Those in glass houses

should turn their walls into aquariums!  My dear hubby is OBSESSED with fish tanks, and while we have tried our hand at them many a time, we know that it is best for us to NOT be fish parents!  This little tidbit of knowledge doesn't stop him from trying to work a fish tank into ANY area of our kitchen remodel.  I may be privy to the knowledge that we WILL NOT in fact have any fish anywhere near our remodel (unless they are being sauteed up on our new range!), but just to keep him entertained, I suggested we just do away with any plans to use the tape/texture guy, and just turn all our walls into aquariums...I am 100% positive I'll be calling the taper next week.

One step closer

We ordered our appliances today!!!  We're that much closer to our new kitchen!  Tomorrow we're all set to confirm our cabinets and hopefully pick out flooring sometime this week too!  I was already super excited for a new kitchen, but after a few weeks of dishes in the bath tub and either eating out or BBQing outside (no matter what the temperature), I am excited and relieved that construction is going to be starting soon!

20 months in the making

Today we were able to get a few errands run before heading over to Auntie Heather's for a DELICIOUS ribs dinner.  One of those errands involved a quick trip in to Michael's- I decided that since Peyton's shadow box is now finished (way to be an over achiever Sis!!), I should get to work on Wesley's....He's only 20 months old, I didn't want to rush anything.  I can't believe I'll be working on our sweet Baby #2's shadow box in just 13 weeks; at least I can think I'll have plenty of free time with two babies to finish up a shadow box before our sweet Baby # 2 is 20 months old!

Up Pease Mama

Little Guy has decided that simple "Up Pease" isn't enough of a heart string puller- he's now added "Mama" to the end of any request.  I don't know what it is, but I just can't handle the sweet way "Mama" and "Dada" roll off his tongue :)

Few screws loose

Little Guy has a mind of his own and when he sets his sights on something, watch out if you're in his way. Speaking of being in the way, his new thing he picked up from "Little Blue Truck" is "beep, beep" to anything or anyone in his way....anyways, I digress.... Today he set his sights on the hot tub, which was not hot, so I let him go feel how cold the water was...and then he proceeded to climb in the hot tub, rain boots, socks, pants, diapers, the whole nine yards, and splash around. I don't have a picture since I clearly couldn't leave him alone in the water, but he was happy as a clam to be splashing around in all 70 degrees of hot tub goodness...sometimes I am not too sure about our little love ;)

Poo-Poo

We keep talking about how quickly Little Guy picks up on sayings, words, ideas, etc. and how important it is to be mindful of our actions since he's just watching and learning from everything we do. Just the other day Daddy helped me change the sheets and after dropping the laundry over the banister, he looked down to see Little Guy hurling clean laundry, toys, and books over the banister as well...not the behavior we were really hoping to encourage....well this time, Daddy is in luck. Little Guy now mimics Daddy picking up dog poop- he walks around with his plastic shovel saying "poo poo" and scoping up anything he finds outside. Pretty soon Daddy will be able to retire from his position of dog pooper scooper, hooray!

First Visit of the Year

We hit up Six Flags today for our first visit of the year.  It was a great day to go, even if we spent 30 minutes in the shark experience dodging the rain storm.  After the rain, it was blue skis and fun for everyone.  Gigi came with us and Little Guy was SUPER excited to have her carry him everywhere! When he wasn't being carried, he walked hand in hand with his buddy Caden.  Between the rides, the walking, and the animals, Little Guy was beat and fell asleep on the walk back to the car.  He stayed PASSED OUT ASLEEP while I changed his diaper and took off his soaking wet sweatsuit.  He slept all the way home and for two more hours after we got home...what a tiring day!