It's taken a little while (ha-ha), but I feel like Ryan really knows me now. He knows what I need sometimes better than I do to make me feel better. This Saturday Ben wasn't feeling good, had a cold or something and because of that he was EXTRA sensitive and moody. I was feeling a big impatient with him so Ryan would regularly direct me outside, to calm myself down because he KNOWS that the sunshine on my face and the nice breeze and fresh air in my lungs will almost always make me feel better! It was a beautiful weekend for that. And let’s just say I was outside A LOT, especially on Saturday!
Saturday morning around 5:45am I felt a little body climbing up in to our bed and Ben came and lay right ON TOP of me. He NEVER does this especially that early- so I assumed he got scared, had to pee or wasn’t feeling good. It was the last two, so I told him that mommy was still sleeping and that the sun was also still asleep and that he needed to go back to his bed until the sun came up. I took him to the potty, and got him back in bed. No later than 2 hours later, just as the sun had come up did I feel and hear the little body climbing back up on the bed! He had been coughing much of the night and had a stuffy nose, so I think he just couldn’t sleep anymore. I could’ve though… just sayin’. So he was pretty tired and ornery that day. But we had a lot to do. We had errands to run. And places to go… after lunch we got him to take a nap, not without arguing with us first, but he did thank goodness. And while he napped Ryan washed the cars and I did some yard work. It was SO nice. We planted tulip and daffodil bulbs in the Fall and they made it! We did it right, we think! Only because they’re poking through the earth and are going to make their debut soon! I love gardening, I love planting things and seeing them come alive. It’s so exciting to me. As I was planting more bulbs to bloom in the summer, I was thinking about how I didn’t understand how some people don’t like to be outdoors and how some people don’t like to get dirty or whatever. To each their own, but I love it! It’s good for my soul. Which brings me to the point that my husband has now realized about me, the winter months (after Christmas of course) are hard on me! As I’m sure they are for a lot of people. So when it starts getting warmer outside and all plant life starts turning green- I start feeling like me again and happier and more functional, and I am SO grateful for it. I am so grateful for the different seasons, (I’m about to rhyme) for different reasons… but most of all Spring! It just happens to show up when I need it the most! I know it’s not quite here yet, but it will be soon. And the weather lately has been good enough for me to start feeling somewhat better!
We’re looking forward to this weekend too, we’re going to the Thundering Waters cabin we visit often with all of our friends. It's very important for me to have something to look forward to during either Jan or Feb. Then next week we celebrate Ben’s birthday! He turns 3 on 3/3! It’s his golden. We’re doing a pirate theme, of course, he’s just so super in to pirates (I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, what with the news of the Somalia Pirates lately)… but it’s kind of cute. In the “Innocent Pirate” way (if there is such a thing)! Last night, in order to get him to eat his fish sticks I told him that a pirate’s favorite food was fish sticks. It wasn’t hard for him to eat them after that! All while saying “arg! I a pirate! I eat all my fish sticks!” I can’t believe my little guy is getting so big. It’s kind of crazy looking back at pictures and to see him all thinned out and looking like a real life little boy now. He surprises us every day with just how smart he is. He loves shapes, and puzzles and words and letters- he doesn’t quite recognize the letters yet, but he's getting close. He thought a J was an L yesterday, which was a start. He’s doing really good with his colors. I bought him some refrigerator letter magnets, and last night I left the room and came back in and he’d separated all of them in to their respective color groups. He can count really well, although I think he pretends he can’t a lot. He can count pretty high, but for some reason just pretends he doesn’t know how to when we put him on the spot. He also has learned his “lefts” and “rights” which has been fun. He pretends and talks to himself a lot, which I love to listen to. He'll repeat things we've said to him just like we say it to him to his cars or toys or whatever. It's funny. He remembers things that are so random to me too. For example, one time we went and got hamburgers from Wendy’s and then went and ate them in the car under the bridge of the freeway near the Chattahoochee River. I think it was in the summer when our air went out and we wanted to get out of the house. We pass under that bridge every time we go over to the Terry’s and every time we do, he says “mommy! We ate there!” I got him a picture book from Shutterfly of some highlights of the year last year, and some things he remembered right off the bat. Like when we went to the zoo during the summer, almost 8 months ago! And I got a shirt out of the wash for him to wear this morning that he’d worn over the weekend and spilled applesauce on, he said “you wash it mommy!?” and I said “yup! It’s all clean!” and he said “Oh good job! You get off the applesauce!?” So cute! He’s also REALLY enjoying this warm weather, I guess he’s like his mommy and NEEDS it. He’s been going outside after we get home every night and doing whatever; playing with his dump trucks, with his t-ball, whatever. It’s awesome, we love it. He comes in every few mins to get us to show us something, or like last night he came in and said “hey mommy?” and I said “yes love” and he said “I tired” and then went back outside. That was it. That’s all he wanted to tell me! Ha-ha! He also enjoys hanging out in his underwear. I think he'd prefer to be naked, but his undis are a new found freedom for him!
Saturday morning around 5:45am I felt a little body climbing up in to our bed and Ben came and lay right ON TOP of me. He NEVER does this especially that early- so I assumed he got scared, had to pee or wasn’t feeling good. It was the last two, so I told him that mommy was still sleeping and that the sun was also still asleep and that he needed to go back to his bed until the sun came up. I took him to the potty, and got him back in bed. No later than 2 hours later, just as the sun had come up did I feel and hear the little body climbing back up on the bed! He had been coughing much of the night and had a stuffy nose, so I think he just couldn’t sleep anymore. I could’ve though… just sayin’. So he was pretty tired and ornery that day. But we had a lot to do. We had errands to run. And places to go… after lunch we got him to take a nap, not without arguing with us first, but he did thank goodness. And while he napped Ryan washed the cars and I did some yard work. It was SO nice. We planted tulip and daffodil bulbs in the Fall and they made it! We did it right, we think! Only because they’re poking through the earth and are going to make their debut soon! I love gardening, I love planting things and seeing them come alive. It’s so exciting to me. As I was planting more bulbs to bloom in the summer, I was thinking about how I didn’t understand how some people don’t like to be outdoors and how some people don’t like to get dirty or whatever. To each their own, but I love it! It’s good for my soul. Which brings me to the point that my husband has now realized about me, the winter months (after Christmas of course) are hard on me! As I’m sure they are for a lot of people. So when it starts getting warmer outside and all plant life starts turning green- I start feeling like me again and happier and more functional, and I am SO grateful for it. I am so grateful for the different seasons, (I’m about to rhyme) for different reasons… but most of all Spring! It just happens to show up when I need it the most! I know it’s not quite here yet, but it will be soon. And the weather lately has been good enough for me to start feeling somewhat better!
We’re looking forward to this weekend too, we’re going to the Thundering Waters cabin we visit often with all of our friends. It's very important for me to have something to look forward to during either Jan or Feb. Then next week we celebrate Ben’s birthday! He turns 3 on 3/3! It’s his golden. We’re doing a pirate theme, of course, he’s just so super in to pirates (I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, what with the news of the Somalia Pirates lately)… but it’s kind of cute. In the “Innocent Pirate” way (if there is such a thing)! Last night, in order to get him to eat his fish sticks I told him that a pirate’s favorite food was fish sticks. It wasn’t hard for him to eat them after that! All while saying “arg! I a pirate! I eat all my fish sticks!” I can’t believe my little guy is getting so big. It’s kind of crazy looking back at pictures and to see him all thinned out and looking like a real life little boy now. He surprises us every day with just how smart he is. He loves shapes, and puzzles and words and letters- he doesn’t quite recognize the letters yet, but he's getting close. He thought a J was an L yesterday, which was a start. He’s doing really good with his colors. I bought him some refrigerator letter magnets, and last night I left the room and came back in and he’d separated all of them in to their respective color groups. He can count really well, although I think he pretends he can’t a lot. He can count pretty high, but for some reason just pretends he doesn’t know how to when we put him on the spot. He also has learned his “lefts” and “rights” which has been fun. He pretends and talks to himself a lot, which I love to listen to. He'll repeat things we've said to him just like we say it to him to his cars or toys or whatever. It's funny. He remembers things that are so random to me too. For example, one time we went and got hamburgers from Wendy’s and then went and ate them in the car under the bridge of the freeway near the Chattahoochee River. I think it was in the summer when our air went out and we wanted to get out of the house. We pass under that bridge every time we go over to the Terry’s and every time we do, he says “mommy! We ate there!” I got him a picture book from Shutterfly of some highlights of the year last year, and some things he remembered right off the bat. Like when we went to the zoo during the summer, almost 8 months ago! And I got a shirt out of the wash for him to wear this morning that he’d worn over the weekend and spilled applesauce on, he said “you wash it mommy!?” and I said “yup! It’s all clean!” and he said “Oh good job! You get off the applesauce!?” So cute! He’s also REALLY enjoying this warm weather, I guess he’s like his mommy and NEEDS it. He’s been going outside after we get home every night and doing whatever; playing with his dump trucks, with his t-ball, whatever. It’s awesome, we love it. He comes in every few mins to get us to show us something, or like last night he came in and said “hey mommy?” and I said “yes love” and he said “I tired” and then went back outside. That was it. That’s all he wanted to tell me! Ha-ha! He also enjoys hanging out in his underwear. I think he'd prefer to be naked, but his undis are a new found freedom for him!
He loves the new babies too, like “Baby Hunter” and “Baby Savannah”. He loves to hold Savannah too. I took some pictures of the kids this Sunday. I loved watching Ben sit with the babies, he was so patient with them. He kept looking at them and checking on them. It was pretty cute. And he loves to talk to them and try and make them laugh. He’ll be a really good big brother one day.
We’re hoping to get out to UT this summer, we’ll see how Ben does on the plane now that he’s a little older. He hasn’t been on a plane since he was a year and a half. Hopefully, the experience will be better than the last one. I'm sure he can be entertained with a movie or two… and he’ll have his own seat too which will help. I can’t wait though, I’m super homesick!
Well, that is all for now. TTYL.
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It's us AZ girls... we gotta have our sun :) i love to read your posts... your so much fun, Heather
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