No, No, and More No!!!

This seems to be the most popular word in our house these days. The answer to practically every question is, "NO!". It's great. We've also started getting regular temper tantrums. Terrible 2's - here we come!

I really think a lot of it comes from the fact that this child is non stop action all the time. He's been in his crib now for an hour trying to take a nap and I've been hearing, "mommy!" "mommy - where are you?" "mickey mouse" "get out!" " mommy...daddy...grammy...grumpy..." " oh no bear" you get the point. He's become obsessed with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show now so we have to watch that every morning and he gets very upset when it's time to turn the TV off.

He just talks all the time. His newest word/phrase is: "I did it!" It's pretty cute. He loves to read this dinosaur book at my parent's house but he will only let Grammy read it to him. I tried and Brittany tried and each time he'll stop you after the first page or so and say, "no, grammy do it" and carry the book over to her. My dad has decided that his new nickname is Bam Bam and that he's the strongest baby he's ever seen. He is pretty strong, and he does like to bang things on the table or floor or whatever else will make a loud noise.

He still loves to sing. We've added the Head, Shoulders song to our collection and of course the Mickey Mouse song. He also discovered over the past few days that he likes to build forts with chairs and blankets (and we have to sit in them and laugh) and he likes to play hide and seek. I'll sit on the couch and count and he runs and hides in the guest room and when I start to go find him he runs and closes the door so I can't get in there to "catch" him. It's pretty cute.

Anyway, I know these were all pretty random thoughts, he's just doing so much lately I felt the need to write it all down so I don't forget.

Excuse

So I know I haven't been on here for a while, but I do have an excuse. I just couldn't stand blogging and not announcing our news! We're going to have another baby in August! I wanted to wait until we had an ultrasound and heard a heartbeat and made sure everything was OK, but we got all of that out of the way today so now we can spread the news! We're due August 14th, so I'm about 12 weeks along already and we got some really good pictures of the little guy (or girl?) today that I'll post as soon as I can get them scanned. It's just been hard to give updates on our lives without including that little fact!

So, obviously, we're excited and really happy that everything checked out OK on the ultrasound today. Timothy hasn't really grasped the concept yet, but I'm sure once my belly starts to grow he'll notice some thing's different. He moved up to the 2 & 3 year old class yesterday at church. I thought he had to wait until the new quarter started...well, actually, the "rule" is that you're supposed to wait until the new quarter starts after they turn 2 which would mean that he wouldn't move up there until June even though he turns 2 in April, but I thought they would just let him move with the new quarter in March but no, I found out Wednesday night that the cradle roll teacher had worked some magic and found a way for him to move up sooner. So he's the youngest one in class now instead of the older, but they said he did great on Sunday. All of his friends are in that class so I think it's more fun for him. It's a class full of boys right now, it's so cute. I'm hooked up to my work computer now so as soon as I can download them and get to my home computer, I'll post some pictures of him getting ready for his new class with his new Bible.

Other than fighting exhaustion, nausea, and Brandon being gone for two weeks, it's been a good month. We got about 2 inches of snow last night and we're supposed to get more tonight. It's so pretty, I love the snow. Hopefully it will snow a lot tonight so I can work from home tomorrow and take Timothy out to play in the snow. That's all for now, pray for our new little baby!

Cars and Christmas

I know it's a little late for Christmas, but we've been busy and I haven't felt like typing when I am on the computer, but Timothy's taking a nap and I've cleaned up the house so here I am! We spent Christmas this year in TX, we trade off every year, one year we go down for Thanksgiving, the next for Christmas, you get the idea. I ordered most of our gifts online this year and just had them shipped to Brandon's parent's house. We only had to ship a couple of boxes back too, so not too bad. We were able to be there for the whole week of Christmas and had a good time catching up with family and friends. Timothy discovered how much fun it is to ride on the tractor and woke up every morning asking, "Tractor? Dustin? Papa?"...it was cute. Here are some Christmas pictures.















Back at home, we've been having fun fixing up the new house. I finally decided how I want to do Timothy's big boy room, so as soon as Brandon gets back we're going to get started. We need to replace all the window screens before we can paint so that we can open the windows and then the next step is to paint the trim white and paint the walls and eventually paint his big boy bed. I haven't decided yet if I want to just use the double size bed we have in there or get him bunk beds, but we've got some time to decide I guess.

He has become addicted to the movie Cars. It's a cute movie and all, but when you watch it two or three times a day, it gets a little annoying. He's so cute when he watches it though, he knows when the Disney castle is coming on at the very beginning before the movie starts and he'll yell, "castle!" and sing with the music and then when the little Pixar lamp jumps out he yells, "hoppy, hoppy, hoppy, light!" and then when Lightning McQueen is getting ready to race Timothy sits on the couch chanting, "speed, speed, speed". He can say Lightning McQueen, but it sounds more like Nite Nite the King and he can say Mater, but it sounds weird too.

He will sing more songs with me now too. He'll sing Wheels on the Bus, and Frosty the Snowman, Row Your Boat, Spiderman, Are you Sleeping, and I think that's about it for now. He says "love you" but it sounds like "luh ooo" and whenever we change his diaper he'll say "up we go" when he's done. No progress on the potty yet, the only time he'll go now is when we put him on there, he doesn't tell us he needs to go anymore, but hey, it was good while it lasted. He's such a big boy, he knows how to wash his own hands, he loves to help us with whatever we're doing. Last night he "helped" me empty the dishwasher.

Anyway, that's about it for now, we're just hanging in there trying to survive another week until Brandon gets home. I hate these two week classes. At least it's not during closing so I can get to work late and leave early. Oh well, pray for us!

We're Baaack!

We made it back from TX in one piece...exhausted, but we made it. We had a good Christmas and enjoyed getting to see family and friends. I'm tired right now, and I know pictures are all anyone cares about anyway, so I'll post pictures from Timothy's hair cut and our new house today and when I have more energy I'll post more about Christmas. Brandon leaves tomorrow for two weeks so it might be a while before I have energy again, but we'll see!

All Moved In

Well we're all moved into our new house. Brandon went back to the old house last night and got the last of our stuff so it's official, we're in our new house for good now! All we have left to do is find somewhere to put a china cabinet and buy a refrigerator and a dishwasher...yuck. But it's such a cute little house and it's been so much fun so far. Timothy loves being able to go wherever and not have gates blocking him off and stairs to worry about him falling down.

We still don't have cable, but it's getting there, in the mean time we've been watching season 8 of Friends and I think tonight I might start season 2 of Lost. Anyway, since we don't have cable I can't post the pictures of Timothy's hair cut, but trust me when I say it turned out well and he did great. Not too much crying, he just sat there in his little boat and played with cars and trucks and Elmo while she clipped away. He looks so grown up now though. I guess that's what I should expect for a 20 month old.

He has really started saying, "No!" to everything now, even when he really wants something, so it's hard to tell when he means it and when he doesn't. He's also real big into climbing and jumping...he even actually jumped with both feet the other night. Usually he just skips around the house. He's also learned the song "Ring Around the Roses" so we have to sing that every night but all he knows is to say, "ashes, ashes" (which comes out "aches, aches") and then he yells "down!".

Not much else new going on around here, we leave for TX on Friday and won't be back till the 29th so I hope everyone has a great Christmas and we'll see you in the New Year!

Future CEO

Well I couldn't handle having the camera packed so I had to get it out and take pictures. Actually, I had to get it out because I was selling some stuff and the lady wanted pictures but I figured I would keep it out just in case so here we are.

Timothy has an obsession with our computer. I'm sure most kids love anything to bang on and play with, especially when they see mommy and daddy on there having fun so the other day we were banished to my bedroom while Brandon loaded up the truck and Timothy climbed up onto the computer chair and he just looked so cute that I had to snap some pictures. He banged on the keyboard for about half an hour and I didn't think he had done any damage until I tried to get on here later that night to watch some shows I had recorded and noticed that the Media Center icon on the desktop was now called "io" and the iTunes icon is now "kk ....." so I guess I have some clean up work to do there!

He has also started calling himself, "Timmy". I think that's what they call him at daycare and the other day he was playing and I said, "Timothy crash!" and he responded, "Timmy crash!" and then when he was playing on the computer he saw his picture on our desktop background and said, "There's Timmy!". It's cute, I figured at some point it would get shortened to Timmy, I still call him Timothy though, I can't help it.

I know in these pictures his hair is looking a little shaggy so tonight we're going for the first official hair cut. I'm really nervous, I just don't want them to make him look too much like a big boy, like shaved head and all so I'm sure they won't like me very much by the time it's over, but I just want it trimmed and cleaned up, not completely removed! It took so long for all that beautiful hair to grow, I don't want it all taken off!

We've pretty much got the house all packed up, just a few more boxes in the kitchen and our closet to go and then we're done and ready to move. Brandon's already taken like four loads over there so all that should be left for Saturday is the furniture and stuff like that. Anyway, I should run, I need to grab a shower before he wakes up and I need to do some stuff for work.

Two Weeks til Christmas

Ahh! I feel like there is so much more to get done before Christmas. And I know it's been forever since I've been on here, but there's a good reason for that...we're moving! Yes, I know, we're moving...again. We really hadn't planned on it, but it was a deal we could refuse. Our good friends the Brazile's were trying to sell their house so that they could move into a new house and they weren't getting many people interested so we asked them if they would consider doing a lease to own for us and they said yes! So, we'll lease the house for 18 months and then if Brandon's office here offers him a job here we'll buy the house and not have to pack up and move again, and if not then we're only renting and don't have to worry about selling it...so it really was a good deal. But, we're moving next Saturday, one week from today...so I've been busy packing up the house and Brandon just left to go ahead and take a few loads of boxes over to store in their garage.

So I don't have any new pictures because the camera is packed but I promise I'll get pictures of the new house once we get in and get reasonably unpacked. I should probably go pack some more though. I've gotten pretty much everything done except for the kitchen so not too bad. I will miss this house, it's really pretty and new and I like the playground behind the house...but it takes at least an hour to get anywhere, and I really don't have too many good memories of this house...this is the house that we all got so sick in last Spring so I don't think I'll miss that too much. It is also the house that Timothy learned to walk in and said his first real words in though, so I will remember it for that.

Anyway, just thought I would let everyone know that we hadn't fallen off the face of the earth, we've just had a crazy few weeks since Thanksgiving. And to top it all off, we leave on the 21st for Christmas, so there's just really not much time left this month! So, I hope everyone enjoys the last 16 or so days til Christmas and I'll try to get back on here once our cable and computer and everything gets set up!