Paying Me Back

Well Timothy is a wonderful little boy and I love him with all of my heart, but sometimes that kid makes me so crazy I could scream! He has definitely been trying our patience lately...testing his boundaries. It's really hard to be consistent with our discipline, especially when it's the 10th time in a row he's gone over to touch the fireplace and I really just want to sit on the couch and read my book and I don't want to get up and pop his hand and have the "listen to mommy" talk and then attempt to direct him toward another toy only to let go of his hand and watch him walk right back over to the fireplace and we start all over again. I know this is normal, and apparently it's what I did when I was little (or so I hear) so I guess we'll just have to get used to it for now.

He's so incredibly independent now. He wants to hold his own fork and spoon and get the food on there and into his mouth by himself and he wants his plate and bowl and cup on the high chair tray so he can dip his utensils in there. He wants to put on his shoes (or whoever's shoes happen to be laying around). He wants to hold the song book in church. He wants a pen and paper so that he can color. He wants to figure out how his toys work and he does not want ANY help! It's nice that he's learning, but it can be pretty frustrating sometimes.

Tonight was hilarious in church. He threw a pen so I took him out to have a "talk" and when we were done I asked him to give me a kiss and he looked me straight in the face and shook his head. I couldn't help it, I had to laugh, I think it's necessary for survival with this one! After attempting to keep him in church and keep him somewhat quiet (and thanks to Grammy and Grumpy and Tyler for helping!) I decided to take him back to the nursery. It was just the two of us in there so that was nice. He wanted to play with a little pull toy so he would set it up right and then grab the string and start walking with it and I would tell him, "It's gonna get you!" so then he would look back and it and run away screaming, still holding the string so the toy followed him the whole way, it was really funny.

One more quick story and then I should go make my lunch for tomorrow...Friday was Brandon's day off so he was watching Timothy and he could tell Timothy had a dirty diaper so he asked him if he was stinky and Timothy looked back at him and said, "poo poo". I guess you can't get more descriptive than that! Anyway, it should be a busy week for us, it's month end closing for me and then this weekend we're going over to my parents to clean out our old closets to get ready for a garage sale! I'll have to see if we find anything interesting buried in 9 years of stuff thrown into the back of a closet...I'll keep you updated! Here's some more pics from vacation, have a good week!

Brandon and Trey hangin' out and lookin' pretty

Easton chillin' in the stroller

Emma playing on the beach

Elyssa posing for the camera

Aww...young love

I think I might have some sand on my face...and I don't really like it!