes together...insert swords and shields. In every episode "Adam" turns into "He-Man" by raising his sword into the air and shouting, "I HAVE THE POWER!" Now imagine my 3 year old and his Dad sitting in front of the TV with the foam swords shoved down the back of their shirts and shields reading on their arms. When the momentous moment occurs they both reach behind their heads for their trusty sword and chant, "I HAVE THE POWER!" right along with He-Man. This is not my story. This is the background information.

About 2 weeks ago, we're sitting at the dinner table as a family. My Adam is stuffing his face and lets out a very boy sound...a poot. He says, "Excuse Me" as he has been taught to do. My husband, in his infinite imagination, remarks, "You know Adam, you're supposed to say, 'I have the power' when you poot." He's all eyes at his Daddy...the all knowing one. I quickly look over at Chris, knowing what ramifications could come of this, and say, "Don't tell him that." Chris laughs. We go back to eating.
A few minutes later, Adam breaks conversation of our dinner with a poot. And do you know what he says after???? "I HAVE THE POWER".
I wish you could have seen the shock on my face and the total pride on Chris' occur in that same moment.

Two weeks later, current time, I have now not been able to break him of this. We've been down grocery aisles with him sitting in the front seat and all of a sudden he breaks into, "I HAVE THE POWER!" He's also had a stomach bug for a few days and his digestive tract is in overdrive, so this is not occurring once in the grocery store it is occurring multiple times on multiple aisles. So, not only is my kid pooting through the grocery, it looks as if my child as Turrets Syndrome.

So now I've shared. Most people that have witnessed this and given me that inquisitive glance, I have explained the reasoning and they laugh. I figured you would too. Wish me luck in breaking this sooner rather than later. And as for Chris, he taught Adam this and so he can live with it being in Blog World.
Never doubt, that as a parent, you have the most influence on your child.

My son...the literal one.

We sat down for lunch today at our kitchen table. We were having hamburgers and french fries. Adam was focusing on the french fries as he usually does when we have this treat and I said, "take two bites of your burger please." He leans in and takes two giant bites, counts each one, doesn't chew, and shows me both bites in his mouth simultaneously. My sister is in town and I look at her and say, "he's so literal (while rolling my eyes)." My son then sternly replies, "No, I'm big!!"

My mistake.

Adam is 3!!

Actually his birthday is this coming weekend, but we had his party last weekend. That's why I've been MIA...planning, packing, partying. He had a camping themed party b/c he loves camping in our new camper. We camped in town and had a few friends and family out to celebrate. The party was fantastic and the only good part of the weekend. The weather was horrible the entire weekend. See picture below. Everything that could have gone wrong did. Apparently God did not want us to camp and we didn't listen. I'm not going into details of it. Let's focus on the great party.

The Campfire Cake...I saw one like this online and had to try it.
The cake was a big hit...yummmm.
The highlight for the kids was splashing in the many puddles around the campground.
This is what most of the weekend was like. SOAKED!!