Funny Things kids say

Some of you may remember the show, Kids Say the Darnedest Things....  My little man could've been a contestant on the show a few days ago when his daddy changed the calendar. 
In the time that I've known Corby and throughout our almost nine years of marriage my hubby has always had a Country Music Hall of Fame calendar and this year is no exception. 
March's Picture was of Ms. Miranda Lambert

and Carson asked me one day, "Who Dat?" I told him and he repeated Miranda Lambert.  Everyday he saw this picture on our bedroom wall.... until the 31st roll around.  Carson came into our room to have his bedtime story read and got the shock of his tiny life, Miranda Lambert's picture was gone!
He put his hands on his face and said in a very distraught tone, like she had died,  "Miranda Lambert
gone!"  He woke up the next morning and told Grandma and uncle Bubba the same thing in the same tone!

He went around telling everyone that and then one Sunday The ACM's were on, for those of you who don't know, they are the American Country Music Awards... Miranda Lambert was on and Carson saw her on there and said with an astonished voiced, "Miranda Lambert Back, yay!

Big Boy...baby no more!

When we moved in with my parents most of you know the three of us shared the guest room while they finished the basement for us... well when the time came to move into his own room again  Carson was less than trilled.  I think it was because it was because the basement scared him, well since about November we've been sharing a bed. 

When we purchased nursery furniture in the beginning, we chose the convertible crib, that way we would only have to purchase a few things instead of a new bed for each stage of growth.  So today we converted his bed to the Toddler stage and now my little man can get in and out on his own and boy was he thrilled!
Just look at these pictures...

 My baby is a baby no more, he's got his big boy bed and a smile from ear to ear.... whether he sleeps there tonight and stays there will take baby steps!

Toothbrush carwash

Last night my parents and uncle Bubba took their annual trip to Vegas to see the Nascar races, and now that we live with them this year's trip was a little more tramatic for Carson.  Carson REFUSED to take his nap yesterday until he saw Muga aka grandma... well after they left after four o'clock he crashed on the living room rug for about an hour, but unfortunately when he woke up his daddy who had been there when he had fallen asleep wasn't there, because he had left to get us something to eat.

Oh my he had a momentary freak out, because his Muga and Papa and Bubba were gone and now his daddy, he stubbled around the house still sleepy crying and as I tried to reassure him-nothing worked until we gave him his toothbrush before going to bed.
 After brushing his teeth he used his tooth brush to clean his favorite jeep!  Then he brought both the jeep and the brush to me and said "Wash, need water."
So I told him after I "washed the car" that it would have to stay in our special overnight carwash to dry, which he said ok to and left the car on the counter and went to our room to have us read him his bedtime story.



Tooth paste makes for a pretty good wax huh?



new pictures

So after rescheduling because he was sick with croup and a double ear infection and a spot of pneumonia in January yesterday we were going to take Carson's two year pictures... with Xaxier and Zayne but then he went to bed Sunday night with a fever of 102.9, yikes! We woke up at the same time daddy does to get ready to go to work and the fever had only gone down minimally...102.4!

We decided to keep the picturre appointment because it wasn't until 4:30 p.m.- At first he wasn't going to do it and all he wanted was grandma to hold him, but eventually we got him to settle down... and got some pretty cute pictures of my shy guy.

Sending of first valentine

So our little swim group decided that it would be fun if the boys and Amelia could exchange valentines but due to the fact that each of our llittle ones are experiencing sickness we decided that we would exchange addresses and send them through the mail.  My little guy loves to go get the mail and loves it when there's mail for him....
So he and I sat down and being mr. independent he wanted to write his name as well as who it was going to.... 

I was pretty impressed... and had to show off...he wrote his cousin's name with a little less help than he did his own but they were all his own

Aint that the truth

Motherhood isn't for sissies! Isn't that the truth! Sometimes I wonder if Carson will be an only child and others I try to accept it, especially when I have weeks like this...
Weeks where he is so sick that he speeds time in the Dr. office TWICE and makes a trip to the ER over the weekend, begging me to let him go home.

I have to say my hate goes off to my pediatrician, Dr. Nagle when she walked into the exam room yesterday and saw us again after seeing us only the previous Friday, she got straight to work, listening to me tell her what had changed and then went in search of the cause.   The Verdict- a double ear infection and a spot of pneumonia and croup!

Thanks to her we have antibiotics and I am now the mom of a little less crabby two year old.

What a Christmas

This December definitely made up for the previous month.  The kids had a great time at cousins Christmas and my little man even enjoyed himself, I think.  He wasn't sure of what to think when we didn't go home to sleep or  his "safety net" aka his daddy had to go to work and left him and I there to play games, but overall I think it was a first successfull sleepover at Grandma Alaine's.
the kids made edible christmas trees, played games and all sort of other fun stuff.

Christmas was fun, we made cookies for Santa to eat and poor Carson couldn't understand why he couldn't eat the cookies we had made.  Then the first thing Carson whispered to Corby on Christmas morning was, "Look daddy, Santa ate his cookies."
Santa brought Carson his first piano, two train sets, and some DVD's- chuggington is his new favorite.

Later in the month, we bundled Carson, Xavier and Zayne up to go to the Hogle Zoo to see the Zoo Lights, it was so cold but the boys enjoyed themselves.